Packaging

• New extra/alacritty-msg.man manpage for the alacritty msg subcommand
• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.53.0

Added

• Option colors.transparent_background_colors to allow applying opacity to all background colors
• Support for running multiple windows from a single Alacritty instance (see docs/features.md)
• Urgency support on Wayland via xdg_activation_v1

Changed

• ExpandSelection is now a configurable mouse binding action
• Config option background_opacity, you should use window.opacity instead
• Reload configuration files when their symbolic link is replaced
• Strip trailing whitespaces when yanking from a block selection
• Display area keeps history position when viewport is cleared
• Commands spawn from the current directory of the foreground shell in Unix-like systems

Fixed

• Line indicator obstructing vi mode cursor when scrolled into history
• Vi mode search starting in the line below the vi cursor
• Invisible cursor with matching foreground/background colors
• Crash when hovering over a match emptied by post-processing
• Crash when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and viewport clear is invoked
• Freeze when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and scrollback clear is invoked
• Vi cursor on topmost of the display moving downward when scrolled into history with active output

Removed

• Wayland client side decorations were simplified

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.46.0

Added

• Support for ipfs/ipns URLs
• Mode field for regex hint bindings

Fixed

• Regression in rendering performance with dense grids since 0.6.0
• Crash/Freezes with partially visible fullwidth characters due to alt screen resize
• Incorrect vi cursor position after invoking ScrollPage* action
• Slow PTY read performance with extremely dense grids
• Crash when resizing during vi mode
• Unintentional text selection range change after leaving vi mode
• Deadlock on Windows during high frequency output
• Search without vi mode not starting at the correct location when scrolled into history
• Crash when starting a vi mode search from the bottommost line
• Original scroll position not restored after canceling search
• Clipboard copy skipping non-empty cells when encountering an interrupted tab character
• Vi mode cursor moving downward when scrolled in history with active output
• Crash when moving fullwidth characters off the side of the terminal in insert mode
• Broken bitmap font rendering with FreeType 2.11+
• Crash with non-utf8 font paths on Linux
• Newly installed fonts not rendering until Alacritty restart

Fixed

• Crash when suspending Alacritty

Fixed

• Crash when moving fullwidth characters off the side of the terminal in insert mode

Fixed

• Windows build without administrator privileges
• Missing release assets

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.46.0

Added

• Support for ipfs/ipns URLs
• Mode field for regex hint bindings

Fixed

• Regression in rendering performance with dense grids since 0.6.0
• Crash/Freezes with partially visible fullwidth characters due to alt screen resize
• Incorrect vi cursor position after invoking ScrollPage* action
• Slow PTY read performance with extremely dense grids
• Crash when resizing during vi mode
• Unintentional text selection range change after leaving vi mode
• Deadlock on Windows during high frequency output
• Search without vi mode not starting at the correct location when scrolled into history
• Crash when starting a vi mode search from the bottommost line
• Original scroll position not restored after canceling search
• Clipboard copy skipping non-empty cells when encountering an interrupted tab character
• Vi mode cursor moving downward when scrolled in history with active output

Packaging

• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.45.0

Added

• IME composition preview not appearing on Windows
• Synchronized terminal updates using DCS = 1 s ST/DCS = 2 s ST
• Regex terminal hints (see features.md)
• macOS keybinding (cmd+alt+H) hiding all windows other than Alacritty
• Support for magnet URLs

Changed

• The vi mode cursor is now created in the top-left if the terminal cursor is invisible
• Focused search match will use cell instead of match colors for CellForeground/CellBackground
• URL highlighting has moved from mouse.url to the hints config section

Fixed

• Alacritty failing to start on X11 with invalid DPI reported by XRandr
• Text selected after search without any match
• Incorrect vi cursor position after leaving search
• Clicking on URLs on Windows incorrectly opens File Explorer
• Incorrect underline cursor thickness on wide cell
• Viewport moving around when resizing while scrolled into history
• Block cursor not expanding across fullwidth characters when on the right side of it
• Overwriting fullwidth characters only clearing one of the involved cells

Fixed

• Default binding for URL hints missing

Fixed

• Default URL hint not stopping on unicode whitespace

Added

• Ctrl + C keybinding for leaving hint mode

Fixed

• Crash when copying out of bounds selections
• Unnecessary redraws due to hint highlighting