v0.5.0

0.5.0 (2026-10-24)

Features

• bring validated terminal performance and demos into review (320eee6)
• cli: run your shell in a tab with wraithterm serve (40607f0)
• cli: your shell in a tab with wraithterm serve (5a1ab5e)
• demo: grow continuous XP pipes through a rotating 3D scene (c1f8c35)
• native: add history search, selection and keyboard hooks (488a2f3)
• native: add history search, selection gestures and keyboard hooks (e3fe564)
• native: enable Kitty graphics in the terminal core (bd6cb0a)
• native: expose optional render submission notifications (44a975a)
• native: Kitty graphics on WebGPU (638b454)
• native: ligatures and complex-script run shaping (15936f3)
• native: render Kitty graphics on WebGPU (705d683)
• native: share workers and GPU devices across terminals (64c1d7a)
• native: support live fonts and display scale changes (c364123)
• native: support live fonts, zoom and display scale changes (049c0ba)
• native: terminal pool for many terminals in one tab (7ceea66)
• site: add a Kitty graphics lab (afc6050)
• xterm: render transparency and minimum contrast on WebGPU (3645588)

Performance

• accelerate compatible bulk text across wrapped rows (a12280b)
• ghostty: decode cells from generated public ABI layouts (445b7b2)
• ghostty: inline SGR attribute parsing (5d6043c)
• ghostty: intern SGR styles once per command (76bdae0)
• ghostty: read ordinary cells from bulk row views (d06e87a)
• input: streamline CSI entry and generated dispatch (e7158f9)
• native: cache search pages and yield without timer clamping (cb3e7d5)
• native: remove search timer delays and cache history pages (2255e2e)
• native: suspend normal GPU draws outside visible panels (2e747ea)
• stop native GPU draws for hidden terminal panels (a206cf3)
• xterm: bulk print fixed-width text across wrapped rows (7bbfee6)
• xterm: preserve the compact single-row print path (efc9574)
• xterm: resolve optional visual attributes from packed row words (ef77d0d)
• xterm: retain GPU rows for unchanged selection refreshes (ded1ef1)

Bug fixes

• native: honor configured scrollback line retention (d58d63b)
• native: honor configured scrollback line retention (ebf484b)

Documentation

• bench: publish controlled browser terminal comparison (0fd9c8e)
• bench: record 452 terminal workflow and resource runs (3400232)
• bench: retain counted-search gains and undecorated controls (84c668a)
• bench: retain hidden-panel efficiency and visible CPU controls (e65f309)
• bench: retain paired wrapped-text gains and fallback controls (92f85e3)
• bench: retain repeated GPU visual-option comparisons (84b3d67)
• describe native Kitty graphics and record streaming throughput (7289db3)
• document the terminal pool and record many-terminal results (b35b3a6)

Chores

• release 0.5.0 (c17715a)

v0.3.0

0.3.0 (2026-10-10)

Features

• demo: rebuild the native and xterm.js playgrounds (1026cc7)
• site: a pixel ghost that follows the pointer through the hero terminal (6f0ca9e)
• site: a snappy ghost and a glyph trail behind the pointer (5a0034f)
• site: Manrope, a Labs section, a warm favicon and a terminal pipeline (951e53d)
• video: a font picker with a live preview of every screen (d062366)
• video: a slower build, real glyph art for "How fast?", fewer screens (4b6a9d5)
• video: lead into the drop with "The spooky fast web terminal…" (a5e51b5)
• video: set the launch video in the chosen fonts (a9990e2)

Documentation

• drop the banner that repeated the README logo (297973e)
• tagline the README "Spooky fast web terminal." (275d8c7)

wraithterm 0.2.0

The first public release.

Features

• wraithterm/xterm: a complete xterm.js 6.0 Terminal with original methods, events,
  options, parser hooks, buffer views and addon contracts, rendered by Rust on WebGPU.
• Wraith.mount(): Ghostty's libghostty-vt and the renderer in one Wasm module, inside a
  dedicated worker, with an ordered PTY transport.
• A live dashboard workload and an in-browser race against xterm.js at wraithterm.com.

Performance

• 20-byte GPU cells, glyph quads sized to their ink, and row reuse in both profiles: a
  one-cell edit uploads one row.
• Fewer libghostty queries per cell and batched SDK writes.
• On a dense 240×80 scene, 2.5 ms of CPU per update versus 37.7 ms for xterm.js DOM and
  9.8 ms for xterm.js + WebGL (Chrome 155, Apple M5 Max;
  report).

Bug fixes

• Synthetic bold no longer collapses glyphs such as i in the native renderer.
• Block elements and braille tile without seams in the xterm-compatible renderer.