alacritty/CHANGELOG.md

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]

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