alacritty/alacritty v0.6.0

Alacritty Version 0.6.0

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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