Version 2.2.1 includes sway comatibility enhancements (#98) and other bugfixes.

• Make the sway INPUT event subscribable (#127).
• Remove the enum-compat dependency (#128).
• Add examples and docs to MANIFEST.in (#132).
• Add sway-specific fields to OutputReply (#137).
• Add find_by_pid() method for sway (#142).
• Add side properties to Gaps object (#143).
• Add ipc_data attribute to objects (8947b9f).
• Add all known sway properties (e6c7f1b).
• Fix scratchpad for sway (f11e729).
• Bug: fix crash after reload then restart (#148).

Version 2.1.1 includes bugfixes and new features.

• Regression: emit detailed events correctly (#126)
• Regression: null values in replies should be python None (#123)
• Add the sway input event (#122)
• Raise handler exceptions from Connection.main() (the old behavior was just to exit silently which is wrong) (#125)

Version 2.0.1 is a major release which adds breaking changes and major new features.

i3ipc-python is now Python 3 only.

This release adds the asyncio connection class. New code for Python 3.6 or greater is recommended to use this class over the old blocking connection.

• (breaking) Remove python2 support (#110)
• (breaking) Use the Rect class for OutputReply and WorkspaceReply rect attributes (cec29f9).
• (breaking) Make socket-related members of the Connection private (4936704)
  • cmd_socket, cmd_lock, sub_socket, sub_lock, MAGIC, _event_socket_setup(), _event_socket_teardown(), _event_socket_poll()
• (breaking) Make event-related members of the Connection private (8424811)
  • subscribe(), EventType
• (breaking) Remove GenericEvent in favor of specific events OutputEvent, ModeEvent, and ShutdownEvent.
• (breaking) Remove the PropsObject (6ddbc22)
• Add asyncio support with the new aio.Connection class.
• Add Event class for event subscription by enum (#59)
• Add the app_id attribute to the Con class (sway only) (#113).
• Get the socket path from the root window with python-xlib (#116).
• Add a commands to get inputs and seats (sway only) (#115).
• Add event_state_mask and symbols (sway only) to BindingInfo (262246d).
• Add version info in __version__.py (ee779b).
• Use real X windows in tests (4e9746c).
• Run tests in a docker container (97d0455).
• Add type annotations for all public members.
• Completely rewrite the documentation.

Version 1.7.1 adds some bugfixes and features.

• Add support to get socketpath from the sway binary (93a8f0c).
• Return empty list on commands that don't return a result (cf55812).
• Implement the SHUTDOWN event (d338889).
• Implement the autoreconnect feature (fa3a813).
• Make sending commands thread safe (e9fcefa).
• Add title attribute to Con class (34ea24e).
• Add pid attribute to Con class for sway (bd0224e).

Version 1.6.0 adds the following bugfixes and features:

• Properly tear down subscription socket (#83)
• Implement send_tick message and tick event
• Add a timeout parameter to the main function
• Implement GET_BINDING_MODES
• Implement GET_CONFIG
• Implement GET_MARKS
• Fix pickling of types by fixing a _ReplyType exception (#89)
• Add the sticky property

Version 1.5.1 adds the following bugfixes and features:

• add the Connection::off() function to stop listening to events
• add a timeout parameter to the main loop to terminate after some time
• use SHUT_RDWR on the socket to fix some bugs with main_quit()

Version 1.5.0 adds the following bugfixes and features:

• fix bug where floating nodes are not in the tree
• add support for SWAYSOCK and other fixes for sway

Bump to version 1.4.0

Version 1.4.0 adds the following bugfixes and features:

• Add container property 'floating'
• Add container property 'focus' (the focus stack)
• Add container info for window gaps
• Use native byte order everywhere
• Add descendents iterator to Con
• Add Con.find_instanced()
• Add documentation and tests
• List descendents BFS
• Allow usage from external event loops
• bug: return command result in Con.command()

Version 1.3.0 adds the following bugfixes and features:

• Remove python-xlib dependency by getting the socket path from i3
  binary.
• The Con::command_children() method should work properly.
• Make socket.recv() robust against interruptions.
• Change Con::mark to Con::marks for the new ipc api (might be
  breaking).
• Add Con::window_rect and Con::deco_rect properties.
• Fix encoding problems in reading README.
• Con::workspace() returns self if it is a workspace instead of None.
• Fix the ipc-shutdown event.
• The library is now installed as a directory instead of a single file.
• Make the main loop work in multi-threaded environments.
• Add Travis CI.
• Add a test suite.
• Add robustness against UTF-8 errors by replacing bad UTF-8.

Version 1.2.0 adds the following features:

• Obey I3SOCK environment variable
• Add Con::find_fullscreen()
• Added properties: scratchpad_state, window_role
• Con::find_marked() - make pattern optional

And the following bugfixes:

• Fix crash on barconfig_update event
• Use underscores to subscribe to barconfig_update event
• Correctly put floating nodes in the floating_nodes list of the Con