| # Changelog |
| |
| All notable changes to Alacritty are documented in this file. |
| The sections should follow the order `Packaging`, `Added`, `Changed`, `Fixed` and `Removed`. |
| |
| The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/). |
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| ## 0.8.0-rc3 |
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| ### Packaging |
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| - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.45.0 |
| |
| ### Added |
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| - IME composition preview not appearing on Windows |
| - Synchronized terminal updates using `DCS = 1 s ST`/`DCS = 2 s ST` |
| - Regex terminal hints ([see features.md](./docs/features.md#hints)) |
| - macOS keybinding (cmd+alt+H) hiding all windows other than Alacritty |
| - Support for `magnet` URLs |
| |
| ### Changed |
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| - The vi mode cursor is now created in the top-left if the terminal cursor is invisible |
| - Focused search match will use cell instead of match colors for CellForeground/CellBackground |
| - URL highlighting has moved from `mouse.url` to the `hints` config section |
| |
| ### Fixed |
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| - Alacritty failing to start on X11 with invalid DPI reported by XRandr |
| - Text selected after search without any match |
| - Incorrect vi cursor position after leaving search |
| - Clicking on URLs on Windows incorrectly opens File Explorer |
| - Incorrect underline cursor thickness on wide cell |
| - Viewport moving around when resizing while scrolled into history |
| - Block cursor not expanding across fullwidth characters when on the right side of it |
| - Overwriting fullwidth characters only clearing one of the involved cells |
| |
| ### Removed |
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| - Config field `visual_bell`, you should use `bell` instead |
| |
| ## 0.7.2 |
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| ### Packaging |
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| - Updated shell completions |
| |
| ### Fixed |
| |
| - Crash due to assertion failure on 32-bit architectures |
| - Segmentation fault on shutdown with Wayland |
| - Incorrect estimated DPR with Wayland |
| - Consecutive clipboard stores dropped on Wayland until the application is refocused |
| |
| ## 0.7.1 |
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| ### Fixed |
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| - Jumping between matches in backward vi search |
| |
| ## 0.7.0 |
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| ### Added |
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| - Support for `~/` at the beginning of configuration file imports |
| - New `cursor.style.blinking` option to set the default blinking state |
| - New `cursor.blink_interval` option to configure the blinking frequency |
| - Support for cursor blinking escapes (`CSI ? 12 h`, `CSI ? 12 l` and `CSI Ps SP q`) |
| - IME support on Windows |
| - Urgency support on Windows |
| - Customizable keybindings for search |
| - History for search mode, bound to ^P/^N/Up/Down by default |
| - Default binding to cancel search on Ctrl+C |
| - History position indicator for search and vi mode |
| |
| ### Changed |
| |
| - Nonexistent config imports are ignored instead of raising an error |
| - Value for disabling logging with `config.log_level` is `Off` instead of `None` |
| - Missing glyph symbols are no longer drawn for zerowidth characters |
| |
| ### Fixed |
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| - Wide characters sometimes being cut off |
| - Preserve vi mode across terminal `reset` |
| - Escapes `CSI Ps b` and `CSI Ps Z` with large parameters locking up Alacritty |
| - Dimming colors which use the indexed `CSI 38 : 5 : Ps m` notation |
| - Slow rendering performance with a lot of cells with underline/strikeout attributes |
| - Performance of scrolling regions with offset from the bottom |
| - Extra mouse buttons are no longer ignored on Wayland |
| - Numpad arrow keys are now properly recognized on Wayland |
| - Compilation when targetting aarch64-apple-darwin |
| - Window not being completely opaque on Windows |
| - Window being always on top during alt-tab on Windows |
| - Cursor position not reported to apps when mouse is moved with button held outside of window |
| - No live config update when starting Alacritty with a broken configuration file |
| - PTY not drained to the end with the `--hold` flag enabled |
| - High CPU usage on BSD with live config reload enabled |
| - Alacritty not discarding invalid escape sequences starting with ESC |
| - Crash due to clipboard not being properly released on Wayland |
| - Shadow artifacts when resizing transparent windows on macOS |
| - Missing glyph symbols not being rendered for missing glyphs on macOS and Windows |
