Release / 24 Dec 2025

kitty v0.45.0

Pick files from the keyboard with previews of text, images, videos and e-books.

What changed in v0.45.0

New choose-files kitten. icat adds animated PNG and WebP, netPBM and ICC color profiles and a --fit flag. New copy_last_command_output action and a default mapping to search the scrollback in a pager.

Also: Paste events protocol support; goto_session can pick a session file from a directory.

v0.45.0.

New things you can do

Choose files from a keyboard-first picker with previews of text with syntax highlighting, images, videos and e-books.

Added

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Fixed and improved

icat shows animated PNG and WebP, netPBM, and honors ICC color profiles; --fit controls how images are scaled.

ImprovedShow images and animations inside the terminal, for example with the icat kitten.

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kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/v0.45.0/docs/changelog.rst

copy_last_command_output copies the last command's output; a default mapping opens the scrollback in a pager in search mode, searching for any selected text.

ImprovedJump between shell prompts and open the scrollback or the last command's output in a pager.

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kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/v0.45.0/docs/changelog.rst

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