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What's new in Alacritty 0.13.2

Mar 25, 2024
  • ADDED:
  • Default Home/End bindings in Vi mode mapped to First/Last respectively
  • FIXED:
  • CLI env variables clearing configuration file variables
  • Vi inline search/semantic selection expanding across newlines
  • C0 and C1 codes being emitted in associated text when using kitty keyboard
  • Occasional hang on startup with some Wayland compositors
  • Missing key for NumpadDecimal in key bindings
  • Scrolling content upwards moving lines into history when it shouldn't
  • Sticky keys not working sometimes on X11
  • Modifiers occasionally getting desynced on X11
  • Autokey no longer working with alacritty on X11
  • Freeze when moving window between monitors on Xfwm
  • Mouse cursor not changing on Wayland when cursor theme uses legacy cursor icon names
  • Config keys are available under proper names
  • Build failure when compiling with x11 feature on NetBSD
  • Hint Select action selecting the entire line for URL escapes
  • CHANGED:
  • No unused-key warnings will be emitted for OS-specific config keys
  • Use built-in font for sextant symbols from U+1FB00 to U+1FB3B
  • Kitty encoding is not used anymore for uncommon keys unless the protocol enabled

New in Alacritty 0.13.2 RC 1 (Mar 20, 2024)

  • ADDED:
  • Default Home/End bindings in Vi mode mapped to First/Last respectively
  • FIXED:
  • CLI env variables clearing configuration file variables
  • Vi inline search/semantic selection expanding across newlines
  • C0 and C1 codes being emitted in associated text when using kitty keyboard
  • Occasional hang on startup with some Wayland compositors
  • Missing key for NumpadDecimal in key bindings
  • Scrolling content upwards moving lines into history when it shouldn't
  • Sticky keys not working sometimes on X11
  • Modifiers occasionally getting desynced on X11
  • Autokey no longer working with alacritty on X11
  • Freeze when moving window between monitors on Xfwm
  • Mouse cursor not changing on Wayland when cursor theme uses legacy cursor icon names
  • Config keys are available under proper names
  • Build failure when compiling with x11 feature on NetBSD
  • Hint Select action selecting the entire line for URL escapes
  • CHANGED:
  • No unused-key warnings will be emitted for OS-specific config keys
  • Use built-in font for sextant symbols from U+1FB00 to U+1FB3B
  • Kitty encoding is not used anymore for uncommon keys unless the protocol enabled

New in Alacritty 0.13.1 (Jan 11, 2024)

  • ADDED:
  • Support for pasting in Vi + Search mode
  • CHANGED:
  • alacritty migrate will ignore null values in yaml instead of erroring out
  • FIXED:
  • alacritty migrate failing with nonexistent imports
  • Alt bindings requiring composed key rather than pre-composed one on macOS
  • Alt + Control bindings not working on Windows
  • chars = "u000A" action in bindings inserting n
  • Alternate keys not sent for Shift + when using kitty protocol
  • Alternative keys being swapped in kitty protocol implementation
  • Powerline glyphs being cut for narrow fonts
  • Xmodmap not working on X11
  • Occasional slow startup on some X11 window managers
  • Blurry window when using window.dimensions on some Wayland compositors
  • IME input lagging behind on X11
  • xdotool modifiers input not working correctly on X11
  • Parsing numbers fails for mouse bindings
  • Some config options overriding each other in CLI/IPC
  • Numpad Left used for numpad Up

New in Alacritty 0.13.1 RC 1 (Jan 8, 2024)

  • Added:
  • Support for pasting in Vi + Search mode
  • Changed:
  • alacritty migrate will ignore null values in yaml instead of erroring out
  • Fixed:
  • alacritty migrate failing with nonexistent imports
  • Alt bindings requiring composed key rather than pre-composed one on macOS
  • Alt + Control bindings not working on Windows
  • chars = "u000A" action in bindings inserting n
  • Alternate keys not sent for Shift + when using kitty protocol
  • Alternative keys being swapped in kitty protocol implementation
  • Powerline glyphs being cut for narrow fonts
  • Xmodmap not working on X11
  • Occasional slow startup on some X11 window managers
  • Blurry window when using window.dimensions on some Wayland compositors
  • IME input lagging behind on X11
  • xdotool modifiers input not working correctly on X11
  • Parsing numbers fails for mouse bindings
  • Some config options overriding each other in CLI/IPC
  • Numpad Left used for numpad Up

