# Changelog All notable changes to Alacritty are documented in this file. The sections should follow the order `Packaging`, `Added`, `Changed`, `Fixed` and `Removed`. The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/). ## 0.12.0-dev ### 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 - Character `;` inside the `URI` in `OSC 8` sequence breaking the URI ### Removed - `window.gtk_theme_variant` config field; use `window.decorations_theme_variant` instead - `alt_send_esc` is now always set to `true` ## 0.11.0 ### Packaging - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.60.0 ## 0.11.0 ### 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` ## 0.10.1 ### 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` ## 0.10.0 ### 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 ### Removed - Wayland client side decorations were simplified ## 0.9.0 ### 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 ## 0.8.0 ### Packaging - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.45.0 ### Packaging - Updated shell completions - Added ARM executable to prebuilt macOS binaries ### 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](./docs/features.md#hints)) - 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 - URL highlighting has moved from `mouse.url` to the `hints` config section ### 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 ## 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 ## 0.7.1 ### Fixed - Jumping between matches in backward vi search ## 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 ## 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 ## 0.5.0 ### Packaging - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.41.0 - Prebuilt Linux binaries have been removed - Added manpage, terminfo, and completions to macOS application bundle - On Linux/BSD the build will fail without Fontconfig installed, instead of building it from source - Minimum FreeType version has been bumped to 2.8 on Linux/BSD ### Added - Default Command+N keybinding for SpawnNewInstance on macOS - Vi mode for regex search, copying text, and opening links - `CopySelection` action which copies into selection buffer on Linux/BSD - Option `cursor.thickness` to set terminal cursor thickness - Font fallback on Windows - Support for Fontconfig embolden and matrix options - Opt-out compilation flag `winpty` to disable WinPTY support - Scrolling during selection when mouse is at top/bottom of window - Expanding existing selections using single, double and triple click with the right mouse button - Support for `gopher` and `gemini` URLs - Unicode 13 support - Option to run command on bell which can be set in `bell.command` - Fallback to program specified in `$SHELL` variable on Linux/BSD if it is present - Ability to make selections while search is active ### Changed - Block cursor is no longer inverted at the start/end of a selection - Preserve selection on non-LMB or mouse mode clicks - Wayland client side decorations are now based on config colorscheme - Low resolution window decoration icon on Windows - Mouse bindings for additional buttons need to be specified as a number not a string - Don't hide cursor on modifier press with `mouse.hide_when_typing` enabled - `Shift + Backspace` now sends `^?` instead of `^H` - Default color scheme is now `Tomorrow Night` with the bright colors of `Tomorrow Night Bright` - Set IUTF8 termios flag for improved UTF8 input support - Dragging files into terminal now adds a space after each path - Default binding replacement conditions - Adjusted selection clearing granularity to more accurately match content - To use the cell's text color for selection with a modified background, the `color.selection.text` variable must now be set to `CellForeground` instead of omitting it - URLs are no longer highlighted without a clearly delimited scheme - Renamed config option `visual_bell` to `bell` - Moved config option `dynamic_title` to `window.dynamic_title` - When searching without vi mode, matches are only selected once search is cancelled ### Fixed - Selection not cleared when switching between main and alt grid - Freeze when application is invisible on Wayland - Paste from some apps on Wayland - Slow startup with Nvidia binary drivers on some X11 systems - Display not scrolling when printing new lines while scrolled in history - Regression in font rendering on macOS - Scroll down escape (`CSI Ps T`) incorrectly pulling lines from history - Dim escape (`CSI 2 m`) support for truecolor text - Incorrectly deleted lines when increasing width with a prompt wrapped using spaces - Documentation for class in `--help` missing information on setting general class - Linewrap tracking when switching between primary and alternate screen buffer - Preservation of the alternate