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Recommended update for chafa
openSUSE-2025-261
This update for chafa fixes the following issues: - Update to 1.16.1: * Bug fixes: #282 Fish completion not included in release tarball #283 Piping and redirection are broken in Windows - Update to 1.16.0: * Added terminal probing. Currently we can determine geometry, colors and sixel capabilities this way. This supplements the existing heuristics. * The internal terminal database and heuristics were refactored for clarity, with new API added to simplify the configuration process. * I/O is now threaded, resulting in improved responsiveness and pipelining. * New option: --grid=WxH, --grid=[auto|on|off] or -g. This lays out multiple images in a grid for easy browsing. * New option: --label=[on|off] or -l. Labels each image with its filename. Works in both continuous and grid layouts. * New option: --probe=[auto|on|off]. Controls whether to actively probe the terminal. Can take a real number denoting how long to wait for a response. * Sixel quality improved significantly. The quantizer was reimplemented with modern algorithms (#174), and blue noise dithering was introduced (#238). * The new blue noise dithering is also available in symbols mode, and can be turned on with --dither noise. It can be turned off with --dither none. * Numerous small improvements were made to sixel handling: + Terminal cursor placement quirks are now represented and handled. + Images can now cover their cell extents completely. + Workaround for animations "walking up the screen" on quirky terminals. * The JPEG XL loader was improved with optional memory mapping and better container support * Enabled wildcard expansion in Windows builds (#266). * Added completions for the fish shell and updated those for zsh. * Bug fixes: + #111 Provide auto detection of background for perception of transparency + #228 Sixel capability not detected in foot + tmux + #236 Ghostty shows pwd/lock indicator when using Chafa + #238 Sixel image quality significantly different from img2sixel and ImageMagick + #239 Chafa leaves echo on + #245 JPEG file not recognized + #246 Examples using deprecated functions + #249 Sixel detection doesn't set default values + #254 -t 1 doesn't work with -f iterm + #255 Animations scroll/walk up the screen + #265 Enable Kitty image protocol for Warp + #266 On Windows, in a cmd.exe window, filename wildcard expansion is broken + #273 -t 1 messes up some images + #274 -f {kitty,iterm} swaps BG color channels for SVG + #278 Images not always padded to cell boundary + [unfiled] Fix broken bashisms resulting in logic failure + [unfiled] Small leak in chafa_canvas_print_rows() + [unfiled] Uninitialized histogram in nearest-neighbor interp. - Update to 1.14.5: Fixes: * Improve sixel and general terminal support inside tmux * Support JPEGs with CMYK color space * Fix --font-ratio doing nothing * Ensure CLI tool gets linked with libm. - Update to 1.14.4: * Bug fixes: #216 Dither intensity does not work properly - Update to 1.14.3: * Sixel transparency has been reenabled for still frames. Animations will be pre-composited on an opaque background to prevent flicker/glitchiness (#211) * Now supports the Ghostty terminal, defaulting to the Kitty graphics protocol there. * Bug fixes: #185 Chafa version 1.14 breaks image preview on lf. #210 Crash with -f sixels. #211 Sixels are too small in Windows Terminal. #212 Aspect-preserving calculations are off in some cases. [unfiled] Inconsistent fraction parsing in CLI arguments. [unfiled] A few small memory leaks in the JPEG XL loader. - Update to 1.14.2: * #203 Chafa 1.14.1 fails to build on i686 * #205 Symbols mode not working since 1.14.1 * #206 Crash when importing more than 32767 glyphs * Fix erroneous base64 encoding of final byte in some circumstances - Update to 1.14.1: * A JPEG XL (.jxl) loader was added using libjxl (#188). * Added detection of the Eat "Emulate a Terminal" Emacs terminal. * Symbols mode was sped up significantly on AVX2-capable platforms. * Tests: A new test driver was added. It will log the specifics of any failures, which aids debugging of CI builds. * Bug fixes: #189 Fix installation of zsh completions. #190 Fix a small memory leak in ChafaCanvas. #192 Wrong sixel padding in some circumstances. #195 tmux passthrough enabled when already set. #196 iTerm mode not enabled automatically. - Enable optional image formats * jpeg * svg * tiff * webp - Update to 1.14.0: * Removed ImageMagick loader support. Packagers can now remove this dependency * Polite mode is now off by default. The new default eliminates cursor flicker and makes the output more robust against unusual terminal settings. The old behavior can be restored with --polite on. * Added image loaders for the AVIF and QOI formats. * sRGB gamma is now handled correctly in scaling operations. * New option: --passthrough=<auto|none|screen|tmux>. This allows passing graphics protocols like Sixels, iTerm and Kitty through a terminal multiplexer. It will be enabled automatically for Kitty, and can be enabled manually for other protocols with more limited support * New option: --view-size=<WxH>. Specifies width and height of the viewport, overriding the detected terminal size * New option: --fit-width. Fits images to the width of the viewport, allowing them to be taller than the viewport's height * New option: --relative=<bool>. Enables relative cursor positioning. Useful if you've pre-positioned the cursor at a particular offset where you want frames to appear, but tends to make the output illegible in pagers, e.g. less -R * New option: --exact-size=<auto|on|off>. Preserves the input pixel size when possible. Useful to avoid artifacts caused by resampling * New symbol selector: imported. This selects glyphs loaded with --glyph-file * Fontgen: Added a BDF font writer * Fontgen: Cleanup and modernization * The help text and manual page were overhauled for readability, and the API documentation now includes symbol indexes by version and deprecation status. * Added a zsh completion script * Fix "unknown file format" when using AVIF on stdin * Fix broken linking with libwebp-1.3.1 * Fix make check with --without-tools * Fix --duration not working well with still images * Fix sixel rendering of animations * Fix operator precedence in geometry calculation
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Release DateJul 14 2025
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SUSE Package Hub 15.7 aarch64
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Packageschafa
Image-to-text converter for terminalchafa-devel1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Development files for chafachafa-doc1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Chafa documentationlibchafa01.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Shared library for chafa1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
SUSE Package Hub 15.7 s390x
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Packageschafa
Image-to-text converter for terminalchafa-devel1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Development files for chafachafa-doc1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Chafa documentationlibchafa01.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Shared library for chafa1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
SUSE Package Hub 15.7 x86_64
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Packageschafa
Image-to-text converter for terminalchafa-devel1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Development files for chafachafa-doc1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Chafa documentationlibchafa01.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Shared library for chafa1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
SUSE Package Hub 15.7 ppc64le
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Packageschafa
Image-to-text converter for terminalchafa-devel1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Development files for chafachafa-doc1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Chafa documentationlibchafa01.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm
Shared library for chafa1.16.1-bp157.2.3.1 lock rpm