Variety 0.9.0

• NOTE TO PACKAGERS: Variety 0.9.0 switches from distutils-extra to setuptools and importlib.resources.
  • The variety.desktop entry now needs to be manually installed, as this is not handled by setuptools automatically
  • Media, scripts, and other resources are now bundled in the "variety" Python package
• Fix #834: Add support for newer GExiv2 versions (Fedora 44)
• Fix #823: Fall back to convert if magick command is not found (Ubuntu 24.04 and earlier)
• Fix #838: Fix "Fit within screen, pad with a blurred background" display mode blurring the whole image
• Update Spanish translations

Variety 0.9.0-beta1

• Improvement #795/#800: fix Python 3.14 support; switch to
  setuptools-gettext and virtualenv for local development
• Remove broken Flickr and National Geographic downloaders
• Feature #309: Make changing lock screen backgrounds optional
• Feature #714: Add support for Cosmic DE
• Feature #814: add support for KDE Active Blur wallpaper plugin
• Feature #794: Add --meta CLI option to print wallpaper info
  (Customize -> Change lock screen background automatically)
• Fix #728: use magick command instead of deprecated convert
• Fix #807: add support for newer versions of Budgie (#807)
• Fix #815: XFCE wallpaper cannot be set on clean installs due to
  missing backdrop properties
• Fix #802: fix killing old swaybg processes
• Improvement #792: add .webp support
• Improvement #778: Update German translations

Variety 0.8.13

• Fix #741: Fix downloading server side options (remove tiny.cc redirector)
• Fix #733: Fix for EarthviewDownloader
• Fix #704: In "smart" display mode, tile small wallpapers using ImageMagick (#727)
• Improvement #731: Add support for KDE 6 lockscreen
• Improvement #752: set_wallpaper: default to feh/nitrogen instead of hardcoding a list of WMs
• Feature #756: Add support for Fluxbox (via fbsetbg)
• Feature #619: Add regex name filter for wallpapers
• Update French and German translations

Variety 0.8.12

• Add support for KDE Plasma 6 (#673)

Variety 0.8.11

• Fix #652: use importlib to support Python >= 3.12
• Fix #424: Use only the primary monitor for thumbs window (#649)
• Improvement #609: filter Unsplash Plus images
• Improvement #604: download UHD images from Bing
• Feature #621: Add AVIF image format support
• Updated translations: Spanish (#607) and Brazilian Portuguese (#614)
• set_wallpaper: add support for i3-gnome (#595), Hyprland (#618), spectrwm (#626)
• set_wallpaper: only set Plasma wallpaper on desktops using an image background (#611)
• set_wallpaper: use dbus-send instead of qdbus for setting KDE wallpaper (#633)

Variety 0.8.10

• Bugfix #577: Fix Unsplash downloads
• Bugfix #553: Keep the current quote when using Image->Next
• Bugfix #418: on AwesomeWM, apply the same image on all monitors separately instead of stretching across them
• Feature #559: add support for handling Unsplash topic URLs
• Improvement #586: Use official API for EarthView

Variety 0.8.9

• Bugfix #536, #537: Fix errors when there is no primary monitor configured

Variety 0.8.8

• Feature #89: Added options to select fit size / wallpaper mode. Added an image-dependent smart fit mode.
• Bugfix #519: Fix issues with autostart.
• Bugfix #534: Fix the fallback Wallhaven non-API downloading mode used for some Wallhaven URLs.
• Bugfix #480: Improve image searching: Avoid deep/huge folders causing Variety to ignore the other folders.

Variety 0.8.7

• Added a global switch to turn Internet connectivity for Variety off or on
• Wallhaven sources now use the Wallhaven API, not html parsing (Thanks to @nlpsuge).
• Support for fetching NSFW images from Wallhaven (Thanks to @nlpsuge).
  When adding Wallhaven sources, you can provide your own Wallhaven API key.
  If provided, and the source URL is set to search for NSFW images, Variety will obey.
• Auto-upgrade set_wallpaper/get_wallpaper scripts.
  Starting from this release, Variety will always automatically upgrade
  the set_wallpaper/get_wallpaper scripts to make sure fixes to those are picked up.
  Your old files have been preserved in the ~/.config/variety/scripts folder.
  If you need to use custom scripts, please set their paths in the
  set_wallpaper_script/get_wallpaper_script properties in ~/.config/variety/variety.conf.

Variety 0.8.6

• New source: National Geographic's photo of the day (thanks to @TheLastZombie)
• New source: ArtStation (thanks to @denis-gordeev)
• Add support for Gnome's Dark style
• Change default font for quotes and clock to Serif for greater compatibility
• Translation updates and bugfixes