Alacritty Version 0.8.0 Release Candidate 1

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.45.0

Added

• IME composition preview not appearing on Windows
• Synchronized terminal updates using DCS = 1 s ST/DCS = 2 s ST
• Regex terminal hints (see features.md)
• macOS keybinding (cmd+alt+H) hiding all windows other than Alacritty
• Support for magnet URLs

Changed

• The vi mode cursor is now created in the top-left if the terminal cursor is invisible
• Focused search match will use cell instead of match colors for CellForeground/CellBackground

Fixed

• Alacritty failing to start on X11 with invalid DPI reported by XRandr
• Text selected after search without any match
• Incorrect vi cursor position after leaving search
• Clicking on URLs on Windows incorrectly opens File Explorer
• Incorrect underline cursor thickness on wide cell
• Viewport moving around when resizing while scrolled into history
• Block cursor not expanding across fullwidth characters when on the right side of it
• Overwriting fullwidth characters only clearing one of the involved cells

Removed

• Config field visual_bell, you should use bell instead

Alacritty Version 0.7.2

Packaging

• Updated shell completions

Fixed

• Crash due to assertion failure on 32-bit architectures
• Segmentation fault on shutdown with Wayland
• Incorrect estimated DPR with Wayland
• Consecutive clipboard stores dropped on Wayland until the application is refocused

Alacritty Version 0.7.2 Release Candidate 2

Packaging

• Updated shell completions

Alacritty Version 0.7.2 Release Candidate 1

Fixed

• Crash due to assertion failure on 32-bit architectures
• Segmentation fault on shutdown with Wayland
• Incorrect estimated DPR with Wayland
• Consecutive clipboard stores dropped on Wayland until the application is refocused

Alacritty Version 0.7.1

Fixed

• Jumping between matches in backward vi search

Alacritty Version 0.7.1 Release Candidate 1

Fixed

• Jumping between matches in backward vi search

Alacritty Version 0.7.0

Added

• Support for ~/ at the beginning of configuration file imports
• New cursor.style.blinking option to set the default blinking state
• New cursor.blink_interval option to configure the blinking frequency
• Support for cursor blinking escapes (CSI ? 12 h, CSI ? 12 l and CSI Ps SP q)
• IME support on Windows
• Urgency support on Windows
• Customizable keybindings for search
• History for search mode, bound to ^P/^N/Up/Down by default
• Default binding to cancel search on Ctrl+C
• History position indicator for search and vi mode

Changed

• Nonexistent config imports are ignored instead of raising an error
• Value for disabling logging with config.log_level is Off instead of None
• Missing glyph symbols are no longer drawn for zerowidth characters

Fixed

• Wide characters sometimes being cut off
• Preserve vi mode across terminal reset
• Escapes CSI Ps b and CSI Ps Z with large parameters locking up Alacritty
• Dimming colors which use the indexed CSI 38 : 5 : Ps m notation
• Slow rendering performance with a lot of cells with underline/strikeout attributes
• Performance of scrolling regions with offset from the bottom
• Extra mouse buttons are no longer ignored on Wayland
• Numpad arrow keys are now properly recognized on Wayland
• Compilation when targetting aarch64-apple-darwin
• Window not being completely opaque on Windows
• Window being always on top during alt-tab on Windows
• Cursor position not reported to apps when mouse is moved with button held outside of window
• No live config update when starting Alacritty with a broken configuration file
• PTY not drained to the end with the --hold flag enabled
• High CPU usage on BSD with live config reload enabled
• Alacritty not discarding invalid escape sequences starting with ESC
• Crash due to clipboard not being properly released on Wayland
• Shadow artifacts when resizing transparent windows on macOS
• Missing glyph symbols not being rendered for missing glyphs on macOS and Windows
• Underline cursor being obscured by underline
• Cursor not being rendered with a lot of unicode glyphs visible
• IME input swallowed after triggering a key binding
• Crash on Wayland due to non-standard fontconfig configuration
• Search without vi mode not jumping properly between all matches

Removed

• The following CLI arguments have been removed in favor of the --option flag:
  • --persistent-logging
  • --live-config-reload
  • --no-live-config-reload
  • --dimensions
  • --position
• live-shader-reload feature
• Config option dynamic_title, you should use window.dynamic_title instead
• Config option scrolling.faux_multiplier, which was replaced by escape CSI ? 1007 h/l
• WinPTY support on Windows

Alacritty Version 0.7.0 Release Candidate 2

v0.7.0-rc2

Alacritty version 0.7.0-rc2

Alacritty Version 0.7.0 Release Candidate 1

Added

• Support for ~/ at the beginning of configuration file imports
• New cursor.style.blinking option to set the default blinking state
• New cursor.blink_interval option to configure the blinking frequency
• Support for cursor blinking escapes (CSI ? 12 h, CSI ? 12 l and CSI Ps SP q)
• IME support on Windows
• Urgency support on Windows
• Customizable keybindings for search
• History for search mode, bound to ^P/^N/Up/Down by default
• Default binding to cancel search on Ctrl+C
• History position indicator for search and vi mode

Changed

• Nonexistent config imports are ignored instead of raising an error
• Value for disabling logging with config.log_level is Off instead of None
• Missing glyph symbols are no longer drawn for zerowidth characters

