alacritty

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

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

Removed

• The custom_cursor_colors config field was deleted, remove the colors.cursor.* options
  to achieve the same behavior as setting it to false

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

Initial version of pre-compiled binaries.

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