Ghosttea 0.15.0

Ghosttea is a native Ghostty-powered terminal runtime and desktop experience for Electron applications.

This release publishes 10 npm packages and 7 Rust crates under one shared version.

Changed

• Upgrade the terminal engine to libghostty-vt 1.0.0 at
  0fa3d577a5614150ff8e2c152de5fb9d5c6d2dec (upstream tag vt-1.0.0), the
  first versioned release of the library and the one that freezes its C API.
  The build keeps the checksum-locked Zig 0.17 recipe, and the native build
  retains Ghosttea's host-owned terminal geometry and recovery patches, now
  written to upstream's 1.0 rules for the C API.
• Carry five upstream fixes that landed after the tag and are in no upstream
  release yet (ghostty-org/ghostty #15134, #15127 and #15141) as a
  checksum-locked patch. It is dropped when the pin reaches a release that
  contains them.
• Rebuild the three VT archives and the Apple native artifact from the release
  sources.
• The C terminal constructor leaves Glyph Protocol APC handling off unless an
  embedder opts in. Ghosttea does not opt in.

Added

• Option as Alt is the typing viewer's choice. A key input can carry
  optionAsAlt, with protocol minors of its own (control 19, mesh 9), so a
  client can tell a daemon that reads the keyboard's Option policy from one
  that drops it and sends Alt. As Alt, Option sends Alt plus the key's own
  character and never a bare ESC [; as text, it sends the layout's
  character, such as @ on a German keyboard.
• A view can attach without a snapshot. The caller's own refresh is then the
  one forced full render an attach costs, and other viewers get one reset
  frame instead of two.
• A selection read can be fenced on its attachment, so a detached or
  superseded view never reads and its selection is never brought back.

Fixed

• A resize that grows the rows and shrinks the columns in one step no longer
  loses rows of the screen. With 60 short lines on an 80 by 24 terminal, a
  resize to 60 by 30 left the cursor on row 23 with six blank rows under it;
  the lines pulled down from scrollback now stay in view (upstream #15141).
• The column editing sequences DECIC, DECDC, DECBI and DECFI are obeyed. They
  were ignored.
• A recovery fragment carries a wrap that is pending at the right margin, so a
  replay no longer loses it.
• Tracked pins are no longer left on a destroyed page when a column-growing
  resize without reflow stops its backfill early (upstream #15134).
• A failed render-state update no longer marks rows clean before they are
  rebuilt (upstream #15127).
• Input past a full or closed input queue is refused with the typed
  ControlFailure (stage input, code input-queue-full or input-closed)
  instead of a bare error string. ControlFailure is public, with read
  accessors.

Packages

npm:

• @vibecook/ghosttea
• @vibecook/ghosttea-client
• @vibecook/ghosttea-electron
• @vibecook/ghosttea-frame
• @vibecook/ghosttea-native-tabs
• @vibecook/ghosttea-protocol
• @vibecook/ghosttea-react
• @vibecook/ghosttead
• @vibecook/ghosttead-darwin-arm64
• @vibecook/ghosttead-win32-x64

crates.io:

• ghosttea
• ghosttea-config
• ghosttea-core
• ghosttea-text
• ghosttea-truffle
• ghosttea-vt
• ghosttea-vt-sys

Publish order is a dependency order rather than this one; it is recorded in PUBLISHING.md.

Requirements

Node 22+ and Rust 1.88+. Native Ghostty VT artifacts are published for aarch64-apple-darwin and x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and x86_64-pc-windows-msvc-crt-static.