Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.57.0
• Renamed io.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml to org.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml
• Renamed io.alacritty to org.alacritty for Alacritty.app

Added

• Track and report surface damage information to Wayland compositors
• Escape sequence for undercurl, dotted and dashed underlines (CSI 4 : [3-5] m)
• ToggleMaximized key binding action to (un-)maximize the active window, not bound by default
• Support for OpenGL ES 2.0
• Escape sequence to set underline color (CSI 58 : 2 : Ps : Ps : Ps m/CSI 58 : 5 : Ps m)
• Escape sequence to reset underline color (CSI 59 m)
• Vi mode keybinding (z) to center view around vi mode cursor
• Accept hexadecimal values starting with 0x for --embed
• Config option cursor.blink_timeout to timeout cursor blinking after inactivity
• Escape sequence to set hyperlinks (OSC 8 ; params ; URI ST)
• Config hints.enabled.hyperlinks for hyperlink escape sequence hint highlight
• window.decorations_theme_variant to control both Wayland CSD and GTK theme variant on X11
• Support for inline input method

Changed

• No longer renders to macos and x11 windows that are fully occluded / not directly visible
• The --help output was reworked with a new colorful syntax
• OSC 52 is now disabled on unfocused windows
• SpawnNewInstance no longer inherits initial --command
• Blinking cursor will timeout after 5 seconds by default
• Deprecated colors.search.bar, use colors.footer_bar instead
• On macOS, Alacritty now reads AppleFontSmoothing from user defaults to control font smoothing
• Warn when either columns or lines is non-zero, but not both
• Client side decorations should have proper text rendering now on Wayland
• Config option window.gtk_theme_variant, you should use window.decorations_theme_variant instead
• --class now sets both class part of WM_CLASS property and instance
• --class's general and instance options were swapped
• Search bar is now respecting cursor thickness
• On X11 the IME popup window is stuck at the bottom of the window due to Xlib limitations
• IME no longer works in Vi mode when moving around

Fixed

• Creating the IPC socket failing if WAYLAND_DISPLAY contains an absolute path
• Crash when resetting the terminal while in vi mode
• font.glyph_offset not live reloading
• Failure when running on 10-bit color system
• The colors being slightly different when using srgb displays on macOS
• Vi cursor blinking not reset when navigating in search
• Scrolling and middle-clicking modifying the primary selection
• Bottom gap for certain builtin box drawing characters
• Incorrect built-in glyphs for U+2567 and U+2568
• Character mappings in the DEC special graphics character set (line drawing)
• Window flickering on resize on Wayland
• Unnecessary config reload when using /dev/null as a config file
• Windows Open Alacritty Here on root of drive displaying error
• On macOS, font.use_thin_strokes did not work since Big Sur
• On macOS, trying to load a disabled font would crash
• On macOS, Alacritty sessions did not appear in the list of tty sessions for w and who
• Cursor not hiding on GNOME Wayland
• Font having different scale factor after monitor powering off/on on X11
• Viewport not updating after opening a new tabbed window on macOS
• Terminal not exiting sometimes after closing all windows on macOS
• CPU usage spikes due to mouse movements for unfocused windows on X11/Windows
• First window on macOS not tabbed with system prefer tabs setting
• Window being treaten as focused by default on Wayland

Removed

• font.use_thin_strokes config field; to use thin strokes on macOS, set
  AppleFontSmoothing to 0 with $ defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

Fixed

• Missing window icon on X11
• Crash when closing IME on X11
• Alt key handling on Windows

Added

• Unicode 15 support

Fixed

• IPC config options overwriting each other
• Preedit text removal with inline IME
• Hyperlink preview obscuring text cursor

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.57.0
• Renamed io.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml to org.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml
• Renamed io.alacritty to org.alacritty for Alacritty.app

Added

• Track and report surface damage information to Wayland compositors
• Escape sequence for undercurl, dotted and dashed underlines (CSI 4 : [3-5] m)
• ToggleMaximized key binding action to (un-)maximize the active window, not bound by default
• Support for OpenGL ES 2.0
• Escape sequence to set underline color (CSI 58 : 2 : Ps : Ps : Ps m/CSI 58 : 5 : Ps m)
• Escape sequence to reset underline color (CSI 59 m)
• Vi mode keybinding (z) to center view around vi mode cursor
• Accept hexadecimal values starting with 0x for --embed
• Config option cursor.blink_timeout to timeout cursor blinking after inactivity
• Escape sequence to set hyperlinks (OSC 8 ; params ; URI ST)
• Config hints.enabled.hyperlinks for hyperlink escape sequence hint highlight
• window.decorations_theme_variant to control both Wayland CSD and GTK theme variant on X11
• Support for inline input method

