Hyprland 0.56.2 Patches the 0.56 Series with 16 Backported Fixes
The bug-fix-only update addresses tiling algorithms, fullscreen behavior, and OpenGL rendering.
Lead developer Vaxry shipped Hyprland 0.56.2 on August 5, 2026, backporting sixteen fixes from the main branch to stabilize the current development cycle. No new features. No breaking changes. Just the maintenance work that keeps Wayland compositors from stumbling over themselves.
The 0.56 series itself launched July 20 after roughly two and a half months of development. This is the second patch release, following 0.56.1 from just one week later.
Hyprland has accumulated over 37,700 GitHub stars since Vaxry first released the dynamic tiling Wayland compositor. It's now one of the most popular Linux desktop environments, licensed under BSD 3-Clause.
The fixes that matter
Most of the backported changes address edge cases in tiling and fullscreen handling. If you've been using the scrolling layout, you'll notice unfocused windows no longer stick to the left corner. They'll respect your focus_fit_method properly. Fullscreen windows in that layout also behave correctly again.
There's a fix for layout-managed fullscreen windows that were previously blocking direction-based navigation when seeking adjacent windows. Floating window rendering order improves when one of them goes fullscreen, too.
Configuration crashes from duplicate values are now prevented. Monitor mirror rules get rechecked during configuration ensures, which should help multi-monitor setups.
Key bindings stop inheriting modifier masks during key symbol lookup. That's a niche but annoying issue if you've been wrestling with input bindings.
Display and rendering
OpenGL depth buffer invalidation got fixed for correct rendering. Screenshare now captures software cursors properly. Input Method Editor windows render above desktop components, which fixes visibility problems for CJK input methods.
hyprctl monitors preserves full precision on scale values instead of rounding or truncating. Gaps rules no longer incorrectly override float_gaps. A missing Lua stub that broke plugin builds has been added.
What 0.56 brought to the table
The base 0.56 release included scrolling layout messages, master algorithm options for focus behavior, major Lua API expansion, XDG interactive drags for CSD titlebars, motion blur and tonemapping renderer options, and gradient animations for glow and shadow decorations.
0.56.1 addressed deprecation warnings in .conf configs, socket2 workspace ID events, exec rule leaking, and monitor rotation or mirror regressions.
The community of 9 contributors built 0.56.2. @erstarr handled scrolling algorithm, fullscreen rendering, and layout fixes across four pull requests. Vaxry tackled fullscreen behavior, monitor mirrors, IME rendering, hyprctl strings, and Lua stubs. Others contributed fixes for OpenGL depth, screenshare cursors, gap rules, layer popup events, key bindings, IPC precision, and the Lua stub.
Upgrading
Users on the 0.56 series should update for the stability improvements. Arch Linux users can update via pacman. Debian and Ubuntu packages are available where distributions have packaged them.
The full changelog lives on GitHub. The project follows a rolling release model with major versions roughly every two to three months. The next major release should bring continued improvements to tiling algorithms, Lua API expansion, and enhanced Wayland protocol support.