New in Alacritty 0.13.0 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • PACKAGING:
  • Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.70.0
  • Manpages are now generated using scdoc (see INSTALL.md)
  • ADDED:
  • Warnings for unused configuration file options
  • Config option persist in hints config section
  • Support for dynamically loading conpty.dll on Windows
  • Support for keybindings with dead keys
  • Back/Forward mouse buttons support in bindings
  • Copy global IPC options (-w -1) for new windows
  • Bindings to create and navigate tabs on macOS
  • Support startup notify protocol to raise initial window on Wayland/X11
  • Debug option prefer_egl to prioritize EGL over other display APIs
  • Inline vi-mode search using f/F/t/T
  • window.blur config option to request blur for transparent windows
  • --option argument for alacritty msg create-window
  • Support for DECRQM/DECRPM escape sequences
  • Support for kitty's keyboard protocol
  • CHANGED:
  • Mode-specific bindings can now be bound in any mode for easier macros
  • --help output is more compact now and uses more neutral palette
  • Configuration file now uses TOML instead of YAML
  • Run alacritty migrate to automatically convert all configuration files
  • Deprecated config option draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors, use
  • colors.draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors
  • Deprecated config option key_bindings, use keyboard.bindings
  • Deprecated config option mouse_bindings, use mouse.bindings
  • The default colorscheme is now based on base16 classic dark
  • IME popup now tries to not obscure the current cursor line
  • The double click threshold was raised to 400ms
  • OSC 52 paste ability is now disabled by default; use terminal.osc52 to adjust it
  • Apply colors.transparent_background_colors for selections, hints, and search matches
  • Underline full hint during keyboard selection
  • Synchronized updates now use CSI 2026 instead of legacy DCS variant
  • In mouse mode with Shift pressed, mouse bindings without Shift are only triggered
  • if no exact binding (i.e. one with Shift) is found.
  • Use built-in font for powerline symbols from U+E0B0 to U+E0B3
  • Default bell.animation is now Linear
  • IncreaseFontSize/DecreaseFontSize step is now 1px
  • font.size precision was raised to 6 floating point digits
  • Default font size to 11.25 matching 15px
  • Xft.dpi is now reloaded when xsettingd change its value on X11
  • FIXED:
  • Unconditional query of xdg-portal settings on Wayland
  • Maximized startup mode not filling the screen properly on GNOME Wayland
  • OptionAsAlt with OnlyLeft/OnlyRight settings not working properly on macOS
  • Default Vi key bindings for Last/First actions not working on X11/Wayland
  • Cut off wide characters in preedit string
  • Scrolling on touchscreens
  • Double clicking on CSD titlebar not always maximizing a window on Wayland
  • Excessive memory usage when using regexes with a large number of possible states
  • window.decorations_theme_variant not live reloading
  • Copy/Paste being truncated to 64KiB on Wayland
  • X11 clipboard lagging behind sometimes
  • High wakeup count on Wayland due to clipboard polling
  • Blocking paste freezing alacritty on Wayland
  • Command modifier persisting after Cmd + Tab on macOS
  • Crash on exit when using NVIDIA binary drivers on Wayland
  • window.startup_mode applied to window again when creating new tab
  • Crash when leaving search after resize
  • Cursor being hidden after reaching cursor blinking timeout
  • Message bar content getting stuck after closing with multiple messages on Wayland
  • Vi cursor position not redrawn on PageUp/PageDown without scrollback
  • Cursor not updating when blinking and viewport is scrolled
  • Failure to start with recent version of mesa's i915 driver
  • Error when using chars inside the mouse bindings
  • REMOVED:
  • Config option background_opacity, use window.background_opacity
  • Config option colors.search.bar, use colors.footer_bar instead
  • Config option mouse.url, use the hints config section
  • Config options mouse.double_click and mouse.triple_click

