# Alacritty changelog

> A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

- Vendor: Alacritty
- Category: Developer Tools
- Official site: https://alacritty.org
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty)
- Harvested from: GitHub (alacritty/alacritty)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

## Releases

### v0.17.0 — Alacritty Version 0.17.0

- Date: 2026-04-06
- Version: v0.17.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.17.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.17.0

- **fixed** — Fixed invalid logo SVG attributes
- **added** — New alacritty-escapes(7) manpage
- **removed** — Removed broken flash capability from terminfo
- **added** — Ability to bind WheelUp and WheelDown in mouse.bindings
- **added** — Support TOML 1.1 syntax
- **added** — window.resize_increments support on Wayland
- **changed** — Don't highlight hints on hover when the mouse cursor is hidden
- **changed** — IME is disabled in Vi mode on X11
- **changed** — Require explicit tap to enable IME with touch input
- **changed** — Use built-in font for block elements symbols from U+1FB82 to U+1FB8B
- **fixed** — Brief error popup when saving the config file with some editors
- **fixed** — Subprocesses on OpenBSD now run with their CWD set to that of the shell's foreground process
- **fixed** — Crash when OpenGL context resets
- **fixed** — Crash when committing text with some IMEs on macOS
- **fixed** — Signal termination skipping resource cleanup

###### Packaging

- Fixed invalid logo SVG attributes
- New `alacritty-escapes(7)` manpage
- Removed broken flash capability from terminfo

###### Added

- Ability to bind `WheelUp` and `WheelDown` in `mouse.bindings`
- Support TOML 1.1 syntax
- `window.resize_increments` support on Wayland

###### Changed

- Don't highlight hints on hover when the mouse cursor is hidden
- IME is disabled in Vi mode on X11
- Require explicit tap to enable IME with touch input
- Use built-in font for block elements symbols from `U+1FB82` to `U+1FB8B`

###### Fixed

- Brief error popup when saving the config file with some editors
- Subprocesses on OpenBSD now run with their CWD set to that of the shell's foreground process.
- Crash when OpenGL context resets
- Crash when committing text with some IMEs on macOS
- Signal termination skipping resource cleanup

### v0.17.0-rc2 — Alacritty Version 0.17.0 Release Candidate 2

- Date: 2026-04-02
- Version: v0.17.0-rc2
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.17.0-rc2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.17.0-rc2
- Labels: Pre-release

### v0.17.0-rc1 — Alacritty Version 0.17.0 Release Candidate 1

- Date: 2026-03-21
- Version: v0.17.0-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.17.0-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.17.0-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release

- **fixed** — Invalid logo SVG attributes
- **added** — New alacritty-escapes(7) manpage
- **removed** — Broken flash capability from terminfo
- **added** — Ability to bind WheelUp and WheelDown in mouse.bindings
- **added** — Support TOML 1.1 syntax
- **added** — window.resize_increments support on Wayland
- **changed** — Don't highlight hints on hover when the mouse cursor is hidden
- **changed** — IME is disabled in Vi mode on X11
- **changed** — Require explicit tap to enable IME with touch input
- **changed** — Use built-in font for block elements symbols from U+1FB82 to U+1FB8B
- **fixed** — Brief error popup when saving the config file with some editors
- **fixed** — Subprocesses on OpenBSD now run with their CWD set to that of the shell's foreground process
- **fixed** — Crash when OpenGL context resets
- **fixed** — Crash when committing text with some IMEs on macOS
- **fixed** — Signal termination skipping resource cleanup

###### Packaging

- Fixed invalid logo SVG attributes
- New `alacritty-escapes(7)` manpage
- Removed broken flash capability from terminfo

###### Added

- Ability to bind `WheelUp` and `WheelDown` in `mouse.bindings`
- Support TOML 1.1 syntax
- `window.resize_increments` support on Wayland

###### Changed

- Don't highlight hints on hover when the mouse cursor is hidden
- IME is disabled in Vi mode on X11
- Require explicit tap to enable IME with touch input
- Use built-in font for block elements symbols from `U+1FB82` to `U+1FB8B`

###### Fixed

- Brief error popup when saving the config file with some editors
- Subprocesses on OpenBSD now run with their CWD set to that of the shell's foreground process.
- Crash when OpenGL context resets
- Crash when committing text with some IMEs on macOS
- Signal termination skipping resource cleanup

### v0.16.1 — Alacritty Version 0.16.1

- Date: 2025-10-20
- Version: v0.16.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.16.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.16.1

###### Fixed

- Crashes on GPUs with partial robustness support

### v0.16.0 — Alacritty Version 0.16.0

- Date: 2025-10-18
- Version: v0.16.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.16.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.16.0

