Alacritty

Alacritty 0.17.0

Alacritty is a free and open-source GPU accelerated terminal emulator focused on performance and simplicity.

  • By Alacritty
  • Open Source
  • Updated Apr 6, 2026
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About Alacritty

Alacritty is a free and open-source GPU accelerated terminal emulator focused on performance and simplicity.

What's new in 0.17.0

Packaging

  • Fixed invalid logo SVG attributes
  • New alacritty-escapes(7) manpage
  • Removed broken flash capability from terminfo

Added

  • Ability to bind WheelUp and WheelDown in mouse.bindings
  • Support TOML 1.1 syntax
  • window.resize_increments support on Wayland

Changed

  • Don't highlight hints on hover when the mouse cursor is hidden
  • IME is disabled in Vi mode on X11
  • Require explicit tap to enable IME with touch input
  • Use built-in font for block elements symbols from U+1FB82 to U+1FB8B

Fixed

  • Brief error popup when saving the config file with some editors
  • Subprocesses on OpenBSD now run with their CWD set to that of the shell's foreground process.
  • Crash when OpenGL context resets
  • Crash when committing text with some IMEs on macOS
  • Signal termination skipping resource cleanup

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Technical details

PublisherAlacritty
Version0.17.0
Release date2026-04-06
LicenseApache-2.0
Installer typewix
Architecturex64
Package IDAlacritty.Alacritty

Links & install command

Install Alacritty from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=Alacritty.Alacritty -e

terminal

Older versions

  • 0.16.1
  • 0.16.0
  • 0.15.1
  • 0.15.0
  • 0.14.0
  • 0.13.2
  • 0.13.1
  • 0.13.0
  • 0.12.2