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# Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
## 0.5.0-dev
### Packaging
- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.39.0
### Added
- Default Command+N keybinding for SpawnNewInstance on macOS
- Vi mode for copying text and opening links
- `CopySelection` action which copies into selection buffer on Linux/BSD
- Option `cursor.thickness` to set terminal cursor thickness
- Font fallback on Windows
### Changed
- Block cursor is no longer inverted at the start/end of a selection
- Preserve selection on non-LMB or mouse mode clicks
- Wayland client side decorations are now based on config colorscheme
### Fixed
- Tabstops not being reset with `reset`
- Selection not cleared when switching between main and alt grid
## 0.4.2
### 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
### 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
### Removed
- Config option `auto_scroll`, which is now always disabled
- Config option `tabspaces`, which is now fixed at `8`
## 0.4.1
### 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
## 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
## 0.3.3
### 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
- Escape sequences now support 1, 3, and 4 digit hex colors
### 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
## Version 0.3.1
### Added
- Added ScrollLineUp and ScrollLineDown actions for scrolling line by line
- Native clipboard support on X11 and Wayland
### Changed
- Alacritty now has a fixed minimum supported Rust version of 1.31.0
### Fixed
- Reset scrolling region when the RIS escape sequence is received
- Subprocess spawning on macos
- Unnecessary resize at startup
- Text getting blurry after live-reloading shaders with padding active
- Resize events are not send to the shell anymore if dimensions haven't changed
- Minor performance issues with underline and strikeout checks
- Rare bug which would extend underline and strikeout beyond the end of line
- Cursors not spanning two lines when over double-width characters
- Incorrect cursor dimensions if the font offset isn't `0`
## Version 0.3.0
### Packaging
- On Linux, the .desktop file now uses `Alacritty` as icon name, which can be
found at `extra/logo/alacritty-term.svg`
### Added
- MSI installer for Windows is now available
- New default key bindings Alt+Home, Alt+End, Alt+PageUp and Alt+PageDown
- Dynamic title support on Windows
- Ability to specify starting position with the `--position` flag
- New configuration field `window.position` allows specifying the starting position
- Added the ability to change the selection color
- Text will reflow instead of truncating when resizing Alacritty
- Underline text and change cursor when hovering over URLs with required modifiers pressed
### Changed
- Clicking on non-alphabetical characters in front of URLs will no longer open them
- Command keybindings on Windows will no longer open new cmd.exe console windows
- On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been temporarily disabled due to a macos bug
### Fixed
- Fix panic which could occur when quitting Alacritty on Windows if using the Conpty backend
- Automatic copying of selection to clipboard when mouse is released outside of Alacritty
- Scrollback history live reload only working when shrinking lines
- Crash when decreasing scrollback history in config while scrolled in history
- Resetting the terminal while in the alt screen will no longer disable scrollback
- Cursor jumping around when leaving alt screen while not in the alt screen
- Text lingering around when resetting while scrolled up in the history
- Terminfo support for extended capabilities
- Allow mouse presses and beginning of mouse selection in padding
- Windows: Conpty backend could close immediately on startup in certain situations
- FreeBSD: SpawnNewInstance will now open new instances in the shell's current
working directory as long as linprocfs(5) is mounted on `/compat/linux/proc`
- Fix lingering Alacritty window after child process has exited
- Growing the terminal while scrolled up will no longer move the content down
- Support for alternate keyboard layouts on macOS
- Slow startup time on some X11 systems
- The AltGr key no longer sends escapes (like Alt)
- Fixes increase/decrease font-size keybindings on international keyboards
- On Wayland, the `--title` flag will set the Window title now
- Parsing issues with URLs starting in the first or ending in the last column
- URLs stopping at double-width characters
- Fix `start_maximized` option on X11
- Error when parsing URLs ending
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