Kitty Terminal Emulator

changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.44.0 [2025-11-03]

• Allow kitty to read a specified set of environment variables from your login shell at startup using the env directive in kitty.conf (#9042)
• A new option draw_window_borders_for_single_window to force kitty to always draw a window border even when only a single window is present (#9112)
• Fix a regression in 0.43.0 that caused a black flicker when closing a tab in the presence of a background image (#9060)
• Further improvements to rounded corner rendering, especially at low DPI (#9091)
• Splits layout: Fix a bug that could cause a corrupted layout in some circumstances (#9059)
• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke goto_session -1
• Fix rendering broken on ancient GPU drivers that do not support rendering to 16 bit textures (#9068)
• Fix tab bar sometimes showing incorrect tabs when it is filtered to show only tabs from the current session (#9079)
• macOS: Workaround for bug in macOS Tahoe that caused OS Windows that are fullscreen to crash kitty when returning from sleep on some machines (#8983)
• Graphics: Fix animated images sometimes not auto playing or auto playing at the wrong start frame if the same image id is used for a subsequent image
• Fix a regression in 0.43.0 that caused high CPU usage when disable_ligatures was set to cursor and the tab bar was visible (#9071)
• macOS: Handle dropping of file promises into kitty in addition to file paths (#9084)
• macOS: Fix indeterminate progress bar displayed on dock icon increasing speed when indeterminate progress is set without being cleared first (#9114)
• macOS: Performance and power usage improvements of about 5-10% (#9131)
• macOS: Add an item to the global menu to Cycle through OS windows
• macOS: Quick access terminal: Fix a crash when changing font size (#9178)
• Wayland: Fix center-sized panels not working on smithay based compositors (#9117)
• Wayland: Fix scrolling using some mouse wheels that produce “VALUE120” based scroll events too fast on some compositors (#9128)
• Automatic color scheme switching: Fix title bar color not being updated (#9167)
• Add support for Unicode 17
• Fix a regression in 0.43.0 that caused tab_bar_margin_width to be doubled on the right edge of the tab bar (#9154)
• Session files: Add a new focus_tab command to specify which tab should be active when a session is loaded. Accepts either a plain number (0-based index) or a match expression for flexible tab selection, allowing sessions to preserve the active tab state (Sessions)
• save_as_session: Add --base-dir option to specify a base directory for saving session files with relative paths, useful when the current working directory is not the desired location (Sessions)
• Add state:focused_os_window match query to select all windows in the currently focused OS window (Matching windows and tabs)
• Session saving now preserves visual tab order and active tab rather than tab activation history as this is generally more important. In the future may have it save tab history as well (#9163)