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Changes

• Bug fixes

  • (macOS) Alt + whatever is now forwarded as such instead of converted to a special character, if wanted and enabled
  • (macOS) Filenames can't be used for shell injections anymore and are allowed to contain any spaces, dollar signs or else, lol
  • Some remote clipboard fixes
  • Cursor is not magically invisible anymore when a script demands input on the command line
  • Dynamically detect whether the size was changed by external factors at startup

• (beware, binary package maintainers) Release Linux binaries are now unnested folder-wise

• Binaries are now much smaller in size (stripped + without debug flags)

• Fira Code Nerd Font is now the default font instead of Fira Code (in effect more icons)

• Heavily reduced frame rate by default if Neovide is not focused

• Confirm on quit is now enabled by default

• Undercurl, underdash, underdot and more are implemented now (with caveats and known bugs in terms of clipped undercurl)

• (macOS) New config option to allow a background color for the titlebar and editor

• (macOS) Changed default of g:neovide_use_logo to v:true

• (Linux) On X, WM_CLASS' instance part is now configurable

And finally, not really release related but something to celebrate anyways:

• Reworked website on https://neovide.dev to host documentation!

New Contributors

• @ioreshnikov made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1366
• @alerque made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1380
• @kianmeng made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1355
• @kskarthik made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1386
• @d12bb made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1292
• @sgoudham made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1428
• @Matts966 made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1459
• @chipbuster made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1458
• @DerFetzer made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1454
• @Ludmuterol made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1468
• @nik-x made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1456
• @calops made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1469

Smaller things. But hey, we wanted to do smaller and faster releases now.

Changes

• Bug fixes
  • Invalid UTF-8 is now displayed as the U+FFFD replacement character instead of crashing
  • Clipboard is less race-condition-happy now
  • No more random freeze at startup
  • Probably smaller things that went indirectly in through bumping dependencies
• Files are now opened in tabs by default
• Blur amount is configurable now, do so at your own risk (see the wiki)

New Contributors

• @pinjeff made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1276
• @SergioRibera made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1275
• @cgadski made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1306
• @khjorth made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1344

Too many things to count since last release 2 years ago.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some highlights.

• Smooth scrolling and animated windows
• Swapped to winit
• Swapped to opengl away from vulkan for compatibility
• Better keyboard modifier handling
• Transparent floating windows
• Configuration/settings improvements
• many many more

Thanks so much to the many contributors who pitched in features and bug fixes <3

Moving forward, I hope we can make faster smaller releases.

This release introduces smooth scrolling when the multigrid is enabled. Also includes a number of bug fixes and refactorings.

• Swapped back to upstream skulpin
• Some mixed results keyboard handling fixes (still not perfect)
• Bunch of unit testing (thanks @j4qfrost)
• Significant startup speed improvements and font loading improvements (thanks @exoticus)
• Better fullscreen on windows (thanks @R-Michelsen)
• Manual font fallback listing in guifont
• Other misc bug fixes

• Particles everywhere! Configuration via g:neovide_cursor_vfx_mode. Examples in the readme. Thanks @jonvaldes!
• Swapped to SDL2. Fixed a ton of bugs and generally made things snappier
• Lots of random bug fixes. More to come.

Rewrote and embedded fonts Fix some startup bugs

Rewrote the render loop to be a bit more efficient and stable. Rewrote font lookup so as to more accurately pick up the default monospace font.

Still un-automated and windows only binary release. Linux and Mac should be possible by building manually.

Super un-automated un-tested windows only release.