Release v0.18.0

• Fix: Properly open new pane with CWD also when switching to a new tab (#729)
• Feature: Option to create a new session if attach fails (zellij attach --create) (#731)
• Feature: Added the new Visible event, allowing plugins to detect if they are visible in the current tab (#717)
• Feature: Plugins now have access to a data directory at /data – the working directory is now mounted at /host instead of . (#723)
• Feature: Add ability to solely specify the tab name in the tabs section (#722)
• Feature: Plugins can be configured and the groundwork for "Headless" plugins has been laid (#660)
• Automatically update example/default.yaml on release (#736)
• Feature: allow mirroring sessions in multiple terminal windows (#740)
• Feature: display a message when the current pane is in full-screen (#450)
• Terminal compatibility: handle cursor movements outside scroll region (#746)
• Terminal compatibility: scroll lines into scrollback when clearing viewport (#747)

Release v0.17.0

• New panes/tabs now open in CWD of focused pane (#691)
• Fix bug when opening new tab the new pane's viewport would sometimes be calculated incorrectly (#683)
• Fix bug when in some cases closing a tab would not clear the previous pane's contents (#684)
• Fix bug where tabs would sometimes be created with the wrong index in their name (#686)
• Fix bug where wide chars would mess up pane titles (#698)
• Fix various borderless-frame in viewport bugs (#697)
• Fix example configuration file (#693)
• Fix various tab bar responsiveness issues (#703)
• Allow plugins to run system commands (#666)
  • This has also added a temporary new permission flag that needs to be specified in the layout. This is a breaking change:

    ...
    plugin: strider
    ...

    has become:

    plugin:
      path: strider

    A plugin can be given command executing permission with:

    plugin:
      path: strider
      _allow_exec_host_cmd: true

• Use the unicode width in tab-bar plugin, for tab names (#709)
• Fix automated builds that make use of the setup subcommand (#711)
• Add option to specify a tabs name in the tab layout file (#715)
• Improve handling of empty valid yaml files (#716)
• Add options subcommand to attach (#718)
• Fix: do not pad empty pane frame title (#724)
• Fix: Do not overflow empty lines when resizing panes (#725)

Release v0.16.0

• Plugins don't crash zellij anymore on receiving mouse events (#620)

• A universal logging system has been implemented (#592)

  • Added log crate support for logging within Zellij
  • Messages sent over the stderr of plugins are now logged as well, bringing back dbg! support!

• Add displaying of the session-name to the tab-bar (#608)

• Add command to dump layouts to stdout (#623)

  • zellij setup --dump-layout [LAYOUT] [default, strider, disable-status]

• Add action: ScrollToBottom (#626)

  • Bound by default to ^c in scroll mode, scrolls to bottom and exists the scroll mode

• Simplify deserialization slightly (#633)

• Fix update plugin attributes on inactive tab (#634)

• New pane UI: draw pane frames - can be disabled with ctrl-p + z, or through configuration (#643)

• Terminal compatibility: support changing index colors through OSC 4 and similar (#646)

• Fix various shells (eg. nushell) unexpectedly exiting when the user presses ctrl-c (#648)

• Fix line wrapping while scrolling (#650)

• Indicate to the user when text is copied to the clipboard with the mouse (#642)

• Terminal compatibility: properly paste multilines (#653 + #658)

• Terminal compatibility: fix progress bar line overflow (http://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/656)

• Add action to toggle between tabs ToggleTab, bound by default to [TAB] in tab mode (#622)

• Terminal compatibility: properly handle cursor shape changes in eg. Neovim (#659)

• The resize and layout systems have been overhauled (#568)

  • Resizing a terminal then returning it to its original size will now always return panes to their original sizes and positions
  • Resize mode resizes panes by 5% of the space on screen, not some fixed number
  • Panes on-screen keep their ratios – a screen split 50/50 between two panes will remain 50/50 even as the terminal is resized (#406)
  • The terminal can now be resized without leaving fullscreen mode
  • Layout parts are split into equal percentages if no explicit split-size is given (#619)
  • Fixed display of the tab bar at small terminal widths

• Add tabs to layouts (#625)

  The layout has now a template, and tabs section.
  The template specifies the location a tab is inserted in with body: true.

