Packaging

• New extra/alacritty-msg.man manpage for the alacritty msg subcommand
• Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.53.0

Added

• Option colors.transparent_background_colors to allow applying opacity to all background colors
• Support for running multiple windows from a single Alacritty instance (see docs/features.md)
• Urgency support on Wayland via xdg_activation_v1

Changed

• ExpandSelection is now a configurable mouse binding action
• Config option background_opacity, you should use window.opacity instead
• Reload configuration files when their symbolic link is replaced
• Strip trailing whitespaces when yanking from a block selection
• Display area keeps history position when viewport is cleared
• Commands spawn from the current directory of the foreground shell in Unix-like systems
• Remove trailing newline from strings taken from hints or simple/semantic selections
• Builtin font is now used for box drawing characters from U+2500 to U+259f
• Logs now print the time since startup instead of the local time

Fixed

• Line indicator obstructing vi mode cursor when scrolled into history
• Vi mode search starting in the line below the vi cursor
• Invisible cursor with matching foreground/background colors
• Crash when hovering over a match emptied by post-processing
• Crash when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and viewport clear is invoked
• Freeze when the vi cursor is on the scrollback and scrollback clear is invoked
• Vi cursor on topmost of the display moving downward when scrolled into history with active output
• Input lag on Wayland with Nvidia binary driver
• Crash when hovering the mouse over fullwidth characters
• Do not create logfile if the file already exists