Ghosttea 0.6.2

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

This release publishes 10 npm packages and 6 Rust crates under one shared version.

Fixed

• Shifted keys send the character the keyboard layout produced. The key encoder
  reported that the layout consumed no modifiers, and Ghostty sends a key's text
  verbatim only when the modifiers left after removing the consumed ones are
  empty — so every shifted keypress looked like a modified one and fell through
  to an escape sequence keyed on the unshifted codepoint. Shift+/ encoded
  as CSI 47;2u, which is "the / key plus shift", and a client that cannot map
  a keycode back through the layout inserted / for ?.

  Nothing showed this in a plain shell, because the fast path that sends text is
  only bypassed once a client enables the Kitty keyboard protocol. Clients that
  request alternate-key reporting recovered the character from the 47:63
  alternate; clients that request only escape-code disambiguation had nothing to
  recover from. Letters were unaffected either way, since a client can uppercase
  those itself — punctuation cannot be derived without the layout, so ? ! @
~ | : " and the shifted digits were all affected.

  Shift is now reported as consumed exactly when the layout translated it into
  different text. The escape sequence still reports every modifier actually held,
  so genuinely modified keys are unchanged.

• The cursor no longer parks in the top-left corner while scrolled up.
  libghostty answers "do the terminal modes show a cursor" and "is the cursor
  inside the rows being rendered" separately, documenting the position as
  undefined when the second is false. Both were forwarded as one, so scrolling
  the cursor into the scrollback drew it at (0, 0) until the viewport returned to
  the bottom.

• CSI 0 q no longer stops the cursor blinking for the rest of the session. A
  blinking cursor is this terminal's default, but libghostty resolves both
  CSI 0 q and a terminal reset against a separate default-blink option that is
  off unless set, so the default survived only until the first program asked for
  the default cursor. An explicit request for a steady cursor is still honored.

• Terminating a Unix session whose background children hold the PTY slave now
  concludes. The reader never saw end of file, so the exit was never observed, no
  session-exited event fired, and three threads plus the terminal model leaked
  per session. The reader now polls the master alongside a shutdown pipe, the
  escalation signals the foreground process group as well as the root group, and
  it waits on an exit latch rather than fixed sleeps.

• Session creation no longer serializes globally behind the closed-owner mutex,
  closing an owner no longer holds that mutex across mesh network calls, and one
  failed termination no longer strands the owner's remaining sessions.

Changed

• Control protocol 1.8. A client that lags the event stream now receives an
  events-lost notice instead of having events silently dropped, the event channel
  is deeper, and the control forwarder re-announces current state after a lag.
  The React runtime reconciles against list-sessions on that notice, retiring
  sessions whose exits were lost.
• Mesh discovery commands run off the connection loop so a slow peer cannot
  stall input queued behind them, both listeners time out unauthenticated
  connections, frame publishing shares one buffer instead of copying, and the
  supervisor escalates to SIGKILL when the daemon outlives SIGTERM.
• The GhostteaKit native artifact is republished as
  ghosttea-apple-native-c134a0bb09d6. The VT shim carrying the three fixes
  above compiles into every slice, so the Apple plane needed rebuilt bytes rather
  than only a version bump. Artifact bytes are never replaced in place, so this
  is a new content digest under a new tag, and the root Package.swift pins it.

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-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.