v8.2.8

Vanessa219/vditorv8.2.8Jun 30, 2026by willmcgugan

AI Summary

Fixed parsing of Kitty extended keys, a crash bug, and updated keyboard shortcuts for backspace.

Key Highlights

Fixed Kitty extended key parsing
Fixed crash when clicking screen padding
Changed super+backspace to ctrl+u
Changed alt+backspace to ctrl+backspace

Breaking Changes

Changed super+backspace to ctrl+u
Changed alt+backspace to 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