Kitty 0.49 Terminal Emulator Lands With Custom Shaders and Faster Performance
Kitty 0.49 introduces official custom shader support alongside broad performance improvements, delivering 15–35% higher real-world throughput.
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Kitty 0.48 Terminal Emulator Introduces Vertical Tabs
Kitty 0.48 introduces vertical tabs on the left or right side, plus Wayland fixes, macOS enhancements, and performance improvements.
Kitty 0.47 Terminal Emulator Adds Drag and Drop Kitten
Kitty 0.47 GPU-accelerated terminal adds a new drag-and-drop kitten, window rearranging, auto config reloads, progress bars, and several security fixes.
Kitty 0.46 Terminal Emulator Released with Smooth Scrolling and Tab Dragging
Kitty 0.46 GPU-accelerated terminal introduces smooth pixel scrolling, momentum scrolling on Linux, draggable tabs, and mouse-based split resizing.
Kitty Terminal 0.45 Released With New Keyboard-First File Selector Kitten
Kitty 0.45 GPU-accelerated terminal introduces a new keyboard-first file selector kitten with fast navigation and rich previews for text, images, videos, and e-books.
Kitty Terminal 0.44 Released with Unicode 17 Support
Kitty 0.44 GPU-accelerated terminal adds Unicode 17 support, macOS optimizations, and fixes flickering, CPU issues, and Wayland scrolling bugs.
Kitty Terminal 0.43 Brings Session Management
Kitty 0.43 GPU-accelerated terminal emulator adds session management, cursor trail colors, blinking text, and improved macOS compatibility.
Kitty 0.42 Launches With Quick-Access Terminal
Kitty 0.42, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, brings a Quake-style quick-access terminal, Unicode 16-compliant grapheme segmentation, and more.
Kitty 0.40 Terminal Emulator Brings Variable Font Sizes
Kitty 0.40 GPU-accelerated terminal emulator brings font size flexibility, better underline rendering, and more.
Kitty Terminal Emulator: How to Install, Configure, and Use It
In this guide, we will be looking at how to install, customize and use the Kitty terminal emulator on Linux.