changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.42.1 [2025-05-17]

• Fix ambiguous width and private use characters not being rendered when used with variable width text-sizing protocol escape codes
• Quick access terminal: Restore focus to previously active window when hiding the quick access terminal window on macOS (#8627)
• Wayland: Fix an abort if the terminal program sets a window title longer than 2KB that contains CSI escape sequences and multibyte UTF-8 (#8619)
• Quick access terminal: Allow toggling the window to full screen using the standard kitty ctrl+shift+f11 shortcut (#8626)
• Quick access terminal: Allow configuring the monitor to display the panel on in Wayland/X11 (#8630)
• A new setting remember_window_position to optionally use the position of the last closed kitty OS Window as the position of the first kitty OS Window when running a new kitty instance (#8601)
• Panel kitten: A new center-sized value for --edge to allow easily creating sized and centered panels
• Wayland: The kitty --name flag now sets the XDG window tag on compositors that support the xdg-toplevel-tag protocol.

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.42.0 [2025-05-11]

• A new kitten: quick-access-terminal to Make a Quake like quick access terminal
• The panel kitten works on macOS and X11 as well as Wayland (#2590)
• Behavior change: Now kitty does full grapheme segmentation following the Unicode 16 spec when splitting text into cells (#8533)
• Behavior change: The automatic color switching functionality now also controls background image settings (#8603)
• panel kitten: Allow using kitty +kitten panel --single-instance to create multiple panels in one process (#8549)
• launch: Allow creating desktop panels such as those created by the panel kitten (#8549)
• Remote control: Allow modifying desktop panels and showing/hiding OS Windows using the kitten @ resize-os-window command (#8550)
• Remote control launch: Allow waiting for a program launched in a new window to exit and get the exit code via the kitty +launch --wait-for-child-to-exit command line flag (#8573)
• Allow starting kitty with the OS window hidden via kitty --start-as=hidden, useful for single instance mode (#3466)
• Allow configuring the mouse unhide behavior when using mouse_hide_wait (#8508)
• diff kitten: Add half page and full page scroll vim-like bindings (#8514)
• diff kitten: Allow diffing named pipes (#8597)
• Fix a regression that caused automatic color themes to not be re-applied after config file reload (#8530)
• Wayland: When the compositor supports the xdg-system-bell protocol use it to play the default bell sound
• panel kitten: Allow specifying panel size in pixels in addition to cells
• Fix a regression in 0.36.0 that caused using = with single letter command line flags to no longer work correctly (#8556)
• Single instance: Preserve environment variables from invoking environment in newly created window (#8567)
• Single instance: Reset OS Window class and name in new single instance OS windows ([#8567](Fix a regression ))
• macOS: Fix text color in visual window select ignoring the color theme (#8579)
• Launch action: Allow using an env var that resolves to a full command-line as the program to launch (#8613)
• change_font_size allow multiplying/dividing the current font size in addition to incrementing it (#8616)
• Box drawing: Improve appearance of rounder corners, giving them a uniform line width (#8299)

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.41.1 [2025-04-03]

• 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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28415616

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/panel/

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.41.0 [2025-03-29]

• 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)
• 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.
• 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)

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.40.1 [2025-03-18]

• Do not count background processes by default for confirm_os_window_close (#8358)
• A new option clear_selection_on_clipboard_loss to clear selections when they no longer reflect the contents of the clipboard
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused empty lines to be skipped when copying text from a selection (#8435)
• Fix flickering of hyperlink underline when client program continuously redraws on mouse movement (#8414)
• Wayland: Allow overriding the kitty OS Window icon on compositors that implement the xdg-toplevel-icon protocol
• macOS: When the program running in kitty reports progress information for a task, show a progress bar on the kitty dock icon
• macOS: Fix a regression causing a crash when using focus_follows_mouse (#8437)
• OSC 52: Fix specifying both clipboard and primary in OSC 52 requests not supported

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.40.0 [2025-03-08]