  Eg:

  ---
  template:
    direction: Horizontal
    parts:
      - direction: Vertical
        borderless: true
        split_size:
          Fixed: 1
        run:
          plugin: tab-bar
      - direction: Vertical # <= The location of
        body: true          # <= the inserted tab.
      - direction: Vertical
        borderless: true
        split_size:
          Fixed: 2
        run:
          plugin: status-bar
  tabs:
    - direction: Vertical # <= Multiple tabs can be
    - direction: Vertical # <= specified in the layout.
    - direction: Vertical
  

  The NewTab action can optionally be bound to open
  a layout that is assumed to be in the new tabs section

  This is a BREAKING CHANGE for people that have the
  NewTab action already bound in the config file:

  - action: [NewTab, ]
    key: [F: 5,]
  

  must now be specified as:

  - action: [NewTab: ,]
    key: [F: 5,]
  

  Optionally a layout that should be opened on the new tab can be
  specified:

  - action: [NewTab: {
    direction: Vertical,
    parts: [ {direction: Horizontal, split_size: {Percent: 50}},
    {direction: Horizontal, run: {command: {cmd: "htop"}}},],
    key: [F: 6,]
  

Release v0.15.0

• Kill children properly (#601)

• Change name of Run binding for actions (#602)

• Add running commands to layouts (#600)

  POSSIBLE BREAKING CHANGE for custom layouts:
  Plugins are under the run category now, that means:

  plugin: status-bar
  

  is now:

  run:
      plugin: status-bar
  

• Add on_force_close config option (#609)

Release v0.14.0

• Add improved error handling for layouts (#576)
• Change layout directory from data to config (#577)
  POSSIBLE BREAKING CHANGE:
  In case of having custom layouts in the previous
  layout-dir one can switch either the layouts to
  the new dir, or set the layout-dir to be the current
  layout-dir
• Fix Makefile.toml because of missing directory (#580)
• Autodetach on force close (#581)
• Add option to specify a default shell (#594)
• Add action to run bound commands in a pane (#596)
• Initial mouse support (#448)
• Add layout-dir to setup --check subcommand (#599)

Release v0.13.0

• Fix crash when padding before widechar (#540)
• Do not lag when reading input too fast (#536)
• Session name optional in attach command (#542)
• Fix build on platforms with TIOCGWINSZ / ioctl() integer type mismatch (#547)
• Fix(ui): session mode should be disabled in locked mode (#548)
• Add option to start in arbitrary modes (#513)
• Attaching to a session respects the default_mode setting of the client (#549)
• Add option to specify a color theme in the config (#550)
• Fix config options to not depend on simplified_ui (#556)
• Don't rename unnamed tabs upon deletion of other tabs (#554)
• Add layout to disable the status bar (#555)
• Significantly improve terminal pane performance (#567)

Release v0.12.1

• HOTFIX: fix Zellij not responding to input on certain terminals (#538)

Release v0.12.0

• Remove unused imports (#504)
• More Infrastructure changes for the upcoming session detach feature: run server and client in separate processes (#499)
• Restructuring cargo workspace: Separate client, server and utils into separate crates (#515)
• Terminal compatibility: handle most OSC sequences (#517)
• Split layout flag into layout and layout-path (#514)
• Fix behaviour of the clean flag (#519)
• Make distinction clearer between certain configuration flags (#529)
• Resource usage and performance improvements (#523)
• Feature: Detachable/Persistent sessions (#531)
• Terminal compatibility: Support wide characters (#535)

Release v0.11.0

This version is mostly an installation hotfix.

• Add check flag to setup subcommand, move generate-completions subcommand to setup flag (#503)
• Change the asset installation from an opt-in to an opt-out (#512)

Release v0.10.0

• Change Switch default config loading order of HOME and system (#488)
• Add support for requesting a simpler layout from plugins, move clean flag from options to setup (#479)
• Improve config loading slightly (#492)
• Terminal compatibility: preserve current style when clearing viewport (#493)
• Fix propagation of plugin ui request (#495)
• Handle pasted text properly (#494)
• Fix default keybinds for tab -> resize mode (#497)
• Terminal compatibility: device reports (#500)
• Forward unknown keys to the active terminal (#501)