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+# 1.7.0: Iggy 2024 
+
+Rofi 1.7.0 is another bug-fix release that also removes a lot of deprecated features.
+This has been needed to keep **rofi** maintainable.
+
+
+## FileBrowser
+
+## Clickable button and icons
+
+## File Completion
+
+## Timeout actions
+
+## Background image and gradients
+
+
+# Changelog
+
+* ADD: -steal-focus option.
+* ADD: [Config] Add nested configuration option support.
+* ADD: [Config] Support for handling dynamic config files.
+* ADD: [DRun] Add fallback icon option.
+* ADD: [DRun] Add support for passing file (using file-browser) completer for desktop files that support his.
+* ADD: [DRun] Support for service files.
+* ADD: [File Browser] Allow setting startup directory (#1325)
+* ADD: [File Browser]: Add sorting-method. (#1340)
+* ADD: [FileBrowser] Add option to group directories ahead of files. (#1352)
+* ADD: [Filtering] Add prefix matching method. (#1237)
+* ADD: [Icon] Add option to square the widget. 
+* ADD: [Icon|Button] Make action available on icon, button and keybinding name. 
+* ADD: [KeyBinding] Add Ctrl-Shift-Enter option. (#874)
+* ADD: [ListView]-hover-select option. (#1234)
+* ADD: [Run] Add support for passing file (using file-browser) completer.
+* ADD: [Textbox] Allow theme to force markup on text widget.
+* ADD: [Theme] Remove backwards compatiblity hack. 
+* ADD: [Theme] theme validation option. (`-rasi-validate`) 
+* ADD: [View] Add support for user timeout and keybinding action.
+* ADD: [Widget] Add cursor property (#1313)
+* ADD: [Widget] Add scaling option to background-image.
+* ADD: [Widget] Add support background-image and lineair gradient option.
+* ADD: [Window] Add pango markup for window format (#1288)
+* FIX: [DSL] Move theme reset into grammar parser from lexer.
+* FIX: [Drun]: fix sorting on broken desktop files. (thanks to nick87720z) 
+* FIX: [File Browser]: Fix escaping of paths.
+* FIX: [ListView] Fix wrong subwidget name.
+* FIX: [Script] Don't enable custom keybindings by default.
+* FIX: [TextBox] Fix height estimation.
+* FIX: [Theme] widget state and inherited properties. This should help fixing some old themes with changes from 1.6.1.
+* FIX: [Widget] Fix rendering of border and dashes. (Thanks to nick87720z)
+* REMOVE: -dump-xresources
+* REMOVE: -fullscreen
+* REMOVE: -show-match
+* REMOVE: Old xresources based configuration file.
+* REMOVE: fake transparency/background option, part of theme now.
+* REMOVE: xresources parsing via Xserver
+* DOC: Update changes to manpages
+
+
+# Thanks
+
+Big thanks to:
+
+* Quentin Glidic
+* a1346054
+* Ian C
+* TonCherAmi
+* nick87720z
+* Markus Grab
+* Zachary Freed
+* nickofolas
+* unisgn
+* Jas
+* rahulaggarwal965
+* Awal Garg
+* Eduard Lucena
+* Lars Wendler
+
+Apologis if I mistyped or missed anybody.