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alacritty v0.7.0 Release Notes

  • ➕ 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
    • 0️⃣ History for search mode, bound to P/N/Up/Down by default
    • 0️⃣ 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