alacritty v0.7.0-dev Release Notes

  • โž• Added

    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for ~/ at the beginning of configuration file imports
    • ๐Ÿ†• New cursor.style.blinking option to set the default blinking state
    • ๐Ÿ†• New cursor.blink_interval option to configure the blinking frequency
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for cursor blinking escapes (CSI ? 12 h, CSI ? 12 l and CSI Ps SP q)

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changed

    • Nonexistent config imports are ignored instead of raising an error

    ๐Ÿ›  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
    • ๐ŸŽ Slow rendering performance with a lot of cells with underline/strikeout attributes
    • ๐ŸŽ Performance of scrolling regions with offset from the bottom

    โœ‚ Removed

    • ๐Ÿšš 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