Alacritty 0.17 Terminal Emulator Released with Wayland Resize Improvements

Alacritty—the cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust—has been updated to version 0.17, bringing a range of new features and improvements.

This release adds support for binding WheelUp and WheelDown in mouse.bindings, introduces compatibility with TOML 1.1 syntax, and enables window.resize_increments on Wayland.

On the integration side, the update includes a new alacritty-escapes(7) manpage, fixes issues with SVG logo attributes, and removes a previously broken flash capability from its terminfo data.

Behavior has also been refined. Hints are no longer highlighted when hovering if the mouse cursor is hidden, IME is disabled in Vi mode on X11, and touch input now requires a tap before IME activation. Additionally, Alacritty now uses its internal font to render block element symbols in the Unicode range U+1FB82 to U+1FB8B.

Several bugs have been fixed in this version. It resolves a temporary error popup that could appear when saving configuration files with certain editors, addresses crashes caused by OpenGL context resets, and fixes an issue affecting text input with some IMEs on macOS. Resource cleanup during signal termination has also been improved.

For OpenBSD users, there’s a platform-specific enhancement: subprocesses now inherit the working directory of the shell’s foreground process, improving consistency and usability.

For more details, see the changelog.