Alacritty Version 0.7.0 Release Candidate 1

Added

• Support for ~/ at the beginning of configuration file imports
• New cursor.style.blinking option to set the default blinking state
• New cursor.blink_interval option to configure the blinking frequency
• Support for cursor blinking escapes (CSI ? 12 h, CSI ? 12 l and CSI Ps SP q)
• IME support on Windows
• Urgency support on Windows
• Customizable keybindings for search
• History for search mode, bound to ^P/^N/Up/Down by default
• Default binding to cancel search on Ctrl+C
• History position indicator for search and vi mode

Changed

• Nonexistent config imports are ignored instead of raising an error
• Value for disabling logging with config.log_level is Off instead of None
• Missing glyph symbols are no longer drawn for zerowidth characters

Fixed

• Wide characters sometimes being cut off
• Preserve vi mode across terminal reset
• Escapes CSI Ps b and CSI Ps Z with large parameters locking up Alacritty
• Dimming colors which use the indexed CSI 38 : 5 : Ps m notation
• Slow rendering performance with a lot of cells with underline/strikeout attributes
• Performance of scrolling regions with offset from the bottom
• Extra mouse buttons are no longer ignored on Wayland
• Numpad arrow keys are now properly recognized on Wayland
• Compilation when targetting aarch64-apple-darwin
• Window not being completely opaque on Windows
• Window being always on top during alt-tab on Windows
• Cursor position not reported to apps when mouse is moved with button held outside of window
• No live config update when starting Alacritty with a broken configuration file
• PTY not drained to the end with the --hold flag enabled
• High CPU usage on BSD with live config reload enabled
• Alacritty not discarding invalid escape sequences starting with ESC
• Crash due to clipboard not being properly released on Wayland
• Shadow artifacts when resizing transparent windows on macOS
• Missing glyph symbols not being rendered for missing glyphs on macOS and Windows
• Underline cursor being obscured by underline
• Cursor not being rendered with a lot of unicode glyphs visible
• IME input swallowed after triggering a key binding
• Crash on Wayland due to non-standard fontconfig configuration
• Search without vi mode not jumping properly between all matches

Removed

• The following CLI arguments have been removed in favor of the --option flag:
  • --persistent-logging
  • --live-config-reload
  • --no-live-config-reload
  • --dimensions
  • --position
• live-shader-reload feature
• Config option dynamic_title, you should use window.dynamic_title instead
• Config option scrolling.faux_multiplier, which was replaced by escape CSI ? 1007 h/l
• WinPTY support on Windows