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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.
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
withSuper
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
andcolors.cursor.cursor
fields are optional now - Moved
cursor_style
tocursor.style
- Moved
unfocused_hollow_cursor
tocursor.unfocused_hollow
- Moved
hide_cursor_when_typing
tomouse.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 ofusr/local/bin
Removed
- The
custom_cursor_colors
config field was deleted, remove thecolors.cursor.*
options to achieve the same behavior as setting it tofalse
- The
scale_with_dpi
configuration value has been removed, on Linux the env variableWINIT_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 thexterm
definition to be present on the system - The default
TERM
value is no longer static; thealacritty
entry is used if available, otherwise thexterm-256color
entry is used instead
Removed
- The terminfo entry
alacritty-256color
. It is replaced by thealacritty
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 usefull
ornone
instead oftrue
orfalse
, 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 theErase 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