v8.2.8

VoiceBlender/voiceblenderv8.2.8Jun 30, 2026by willmcgugan

AI Summary

This release addresses critical stability issues regarding extended key processing and a crash caused by clicking on screen padding areas, while also introducing new keyboard shortcuts for text manipulation.

Key Highlights

Fixed crash when clicking on the Screen's padding area
Fixed parsing of Kitty extended keys with multiple codepoints
Added 'super+backspace' shortcut mapping to 'ctrl+u'
Added 'alt+backspace' shortcut mapping to 'ctrl+backspace'

New Features

Added 'super+backspace' shortcut mapping to 'ctrl+u'
Added 'alt+backspace' shortcut mapping 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