- Update to 0.45.0:
* A new kitten to select files at the speed of thought with a keyboard first
interface and support for content previews of text files with syntax
highlighting, images, videos, e-books and more (#9263)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/choose-files/
* Add support for the paste events protocol (#9183)
- https://rockorager.dev/misc/bracketed-paste-mime/
* icat kitten: Add support for animated PNG and animated WebP, netPBM images,
ICC color profiles and CCIP color space metadata to the builtin engine
* icat kitten: Add a new flag kitty +kitten icat --fit to control how images
are scaled to fit the screen (#9201)
* icat kitten: The kitty +kitten icat --scale-up flag now takes effect when
not using kitty +kitten icat --place as well
* Add a mappable action copy_last_command_output to copy the output of the
last command to the clipboard (#9185)
* ssh kitten: Fix a bug where automatic login was not working (#9187)
* Graphics: Fix overwrite composition mode for animation frames not being
honored
* Automatic color scheme switching: Fix title bar and scroll bar colors not
being updated (#9167)
* macOS: Fix cycle through OS windows only swapping between the two most
recent OS Windows. Also add a cycle through OS Windows backwards
action. (#9215)
* goto_session: allow specifying a directory to select a session file from
the directory (#9219)
* Have reloading config also reload the custom tab bar python modules (#9221)
* kitten @ ls: Also output the neighbors for every window (#9225)
* Have the kitty --start-as flag be respected when used with kitty
--single-instance (#9228)
* When expanding environment variables in listen_on allow the env directive
to take effect
* macOS: Fix closing an OS Window when another OS Window is minimized causing
the minimized window to be un-minimized (#8913)
* Do not rewrap the text in the alternate screen buffer. Avoids flicker
during live resize with no resize_debounce_time (#9142)
* Add a default mapping search_scrollback to open the scrollback in a pager
in search mode. If any text is currently selected it is automatically
searched for.
* Wayland: Fix spurious key repeat events when some user defined callback
takes a long time to execute (#9224)
* When moving windows to a new tab/OS Window fix overlay windows not being
grouped with their parent windows (#9266)
* Linux: Fix a bug causing colors to occasionally all go black when using
mesa >= 25.3.0 with nouveau GPU driver (#9235)
* Fix tab_bar_min_tabs not respecting tab_bar_filter (#9278)
* macOS: Workaround for regression in Tahoe 26.2 that breaks
* kitty --detach (#9288)
* macOS: Workaround for yet another Tahoe regression causing macOS to start
an AutoFill helper process and not shut it down on application exit (#9299)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1324505
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/kitty?expand=0&rev=55
* A new kitten to select files at the speed of thought with a keyboard first
interface and support for content previews of text files with syntax
highlighting, images, videos, e-books and more (#9263)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/choose-files/
* Add support for the paste events protocol (#9183)
- https://rockorager.dev/misc/bracketed-paste-mime/
* icat kitten: Add support for animated PNG and animated WebP, netPBM images,
ICC color profiles and CCIP color space metadata to the builtin engine
* icat kitten: Add a new flag kitty +kitten icat --fit to control how images
are scaled to fit the screen (#9201)
* icat kitten: The kitty +kitten icat --scale-up flag now takes effect when
not using kitty +kitten icat --place as well
* Add a mappable action copy_last_command_output to copy the output of the
last command to the clipboard (#9185)
* ssh kitten: Fix a bug where automatic login was not working (#9187)
* Graphics: Fix overwrite composition mode for animation frames not being
honored
* Automatic color scheme switching: Fix title bar and scroll bar colors not
being updated (#9167)
* macOS: Fix cycle through OS windows only swapping between the two most
recent OS Windows. Also add a cycle through OS Windows backwards
action. (#9215)
* goto_session: allow specifying a directory to select a session file from
the directory (#9219)
* Have reloading config also reload the custom tab bar python modules (#9221)
* kitten @ ls: Also output the neighbors for every window (#9225)
* Have the kitty --start-as flag be respected when used with kitty
--single-instance (#9228)
* When expanding environment variables in listen_on allow the env directive
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=198
* Allow kitty to read a specified set of environment variables from your
login shell at startup using the env directive in kitty.conf (#9042)
* A new option draw_window_borders_for_single_window to force kitty to always
draw a window border even when only a single window is present (#9112)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.draw_window_borders_for_single_window
* Fix a regression in 0.43.0 that caused a black flicker when closing a tab
in the presence of a background image (#9060)
* Further improvements to rounded corner rendering, especially at low
DPI (#9091)
* Splits layout: Fix a bug that could cause a corrupted layout in some
circumstances (#9059)
* Fix a regression in the previous release that broke goto_session -1
* Fix rendering broken on ancient GPU drivers that do not support rendering
to 16 bit textures (#9068)
* Fix tab bar sometimes showing incorrect tabs when it is filtered to show
