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update release.md

v0.2.1

• Fix: Search seems broken in 0.2.0 #785.
• Regular font is now 400 as default weight.
• Support to choosing font width #507.
• Support to multiconfiguration. Rio now allows you to have different configurations per OS, you can write ovewrite Shell, Navigation and Window.

Example:

[shell]
# default (in this case will be used only on MacOS)
program = "/bin/fish"
args = ["--login"]

[platform]
# Microsoft Windows overwrite
windows.shell.program = "pwsh"
windows.shell.args = ["-l"]

# Linux overwrite
linux.shell.program = "tmux"
linux.shell.args = ["new-session", "-c", "/var/www"]

• Fix: Grey triangle in the titlebar #778
• Update window title straight away (#779 by @hunger)
• Always update the title on windows and MacOS (#780 by @hunger)

v0.2.0

• Note: The migration from 0.1.x to v0.2.x changed considerably the renderer source code, although it was tested for a while it's entirely possible that introduced bugs (hopefully not!).
• Performance gains!
  • Sugarloaf: Major rewrite of font glyph logic.
  • Sugarloaf: Removal of some unnecessary processing on shaping logic.
  • Sugarloaf: Rewrite/Change of render architecture, now sugarloaf does not have any reference to column/lines logic.
• Breaking: Minimum MacOS version went from El Captain to Big Sur on ARM64 and Catalina on Intel x86.
• Microsoft Windows: Rio terminal is now available on WinGet packages.
• Microsoft Windows: Rio terminal is now available on MINGW packages.
• Microsoft Windows: Rio support on ARM architecture by @andreban.
• Allow MacOS automation via events.
• MacOS: Support titlebar unified: window.macos-use-unified-titlebar = false,
• Support disable font hinting: fonts.hinting = false.
• Fix: Configuration updates triggered multiple times on one save.
• Support to RetroArch shaders @igorsaux.
• Fix: Set notepad as a default editor on Windows by @igorsaux.
• Increased Linux font fallbacks list.
• Early initial split support (this feature is not yet stable).
• Fix: Preserve current working directory when opening new tabs #725.
• Added SplitDown, SplitRight, CloseSplitOrTab, SelectNextSplit and SelectPrevSplit actions.
• Fix: Window doesn't receive mouse events on Windows 11 by @igorsaux.
• Support to hex RGBA (example: #43ff64d9) on colors/theme by @bio on #696.
• Introduced renderer.strategy, options are Events and Continuous.
• Microsoft Windows: make ControlFlow::WaitUntil work more precisely using CREATE_WAITABLE_TIMER_HIGH_RESOLUTION.
• Fix: Window output lost when rio loses focus #706.
• Updated wgpu to 23.0.0.

v0.1.17

• Fix flash of white during startup on Microsoft Windows #640.
• Add DWMWA_CLOAK support on Microsoft Windows.
• VI Mode now supports search by @orhun.
• Use max frame per seconds based on the current monitor refresh rate.
• breaking renderer.max-fps has been changed to renderer.target-fps.
• Fix background color for underline and beam cursors when using transparent window.
• Fix IME color for underline and beam cursors.
• Add default for Style property on Sugarloaf font.

v0.1.16

• Support auto bold on fonts.
• Support auto italic on fonts.
• Reduced default regular weight to 300 instead of 400.
• MacOS: Add dock menu.
• MacOS: Add Shell and Edit menu.
• MacOS: Support to native modal that asks if wants to close app.
• MacOS: Fix confirm-before-quit property.

v0.1.15

• Introduce cursor.blinking-interval, default value is 800ms.
• Fix blinking cursor lag issue.
• performance: Use Vec (std based) instead of ArrayVec for copa.
• Fix adaptive theme background color on macos.
• Decorations as Transparent is default on MacOS.
• Navigation mode as NativeTab is default on MacOS.
• keyboard.use-kitty-keyboard-protocol is now false by default.
• Add support for msys2/mingw builds release #635 by @Kreijstal.

v0.1.14

• developer.log-file has been renamed to developer.enable-log-file.
• breaking: CollapsedTab has been renamed to Bookmark.
• Memory usage reduced by 75% (avg ~201mb to 48mb on first screen render).
• Implemented font data deallocator.
• Reduced font atlas buffer size to 1024.
• Added lifetimes to application level (allowing to deallocate window structs once is removed).
• Migrated font context from RwLock to Arc<FairMutex>.
• MacOS does not clear with background operation anymore, instead it relies on window background.
• Background color has changed to #0F0D0E.
• Fix font emoji width.
• Fix MacOS tabbing when spawned from a new window.

v0.1.13

• Support to iTerm2 image protocol.
• Fix: Issue building rio for Void Linux #656.
• Fix: Adaptive theme doesn't appear to work correctly on macOS #660.
• Fix: Image background support to OpenGL targets.
• Fix: Unable to render images with sixel protocol & ratatui-image #639.
• Implement LRU to cache on layout and draw methods.
• Reenable set subtitle on MacOS native tabs.

v0.1.12

• Introduce: renderer.max-fps.
• Fix: Cursor making text with ligatures hidden.
• Fix: Underline cursor not working.
• Fix: sixel: Text doesn't overwrite sixels #636.
• Initial support to Sixel protocol.
• Support to fonts.emoji. You can also specify which emoji font you would like to use, by default will be loaded a built-in Twemoji color by Mozilla.

In case you would like to change:

# Apple
# [fonts.emoji]
# family = "Apple Color Emoji"

# In case you have Noto Color Emoji installed
# [fonts.emoji]
# family = "Noto Color Emoji"

• Support to fonts.ui. You can specify user interface font on Rio.

Note: fonts.ui does not have live reload configuration update, you need to close and open Rio again.

[fonts.ui]
family = "Departure Mono"

• breaking: Revamp the cursor configuration

Before:

cursor = '▇'
blinking-cursor = false

After:

[cursor]
shape = 'block'
blinking = false

v0.1.11

• Support CSI_t 16 (Report Cell Size in Pixels).
• Support CSI_t 14 (Report Terminal Window Size in Pixels).
• Experimental support to Sixel protocol.
• Clipboard has been moved to Application level and shared to all windows.
• Replace run with run_app.
• Fix on all the issues regarding whenever the font atlas reaches the limit.
• breaking change: collapsed tabs use now tabs-active-highlight instead of tabs-active.
• Default font for UI has changed to DepartureMono.
• Performance: drop extra texture creation and manipulation.
• Fix on windows: If editor is not found, the app panics #641.
• Improvements on window.background-image as respect width and height properties if were used.
• Macos: remove grab cursor when dragging and use default instead.
• Fix tabs-active-highlight config key #618.
• Add tabs-active-foreground config key #619.
• Add tabs-foreground config key.
• use-kitty-keyboard-protocol is now true as default.
• Remove tokio runtime.
• Allow configuring with lowercase values for enums.
• Rename hide-cursor-when-typing to hide-mouse-cursor-when-typing.
• Cleanup selection once happens a resize.
• Windows: Reduce WM_PAINT messages of thread target window.