🏎 New Blazing Fast WebGL Engine. ⚙️ Multiple bug fixes. 😌 Improved stability

Major Changes

• WebGL renderer #3368
• Upgrade Electron to v3: #3329
• Emoji support
• Fix cols/rows in cursorFrame returned by onCursorMove: #3547

Minor Changes

• Data is now batched between main and renderer processes: #3336
• (temporary work-around) drawing an outline to the selection box: #3373
• Disable VSCode type checking: #2767
• Add macOptionSelectionMode option: #3406
• Display the renderer type in the About dialog: #3441
• Hyper v3 icons: #3451 #3466
• Add Session class and Session options decoration by plugins: #3464
• Use electron's getPath() API to get the user's app data directory: #2948
• Expose active window positon on move to reducer: #3470
• Add Window class and options plugin decoration: #3485
• Keep homedir as session startup endpoint: #3506
• Url are now interpreted by xterm: #3507
• Upgrading xterm.js to 3.11.0-1: #3508
• Upgrading xterm.js to 3.12.0-1: #3536
• Add shortcut for opening hamburger menu (Windows): #3444
• Fix handling ssh link with empty user: #3521

Patches

• Optimistic session creation (Faster launch times): #3352
• Fix for config.session being ignored: #3367
• Updating xterm to include the selection outline: #3373
• Configure Electron Builder to build Snap in classic confinement mode: #3374
• Fix(app): update os-locale to 3.1.0: #3369
• Update reat-dom to v16.2.1: #3386
• Emoji Fix: #3388 #3390
• Add div wrappers around window controls svg elements: #3392
• Fixed file paste: #3383
• Upgrading xterm.js with the meta key fix: #3393
• Upgrade to include fixes in xterm v3.10.1: #3400
• Zoom with both cmd+= and cmd+plus: #3401
• Fix modifier keys being printed: #3414
• Downgrade electron to v3: #3420
• Fix xterm.js resource leaks in split pane: #3409
• Fix and simplify resize handling using ResizeObserver: #3411
• Fix webgl config: #3407
• Upgrading xterm to 3.10.1-3: (emoji and webgl improvements) #3429
• Upgrading xterm to 3.10.1-4: (remove selection outline) #3431
• Verify that webgl2 is supported before using it: #3435
• Restore termRef to avoid breaking change: #3437
• Bumping electron to 3.1.3: #3458
• Minor fix on string #51: #3490
• Fix hanging when zoom out goes below 5px: #3509
• Fix home & end keymaps: #3517
• Update copyright year in Help->About Hyper: #3415
• Admin required for windows-build-tools install: #3570

Credits

Huge thanks to @juancampa, @chabou, @Tyriar and @jerch!