Changelog

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Major rewrite on sugarloaf.
- New rendering architecture.
- Sugarloaf now uses same render pass for each render.
- Ignore equal renderers.
- Compute layout updates only if layout is different.
BottomTab navigation is now default for Linux and Windows.
Support to font ligatures.
Fixes on font search for Microsoft Windows.
All tabs/window instances now use same font data.
Updated wgpu to 0.20.0.
Removed support to DX11.
Support to line-height configuration.
Updated ttf-parser and memmap2 on sugarloaf.

0.0.39

Minor fix on fixed transparency on backgrounds for Welcome/Dialog.

0.0.38

Corrections for transparency and blur for MacOS windows.
Apply dynamic background logic only for images and keep alpha channel on background.

0.0.37

Breaking change: Reduced font size to 16.0.
Breaking change: Set VI mode trigger with CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE on Windows.
Update winit to 0.30.0.
Update rust version to 1.77.2.
Initial touch support by @androw #226

0.0.36

fixes for x11 freeze issue.
update winit to 0.29.15.
update wix (toolset that builds Windows Installer) from 4.0.1 to 4.0.4.

0.0.35

Bump wayland dependencies: wayland-backend, wayland-client, wayland-cursor and wayland-scanner.
Refactor: disable cursor blink on selection (ref #437) #441 by @hougesen .
Rewrite hash logic to use BuildHasher::hash_one.
Report focus change https://terminalguide.namepad.de/mode/p1004/.
update rust version to 1.75.0.
update winit to 0.29.11.

0.0.34

use Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function implementation for sugar cache (more efficient for smaller hash keys)
update winit to 0.29.9

0.0.33

Breaking: Removed macos-hide-toolbar-buttons in favor of window.decorations api.
Fix: Rio failing to draw blur upon launch #379
Fix: Window transparency does not work on X11 #361
Added support for path based color automation.
Added window.decorations property, available options are Enabled, Disabled, Transparent and Buttonless.

0.0.32

Fix: font order priority.
Fix: add default values to keyboard config (#382)

0.0.31

Breaking: Configuration performance has moved to renderer.performance.
Breaking: Configuration disable-renderer-when-unfocused has moved to renderer.disable-renderer-when-unfocused.
Breaking: Configuration use-kitty-keyboard-protocol has moved to keyboard.use-kitty-keyboard-protocol.
Introduction of new configuration property called keyboard.

[keyboard]
use-kitty-keyboard-protocol = false
disable-ctlseqs-alt = false

Introduction of keyboard.disable-ctlseqs-alt: Disable ctlseqs with ALT keys. It is useful for example if you would like Rio to replicate Terminal.app, since it does not deal with ctlseqs with ALT keys
Introduction of new configuration property called renderer.

[renderer]
performance = "High"
disable-renderer-when-unfocused = false
backend = "Automatic"

# backend options:
# Automatic: Leave Sugarloaf/WGPU to decide
# GL: Supported on Linux/Android, and Windows and macOS/iOS via ANGLE
# Vulkan: Supported on Windows, Linux/Android
# DX12: Supported on Windows 10
# DX11: Supported on Windows 7+
# Metal: Supported on macOS/iOS

Fix: update padding top on config change #378 by @hougesen
Fixed bug where color automation did not work on Linux because of line ending character.
Fix: Control + Up/Down don't works as expected on neovim #371
Fix: remove duplicate kitty backspace keybinds #375 by @hougesen
Fix: Kitty-keyboard-protocol causes Backspace to delete 2 characters. #344 by @hougesen

0.0.30

Fix regression with color ansi when transparency is off.
Breaking: Config navigation.macos-hide-window-buttons has moved to window.macos-hide-toolbar-buttons.
Breaking: Config property padding-x has been updated from 5.0 to 0.0 on MacOS.