only tabs from the current session (#9079)
* macOS: Workaround for bug in macOS Tahoe that caused OS Windows that are
fullscreen to crash kitty when returning from sleep on some machines (#8983)
* Graphics: Fix animated images sometimes not auto playing or auto playing
at the wrong start frame if the same image id is used for a subsequent image
* Fix a regression in 0.43.0 that caused high CPU usage when
disable_ligatures was set to cursor and the tab bar was visible (#9071)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.disable_ligatures
* macOS: Handle dropping of file promises into kitty in addition to file
paths (#9084)
* macOS: Fix indeterminate progress bar displayed on dock icon increasing
speed when indeterminate progress is set without being cleared first (#9114)
* macOS: Performance and power usage improvements of about 5-10% (#9131)
* macOS: Add an item to the global menu to Cycle through OS windows
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=196
* ssh kitten: Allow specifying a password and/or TOTP authentication secret
to automate interactive logins in scenarios where public key authentication
is not supported (#9020)
* macOS: Fix a bug where the color of a transparent titlebar was off when
running in the release build versus the build from source. Also fix using a
transparent titlebar causing the background opacity to be doubled.
* Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the incorrect tab to
be active when loading a session (#9025)
* macOS: Workaround for bug in macOS Tahoe that caused closed OS Windows to
remain as invisible rectangles that intercept mouse events (#8952)
* macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke automatic
switching of dark/light mode when setting macos_titlebar_color to an
arbitrary color (#9034)
* goto_session: Add --sort-by=alphabetical to have the interactive session
picker list the sessions in a fixed order rather than by most recent (#9033)
* Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the cursor trail to
not be hidden properly (#9039)
* Session files: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke matching
on windows in the current tab (#9037)
* Fix a regression in the previous release that broke clearing screen lines
when in margin mode (#9049)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=194
* New support for creating and switching to Sessions easily, allowing users
to define and use sessions/projects efficiently (#8911)
* Add a configurable scrollbar for the kitty scrollback (#8945)
* A new protocol for multiple cursors in the terminal (#8927)
* macOS: Allow the window title bar to be semi-transparent when
background_opacity is less than one and macos_titlebar_color is set to
background (#8906)
* A new cursor_trail_color setting to independently control the color of
cursor trails (#8830)
* macOS: Add the default Cmd+L mapping from Terminal.app to erase the last
command and its output (#6040)
* Fix background_opacity being non-linear especially with light color themes.
Note that this might require you to adjust the value of this setting to get
back your current look. (#8869)
* Add support for blinking text. Text marked as blinking now blinks in exact
rhythm with the cursor. The blinking animation and max duration are
controlled by cursor_blink_interval and cursor_stop_blinking_after. (#8551)
* Allow using a custom python function to draw tab titles in the tab bar,
see tab_title_template
* Wayland: Fix incorrect window size calculation when transitioning from
full screen to non-full screen with client side decorations (#8826)
* macOS: Fix hiding quick access terminal window not restoring focus to
previously active application (#8840)
* macOS: Fix showing the quick access terminal on a space other than the
space it was last active on, after full screening some application causes
the quick access terminal to appear on the old space (#8740)
* macOS: When toggling open the quick access terminal move it to the
currently active monitor (the monitor with the mouse pointer on it) (#9003)
* macOS: Fix closing an OS Window when another OS Window is minimized causing
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=192
- Update to 0.41.1:
* Fix a regression in the previous release that caused rendering of emoji
using the VS16 variation selector to fail with some fonts (#8495)
* Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that caused tab bar margins to not be properly
blanked when the tab bar is at the bottom (#8494)
* Wayland: panel kitten: Fix incorrect initial font size on compositors such
as Hyprland that set scale late in the window creation process (#8496)
* Fix a regression in 0.40.1 that caused hyperlink underline on hover to
remain on screen when the screen is scrolled
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1267232
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=183
- Update to 0.41.0:
* A new mode of operation for text_fg_override_threshold to override
foreground colors so as to maintain a minimum contrast between foreground
and background text colors. Works in a perceptual color space for best
color accuracy (#8420)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.text_fg_override_threshold
* A 15% improvement in throughput when processing text thanks to using a
multi-stage table for Unicode property lookups
* kitty +open: Ask for confirmation by default when running executables to
work around some badly designed programs that try to open links in
documents that point to executable files. Can be overridden by specifying
your own launch-actions.conf.
