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Ghostty 1.4 and libghostty progress
Mitchell Hashimoto releases Ghostty 1.4 with full Kitty graphics animation, ~90% scrollback compression, macOS 27 support and more.
Key points
- Ghostty 1.4 is out, adding full Kitty graphics with animation, scrollback compression of ~90+% on average, macOS 27 support, a new OpenGL renderer on Linux, ghostty +ssh, and 50-90% less memory usage depending on workload.
- The release covers 7 months of work from 172 contributors over 2,889 commits and fixes 10 security advisories.
- JetBrains IDEs are now powered by libghostty, reaching over 12.5 million active users across all platforms based on JetBrains' own annual reports.
- Mitchellh said libghostty was always the primary goal of the Ghostty project, and that nothing in his 6-month libghostty progress list was true 6 months ago.
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Ghostty 1.4 is now out! Full Kitty graphics with animation (the first terminal besides Kitty to do it), scrollback compression for much lower memory usage, macOS 27 support, a new OpenGL renderer on Linux, ghostty +ssh, big performance gains, and hundreds more changes.
The highlights:
- Scrollback compression: scrollback compresses ~90+% on average, meaning your terminals use that much less live memory
- Huge memory savings across the board: no single large thing, just lots of good improvements lowers memory usage everywhere, netting anywhere from 50 to 90% less memory usage depending on workload
- Kitty graphics is now 100% complete, including animation and relative placements, after a full conformance pass against the spec and Kitty itself
- The Kitty clipboard protocol, with an image preview when a program asks to read your clipboard
- Split drag and drop on Linux, including between windows
- ghostty +ssh installs terminfo on remote hosts automatically, so things just work over SSH
- Lots of terminal emulation accuracy fixes
This release is 7 months of work from 172 contributors over 2,889 commits. It also fixes 10 security advisories, so please update.
Full release notes: https://t.co/T72oUV895k
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Mitchell Hashimoto announced JetBrains IDE terminals now run libghostty, reaching over 12.5M active users with major feature and performance gains.
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Mitchell Hashimoto shows libghostty's six-month progress, saying everything on the list was untrue six months ago and is now very real.
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