Ratty v0.5.0

Ratty: A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics 🧀
ratty-term.org

0.5.0 - 2026-07-05

The highlight of this release is the performance improvements and STL support!

Now you can use STL files as the cursor model or inline objects. For example, to change the cursor (with a texture):

[cursor.model]
path = "SkateMouse.stl"
texture = "texture.png"

"Your terminal can render in 3D now, and Rust made it surprisingly usable" - MakeUseOf

Download Ratty

From crates.io:

cargo install ratty

From Arch Linux repositories:

pacman -S ratty

Or download binary releases:

File	Platform	Checksum
ratty-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
ratty-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
ratty-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
ratty-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
ratty-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum

Features

• Add stl support by @Rushmore75 in #99
• Render terminal texture with direct Vello path by @gold-silver-copper in #107
• Add gpuBackend/gpuAdapter module options for wgpu device selection under Nix by @DarthPJB in #117
• Apply texture from config for obj and stl models by @onuralpszr in #119
• Reduce inline object memory churn in 3D warp mode by @jackthepunished in #121

Bug Fixes

• Preserve chunked payloads by @orhun

New Contributors

• @jackthepunished made their first contribution in #121
• @onuralpszr made their first contribution in #119
• @Rushmore75 made their first contribution in #99

Full Changelog: v0.4.2...0.5.0