The snappier resize Release

[8.2.3] - 2026-04-05

Changed

• Reduce lag when resizing window, by moving resize from idle to a timer #6471

The Faster Resize Release

Fixed an issue where styles were being unneccesarily updated when resizing. Textual apps will now adapt to changes in the terminal size much more quickly.

[8.2.2] - 2026-04-03

Fixed

• Fixed Pointless style updates when resizing #6464

The Hot Select Release

Fixes a crash when a selected widget is removed while selecting

[8.2.1] - 2026-03-29

Fixed

• Fix crash when a widget disapears between selections #6455

The Select Release

This release enhances text selection, with auto-scrolling, and the ability to select across container widgets.

This work was sponsored by Mistral AI.

[8.2.0] - 2026-03-27

Added

• Auto-scrolling on select #6440
• Selecting over containers #6440
• Added App.ENABLE_SELECT_AUTO_SCROLL, App.SELECT_AUTO_SCROLL_LINES, App.SELECT_AUTO_SCROLL_SPEED to tweak auto scrolling behavior #6440

The Hotly Completed Release

[8.1.1] - 2026-03-10

Fixed

• Hotfix for animation on complete #6412

The Paused Released

This release should smooth scrolling large documents, particularly for Python < 3.14

[8.1.0] - 2026-03-10

Changed

• Replace circuar references in DOM with weak references to improve GC times #6410
• When animating an attribute a second time, the original on_complete is now called #6410

Added

• Added experimental App.PAUSE_GC_ON_SCROLL_ boolean (disabled by default) #6410

The Direct Tree Release

[8.0.2] - 2026-03-03

Changed

• Themes are now in alphabetical order in command palette #6405

Fixed

• Fixed issues with Directory Tree #6405

The Juicy Release

Small update

[8.0.1] - 2026-03-01

Fixed

• DirectoryTree runs more operations in a thread to avoid micro-freezes

Changes

• Some tweaks to garbage collection to reduce gc time #6402

The BLANK to NULL release

The major version change is due to changing Select.BLANK to Select.NULL, to avoid an unfortunate name clash.

See below for the full changes...

[8.0.0] - 2026-02-16

Added

• Added mode argument to push_screen and push_screen_wait to enable pushing a screen to a non-active mode #6362
• Added App.mode_change_signal and App.screen_change_signal #6362
• Added Tabs.get_tab #6362
• Added Catppuccin Frappe and Macchiato themes #6335

Changed

• It is no longer a NOOP and warning to dismiss a non-active screen. The dismiss will still work, but the screen may not update if the current mode is not active. #6362
• Added 50ms delay when switching screens to allow state to udpate and prevent janky flash of old content #6362
• Breaking change: Changed Select.BLANK to Select.NULL to avoid clash with newer Widget.BLANK Classvar #6374

The extended cursor release

The DataTable row cursor will now extend the full width of the datatable, which looks better.

The DataTable will now only emit a *Selected message if clicking a second time.

[7.5.0] - 2026-01-30

• The DataTable row cursor will extend to the full width if there is excess space #6345
• The DataTable will send a selected event on click, only if the cell / row / column is currently highlighted #6345