Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Packaging

On Linux, the .desktop file now uses Alacritty as icon name, which can be found at extra/logo/alacritty-term.svg

Added

MSI installer for Windows is now available
New default key bindings Alt+Home, Alt+End, Alt+PageUp and Alt+PageDown
Dynamic title support on Windows
Ability to specify starting position with the --position flag
New configuration field window.position allows specifying the starting position
Added the ability to change the selection color
Text will reflow instead of truncating when resizing Alacritty
Underline text and change cursor when hovering over URLs with required modifiers pressed

Changed

Clicking on non-alphabetical characters in front of URLs will no longer open them
Command keybindings on Windows will no longer open new cmd.exe console windows
On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been temporarily disabled due to a macos bug

Fixed

Fix panic which could occur when quitting Alacritty on Windows if using the Conpty backend
Automatic copying of selection to clipboard when mouse is released outside of Alacritty
Scrollback history live reload only working when shrinking lines
Crash when decreasing scrollback history in config while scrolled in history
Resetting the terminal while in the alt screen will no longer disable scrollback
Cursor jumping around when leaving alt screen while not in the alt screen
Text lingering around when resetting while scrolled up in the history
Terminfo support for extended capabilities
Allow mouse presses and beginning of mouse selection in padding
Windows: Conpty backend could close immediately on startup in certain situations
FreeBSD: SpawnNewInstance will now open new instances in the shell's current working directory as long as linprocfs(5) is mounted on /compat/linux/proc
Fix lingering Alacritty window after child process has exited
Growing the terminal while scrolled up will no longer move the content down
Support for alternate keyboard layouts on macOS
Slow startup time on some X11 systems
The AltGr key no longer sends escapes (like Alt)
Fixes increase/decrease font-size keybindings on international keyboards
On Wayland, the --title flag will set the Window title now
Parsing issues with URLs starting in the first or ending in the last column
URLs stopping at double-width characters
Fix start_maximized option on X11
Error when parsing URLs ending with Unicode outside of the ascii range
On Windows, focusing a Window will no longer start a selection

Version 0.2.9

Changed

Accept fonts which are smaller in width or height than a single pixel

Fixed

Incorrect font spacing after moving Alacritty between displays

Version 0.2.8

Added

Window class on Wayland is set to Alacritty by default
Log file location is stored in the ALACRITTY_LOG environment variable
Close button has been added to the error/warning messages

Changed

Improve scrolling accuracy with devices sending fractional updates (like touchpads)
scrolling.multiplier now affects normal scrolling with touchpads
Error/Warning bar doesn't overwrite the terminal anymore
Full error/warning messages are displayed
Config error messages are automatically removed when the config is fixed
Scroll history on Shift+PgUp/PgDown when scrollback history is available

Fixed

Resolved off-by-one issue with erasing characters in the last column
Excessive polling every 100ms with live_config_reload enabled
Unicode characters at the beginning of URLs are now properly ignored
Remove error message when reloading an empty config
Allow disabling URL launching by setting the value of mouse.url.launcher to None
Corrected the window.decorations config documentation for macOS
Fix IME position on HiDPI displays
URLs not opening while terminal is scrolled
Reliably remove log file when Alacritty is closed and persistent logging is disabled
Remove selections when clearing the screen partially (scrolling horizontally in less)
Crash/Freeze when shrinking the font size too far
Documentation of the --dimensions flag have been updated to display the correct default

Removed

clear doesn't remove error/warning messages anymore

Version 0.2.7

Fixed

Crash when trying to start Alacritty on Windows

Version 0.2.6

Added

New alt_send_esc option for controlling if alt key should send escape sequences

Changed

All options in the configuration file are now optional

Removed

Windows and macOS configuration files (alacritty.yml is now platform independent)

Fixed

Replaced Command with Super in the Linux and Windows config documentation
Prevent semantic and line selection from starting with the right or middle mouse button
Prevent Alacritty from crashing when started on a system without any free space
Resolve issue with high CPU usage after moving Alacritty between displays
Characters will no longer be deleted when using ncurses with the hard tab optimization
Crash on non-linux operating systems when using the SpawnNewInstance action

Version 0.2.5

Added

New configuration field visual_bell.color allows changing the visual bell color
Crashes on Windows are now also reported with a popup in addition to stderr
Windows: New configuration field enable_experimental_conpty_backend which enables support for the Pseudoconsole API (ConPTY) added in Windows 10 October 2018 (1809) update
New mouse and key action SpawnNewInstance for launching another instance of Alacritty

Changed

Log messages are now consistent in style, and some have been removed
Windows configuration location has been moved from %USERPROFILE%\alacritty.yml to %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml
Windows default shell is now PowerShell instead of cmd
URL schemes have been limited to http, https, mailto, news, file, git, ssh and ftp

Fixed

Fix color issue in ncurses programs by updating terminfo pairs from 0x10000 to 0x7FFF
Fix panic after quitting Alacritty on macOS
Tabs are no longer replaced by spaces when copying them to the clipboard
Alt modifier is no longer sent separately from the modified key
Various Windows issues, like color support and performance, through the new ConPTY
Fixed rendering non default mouse cursors in terminal mouse mode (linux)
Fix the Copy mouse_bindings action (#1963)
URLs are only launched when left-clicking
Removal of extra characters (like ,) at the end of URLs has been improved
Single quotes (') are removed from URLs when there is no matching opening quote
Precompiled binaries now work with macOS versions before 10.13 (10.11 and above)