0.0.29

Fix compiled binary shows nothing inside the app window #366.
Fix command key + left and right strange behavior #359.
New scroll API: Scroll calculation for canonical mode will be based on (accumulated scroll * multiplier / divider) so if you want quicker scroll, keep increasing the multiplier if you want to reduce you increase the divider. Can use both properties also to find the best scroll for you:

[scroll]
multiplier = 3.0
divider = 1.0

Corrections for TMUX scroll calculations.

0.0.28

Breaking: Settings UI has been removed and editor property has been added.
Breaking: default padding-x for MacOS has moved from 10.0 to 5.0.
Breaking: Background API has moved to Window

Example:

[window]
width = 600
height = 400
mode = "Windowed"
foreground-opacity = 1.0
background-opacity = 1.0

Using image as background:

[window.background-image]
path = "/Users/rapha/Desktop/eastward.jpg"
width = 200.0
height = 200.0
x = 0.0
y = 0.0

Breaking: MacOS default navigation mode will become NativeTab.
Support for blur background.
Support opacity for foreground and background.
Cursor hide feature is now behind configuration hide-cursor-when-typing.
Confirm before quite (it can be disabled through configuration confirm-before-quit).
Close the last tab in MacOS when using command + w (Ref: #296)
OSC 8 (Hyperlinks).
Fix current path on new tab is not working when using Native Tab (Ref #323).
Change POLLING_TIMEOUT for configuration update from 1s to 2s.
Update .icns file with more format and add new icon (Ref: #329) by @nix6839.
Update .ico files with more resolution and add new icon (Ref: #329) by @nix6839.

0.0.27

Activate the hyperlink check whenever a modifier is changed (alt for windows/linux/bsd and command for macos).
Fix Error when Double click on terminal side (Ref #316).

0.0.26

Upgrade winit to 0.29.3.
Support for Run actions key bindings for Microsoft Windows.
Hyperlink support (Ref #60)

0.0.25

Upgrade wgpu to 0.18.0.
Desktop OpenGL 3.3+ Support on Windows through WebGPU.
Display the shell name on the tab title for MacOS Native Tab (Ref #311 by @eduronqui).
Fix VI cursor disappearing whenever perform a scroll..
Fix flagged dimmed colors (cases where it does not comes from rgb index).
Fix MacOS fullscreen empty space on margin top.
Upgrade winit to 0.29.2.

0.0.24

Improvements on selection text for scale factor >= 2.0.
Improvements on cursor sugar creation, dropped unnecessary usage of clone.
Colors/Themes got a new property called vi-cursor, you can specify any color you wish for VI Cursor.
Alacritty's VI Mode.

0.0.23

Breaking changes

navigation.mode = "Plain" now only shutdowns the key bindings related to tab creation/manipulation.
ignore-selection-fg-color has been renamed to ignore-selection-foreground-color.
Kitty keyboard protocol has been disabled by default in this version, for enable it you need to use use-kitty-keyboard-protocol = true.
CollapsedTab is not based on reverse order anymore.
Actions SelectTab1, SelectTab2, ..., SelectTab9 have been removed in favor of the new select tab API:

[bindings]
keys = [
	{ key = "1", with = "super", action = "SelectTab(0)" },
	{ key = "2", with = "super", action = "SelectTab(1)" },
	{ key = "3", with = "super", action = "SelectTab(2)" }
]

Actions ScrollLineUp and ScrollLineDown have been removed in favor of the new Scroll API:

[bindings]
keys = [
	# Scroll up 8 lines
	{ key = "up", with = "super", action = "Scroll(8)" },
	# Scroll down 5 lines
	{ key = "down", with = "super", action = "Scroll(-5)" }
]