screen's saved cursor when swapping to primary screen and back - Reflow of cursor during resize - Cursor color escape ignored when its color is set to inverted in the config - Fontconfig's `autohint` and `hinting` options being ignored - Ingoring of default FreeType properties - Alacritty crashing at startup when the configured font does not exist - Font size rounding error - Opening URLs while search is active ### Removed - Environment variable `RUST_LOG` for selecting the log level - Deprecated `window.start_maximized` config field - Deprecated `render_timer` config field - Deprecated `persistent_logging` config field ## 0.4.3 ### Fixed - Tabstops not being reset with `reset` - Fallback to `LC_CTYPE=UTF-8` on macOS without valid system locale - Resize lag on launch under some X11 wms - Increased input latency due to vsync behavior on X11 - Emoji colors blending with terminal background - Fix escapes prematurely terminated by terminators in unicode glyphs - Incorrect location when clicking inside an unfocused window on macOS - Startup mode `Maximized` on Windows - Crash when writing a fullwidth character in the last column with auto-wrap mode disabled - Crashing at startup on Windows ## 0.4.2 ### Packaging - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.37.0 - Added Rust features `x11` and `wayland` to pick backends, with both enabled by default - Capitalized the Alacritty.desktop file ### Added - Live config reload for `window.title` ### Changed - Pressing additional modifiers for mouse bindings will no longer trigger them - Renamed `WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR` environment variable to `WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR` - Print an error instead of crashing, when startup working directory is invalid - Line selection will now expand across wrapped lines - The default value for `draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors` is now `false` - Mirror OSC query terminators instead of always using BEL - Increased Beam, Underline, and Hollow Block cursors' line widths - Dynamic title is not disabled anymore when `window.title` is set in config ### Fixed - Incorrect default config path in `--help` on Windows and macOS - Semantic selection stopping at full-width glyphs - Full-width glyphs cut off in last column - Crash when starting on some X11 systems - Font size resetting when Alacritty is moved between screens - Limited payload length in clipboard escape (used for Tmux copy/paste) - Alacritty not ignoring keyboard events for changing WM focus on X11 - Regression which added a UNC path prefix to the working directory on Windows - CLI parameters discarded when config is reload - Blurred icons in KDE task switcher (alacritty.ico is now high-res) - Consecutive builds failing on macOS due to preexisting `/Application` symlink - Block selection starting from first column after beginning leaves the scrollback - Incorrect selection status of the first cell when selection is off screen - Backwards bracket selection - Stack overflow when printing shader creation error - Underline position for bitmap fonts - Selection rotating outside of scrolling region - Throughput performance problems caused by excessive font metric queries - Unicode throughput performance on Linux/BSD - Resize of bitmap fonts - Crash when using bitmap font with `embeddedbitmap` set to `false` - Inconsistent fontconfig fallback - Handling of OpenType variable fonts - Expansion of block-selection on partially selected full-width glyphs - Minimize action only works with decorations on macOS - Window permanently vanishing after hiding on macOS - Handling of URLs with single quotes - Parser reset between DCS escapes - Parser stopping at unknown DEC private modes/SGR character attributes - Block selection appending duplicate newlines when last column is selected - Bitmap fonts being a bit smaller than they should be in some cases - Config reload creating alternate screen history instead of updating scrollback - Crash on Wayland compositors supporting `wl_seat` version 7+ - Message bar not hiding after fixing wrong color value in config - Tabstops cleared on resize - Tabstops not breaking across lines - Crash when parsing DCS escape with more than 16 parameters - Ignoring of slow touchpad scrolling - Selection invisible when starting above viewport and ending below it - Clipboard not working after TTY switch on Wayland - Crash when pasting non UTF-8 string advertised as UTF-8 string on Wayland - Incorrect modifiers tracking on X11 and macOS, leading to 'sticky' modifiers - Crash when starting on Windows with missing dark mode support - Variables `XCURSOR_THEME` and `XCURSOR_SIZE` ignored on Wayland - Low resolution mouse cursor and decorations on HiDPI Wayland outputs - Decorations visible when