Version 0.2.4

Added

Option for evenly spreading extra padding around the terminal (window.dynamic_padding)
Option for maximizing alacritty on start (window.start_maximized)
Display notice about errors and warnings inside Alacritty
Log all messages to both stderr and a log file in the system's temporary directory
New configuration option persistent_logging and CLI flag --persistent-logging, for keeping the log file after closing Alacritty
ClearLogNotice action for removing the warning and error message
Terminal bells on macOS will now request the user's attention in the window
Alacritty now requests privacy permissions on macOS

Changed

Extra padding is not evenly spread around the terminal by default anymore
When the config file is empty, Alacritty now logs an info instead of an error message

Fixed

Fixed a bad type conversion which could cause underflow on a window resize
Alacritty now spawns a login shell on macOS, as with Terminal.app and iTerm2
Fixed zombie processes sticking around after launching URLs
Zero-width characters are now properly rendered without progressing the cursor

Version 0.2.3

Fixed

Mouse cursor alignment issues and truncated last line caused by incorrect padding calculations

Version 0.2.2

Added

Add support for Windows
Add terminfo capabilities advertising support for changing the window title
Allow using scancodes in the key_bindings section
When mouse.url.launcher is set, clicking on URLs will now open them with the specified program
New mouse.url.modifiers option to specify keyboard modifiers for opening URLs on click
Binaries for macOS, Windows and Debian-based systems are now published with GitHub releases
The keys F16-F24 have been added as options for key bindings
DEB file adds Alacritty as option to update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

Changed

The colors.cursor.text and colors.cursor.cursor fields are optional now
Moved cursor_style to cursor.style
Moved unfocused_hollow_cursor to cursor.unfocused_hollow
Moved hide_cursor_when_typing to mouse.hide_when_typing
Mouse bindings now ignore additional modifiers
Extra padding is now spread evenly around the terminal grid
DEB file installs to usr/bin instead of usr/local/bin

Removed

The custom_cursor_colors config field was deleted, remove the colors.cursor.* options to achieve the same behavior as setting it to false
The scale_with_dpi configuration value has been removed, on Linux the env variable WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR=1 can be set instead to disable DPI scaling

Fixed

Fixed erroneous results when using the indexed_colors config option
Fixed rendering cursors other than rectangular with the RustType backend
Selection memory leak and glitches in the alternate screen buffer
Invalid default configuration on macOS and Linux
Middle mouse pasting if mouse mode is enabled
Selections now properly update as you scroll the scrollback buffer while selecting
NUL character at the end of window titles
DPI Scaling when moving windows across monitors
On macOS, issues with Command-[KEY] and Control-Tab keybindings have been fixed
Incorrect number of columns/lines when using the window.dimensions option
On Wayland, windows will no longer be spawned outside of the visible region
Resizing of windows without decorations
On Wayland, key repetition works again
On macOS, Alacritty will now use the integrated GPU again when available
On Linux, the WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR environment variable can be set from the config now

Version 0.2.1

Added

Implement the hidden escape sequence (echo -e "\e[8mTEST")
Add support for macOS systemwide dark mode
Set the environment variable COLORTERM="truecolor" to advertise 24-bit color support
On macOS, there are two new values for the config option window.decorations:
- transparent - This makes the title bar transparent and allows the viewport to extend to the top of the window.
- buttonless - Similar to transparent but also removed the buttons.
Add support for changing the colors from 16 to 256 in the indexed_colors config section
Add save_to_clipboard configuration option for copying selected text to the system clipboard
New terminfo entry, alacritty-direct, that advertises 24-bit color support
Add support for CSI sequences Cursor Next Line (\e[nE) and Cursor Previous Line (\e[nF)

Changed

Inverse/Selection color is now modelled after XTerm/VTE instead of URxvt to improve consistency
First click on unfocused Alacritty windows is no longer ignored on platforms other than macOS
Reduce memory usage significantly by only initializing part of the scrollback buffer at startup
The alacritty terminfo entry no longer requires the xterm definition to be present on the system
The default TERM value is no longer static; the alacritty entry is used if available, otherwise the xterm-256color entry is used instead

Removed

The terminfo entry alacritty-256color. It is replaced by the alacritty entry (which also advertises 256 colors)

Fixed

Rendering now occurs without the terminal locked which improves performance
Clear screen properly before rendering of content to prevent various graphical glitches
Fix build failure on 32-bit systems
Windows started as unfocused now show the hollow cursor if the setting is enabled
Empty lines in selections are now properly copied to the clipboard
Selection start point lagging behind initial cursor position
Rendering of selections which start above the visible area and end below it

Deprecated

The config option window.decorations should now use full or none instead of true or false, respectively.

Security

Bracketed paste mode now filters escape sequences beginning with \x1b

Version 0.2.0

Added

Add a scrollback history buffer (10_000 lines by default)
CHANGELOG has been added for documenting relevant user-facing changes
Add ClearHistory key binding action and the Erase Saved Lines control sequence
When growing the window height, Alacritty will now try to load additional lines out of the scrollback history
Support the dim foreground color (echo -e '\033[2mDimmed Text')
Add support for the LCD-V pixel mode (vertical screens)
Pressing enter on the numpad should now insert a newline
The mouse bindings now support keyboard modifiers (shift/ctrl/alt/super)
Add support for the bright foreground color

Changed

Multiple key/mouse bindings for a single key will now all be executed instead of picking one and ignoring the rest
Improve text scrolling performance (affects applications like yes, not scrolling the history)

Fixed

Clear the visible region when the RIS escape sequence (echo -ne '\033c') is received
Prevent logger from crashing Alacritty when stdout/stderr is not available
Fix a crash when sending the IL escape sequence with a large number of lines