Fixed

• Wide characters sometimes being cut off
• Preserve vi mode across terminal reset
• Escapes CSI Ps b and CSI Ps Z with large parameters locking up Alacritty
• Dimming colors which use the indexed CSI 38 : 5 : Ps m notation
• Slow rendering performance with a lot of cells with underline/strikeout attributes
• Performance of scrolling regions with offset from the bottom
• Extra mouse buttons are no longer ignored on Wayland
• Numpad arrow keys are now properly recognized on Wayland
• Compilation when targetting aarch64-apple-darwin
• Window not being completely opaque on Windows
• Window being always on top during alt-tab on Windows
• Cursor position not reported to apps when mouse is moved with button held outside of window
• No live config update when starting Alacritty with a broken configuration file
• PTY not drained to the end with the --hold flag enabled
• High CPU usage on BSD with live config reload enabled
• Alacritty not discarding invalid escape sequences starting with ESC
• Crash due to clipboard not being properly released on Wayland
• Shadow artifacts when resizing transparent windows on macOS
• Missing glyph symbols not being rendered for missing glyphs on macOS and Windows
• Underline cursor being obscured by underline
• Cursor not being rendered with a lot of unicode glyphs visible
• IME input swallowed after triggering a key binding
• Crash on Wayland due to non-standard fontconfig configuration
• Search without vi mode not jumping properly between all matches

Removed

• The following CLI arguments have been removed in favor of the --option flag:
  • --persistent-logging
  • --live-config-reload
  • --no-live-config-reload
  • --dimensions
  • --position
• live-shader-reload feature
• Config option dynamic_title, you should use window.dynamic_title instead
• Config option scrolling.faux_multiplier, which was replaced by escape CSI ? 1007 h/l
• WinPTY support on Windows

Alacritty Version 0.6.0

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.43.0
• The snapcraft.yaml file has been removed
• Updated setab/setaf capabilities in alacritty-direct to use colons
• WinPTY is now enabled only when targeting MSVC
• Deprecated the WinPTY backend feature, disabling it by default

Added

• Secondary device attributes escape (CSI > 0 c)
• Support for colon separated SGR 38/48
• New Ctrl+C binding to cancel search and leave vi mode
• Escapes for double underlines (CSI 4 : 2 m) and underline reset (CSI 4 : 0 m)
• Configuration file option for sourcing other files (import)
• CLI parameter --option/-o to override any configuration field
• Escape sequences to report text area size in pixels (CSI 14 t) and in characters (CSI 18 t)
• Support for single line terminals dimensions
• Right clicking on Wayland's client side decorations will show application menu
• Escape sequences to enable and disable window urgency hints (CSI ? 1042 h, CSI ? 1042 l)

Changed

• Cursors are now inverted when their fixed color is similar to the cell's background
• Use the working directory of the terminal foreground process, instead of the shell's working
  directory, for SpawnNewInstance action
• Fallback to normal underline for unsupported underline types in CSI 4 : ? m escapes
• The user's background color is now used as the foreground for the render timer
• Use yellow/red from the config for error and warning messages instead of fixed colors
• Existing CLI parameters are now passed to instances spawned using SpawnNewInstance
• Wayland's Client side decorations now use the search bar colors
• Reduce memory usage by up to at least 30% with a full scrollback buffer
• The number of zerowidth characters per cell is no longer limited to 5
• SpawnNewInstance is now using the working directory of the terminal foreground process on macOS

Fixed

• Incorrect window location with negative window.position config options
• Slow rendering performance with HiDPI displays, especially on macOS
• Keys swallowed during search when pressing them right before releasing backspace
• Crash when a wrapped line is rotated into the last line
• Selection wrapping to the top when selecting below the error/warning bar
• Pasting into clients only supporting UTF8_STRING mime type on Wayland
• Crash when copying/pasting with neither pointer nor keyboard focus on Wayland
• Crash due to fd leak on Wayland
• IME window position with fullwidth characters in the search bar
• Selection expanding over 2 characters when scrolled in history with fullwidth characters in use
• Selection scrolling not starting when mouse is over the message bar
• Incorrect text width calculation in message bar when the message contains multibyte characters
• Remapped caps lock to escape not triggering escape bindings on Wayland
• Crash when setting overly long title on Wayland
• Switching in and out of various window states, like Fullscreen, not persisting window size on Wayland
• Crash when providing 0 for XCURSOR_SIZE on Wayland
• Gap between window and server side decorations on KWIN Wayland
• Wayland's client side decorations not working after tty switch
• Fullscreen startup mode not working on Wayland
• Window not being rescaled when changing DPR of the current monitor on Wayland
• Crash in some cases when pointer isn't presented upon startup on Wayland
• IME not working on Wayland
• Crash on startup on GNOME since its 3.37.90 version on Wayland
• Touchpad scrolling scrolled less than it should on macOS/Wayland on scaled outputs
• Incorrect modifiers at startup on X11
• Add and Subtract keys are now named NumpadAdd and NumpadSubtract respectively
• Feature checking when cross compiling between different operating systems
• Crash when writing to the clipboard fails on Wayland
• Crash with large negative font.offset.x/y
• Visual bell getting stuck on the first frame
• Zerowidth characters in the last column of the line