New in Alacritty 0.13.0 RC 1 (Dec 15, 2023)

  • PACKAGING:
  • Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.70.0
  • Manpages are now generated using scdoc (see INSTALL.md)
  • ADDED:
  • Warnings for unused configuration file options
  • Config option persist in hints config section
  • Support for dynamically loading conpty.dll on Windows
  • Support for keybindings with dead keys
  • Back/Forward mouse buttons support in bindings
  • Copy global IPC options (-w -1) for new windows
  • Bindings to create and navigate tabs on macOS
  • Support startup notify protocol to raise initial window on Wayland/X11
  • Debug option prefer_egl to prioritize EGL over other display APIs
  • Inline vi-mode search using f/F/t/T
  • window.blur config option to request blur for transparent windows
  • --option argument for alacritty msg create-window
  • Support for DECRQM/DECRPM escape sequences
  • Support for kitty's keyboard protocol
  • CHANGED:
  • Mode-specific bindings can now be bound in any mode for easier macros
  • --help output is more compact now and uses more neutral palette
  • Configuration file now uses TOML instead of YAML
  • Run alacritty migrate to automatically convert all configuration files
  • Deprecated config option draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors, use
  • colors.draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors
  • Deprecated config option key_bindings, use keyboard.bindings
  • Deprecated config option mouse_bindings, use mouse.bindings
  • The default colorscheme is now based on base16 classic dark
  • IME popup now tries to not obscure the current cursor line
  • The double click threshold was raised to 400ms
  • OSC 52 paste ability is now disabled by default; use terminal.osc52 to adjust it
  • Apply colors.transparent_background_colors for selections, hints, and search matches
  • Underline full hint during keyboard selection
  • Synchronized updates now use CSI 2026 instead of legacy DCS variant
  • In mouse mode with Shift pressed, mouse bindings without Shift are only triggered
  • if no exact binding (i.e. one with Shift) is found.
  • Use built-in font for powerline symbols from U+E0B0 to U+E0B3
  • Default bell.animation is now Linear
  • IncreaseFontSize/DecreaseFontSize step is now 1px
  • font.size precision was raised to 6 floating point digits
  • Default font size to 11.25 matching 15px
  • FIXED:
  • Unconditional query of xdg-portal settings on Wayland
  • Maximized startup mode not filling the screen properly on GNOME Wayland
  • OptionAsAlt with OnlyLeft/OnlyRight settings not working properly on macOS
  • Default Vi key bindings for Last/First actions not working on X11/Wayland
  • Cut off wide characters in preedit string
  • Scrolling on touchscreens
  • Double clicking on CSD titlebar not always maximizing a window on Wayland
  • Excessive memory usage when using regexes with a large number of possible states
  • window.decorations_theme_variant not live reloading
  • Copy/Paste being truncated to 64KiB on Wayland
  • X11 clipboard lagging behind sometimes
  • High wakeup count on Wayland due to clipboard polling
  • Blocking paste freezing alacritty on Wayland
  • Command modifier persisting after Cmd + Tab on macOS
  • Crash on exit when using NVIDIA binary drivers on Wayland
  • window.startup_mode applied to window again when creating new tab
  • Crash when leaving search after resize
  • Cursor being hidden after reaching cursor blinking timeout
  • Message bar content getting stuck after closing with multiple messages on Wayland
  • Vi cursor position not redrawn on PageUp/PageDown without scrollback
  • Cursor not updating when blinking and viewport is scrolled
  • Failure to start with recent version of mesa's i915 driver
  • Error when using chars inside the mouse bindings
  • REMOVED:
  • Config option background_opacity, use window.background_opacity
  • Config option colors.search.bar, use colors.footer_bar instead
  • Config option mouse.url, use the hints config section
  • Config options mouse.double_click and mouse.triple_click

