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

0.38.0 [2024-12-15]

• Allow specifying individual color themes to use so that kitty changes colors automatically following the OS dark/light mode
• notify_on_cmd_finish: Automatically remove notifications when the window gains focus or the next notification is shown. Clearing behavior can be configured (#8100)
• 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)
• 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 rapidly via an automation tool immediately after the kitten is launched (#7089)

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

0.37.0 [2024-10-30]

• A new optional text cursor movement animation that shows a “trail” following the movement of the cursor making it easy to follow large cursor jumps (#7970)
• Custom kittens: Add a framework for easily and securely using remote control from within a kitten’s main() function
• kitten icat: Fix the kitty +kitten icat --no-trailing-newline not working when using unicode placeholders (#7948)
• tab_title_template allow using the 256 terminal colors for formatting (#7976)
• Fix resizing window when alternate screen is active does not preserve trailing blank output line in the main screen (#7978)
• Wayland: Fix background_opacity less than one causing flicker on startup when the Wayland compositor supports single pixel buffers (#7987)
• Fix background image flashing when closing a tab (#7999)
• When running a kitten that modifies the kitty config file if no config file exists create a commented out default config file and then modify it (#7991)

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

0.36.4 [2024-09-27]

• 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)

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

0.36.3 [2024-09-25]

• 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)

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

0.36.2 [2024-09-06]

• 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)

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

0.36.1 [2024-08-17]

• 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

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

0.36.0 [2024-08-17]

• 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)
• Speed up loading of large background images by caching the decoded image data. Also allow using images in JPEG/WEBP/TIFF/GIF/BMP formats in addition to PNG
• Wayland: Allow fractional scales less than one (#7549)
• Wayland: Fix specifying the output name for the panel kitten not working (#7573)
• icat kitten: Add an option kitty +kitten icat --no-trailing-newline to leave the cursor to the right of the image (#7574)
• Speed up kitty --version and kitty --single-instance (for all subsequent instances). They are now the fastest of all terminal emulators with similar functionality
• macOS: Fix rendering of the unicode hyphen (U+2010) character when using a font that does not include a glyph for it (#7525)
• macOS 15: Handle Fn modifier when detecting global shortcuts (#7582)
• Dispatch any clicks waiting for click_interval on key events (#7601)
• kitten run-shell: Automatically add the directory containing the kitten binary to PATH if needed. Controlled via the --inject-self-onto-path option ~~(disc:7668`)~~ (#7668)
• Wayland: Fix an issue with mouse selections not being stopped when there are multiple OS windows (#7381)
• Splits layout: Fix the move_to_screen_edge action breaking when only a single window is present (#7621)
• Add support for in-band window resize notifications (#7642)
• Allow controlling the easing curves used for visual_bell_duration
• New special rendering for font symbols useful in drawing commit graphs (#7681)
• diff kitten: Add bindings to jump to next and previous file (#7683)
• Wayland GNOME: Fix the font size in the OS Window title bar changing with the size of the text in the window (#7677)
• Wayland GNOME: Fix a small rendering artifact when docking a window at a screen edge or maximizing it (#7701)
• When shell is set to . respect the SHELL environment variable in the environment in which kitty is launched (#7714)
• macOS: Bump the minimum required macOS version to Catalina released five years ago.
• Fix a regression in notify_on_cmd_finish that caused notifications to appear for every command after the first (#7725)

Their ongoing interaction was set in motion between 25 and 75 million years ago, when the Penguin (individually catalogued as NGC 2936) and the Egg (NGC 2937) completed their first pass. They will go on to shimmy and sway, completing several additional loops before merging into a single galaxy hundreds of millions of years from now.

The James Webb Space Telescope takes constant observations, including images and highly detailed data known as spectra. Its operations have led to a ‘parade’ of discoveries by astronomers around the world. It has never felt more possible to explore every facet of the Universe.

The telescope’s specialisation in capturing infrared light – which is beyond what our own eyes can detect – shows these galaxies, collectively known as Arp 142, locked in a slow cosmic dance. Webb’s observations (which combine near- and mid-infrared light from Webb’s NIRCam [Near-InfraRed Camera] and MIRI [Mid-Infrared Instrument], respectively) clearly show that they are joined by a blue haze that is a mix of stars and gas, a result of their mingling.

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And here's a followup video on the James Webb Space Telescope YouTube channel: A Tour of Arp 142

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

0.35.2 [2024-06-22]

• 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 fucking 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)

From today's Development Blog update:

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And just as exciting is the announcement of our very own Valheim board game! Our friends at MOOD Publishing – who have also developed board games such as Deep Rock Galactic and Battle of Gods – have done an incredible job with this, and we really couldn’t have left the task in more capable hands. You can find out more about the board game by signing up to its Gamefound page, and there might even be something extra in it for you if you do…

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High-temperature fusion plasma experiments conducted in the Large Helical Device (LHD) of the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), have renewed the world record for an acquired data amount, 0.92 terabytes (TB) per experiment, in February 2022, by using a full range of state-of-the-art plasma diagnostic devices.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), which is currently under construction in France through the international collaboration of seven parties, is expected to generate approximately 1 TB of data per experiment in 10 years, and LHD is currently the only experiment in the world that produces data closely aligned to ITER.

The promotion of "Open Science," in which large-scale research data assets are utilized and shared across society, was adopted as a joint statement at the G7 meeting held in Sendai, Japan in 2023. NIFS started full-fledged efforts toward Open Science by establishing the "Open Access Policy" in February 2022 and the "Research Data Policy" in October 2022.

Since 2023, all the data obtained from LHD experiments are open to the public immediately after acquisition and analysis is completed. All computing program source codes for data analysis are also openly available.

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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/13128061

archive link: https://archive.ph/JlyLf

SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

His son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. “The family is devastated,” he said. “He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.” William Anders, a retired major general, has said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked.

The photograph, the first color image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for the way it changed how humans viewed the planet. The photo is credited with sparking the global environmental movement for showing how delicate and isolated Earth appeared from space.

NASA Administrator and former Sen. Bill Nelson said Anders embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration.

“He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves,” Nelson wrote on the social platform X.

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