Other changes

Rendering performance small improvements towards to Sugar text for regular font, dropped in redudancy processing (avg 68ms to 22ms with tests using 155x94 without repetition like vim Cargo.lock).
Rendering performance small improvements towards to Sugar rect calculation, dropped in redudancy processing. Now Sugarloaf computes better Rects duplication in a line. It gains significant performance for large screens (avg ~12ms).
Fix Backspace behaviour misplace on Windows (Ref #220).
ClearHistory key binding is available to use per configuration file.
Introduce Alacritty's VI Mode (Ref #186).
Implement ClearSelection key binding action.
Fix Cursor shape isn't restored (Ref #279).
Fix color automation for breadcrumb mode (Ref #251).
Fix text copy (OSC 52) is broken (tmux, zellij) (Ref #276).
Fix lines calculation for different fonts.
Fix bug whenever is not closing terminal for non native tabs (Ref #255).
Removal of hide cursor functionality when start to type for all platforms besides Apple MacOS.
Support to new scroll action API key binding.
Support to new select tab action API key binding.
Support to execute programs as actions for key bindings:

[bindings]
keys = [
	{ key = "p", with = "super", action = "Run(code)" },
	{ key = "o", with = "super", action = "Run(sublime ~/.config/rio/config.toml)" }
]

Upgrade rust to 1.73.0 by @igorvieira.

0.0.22

Now you can add extra fonts to load:

[fonts]
extras = [{ family = "Microsoft JhengHei" }]

Added ScrollLineUp, ScrollLineDown, ScrollHalfPageUp, ScrollHalfPageDown, ScrollToTopand ScrollToBottom to bindings.
Fix japanese characters on Microsoft Windows (Ref: #266).
Navigation fonts now use the CascadiaCode built-in font and cannot be changed.
Proper select adapter with is_srgb filter check.
Switched to queue rendering instead of use staging_belt.
Fixed leaks whenever buffer dropped map callbacks.
Forked and embedded glyph-brush project to sugarloaf. Glyph-brush was originally created @alexheretic and is licensed under Apache-2.0 license.
Upgrate wgpu to 0.17.1.

0.0.21

Hide other applications in MacOS #262 by @sonbui00.
Implemented working-dir parameter to cli #258.
Remove legacy icns icons from bundle.

0.0.20

Fix retrieve foreground process name to tabs.
Fix cursor disappearing in the first tab whenever a new tab is created with NativeTab.
Fix settings for NativeTabs.
New docs.
Removal of RIO_CONFIG environment variable.
Add ToggleFullscreen Action #229 (Ref: #249)
fix: Command + H can't hide rio on macOS (Ref: #244).
Added fontconfig to font loader.
New Rio terminal logo.
Update Rust to 1.72.1 (Ref: #238).
Enable CPU-specific optimizations on aarch64-apple-darwin (Ref: #235).
Use release profile with optimization level as 3 (Ref: #236).
Use fixed dependency versions in sugarloaf
Added split support along with the following actions SplitVertically, SplitHorizontally and ClosePane (support to split is still not available).

0.0.19

Breaking change

Configuration properties: window_height, window_width and window_opacity has been moved to a new window/background API:

# Window configuration
#
# • width - define the intial window width.
#   Default: 600
#
# • height - define the inital window height.
#   Default: 400
#
# • mode - define how the window will be created
#     - "Windowed" (default) is based on width and height
#     - "Maximized" window is created with maximized
#     - "Fullscreen" window is created with fullscreen
#
[window]
width = 600
height = 400
mode = "Windowed"

# Background configuration
#
# • opacity - changes the background transparency state
#   Default: 1.0
#
# • mode - defines background mode bewteen "Color" and "Image"
#   Default: Color
#
# • image - Set an image as background
#   Default: None
#
[background]
mode = "Image"
opacity = 1.0
[background.image]
path = "/Users/rapha/Desktop/eastward.jpg"
width = 200.0
height = 200.0
x = 0.0