###### Packaging

- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.85.0

###### Added

- Vi motions `*`, `#`, `{`, and `}`
- IPC config retrieval using `alacritty msg get-config`
- Multi-sequence touch zoom sequences
- Vi action `Y` keybind, yank to the end of line
- Add `/etc/alacritty/alacritty.toml` fallback for system wide configuration
- Unicode 17 support

###### Changed

- Hide login message if `~/.hushlogin` is present
- Improve rendering of rounded corners with builtin box drawing

###### Fixed

- Crash when OpenGL context resets
- Modifier keys clearing selection with kitty keyboard protocol enabled
- `glyph_offset.y` not applied to strikeout
- `Enter`,`Tab`, `Backspace` not disambiguated with `shift` in kitty keyboard's disambiguate mode
- Hint bindings not respecting IPC overrides
- Search matching a wrapping fullwidth character in the last column
- Crash when `AppleFontSmoothing` option is not present on macOS
- Origin mode (DECOM) not moving cursor to the origin point
- Unresponsiveness when spamming the bell character with a bell command enabled
- `window.startup_mode` applied to existing window when opening a new tab on macOS
- Slowdowns over time on macOS 26

### v0.16.0-rc2 — Alacritty Version 0.16.0 Release Candidate 2

- Date: 2025-09-21
- Version: v0.16.0-rc2
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.16.0-rc2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.16.0-rc2
- Labels: Pre-release

###### Fixed

- macOS crashing issues

### v0.16.0-rc1 — Alacritty Version 0.16.0 Release Candidate 1

- Date: 2025-08-29
- Version: v0.16.0-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.16.0-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.16.0-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release

###### Packaging

- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.85.0

###### Added

- Vi motions `*`, `#`, `{`, and `}`
- IPC config retrieval using `alacritty msg get-config`
- Multi-sequence touch zoom sequences
- Vi action `Y` keybind, yank to the end of line
- Add `/etc/alacritty/alacritty.toml` fallback for system wide configuration

###### Changed

- Hide login message if `~/.hushlogin` is present
- Improve rendering of rounded corners with builtin box drawing

###### Fixed

- Crash when OpenGL context resets
- Modifier keys clearing selection with kitty keyboard protocol enabled
- `glyph_offset.y` not applied to strikeout
- `Enter`,`Tab`, `Backspace` not disambiguated with `shift` in kitty keyboard's disambiguate mode
- Hint bindings not respecting IPC overrides
- Search matching a wrapping fullwidth character in the last column
- Crash when `AppleFontSmoothing` option is not present on macOS
- Origin mode (DECOM) not moving cursor to the origin point
- Unresponsiveness when spamming the bell character with a bell command enabled
- `window.startup_mode` applied to existing window when opening a new tab on macOS

### v0.15.1 — Alacritty Version 0.15.1

- Date: 2025-02-16
- Version: v0.15.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.15.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.15.1

###### Changed

- Error out when socket fails to create with `--daemon`
- Default URL hints now stop before backslashes

###### Fixed

- Modifiers being out of sync for fast/synthetic input on X11
- Child process creation failing while inside a deleted directory
- Shifted key reported without a shift when using kitty keyboard protocol

### v0.15.1-rc1 — Alacritty Version 0.15.1 Release Candidate 1

- Date: 2025-02-12
- Version: v0.15.1-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.15.1-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.15.1-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release

###### Changed

- Error out when socket fails to create with `--daemon`
- Default URL hints now stop before backslashes

###### Fixed

- Modifiers being out of sync for fast/synthetic input on X11
- Child process creation failing while inside a deleted directory
- Shifted key reported without a shift when using kitty keyboard protocol

### v0.15.0 — Alacritty Version 0.15.0

- Date: 2025-01-13
- Version: v0.15.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.15.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/alacritty/releases/v0.15.0

###### Added

- Config option `window.level = "AlwaysOnTop"` to force Alacritty to always be the toplevel window
- Escape sequence to move cursor forward tabs ( CSI Ps I )
- Pass activation token in `alacritty msg create-window` on Wayland/X11

###### Changed

- Always focus new windows on macOS
- Don't switch to semantic/line selection when control is pressed
- Always emit `1` for the first parameter when having modifiers in kitty keyboard protocol

###### Fixed

- Mouse/Vi cursor hint highlighting broken on the terminal cursor line
- Hint launcher opening arbitrary text, when terminal content changed while opening
- `SemanticRight`/`SemanticLeft` vi motions breaking with wide semantic escape characters
- `alacritty migrate` crashing with recursive toml imports
- Migrating nonexistent toml import breaking the entire migration
- First daemon mode window ignoring window options passed through CLI
- Report of Enter/Tab/Backspace in kitty keyboard's report event types mode
- Crash when pressing certain modifier keys on macOS 15+
- Cut off wide characters in preedit string