Alacritty Version 0.11.0 Release

Prebuilt binaries can be found in the GitHub release.

Packaging

Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.57.0
Renamed io.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml to org.alacritty.Alacritty.appdata.xml
Renamed io.alacritty to org.alacritty for Alacritty.app

Track and report surface damage information to Wayland compositors
Escape sequence for undercurl, dotted and dashed underlines (CSI 4 : [3-5] m)
ToggleMaximized key binding action to (un-)maximize the active window, not bound by default
Support for OpenGL ES 2.0
Escape sequence to set underline color (CSI 58 : 2 : Ps : Ps : Ps m/CSI 58 : 5 : Ps m)
Escape sequence to reset underline color (CSI 59 m)
Vi mode keybinding (z) to center view around vi mode cursor
Accept hexadecimal values starting with 0x for --embed
Config option cursor.blink_timeout to timeout cursor blinking after inactivity
Escape sequence to set hyperlinks (OSC 8 ; params ; URI ST)
Config hints.enabled.hyperlinks for hyperlink escape sequence hint highlight
window.decorations_theme_variant to control both Wayland CSD and GTK theme variant on X11
Support for inline input method

No longer renders to macos and x11 windows that are fully occluded / not directly visible
The --help output was reworked with a new colorful syntax
OSC 52 is now disabled on unfocused windows
SpawnNewInstance no longer inherits initial --command
Blinking cursor will timeout after 5 seconds by default
Deprecated colors.search.bar, use colors.footer_bar instead
On macOS, Alacritty now reads AppleFontSmoothing from user defaults to control font smoothing
Warn when either columns or lines is non-zero, but not both
Client side decorations should have proper text rendering now on Wayland
Config option window.gtk_theme_variant, you should use window.decorations_theme_variant instead
--class now sets both class part of WM_CLASS property and instance
--class's general and instance options were swapped
Search bar is now respecting cursor thickness
On X11 the IME popup window is stuck at the bottom of the window due to Xlib limitations
IME no longer works in Vi mode when moving around

Creating the IPC socket failing if WAYLAND_DISPLAY contains an absolute path
Crash when resetting the terminal while in vi mode
font.glyph_offset not live reloading
Failure when running on 10-bit color system
The colors being slightly different when using srgb displays on macOS
Vi cursor blinking not reset when navigating in search
Scrolling and middle-clicking modifying the primary selection
Bottom gap for certain builtin box drawing characters
Incorrect built-in glyphs for U+2567 and U+2568
Character mappings in the DEC special graphics character set (line drawing)
Window flickering on resize on Wayland
Unnecessary config reload when using /dev/null as a config file
Windows Open Alacritty Here on root of drive displaying error
On macOS, font.use_thin_strokes did not work since Big Sur
On macOS, trying to load a disabled font would crash
On macOS, Alacritty sessions did not appear in the list of tty sessions for w and who
Cursor not hiding on GNOME Wayland
Font having different scale factor after monitor powering off/on on X11
Viewport not updating after opening a new tabbed window on macOS
Terminal not exiting sometimes after closing all windows on macOS
CPU usage spikes due to mouse movements for unfocused windows on X11/Windows
First window on macOS not tabbed with system prefer tabs setting
Window being treaten as focused by default on Wayland

AppleFontSmoothing

$ defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0