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# Changelog

All notable changes to Alacritty are documented in this file.
The sections should follow the order `Packaging`, `Added`, `Changed`, `Fixed` and `Removed`.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).

Notable changes to the `alacritty_terminal` crate are documented in its
[CHANGELOG](./alacritty_terminal/CHANGELOG.md).

## 0.17.0-dev

### Packaging

- Fixed invalid logo SVG attributes

### Changed

- Don't highlight hints on hover when the mouse cursor is hidden
- Require explicit tap to enable IME with touch input

### Fixed

- Brief error popup when saving the config file with some editors
- Subprocesses on OpenBSD now run with their CWD set to that of the shell's foreground process.

## 0.16.1

### Fixed

- Crashes on GPUs with partial robustness support

## 0.16.0

### 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

## 0.15.1

### Changed

- Error out when socket fails to create with `--daemon`
- Default URL hints now stop before backslashes

### Fixed

- Modifiers being out of sync for fast/synthetic input on X11
- Child process creation failing while inside a deleted directory
- Shifted key reported without a shift when using kitty keyboard protocol

## 0.15.0

### Added

- Config option `window.level = "AlwaysOnTop"` to force Alacritty to always be the toplevel window
- Escape sequence to move cursor forward tabs ( CSI Ps I )
- Pass activation token in `alacritty msg create-window` on Wayland/X11

### Changed

- Always focus new windows on macOS
- Don't switch to semantic/line selection when control is pressed
- Always emit `1` for the first parameter when having modifiers in kitty keyboard protocol

### Fixed

- Mouse/Vi cursor hint highlighting broken on the terminal cursor line
- Hint launcher opening arbitrary text, when terminal content changed while opening
- `SemanticRight`/`SemanticLeft` vi motions breaking with wide semantic escape characters
- `alacritty migrate` crashing with recursive toml imports
- Migrating nonexistent toml import breaking the entire migration
- First daemon mode window ignoring window options passed through CLI
- Report of Enter/Tab/Backspace in kitty keyboard's report event types mode
- Crash when pressing certain modifier keys on macOS 15+
- Cut off wide characters in preedit string

## 0.14.0

### 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

## 0.13.2

### Added

- Default `Home`/`End` bindings in Vi mode mapped to `First`/`Last` respectively

### Fixed

- CLI env variables clearing configuration file variables
- Vi inline search/semantic selection expanding across newlines
- C0 and C1 codes being emitted in associated text when using kitty keyboard
- Occasional hang on startup with some Wayland compositors
- Missing key for `NumpadDecimal` in key bindings
- Scrolling content upwards moving lines into history when it shouldn't
- Sticky keys not working sometimes on X11
- Modifiers occasionally getting desynced on X11
- Autokey no longer working with alacritty on X11
- Freeze when moving window between monitors on Xfwm
- Mouse cursor not changing on Wayland when cursor theme uses legacy cursor icon names
- Config keys are available under proper names
- Build failure when compiling with x11 feature on NetBSD
- Hint `Select` action selecting the entire line for URL escapes
- Kitty encoding used for regular keys when they don't carry text

### Changed

- No unused-key warnings will be emitted for OS-specific config keys
- Use built-in font for sextant symbols from `U+1FB00` to `U+1FB3B`
- Kitty encoding is not used anymore for uncommon keys unless the protocol enabled

## 0.13.1

### Added

- Support for pasting in Vi + Search mode

### Changed

- `alacritty migrate` will ignore null values in yaml instead of erroring out

### Fixed

- `alacritty migrate` failing with nonexistent imports
- `Alt` bindings requiring composed key rather than pre-composed one on macOS
- `Alt + Control` bindings not working on Windows
- `chars = "\u000A"` action in bindings inserting `\n`
- Alternate keys not sent for `Shift + <number>` when using kitty protocol
- Alternative keys being swapped in kitty protocol implementation
- Powerline glyphs being cut for narrow fonts
- Xmodmap not working on X11
- Occasional slow startup on some X11 window managers
- Blurry