The Hyprland Wayland compositor project released version 0.53.1 today, January 07, 2026. This patch release incorporates several critical fixes backported from the main development branch, aiming to enhance the compositor's overall stability and reliability. The release notes state, "This is a standard patch release backporting a few fixes from main." Key improvements address various aspects of the user experience, including corrections to desktop animation direction and ensuring correct focus on previously active windows within groups. Input processing has been improved by guarding against null view errors, while issues like the creation of invalid layer shells when no monitor is found have been resolved. Further fixes include preventing potential crashes in the XWayland manager's min/max clamping and correcting a logic error in layer rule application. The Hyprland project acknowledged sponsors 37Signals and Framework for their support.