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# Changelog
All notable changes to Alacritty are documented in this file.
The sections should follow the order `Packaging`, `Added`, `Changed`, `Fixed` and `Removed`.
The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
## 0.11.0-dev
### Packaging
- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.56.0
### 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
### Changed
- The `--help` output was reworked with a new colorful syntax
### Fixed
- Creating the IPC socket failing if WAYLAND_DISPLAY contains an absolute path
## 0.10.1
### 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`
## 0.10.0
### 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
### Removed
- Wayland client side decorations were simplified
## 0.9.0
### Packaging
- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.46.0
### Added
- Support for `ipfs`/`ipns` URLs
- Mode field for regex hint bindings
### Fixed
- Regression in rendering performance with dense grids since 0.6.0
- Crash/Freezes with partially visible fullwidth characters due to alt screen resize
- Incorrect vi cursor position after invoking `ScrollPage*` action
- Slow PTY read performance with extremely dense grids
- Crash when resizing during vi mode
- Unintentional text selection range change after leaving vi mode
- Deadlock on Windows during high frequency output
- Search without vi mode not starting at the correct location when scrolled into history
- Crash when starting a vi mode search from the bottommost line
- Original scroll position not restored after canceling search
- Clipboard copy skipping non-empty cells when encountering an interrupted tab character
- Vi mode cursor moving downward when scrolled in history with active output
- Crash when moving fullwidth characters off the side of the terminal in insert mode
- Broken bitmap font rendering with FreeType 2.11+
- Crash with non-utf8 font paths on Linux
- Newly installed fonts not rendering until Alacritty restart
## 0.8.0
### Packaging
- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.45.0
### Packaging
- Updated shell completions
- Added ARM executable to prebuilt macOS binaries
### Added
- IME composition preview not appearing on Windows
- Synchronized terminal updates using `DCS = 1 s ST`/`DCS = 2 s ST`
- Regex terminal hints ([see features.md](./docs/features.md#hints))
- macOS keybinding (cmd+alt+H) hiding all windows other than Alacritty
- Support for `magnet` URLs
### Changed
- The vi mode cursor is now created in the top-left if the terminal cursor is invisible
- Focused search match will use cell instead of match colors for CellForeground/CellBackground
- URL highlighting has moved from `mouse.url` to the `hints` config section
### Fixed
- Alacritty failing to start on X11 with invalid DPI reported by XRandr
- Text selected after search without any match
- Incorrect vi cursor position after leaving search
- Clicking on URLs on Windows incorrectly opens File Explorer
- Incorrect underline cursor thickness on wide cell
- Viewport moving around when resizing while scrolled into history
- Block cursor not expanding across fullwidth characters when on the right side of it
- Overwriting fullwidth characters only clearing one of the involved cells
### Removed
- Config field `visual_bell`, you should use `bell` instead
## 0.7.2
### Packaging
- Updated shell completions
### Fixed
- Crash due to assertion failure on 32-bit architectures
- Segmentation fault on shutdown with Wayland
- Incorrect estimated DPR with Wayland
- Consecutive clipboard stores dropped on Wayland until the application is refocused
## 0.7.1
### Fixed
- Jumping between matches in backward vi search
## 0.7.0
### Added
- Support for `~/` at the beginning of configuration file imports
- New `cursor.style.blinking` option to set the default blinking state
- New `cursor.blink_interval` option to configure the blinking frequency
- Support for cursor blinking escapes (`CSI ? 12 h`, `CSI ? 12 l` and `CSI Ps SP q`)
- IME support on Windows
- Urgency support on Windows
- Customizable keybindings for search
- History for search mode, bound to ^P/^N/Up/Down by default
- Default binding to cancel search on Ctrl+C
- History position indicator for search and vi mode
### Changed
- Nonexistent config imports are ignored instead of raising an error
- Value for disabling logging with `config.log_level` is `Off` instead of `None`
- Missing glyph symbols are no longer drawn for zerowidth characters
### Fixed
- Wide characters sometimes being cut off
- Preserve vi mode across terminal `reset`
- Escapes `CSI Ps b` and `CSI Ps Z` with large parameters locking up Alacritty
- Dimming colors which use the indexed `CSI 38 : 5 : Ps m` notation
- Slow rendering performance with a lot of cells with underline/strikeout attributes
- Performance of scrolling regions with offset from the bottom
- Extra mouse buttons are no longer ignored on Wayland
- Numpad arrow keys are now properly recognized on Wayland
- Compilation when targetting aarch64-apple-darwin
- Window not being completely opaque on Windows
- Window being always on top during alt-tab on Windows
- Cursor position not reported to apps when mouse is moved with button held outside of window
- No live config update when starting Alacritty with a broken configuration file
- PTY not drained to the end with the `--hold` flag enabled
- High CPU usage on BSD with live config reload enabled
- Alacritty not discarding invalid escape sequences starting with ESC
- Crash due to clipboard not being properly released on Wayland
- Shadow artifacts when resizing transparent windows on macOS
- Missing glyph symbols not being rendered for missing glyphs on macOS and Windows
- Underline cursor being obscured by underline
- Cursor not being rendered with a lot of unicode glyphs visible
- IME input swallowed after triggering a key binding
- Crash on Wayland due to non-standard fontconfig configuration
- Search without vi mode not jumping properly between all matches
### Removed
- The following CLI arguments have been removed in favor of the `--option` flag:
* `--persistent-logging`
* `--live-config-reload`
* `--no-live-config-reload`
* `--dimensions`
* `--position`
- `live-shader-reload` feature
- Config option `dynamic_title`, you should use `window.dynamic_title` instead
- Config option `scrolling.faux_multiplier`, which was replaced by escape `CSI ? 1007 h/l`
- WinPTY support on Windows
## 0.6.0
### Packaging
- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.43.0
- The snapcraft.yaml file has been removed
- Updated `setab`/`setaf` capabilities in `alacritty-direct` to use colons
- WinPTY is now enabled only when targeting MSVC
- Deprecated the WinPTY backend feature, disabling it by default
### Added
- Secondary device attributes escape (`CSI > 0 c`)
- Support for colon separated SGR 38/48
- New Ctrl+C binding to cancel search and leave vi mode
- Escapes for double underlines (`CSI 4 : 2 m`) and underline reset (`CSI 4 : 0 m`)
- Configuration file option for sourcing other files (`import`)
- CLI parameter `--option`/`-o` to override any configuration field
- Escape sequences to report text area size in pixels (`CSI 14 t`) and in characters (`CSI 18 t`)
- Support for single line terminals dimensions
- Right clicking on Wayland's client side decorations will show application menu
- Escape sequences to enable and disable window urgency hints (`CSI ? 1042 h`, `CSI ? 1042 l`)
### Changed
- Cursors are now inverted when their fixed color is similar to the cell's ba
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