Ghostty 1.0 came out a year ago today. Since then:
- Command Palette
- Background Images
- Quick Terminal Size
- Graphical Progress Bars (OSC 9;4)
- Undo/Redo Close (macOS)
- Terminal Bell (audio, graphical, and more)
- Custom Cursor Shaders - animations/trails
- SSH Improvements - auto terminfo copying, env fixes
- Quick Terminal on Linux
- Global Keybinds on Linux
- Server-Side Decorations (SSD) on Linux
- Performable Keybindings
- Bitmap Font Support
- Alpha Blending on both macOS and Linux
- Apple Shortcuts Integration (macOS)
- GTK rewrite with native GObject
Coming in 1.3, already in nightly/tip:
- Scrollback Search
- Scrollbars
- Key Tables / Chained Keybinds
- Copy as HTML/RTF
- libghostty started and already shipping in 3rd party production code on all platforms including web
Organizationally:
- Non-profit established
- Subsystem maintainers established with ~10 maintainers
- Community team established with another ~10 members
Commits: 5,154
Unique contributors: 310
See you in 2026. ๐