{
  "schema": 1,
  "id": "2026.09.29",
  "product": "rime",
  "name": "Rime 2026.09.29",
  "title": "Every workspace at once, and a layout button that says what it does",
  "date": "2026-09-29T07:35:38.000Z",
  "channels": [
    "apex",
    "daily",
    "edge",
    "gaming-mesa",
    "gaming-nvidia",
    "platform-apex",
    "platform-daily",
    "platform-gaming-mesa",
    "platform-gaming-nvidia",
    "platform-rime",
    "rime"
  ],
  "predecessor": "2026.09.28.4",
  "notes": "https://rimeos.com/updates/2026.09.29",
  "summary": "Super+Tab now shows all your workspaces with live pictures of their windows, the window-layout button in the bar is a picture with a menu that says what each layout does, Alt+Tab works again, and from now on Rime opens this page after every update.",
  "provenance": {
    "osRevision": "df44d93949903bacf513564d3a2226a3909b14b9",
    "shellRevision": "3ab44b2938d58dc887b3550df649e7926a117a92",
    "imageDigest": "sha256:4d6ab78de40e79e4111d899ff620e08b8039b91ad76e60da8efcca80a12ccd23",
    "build": "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-os/actions/runs/36533645486",
    "iso": {
      "name": "rime-os-netinstall-x86_64.iso",
      "bytes": 1869484032,
      "sha256": "d186e2781f535f93dec4b5b3b04a4243b63b623d26d29f4188c5190788efb2c8",
      "url": "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-os/releases/download/v3.0.0/rime-os-netinstall-x86_64.iso"
    },
    "reissues": []
  },
  "highlights": [
    "workspace-overview",
    "layout-menu",
    "whats-new",
    "alt-tab"
  ],
  "changes": [
    {
      "id": "workspace-overview",
      "area": "shell",
      "kind": "new",
      "title": "Super+Tab shows every workspace at once",
      "summary": "A card comes off the top notch with workspaces 1 to 10, each showing your wallpaper and live pictures of its windows where they actually sit. Click a window to go to it, middle-click to close it, or drag it onto another workspace to move it there.",
      "detail": "Click an empty part of a workspace to switch to it. Arrow keys, Return and the digits 1–0 work from the keyboard; Escape, a click outside or Super+Tab again closes it. The line at the top says what the pointer is on, or where a dragged window will land. It is Hyprland's own window pictures, captured only while the overview is open.",
      "source": [
        "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-shell/pull/31"
      ],
      "breaking": false
    },
    {
      "id": "layout-menu",
      "area": "shell",
      "kind": "improved",
      "title": "The window-layout button shows the layout and asks before changing it",
      "summary": "The button beside the workspaces used to show `><` and change the layout on every click. It is now a small picture of the current layout, and a click opens a menu that names each layout — Split, Main + stack, One at a time, Scrolling — with a line on what it does.",
      "detail": "One at a time says that Alt+Tab is how you reach the other windows (Super+arrows do nothing in that layout). The layout you choose is remembered across a reload and a login, and applies to every workspace.",
      "source": [
        "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-shell/pull/30"
      ],
      "breaking": false
    },
    {
      "id": "whats-new",
      "area": "system",
      "kind": "new",
      "title": "After an update, Rime opens the page that says what changed",
      "summary": "The first time you log in after an update, Rime opens this page in your default browser — once, and with the releases you skipped included. A rollback shows a small notice instead, and a fresh install shows nothing.",
      "detail": "If the page is not up yet, or the computer is offline, it waits and opens it later. Turn it off in Settings → Misc → Updates (\"Open what's new after an update\"); you then get a notification with a \"See what changed\" button instead. Nothing is sent anywhere: the only request is for the page itself.",
      "source": [
        "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-shell/pull/32",
        "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-os/pull/72"
      ],
      "breaking": false
    },
    {
      "id": "alt-tab",
      "area": "shell",
      "kind": "fixed",
      "title": "Alt+Tab switches windows again",
      "summary": "The window switcher did nothing when you pressed Alt+Tab: the shell's handler could not reach the switcher. It has been broken since the switcher was added.",
      "source": [
        "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-shell/pull/30"
      ],
      "breaking": false
    },
    {
      "id": "window-close-move",
      "area": "shell",
      "kind": "fixed",
      "title": "Closing a window from the launcher, and moving windows between workspaces, work",
      "summary": "Both used Hyprland commands that its current version no longer has, so they did nothing.",
      "source": [
        "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-shell/pull/31"
      ],
      "breaking": false
    },
    {
      "id": "frame-corners",
      "area": "shell",
      "kind": "fixed",
      "title": "The frame's top corners meet the notches without a bump",
      "summary": "Where the screen frame curves down from each top notch there was a one-pixel ledge, most visible after a fullscreen game or video. The curve now runs cleanly out of the notch's edge.",
      "source": [
        "https://github.com/AndreNijman/rime-shell/pull/30"
      ],
      "breaking": false
    }
  ],
  "knownIssues": [],
  "rollback": null,
  "maintenance": false
}