in fullscreen on Wayland - Window size not persisted correctly after fullscreening on macOS - Crash on startup with some locales on X11 - Shrinking terminal height in alt screen deleting primary screen content ### Removed - Config option `auto_scroll`, which is now always disabled - Config option `tabspaces`, which is now fixed at `8` ## 0.4.1 ### Packaging - Added compatibility logo variants for environments which can't render the default SVG ### Added - Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers for Delete and Insert - /Applications symlink into OS X DMG for easier installation - Colored emojis on Linux/BSD - Value `randr` for `WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR`, to ignore `Xft.dpi` and scale based on screen dimensions - `Minimize` key binding action, bound to `cmd + m` on macOS ### Changed - On Windows, the ConPTY backend will now be used by default if available - The `enable_experimental_conpty_backend` config option has been replaced with `winpty_backend` ### Fixed - URLs not truncated with non-matching single quote - Absolute file URLs (`file:///home`) not recognized because of leading `/` - Clipboard escape `OSC 52` not working with empty clipboard parameter - Direct escape input on Windows using alt - Incorrect window size on X11 when waking up from suspend - Width of Unicode 11/12 emojis - Minimize on windows causing layout issues - Performance bottleneck when clearing colored rows - Vague startup crash messages on Windows with WinPTY backend - Deadlock on Windows when closing Alacritty using the title bar "X" button (ConPTY backend) - Crash on `clear` when scrolled up in history - Entire screen getting underlined/stroke out when running `clear` - Slow startup on some Wayland compositors - Padding not consistently visible on macOS - Decorations ignoring Windows dark theme - Crash on macOS when starting maximized without decorations - Resize cursor not showing up on Wayland - Maximized windows spawning behind system panel on Gnome Wayland ### Removed - Support for 8-bit C1 escape sequences ## 0.4.0 ### Packaging - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.36.0 - Config is not generated anymore, please consider distributing the alacritty.yml as documentation - Removed Alacritty terminfo from .deb in favor of ncurses provided one ### Added - Block selection mode when Control is held while starting a selection - Allow setting general window class on X11 using CLI or config (`window.class.general`) - Config option `window.gtk_theme_variant` to set GTK theme variant - Completions for `--class` and `-t` (short title) - Change the mouse cursor when hovering over the message bar and its close button - Support combined bold and italic text (with `font.bold_italic` to customize it) - Extra bindings for F13-F20 - Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers - Bindings for ScrollToTop and ScrollToBottom actions - `ReceiveChar` key binding action to insert the key's text character - New CLI flag `--hold` for keeping Alacritty opened after its child process exits - Escape sequence to save and restore window title from stack - Alternate scroll escape sequence (`CSI ? 1007 h` / `CSI ? 1007 l`) - Print name of launch command if Alacritty failed to execute it - Live reload font settings from config - UTF-8 mouse mode escape sequence (`CSI ? 1005 h` / `CSI ? 1005 l`) - Escape for reading clipboard (`OSC 52 ; ; ? BEL`) - Set selection clipboard (`OSC 52 ; ; BEL`) ### Changed - On Windows, query DirectWrite for recommended anti-aliasing settings - Scroll lines out of the visible region instead of deleting them when clearing the screen ### Fixed - GUI programs launched by Alacritty starting in the background on X11 - Text Cursor position when scrolling - Performance issues while resizing Alacritty - First unfullscreen action ignored on window launched in fullscreen mode - The window is now filled with the background color before displaying - Cells sometimes not getting cleared correctly - X11 clipboard hanging when mime type is set - On macOS, Alacritty will now fallback to Menlo if a font specified in the config cannot be loaded - Debug ref tests are now written to disk regardless of shutdown method - Cursor color setting with escape sequence - Override default bindings with subset terminal mode match - On Linux, respect fontconfig's `embeddedbitmap` configuration option - Selecting trailing tab with semantic expansion - URL parser incorrectly handling Markdown URLs and angled brackets - Intermediate bytes of CSI sequences not checked - Wayland clipboard integration - Use text mouse cursor when mouse mode is temporarily disabled with shift - Wayland primary selection clipboard not storing text when selection is stopped outside of the window - Block URL highlight while a selection is active - Bindings for Alt + F1-F12 - Discard scrolling region escape with bottom above top - Opacity always applying to cells with their background color matching the teriminal background - Allow semicolons when setting titles using an OSC - Background always opaque on X11 - Skipping redraws on PTY update - Not redrawing while resizing on Windows/macOS - Decorations `none` launching an invisible window on Windows - Alacritty turning transparent when opening another window on macOS with chunkwm - Startup mode `Maximized` having no effect on Windows - Inserting Emojis using `Super+.