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

0.38.0 [2024-12-15]

• Allow specifying individual color themes to use so that kitty changes colors automatically following the OS dark/light mode
• notify_on_cmd_finish: Automatically remove notifications when the window gains focus or the next notification is shown. Clearing behavior can be configured (#8100)
• Discard OSC 9 notifications that start with 4; because some misguided software is using it for “progress reporting” (#8011)
• Wayland GNOME: Workaround bug in mutter causing double tap on titlebar to not always work (#8054)
• clipboard kitten: Fix a bug causing kitten to hang in filter mode when input data size is not divisible by 3 and larger than 8KB (#8059)
• Wayland: Fix an abort when a client program tries to set an invalid title containing interleaved escape codes and UTF-8 multi-byte characters (#8067)
• Graphics protocol: Fix delete by number not deleting newest image with the specified number (#8071)
• Fix dashed and dotted underlines not being drawn at the same y position as straight underlines at all font sizes (#8074)
• panel kitten: Allow creating floating and on-top panels with arbitrary placement and size on Wayland (#8068)
• remote_control_password: Fix using a password without any actions not working (#8082)
• Fix enlarging window when a long line is wrapped between the first line of the scrollback buffer and the screen inserting a spurious newline (#7033)
• When re-attaching a detached tab preserve internal layout state such as biases and orientations (#8106)
• hints/unicode_input kittens: Do not lose keypresses that are sent very rapidly via an automation tool immediately after the kitten is launched (#7089)