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Kirill Chibisov 256be5b95b Fix zerowidth characters in the last column 
This commit fixes the issue that when attempting to write zerowidth
characters into the last column, it is written in the second to last
column instead.

Fixes #4227.

Co-authored-by: Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com>
2020-11-15 01:03:38 +00:00

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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.

0.6.0-rc1

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 ; <s / p / c> ; ? BEL)
  • Set selection clipboard (OSC 52 ; <s / p> ; <BASE64> 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)
  • 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