| - Underline cursor being obscured by underline |
| - Cursor not being rendered with a lot of unicode glyphs visible |
| - IME input swallowed after triggering a key binding |
| - Crash on Wayland due to non-standard fontconfig configuration |
| - Search without vi mode not jumping properly between all matches |
| |
| ### Removed |
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| - The following CLI arguments have been removed in favor of the `--option` flag: |
| * `--persistent-logging` |
| * `--live-config-reload` |
| * `--no-live-config-reload` |
| * `--dimensions` |
| * `--position` |
| - `live-shader-reload` feature |
| - Config option `dynamic_title`, you should use `window.dynamic_title` instead |
| - Config option `scrolling.faux_multiplier`, which was replaced by escape `CSI ? 1007 h/l` |
| - WinPTY support on Windows |
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| ## 0.6.0 |
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| ### Packaging |
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| - 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 |
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| - 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 |
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| - 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 |
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| ## 0.5.0 |
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| ### Packaging |
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| - 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 |
| - Minimum FreeType version has been bumped to 2.8 on Linux/BSD |
| |
| ### Added |
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| - 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 |
| - Ability to make selections while search is active |
| |
| ### Changed |
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| - 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` |
| - When searching without vi mode, matches are only selected once search is cancelled |
| |
| ### 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 |
| - Opening URLs while search is active |
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| ### Removed |
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| - 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 |
| |
| ## 0.4.3 |
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| ### Fixed |
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| - Tabstops not being reset with `reset` |
| - Fallback to `LC_CTYPE=UTF-8` on macOS without valid system locale |
| - Resize lag on launch under some X11 wms |
| - Increased input latency due to vsync behavior on X11 |
| - Emoji colors blending with terminal background |
| - Fix escapes prematurely terminated by terminators in unicode glyphs |
| - Incorrect location when clicking inside an unfocused window on macOS |
| - Startup mode `Maximized` on Windows |
| - Crash when writing a fullwidth character in the last column with auto-wrap mode disabled |
| - Crashing at startup on Windows |
| |
| ## 0.4.2 |
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| ### Packaging |
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| - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.37.0 |
| - Added Rust features `x11` and `wayland` to pick backends, with both enabled by default |
| - Capitalized the Alacritty.desktop file |
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| ### Added |
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| - Live config reload for `window.title` |
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| ### Changed |
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| - Pressing additional modifiers for mouse bindings will no longer trigger them |
| - Renamed `WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR` environment variable to `WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR` |
| - Print an error instead of crashing, when startup working directory is invalid |
| - Line selection will now expand across wrapped lines |
| - The default value for `draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors` is now `false` |
| - Mirror OSC query terminators instead of always using BEL |
| - Increased Beam, Underline, and Hollow Block cursors' line widths |
| - Dynamic title is not disabled anymore when `window.title` is set in config |
| |
| ### Fixed |
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| - Incorrect default config path in `--help` on Windows and macOS |
| - Semantic selection stopping at full-width glyphs |
| - Full-width glyphs cut off in last column |
| - Crash when starting on some X11 systems |
| - Font size resetting when Alacritty is moved between screens |
| - Limited payload length in clipboard escape (used for Tmux copy/paste) |
| - Alacritty not ignoring keyboard events for changing WM focus on X11 |
| - Regression which added a UNC path prefix to the working directory on Windows |
