Highlights (details see below)
- Significant improvements in bidirectional handling.
- Text can be selected with the keyboard.
- Explicit hyperlink attributes.
- Avoid keyboard/echo latency.
Bidirectional rendering
- Fixed handling of double-width chars within RTL.
- Fixed handling of neutral chars in first or last position (UBA rule N1).
- Updated RTL mirroring data, generating them from Unicode.
Terminal features for ECMA-48 and other bidi control
- Support BDSM control sequence (SM/RM bidirectional support, CSI 8 h/l).
- Private mode DECSET 2501 for "autodetection of direction" (UBA rules P2/P3).
- Support SCP control sequences (LTR/RTL "Character Path").
- Private mode DECSET 2500 for "box mirroring".
- Bidi direction detection on paragraph level (wrapped lines).
Other terminal features
- Support for OSC 8 hyperlink attribute (~#823).
- Providing DECTABSR tab stop report.
- Fixed DECRQM 12 which was inverted.
- DEC Cyrillic NRCS (xterm 344).
Character rendering
- Fixed and tweaked wavy underline / undercurl (#847).
Keyboard handling
- Keyboard selecting mode (#84).
- Avoid keyboard/echo/display update latency.
- modifyOtherKeys mode supports control chars in non-Latin keyboard layout.
- Fix modifyOtherKeys mode 1 to support Ctrl+AltGr.
Mouse link hover and click handling
- Consistent hover highlighting.
- Overriding modifier is also accepted in non-application mouse mode (#694).
Window handling
- Fixed option --Border=void/frame (#843).
- Fixed start from shortcut in Windows XP.
Documentation
- Wiki Tips: note about UTF-8 requirement for emoji support (#842).
- Fixed description of option HandleDPI (#824, #774, #853).
Configuration
- Support for Win key modifier for user-defined keys (option KeyFunctions).
- Support for Win key modifier for options ScrollMod and ClickTargetMod.
- New option HoverTitle.
- New user-definable function toggle-bidi.
- Dropping CR from missing option error message.
- Added FF and ESC to FilterPasteControls characters (xterm 344).