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5.3.0

🚀 Features

• The default DOM-based renderer is significantly faster now (#4605, #4631, #4651, #4662, #4681, #4754) via @​jerch, @​Tyriar, @​PerBothner, @​tisilent
• The smooth scroll feature now affects scrollLines, scrollPages,scrollToLine, scrollToTop and scrollToBottom (#4482, #4714) via @​tisilent, @​Tyriar
• minimumContrastRatio now applies 50% of the contrast ratio to dimmed text (#4672) via @​Tyrira

📦 API

• There's a new trace log level (#4687, 4709) via @​Tyriar

  const term = new Terminal({
      logLevel: 'trace'
  });

• New logger delegate option (#4563, #4564) via @​Tyriar. This new API allows the embedder to define the logging behavior, instead of always using to console

  const term = new Terminal({
      logger: {
          trace: (e, args) => console.log('trace: ', e, args),
          debug: (e, args) => console.log('debug: ', e, args),
          info: (e, args) => console.log('info: ', e, args),
          warn: (e, args) => console.log('warn: ', e, args),
          error: (e, args) => console.log('error: ', e, args)
      }
  });

• New ignoreBracketedPasteMode option that allows explicitly disabling bracketed paste mode, regardless of whether the shell enables it or not (#4636) via @​Tyriar

  const term = new Terminal({
      ignoreBracketedPasteMode: true
  });

• New cursorInactiveStyle option (#4657) via @​tisilent

  const term = new Terminal({
      cursorInactiveStyle: 'none'
  });

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix character size being affected by CSS transformations (#4366) via @​arekouzounian
• Fix mouse tracking behavior (#4583) via @​jerch
• Improve rendering of the DOM renderer's underline cursor (#4584) via @​dlech
• Fix issues in the accessibility tree (#4637) via @​meganrogge
• Fix reset and clear leaving viewport in a bad state (#4638) via @​Tyriar
• Fix API facade memory leaks (#4655) via @​Tyriar
• Fix memory leak in cursor blink state manager (#4659) via @​SvanT
• Fix inverse rendering when a transparent foreground is used (#4667) via @​Dennnnny

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• 2e02c37 Merge pull request #4756 from Tyriar/tyriar/5_3__2
• 71ee3c7 Disable image addon publishing
• 009add2 Merge pull request #4755 from Tyriar/tyriar/5_3
• fb4b662 v5.3.0 and bump all addons
• 7b52b8e Merge pull request #4754 from tisilent/DomRenderer-Focus-Cursor
• c03cb2b When DomRenderer focus,render the cursor line.
• 29dd30a Merge pull request #4735 from Tyriar/playwright
• 68c5723 Remove debugger statement
• 5e628d7 Use arrow functions
• 93aae67 Readme explaining test/api
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