Packaging

• Fixed invalid logo SVG attributes
• New alacritty-escapes(7) manpage
• Removed broken flash capability from terminfo

Added

• Ability to bind WheelUp and WheelDown in mouse.bindings
• Support TOML 1.1 syntax
• window.resize_increments support on Wayland

Changed

• Don't highlight hints on hover when the mouse cursor is hidden
• IME is disabled in Vi mode on X11
• Require explicit tap to enable IME with touch input
• Use built-in font for block elements symbols from U+1FB82 to U+1FB8B

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.
• Crash when OpenGL context resets
• Crash when committing text with some IMEs on macOS
• Signal termination skipping resource cleanup

Packaging

• Fixed invalid logo SVG attributes
• New alacritty-escapes(7) manpage
• Removed broken flash capability from terminfo

Added

• Ability to bind WheelUp and WheelDown in mouse.bindings
• Support TOML 1.1 syntax
• window.resize_increments support on Wayland

Changed

• Don't highlight hints on hover when the mouse cursor is hidden
• IME is disabled in Vi mode on X11
• Require explicit tap to enable IME with touch input
• Use built-in font for block elements symbols from U+1FB82 to U+1FB8B

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.
• Crash when OpenGL context resets
• Crash when committing text with some IMEs on macOS
• Signal termination skipping resource cleanup

Fixed

• Crashes on GPUs with partial robustness support

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

Fixed

• macOS crashing issues

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

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

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

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

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