v0.7.1

Sanitize build for packaging

Summary of changes

• Remove unused libswscale dependency
• Respect LDFLAGS
• Add PKGBUILD

v0.7.0

Hyprland is now supported!

Summary of changes

BREAKING:

• The old output_directory argument is now subject to change:
  • Passing - to write to stdout will remain stable.
  • For other uses of this argument, please switch to -d for stable commands/keybindings.
  • See the README or scran -h for more details.

Feature changes:

• New arguments:
  • -d: set an existing directory as output directory
• x264 default settings changed from 6mpbs CBR to 20 CRF
  • In short, video capture now targets consistent quality rather than consistent bitrate/size.
• Update filename month format (%m) from 0-11 to 1-12
  • Was already documented as 1-12

Bug fixes and improvements:

• Fixed incorrect video capture colors for some pixel formats
  • Fixes default Hyprland pixel format
• Added some extra selection/capture-area sync points
  • Hyprland sync should be fully stable now
    • (Relies upon compositor implementation details; see #5)
• Memory usage improvements
  • Force freeing of memory that gets allocated upon video capture before background keepalive stage
  • Other minor memory leak etc. fixes.
• Fixed bug in scranrot sometimes causing image capture artifacts on the far-right edge of the output, e.g. a pixel of the frame being visible.
• Scran is now allowed to fully idle when nothing is happening
  • Previously Scran was waking up every frame to check whether a redraw was needed, causing ~1-2% CPU usage, even when nothing was happening. Redraw checks are now triggered by actual actions like mouse movement, video start/stop etc.
• Fixed deadlock on Wayland server/protocol errors.
• Fixed delayed ending of video capture unless selection was moved
• Fixed selection size staying frozen if video capture failed
• Cursor now always instantly updates both on focus grab and focus release
  • Focus release previously needed movement to update, and both grab and release were bugged if no selection was initialized yet
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Meta/internal

• Lots of other internal cleanup
• Layer surface namespace updated "scran-capture" -> "scran-selection"

v0.6.2

Fix crash with debug builds of Blend2D, update dependencies.

Summary of changes

• Fixed crash after capture when linking against debug builds of Blend2D
• sd-bus (basu/libsystemd) dependencies fixed for non-nix builds
  • Added missing build dependency check for basu
  • Allow linking against libsystemd in place of basu
  • ("Install dependencies" section also updated in the readme)

v0.6.1

Notification bug fixes and new clipboard feature.

Summary of changes

• Fixed notification actions not getting handled after UI exit
  • Note: notification actions still get disabled with -B
• Added text/plain to list of advertised clipboard mime types
  • Apps/text fields that don't support pasting images can now receive a plain filepath, instead of nothing. (For example terminal emulators or plain text fields in a browser.)

v0.6.0

Notifications!

Summary of changes

• Scran will now show notifications on saved files (xdg-desktop-portal)
  • Clicking on a notification opens the file.
  • -N disables notifications.
• Selection size is now frozen during video capture
  • Being able to change it before was a bug, and did not affect the actual captured area.
  • Tightened-up selection resizing in general and fixed some old related bugs.
• Keyboard interactivity when focused changed from "on demand" to "exclusive"
  • Does not affect ability to release focus entirely (Tab).
• Fixed broken -s and -g on scaled displays
• Fixed -p only registering the first button press
• Fixed pointer button state sometimes inverting
  • I.e. pressed interpreted as released, and vice-versa.

v0.5.0

Fractional scaling!

Summary of changes

• Added support for fractional scaling
• Added arrow keys
  • Move selection by 1 pixel
• Improved rendering performance
• Fixed Sway capture-area/selection synchronization
  • (Fixes regression introduced in v0.4.1)

v0.4.1

COSMIC is now officially supported.

Summary of changes

• Fixed rendered selection area vs capture area synchronization issues
  • Scran on COSMIC is now in a usable state.
  • Sway did not have any issues in practice, but should also be more robust now, with these changes.

v0.4.0

The majority of the initial scope that Scran set out to cover has been finished with this release. A (not necessarily complete) list of remaining TODOs can be found in this readme section.

Summary of changes

More details in the readme and scran -h

• New arguments:
  • BREAKING:
    • output_directory: replaces output_file
  • -f: Specify formatted filename
  • -s: Output slurp-style geometry string to stdout
  • -g: Initialize selection on launch with slurp-style geometry string
• Fix missing mkdir for default output directory
• Video is now also sent to clipboard (as a text/uri-list)
• Images on clipboard now additionally support text/uri-list mime type (previously only images/png).

Meta/internal:

• Added flake.nix and flake.lock
• Refactored simd.c into standalone scranrot/ library
  • Still very much WIP.
• Misc. bug fixes and stability improvements :)

v0.3.1

• Fix video rotation for 180-rotated displays by setting file format metadata
  • Other rotations still have proper per-frame image transformation.
• Support building against some older libavutil versions < 59.36.100
  • Should fix most Ubuntu builds.
• Add Ubuntu build instructions
• Fix crash caused by incorrect asserts for 270-transformed images
  • Only affects debug builds.

v0.3.0

Tested and working on Arch (through distrobox) and NixOS.

Summary:

• Updated build instructions
• Fixed video capture memory leak
• Updated video capture parameters
  • Mainly: Dynamic quantizer, with 6mbps target framerate
• Other minor video capture performance and correctness improvements