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alacritty v0.3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-04-08 // about 5 years ago

  • 🔖 Version 0.3.0

    Official announcement: http://blog.christianduerr.com/alacritty_030_announcement

    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 with Unicode outside of the ascii range
    • 🏁 On Windows, focusing a Window will no longer start a selection