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

0.42.1 [2025-05-17]

  • Fix ambiguous width and private use characters not being rendered when used with variable width text-sizing protocol escape codes
  • Quick access terminal: Restore focus to previously active window when hiding the quick access terminal window on macOS (#8627)
  • Wayland: Fix an abort if the terminal program sets a window title longer than 2KB that contains CSI escape sequences and multibyte UTF-8 (#8619)
  • Quick access terminal: Allow toggling the window to full screen using the standard kitty ctrl+shift+f11 shortcut (#8626)
  • Quick access terminal: Allow configuring the monitor to display the panel on in Wayland/X11 (#8630)
  • A new setting remember_window_position to optionally use the position of the last closed kitty OS Window as the position of the first kitty OS Window when running a new kitty instance (#8601)
  • Panel kitten: A new center-sized value for --edge to allow easily creating sized and centered panels
  • Wayland: The kitty --name flag now sets the XDG window tag on compositors that support the xdg-toplevel-tag protocol.