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/open_actions/#launch-actions
* Fix a regression in version 0.40.0 causing a crash when the underline
thickness of the font is zero (#8443)
* Fix a regression in version 0.40.0 causing a hang on resizing with a wide
character at the right edge of a line that needs to be moved onto the next
line (#8464)
* Fix a regression in 0.40.1 that caused copying to clipboard via OSC 52
from applications that don’t specify a destination in the escape code not
working (#8459)
* Wayland: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused crashes on
compositors that don’t support the xdg-toplevel-icon protocol and the user
has set a custom kitty icon (#8471)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1265322
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=181
- Update to 0.40.0:
* Allow terminal programs to use text in different font sizes (#8226)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/text-sizing-protocol/
* When rendering underlines add gaps around text descenders (parts of the
text that overlap with the underline). Controlled by the new option
underline_exclusion (#8226)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.underline_exclusion
* Finally fix the issue of text-width mismatches that has been plaguing the
terminal ecosystem for decades by allowing terminal programs to specify
how many cells to render a piece of text in (#8226)
* Behavior change: The notify_on_cmd_finish option now uses OS Window
visibility instead of focus state when set to invisible on platforms that
support querying OS window visibility (#8320)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.notify_on_cmd_finish
* launch: Add options launch --source-window and launch --next-to to allow
specifying which window is used as the data source and destination location
independently of the currently active window (#8295)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch/#cmdoption-launch-source-window
* Linux: Add support for COLRv1 fonts. These are typically emoji fonts that
use vector images for emoji
- https://nabla.typearture.com/whatisCOLRV1.html
* Add support for the octant box-drawing characters
* Speed up rendering of box drawing characters by moving the implementation
to native code
* When confirming if a window should be closed consider it active if it has
running background processes (#8358)
* Remote control: kitten @ scroll-window: Allow scrolling to previous/next
prompt
* macOS: Fix fallback font rendering for bold/italic text not working for
some symbols that are present in the Menlo regular face but not the
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1251574
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=177
- Update to 0.39.0:
* `diff kitten`: Automatically use dark/light color scheme based on the
color scheme of the parent terminal. Can be controlled via the new
`kitten-diff.color_scheme` option. Note that this is a default behavior
change (#8170)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/diff/
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/diff/#opt-kitten-diff.color_scheme
* Allow dynamically generating configuration by running an arbitrary program
using the new geninclude directive in kitty.conf
* When a program running in kitty reports progress of a task display it as a
percentage in the tab title. Controlled by the `tab_title_template` option
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.tab_title_template
* When mapping a custom kitten allow using shell escaping for the kitten
path (#8178)
* Fix border colors not being changed by auto light/dark themes at
startup (#8180)
* ssh kitten: Fix kitten not being on PATH when SSHing into Debian
systems (#7160)
* diff kitten: Abort when run inside a terminal that does not support the
kitty keyboard protocol (#8185)
* query kitten: Add support for reporting name of the OS the terminal
emulator is running on (#8201)
* macOS: Allow using the Passwords app to autofill passwords via the
Edit->Autofill menu mimicking other macOS applications (#8195)
* macOS: Add menu items to the Edit menu to clear the screen and scrollback
* Fix the `clear_terminal scrollback` action also clearing screen, not just
the scrollback
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/actions/#action-clear_terminal
* When reloading configuration fix auto color themes not being
re-applied (#8203)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1238173
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=173
- Update to 0.38.0:
* Allow specifying individual color themes to use so that kitty changes
colors automatically following the OS dark/light mode
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/themes/#auto-color-scheme
* notify_on_cmd_finish: Automatically remove notifications when the window
gains focus or the next notification is shown. Clearing behavior can be
configured (#8100)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.notify_on_cmd_finish
* Discard OSC 9 notifications that start with 4; because some misguided
software is using it for “progress reporting” (#8011)
* Wayland GNOME: Workaround bug in mutter causing double tap on titlebar to
not always work (#8054)
* clipboard kitten: Fix a bug causing kitten to hang in filter mode when
input data size is not divisible by 3 and larger than 8KB (#8059)
* Wayland: Fix an abort when a client program tries to set an invalid title
