v8.2.8

MystenLabs/suiv8.2.8Jun 30, 2026by willmcgugan

AI Summary

A maintenance release for the Textual library fixing keyboard input parsing and a UI crash, along with new keyboard shortcuts.

Key Highlights

Fixed parsing Kitty extended keys with multiple codepoints
Fixed crash when clicking in the Screen's padding
Added super+backspace as an alias for ctrl+u
Added alt+backspace to function like ctrl+backspace

New Features

super+backspace is now an alias for ctrl+u
alt+backspace (option+backspace on Mac) has the same effect as ctrl+backspace

Full Release Notes

Fixes for extended key processing, and a crash bug for clicking the screen padding area.

## [8.2.8] - 2026-06-30

### Fixed

- Fixed parsing Kitty extended keys with multiple codepoints https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6592
- Fixed crash when clicking in the Screen's padding https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6598

### Changed

- super+backspace is now an alias for ctrl+u in Input and TextArea https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6594
- alt+backspace (option+backspace on Mac) has the same effect as ctrl+backspace in Input and TextArea https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6593