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libinput 1.24.0

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 26, 2023

libinput 1.24.0 is now available. It's been a while since the last release

so let's flush out what's on our branch. Only three notable topics:

On Apple touchpads, natural scrolling is now enabled by default and palm

detection is disabled - the touchpads are good enough that they don't need

our help.

Built-in tablet devices now always have touch arbitration enabled, so we no

longer need to add a quirk for each of them. And speaking of tablets:

the pressure offset limit for worn-out devices is now at 50% of the range.

Modern pens have a precise enough range that even worn out pen can

still provide satisfactory pressure sensitivity. This pressure offset is now

detected on worn-out pens that do not support distance.

Finally, where a relative device's rotation is 180 degrees (e.g.

a trackball used upside-down) we now flip the scroll wheel direction as well.

The rest of the changes is the usual mix of janitorial patches and

device-specific quirks.

As usual, the git shortlog is below.

Read on