Monstar 1.0.0

Monstar 1.0.0

Released 2026-08-14.

Highlights

• Keyboard input now supports locale-aware XKB compose sequences and respects
  remapped keys.
• Translucent windows can request compositor-provided background blur and can
  optionally apply opacity to explicit cell backgrounds.
• Monstar now speaks D-Bus directly, preserving desktop notifications, portals,
  launcher progress, and systemd scopes without a libdbus dependency.
• Prebuilt x86_64 Linux archives and the monstar-bin AUR package are now
  published with releases.

Added

• Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown shortcuts for page-wise scrollback, plus
  Shift+Home and Shift+End shortcuts for jumping to either end.
• Terminal visibility reports for applications that request them.
• The background-blur and background-opacity-cells configuration options.
• A -Ddbus=false build option for installations that do not need D-Bus-backed
  desktop integration.

Changed

• Built-in light and dark themes now use Fluent 2 colors.
• Overlay scrollbar fading follows the desktop reduced-motion preference.
• Damage-aware rendering avoids committing frames when terminal output does not
  change visible cells.
• The terminal core now tracks upstream Ghostty releases directly.

Fixed

• Faint text using SGR 2 is rendered at reduced intensity.
• Cursor-adjacent text is shaped correctly when the cursor divides a shaping
  run.
• Clipboard writes fail atomically instead of exposing partial transfer state.