Fix for retrieving shell environment variable when running inside of Flatpak sandbox (Ref: #198).
Rio terminal is now also available in crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/rioterm .
Added navigation.mode = "Plain", it basically disables all platform key bindings for tabs, windows and panels creation (Ref #213).
Support for blinking cursor (Ref: #137) (this option is not enabled by default).
Migrated font-kit to a custom font loader.
Support to MacOS tile window positioning feature (left or right).
Added support to MacOS display native top bar items.
Support to adaptive theme (theme selection based on user system theme variant dark or light).
Implemented ScrollPageUp, ScrollPageDown, ScrollHalfPageUp, ScrollHalfPageDown, ScrollToTop, ScrollToBottom, ScrollLineUp, ScrollLineDown (Ref: #206).
Support to fonts.family (it overwrittes regular, bold, bold-italic and italic font families).
Added a welcome screen UI.
Added a settings UI.
Exposes RIO_CONFIG environment variable that contains the path of the configuration.
Rio creates a configuration file with all defaults if does not exist.
Added OpenConfigEditor key binding for all platforms.
Configuration property editor was removed.
Created Assistant, Rio terminal UI for display error (Ref: #168).
Fix 'Backspace' keypress triggers Ctrl+h keybinding in Zellij instead of deleting character. (Ref: #197).
Implemented TERM_PROGRAM and TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION (Ref: #200).
Whenever native tabs is on disable macos deadzone logic.

0.0.18

Upgraded to Rust 1.72.0.
Fix delete key inputs square character.
Fix Breadcrumb navigation crash.

0.0.17

Breaking changes

Configuration font does not work anymore, a new configuration API of font selection has been introduced.

[fonts]
size = 18

[fonts.regular]
family = "cascadiamono"
style = "normal"
weight = 400

[fonts.bold]
family = "cascadiamono"
style = "normal"
weight = 800

[fonts.italic]
family = "cascadiamono"
style = "italic"
weight = 400

[fonts.bold-italic]
family = "cascadiamono"
style = "italic"
weight = 800

Action TabSwitchNext and TabSwitchPrev has been renamed to SelectNextTab and SelectPrevTab.

Rest of 0.0.17 changelog

Support to NativeTab (MacOS only).
Support for kitty's keyboard protocol (CSI u). Ref: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/
Added new actions for tab selection: SelectTab1, SelectTab2, SelectTab3, SelectTab4, SelectTab5, SelectTab6, SelectTab7, SelectTab8, SelectTab9, SelectLastTab.
Support lowercased action and fix overwrite for actions in custom key bindings.
Added action Minimize for minimize Rio terminal window.
Added action ClearHistory for clear terminal saved history.
Added action ReceiveChar for custom key bindings.
New default key bindings for Linux and Windows so that conflicts with readline key bindings are removed.
Winit Version 0.29.1-beta.
Allow paste with the middle mouse of the button (fixes #123).
Support startup notify protocol to raise initial window on Wayland/X11.
Fix Double-tap by touchpad on the titlebar doesn't maximize/unmaximize the window in GNOME 44, Wayland.

0.0.16

Fix tab/breadcrumb bug introduced in 0.0.15
Introduce new configuration property: navigation.macos-hide-window-button.

0.0.15

Introduce configurable navigation with the following options: CollapsedTab (default), Breadcrumb, TopTab and BottomTab.

An example of configuration:

[navigation]
mode = "BottomTab"
use-current-path = true
clickable = false

Performance improvements with Sugarloaf de-duplication of input data.
- Before: ~253.5µs.
- Now: ~51.5µs.
Introduce navigation.use-current-path which sets if a tab/breacrumb should be open from the current context path.
Fix rendering unicode with 1 width glyphs (fix #160).
Increased max tabs from 9 to 20.
Default colors selection-foreground and selection-background has changed.
Default colors tab and tab-active has changed.

0.0.14

Implementation of custom key bindings (#117).
Fix .deb packing in GH Actions.
Fix key binding for switch tab next (MacOS only).
Fix scroll when copying text outside of offset.
Fix copy key bindings.

