alacritty v0.10.0-dev Release Notes

  • Packaging

    • ๐Ÿ†• New extra/alacritty-msg.man manpage for the alacritty msg subcommand
    • Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.53.0

    โž• Added

    • Option colors.transparent_background_colors to allow applying opacity to all background colors
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for running multiple windows from a single Alacritty instance (see docs/features.md)
    • Urgency support on Wayland via xdg_activation_v1

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • ๐Ÿ”ง ExpandSelection is now a configurable mouse binding action
    • Config option background_opacity, you should use window.opacity instead
    • ๐Ÿ”ง 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

    ๐Ÿ›  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
    • โช Crash when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and viewport clear is invoked
    • โช 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

    โœ‚ Removed

    • Wayland client side decorations were simplified