Version 0.3.0 RC 3

v0.3.0-rc3

Alacritty version 0.3.0 release candidate 3

Version 0.3.0 RC 2

v0.3.0-rc2

Alacritty version 0.3.0 release candidate 2

Version 0.3.0 RC 1

v0.3.0-rc1

Alacritty version 0.3.0 release candidate 1

Version 0.2.9

Version 0.2.9

Changed

• Accept fonts which are smaller in width or height than a single pixel

Fixed

• Incorrect font spacing after moving Alacritty between displays

Version 0.2.8

Version 0.2.8

Added

• Window class on Wayland is set to Alacritty by default
• Log file location is stored in the ALACRITTY_LOG environment variable
• Close button has been added to the error/warning messages

Changed

• Improve scrolling accuracy with devices sending fractional updates (like touchpads)
• scrolling.multiplier now affects normal scrolling with touchpads
• Error/Warning bar doesn't overwrite the terminal anymore
• Full error/warning messages are displayed
• Config error messages are automatically removed when the config is fixed
• Scroll history on Shift+PgUp/PgDown when scrollback history is available

Fixed

• Resolved off-by-one issue with erasing characters in the last column
• Excessive polling every 100ms with live_config_reload enabled
• Unicode characters at the beginning of URLs are now properly ignored
• Remove error message when reloading an empty config
• Allow disabling URL launching by setting the value of mouse.url.launcher to None
• Corrected the window.decorations config documentation for macOS
• Fix IME position on HiDPI displays
• URLs not opening while terminal is scrolled
• Reliably remove log file when Alacritty is closed and persistent logging is disabled
• Remove selections when clearing the screen partially (scrolling horizontally in less)
• Crash/Freeze when shrinking the font size too far
• Documentation of the --dimensions flag have been updated to display the correct default

Removed

• clear doesn't remove error/warning messages anymore

v0.2.7

Version 0.2.7

Fixed

• Crash when trying to start Alacritty on Windows

v0.2.6

Version 0.2.6

Added

• New alt_send_esc option for controlling if alt key should send escape sequences

Changed

• All options in the configuration file are now optional

Removed

• Windows and macOS configuration files (alacritty.yml is now platform independent)

Fixed

• Replaced Command with Super in the Linux and Windows config documentation
• Prevent semantic and line selection from starting with the right or middle mouse button
• Prevent Alacritty from crashing when started on a system without any free space
• Resolve issue with high CPU usage after moving Alacritty between displays
• Characters will no longer be deleted when using ncurses with the hard tab optimization
• Crash on non-linux operating systems when using the SpawnNewInstance action

Version 0.2.5

Version 0.2.5

Added

• New configuration field visual_bell.color allows changing the visual bell color
• Crashes on Windows are now also reported with a popup in addition to stderr
• Windows: New configuration field enable_experimental_conpty_backend which enables support
  for the Pseudoconsole API (ConPTY) added in Windows 10 October 2018 (1809) update
• New mouse and key action SpawnNewInstance for launching another instance of Alacritty

Changed

• Log messages are now consistent in style, and some have been removed
• Windows configuration location has been moved from %USERPROFILE%\alacritty.yml
  to %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml
• Windows default shell is now PowerShell instead of cmd
• URL schemes have been limited to http, https, mailto, news, file, git, ssh and ftp

Fixed

• Fix color issue in ncurses programs by updating terminfo pairs from 0x10000 to 0x7FFF
• Fix panic after quitting Alacritty on macOS
• Tabs are no longer replaced by spaces when copying them to the clipboard
• Alt modifier is no longer sent separately from the modified key
• Various Windows issues, like color support and performance, through the new ConPTY
• Fixed rendering non default mouse cursors in terminal mouse mode (linux)
• Fix the Copy mouse_bindings action (#1963)
• URLs are only launched when left-clicking
• Removal of extra characters (like ,) at the end of URLs has been improved
• Single quotes (') are removed from URLs when there is no matching opening quote
• Precompiled binaries now work with macOS versions before 10.13 (10.11 and above)

Windows ConPTY Support

v0.2.4-conpty

Add support for Windows ConPTY API

v0.2.4

Version 0.2.4

Added

• Option for evenly spreading extra padding around the terminal (window.dynamic_padding)
• Option for maximizing alacritty on start (window.start_maximized)
• Display notice about errors and warnings inside Alacritty
• Log all messages to both stderr and a log file in the system's temporary directory
• New configuration option persistent_logging and CLI flag --persistent-logging,
  for keeping the log file after closing Alacritty
• ClearLogNotice action for removing the warning and error message
• Terminal bells on macOS will now request the user's attention in the window
• Alacritty now requests privacy permissions on macOS

Changed

• Extra padding is not evenly spread around the terminal by default anymore
• When the config file is empty, Alacritty now logs an info instead of an error message

Fixed

• Fixed a bad type conversion which could cause underflow on a window resize
• Alacritty now spawns a login shell on macOS, as with Terminal.app and iTerm2
• Fixed zombie processes sticking around after launching URLs
• Zero-width characters are now properly rendered without progressing the cursor