0.4.0

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.36.0
• Config is not generated anymore, please consider distributing the alacritty.yml as documentation
• Removed Alacritty terminfo from .deb in favor of ncurses provided one

Added

• Block selection mode when Control is held while starting a selection
• Allow setting general window class on X11 using CLI or config (window.class.general)
• Config option window.gtk_theme_variant to set GTK theme variant
• Completions for --class and -t (short title)
• Change the mouse cursor when hovering over the message bar and its close button
• Support combined bold and italic text (with font.bold_italic to customize it)
• Extra bindings for F13-F20
• Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers
• Bindings for ScrollToTop and ScrollToBottom actions
• ReceiveChar key binding action to insert the key's text character
• New CLI flag --hold for keeping Alacritty opened after its child process exits
• Escape sequence to save and restore window title from stack
• Alternate scroll escape sequence (CSI ? 1007 h / CSI ? 1007 l)
• Print name of launch command if Alacritty failed to execute it
• Live reload font settings from config
• UTF-8 mouse mode escape sequence (CSI ? 1005 h / CSI ? 1005 l)
• Escape for reading clipboard (OSC 52 ; <s / p / c> ; ? BEL)
• Set selection clipboard (OSC 52 ; <s / p> ; <BASE64> BEL)

Changed

• On Windows, query DirectWrite for recommended anti-aliasing settings
• Scroll lines out of the visible region instead of deleting them when clearing the screen

Fixed

• GUI programs launched by Alacritty starting in the background on X11
• Text Cursor position when scrolling
• Performance issues while resizing Alacritty
• First unfullscreen action ignored on window launched in fullscreen mode
• The window is now filled with the background color before displaying
• Cells sometimes not getting cleared correctly
• X11 clipboard hanging when mime type is set
• On macOS, Alacritty will now fallback to Menlo if a font specified in the config cannot be loaded
• Debug ref tests are now written to disk regardless of shutdown method
• Cursor color setting with escape sequence
• Override default bindings with subset terminal mode match
• On Linux, respect fontconfig's embeddedbitmap configuration option
• Selecting trailing tab with semantic expansion
• URL parser incorrectly handling Markdown URLs and angled brackets
• Intermediate bytes of CSI sequences not checked
• Wayland clipboard integration
• Use text mouse cursor when mouse mode is temporarily disabled with shift
• Wayland primary selection clipboard not storing text when selection is stopped outside of the window
• Block URL highlight while a selection is active
• Bindings for Alt + F1-F12
• Discard scrolling region escape with bottom above top
• Opacity always applying to cells with their background color matching the teriminal background
• Allow semicolons when setting titles using an OSC
• Background always opaque on X11
• Skipping redraws on PTY update
• Not redrawing while resizing on Windows/macOS
• Decorations none launching an invisible window on Windows
• Alacritty turning transparent when opening another window on macOS with chunkwm
• Startup mode Maximized having no effect on Windows
• Inserting Emojis using Super+. or compose sequences on Windows
• Change mouse cursor depending on mode with Wayland
• Hide mouse cursor when typing if the mouse.hide_when_typing option is set on Wayland
• Glitches when DPI changes on Windows
• Crash when resuming after suspension
• Crash when trying to start on X11 with a Wayland compositor running
• Crash with a virtual display connected on X11
• Use \ instead of \\ as path separators on Windows for logging config file location
• Underline/strikeout drawn above visual bell
• Terminal going transparent during visual bell
• Selection not being cleared when sending chars through a binding
• Mouse protocols/encodings not being mutually exclusive within themselves
• Escape CSI Ps M deleting lines above cursor when at the bottom of the viewport
• Cell reset not clearing underline, strikeout and foreground color
• Escape CSI Ps c honored with a wrong Ps
• Ignore ESC escapes with invalid intermediates
• Blank lines after each line when pasting from GTK apps on Wayland

Removed

• Bindings for Super/Command + F1-F12
• Automatic config generation
• Deprecated scrolling.faux_multiplier, the alternate scroll escape can now be used to disable it
  and scrolling.multiplier controls the number of scrolled lines

0.4.0-rc5

Fixed

• Modifiers staying pressed when released outside of Window on XWayland

0.4.0-rc4

Fixed

• Excessive allocation in the URL parser

0.4.0-rc3

Fixed

• Blank lines after each line when pasting from GTK apps on Wayland

0.4.0-rc2

Fixed

• GitHub releases

0.4.0-rc1

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.36.0
• Config is not generated anymore, please consider distributing the alacritty.yml as documentation
• Removed Alacritty terminfo from .deb in favor of ncurses provided one

Added

• Block selection mode when Control is held while starting a selection
• Allow setting general window class on X11 using CLI or config (window.class.general)
• Config option window.gtk_theme_variant to set GTK theme variant
• Completions for --class and -t (short title)
• Change the mouse cursor when hovering over the message bar and its close button
• Support combined bold and italic text (with font.bold_italic to customize it)
• Extra bindings for F13-F20
• Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers
• Bindings for ScrollToTop and ScrollToBottom actions
• ReceiveChar key binding action to insert the key's text character
• New CLI flag --hold for keeping Alacritty opened after its child process exits
• Escape sequence to save and restore window title from stack
• Alternate scroll escape sequence (CSI ? 1007 h / CSI ? 1007 l)
• Print name of launch command if Alacritty failed to execute it
• Live reload font settings from config
• UTF-8 mouse mode escape sequence (CSI ? 1005 h / CSI ? 1005 l)
• Escape for reading clipboard (OSC 52 ; <s / p / c> ; ? BEL)
• Set selection clipboard (OSC 52 ; <s / p> ; <BASE64> BEL)