New in Alacritty 0.12.3 (Oct 3, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Crash on macOS Sonoma due to change in macOS resize handling
  • Crash when Wayland compositor advertises wl_compositor@v5 interface

New in Alacritty 0.12.3 RC 1 (Sep 29, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash on macOS Sonoma due to change in macOS resize handling
  • Crash when Wayland compositor advertises wl_compositor@v5 interface

New in Alacritty 0.12.2 (Jul 4, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Hyperlink preview not being shown when the terminal has exactly 2 lines
  • Crash on Windows when changing display scale factor
  • Freeze with some drivers when using GLX
  • Crash when shrinking the terminal scrolled into the history

New in Alacritty 0.12.2 RC 1 (Jun 26, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Hyperlink preview not being shown when the terminal has exactly 2 lines
  • Crash on Windows when changing display scale factor
  • Freeze with some drivers when using GLX
  • Crash when shrinking the terminal scrolled into the history

New in Alacritty 0.12.1 (May 22, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Very long startup times on Wayland systems with broken xdg-portal setup
  • Error on startup with GLX when using old mesa platforms
  • Character ; inside the URI in OSC 8 sequence breaking the URI
  • Selection on last line not updating correctly on resize
  • Keyboard input not working on macOS with some IMEs like Fig.io

New in Alacritty 0.12.1 RC 2 (May 16, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Very long startup times on Wayland systems with broken xdg-portal setup
  • Error on startup with GLX when using old mesa platforms

New in Alacritty 0.12.1 RC 1 (May 7, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Character ; inside the URI in OSC 8 sequence breaking the URI
  • Selection on last line not updating correctly on resize
  • Keyboard input not working on macOS with some IMEs like Fig.io

New in Alacritty 0.12.0 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • ADDED:
  • Uppercase -T short form for --title
  • Support for horizontal scrolling in mouse mode and alternative scrolling modes
  • Support for fractional scaling on Wayland with wp-fractional-scale protocol
  • Support for running on GLES context
  • Touchscreen input for click/scroll/select/zoom
  • window.resize_increments config option, disabled by default
  • CHANGED:
  • Always use sRGB color space on macOS
  • Erase in line after the last column will no longer clear the last column
  • Open new windows by default with macOS Cmd+N binding
  • The hint about window transparency is now properly issued on Wayland and macOS
  • window.decorations_theme_variant could now control theme on macOS and Windows
  • The IME purpose is now set to Terminal which could help with OSK
  • window.decorations_theme_variant is now using Dark, Light, and None values
  • Resize increments are now set on macOS and X11 to resize by cell sizes
  • FIXED:
  • --help output for --class does not match man pages
  • Cursor and underlines always being black on very old hardware
  • Crash when using very low negative font.offset
  • Startup failure on macOS with default config when system /bin/sh is dash
  • Artifacts in corners for maximized window with CSD on Wayland
  • Dotted underline not shown on macOS
  • Underline on macOS always being at the bottom of the cell
  • Crash with OT-SVG fonts on Linux/BSD
  • Crash during text compose on old GNOME under Wayland
  • Mouse cursor staying hidden after window regains focus on macOS Ventura
  • Blurry fonts when changing padding size at runtime
  • Crash while typing on Wayland
  • Multi-line semantic bracket selection
  • Reduced GPU memory usage
  • Low frame rate when multiple windows render at the same time
  • Redraw hanging until a keypress on X11 in rare cases
  • Window clipping when maximizing a window without decorations on Windows
  • Quadrants not aligned with half blocks with built-in font
  • EOT (x03) escaping bracketed paste mode
  • Drag & Drop not working for the search bar
  • Simple-fullscreened window not resized when moving between monitors on macOS
  • REMOVED:
  • window.gtk_theme_variant config field; use window.decorations_theme_variant instead
  • alt_send_esc is now always set to true

New in Alacritty 0.12.0 RC 3 (Mar 19, 2023)

  • FIXED:
  • Memory leak on macOS
  • Pasting from Alacritty freezing the target application

