alacritty/alacritty v0.5.0

Alacritty Version 0.5.0

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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

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

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

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

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