Contour terminal v0.5 released

Change log

• macOS package is now Apple Silicon native
• Add CoreText font fallback implementation for macOS (#1533)
• Add Ubuntu-24.04 in github actions (#1460)
• Add 'early_exit_threshold' config option (#1460)
• Add AppImage package with Qt6 support (#586)
• Add ability to customize the indicator statusline through configuration (#687)
• Add generation of config file from internal state (#1282)
• Add SGRSAVE and SGRRESTORE VT sequences to save and restore SGR state (They intentionally conflict with XTPUSHSGR and XTPOPSGR)
• Add extended word selection feature (#1023)
• Add some more missing vi input motions, such as y$, o$, and many others as initiated by y and o (#1441)
• Add CPM fallback for the dependencies
• Add static build
• Add shell integration for bash shell.
• Add better bell sound (#1378)
• Add config entry to configure behaviour on exit from search mode
• Add config entry to configure font fallback (#225)
• Add handling of different input commands (#629)
• Add key bindings disabled indicator for status line (#783)
• Add support for highlighting matches of the currently selected text area (beyond double click)
• When switching to normal mode screen will stay in same position (#808)
• Add customizable per-input-mode default text/background coloring for indicator statusline (#1528)
• Add option PasteSelection to paste text as a shell input (#1549)
• Add case-insensitive smart search (#1410)
• Add OpenBSD support
• Add new CLI command: contour info config to list missing entries from config file (#1125).
• Add xdg-terminal-exec support (#1570).
• Add predefined color palettes (monokai, gruvbox-light/dark, solarized-light/dark, papercolor-light/dark, one-light, one-dark) (#1285).
• Update of contour.desktop file (#1423)
• Changed configuration entry values for font_locator down to native and mock only (#1538).
• Do not export the TERM environment variable on Windows OS (when using ConPTY).
• Fixes line corruption after resize (#883)
• Fixes resize of trivial line (#916)
• Fixes copying of wrapped line
• Fixes deletion of spaces on resize
• Fixes forwarding of input while in normal mode (#1468)
• Fixes OSC-8 link id collision (#1499)
• Fixed overlap of glyphs for long codepoints (#1349)
• Fixed too verbose info during ssh session login (#1447)
• Fixes corruption of sixel image on high resolution (#1049)
• Fixes bad wording of OS/X to macOS (#1462)
• Fixes key bindings and search prompt collision (#1472)
• Fixes CSI 8 ; (COLS) ; (ROWS) t to resize the terminal with respect to High-DPI
• Fixes screen sampling with multiple monitors (#940)
• Fixes bell sound in spawned window in same process (#1515)
• Fixes status line crush (#1511)
• Fixes application window icon on (KDE) Wayland
• Fixes missing keymapping for numpad (#1325)
• Improves handling of constant bell sound spawning
• Fixes yW (yank WORD) not working properly in normal mode (#1448)
• Fixes key mapping Shift+Tab (#1578)

released: 2024/09/18