The LXQt team announces the release of lxqt-panel 2.3.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

• Added Wayfire backend.
• Made Desktop Switcher work with Wayland compositors that support ext-workspaces-v1 protocol (like labwc, niri, …).
• Activate Show Desktop plugin on drag-and-drop.
• Made the initial config file available outside LXQt.
• Updated the button of Custom Command every time it receives output.
• Added support for structured output to Custom Command.
• Added a 50-ms delay before making desktop switcher urgent.
• Fixed building with Qt 6.10.
• Fixed building with C++20.
• Fix a discrepancy in the default action of mouse wheel in Task Manager plugin.
• Accept base-names of menu files in Fancy Menu and Main Menu plugins.
• Used lxqt-panel-applications.menu in Fancy Menu by default.
• Added category separators of menu files to Fancy Menu.
• Prevented changing backlight on showing the backlight slider.
• Adjust backlight with mouse wheel on the button of backlight plugin.
• Silenced some compilation warnings.
• Cleaned up some ui files.
• Removed unneeded QOverloads.
• Used locale-aware sorting in Fancy Menu and Main Menu.
• Follow better model/view architcture for PanelPluginsModel.
• Properly handle plugin move by configview.
• Workaround for a Qt regression that prevented plugin move indicators from being removed.

A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.