` or compose sequences on Windows - Change mouse cursor depending on mode with Wayland - Hide mouse cursor when typing if the `mouse.hide_when_typing` option is set on Wayland - Glitches when DPI changes on Windows - Crash when resuming after suspension - Crash when trying to start on X11 with a Wayland compositor running - Crash with a virtual display connected on X11 - Use `\` instead of `\\` as path separators on Windows for logging config file location - Underline/strikeout drawn above visual bell - Terminal going transparent during visual bell - Selection not being cleared when sending chars through a binding - Mouse protocols/encodings not being mutually exclusive within themselves - Escape `CSI Ps M` deleting lines above cursor when at the bottom of the viewport - Cell reset not clearing underline, strikeout and foreground color - Escape `CSI Ps c` honored with a wrong `Ps` - Ignore `ESC` escapes with invalid intermediates - Blank lines after each line when pasting from GTK apps on Wayland ### Removed - Bindings for Super/Command + F1-F12 - Automatic config generation - Deprecated `scrolling.faux_multiplier`, the alternate scroll escape can now be used to disable it and `scrolling.multiplier` controls the number of scrolled lines ## 0.3.3 ### Packaging - Add appstream metadata, located at /extra/linux/io.alacritty.Alacritty.xml - The xclip dependency has been removed - On macOS, Alacritty now requests NSSystemAdministrationUsageDescription to avoid permission failures - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.32.0 ### Added - Added ToggleFullscreen action - On macOS, there's a ToggleSimpleFullscreen action which allows switching to fullscreen without occupying another space - A new window option `window.startup_mode` which controls how the window is created - `_NET_WM_ICON` property is set on X11 now, allowing for WMs to show icons in titlebars - Current Git commit hash to `alacritty --version` - Config options `window.title` and `window.class` - Config option `working_directory` - Config group `debug` with the options `debug.log_level`, `debug.print_events` and `debug.ref_test` - Select until next matching bracket when double-clicking a bracket - Added foreground/background escape code request sequences - Escape sequences now support 1, 3, and 4 digit hex colors ### Changed - On Windows, Alacritty will now use the native DirectWrite font API - The `start_maximized` window option is now `startup_mode: Maximized` - Cells with identical foreground and background will now show their text upon selection/inversion - Default Window padding to 0x0 - Moved config option `render_timer` and `persistent_logging` to the `debug` group - When the cursor is in the selection, it will be inverted again, making it visible ### Fixed - Double-width characters in URLs only being highlit on the left half - PTY size not getting updated when message bar is shown - Text Cursor disappearing - Incorrect positioning of zero-width characters over double-width characters - Mouse mode generating events when the cell has not changed - Selections not automatically expanding across double-width characters - On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been enabled again - Text getting recognized as URLs without slashes separating the scheme - URL parser dropping trailing slashes from valid URLs - UTF-8 BOM skipped when reading config file - Terminfo backspace escape sequence (`kbs`) ### Removed - Deprecated `mouse.faux_scrollback_lines` config field - Deprecated `custom_cursor_colors` config field - Deprecated `hide_cursor_when_typing` config field - Deprecated `cursor_style` config field - Deprecated `unfocused_hollow_cursor` config field - Deprecated `dimensions` config field ## Version 0.3.2 ### Fixed - Panic on startup when using Conpty on Windows ## Version 0.3.1 ### Added - Added ScrollLineUp and ScrollLineDown actions for scrolling line by line - Native clipboard support on X11 and Wayland ### Changed - Alacritty now has a fixed minimum supported Rust version of 1.31.0 ### Fixed - Reset scrolling region when the RIS escape sequence is received - Subprocess spawning on macos - Unnecessary resize at startup - Text