5.2.0

🚀 Features

• Support for the overline attribute SGR 53/55 (#4526, #4532) via @Tyriar

📦 API

• Improved Windows workarounds with the new windowsPty option (#4539) via @Tyriar

  const term = new Terminal({
    windowsPty: {
      backend: 'conpty',
      buildNumber: 19000
    }
  });

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix performance issue related to hovering links (#4341) via @Tyriar
• Fix exception by validating rows are correct when rendering (#4346) via @Tyriar
• Improve rendering of dotted underline (#4350) via @Tyriar
• Invalidate links after resizing (#4358) via @Tyriar
• Fix texture atlas exception thrown when changing options (#4390) via @Tyriar
• Show hollow cursor when unfocused, regardless of cursor type (#4443) via @tisilent
• Fix out of sync link underlines after resizing on Windows (#4458) via @Tyriar
• Fix a lifecycle issue with decorations (#4465) via @Tyriar
• Rerender in the DOM renderer after options change (#4475) via @kelvinhammond
• Fix DECRQM reports and add DECBKM (#4478) via @jerch
• Fix links not working when using a screen reader (#4491) via @jerch
• Ensure decorations in the top layer render on top of decorations in the bottom layer (#4516) via @jeanp413
• Avoid triggering a reflow while rendering search decorations (#4521) via @jeanp413
• Don't apply dim to background color (#4525) via @Tyriar
• Fix exception and performance issue when rendering link underlines (#4546) via @jerch

📝 Documentation and internal improvements

• Remove unused buffer code (#4335) via @jerch
• Explore a different accessibility view (#4340, #4375, #4376, #4377, #4381, #4382, #4383, #4389, #4395, #4398, #4400, #4402, #4406, #4413, #4427, #4536) via @meganrogge, @Tyriar
• Update CI containers to Ubuntu 20.04 (#4347) via @silamon
• Update CI containers to use Node 18 (#4542) via @silamon
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• Remove unused imports (#4361) via @Eugeny
• Replace dom helper with HTMLElement.remove() (#4364) via @Tyriar
• Show proper parameter hints when calling createInstance (#4393) via @Tyriar
• Correct registerMarker API docs (#4464) via @Tyriar
• Add FAQ to new issue report (#4512) via @Tyriar
• Fix buffer corruption for utf8 transport in demo (#4527) via @jerch

⚠️ Deprecations

• windowsMode has been deprecated in favor of windowsPty

  // Before 5.2
  term = new Terminal({ windowsMode: true });
  // After 5.2
  term = new Terminal({
    windowsPty: {
      backend: 'conpty',
      buildNumber: 19000
    }
  });

🎉 New real-world use cases

• graSSHopper (#4356) via @Coding-Kiwi
• DomTerm (#4456) via @Tyriar

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📥 Addons

xterm-addon-canvas

• Fix rendering of underline on wide characters (#4352) via @Tyriar
• Update selection properly after changing themes (#4353) via @Tyriar
• Update selection properly after a resize (#4355) via @Tyriar
• Correct cell background color after clearing formatting (#4438) via @jerch
• Fix rendering of 0xE0BB and 0xE0BF powerline symbols (#4451) via @Starwort
• Fix rendering of cursor leaving artifacts on Firefox (#4500) via @Tyriar
• Disallow glyphs to exceed texture atlas size (#4508) via @Tyriar
• Don't apply dim to background color (#4525) via @Tyriar
• Fix blacked out content (#4533) via @Tyriar

xterm-addon-search

• Improve search behavior when there are > 1000 results (#4504) via @jeanp413

xterm-addon-webgl

• Fix rendering of underline on wide characters (#4352) via @Tyriar
• Fix loadCell exception (#4403) via @meganrogge
• Fix rendering of 0xE0BB and 0xE0BF powerline symbols (#4451) via @Starwort
• Fix rendering of cursor leaving artifacts on Firefox (#4500) via @Tyriar
• Disallow glyphs to exceed texture atlas size (#4508) via @Tyriar
• Don't apply dim to background color (#4525) via @Tyriar
• Fix blacked out content (#4530) via @jerch

🤝 Compatible addon versions

• xterm-addon-attach@...
• xterm-addon-fit@...
• xterm-addon-ligatures@...
• xterm-addon-search@...
• xterm-addon-serialize@...
• xterm-addon-unicode11@...
• xterm-addon-web-links@...
• xterm-addon-webgl@...