1.3.0 - Release Notes

Release notes for Ghostty 1.3.0, released on March 9, 2026.

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@mitchellh congrats! to both you and zig!
@mitchellh Building this from source on a CPU with a lot of cores in it. Thank you for not using autotools.
@mitchellh is it just me or it feels a bit less responsive than Kitty? I thought they’d be roughly the same given that both run on GPU!
@mitchellh that being said it is a solid project, and works really great!
@mitchellh Congrats 🎉👻
@mitchellh That's cool! I've been an xterm man myself for a long time, haven't really found anything that gets me to change.
@mitchellh I’ve just built v.1.0.0 from source on Linux, and the build process was the easiest I’ve ever used for a project of this size! Zig build system for the win!
@mitchellh Yay! Thanks for the Christmas present.
@mitchellh Loving it so far. Super fast and lightweight. I've stuck with gnome-terminal for ages because I haven't found a "modern" one that I like... until now.
@mitchellh built this on Arch this morning. Replaced my default terminal. Good work!
@mitchellh Congrats! Daily driver for last month, not looking back

@mitchellh Downloaded for OSX and working great! Feels fast.  

The only tweaks I've made at this point is to use my preferred font and theme.

Thank you!! 🥳

@mitchellh I thought I caught a bug related bug to option as alt on macOS. Turns out this terminal is just thoroughly configurable!
@mitchellh congratulations!! Just downloaded it on my Mac - been waiting eagerly for the release! It is a wonderful Christmas present to the community 🙂
@mitchellh I love the idea. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/e2aee7f75b864ec4b9759dbc1231d5464fadbdf5/build.zig#L344 makes me think this compiles on Windows (I run WSL). However, there's no precompiled image as far as I can see. Is this planned? Thanksso much.
ghostty/build.zig at e2aee7f75b864ec4b9759dbc1231d5464fadbdf5 · ghostty-org/ghostty

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - ghostty-org/ghostty

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