| - CLI parameters discarded when config is reload |
| - Blurred icons in KDE task switcher (alacritty.ico is now high-res) |
| - Consecutive builds failing on macOS due to preexisting `/Application` symlink |
| - Block selection starting from first column after beginning leaves the scrollback |
| - Incorrect selection status of the first cell when selection is off screen |
| - Backwards bracket selection |
| - Stack overflow when printing shader creation error |
| - Underline position for bitmap fonts |
| - Selection rotating outside of scrolling region |
| - Throughput performance problems caused by excessive font metric queries |
| - Unicode throughput performance on Linux/BSD |
| - Resize of bitmap fonts |
| - Crash when using bitmap font with `embeddedbitmap` set to `false` |
| - Inconsistent fontconfig fallback |
| - Handling of OpenType variable fonts |
| - Expansion of block-selection on partially selected full-width glyphs |
| - Minimize action only works with decorations on macOS |
| - Window permanently vanishing after hiding on macOS |
| - Handling of URLs with single quotes |
| - Parser reset between DCS escapes |
| - Parser stopping at unknown DEC private modes/SGR character attributes |
| - Block selection appending duplicate newlines when last column is selected |
| - Bitmap fonts being a bit smaller than they should be in some cases |
| - Config reload creating alternate screen history instead of updating scrollback |
| - Crash on Wayland compositors supporting `wl_seat` version 7+ |
| - Message bar not hiding after fixing wrong color value in config |
| - Tabstops cleared on resize |
| - Tabstops not breaking across lines |
| - Crash when parsing DCS escape with more than 16 parameters |
| - Ignoring of slow touchpad scrolling |
| - Selection invisible when starting above viewport and ending below it |
| - Clipboard not working after TTY switch on Wayland |
| - Crash when pasting non UTF-8 string advertised as UTF-8 string on Wayland |
| - Incorrect modifiers tracking on X11 and macOS, leading to 'sticky' modifiers |
| - Crash when starting on Windows with missing dark mode support |
| - Variables `XCURSOR_THEME` and `XCURSOR_SIZE` ignored on Wayland |
| - Low resolution mouse cursor and decorations on HiDPI Wayland outputs |
| - Decorations visible when in fullscreen on Wayland |
| - Window size not persisted correctly after fullscreening on macOS |
| - Crash on startup with some locales on X11 |
| - Shrinking terminal height in alt screen deleting primary screen content |
| |
| ### Removed |
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| - Config option `auto_scroll`, which is now always disabled |
| - Config option `tabspaces`, which is now fixed at `8` |
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| ## 0.4.1 |
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| ### Packaging |
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| - Added compatibility logo variants for environments which can't render the default SVG |
| |
| ### Added |
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| - Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers for Delete and Insert |
| - /Applications symlink into OS X DMG for easier installation |
| - Colored emojis on Linux/BSD |
| - Value `randr` for `WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR`, to ignore `Xft.dpi` and scale based on screen dimensions |
| - `Minimize` key binding action, bound to `cmd + m` on macOS |
| |
| ### Changed |
| |
| - On Windows, the ConPTY backend will now be used by default if available |
| - The `enable_experimental_conpty_backend` config option has been replaced with `winpty_backend` |
| |
| ### Fixed |
| |
| - URLs not truncated with non-matching single quote |
| - Absolute file URLs (`file:///home`) not recognized because of leading `/` |
| - Clipboard escape `OSC 52` not working with empty clipboard parameter |
| - Direct escape input on Windows using alt |
| - Incorrect window size on X11 when waking up from suspend |
| - Width of Unicode 11/12 emojis |
| - Minimize on windows causing layout issues |
| - Performance bottleneck when clearing colored rows |
| - Vague startup crash messages on Windows with WinPTY backend |
| - Deadlock on Windows when closing Alacritty using the title bar "X" button (ConPTY backend) |
| - Crash on `clear` when scrolled up in history |
| - Entire screen getting underlined/stroke out when running `clear` |
| - Slow startup on some Wayland compositors |
| - Padding not consistently visible on macOS |
| - Decorations ignoring Windows dark theme |
| - Crash on macOS when starting maximized without decorations |
| - Resize cursor not showing up on Wayland |
| - Maximized windows spawning behind system panel on Gnome Wayland |
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| ### Removed |
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| - Support for 8-bit C1 escape sequences |
| |
| ## 0.4.0 |