getting blurry after live-reloading shaders with padding active - Resize events are not send to the shell anymore if dimensions haven't changed - Minor performance issues with underline and strikeout checks - Rare bug which would extend underline and strikeout beyond the end of line - Cursors not spanning two lines when over double-width characters - Incorrect cursor dimensions if the font offset isn't `0` ## Version 0.3.0 ### Packaging - On Linux, the .desktop file now uses `Alacritty` as icon name, which can be found at `extra/logo/alacritty-term.svg` ### Added - MSI installer for Windows is now available - New default key bindings Alt+Home, Alt+End, Alt+PageUp and Alt+PageDown - Dynamic title support on Windows - Ability to specify starting position with the `--position` flag - New configuration field `window.position` allows specifying the starting position - Added the ability to change the selection color - Text will reflow instead of truncating when resizing Alacritty - Underline text and change cursor when hovering over URLs with required modifiers pressed ### Changed - Clicking on non-alphabetical characters in front of URLs will no longer open them - Command keybindings on Windows will no longer open new cmd.exe console windows - On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been temporarily disabled due to a macos bug ### Fixed - Fix panic which could occur when quitting Alacritty on Windows if using the Conpty backend - Automatic copying of selection to clipboard when mouse is released outside of Alacritty - Scrollback history live reload only working when shrinking lines - Crash when decreasing scrollback history in config while scrolled in history - Resetting the terminal while in the alt screen will no longer disable scrollback - Cursor jumping around when leaving alt screen while not in the alt screen - Text lingering around when resetting while scrolled up in the history - Terminfo support for extended capabilities - Allow mouse presses and beginning of mouse selection in padding - Windows: Conpty backend could close immediately on startup in certain situations - FreeBSD: SpawnNewInstance will now open new instances in the shell's current working directory as long as linprocfs(5) is mounted on `/compat/linux/proc` - Fix lingering Alacritty window after child process has exited - Growing the terminal while scrolled up will no longer move the content down - Support for alternate keyboard layouts on macOS - Slow startup time on some X11 systems - The AltGr key no longer sends escapes (like Alt) - Fixes increase/decrease font-size keybindings on international keyboards - On Wayland, the `--title` flag will set the Window title now - Parsing issues with URLs starting in the first or ending in the last column - URLs stopping at double-width characters - Fix `start_maximized` option on X11 - Error when parsing URLs ending with Unicode outside of the ascii range - On Windows, focusing a Window will no longer start a selection ## Version 0.2.9 ### Changed - Accept fonts which are smaller in width or height than a single pixel ### Fixed - Incorrect font spacing after moving Alacritty between displays ## Version 0.2.8 ### Added - Window class on Wayland is set to `Alacritty` by default - Log file location is stored in the `ALACRITTY_LOG` environment variable - Close button has been added to the error/warning messages ### Changed - Improve scrolling accuracy with devices sending fractional updates (like touchpads) - `scrolling.multiplier` now affects normal scrolling with touchpads - Error/Warning bar doesn't overwrite the terminal anymore - Full error/warning messages are displayed - Config error messages are automatically removed when the config is fixed - Scroll history on Shift+PgUp/PgDown when scrollback history is available ### Fixed - Resolved off-by-one issue with erasing characters in the last column - Excessive polling every 100ms with `live_config_reload` enabled - Unicode characters at the beginning of URLs are now properly ignored - Remove error message when reloading an empty config - Allow disabling URL launching by setting the value of `mouse.url.launcher` to `None` - Corrected the `window.decorations` config documentation for macOS - Fix IME position on HiDPI displays - URLs not opening while terminal is scrolled - Reliably remove log file when Alacritty is closed and persistent logging is disabled - Remove selections when clearing the screen partially (scrolling horizontally in less) - Crash/Freeze when shrinking the font size too far - Documentation of the `--dimensions` flag have been updated to display the correct default ### Removed - `clear` doesn't remove error/warning messages anymore ## Version 0.2.7 ### Fixed - Crash when trying to start Alacritty on Windows ## Version 0.2.6 ### Added - New `alt_send_esc` option for controlling if alt key should send escape sequences ### Changed - All options in the configuration file are now optional ### Fixed - Replaced `Command` with `Super` in the Linux and Windows config documentation - Prevent semantic and line selection from starting with the right or middle mouse button - Prevent Alacritty from crashing when started on a system without any free space - Resolve issue with high CPU usage after moving Alacritty between displays - Characters will no longer be deleted when using ncurses with the hard tab optimization - Crash on non-linux operating systems when using the `SpawnNewInstance` action ### Removed - Windows and macOS configuration files (`alacritty.yml` is now platform independent) ## Version 0.2.5 ### Added - New configuration field `visual_bell.color` allows changing the visual bell color - Crashes on Windows are now also reported with a popup in addition to stderr - Windows: New configuration field `enable_experimental_conpty_backend` which enables support for the Pseudoconsole API (ConPTY) added in Windows 10 October 2018 (1809) update - New mouse and key action `SpawnNewInstance` for launching another instance of Alacritty ### Changed - Log messages are now consistent in style, and some have been removed - Windows configuration location has been moved from %USERPROFILE%\alacritty.yml to %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml - Windows default shell is now PowerShell instead of cmd - URL schemes have been limited to http, https, mailto, news, file, git, ssh and ftp ### Fixed - Fix color issue in ncurses programs by updating terminfo pairs from 0x10000 to 0x7FFF - Fix panic after quitting Alacritty on macOS - Tabs are no longer replaced by spaces when copying them to the clipboard - Alt modifier is no longer sent separately from the modified key - Various Windows issues, like color support and performance, through the new ConPTY - Fixed rendering non default mouse cursors in terminal mouse mode (linux) - Fix the `Copy` `mouse_bindings` action ([#1963](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1963)) - URLs are only launched when left-clicking - Removal of extra characters (like `,`) at the end of URLs has been improved - Single quotes (`'`) are removed from URLs when there is no matching opening quote - Precompiled binaries now work with macOS versions before 10.13 (10.11 and above) ## Version 0.2.4 ### Added - Option for evenly spreading extra padding around the terminal (`window.dynamic_padding`) - Option for maximizing alacritty on start (`window.start_maximized`) - Display notice about errors and warnings inside Alacritty - Log all messages to both stderr and a log file in the system's temporary directory - New configuration option `persistent_logging` and CLI flag `--persistent-logging`, for keeping the log file after closing Alacritty - `ClearLogNotice` action for removing the warning and error message - Terminal bells on macOS will now request the user's attention in the window - Alacritty now requests privacy permissions on macOS ### Changed - Extra padding is not evenly spread around the terminal by default anymore - When the config file is empty, Alacritty now logs an info instead of an error message ### Fixed - Fixed a bad type conversion which could cause underflow on a window resize - Alacritty now spawns a login shell on macOS, as with Terminal.app and iTerm2 - Fixed zombie processes sticking around after launching URLs - Zero-width characters are now properly rendered without progressing the cursor ## Version 0.2.3 ### Fixed - Mouse cursor alignment issues and truncated last line caused by incorrect padding calculations ## Version 0.2.2 ### Added - Add support for Windows - Add terminfo capabilities advertising support for changing the window title - Allow using scancodes in the key_bindings section - When `mouse.url.launcher` is set, clicking on URLs will now open them with the specified program - New `mouse.url.modifiers` option to specify keyboard modifiers for opening URLs on click - Binaries for macOS, Windows and Debian-based systems are now published with GitHub releases - The keys F16-F24 have been added as options for key bindings - DEB file adds Alacritty as option to `update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator` ### Changed - The `colors.cursor.text` and `colors.cursor.cursor` fields are optional now - Moved `cursor_style` to `cursor.style` - Moved `unfocused_hollow_cursor` to `cursor.unfocused_hollow` - Moved `hide_cursor_when_typing` to `mouse.hide_when_typing` - Mouse bindings now ignore additional modifiers - Extra padding is now spread evenly around the terminal grid - DEB file installs to `usr/bin` instead of `usr/local/bin` ### Fixed - Fixed erroneous