Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• (ai) Import IntoStaticStr from strum_macros, not strum (#4480)
• (ai) Improve detection of git repositories (#4450)
• (client) Resolve relative config paths beside config.toml, not the cwd (#4479)
• (config) Don't print errors twice (#4501)
• (daemon) Fetch the server's capabilities until a fetch succeeds
• (daemon) Spare a stale pidfile's PID when evicting (#4512)
• (daemon) Handle daemons not spawned by atuin (#4516)
• (output) Keep quoted words together in output search (#4502)
• (packfile) Load only the records inside a manifest's range
• (pty-proxy) Standalone init with atuin pty-proxy init (#4449)
• (pty-proxy) Wait for input on a non-blocking inherited stdin (#4486)
• (pty-proxy) Don't re-exec shells running commands from a string or file (#4414)
• (search) Don't panic when copying with no results (#4426)
• (server) Let ATUIN_* environment variables override server.toml (#4456)
• (update) Accept ATUIN_GITHUB_TOKEN (#4262)
• Remove duplicated word in the no-history stats message (#4451)
• Error printing in ? handler (#4448)
• Normalize relative gitdir paths in worktree resolution (#4506)
• Upgrade regressions found in release QA (#4519)

Documentation

• Fix ctrl_n_shortcuts default value (#4458)
• List all history list --format variables (#4460)
• Fix the --reverse default for history list (#4472)
• Mention December default in wrapped --year help (#4476)

Features

• (common) AbsPath and AbsPathBuf, Path and PathBuf checked to be absolute (#4481)
• (common) Find a process's cgroup under cgroup v1 and v2 (#4513)
• (daemon) Run the daemon as a launchd agent on macOS (#4517)
• (pty-proxy) Window title follows child process (#4447)
• (secrets) Keep HashiCorp tokens out of history (#4445)

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Give mono its own nixfmt step and scope atuin's to atuin/
• Say a /merge's landed commit gets CI on main
• Rebuild the apt .deb cache for Ubuntu 24.04 (#4504)
• Remove the benchmarks (#4511)

Performance

• (common) Compile the vendor regexes once (#4485)
• (common) Drop the tree watcher's file-id cache (#4492)
• (common) Release a line reader's buffer at the end of the file (#4494)
• (common) Keep no tree watcher entry for a rejected file (#4493)
• (daemon) Warm up only a resumed session's unanswered calls (#4490)
• (packfile) Compress packs in one shot (#4484)

Refactor

• (daemon) Managed daemon service with multiple backends (#4488)
• (daemon) Move daemon startup into the service module (#4503)
• (daemon) Keep where the daemon listens behind service::address (#4514)
• (daemon) Take up the daemon's socket in SocketHolder, not Backend (#4515)
• (deps) Bump clap_complete_nushell from 4.6.0 to 4.6.2 (#4473)
• (deps) Bump clap_complete from 4.6.9 to 4.6.11 (#4396)
• (deps) Bump ratatui from 0.30.0 to 0.30.2 (#4474)
• (deps) Bump certifi from 2025.11.12 to 2026.10.19 in /docs in the uv group across 1 directory (#4500)
• (pty-proxy) Run on tokio with the parser on its own runtime (#4482)
• (pty-proxy) Forward captures to the daemon on the proxy's runtime (#4487)
• (pty-proxy) Rename the screen's parser to Emulator (#4510)
• (pty-proxy) Migrate output parsing to vte (#4518)

Testing

• (daemon) Run the output index tests under rstest (#4496)

atuin 18.24.2

Install atuin 18.24.2

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.2/atuin-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.2/atuin-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download atuin 18.24.2

Verifying GitHub Artifact Attestations

The artifacts in this release have attestations generated with GitHub Artifact Attestations. These can be verified by using the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --repo atuinsh/atuin

You can also download the attestation from GitHub and verify against that directly:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --bundle <file-path of downloaded attestation>

atuin-server 18.24.2

Install atuin-server 18.24.2

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.2/atuin-server-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.2/atuin-server-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download atuin-server 18.24.2

Verifying GitHub Artifact Attestations

The artifacts in this release have attestations generated with GitHub Artifact Attestations. These can be verified by using the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --repo atuinsh/atuin

You can also download the attestation from GitHub and verify against that directly:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --bundle <file-path of downloaded attestation>