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Changelog
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kitty is a feature full, cross-platform, *fast*, GPU based terminal emulator.
version 0.6.0 [future]
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- Support multiple top level (OS) windows. These windows all share the sprite
texture cache on the GPU, further reducing overall resource usage. Use
the shortcut `ctrl+shift+n` to open anew top-level window.
- Add support for a *daemon* mode using the `--single-instance` command line
option. With this option you can have only a single kitty instance running.
All future invocations simply open new top-level windows in the existing
instance.
version 0.5.1 [2017-12-01]
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- Add an option to control the thickness of lines in box drawing characters
- Increase max. allowed ligature length to nine characters
- Fix text not vertically centered when adjusting line height
- Fix unicode block characters not being rendered properly
- Fix shift+up/down not generating correct escape codes
- Image display: Fix displaying images taller than two screen heights not
scrolling properly
- Drop the dependency on glfw (kitty now uses a modified, bundled copy of glfw)
- Add an option to control the audio bell volume on X11 systems
- Add a command line switch to set the name part of the WM_CLASS window
property independently.
version 0.5.0 [2017-11-19]
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- Add support for ligature fonts such as Fira Code, Hasklig, etc. kitty now
uses harfbuzz for text shaping which allow it to support advanced OpenType
features such as contextual alternates/ligatures/combining glyphs/etc.
- Make it easy to select fonts by allowing listing of monospace fonts using:
kitty list-fonts
- Add an option to have window focus follow mouse
- Add a keyboard shortcut (ctrl+shift+f11) to toggle fullscreen mode
- macOS: Fix handling of option key. It now behaves just like the alt key on
Linux. There is an option to make it type unicode characters instead.
- Linux: Add support for startup notification on X11 desktops. kitty will
now inform the window manager when its startup is complete.
- Fix shell prompt being duplicated when window is resized
- Fix crash when displaying more than 64 images in the same session
- Add support for colons in SGR color codes. These are generated by some
applications such as neovim when they mistakenly identify kitty as a libvte
based terminal.
- Fix mouse interaction not working in apps using obsolete mouse interaction
protocols
- Linux: no longer require glew as a dependency
version 0.4.2 [2017-10-23]
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- Fix a regression in 0.4.0 that broke custom key mappings
- Fix a regression in 0.4.0 that broke support for non-QWERTY keyboard layouts
- Avoid using threads to reap zombie child processes. Also prevent kitty from
hanging if the open program hangs when clicking on a URL.
version 0.4.0 [2017-10-22]
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- Support for drawing arbitrary raster graphics (images) in the terminal via a
new graphics protocol. kitty can draw images with full 32-bit color using both
ssh connections and files/shared memory (when available) for better
performance. The drawing primitives support alpha blending and z-index.
Images can be drawn both above and below text. See
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/graphics-protocol.asciidoc
for details.
- Refactor kitty's internals to make it even faster and more efficient. The CPU
usage of kitty + X server while doing intensive tasks such as scrolling a
file continuously in less has been reduced by 50%. There are now two
configuration options ``repaint_delay`` and ``input_delay`` you can use to
fine tune kitty's performance vs CPU usage profile. The CPU usage of kitty +
X when scrolling in less is now significantly better than most (all?) other
terminals. See https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty#performance
- Hovering over URLs with the mouse now underlines them to indicate they
can be clicked. Hold down Ctrl+Shift while clicking to open the URL.
- Selection using the mouse is now more intelligent. It does not add
blank cells (i.e. cells that have no content) after the end of text in a
line to the selection.
- The block cursor in now fully opaque but renders the character under it in
the background color, for enhanced visibility.
- Allow combining multiple independent actions into a single shortcut
- Add a new shortcut to pass the current selection to an external program
- Allow creating shortcuts to open new windows running arbitrary commands. You
can also pass the current selection to the command as an arguments and the
contents of the screen + scrollback buffer as stdin to the command.