Alacritty Version 0.16.0 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.toml fallback for system wide configuration
• Unicode 17 support

Changed

• Hide login message if ~/.hushlogin is 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.y not 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 AppleFontSmoothing option 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_mode applied to existing window when opening a new tab on macOS
• Slowdowns over time on macOS 26