Alacritty Version 0.14.0 Release

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.74.0

Added

• Support relative path imports from config files
• alacritty migrate support for TOML configuration changes
• Headless mode using alacritty --daemon

Changed

• Pressing Alt with unicode input will now add ESC like for ASCII input
• Decorations use opaque style and system window background on macOS
• No longer source ~/.zshenv on macOS
• Moved config options import, working_directory, live_config_reload, and ipc_socket
to the new general section
• Moved config option shell to terminal.shell
• ctrl + shift + u binding to open links to ctrl + shift + o to avoid collisions with IMEs
• Use Beam cursor for single char cursor inside the IME preview

Fixed

• Crash when trying to create a new tab without decorations enabled
• New window being treated as focused when it's not on Wayland
• IME preview blending into text below it
• Dynamic title disabled for new windows when initial one has title as CLI option
• While terminal in mouse mode, mouse bindings that used the shift modifier and
had multiple actions only performed the first action
• Leaking FDs when closing windows on Unix systems
• Config emitting errors for nonexistent import paths
• Kitty keyboard protocol reporting shifted key codes
• Broken search with words broken across line boundary on the first character
• Config import changes not being live reloaded
• Cursor color requests with default cursor colors
• Fullwidth semantic escape characters
• Windows app icon now displays properly in old alt+tab on Windows
• Alacritty not being properly activated with startup notify
• Invalid URL highlights after terminal scrolling
• Hollow block cursor not spanning multiple chars being edited inside the IME preview
• Vi inline search only working for direct key input without modifiers