25.10

This is a final release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 25.10 "Questing Quokka". You can download ISO from the official website: https://ubuntusway.com/downloads.php

What's new:

• Based on Ubuntu 25.10;
• Added swaykbdd for per-window keyboard layouts;
• Optimized some user scripts;
• Fixes a bunch of small errors in custom Waybar modules;

25.04

This is a latest stable release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 25.04 "Plucky Puffin". You can download ISO from the official website: https://ubuntusway.com/downloads.php

What's new:

• Based on Ubuntu 25.04;
• Fix cursor size issues on high DPI screens;
• Switch from swaylock to gtklock as the graphical screen locker;
• Use Wofi as default menu launcher and output/window chooser, as it more compatible with Rofi scripts;
• Added simple emoji picker;
• Added power-profiles-daemon module to Waybar;
• Wetaher module has been disabled on the Waybar panel, as it has some problems with stability. It still can be enabled in the Waybar’s config;
• Yaru cursor theme is set by default;
• Much improved installer, which is now install the system way more fast;
• Improved UX on small resolution screens.
• New Plymouth screen

25.10 Beta

This is a beta release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 25.10 "Questing Quokka". You can download ISO from the official website: https://ubuntusway.com/downloads.php

What's new:

• Based on Ubuntu 25.10;
• Added swaykbdd for per-window keyboard layouts;
• Optimized some user scripts;
• Fixes a bunch of small errors in custom Waybar modules;

25.04_beta

Ubuntu Sway Remix 25.04 Beta is out! You can download it on the link bellow!

What’s new:

• Fix cursor size issues on high DPI screens;
• Switch from swaylock to gtklock as the graphical screen locker;
• Use Wofi as default menu launcher and output/window chooser, as it more compatible with Rofi scripts;
• Added simple emoji picker;
• Added power-profiles-daemon module to Waybar;
• Wetaher module has been disbled on the Waybar panel, as it has some problems with stability. It still can be enabled in the Waybar’s config;
• Yaru cursor theme is set by default;
• Much improved installer, which is now install the system way more fast;
• Improved UX on small resolution screens.

https://downloads.ubuntusway.com/beta/25.04/

24.10

This is a latest stable release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 24.10 "Oracular Oriole". You can download ISO from the official website: https://ubuntusway.com/downloads.php

What's new:

• Updated to Ubuntu 24.10 package base;
• Sway is now running as a fork of ssh-agent process, which allowed to solve problems in the ssh-agent operation in various shells (bash, zsh, fish, etc);
• Waybar now automatically restarts when its config file changes;
• Graphical clipboard manager, based on rofi-wayland, is replaced by nwg-clipman;
• Rofi (application launcher) is replaced by Fuzzel, which is much, MUCH more simple and lightweight;
• Added keyboard shortcuts inhibition....shortcut :) via Mod+Ctrl_R;
• Various improvements for window rules;
• Various improvements in default look'n'feel;
• Fixed some minor bugs with Weather widget and screencast option.

24.04

This is a latest stable release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 24.04 "Noble Numbat". You can download ISO from the official website: https://ubuntusway.com/downloads.php

What's new:

• Updated to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS;

• Sway 1.9 with full support for fractional scaling and more.

• Added support for restoring the specified keyboard backlight level when resuming from sleep mode. Switch from light to brightnessctl for brightness control;

• By default, the screen saver (idle_inhibitor) is disabled, which was caused by the dissatisfaction of some users, since during installation on slow drives, the system went into sleep mode after 10 minutes;

• Added Qt6 version of the Kvantum style engine, which made it possible to unify the look of applications using the Qt6 library with the system appearance;

• By default, desktop help for the hotkeys used is disabled. To activate it, a button has been added to the Waybar;

• gnome-packagekit is replaced by GNOME Software;

• Sway Inpu Configurator updated to version 1.4.1.

23.10

This is a latest stable release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur". You can download ISO from the official website: https://ubuntusway.com/downloads.php

What's new:

• Integrated sway-systemd, which allows to run user daemons and applications as systemd services. Most default applications, such as Waybar or poweralertd now runing as systemd user services;
• EralyOOM daemon is replaced by systemd-oomd, which, thanks to sway-systemd, now correctly identifies the most resource-intensive processes;
• rofi-bluetooth script is replaced by blutuith manager;
• lxpolkit-gtk3 is replaced by mate-polkit;
• Swayimg is replaced by IMV;
• Small improvements in Waybar panel;
• Added support for Raspberry Pi 5;
• Updated packages: sway-input-config 1.3.0, nwg-look 0.2.2, nwg-drawer 0.3.9, nwg-displays 0.3.7, nwg-bar 0.1.3, musikcube 3.0.