containing interleaved escape codes and UTF-8 multi-byte characters (#8067)
* Graphics protocol: Fix delete by number not deleting newest image with the
specified number (#8071)
* Fix dashed and dotted underlines not being drawn at the same y position as
straight underlines at all font sizes (#8074)
* panel kitten: Allow creating floating and on-top panels with arbitrary
placement and size on Wayland (#8068)
* remote_control_password: Fix using a password without any actions not
working (#8082)
- https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.remote_control_password
* Fix enlarging window when a long line is wrapped between the first line of
the scrollback buffer and the screen inserting a spurious newline (#7033)
* When re-attaching a detached tab preserve internal layout state such as
biases and orientations (#8106)
* hints/unicode_input kittens: Do not lose keypresses that are sent very
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1231557
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=169
- Update to 0.36.4:
* Fix a regression in the previous release that caused window padding to be
rendered opaque even when `background_opacity` is less than 1 (#7895)
* Wayland GNOME: Fix a crash when using multiple monitors with different
scales and starting on or moving to the monitor with lower scale (#7894)
* macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused junk to be
rendered in font previews in the choose fonts kitten and crash on Intel
macs (#7892)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1204177
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=165
- Update to 0.36.3:
* The option `second_transparent_bg` has been removed and replaced by
`transparent_background_colors` which allows setting up to seven
additional colors that will be transparent, with individual opacities
per color (#7646)
* Fix a regression in the previous release that broke use of the `cd`
command in session files (#7829)
* macOS: Fix shortcuts that become entries in the global menubar being
reported as removed shortcuts in the debug output
* macOS: Fix `macos_option_as_alt` not working when caps lock is
engaged (#7836)
* Fix a regression when tinting of background images was introduced that
caused window borders to have `background_opacity` applied to them (#7850)
* Fix a regression that broke writing to the clipboard using the OSC 5522
protocol (#7858)
* macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused kitty to fail
to run after an unclean shutdown/crash when using --single-instance (#7846)
* kitten @ ls: Fix the `--self` flag not working (#7864)
* Remote control: Fix `--match state:self` not working (#7886)
* Splits layout: Allow setting the `split_axis` option to auto so that all
new windows have their split axis chosen automatically unless explicitly
specified in the launch command (#7887)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1203601
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=163
- Update to 0.36.2:
* Linux: Fix a regression in 0.36.0 that caused font features defined via
fontconfig to be ignored (#7773)
* goto_tab: Allow numbers less than -1 to go to the Nth previously active tab
* Wayland: Fix for upcoming explicit sync changes in Wayland compositors
breaking kitty (#7767)
* Remote control: When listening on a UNIX domain socket only allow
connections from processes having the same user id (#7777)
* kitten @: Fix a regression connecting to TCP sockets using plain IP
addresses rather than hostnames (#7794)
* diff kitten: Fix a regression that broke diffing against remote
files (#7797)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1199238
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=161
- Update to 0.36.1:
* Allow specifying that the `cursor shape for unfocused windows`
should remain unchanged (#7728)
* MacOS Intel: Fix a crash in the choose-fonts kitten when displaying
previews of variable fonts (#7734)
* Remote control: Fix a regression causing an escape code to leak when using
@ launch with `--no-response` over the TTY (#7752)
* OSC 52: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke handling of
invalid base64 encoded data in OSC 52 requests (#7757)
* macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused
`kitty --single-instance` to not work when using
`macos-launch-services-cmdline`
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1195951
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=159
- Adding 'BuildRequires: symbols-only-nerd-fonts' as it's looked for at build
time
- Explicitly setting go1.22 (Base version required to build)
- Update to 0.36.0:
* Support OpenType Variable fonts (#3711)
* A new choose-fonts kitten that provides a UI with font previews to ease
selection of fonts. Also has support for font features and variable fonts
* Allow animating the blinking of the cursor. See cursor_blink_interval for
how to configure it
* Add NERD fonts builtin so that users don’t have to install them to use
NERD symbols in kitty. The builtin font is used only if the symbols are
not available in some system font
* launch command: A new launch --bias option to adjust the size of newly
created windows declaratively (#7634)
* A new option second_transparent_bg to make a second background color
semi-transparent via background_opacity. Useful for things like cursor
line highlight in editors (#7646)
* A new notify kitten to show desktop notifications from the command line
with support for icons, buttons and more.
