Fixed

• Tabstops not being reset with reset
• Fallback to LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 on macOS without valid system locale
• Resize lag on launch under some X11 wms
• Increased input latency due to vsync behavior on X11
• Emoji colors blending with terminal background
• Fix escapes prematurely terminated by terminators in unicode glyphs
• Incorrect location when clicking inside an unfocused window on macOS
• Startup mode Maximized on Windows
• Crash when writing a fullwidth character in the last column with auto-wrap mode disabled
• Crashing at startup on Windows

Fixed

• Tabstops not being reset with reset
• Fallback to LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 on macOS without valid system locale
• Resize lag on launch under some X11 wms
• Increased input latency due to vsync behavior on X11
• Emoji colors blending with terminal background
• Fix escapes prematurely terminated by terminators in unicode glyphs
• Incorrect location when clicking inside an unfocused window on macOS
• Startup mode Maximized on Windows
• Crash when writing a fullwidth character in the last column with auto-wrap mode disabled
• Crashing at startup on Windows

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.37.0
• Added Rust features x11 and wayland to pick backends, with both enabled by default
• Capitalized the Alacritty.desktop file

Added

• Live config reload for window.title

Changed

• Pressing additional modifiers for mouse bindings will no longer trigger them
• Renamed WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR environment variable to WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR
• Print an error instead of crashing, when startup working directory is invalid
• Line selection will now expand across wrapped lines
• The default value for draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors is now false
• Mirror OSC query terminators instead of always using BEL
• Increased Beam, Underline, and Hollow Block cursors' line widths
• Dynamic title is not disabled anymore when window.title is set in config

Removed

• Config option auto_scroll, which is now always disabled
• Config option tabspaces, which is now fixed at 8

Fixed

• Incorrect default config path in --help on Windows and macOS
• Semantic selection stopping at full-width glyphs
• Full-width glyphs cut off in last column
• Crash when starting on some X11 systems
• Font size resetting when Alacritty is moved between screens
• Limited payload length in clipboard escape (used for Tmux copy/paste)
• Alacritty not ignoring keyboard events for changing WM focus on X11
• Regression which added a UNC path prefix to the working directory on Windows
• CLI parameters discarded when config is reload
• Blurred icons in KDE task switcher (alacritty.ico is now high-res)
• Consecutive builds failing on macOS due to preexisting /Application symlink
• Block selection starting from first column after beginning leaves the scrollback
• Incorrect selection status of the first cell when selection is off screen
• Backwards bracket selection
• Stack overflow when printing shader creation error
• Underline position for bitmap fonts
• Selection rotating outside of scrolling region
• Throughput performance problems caused by excessive font metric queries
• Unicode throughput performance on Linux/BSD
• Resize of bitmap fonts
• Crash when using bitmap font with embeddedbitmap set to false
• Inconsistent fontconfig fallback
• Handling of OpenType variable fonts
• Expansion of block-selection on partially selected full-width glyphs
• Minimize action only works with decorations on macOS
• Window permanently vanishing after hiding on macOS
• Handling of URLs with single quotes
• Parser reset between DCS escapes
• Parser stopping at unknown DEC private modes/SGR character attributes
• Block selection appending duplicate newlines when last column is selected
• Bitmap fonts being a bit smaller than they should be in some cases
• Config reload creating alternate screen history instead of updating scrollback
• Crash on Wayland compositors supporting wl_seat version 7+
• Message bar not hiding after fixing wrong color value in config
• Tabstops cleared on resize
• Tabstops not breaking across lines
• Crash when parsing DCS escape with more than 16 parameters
• Ignoring of slow touchpad scrolling
• Selection invisible when starting above viewport and ending below it
• Clipboard not working after TTY switch on Wayland
• Crash when pasting non UTF-8 string advertised as UTF-8 string on Wayland
• Incorrect modifiers tracking on X11 and macOS, leading to 'sticky' modifiers
• Crash when starting on Windows with missing dark mode support
• Variables XCURSOR_THEME and XCURSOR_SIZE ignored on Wayland
• Low resolution mouse cursor and decorations on HiDPI Wayland outputs
• Decorations visible when in fullscreen on Wayland
• Window size not persisted correctly after fullscreening on macOS
• Crash on startup with some locales on X11
• Shrinking terminal height in alt screen deleting primary screen content

Fixed

• Shrinking terminal height in alt screen deleting primary screen content
• Incorrect cursor position when leaving alt screen after resize

Fixed

• Invisible selection being visible on first/last cell in viewport

Fixed

• Font style ignored for fallback on Linux

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.37.0
• Added Rust features x11 and wayland to pick backends, with both enabled by default
• Capitalized the default Alacritty.desktop file
• Capitalized the Alacritty.desktop file

Added

• Live config reload for window.title

Changed

• Pressing additional modifiers for mouse bindings will no longer trigger them
• Renamed WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR environment variable to WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR
• Print an error instead of crashing, when startup working directory is invalid
• Line selection will now expand across wrapped lines
• The default value for draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors is now false
• Mirror OSC query terminators instead of always using BEL
• Increased Beam, Underline, and Hollow Block cursors' line widths
• Dynamic title is not disabled anymore when window.title is set in config

