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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 0.2.6

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