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

0.40.1 [2025-03-18]

• Do not count background processes by default for confirm_os_window_close (#8358)
• A new option clear_selection_on_clipboard_loss to clear selections when they no longer reflect the contents of the clipboard
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused empty lines to be skipped when copying text from a selection (#8435)
• Fix flickering of hyperlink underline when client program continuously redraws on mouse movement (#8414)
• Wayland: Allow overriding the kitty OS Window icon on compositors that implement the xdg-toplevel-icon protocol
• macOS: When the program running in kitty reports progress information for a task, show a progress bar on the kitty dock icon
• macOS: Fix a regression causing a crash when using focus_follows_mouse (#8437)
• OSC 52: Fix specifying both clipboard and primary in OSC 52 requests not supported