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Alacritty

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GPU-accelerated, cross-platform terminal emulator

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Alacritty ships twice a year and spends it on config syntax, Wayland and IME.

terminal emulatorwaylandinput methodstoml configurationslow cadence
◆Current state
The feed interleaves two things: application releases and tags for the alacritty_terminal library crate, the latter carrying no release notes at all. The one substantive release in this window, 0.17.0, adds mouse wheel bindings, TOML 1.1 syntax support, and window.resize_increments on Wayland, alongside IME behavior changes on X11 and touch input and a new escapes manpage. Before it, 0.16.1 was a single crash fix for GPUs with partial robustness support.
◆Where it's heading
This is a mature terminal emulator on a deliberately slow cadence, and the work concentrates where the platform underneath keeps moving: Wayland window sizing, input method handling across X11 and touch, and GPU driver edge cases. Configuration is the other thread, with TOML syntax support advancing and more of the terminal's behavior becoming bindable. Every application release ships a release candidate carrying an identical change list first.
◆Prediction
Recent additions are all bindings and configuration surface rather than terminal features, and the library crate is versioned separately on its own cadence; more of the same incremental configurability is what these entries support, on a timeline measured in months.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4mo ago

    0.17.0: TOML 1.1, wheel bindings and Wayland resize increments

    The one substantive release here: bindable mouse wheel events, TOML 1.1 syntax, Wayland resize increments, and reworked IME behavior in Vi mode and under touch input, plus a new escapes manpage. Six months of accumulated work in a single tag.

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  2. 4mo ago

    alacritty_terminal 0.26.0: library crate tag, no notes

    A tag for the alacritty_terminal library crate whose entire body is the version string. The crate is versioned alongside the application but publishes no notes of its own.

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  3. 4mo ago

    alacritty_terminal 0.26.0-rc2: candidate tag, no notes

    A release candidate for the library crate, again containing only the version string. No content to assess.

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  4. 4mo ago

    0.17.0-rc1: release candidate for the 0.17 change set

    The release candidate for 0.17.0, carrying a change list identical to the final release two weeks later. A staging tag, not separate work.

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  5. 4mo ago

    alacritty_terminal 0.26.0-rc1: candidate tag, no notes

    Another version-string-only tag for the library crate. Three of the six entries in this window are these contentless crate tags.

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  6. 9mo ago

    0.16.1: crash fix for partial-robustness GPUs

    A single-line patch release fixing crashes on GPUs with partial robustness support. Narrow in scope, though it is the kind of driver-specific fix that decides whether the terminal runs at all on affected hardware.

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