What's Changed

• Guard vips image initialization with try/catch to prevent crashes by @theartful in #262
• [BUGFIX] Fix compilation for CLI11 2.6.0 by @saundersp in #268

New Contributors

• @saundersp made their first contribution in #268

Full Changelog: v2.9.7...v2.9.8

What's Changed

• scripts: fzf preview positioning fixed by @p4rfait in #206
• Set minimum CMake version to 3.21 by @xaizek in #210
• Fix image not hiding when switching between tmux sessions by @twidxuga in #212
• Fix when image scaling, would not check for max_width and max_height by @thatDudo in #226
• [README.md] added twitchez to the list of apps that support ueberzugpp by @WANDEX in #232
• handle SIGHUP with signal handler by @dm9pZCAq in #230
• add ability to overridde default temporary directory by @dm9pZCAq in #231
• Fix build on NetBSD. by @0-wiz-0 in #245
• Add missing mutex header by @ionenwks in #258

New Contributors

• @p4rfait made their first contribution in #206
• @twidxuga made their first contribution in #212
• @thatDudo made their first contribution in #226
• @WANDEX made their first contribution in #232
• @dm9pZCAq made their first contribution in #230
• @0-wiz-0 made their first contribution in #245
• @ionenwks made their first contribution in #258

Full Changelog: v2.9.6...v2.9.7

• fix terminal sizes sometimes not being recognized correctly
• correctly fallback to chafa output backend
• fix handling of unknown output backend

• Fix crash due to recent breaking hyprland changes
• drop libexif dependency (doesn't handle bad exif values)
• raise minimum cmake version to 3.22
• fix compilation error on libc++

• Fix regression: crash whenever socket hangs up on ueberzugpp
• Handle errors when checking exif tags
• Some code simplification

• support kitty 0.30
• improve code correctness

• Fix compilation errors on spdlog 1.12, fmt 10.x and turbo-base64
• Bump internal dependencies versions

• opengl support for X11 and wayland
• add support for MacOS 11 Big Sur
• add support for wayfire (plugin required)
• fix memory leak when using wayland and tmux
• performance improvements for wayland
• use XDG_CACHE_HOME when available

• support for multiple images being displayed at the same time, images with the same identifier will be replaced
• improved terminal recognition (deeply nested terminals are recognized correctly)
• improved image positioning under wayland
• improved multimonitor support under wayland
• improved tmux support under wayland
• code modernizing and cleanup
• libressl support
• small x11 performance improvements

• use xcb-res for obtaining pid of windows
• use xcb-errors for useful error logging (disabled by default)
• fix syncronization issues and performance improvements for x11 canvas
• improve terminal selection
• fixes for hyprland
• improve throughput of unix socket