• Allow terminal programs to use text in different font sizes (#8226)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Linux: Add support for COLRv1 fonts. These are typically emoji fonts that use vector images for emoji
• 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 bold/italic faces (#8282)
• XTGETTCAP: Fix response invalid for empty string capabilities (#8304)
• ssh kitten: Fix incorrect copying of data files when using the python interpreter and also fix incorrect hard link detection (#8308)
• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke setting of nullable colors
• Fix a regression in 0.39.0 that caused a crash on invalid Unicode with a large number of combining characters in a single cell (#8318)
• Fix --hold always restoring cursor to block shape instead of respecting the value of cursor_shape (#8344)
• When dragging in rectangle select mode use a crosshair mouse cursor configurable via pointer_shape_when_dragging
• macOS: notify kitten: Fix waiting for result from desktop notification not working (#8379)
• Wayland: Fix mouse pointer position update not being sent when focus regained (#8397, #8398)
• Fix cursor blink animation when background_opacity is less than one (#8401)
• Wayland: panel kitten: Add a center mode for creating panels to ease creation of centered popups in Wayland (#8411)

COEUR d’ALENE — Saturday’s legislative town hall hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee turned volatile after some attendees voiced their concerns over the possible repeal of Medicaid expansion and other bills working their way through the Idaho Legislature.

After making remarks from the audience to several legislative members on stage, Teresa Borrenpohl of Post Falls was asked to leave.

After refusing, Borrenpohl was pulled from her seat, wrestled to the ground and dragged out of the Coeur d’Alene High School auditorium by three unidentified people.

In a video on social media, Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris can be seen telling Borrenpohl to “get up or be arrested” before the men stepped in.

“This is not a negotiation,” Norris told Borrenpohl.

“Women deserve a voice,” Borrenpohl shouted before initial contact with the men.

Many in the audience became upset, several leaving the event entirely, as the event’s emcee, Ed Bejarana, continued speaking about Borrenpohl just before she was dragged out.

“Look at this little girl over here, everyone. Look at her,” Bejarana said.

Bejarana’s comments continued as a few dozen audience members began filming the incident, with several more booing and shouting at Bejarana and the unidentified men.

Bejarana accused Borrenpohl and other audience members of “filibustering” and continued talking about the Department of Government Efficiency.

“We’ve got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here,” Bejarana said. “Your voice is meaningless right now. ... I can talk over all of you.”

“Is this a town hall or a lecture?” one woman in the audience shouted.

Several women in the audience held signs in silent protest, including slogans such as “Save Voter Approved Medicaid.”

Ed DePriest, who was in attendance, called Saturday’s events “a microcosm of what has been going on in the last three to five years.”

“(There’s been) so much divisiveness and anger,” DePriest said. “It’s very, very sad.”

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.39.1 [2025-02-01]

• Splits layout: Allow setting the bias of the current split using layout_action bias (#8222)
• hints kitten: Workaround for some broken light color themes that make the hints text color too low contrast to read (#7330)
• Wayland niri: Fix 250ms delay on startup when using scale 1 (#8236)
• Watchers: Add a new event on_color_scheme_preference_change (#8246)

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.39.0 [2025-01-16]

• 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)
• 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
• 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
• When reloading configuration fix auto color themes not being re-applied (#8203)

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.38.1 [2024-12-26]

• macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke rendering of Emoji using the VS16 variation selector (#8130)
• When automatically changing colors based on OS color preference, first reset all colors to default before applying the new theme so that even colors not specified in the theme are correct (#8124)
• Graphics: Fix deleted but not freed images without any placements being incorrectly freed on a subsequent delete command (#8129)
• Graphics: Fix deletion of images by id not working for images with no placements (#8129)
• Add support for escape code protocol for notifying applications on dark/light color scheme change
• Cursor trails: Fix pure vertical movement sometimes not triggering a trail and holding down a key in nvim causing the trail to be glitchy (#8152, #8153)
• macOS: Fix mouse cursor shape not always being reset to text cursor when mouse re-enters kitty (#8155)
• clone-in-kitty: Fix KITTY_WINDOW_ID being cloned and thus having incorrect value (#8161)