| |
| ### Packaging |
| |
| - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.36.0 |
| - Config is not generated anymore, please consider distributing the alacritty.yml as documentation |
| - Removed Alacritty terminfo from .deb in favor of ncurses provided one |
| |
| ### Added |
| |
| - Block selection mode when Control is held while starting a selection |
| - Allow setting general window class on X11 using CLI or config (`window.class.general`) |
| - Config option `window.gtk_theme_variant` to set GTK theme variant |
| - Completions for `--class` and `-t` (short title) |
| - Change the mouse cursor when hovering over the message bar and its close button |
| - Support combined bold and italic text (with `font.bold_italic` to customize it) |
| - Extra bindings for F13-F20 |
| - Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers |
| - Bindings for ScrollToTop and ScrollToBottom actions |
| - `ReceiveChar` key binding action to insert the key's text character |
| - New CLI flag `--hold` for keeping Alacritty opened after its child process exits |
| - Escape sequence to save and restore window title from stack |
| - Alternate scroll escape sequence (`CSI ? 1007 h` / `CSI ? 1007 l`) |
| - Print name of launch command if Alacritty failed to execute it |
| - Live reload font settings from config |
| - UTF-8 mouse mode escape sequence (`CSI ? 1005 h` / `CSI ? 1005 l`) |
| - Escape for reading clipboard (`OSC 52 ; <s / p / c> ; ? BEL`) |
| - Set selection clipboard (`OSC 52 ; <s / p> ; <BASE64> BEL`) |
| |
| ### Changed |
| |
| - On Windows, query DirectWrite for recommended anti-aliasing settings |
| - Scroll lines out of the visible region instead of deleting them when clearing the screen |
| |
| ### Fixed |
| |
| - GUI programs launched by Alacritty starting in the background on X11 |
| - Text Cursor position when scrolling |
| - Performance issues while resizing Alacritty |
| - First unfullscreen action ignored on window launched in fullscreen mode |
| - The window is now filled with the background color before displaying |
| - Cells sometimes not getting cleared correctly |
| - X11 clipboard hanging when mime type is set |
| - On macOS, Alacritty will now fallback to Menlo if a font specified in the config cannot be loaded |
| - Debug ref tests are now written to disk regardless of shutdown method |
| - Cursor color setting with escape sequence |
| - Override default bindings with subset terminal mode match |
| - On Linux, respect fontconfig's `embeddedbitmap` configuration option |
| - Selecting trailing tab with semantic expansion |
| - URL parser incorrectly handling Markdown URLs and angled brackets |
| - Intermediate bytes of CSI sequences not checked |
| - Wayland clipboard integration |
| - Use text mouse cursor when mouse mode is temporarily disabled with shift |
| - Wayland primary selection clipboard not storing text when selection is stopped outside of the window |
| - Block URL highlight while a selection is active |
| - Bindings for Alt + F1-F12 |
| - Discard scrolling region escape with bottom above top |
| - Opacity always applying to cells with their background color matching the teriminal background |
| - Allow semicolons when setting titles using an OSC |
| - Background always opaque on X11 |
| - Skipping redraws on PTY update |
| - Not redrawing while resizing on Windows/macOS |
| - Decorations `none` launching an invisible window on Windows |
| - Alacritty turning transparent when opening another window on macOS with chunkwm |
| - Startup mode `Maximized` having no effect on Windows |
| - Inserting Emojis using `Super+.` or compose sequences on Windows |
| - Change mouse cursor depending on mode with Wayland |
| - Hide mouse cursor when typing if the `mouse.hide_when_typing` option is set on Wayland |
| - Glitches when DPI changes on Windows |
| - Crash when resuming after suspension |
| - Crash when trying to start on X11 with a Wayland compositor running |
| - Crash with a virtual display connected on X11 |
| - Use `\` instead of `\\` as path separators on Windows for logging config file location |
| - Underline/strikeout drawn above visual bell |
| - Terminal going transparent during visual bell |
| - Selection not being cleared when sending chars through a binding |
| - Mouse protocols/encodings not being mutually exclusive within themselves |
| - Escape `CSI Ps M` deleting lines above cursor when at the bottom of the viewport |
| - Cell reset not clearing underline, strikeout and foreground color |
| - Escape `CSI Ps c` honored with a wrong `Ps` |
| - Ignore `ESC` escapes with invalid intermediates |
| - Blank lines after each line when pasting from GTK apps on Wayland |
| |
| ### Removed |
| |
| - Bindings for Super/Command + F1-F12 |
| - Automatic config generation |
| - Deprecated `scrolling.faux_multiplier`, the alternate scroll escape can now be used to disable it |
| and `scrolling.multiplier` controls the number of scrolled lines |
