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Fedora 38: 2023-a004ecb3f8 Critical Update for Kitty Terminal Emulator

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 38 introduces an essential update for the Kitty terminal, improving performance and functionality with faster rendering and better resource management for a seamless experience
version 0.29.1 fixes CVE-2008-2383

Summary

- Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth

scrolling. Uses threaded rendering to minimize input latency.

- Supports all modern terminal features: graphics (images), unicode, true-color,

OpenType ligatures, mouse protocol, focus tracking, bracketed paste and

several new terminal protocol extensions.

- Supports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts

without needing to use an extra program like tmux.

- Can be controlled from scripts or the shell prompt, even over SSH.

- Has a framework for Kittens, small terminal programs that can be used to

extend kitty's functionality. For example, they are used for Unicode input,

Hints and Side-by-side diff.

- Supports startup sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout,

working directories and programs to run on startup.

- Cross-platform: kitty works on Linux and macOS, but because it uses only

OpenGL for rendering, it should be trivial to port to other Unix-like

platforms.

- Allows you to open the scrollback buffer in a separate window using arbitrary

programs of your choice. This is useful for browsing the history comfortably

in a pager or editor.

- Has multiple copy/paste buffers, like vim.

Update Information:

version 0.29.1 fixes CVE-2008-2383

Change Log

* Mon Jul 17 2023 Pavel Solovev - 0.29.1-1 - version 0.29.1 * Wed Jun 28 2023 Pavel Solovev - 0.28.1-7 - disable flaky test * Tue Jun 27 2023 Python Maint - 0.28.1-6 - Rebuilt for Python 3.12 * Wed Jun 14 2023 Pavel Solovev - 0.28.1-5 - fix build with python3.12

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2221705 - kitty-0.29.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2221705

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-a004ecb3f8' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: kitty
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 0.29.1
Release: 1.fc38
Summary: Cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator

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