v0.71.0
KalyanKS-NLP/llm-engineer-toolkitv0.71.0Apr 4, 2026by junegunn
AI Summary
Introduces `--popup` as an alias for `--tmux` with Zellij support, adds `--id-nth` for cross-reload item identity tracking, and improves performance scaling across CPU cores.
Key Highlights
- `--popup` alias for `--tmux` with Zellij support
- `--id-nth` for cross-reload item identity tracking
- Linear scaling performance improvements with multi-threading
- Shell integration improvements for bash and fish
New Features
- Cross-reload item identity tracking
- Zellij support via `--popup`
- Performance scaling improvements
- Shell integration updates
Full Release Notes
_Release highlights: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/releases/0.71.0/_
- Added `--popup` as a new name for `--tmux` with Zellij support
- `--popup` starts fzf in a tmux popup or a Zellij floating pane
- `--tmux` is now an alias for `--popup`
- Requires tmux 3.3+ or Zellij 0.44+
- Cross-reload item identity with `--id-nth`
- Added `--id-nth=NTH` to define item identity fields for cross-reload operations
- When a `reload` is triggered with tracking enabled, fzf searches for the tracked item by its identity fields in the new list.
- `--track --id-nth ..` tracks by the entire line
- `--track --id-nth 1` tracks by the first field
- `--track` without `--id-nth` retains the existing index-based tracking behavior
- The UI is temporarily blocked (prompt dimmed, input disabled) until the item is found or loading completes.
- Press `Escape` or `Ctrl-C` to cancel the blocked state without quitting
- Info line shows `+T*` / `+t*` while searching
- With `--multi`, selected items are preserved across `reload-sync` by matching their identity fields
- Performance improvements
- The search performance now scales linearly with the number of CPU cores, as we dropped static partitioning to allow better load balancing across threads.
```
=== query: 'linux' ===
[all] baseline: 21.95ms current: 17.47ms (1.26x) matches: 179966 (12.79%)
[1T] baseline: 179.63ms current: 180.53ms (1.00x) matches: 179966 (12.79%)
[2T] baseline: 97.38ms current: 90.05ms (1.08x) matches: 179966 (12.79%)
[4T] baseline: 53.83ms current: 44.77ms (1.20x) matches: 179966 (12.79%)
[8T] baseline: 41.66ms current: 22.58ms (1.84x) matches: 179966 (12.79%)
```
- Improved the cache structure, reducing memory footprint per entry by 86x.
- With the reduced per-entry cost, the cache now has broader coverage.
- Shell integration improvements
- bash: CTRL-R now supports multi-select and `shift-delete` to delete history entries (#4715)
- fish:
- Improved command history (CTRL-R) (#4703) (@bitraid)
- Rewrite completion script (SHIFT-TAB) (#4731) (@bitraid)
- Increase minimum fish version requirement to 3.4.0 (#4731) (@bitraid)
- `GET /` HTTP endpoint now includes `positions` field in each match entry, providing the indices of matched characters for external highlighting (#4726)
- Allow adaptive height with negative value (`--height=~-HEIGHT`) (#4682)
- Bug fixes
- `--walker=follow` no longer follows symlinks whose target is an ancestor of the walker root, avoiding severe resource exhaustion when a symlink points outside the tree (e.g. Wine's `z:` → `/`) (#4710)
- Fixed AWK tokenizer not treating a new line character as whitespace
- Fixed `--{accept,with}-nth` removing trailing whitespaces with a non-default `--delimiter`
- Fixed OSC8 hyperlinks being mangled when the URL contains unicode characters (#4707)
- Fixed `--with-shell` not handling quoted arguments correctly (#4709)
- Fixed child processes not being terminated on Windows (#4723) (@pjeby)
- Fixed preview scrollbar not rendered after `toggle-preview`
- Fixed preview follow/scroll with long wrapped lines
- Fixed tab width when `--frozen-left` is used
- Fixed preview mouse events being processed when no preview window exists
- zsh: Fixed history widget when `sh_glob` option is on (#4714) (@EvanHahn)