New in Alacritty 0.12.0 RC 2 (Mar 9, 2023)

  • ADDED:
  • window.resize_increments config option, disabled by default
  • FIXED:
  • EOT (x03) escaping bracketed paste mode
  • Drag & Drop not working for the search bar
  • Simple-fullscreened window not resized when moving between monitors on macOS
  • When using window.resize_increments maximizing the window not taking full space on macOS

New in Alacritty 0.12.0 RC 1 (Feb 21, 2023)

  • ADDED:
  • Uppercase -T short form for --title
  • Support for horizontal scrolling in mouse mode and alternative scrolling modes
  • Support for fractional scaling on Wayland with wp-fractional-scale protocol
  • Support for running on GLES context
  • Touchscreen input for click/scroll/select/zoom
  • CHANGED:
  • Always use sRGB color space on macOS
  • Erase in line after the last column will no longer clear the last column
  • Open new windows by default with macOS Cmd+N binding
  • The hint about window transparency is now properly issued on Wayland and macOS
  • window.decorations_theme_variant could now control theme on macOS and Windows
  • The IME purpose is now set to Terminal which could help with OSK
  • window.decorations_theme_variant is now using Dark, Light, and None values
  • Resize increments are now set on macOS and X11 to resize by cell sizes
  • FIXED:
  • --help output for --class does not match man pages
  • Cursor and underlines always being black on very old hardware
  • Crash when using very low negative font.offset
  • Startup failure on macOS with default config when system /bin/sh is dash
  • Artifacts in corners for maximized window with CSD on Wayland
  • Dotted underline not shown on macOS
  • Underline on macOS always being at the bottom of the cell
  • Crash with OT-SVG fonts on Linux/BSD
  • Crash during text compose on old GNOME under Wayland
  • Mouse cursor staying hidden after window regains focus on macOS Ventura
  • Blurry fonts when changing padding size at runtime
  • Crash while typing on Wayland
  • Multi-line semantic bracket selection
  • Reduced GPU memory usage
  • Low frame rate when multiple windows render at the same time
  • Redraw hanging until a keypress on X11 in rare cases
  • Window clipping when maximizing a window without decorations on Windows
  • Quadrants not aligned with half blocks with built-in font
  • REMOVED:
  • window.gtk_theme_variant config field; use window.decorations_theme_variant instead
  • alt_send_esc is now always set to true
  • macOS Alt/Option situation
  • This release removed the alt_send_esc option entirely in favor of option_as_alt in window section.
  • However some keyboard layouts are using Alt + 8 to enter the [ character and you don't want to send ESC for them.
  • For these layouts you must define bindings yourself in key_bindings section, but be aware that key bindings that were
  • floating around in different issues may not be working anymore, so the recommended way
  • to bind those keys is to do the following:
  • Run alacritty --print-events | grep -i keyboardinput.
  • Press problematic key bindings on such layouts, for example Alt + 8.
  • In the output you'll see something like KeyboardInput { device_id: DeviceId(DeviceId), input: KeyboardInput { scancode: 28, state: Pressed, virtual_keycode: Some(LBracket), modifiers: ALT }, is_synthetic: false } }.
  • Add a binding like - { key: LBracket, mods: Alt, chars: "[" }, the key is virtual_keycode from step 3 if it end up being None you can write key: 28, where 28 is scancode from 3.
  • Repeat 1-4 until you done.

New in Alacritty 0.11.0 (Oct 13, 2022)