0.0.13

Fix Fuzzy Finder issue (#132).
Introduce Copa (Alacritty's VTE forked version to introduce new sequences/instructions in next versions).
Upgraded Winit to 0.29.0-beta.0.
Support for keybindings with dead keys.
Back/Forward mouse buttons support in bindings.
Fix unconditional query of xdg-portal settings on Wayland.
Fix Maximized startup mode not filling the screen properly on GNOME Wayland.
Fix Default Vi key bindings for Last/First actions not working on X11/Wayland.
Set padding-x to 0 for non-macos.
Set app_id/WM_CLASS property on Wayland/X11.

0.0.12

Strip binary is on for release builds.
Each paste or key binding that has writing leads to clear selection and scroll bottom.
Fixed over-rendering when scrolling.
Fix selection.
Support to copy using VIM.
Fix for MacOS deadzone chaging cursor to draggable on window buttons.
Fix for scroll using tmux.

0.0.11

Fix for font styles using CachedSugar.

0.0.10

Major refactor of Sugarloaf.
- Performance improvements around 80-110%.
- Introduced CachedSugar.
- Usage of PixelScale.
- Line-height support.
Open new tab using the current tab directory.
Fix some symbols break the horizontal and vertical alignment of lines (ref #148).
Fix font size configuration is confusing (ref #139).
Fix Glyph not rendered in prompt (ref: #135).
Use fork by default in context tests.
Updated terminfo.
Increased default font size to 18.
Move to next and prev tab using keybindings.
Setting editor by keybindings and new property called editor in configuration file.
Rio creates .deb packages (canary and release).
Binary size optimization (ref: #152) by [@OlshaMB]

0.0.9

Created "rio" terminfo.
Breaking changes for configuration file regarding Advanced. The configuration Advanced has moved to root level and disable-render-when-unfocused renamed to disable-unfocused-render.

before

theme = "dracula"

[advanced]
disable-render-when-unfocused = true

now

theme = "dracula"
disable-unfocused-render = true

Support to spawn and fork processes, spawn has became default. Spawn increases Rio compability in a broad range, like old MacOS versions (older or equal to Big Sur). However, If you want to use Rio terminal to fork processes instead of spawning processes, enable use-fork in the configuration file:

use-fork = true

Introduced RIO_LOG_LEVEL variable usage. (e.g: RIO_LOG_LEVEL=debug rio -e "echo 1")
Increased max tabs from 6 to 9.
Fix Incorrect cursor position when using multi-byte characters (Ref: #127)
Fix bug "black screen with nearly zero interactivity" and new tab hanging.
Fix cursor disappearing after resize.
Introduction of shell and working_dir in configuration file.
Multi window support #97.
Corrections on select and scroll experience (it was using wrongly font-bound for line calculation).
Add selection color to the theme config (closed #125).
Implemented Inverse (fix #92).
Proper choose formats that matches with TextureFormat::is_srgb (it fixed the Vulkan driver, related #122).
Corcovado: Filter windows crate dependency to only Windows targets (related: #119).
Teletypewriter: Fixes for musl as target_env (related: #119).
FreeBSD support, implementation by yurivict (Commit, Ref: #115)

0.0.8

Added generation of .msi and .exe files to the release pipeline (stable and canary).
Support to Microsoft Windows.
Ability to in|decrease font size using keyboard shortcut during session (ref: #109)
Inverted Canary and Stable icons.
ANSI mouse reports (e.g: scroll and click working on VIM).
Scroll and apply selection.
Semantic and line selection.
Rio is available in Homebrew casks (ref github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/149824).
Rio stable versions are notarized now.
Migration of mio, mio-extras, mio-signal-hook to Corcovado.
Changed default black color to #4c4345.
Fix mouse position for when selecting text.

