Alacritty Version 0.16.0 Release
Oct 18, 2025
Prebuilt binaries can be found in the
GitHub release.
Packaging
- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.85.0
Added
- Vi motions
*,#,{, and} - IPC config retrieval using
alacritty msg get-config - Multi-sequence touch zoom sequences
- Vi action Y keybind, yank to the end of line
- Add
/etc/alacritty/alacritty.tomlfallback for system wide configuration - Unicode 17 support
Changed
- Hide login message if
~/.hushloginis present - Improve rendering of rounded corners with builtin box drawing
Fixed
- Crash when OpenGL context resets
- Modifier keys clearing selection with kitty keyboard protocol enabled
glyph_offset.ynot applied to strikeout- Enter,Tab, Backspace not disambiguated with shift in kitty keyboard's disambiguate mode
- Hint bindings not respecting IPC overrides
- Search matching a wrapping fullwidth character in the last column
- Crash when
AppleFontSmoothingoption is not present on macOS - Origin mode (DECOM) not moving cursor to the origin point
- Unresponsiveness when spamming the bell character with a bell command enabled
window.startup_modeapplied to existing window when opening a new tab on macOS- Slowdowns over time on macOS 26