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

0.42.2 [2025-07-16]

• A new protocol extension to notify terminal programs that have turned on SGR Pixel mouse reporting when the mouse leaves the window (#8808)
• clipboard kitten: Can now optionally take a password to avoid repeated permission prompts when accessing the clipboard. Based on a protocol extension. (#8789)
• A new launch --hold-after-ssh to not close a launched window that connects directly to a remote host because of launch --cwd=current when the connection ends (#8807)
• Fix remember_window_position not working because of a stupid typo (#8646)
• A new kitty --grab-keyboard that can be used to grab the keyboard so that global shortcuts are sent to kitty instead
• Remote control: Fix holding a remote control socket open causing the kitty I/O thread to go into a loop and not respond on other remote control sockets (#8670)
• hints kitten: Preserve line breaks when the hint is over a line break (#8674)
• Fix a segfault when using the copy_ansi_to_clipboard action (#8682)
• Fix a crash when using linear easing curves for animations (#8692)
• Graphics protocol: Add a note clarifying image update behavior on re-transmission (#8701)
• Wayland GNOME: Fix incorrect OS Window tracking because GNOME has started activating windows on non-current workspaces (#8716)
• Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that broke rendering of VS15 variation selectors in some circumstances (#8731, #8794)
• Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that broke serialization of tab characters as ANSI text (#8741)
• Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that broke erasing of characters in a line in the presence of wide characters (#8758)
• Fix a regression in 0.40.0 that broke hyperlinking of wide characters (#8796)
• Fix a regression that broke using esc to exit visual select window mode (#8767)
• kitten run-shell: Fix SIGINT blocked when execing the shell (#8754)