* Desktop notifications protocol: Add support for icons, buttons, closing of
notifications, expiry of notifications, updating of notifications and
querying if the terminal emulator supports the
protocol (#7657, #7658, #7659)
* A new option filter_notification to filter out or perform arbitrary
actions on desktop notifications based on sophisticated criteria (#7670)
* A new protocol to allow terminal applications to change colors in the
terminal more robustly than with the legacy XTerm protocol (Setting and
querying colors)
* Sessions: A new command focus_matching_window to shift focus to a specific
window, useful when creating complex layouts with splits (#7635)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1194501
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=157
- Update to 0.35.2:
* A new option, window_logo_scale to specify how window logos are scaled
with respect to the size of the window containing the logo (#7534)
* A new option, cursor_shape_unfocused to specify the shape of the text
cursor in unfocused OS windows (#7544)
* Remote control: Fix empty password not working (#7538)
* Wayland: Fix regression in 0.34.0 causing flickering on window resize
on NVIDIA drivers (#7493)
* Wayland labwc: Fix kitty timing out waiting for compositor to quit
messing around with scales on labwc (#7540)
* Fix scrollback_indicator_opacity not actually controlling the
opacity (#7557)
* URL detection: Fix IPv6 hostnames breaking URL detection (#7565)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1182566
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=155
- Update to 0.35.1:
* Wayland: Fix a regression in 0.34 that caused the tab bar to not render in
second and subsequent OS Windows under Hyprland (#7413)
* Fix a regression in the previous release that caused horizontal scrolling
via touchpad in fullscreen applications to be reversed on non-Wayland
platforms (#7475, #7481)
* Fix a regression in the previous release causing an error when setting
background_opacity to zero (#7483)
* Image display: Fix cursor movement and image hit region incorrect for
image placements that specify only a number of rows or columns to display
in (#7479)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1177969
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=153
- Updating vendor.tar.gz
- Update to 0.35.0:
* kitten @ run: A new remote control command to run a process on the machine
kitty is running on and get its output (#7429)
* notify_on_cmd_finish: Show the actual command that was finished (#7420)
* hints kitten: Allow clicking on matched text to select it in addition to
typing the hint
* Shell integration: Make the currently executing cmdline available as a
window variable in kitty
* paste_actions: Fix replace-newline not working with confirm (#7374)
* Graphics: Fix aspect ratio of images not being preserved when only a
single dimension of the destination rectangle is specified (#7380)
* focus_visible_window: Fix selecting with mouse click leaving keyboard
in unusable state (#7390)
* Wayland: Fix infinite loop causing bad performance when using IME via
fcitx5 due to a change in fcitx5 (#7396)
* Desktop notifications protocol: Add support for specifying urgency
* Improve rendering of Unicode shade character to avoid Moire
patterns (#7401)
* kitten @ send-key: Fix some keys being sent in kitty keyboard protocol
encoding when not using socket for remote control
* Dont clear selections on erase in screen commands unless the erased
region intersects a selection (#7408)
* Wayland: save energy by not rendering “suspended” windows on compositors
that support that
* Allow more types of alignment for placement_strategy (#7419)
* Add some more box-drawing characters from the “Geometric shapes”
Unicode block (#7433)
* Linux: Run all child processes in their own systemd scope to prevent the
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1176860
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:terminals/kitty?expand=0&rev=151