  • PACKAGING:
  • Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.57.0
  • Renamed io.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml to org.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml
  • Renamed io.alacritty to org.alacritty for Alacritty.app
  • Added
  • Track and report surface damage information to Wayland compositors
  • Escape sequence for undercurl, dotted and dashed underlines (CSI 4 : [3-5] m)
  • ToggleMaximized key binding action to (un-)maximize the active window, not bound by default
  • Support for OpenGL ES 2.0
  • Escape sequence to set underline color (CSI 58 : 2 : Ps : Ps : Ps m/CSI 58 : 5 : Ps m)
  • Escape sequence to reset underline color (CSI 59 m)
  • Vi mode keybinding (z) to center view around vi mode cursor
  • Accept hexadecimal values starting with 0x for --embed
  • Config option cursor.blink_timeout to timeout cursor blinking after inactivity
  • Escape sequence to set hyperlinks (OSC 8 ; params ; URI ST)
  • Config hints.enabled.hyperlinks for hyperlink escape sequence hint highlight
  • window.decorations_theme_variant to control both Wayland CSD and GTK theme variant on
  • X11:
  • Support for inline input method
  • CHANGED:
  • No longer renders to macos and x11 windows that are fully occluded / not directly visible
  • The --help output was reworked with a new colorful syntax
  • OSC 52 is now disabled on unfocused windows
  • SpawnNewInstance no longer inherits initial --command
  • Blinking cursor will timeout after 5 seconds by default
  • Deprecated colors.search.bar, use colors.footer_bar instead
  • On macOS, Alacritty now reads AppleFontSmoothing from user defaults to control font smoothing
  • Warn when either columns or lines is non-zero, but not both
  • Client side decorations should have proper text rendering now on Wayland
  • Config option window.gtk_theme_variant, you should use window.decorations_theme_variant instead
  • --class now sets both class part of WM_CLASS property and instance
  • --class's general and instance options were swapped
  • Search bar is now respecting cursor thickness
  • On X11 the IME popup window is stuck at the bottom of the window due to Xlib limitations
  • IME no longer works in Vi mode when moving around
  • FIXED:
  • Creating the IPC socket failing if WAYLAND_DISPLAY contains an absolute path
  • Crash when resetting the terminal while in vi mode
  • font.glyph_offset not live reloading
  • Failure when running on 10-bit color system
  • The colors being slightly different when using srgb displays on macOS
  • Vi cursor blinking not reset when navigating in search
  • Scrolling and middle-clicking modifying the primary selection
  • Bottom gap for certain builtin box drawing characters
  • Incorrect built-in glyphs for U+2567 and U+2568
  • Character mappings in the DEC special graphics character set (line drawing)
  • Window flickering on resize on Wayland
  • Unnecessary config reload when using /dev/null as a config file
  • Windows Open Alacritty Here on root of drive displaying error
  • On macOS, font.use_thin_strokes did not work since Big Sur
  • On macOS, trying to load a disabled font would crash
  • On macOS, Alacritty sessions did not appear in the list of tty sessions for w and who
  • Cursor not hiding on GNOME Wayland
  • Font having different scale factor after monitor powering off/on on X11
  • Viewport not updating after opening a new tabbed window on macOS
  • Terminal not exiting sometimes after closing all windows on macOS
  • CPU usage spikes due to mouse movements for unfocused windows on X11/Windows
  • First window on macOS not tabbed with system prefer tabs setting
  • Window being treaten as focused by default on Wayland
  • Removed
  • font.use_thin_strokes config field; to use thin strokes on macOS, set
  • AppleFontSmoothing to 0 with $ defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

New in Alacritty 0.11.0 RC 3 (Oct 10, 2022)

  • Fixed:
  • Missing window icon on X11
  • Crash when closing IME on X11
  • Alt key handling on Windows

New in Alacritty 0.11.0 RC 2 (Sep 19, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Unicode 15 support
  • Fixed:
  • IPC config options overwriting each other
  • Preedit text removal with inline IME
  • Hyperlink preview obscuring text cursor