23.04

This is a latest stable release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 23.04 "Lunar Lobster". You can download ISO from the official website: https://ubuntusway.com/downloads.php

What's new:

• Sway is updated to version 1.8.1, with a new bindgesture command, new ext-session-lock-v1 protocol for more secure screen lockers, xdg-activation-v1 is now used for more reliable workspace matching when launching new clients, new "disable while trackpointing option and various Vulkan renderer improvements;
• Added 2 basic touchpad gestures - three fingers swipe left/right to switch between workspaces and three fingers swipe down to switch between tiling and floating mode;
• Added start-sway wrapper, which allows to detect startup in virtual machines or systems with a proprietary Nvidia driver, and automatically apply the necessary startup options and environment variables;
• Added Swayr window switcher for advanced window management, such as switching between windows with Alt-Tab or listing all open windows on all workspaces and connected displays;
• Added Night Color mode via wlsunset;
• Added Scratchpad module for Waybar;
• Khal interactive calendar is replaced by Calcurse;
• Added Swappy screenshot utility, which allows you to edit screenshot before saving it or copying to clipboard;
• WOB indicator used for volume and brightness notifications is replaced by simple notify-send based scripts;
• Settings have been optimized: the autorun configuration file has been simplified, problems with incorrect settings for the dark style of applications in some situations have been fixed, disabled window control buttons for GTK applications with HeaderBar (CSD), problems with the work of applications in the Appimage format that do not support Wayland have been fixed;
• Added more window rules;
• Added GNOME Hardware - GTK interface for updating firmware for various devices;
• Updated Sway Input Configurator, with new UI, new Keyboard Layout confgurator and disable while trackpointing option support;
• Flatpak and GIMP is removed from the base system;

23.04 Beta

This is a beta release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 23.04 "Lunar Lobster". You can download ISO from the official website: https://downloads.ubuntusway.com/23.04/ubuntusway-23.04-dev-202303301056-desktop-amd64.iso

What's new:

• Sway is updated to version 1.8.1, with a new bindgesture command, new ext-session-lock-v1 protocol for more secure screen lockers, xdg-activation-v1 is now used for more reliable workspace matching when launching new clients, new "disable while trackpointing option and various Vulkan renderer improvements;
• Added 2 basic touchpad gestures - three fingers swipe left/right to switch between workspaces and three fingers swipe down to switch between tiling and floating mode;
• Added start-sway wrapper, which allows to detect startup in virtual machines or systems with a proprietary Nvidia driver, and automatically apply the necessary startup options and environment variables;
• Added Swayr window switcher for advanced window management, such as switching between windows with Alt-Tab or listing all open windows on all workspaces and connected displays;
• Added Night Color mode via wlsunset;
• Added Scratchpad module for Waybar;
• Khal interactive calendar is replaced by Calcurse;
• Added Swappy screenshot utility, which allows you to edit screenshot before saving it or copying to clipboard;
• WOB indicator used for volume and brightness notifications is replaced by simple notify-send based scripts;
• Settings have been optimized: the autorun configuration file has been simplified, problems with incorrect settings for the dark style of applications in some situations have been fixed, disabled window control buttons for GTK applications with HeaderBar (CSD), problems with the work of applications in the Appimage format that do not support Wayland have been fixed;
• Added more window rules;
• Added GNOME Hardware - GTK interface for updating firmware for various devices;
• Updated Sway Input Configurator, with new UI, new Keyboard Layout confgurator and disable while trackpointing option support;
• Flatpak and GIMP is removed from the base system;

22.10

Stable release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 22.10. You can download it from the official website (since GitHub is soooo slow for upload and download ISO images)

Additions:

• Switch to PipeWire and Wireplumber for handle audio sessions instead of PulseAudio
• Wdisplays is replaced by nwg-displays
• Wofi is replaced by Wayland fork of Rofi
• Added Bluetooth config menu via rofi-bluetooth
• Added LXimage-Qt in addition to swayimg
• Added "Do not disturb" mode to Mako notification daemon
• Added Ubuntu Sway Welcome
• Added Sway Input Configurator for easy setup input devices
• Added 2 new color schemes for Sway - Breeze and Matcha Green
• Added sway-unsupported.desktop shortcut for running Sway on unsupported GPU (e.g. Nvidia with proprietary driver) Ubuntu-Sway/ubuntu-sway-default-settings@8119457
• Enabled Wayland support for Qt6 apps
• Fonts Awesome updated to version 6.1.2
• Added support for displaying icons of running applications in the workspace indicator Ubuntu-Sway/ubuntu-sway-default-settings@951131b
• RAM requirements in Calamares installer relaxed to 1G
• Updated applications, including Linux 5.19, Mesa 22.0, nwg-drawer 0.3.1, MusikCube 0.98, xdg-desktop-portal 1.15, BlueZ 5.65, CUPS 2.4, NetworkManager 1.40, Pipewire 0.3.57