# fish shell 4.9.1 — fish 4.9.1

- Product: fish shell (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/fish-shell)
- Vendor: fish-shell
- Date: 2026-09-04
- Version: 4.9.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/4.9.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/fish-shell/releases/4.9.1

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- **fixed** — On non-default keyboard layouts, fish executed bindings for physical keys instead of only bindings for the layout's key
- **fixed** — When typing space to accept a character entered via certain IMEs, fish would insert a space instead of the desired character
- **fixed** — On macOS terminals, keys like option-l would execute bindings for alt-l instead of inserting a character like @ on a German layout

This release fixes the following problems identified in fish 4.9.0:

- On non-default keyboard layouts, fish executed bindings for physical keys instead of only bindings for the layout’s key. For example, on the Dvorak layout, typing `s` would insert `;` because there is a default binding for `;` ([#12968](https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/12968)).
- When typing `space` to accept a character entered via certain IMEs, fish would insert a space instead of the desired character, which has been fixed ([#12974](https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/12974)).
- On macOS terminals, keys like `option`-`l` would execute bindings for `alt`-`l` instead of the historical behavior of inserting a character (like `@` on a German layout) ([#12973](https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/12973)).

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A GPG signature for `fish-4.9.1.tar.xz` using [this key](https://github.com/krobelus.gpg) is available as `fish-4.9.1.tar.xz.asc`.

The files called `fish-4.9.1-linux-*.tar.xz` contain [standalone fish binaries](https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/?tab=readme-ov-file#building-fish-with-cargo) for any Linux with the given CPU architecture.