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Release / 2024-10-23

Alacritty v0.14.0

Keep Alacritty running in the background without a window and open windows from it on demand.

All of Alacritty

Before you upgrade to v0.14.0

2 to fix

Move import, working_directory, live_config_reload and ipc_socket under [general], and shell to terminal.shell; alacritty migrate can do this.

Action requiredSet fonts, colors, window options and more in a config file that is reloaded while Alacritty runs.Affects: Configs that set import, working_directory, live_config_reload, ipc_socket or shell
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The default binding to open links moved from Ctrl+Shift+U to Ctrl+Shift+O, to avoid clashing with input methods.

Behavior changedOpen URLs or other text that matches a regex with a key or a click, or pass it to a program.
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Alt with Unicode input now sends ESC first, as it does for ASCII; on macOS, ~/.zshenv is no longer sourced.

Behavior changedRun a terminal emulator that draws with OpenGL on Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows.
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What changed in v0.14.0

New alacritty --daemon headless mode. Config options import, working_directory, live_config_reload and ipc_socket moved to a new general section, and shell to terminal.shell; alacritty migrate now handles these TOML changes. Imports can use relative paths.

Also: The open-links binding moved from Ctrl+Shift+U to Ctrl+Shift+O; on macOS, ~/.zshenv is no longer sourced.

v0.14.0. Building from source needs Rust 1.74.

New things you can do

Fixed and improved

Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido), from the release's public sources. Each change links to its evidence.