Changed

• No longer renders to macos and x11 windows that are fully occluded / not directly visible
• The --help output was reworked with a new colorful syntax
• OSC 52 is now disabled on unfocused windows
• SpawnNewInstance no longer inherits initial --command
• Blinking cursor will timeout after 5 seconds by default
• Deprecated colors.search.bar, use colors.footer_bar instead
• On macOS, Alacritty now reads AppleFontSmoothing from user defaults to control font smoothing
• Warn when either columns or lines is non-zero, but not both
• Client side decorations should have proper text rendering now on Wayland
• Config option window.gtk_theme_variant, you should use window.decorations_theme_variant instead
• --class now sets both class part of WM_CLASS property and instance
• --class's general and instance options were swapped
• Search bar is now respecting cursor thickness
• On X11 the IME popup window is stuck at the bottom of the window due to Xlib limitations
• IME no longer works in Vi mode when moving around

Fixed

• Creating the IPC socket failing if WAYLAND_DISPLAY contains an absolute path
• Crash when resetting the terminal while in vi mode
• font.glyph_offset not live reloading
• Failure when running on 10-bit color system
• The colors being slightly different when using srgb displays on macOS
• Vi cursor blinking not reset when navigating in search
• Scrolling and middle-clicking modifying the primary selection
• Bottom gap for certain builtin box drawing characters
• Incorrect built-in glyphs for U+2567 and U+2568
• Character mappings in the DEC special graphics character set (line drawing)
• Window flickering on resize on Wayland
• Unnecessary config reload when using /dev/null as a config file
• Windows Open Alacritty Here on root of drive displaying error
• On macOS, font.use_thin_strokes did not work since Big Sur
• On macOS, trying to load a disabled font would crash
• On macOS, Alacritty sessions did not appear in the list of tty sessions for w and who
• Cursor not hiding on GNOME Wayland
• Font having different scale factor after monitor powering off/on on X11
• Viewport not updating after opening a new tabbed window on macOS
• Terminal not exiting sometimes after closing all windows on macOS
• CPU usage spikes due to mouse movements for unfocused windows on X11/Windows
• First window on macOS not tabbed with system prefer tabs setting
• Window being treaten as focused by default on Wayland

Removed

• font.use_thin_strokes config field; to use thin strokes on macOS, set
  AppleFontSmoothing to 0 with $ defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

Added

• Option font.builtin_box_drawing to disable the built-in font for drawing box characters

Changed

• Builtin font thickness is now based on cell width instead of underline thickness

Fixed

• OSC 4 not handling ?
• ? in OSC strings reporting default colors instead of modified ones
• OSC 104 not clearing colors when second parameter is empty
• Builtin font lines not contiguous when font.offset is used
• font.glyph_offset is no longer applied on builtin font
• Buili-in font arcs alignment
• Repeated permission prompts on M1 macs
• Colors being slightly off when using colors.transparent_background_colors

Added

• Option font.builtin_box_drawing to disable the built-in font for drawing box characters

Changed

• Builtin font thickness is now based on cell width instead of underline thickness

Fixed

• OSC 4 not handling ?
• ? in OSC strings reporting default colors instead of modified ones
• OSC 104 not clearing colors when second parameter is empty
• Builtin font lines not contiguous when font.offset is used
• font.glyph_offset is no longer applied on builtin font
• Buili-in font arcs alignment
• Repeated permission prompts on M1 macs
• Colors being slightly off when using colors.transparent_background_colors

Packaging

• New extra/alacritty-msg.man manpage for the alacritty msg subcommand
• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.53.0

Added

• Option colors.transparent_background_colors to allow applying opacity to all background colors
• Support for running multiple windows from a single Alacritty instance (see docs/features.md)
• Urgency support on Wayland via xdg_activation_v1

Changed

• ExpandSelection is now a configurable mouse binding action
• Config option background_opacity, you should use window.opacity instead
• Reload configuration files when their symbolic link is replaced
• Strip trailing whitespaces when yanking from a block selection
• Display area keeps history position when viewport is cleared
• Commands spawn from the current directory of the foreground shell in Unix-like systems
• Remove trailing newline from strings taken from hints or simple/semantic selections
• Builtin font is now used for box drawing characters from U+2500 to U+259f
• Logs now print the time since startup instead of the local time

Fixed

• Line indicator obstructing vi mode cursor when scrolled into history
• Vi mode search starting in the line below the vi cursor
• Invisible cursor with matching foreground/background colors
• Crash when hovering over a match emptied by post-processing
• Crash when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and viewport clear is invoked
• Freeze when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and scrollback clear is invoked
• Vi cursor on topmost of the display moving downward when scrolled into history with active output
• Input lag on Wayland with Nvidia binary driver
• Crash when hovering the mouse over fullwidth characters
• Do not create logfile if the file already exists

Changed

• Logs now print the time since startup instead of the local time

Fixed

• Block selection expansion
• Use-after-free when formatting Wayland protocol errors
• Invisible cursor still causing blinking updates

Added

• Title/Class CLI parameters for create-window IPC command

Changed

• Remove trailing newline from strings taken from hints or simple/semantic selections
• Builtin font is now used for box drawing characters from U+2500 to U+259f

Fixed

• Input lag on Wayland with Nvidia binary driver
• Crash when hovering the mouse over fullwidth characters
• Test failure with cargo CLI parameters
• IME regression on macOS
• Block selection including last column not containing any newlines