Fixed

• Incorrect default config path in --help on Windows and macOS
• Semantic selection stopping at full-width glyphs
• Full-width glyphs cut off in last column
• Crash when starting on some X11 systems
• Font size resetting when Alacritty is moved between screens
• Limited payload length in clipboard escape (used for Tmux copy/paste)
• Alacritty not ignoring keyboard events for changing WM focus on X11
• Regression which added a UNC path prefix to the working directory on Windows
• CLI parameters discarded when config is reload
• Blurred icons in KDE task switcher (alacritty.ico is now high-res)
• Consecutive builds failing on macOS due to preexisting /Application symlink
• Block selection starting from first column after beginning leaves the scrollback
• Incorrect selection status of the first cell when selection is off screen
• Backwards bracket selection
• Stack overflow when printing shader creation error
• Underline position for bitmap fonts
• Selection rotating outside of scrolling region
• Throughput performance problems caused by excessive font metric queries
• Unicode throughput performance on Linux/BSD
• Resize of bitmap fonts
• Crash when using bitmap font with embeddedbitmap set to false
• Inconsistent fontconfig fallback
• Handling of OpenType variable fonts
• Expansion of block-selection on partially selected full-width glyphs
• Minimize action only works with decorations on macOS
• Window permanently vanishing after hiding on macOS
• Handling of URLs with single quotes
• Parser reset between DCS escapes
• Parser stopping at unknown DEC private modes/SGR character attributes
• Block selection appending duplicate newlines when last column is selected
• Bitmap fonts being a bit smaller than they should be in some cases
• Config reload creating alternate screen history instead of updating scrollback
• Crash on Wayland compositors supporting wl_seat version 7+
• Message bar not hiding after fixing wrong color value in config
• Tabstops cleared on resize
• Tabstops not breaking across lines
• Crash when parsing DCS escape with more than 16 parameters
• Ignoring of slow touchpad scrolling
• Selection invisible when starting above viewport and ending below it
• Clipboard not working after TTY switch on Wayland
• Crash when pasting non UTF-8 string advertised as UTF-8 string on Wayland
• Incorrect modifiers tracking on X11 and macOS, leading to 'sticky' modifiers
• Crash when starting on Windows with missing dark mode support
• Variables XCURSOR_THEME and XCURSOR_SIZE ignored on Wayland
• Low resolution mouse cursor and decorations on HiDPI Wayland outputs
• Decorations visible when in fullscreen on Wayland
• Window size not persisted correctly after fullscreening on macOS
• Crash on startup with some locales on X11

Removed

• Config option auto_scroll, which is now always disabled
• Config option tabspaces, which is now fixed at 8

Packaging

• Added compatibility logo variants for environments which can't render the default SVG

Added

• Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers for Delete and Insert
• /Applications symlink into OS X DMG for easier installation
• Colored emojis on Linux/BSD
• Value randr for WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR, to ignore Xft.dpi and scale based on screen dimensions
• Minimize key binding action, bound to cmd + m on macOS

Changed

• On Windows, the ConPTY backend will now be used by default if available
• The enable_experimental_conpty_backend config option has been replaced with winpty_backend

Fixed

• URLs not truncated with non-matching single quote
• Absolute file URLs (file:///home) not recognized because of leading /
• Clipboard escape OSC 52 not working with empty clipboard parameter
• Direct escape input on Windows using alt
• Incorrect window size on X11 when waking up from suspend
• Width of Unicode 11/12 emojis
• Minimize on windows causing layout issues
• Performance bottleneck when clearing colored rows
• Vague startup crash messages on Windows with WinPTY backend
• Deadlock on Windows when closing Alacritty using the title bar "X" button (ConPTY backend)
• Crash on clear when scrolled up in history
• Entire screen getting underlined/stroke out when running clear
• Slow startup on some Wayland compositors
• Padding not consistently visible on macOS
• Decorations ignoring Windows dark theme
• Crash on macOS when starting maximized without decorations
• Resize cursor not showing up on Wayland
• Maximized windows spawning behind system panel on Gnome Wayland

Removed

• Support for 8-bit C1 escape sequences

Fixed

• Missing Windows GitHub releases

Packaging

• Added compatibility logo variants for environments which can't render the default SVG

Added

• Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers for Delete and Insert
• /Applications symlink into OS X DMG for easier installation
• Colored emojis on Linux/BSD
• Value randr for WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR, to ignore Xft.dpi and scale based on screen dimensions
• Minimize key binding action, bound to cmd + m on macOS

Changed

• On Windows, the ConPTY backend will now be used by default if available
• The enable_experimental_conpty_backend config option has been replaced with winpty_backend

Fixed

• URLs not truncated with non-matching single quote
• Absolute file URLs (file:///home) not recognized because of leading /
• Clipboard escape OSC 52 not working with empty clipboard parameter
• Direct escape input on Windows using alt
• Incorrect window size on X11 when waking up from suspend
• Width of Unicode 11/12 emojis
• Minimize on windows causing layout issues
• Performance bottleneck when clearing colored rows
• Vague startup crash messages on Windows with WinPTY backend
• Deadlock on Windows when closing Alacritty using the title bar "X" button (ConPTY backend)
• Crash on clear when scrolled up in history
• Entire screen getting underlined/stroke out when running clear
• Slow startup on some Wayland compositors
• Padding not consistently visible on macOS
• Decorations ignoring Windows dark theme
• Crash on macOS when starting maximized without decorations
• Resize cursor not showing up on Wayland
• Maximized windows spawning behind system panel on Gnome Wayland

Removed

• Support for 8-bit C1 escape sequences