Alacritty Version 0.5.0 Release

Table of Contents

• About
• Added
• Changed
• Fixed
• Removed
• Additional Information

About

Alacritty is a terminal emulator with a strong focus on simplicity and performance. With such a strong focus on performance, included features are carefully considered and you can always expect Alacritty to be blazingly fast. By making sane choices for defaults, Alacritty requires no additional setup. However, it does allow configuration of many aspects of the terminal.

Added

• Default Command+N keybinding for SpawnNewInstance on macOS
• Vi mode for regex search, copying text, and opening links
• CopySelection action which copies into selection buffer on Linux/BSD
• Option cursor.thickness to set terminal cursor thickness

• Font fallback on Windows
• Support for Fontconfig embolden and matrix options
• Opt-out compilation flag winpty to disable WinPTY support
• Scrolling during selection when mouse is at top/bottom of window
• Expanding existing selections using single, double and triple click with the right mouse button
• Support for gopher and gemini URLs
• Unicode 13 support
• Option to run command on bell which can be set in bell.command
• Fallback to program specified in $SHELL variable on Linux/BSD if it is present

Changed

• Block cursor is no longer inverted at the start/end of a selection
• Preserve selection on non-LMB or mouse mode clicks
• Wayland client side decorations are now based on config colorscheme
• Low resolution window decoration icon on Windows
• Mouse bindings for additional buttons need to be specified as a number not a string
• Don't hide cursor on modifier press with mouse.hide_when_typing enabled
• Shift + Backspace now sends ^? instead of ^H
• Default color scheme is now Tomorrow Night with the bright colors of Tomorrow Night Bright

• Set IUTF8 termios flag for improved UTF8 input support
• Dragging files into terminal now adds a space after each path
• Default binding replacement conditions
• Adjusted selection clearing granularity to more accurately match content
• To use the cell's text color for selection with a modified background, the color.selection.text variable must now be set to CellForeground instead of omitting it
• URLs are no longer highlighted without a clearly delimited scheme
• Renamed config option visual_bell to bell
• Moved config option dynamic_title to window.dynamic_title

Fixed

• Selection not cleared when switching between main and alt grid
• Freeze when application is invisible on Wayland
• Paste from some apps on Wayland
• Slow startup with Nvidia binary drivers on some X11 systems
• Display not scrolling when printing new lines while scrolled in history
• Regression in font rendering on macOS
• Scroll down escape (CSI Ps T) incorrectly pulling lines from history
• Dim escape (CSI 2 m) support for truecolor text
• Incorrectly deleted lines when increasing width with a prompt wrapped using spaces
• Documentation for class in --help missing information on setting general class
• Linewrap tracking when switching between primary and alternate screen buffer
• Preservation of the alternate screen's saved cursor when swapping to primary screen and back
• Reflow of cursor during resize
• Cursor color escape ignored when its color is set to inverted in the config
• Fontconfig's autohint and hinting options being ignored
• Ingoring of default FreeType properties
• Alacritty crashing at startup when the configured font does not exist
• Font size rounding error

Removed

• Environment variable RUST_LOG for selecting the log level
• Deprecated window.start_maximized config field
• Deprecated render_timer config field
• Deprecated persistent_logging config field

Additional Information

Detailed installation instructions can be found in Alacritty's GitHub README.

The full changelog including all previous versions can be found here.