Kakoune 2025.06.03

• Expose env vars that are mentioned in the arguments passed to shell expansions

• Support for colored double underlines

• git apply can now operate on selected changes in the current buffer's file (useful for quick (un)staging and reverting)

• exec/eval -client switch accepts '*' for all clients and comma separated list of client names.

Kakoune 2024.05.18

• Fixed tests on Alpine Linux and *BSD

Kakoune 2024.05.09

• flag-lines -after switch to display text after the line

• shell-script-candidates completion now runs the script asynchronously
  while displaying and updating results live.

• %val{window_range} elements are now emitted as different strings

• + only duplicates identical selections a single time to avoid surprising
  and slow exponential growth in the number of selections.

• daemonize-session command makes it possible to convert the current session
  to a daemon one (which will not exit on last client disconnecting)

• View mode commands and mouse scrolling no longer change selections when those go off-screen.

• New commands git apply, git blame-jump, git edit and git grep.

• git blame now also works in git-diff and git-log buffers.

• Completions provided via shell-script-candidates or completers are no longer sorted if the typed text is empty.

• The terminal alias has been replaced with a command that selects terminal program and placement based on windowing options.

• local scopes in commands and evaluate-commands.

Kakoune 2023.08.05

This is a bug fix release

• Fix compilation errors on FreeBSD and MacOS using clang

Kakoune 2023.07.29

• <a-u> and <a-U> now undo/redo selection changes; the previous meaning of moving in history tree has been moved to <c-j> and <c-k>

• %exp{...} expansions provide flexible quoting for expanded strings (as double quoted strings)

• <c-g> cancels the current operation and goes back to the main event loop, this provides an escape hatch when Kakoune seems to hang due to a costly operation

• show-matching -previous highlighter will fall back onto the character preceeding the cursor

Kakoune 2022.10.31

• complete-command to specify and change how a command is completed

• p, P, ! and <a-!> commands now select the inserted text

• x now just extends the selection to contain full lines (as <a-x> did) <a-x> trims partial lines from the selection (as <a-X> did)

• User mappings is now bound to <space> while keeping/removing main selection moved to , and <a-,>

• Prompt history registers %reg{colon}, %reg{slash} and %reg{pipe} now have reverse chronological order

• Executing user mode mappings no longer adds to prompt history registers.

Kakoune 2021.11.08

Bug fixes after feedback from 2021.10.28

• Support for curly and separately colored underlines (undocumented in 2021.10.28)
• Fixes for terminal flickering
• Fixes for command and response fifo corner cases

Kakoune 2021.10.28

• g and v do not auto lower case the next key, so GL needs to be manually mapped to Gl for example.

• Fix flickering issues on some terminals such as the linux console

Kakoune v2021.08.28

• command and response fifo support

• Shell expansions only trim the last trailing newline instead of all of them to make is possible to losslessly pass text through %sh{...}.

• set-option -remove support for subtracting/removing from option values

• Menu completions such as command name completion are now auto-inserted on space

• write -atomic was replaced with write -method [replace|overwrite] to make both write methods available explicitly

• write <filename> will fail if the given filename already exists and is a regular file. Use the -force switch to override that behaviour.

• ncurses was replaced with a custom terminal escape sequence backend, ncurses is not a dependency anymore.

Kakoune v2020.09.01

This is mostly a bugfix release.

• Daemon mode (-d switch) does not fork anymore.
• Fix crash on completion.