Fixed

• macOS crashing issues

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.85.0

Added

• Vi motions *, #, {, and }
• IPC config retrieval using alacritty msg get-config
• Multi-sequence touch zoom sequences
• Vi action Y keybind, yank to the end of line
• Add /etc/alacritty/alacritty.toml fallback for system wide configuration

Changed

• Hide login message if ~/.hushlogin is present
• Improve rendering of rounded corners with builtin box drawing

Fixed

• Crash when OpenGL context resets
• Modifier keys clearing selection with kitty keyboard protocol enabled
• glyph_offset.y not applied to strikeout
• Enter,Tab, Backspace not disambiguated with shift in kitty keyboard's disambiguate mode
• Hint bindings not respecting IPC overrides
• Search matching a wrapping fullwidth character in the last column
• Crash when AppleFontSmoothing option is not present on macOS
• Origin mode (DECOM) not moving cursor to the origin point
• Unresponsiveness when spamming the bell character with a bell command enabled
• window.startup_mode applied to existing window when opening a new tab on macOS

Changed

• Error out when socket fails to create with --daemon
• Default URL hints now stop before backslashes

Fixed

• Modifiers being out of sync for fast/synthetic input on X11
• Child process creation failing while inside a deleted directory
• Shifted key reported without a shift when using kitty keyboard protocol

Changed

• Error out when socket fails to create with --daemon
• Default URL hints now stop before backslashes

Fixed

• Modifiers being out of sync for fast/synthetic input on X11
• Child process creation failing while inside a deleted directory
• Shifted key reported without a shift when using kitty keyboard protocol

Added

• Config option window.level = "AlwaysOnTop" to force Alacritty to always be the toplevel window
• Escape sequence to move cursor forward tabs ( CSI Ps I )
• Pass activation token in alacritty msg create-window on Wayland/X11

Changed

• Always focus new windows on macOS
• Don't switch to semantic/line selection when control is pressed
• Always emit 1 for the first parameter when having modifiers in kitty keyboard protocol

Fixed

• Mouse/Vi cursor hint highlighting broken on the terminal cursor line
• Hint launcher opening arbitrary text, when terminal content changed while opening
• SemanticRight/SemanticLeft vi motions breaking with wide semantic escape characters
• alacritty migrate crashing with recursive toml imports
• Migrating nonexistent toml import breaking the entire migration
• First daemon mode window ignoring window options passed through CLI
• Report of Enter/Tab/Backspace in kitty keyboard's report event types mode
• Crash when pressing certain modifier keys on macOS 15+
• Cut off wide characters in preedit string

Added

• Config option window.level = "AlwaysOnTop" to force Alacritty to always be the toplevel window
• Escape sequence to move cursor forward tabs ( CSI Ps I )
• Pass activation token in alacritty msg create-window on Wayland/X11

Changed

• Always focus new windows on macOS
• Don't switch to semantic/line selection when control is pressed
• Always emit 1 for the first parameter when having modifiers in kitty keyboard protocol

Fixed

• Mouse/Vi cursor hint highlighting broken on the terminal cursor line
• Hint launcher opening arbitrary text, when terminal content changed while opening
• SemanticRight/SemanticLeft vi motions breaking with wide semantic escape characters
• alacritty migrate crashing with recursive toml imports
• Migrating nonexistent toml import breaking the entire migration
• First daemon mode window ignoring window options passed through CLI
• Report of Enter/Tab/Backspace in kitty keyboard's report event types mode
• Crash when pressing certain modifier keys on macOS 15+

Changed

• Always emit 1 for the first parameter when having modifiers in kitty keyboard protocol

Fixed

• Mouse/Vi cursor hint highlighting broken on the terminal cursor line
• Hint launcher opening arbitrary text, when terminal content changed while opening
• SemanticRight/SemanticLeft vi motions breaking with wide semantic escape characters
• alacritty migrate crashing with recursive toml imports
• Migrating nonexistent toml import breaking the entire migration
• Crash when pressing certain modifier keys on macOS 15+
• First daemon mode window ignoring window options passed through CLI

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.74.0

Added

• Support relative path imports from config files
• alacritty migrate support for TOML configuration changes
• Headless mode using alacritty --daemon

Changed

• Pressing Alt with unicode input will now add ESC like for ASCII input
• Decorations use opaque style and system window background on macOS
• No longer source ~/.zshenv on macOS
• Moved config options import, working_directory, live_config_reload, and ipc_socket
  to the new general section
• Moved config option shell to terminal.shell
• ctrl+shift+u binding to open links to ctrl+shift+o to avoid collisions with IMEs
• Use Beam cursor for single char cursor inside the IME preview

Fixed

• Crash when trying to create a new tab without decorations enabled
• New window being treated as focused when it's not on Wayland
• IME preview blending into text below it
• Dynamic title disabled for new windows when initial one has title as CLI option
• While terminal in mouse mode, mouse bindings that used the shift modifier and
  had multiple actions only performed the first action
• Leaking FDs when closing windows on Unix systems
• Config emitting errors for nonexistent import paths
• Kitty keyboard protocol reporting shifted key codes
• Broken search with words broken across line boundary on the first character
• Config import changes not being live reloaded
• Cursor color requests with default cursor colors
• Fullwidth semantic escape characters
• Windows app icon now displays properly in old alt+tab on Windows
• Alacritty not being properly activated with startup notify
• Invalid URL highlights after terminal scrolling
• Hollow block cursor not spanning multiple chars being edited inside the IME preview
• Vi inline search only working for direct key input without modifiers

Added

• Headless mode using alacritty --daemon

Changed

• Use Beam cursor for single char cursor inside the IME preview

Fixed

• Hollow block cursor not spanning multiple chars being edited inside the IME preview
• Vi inline search only working for direct key input without modifiers

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.74.0

Added

• Support relative path imports from config files
• alacritty migrate support for TOML configuration changes
• Support for Unicode 16 characters

Changed

• Pressing Alt with unicode input will now add ESC like for ASCII input
• Decorations use opaque style and system window background on macOS
• No longer source ~/.zshenv on macOS
• Moved config options import, working_directory, live_config_reload, and ipc_socket
  to the new general section
• Moved config option shell to terminal.shell
• ctrl+shift+u binding to open links to ctrl+shift+o to avoid collisions with IMEs

Fixed

• Crash when trying to create a new tab without decorations enabled
• New window being treated as focused when it's not on Wayland
• IME preview blending into text below it
• Dynamic title disabled for new windows when initial one has title as CLI option
• While terminal in mouse mode, mouse bindings that used the shift modifier and
  had multiple actions only performed the first action
• Leaking FDs when closing windows on Unix systems
• Config emitting errors for nonexistent import paths
• Kitty keyboard protocol reporting shifted key codes
• Broken search with words broken across line boundary on the first character
• Config import changes not being live reloaded
• Cursor color requests with default cursor colors
• Fullwidth semantic escape characters
• Windows app icon now displays properly in old alt+tab on Windows
• Alacritty not being properly activated with startup notify
• Invalid URL highlights after terminal scrolling