results when using the `indexed_colors` config option - Fixed rendering cursors other than rectangular with the RustType backend - Selection memory leak and glitches in the alternate screen buffer - Invalid default configuration on macOS and Linux - Middle mouse pasting if mouse mode is enabled - Selections now properly update as you scroll the scrollback buffer while selecting - NUL character at the end of window titles - DPI Scaling when moving windows across monitors - On macOS, issues with Command-[KEY] and Control-Tab keybindings have been fixed - Incorrect number of columns/lines when using the `window.dimensions` option - On Wayland, windows will no longer be spawned outside of the visible region - Resizing of windows without decorations - On Wayland, key repetition works again - On macOS, Alacritty will now use the integrated GPU again when available - On Linux, the `WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR` environment variable can be set from the config now ### Removed - The `custom_cursor_colors` config field was deleted, remove the `colors.cursor.*` options to achieve the same behavior as setting it to `false` - The `scale_with_dpi` configuration value has been removed, on Linux the env variable `WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR=1` can be set instead to disable DPI scaling ## Version 0.2.1 ### Added - Implement the `hidden` escape sequence (`echo -e "\e[8mTEST"`) - Add support for macOS systemwide dark mode - Set the environment variable `COLORTERM="truecolor"` to advertise 24-bit color support - On macOS, there are two new values for the config option `window.decorations`: - `transparent` - This makes the title bar transparent and allows the viewport to extend to the top of the window. - `buttonless` - Similar to transparent but also removed the buttons. - Add support for changing the colors from 16 to 256 in the `indexed_colors` config section - Add `save_to_clipboard` configuration option for copying selected text to the system clipboard - New terminfo entry, `alacritty-direct`, that advertises 24-bit color support - Add support for CSI sequences Cursor Next Line (`\e[nE`) and Cursor Previous Line (`\e[nF`) ### Changed - Inverse/Selection color is now modelled after XTerm/VTE instead of URxvt to improve consistency - First click on unfocused Alacritty windows is no longer ignored on platforms other than macOS - Reduce memory usage significantly by only initializing part of the scrollback buffer at startup - The `alacritty` terminfo entry no longer requires the `xterm` definition to be present on the system - The default `TERM` value is no longer static; the `alacritty` entry is used if available, otherwise the `xterm-256color` entry is used instead - The values `true` and `false` for the config option `window.decorations` have been replaced with `full` and `none` ### Fixed - Rendering now occurs without the terminal locked which improves performance - Clear screen properly before rendering of content to prevent various graphical glitches - Fix build failure on 32-bit systems - Windows started as unfocused now show the hollow cursor if the setting is enabled - Empty lines in selections are now properly copied to the clipboard - Selection start point lagging behind initial cursor position - Rendering of selections which start above the visible area and end below it - Bracketed paste mode now filters escape sequences beginning with \x1b ### Removed - The terminfo entry `alacritty-256color`. It is replaced by the `alacritty` entry (which also advertises 256 colors) ## Version 0.2.0 ### Added - Add a scrollback history buffer (10_000 lines by default) - CHANGELOG has been added for documenting relevant user-facing changes - Add `ClearHistory` key binding action and the `Erase Saved Lines` control sequence - When growing the window height, Alacritty will now try to load additional lines out of the scrollback history - Support the dim foreground color (`echo -e '\033[2mDimmed Text'`) - Add support for the LCD-V pixel mode (vertical screens) - Pressing enter on the numpad should now insert a newline - The mouse bindings now support keyboard modifiers (shift/ctrl/alt/super) - Add support for the bright foreground color - Support for setting foreground, background colors in one escape sequence ### Changed - Multiple key/mouse bindings for a single key will now all be executed instead of picking one and ignoring the rest - Improve text scrolling performance (affects applications like `yes`, not scrolling the history) ### Fixed - Clear the visible region when the RIS escape sequence (`echo -ne '\033c'`) is received - Prevent logger from crashing Alacritty when stdout/stderr is not available - Fix a crash when sending the IL escape sequence with a large number of lines