0.0.7

Breaking changes for configuration file regarding Style property.

before:

performance = "High"
[style]
font-size = 18
theme = "lucario"

now:

performance = "High"
theme = "lucario"
font-size = 18

Fix Background color not entirely set on vim #88
Scroll now works for x11 and wayland.
No longer renders to macos and x11 windows that are fully occluded / not directly visible.
Introduced window-opacity config property for WebAssembly and Wayland builds.
Add permissions instructions to Rio macos builds (Fix #99).
Fixes for x11 and wayland rendering (Related: #98 and #100).
Performance fixes (Related: #101).
Sugarloaf WebAssembly support.
Fixed resize for all contexts: removed the glitch when resizing and switching between tabs.
Fixed cursor incosistencies #95.
Added command line interface support (--help, --version, -e and --command).
Added a fallback for WPGU request device operation: downlevel limits, which will allow the code to run on all possible hardware.
Added padding-x to configuration.
Reload automatically when the configuration file is changed (#69).
Fix Ctrl+D.
Fix exit command not closing the app (#87).
Changed default light-black color.

0.0.6

Fix: support to clipboard in linux by @joseemds.
Font style for custom fonts by @OlshaMB (closed #80 and #81)
Text styles Underline and Strikethrough (closed #79).
Update default colors for tabs/tabs-active.
Tabs support.
Fix rendering tab and hidden chars by replacing to space by @niuez, (closed #56).
Block cursor hover a character and still allow it to be visible.
Support to caret Beam and Underline cursor #67 by @niuez.
Fix panics if custom font is not found #68.
MacOs ignore alt key in cntrlseq (same behavior as Terminal.app, Hyper, iTerm and etecetera).

0.0.5

Fix ctlseqs modifiers for bindings.
Add RioEvent::ColorRequest events to write color updates on pty.
Fix to render specific 24bit colors (#66) by @niuez.
Cross build for arm64 and x86
Bold and Italic support (#33).
Theme support (eae39bc81b5b561882b7a37b2c03896633276c27)
Fix font-size dependency for serialization (f278102)
Fix cursor visibility on VI mode and scroll (#51)
Performance fixes for rendering from teletypewriter updates.
Fix scale issues for 1.0 scale factor or using monitor with different scale factor. (#50)
Improve make pack-osx-arm and make pack-osx-x86 to only contain Rio.app file. (#54)

0.0.4

Fix CPU large usage when scrolling.
Task scheduler.
Copy feature.
Selection feature (selection doesn't work when scrolling yet).
Change default cursor icon for Text (winit::window::CursorIcon).
Scroll bottom when display offset is different than zero.
Fix for user interaction "close Rio terminal" using UI interface (ExitWithCode(0)).
Hide cursor when typing and make it visible again with scroll and cursor interactions.
Implementation of paste files to string path.

0.0.3

Added Input Method Engine (IME) support. Note: only works for preedit with single character now, which means that still need to fix for other keyboards as Japanese, Chinese [...].
Common Keybindings and keybindings for MacOS.
Allow to configure option-as-alt for Winit on MacOs. Issue originally bought by Alacritty on Winit (rust-windowing/winit#768).
Allow to configure environment variables through config file.
Stabilization of Sugarloaf render on emojis, symbos and unicode.

0.0.2

log-level as configurable (DEBUG, INFO, TRACE, ERROR, WARN and OFF). OFF by default.
Introduction of rendering engine called Sugarloaf.
System font loader (tested and implemented for MacOs).
Font loader with not native emoji font (emojis aren't stable yet).
Rect renderer based on provided color (text background), stabilized for monospaced fonts.

0.0.1

Basic move/goto functionalities.
Initial definition of Rio default colors.
Set and reset color by ANSI parser.
Clear/Tabs functionalities.
Grid introduction.
Desktop delta scroll (up and down, without scrollbar UI component).
Teletypewriter 2.0.0 usage for macos and linux.
Resize support.
$SHELL login on macos, by default: /bin/zsh --login (if $SHELL is settled as other could as run /bin/bash --login, /bin/fish --login ...).
Cursor initial support (without VI mode).

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