Changed

• On Windows, query DirectWrite for recommended anti-aliasing settings
• Scroll lines out of the visible region instead of deleting them when clearing the screen

Fixed

• GUI programs launched by Alacritty starting in the background on X11
• Text Cursor position when scrolling
• Performance issues while resizing Alacritty
• First unfullscreen action ignored on window launched in fullscreen mode
• The window is now filled with the background color before displaying
• Cells sometimes not getting cleared correctly
• X11 clipboard hanging when mime type is set
• On macOS, Alacritty will now fallback to Menlo if a font specified in the config cannot be loaded
• Debug ref tests are now written to disk regardless of shutdown method
• Cursor color setting with escape sequence
• Override default bindings with subset terminal mode match
• On Linux, respect fontconfig's embeddedbitmap configuration option
• Selecting trailing tab with semantic expansion
• URL parser incorrectly handling Markdown URLs and angled brackets
• Intermediate bytes of CSI sequences not checked
• Wayland clipboard integration
• Use text mouse cursor when mouse mode is temporarily disabled with shift
• Wayland primary selection clipboard not storing text when selection is stopped outside of the window
• Block URL highlight while a selection is active
• Bindings for Alt + F1-F12
• Discard scrolling region escape with bottom above top
• Opacity always applying to cells with their background color matching the teriminal background
• Allow semicolons when setting titles using an OSC
• Background always opaque on X11
• Skipping redraws on PTY update
• Not redrawing while resizing on Windows/macOS
• Decorations none launching an invisible window on Windows
• Alacritty turning transparent when opening another window on macOS with chunkwm
• Startup mode Maximized having no effect on Windows
• Inserting Emojis using Super+. or compose sequences on Windows
• Change mouse cursor depending on mode with Wayland
• Hide mouse cursor when typing if the mouse.hide_when_typing option is set on Wayland
• Glitches when DPI changes on Windows
• Crash when resuming after suspension
• Crash when trying to start on X11 with a Wayland compositor running
• Crash with a virtual display connected on X11
• Use \ instead of \\ as path separators on Windows for logging config file location
• Underline/strikeout drawn above visual bell
• Terminal going transparent during visual bell
• Selection not being cleared when sending chars through a binding
• Mouse protocols/encodings not being mutually exclusive within themselves
• Escape CSI Ps M deleting lines above cursor when at the bottom of the viewport
• Cell reset not clearing underline, strikeout and foreground color
• Escape CSI Ps c honored with a wrong Ps
• Ignore ESC escapes with invalid intermediates

Removed

• Bindings for Super/Command + F1-F12
• Automatic config generation
• Deprecated scrolling.faux_multiplier, the alternate scroll escape can now be used to disable it
  and scrolling.multiplier controls the number of scrolled lines

0.3.3

Packaging

• Add appstream metadata, located at /extra/linux/io.alacritty.Alacritty.xml
• The xclip dependency has been removed
• On macOS, Alacritty now requests NSSystemAdministrationUsageDescription to
  avoid permission failures
• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.32.0

Added

• Added ToggleFullscreen action
• On macOS, there's a ToggleSimpleFullscreen action which allows switching to
  fullscreen without occupying another space
• A new window option window.startup_mode which controls how the window is created
• _NET_WM_ICON property is set on X11 now, allowing for WMs to show icons in titlebars
• Current Git commit hash to alacritty --version
• Config options window.title and window.class
• Config option working_directory
• Config group debug with the options debug.log_level, debug.print_events
  and debug.ref_test
• Select until next matching bracket when double-clicking a bracket
• Added foreground/background escape code request sequences

Changed

• On Windows, Alacritty will now use the native DirectWrite font API
• The start_maximized window option is now startup_mode: Maximized
• Cells with identical foreground and background will now show their text upon selection/inversion
• Default Window padding to 0x0
• Moved config option render_timer and persistent_logging to the debug group
• When the cursor is in the selection, it will be inverted again, making it visible

Fixed

• Double-width characters in URLs only being highlit on the left half
• PTY size not getting updated when message bar is shown
• Text Cursor disappearing
• Incorrect positioning of zero-width characters over double-width characters
• Mouse mode generating events when the cell has not changed
• Selections not automatically expanding across double-width characters
• On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been enabled again
• Text getting recognized as URLs without slashes separating the scheme
• URL parser dropping trailing slashes from valid URLs
• UTF-8 BOM skipped when reading config file
• Terminfo backspace escape sequence (kbs)

Removed

• Deprecated mouse.faux_scrollback_lines config field
• Deprecated custom_cursor_colors config field
• Deprecated hide_cursor_when_typing config field
• Deprecated cursor_style config field
• Deprecated unfocused_hollow_cursor config field
• Deprecated dimensions config field

Version 0.3.2

Fixed

• Panic on startup when using Conpty on Windows