Alacritty Version 0.4.1

Packaging

• Added compatibility logo variants for environments which can't render the default SVG

Added

• Terminal escape bindings with combined modifiers for Delete and Insert
• /Applications symlink into OS X DMG for easier installation
• Colored emojis on Linux/BSD
• Value randr for WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR, to ignore Xft.dpi and scale based on screen dimensions
• Minimize key binding action, bound to cmd + m on macOS

Changed

• On Windows, the ConPTY backend will now be used by default if available
• The enable_experimental_conpty_backend config option has been replaced with winpty_backend

Fixed

• URLs not truncated with non-matching single quote
• Absolute file URLs (file:///home) not recognized because of leading /
• Clipboard escape OSC 52 not working with empty clipboard parameter
• Direct escape input on Windows using alt
• Incorrect window size on X11 when waking up from suspend
• Width of Unicode 11/12 emojis
• Minimize on windows causing layout issues
• Performance bottleneck when clearing colored rows
• Vague startup crash messages on Windows with WinPTY backend
• Deadlock on Windows when closing Alacritty using the title bar "X" button (ConPTY backend)
• Crash on clear when scrolled up in history
• Entire screen getting underlined/stroke out when running clear
• Slow startup on some Wayland compositors
• Padding not consistently visible on macOS
• Decorations ignoring Windows dark theme
• Crash on macOS when starting maximized without decorations
• Resize cursor not showing up on Wayland
• Maximized windows spawning behind system panel on Gnome Wayland

Removed

• Support for 8-bit C1 escape sequences