v8.2.7

NVIDIA/personaplexv8.2.7May 19, 2026by willmcgugan

AI Summary

Adds Kitty key protocol support and improves text area interactions for the Textual TUI library.

Key Highlights

Kitty key protocol support (alt+backspace).
Separate modifier key detection.
Improved text area shortcuts (cmd+).
Text opacity dimming for themes.

New Features

Kitty key protocol support
Separate modifier key events
Text area shortcuts (undo/redo/copy/cut/paste with cmd+)
Text opacity dimming attribute

Full Release Notes

This release adds additional support for the Kitty key protocol. Which enables some additional keys on some terminals. Additionally, Textual will report modifier keys as separate key events. 

Additionally there are a few more shortcuts to the Text Area.

This release sponsored by Mistral AI. See release notes for detail.

## [8.2.7] - 2026-05-19 

### Added

- Added support for Kitty key protocol "Report all keys as escape codes" which enabled alt+backspace on Warp https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6544
- Added support for detecting separate modifier keys for terminals that support the Kitty key protocol https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6544
- Added `TEXTUAL_DISABLE_KITTY_KEY` env var to disable Kitty key protocol support (debug aid). https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6544

### Changed

- Undo/redo/copy/cut/paste in TextArea will now work with cmd+ on supported terminals https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6543
- In TextArea, ctrl+u will now delete a newline if the cursor is at the start https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6543
- in TextArea alt+delete is now bound to delete word right https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6543
- Text opacity applied to an ansi theme will now set the dim attribute if the opacity is < 50% https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/6546