New in Alacritty 0.11.0 RC 1 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • PACKAGING:
  • Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.57.0
  • Renamed io.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml to org.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml
  • Renamed io.alacritty to org.alacritty for Alacritty.app
  • ADDED
  • Track and report surface damage information to Wayland compositors
  • Escape sequence for undercurl, dotted and dashed underlines (CSI 4 : [3-5] m)
  • ToggleMaximized key binding action to (un-)maximize the active window, not bound by default
  • Support for OpenGL ES 2.0
  • Escape sequence to set underline color (CSI 58 : 2 : Ps : Ps : Ps m/CSI 58 : 5 : Ps m)
  • Escape sequence to reset underline color (CSI 59 m)
  • Vi mode keybinding (z) to center view around vi mode cursor
  • Accept hexadecimal values starting with 0x for --embed
  • Config option cursor.blink_timeout to timeout cursor blinking after inactivity
  • Escape sequence to set hyperlinks (OSC 8 ; params ; URI ST)
  • Config hints.enabled.hyperlinks for hyperlink escape sequence hint highlight
  • window.decorations_theme_variant to control both Wayland CSD and GTK theme variant on X11
  • Support for inline input method
  • CHANGED:
  • No longer renders to macos and x11 windows that are fully occluded / not directly visible
  • The --help output was reworked with a new colorful syntax
  • OSC 52 is now disabled on unfocused windows
  • SpawnNewInstance no longer inherits initial --command
  • Blinking cursor will timeout after 5 seconds by default
  • Deprecated colors.search.bar, use colors.footer_bar instead
  • On macOS, Alacritty now reads AppleFontSmoothing from user defaults to control font smoothing
  • Warn when either columns or lines is non-zero, but not both
  • Client side decorations should have proper text rendering now on Wayland
  • Config option window.gtk_theme_variant, you should use window.decorations_theme_variant instead
  • --class now sets both class part of WM_CLASS property and instance
  • --class's general and instance options were swapped
  • Search bar is now respecting cursor thickness
  • On X11 the IME popup window is stuck at the bottom of the window due to Xlib limitations
  • IME no longer works in Vi mode when moving around
  • FIXED:
  • Creating the IPC socket failing if WAYLAND_DISPLAY contains an absolute path
  • Crash when resetting the terminal while in vi mode
  • font.glyph_offset not live reloading
  • Failure when running on 10-bit color system
  • The colors being slightly different when using srgb displays on macOS
  • Vi cursor blinking not reset when navigating in search
  • Scrolling and middle-clicking modifying the primary selection
  • Bottom gap for certain builtin box drawing characters
  • Incorrect built-in glyphs for U+2567 and U+2568
  • Character mappings in the DEC special graphics character set (line drawing)
  • Window flickering on resize on Wayland
  • Unnecessary config reload when using /dev/null as a config file
  • Windows Open Alacritty Here on root of drive displaying error
  • On macOS, font.use_thin_strokes did not work since Big Sur
  • On macOS, trying to load a disabled font would crash
  • On macOS, Alacritty sessions did not appear in the list of tty sessions for w and who
  • Cursor not hiding on GNOME Wayland
  • Font having different scale factor after monitor powering off/on on X11
  • Viewport not updating after opening a new tabbed window on macOS
  • Terminal not exiting sometimes after closing all windows on macOS
  • CPU usage spikes due to mouse movements for unfocused windows on X11/Windows
  • First window on macOS not tabbed with system prefer tabs setting
  • Window being treaten as focused by default on Wayland
  • REMOVED:
  • font.use_thin_strokes config field; to use thin strokes on macOS, set
  • AppleFontSmoothing to 0 with $ defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

New in Alacritty 0.10.1 (Feb 22, 2022)

  • ADDED:
  • Option font.builtin_box_drawing to disable the built-in font for drawing box characters
  • CHANGED:
  • Builtin font thickness is now based on cell width instead of underline thickness
  • FIXED:
  • OSC 4 not handling ?
  • ? in OSC strings reporting default colors instead of modified ones
  • OSC 104 not clearing colors when second parameter is empty
  • Builtin font lines not contiguous when font.offset is used
  • font.glyph_offset is no longer applied on builtin font
  • Buili-in font arcs alignment
  • Repeated permission prompts on M1 macs
  • Colors being slightly off when using colors.transparent_background_colors

