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Alacritty Version 0.11.0

latest releases: v0.13.2, alacritty_terminal_v0.23.0, v0.13.2-rc1...
18 months ago

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

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