| |
| ## 0.3.3 |
| |
| ### Packaging |
| |
| - Add appstream metadata, located at /extra/linux/io.alacritty.Alacritty.xml |
| - The xclip dependency has been removed |
| - On macOS, Alacritty now requests NSSystemAdministrationUsageDescription to |
| avoid permission failures |
| - Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.32.0 |
| |
| ### Added |
| |
| - Added ToggleFullscreen action |
| - On macOS, there's a ToggleSimpleFullscreen action which allows switching to |
| fullscreen without occupying another space |
| - A new window option `window.startup_mode` which controls how the window is created |
| - `_NET_WM_ICON` property is set on X11 now, allowing for WMs to show icons in titlebars |
| - Current Git commit hash to `alacritty --version` |
| - Config options `window.title` and `window.class` |
| - Config option `working_directory` |
| - Config group `debug` with the options `debug.log_level`, `debug.print_events` |
| and `debug.ref_test` |
| - Select until next matching bracket when double-clicking a bracket |
| - Added foreground/background escape code request sequences |
| - Escape sequences now support 1, 3, and 4 digit hex colors |
| |
| ### Changed |
| |
| - On Windows, Alacritty will now use the native DirectWrite font API |
| - The `start_maximized` window option is now `startup_mode: Maximized` |
| - Cells with identical foreground and background will now show their text upon selection/inversion |
| - Default Window padding to 0x0 |
| - Moved config option `render_timer` and `persistent_logging` to the `debug` group |
| - When the cursor is in the selection, it will be inverted again, making it visible |
| |
| ### Fixed |
| |
| - Double-width characters in URLs only being highlit on the left half |
| - PTY size not getting updated when message bar is shown |
| - Text Cursor disappearing |
| - Incorrect positioning of zero-width characters over double-width characters |
| - Mouse mode generating events when the cell has not changed |
| - Selections not automatically expanding across double-width characters |
| - On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been enabled again |
| - Text getting recognized as URLs without slashes separating the scheme |
| - URL parser dropping trailing slashes from valid URLs |
| - UTF-8 BOM skipped when reading config file |
| - Terminfo backspace escape sequence (`kbs`) |
| |
| ### Removed |
| |
| - Deprecated `mouse.faux_scrollback_lines` config field |
| - Deprecated `custom_cursor_colors` config field |
| - Deprecated `hide_cursor_when_typing` config field |
| - Deprecated `cursor_style` config field |
| - Deprecated `unfocused_hollow_cursor` config field |
| - Deprecated `dimensions` config field |
| |
| ## Version 0.3.2 |
| |
| ### Fixed |
| |
| - Panic on startup when using Conpty on Windows |
| |
| ## Version 0.3.1 |
| |
| ### Added |
| |
| - Added ScrollLineUp and ScrollLineDown actions for scrolling line by line |
| - Native clipboard support on X11 and Wayland |
| |
| ### Changed |
| |
| - Alacritty now has a fixed minimum supported Rust version of 1.31.0 |
| |
| ### Fixed |
| |
| - Reset scrolling region when the RIS escape sequence is received |
| - Subprocess spawning on macos |
| - Unnecessary resize at startup |
| - Text getting blurry after live-reloading shaders with padding active |
| - Resize events are not send to the shell anymore if dimensions haven't changed |
| - Minor performance issues with underline and strikeout checks |
| - Rare bug which would extend underline and strikeout beyond the end of line |
| - Cursors not spanning two lines when over double-width characters |
| - Incorrect cursor dimensions if the font offset isn't `0` |
| |
| ## Version 0.3.0 |
| |
| ### 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 |
| |
| ### 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 |
| |
| ### Removed |
| |
| - Windows and macOS configuration files (`alacritty.yml` is now platform independent) |
| |
| ## 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](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/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` |
| |
| ### 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 |
| |
| ### 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 |
| |
| ## 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 |
| - The values `true` and `false` for the config option `window.decorations` have been replaced with |
| `full` and `none` |
| |
| ### 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 |
| - Bracketed paste mode now filters escape sequences beginning with \x1b |
| |
| ### Removed |
| |
| - The terminfo entry `alacritty-256color`. It is replaced by the `alacritty` |
| entry (which also advertises 256 colors) |
| |
| ## 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 |
| - Support for setting foreground, background colors in one escape sequence |
| |
| ### 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 |
