wl-clipboard-rs

Access to the Wayland clipboard for terminal and other window-less applications.

0.9.3 12M downloads/mo #2785 most downloaded on crates.io YaLTeR/wl-clipboard-rs

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Last release 3 months ago

07 May 2026

Ships fairly regularly

a new release about every 5 months

Most releases are documented

notes for 15 of 19 stable releases

Nothing withdrawn

no release was ever pulled

8 years old

19 releases · first in 2019

5 releases in the last 12 months

see the full history below

Release timeline

19 releases · Feb 2019 to May 2026

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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Releases

latest 19

0.9.3 13 Dec 2025
Release notes
- Switched copying and wl-copy from tempfile to in-memory data storage.
- Added more text MIME heuristics to utils::is_text based on wl-clipboard. In particular, this fixes copying shell scripts and XML files.
- Added paste::get_mime_types_ordered that preserves the ordering of MIME types offered by the copying application. This can sometimes be used to determine the "native" data type of the copied contents. wl-paste -l was updated to show this ordered list.
- Updated dependencies, notably rustix to v1 and windows-sys.
- Minimized version requirements of other dependencies.
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0.9.2 14 Mar 2025
Release notes
- Added support for the ext-data-control protocol. It will be used instead of wlr-data-control when available.
- Updated dependencies.
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0.9.1 06 Oct 2024
Release notes
- Added man page and shell completion generation to wl-clipboard-rs-tools.
- Updated dependencies.
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0.9.0 19 Jun 2024
Release notes
- Breaking Removed utils::copy_data. It forked into a /usr/bin/env cat for copying. All internal uses of the function have been changed to simply use std::io::copy instead.
- Replaced nix with rustix, following wayland-rs.
- Replaced the deprecated structopt with clap itself.
- Updated dependencies.
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0.8.2 07 May 2026

Nothing published for this version
0.8.1 07 Mar 2024
Release notes
- Updated dependencies, notably nix, which fixes building on LoongArch.
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0.8.0 03 Oct 2023
Release notes
- Added copy::Options::omit_additional_text_mime_types to disable wl-clipboard-rs offering several known text MIME types when a text MIME type is copied.
- Updated wayland-rs to 0.31.
  - Breaking This changed the error types slightly. However, most uses of wl-clipboard-rs should be completely unaffected.
- Updated other dependencies.
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0.7.1 07 May 2026

Nothing published for this version
0.7.0 24 Sep 2022
Release notes
- Fixed paste::get_contents() leaving behind zombie cat processes.
- Changed debug logging from info! to trace!.
- Bumped nix dependency to 0.24 to match that of the wayland-rs crates.
- Replaced derive_more with thiserror.
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0.6.1 07 May 2026

Nothing published for this version
0.6.0 20 Mar 2022
Release notes
- Fixed wl-copy and wl-clip hangs when followed by a pipe (e.g. wl-copy hello | cat).
- Removed the deprecated failure dependency from both the library and the tools. The standard Error trait is now used.
- Replaced underscores back with dashes in the tool binary names.
- Renamed wl-clipboard-tools subcrate to wl-clipboard-rs-tools.
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0.5.0 13 Mar 2022
Release notes
- Split binaries from the main crate wl-clipboard-rs into a new sub-crate wl-clipboard-tools. This removes a few dependencies that were only used in the binaries (like structopt).
  - This change also unintentionally replaced dashes with underscores in tool binary names.
- Replaced tree_magic (which went unmaintained) with tree_magic_mini.
- Changed the fork code which runs during the copy operation to exec /usr/bin/env cat instead of just cat. This was done to remove a non-async-signal-safe call in the child process.
- Updated dependencies.
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0.4.2 07 May 2026

Nothing published for this version
0.4.1 01 Sep 2020
Release notes
- Updated nix to 0.18 and wayland-rs to 0.27.
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0.4.0 13 Dec 2019
Release notes
- Breaking Copying in non-foreground mode no longer forks (which was unsafe in multi-threaded programs). Instead, it spawns a background thread to serve copy requests.
- Added copy::prepare_copy() and copy::prepare_copy_multi() (and respective functions in copy::Options) to accommodate workflows which depended on the forking behavior, such as wl-copy. See wl-copy for example usage.
- Breaking Changed copy::Source and copy::Seat to own the contained data rather than borrow it. As a consequence, those types, as well as copy::MimeSource and copy::Options, have dropped their lifetime generic parameter.
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0.3.1 27 Nov 2019
Release notes
- Reduced the wl_seat version requirement from 6 to 2.
- Added copy::copy_multi() for offering multiple data sources under multiple different MIME types.
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0.3.0 04 Apr 2019
Release notes
- Breaking Moved ClipboardType into copy:: and paste::.
- Breaking Renamed utils::Error into utils::CopyDataError.
- Added copy::ClipboardType::Both for operating both clipboards at once.
- Added utils::is_primary_selection_supported().
- [wl-copy]: added --regular, which, when set together with --primary, makes wl-copy operate on both clipboards at once.
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0.2.0 17 Feb 2019
Release notes
- Breaking Changed copy::Options::paste_once to serve_requests which allows to specify the number of paste requests to serve.
- Marked copy::Seat and copy::Options as Copy.
- Updated data-control, it's now merged into wlr-protocols so no further changes without a version bump.
- [wl-copy, wl-paste]: replaced env_logger with stderrlog which made the binaries much smaller.
- Implemented wl-clip, a Wayland version of xclip.
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0.1.0 12 Feb 2019
Release notes
- Initial release.
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