New in Alacritty 0.10.1 Release Candidate 1 (Feb 11, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Option font.builtin_box_drawing to disable the built-in font for drawing box characters
  • Changed:
  • Builtin font thickness is now based on cell width instead of underline thickness
  • Fixed:
  • OSC 4 not handling ?
  • ? in OSC strings reporting default colors instead of modified ones
  • OSC 104 not clearing colors when second parameter is empty
  • Builtin font lines not contiguous when font.offset is used
  • font.glyph_offset is no longer applied on builtin font
  • Buili-in font arcs alignment
  • Repeated permission prompts on M1 macs
  • Colors being slightly off when using colors.transparent_background_colors

New in Alacritty 0.10.0 (Jan 24, 2022)

  • Packaging:
  • New extra/alacritty-msg.man manpage for the alacritty msg subcommand
  • Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.53.0
  • Added:
  • Option colors.transparent_background_colors to allow applying opacity to all background colors
  • Support for running multiple windows from a single Alacritty instance (see docs/features.md)
  • Urgency support on Wayland via xdg_activation_v1
  • Changed:
  • ExpandSelection is now a configurable mouse binding action
  • Config option background_opacity, you should use window.opacity instead
  • Reload configuration files when their symbolic link is replaced
  • Strip trailing whitespaces when yanking from a block selection
  • Display area keeps history position when viewport is cleared
  • Commands spawn from the current directory of the foreground shell in Unix-like systems
  • Remove trailing newline from strings taken from hints or simple/semantic selections
  • Builtin font is now used for box drawing characters from U+2500 to U+259f
  • Logs now print the time since startup instead of the local time
  • Fixed:
  • Line indicator obstructing vi mode cursor when scrolled into history
  • Vi mode search starting in the line below the vi cursor
  • Invisible cursor with matching foreground/background colors
  • Crash when hovering over a match emptied by post-processing
  • Crash when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and viewport clear is invoked
  • Freeze when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and scrollback clear is invoked
  • Vi cursor on topmost of the display moving downward when scrolled into history with active output
  • Input lag on Wayland with Nvidia binary driver
  • Crash when hovering the mouse over fullwidth characters
  • Do not create logfile if the file already exists

New in Alacritty 0.10.0 Release Candidate 4 (Jan 14, 2022)

  • Changed:
  • Logs now print the time since startup instead of the local time

New in Alacritty 0.10.0 Release Candidate 3 (Jan 14, 2022)

  • Fixed:
  • Block selection expansion
  • Use-after-free when formatting Wayland protocol errors
  • Invisible cursor still causing blinking updates

New in Alacritty 0.10.0 Release Candidate 2 (Jan 10, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Title/Class CLI parameters for create-window IPC command
  • Changed:
  • Remove trailing newline from strings taken from hints or simple/semantic selections
  • Builtin font is now used for box drawing characters from U+2500 to U+259f
  • Fixed:
  • Input lag on Wayland with Nvidia binary driver
  • Crash when hovering the mouse over fullwidth characters
  • Test failure with cargo CLI parameters
  • IME regression on macOS
  • Block selection including last column not containing any newlines

New in Alacritty 0.9.0 (Jan 6, 2022)

  • PACKAGING:
  • Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.46.0
  • ADDED:
  • Support for ipfs/ipns URLs
  • Mode field for regex hint bindings
  • FIXED:
  • Regression in rendering performance with dense grids since 0.6.0
  • Crash/Freezes with partially visible fullwidth characters due to alt screen resize
  • Incorrect vi cursor position after invoking ScrollPage* action
  • Slow PTY read performance with extremely dense grids
  • Crash when resizing during vi mode
  • Unintentional text selection range change after leaving vi mode
  • Deadlock on Windows during high frequency output
  • Search without vi mode not starting at the correct location when scrolled into history
  • Crash when starting a vi mode search from the bottommost line
  • Original scroll position not restored after canceling search
  • Clipboard copy skipping non-empty cells when encountering an interrupted tab character
  • Vi mode cursor moving downward when scrolled in history with active output
  • Crash when moving fullwidth characters off the side of the terminal in insert mode
  • Broken bitmap font rendering with FreeType 2.11+
  • Crash with non-utf8 font paths on Linux
  • Newly installed fonts not rendering until Alacritty restart