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alacritty v0.4.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-01-09 // over 4 years ago

  • 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