Version 0.3.1

Added

• Added ScrollLineUp and ScrollLineDown actions for scrolling line by line

Changed

• Alacritty now has a fixed minimum supported Rust version of 1.31.0

Fixed

• Reset scrolling region when the RIS escape sequence is received
• Subprocess spawning on macos
• Unnecessary resize at startup
• Text getting blurry after live-reloading shaders with padding active
• Resize events are not send to the shell anymore if dimensions haven't changed
• Minor performance issues with underline and strikeout checks
• Rare bug which would extend underline and strikeout beyond the end of line
• Cursors not spanning two lines when over double-width characters
• Incorrect cursor dimensions if the font offset isn't 0

Version 0.3.0

Official announcement: http://blog.christianduerr.com/alacritty_030_announcement

Packaging

• On Linux, the .desktop file now uses Alacritty as icon name, which can be
  found at extra/logo/alacritty-term.svg

Added

• MSI installer for Windows is now available
• New default key bindings Alt+Home, Alt+End, Alt+PageUp and Alt+PageDown
• Dynamic title support on Windows
• Ability to specify starting position with the --position flag
• New configuration field window.position allows specifying the starting position
• Added the ability to change the selection color
• Text will reflow instead of truncating when resizing Alacritty
• Underline text and change cursor when hovering over URLs with required modifiers pressed

Changed

• Clicking on non-alphabetical characters in front of URLs will no longer open them
• Command keybindings on Windows will no longer open new cmd.exe console windows
• On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been temporarily disabled due to a macos bug

Fixed

• Fix panic which could occur when quitting Alacritty on Windows if using the Conpty backend
• Automatic copying of selection to clipboard when mouse is released outside of Alacritty
• Scrollback history live reload only working when shrinking lines
• Crash when decreasing scrollback history in config while scrolled in history
• Resetting the terminal while in the alt screen will no longer disable scrollback
• Cursor jumping around when leaving alt screen while not in the alt screen
• Text lingering around when resetting while scrolled up in the history
• Terminfo support for extended capabilities
• Allow mouse presses and beginning of mouse selection in padding
• Windows: Conpty backend could close immediately on startup in certain situations
• FreeBSD: SpawnNewInstance will now open new instances in the shell's current
  working directory as long as linprocfs(5) is mounted on /compat/linux/proc
• Fix lingering Alacritty window after child process has exited
• Growing the terminal while scrolled up will no longer move the content down
• Support for alternate keyboard layouts on macOS
• Slow startup time on some X11 systems
• The AltGr key no longer sends escapes (like Alt)
• Fixes increase/decrease font-size keybindings on international keyboards
• On Wayland, the --title flag will set the Window title now
• Parsing issues with URLs starting in the first or ending in the last column
• URLs stopping at double-width characters
• Fix start_maximized option on X11
• Error when parsing URLs ending with Unicode outside of the ascii range
• On Windows, focusing a Window will no longer start a selection

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

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

Version 0.2.7

Fixed

• Crash when trying to start Alacritty on Windows

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

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)