• Performance optimizations for short queries
  • Short queries scan the largest candidate sets, and the first keystroke scans the whole input
  • Single-character queries are up to 2.4x faster
  • Two-character queries are up to 1.4x faster
• Faster sorting of search results, skipping redundant radix passes
• change-border-label and transform-border-label now work on the native border of a tmux or Zellij floating pane
• Fixed Kitty graphics sequences from a preview command being taken by tmux as pane title requests
• Fixed an image at the top of the preview being torn by --preview-window ~N
• Fixed nondeterministic match highlight positions
• Fixed signal and resize handlers persisting after Run() returns when fzf is used as a library
• fzf now detects terminal resize on Windows in --height mode (#4790) (@Cyrus580529)
• fish: fixed history command being affected by user initialization scripts, and improved timestamp colors in CTRL-R (#4862) (@bitraid)
• zsh: fixed CTRL-R not propagating the exit status of fzf when perl is available (#4871) (@LangLangBart, @Toliak)
• zsh: fixed chpwd hook functions being called twice by ALT-C (#4879) (@LangLangBart, @lucc)

• The default separator on the info line is no longer shown when the input section is already visually separated from the list section by a border line

  # No separator shown below the header border
  fzf --style full --input-border none --header foo
  
  # Separator shown; no border separates the input section from the list section
  fzf --style full --input-border none --header foo --no-header-border
  
  # No separator below the border of the preview window at 'next' position
  fzf --preview : --preview-window next
  
  # Conversely, separator is now shown when the input border does not draw
  # a line facing the list section
  fzf --input-border bottom

• Rendering improvements
  • Each frame is now wrapped in synchronized update mode (mode 2026) to reduce flickering on supported terminals
  • Reduced rendering output by 10-23% by skipping redundant SGR sequences
  • Fixed ghost characters and misplaced colors inside Zellij by using CHA instead of CR + CUF for horizontal cursor movement (#4858, zellij-org/zellij#5370)
  • Fixed cursor restoration on exit with --height --no-clear inside Neovim terminal by using DECSC/DECRC instead of CSI s/CSI u
• nushell: fixed deprecation error of str downcase on nushell 0.114.0 or above (#4857) (@sim590)
• Each release now includes .deb packages for easy installation on Debian-based distros (#4859)

Release highlights: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/releases/0.74.0/

• On tmux 3.7 or above, --popup starts fzf in a floating pane instead of a popup (#4850)
  • Unlike a popup, a floating pane is not modal; you can switch to other panes and windows while fzf is running, move and resize the pane with the mouse, zoom it to fullscreen, and use copy-mode in it
  • A floating pane always has a native border, which is what makes the pane movable and resizable, so border-native is implied
  • A popup is used instead when a border style is explicitly specified with --border, so that the fzf-drawn border is the only border shown (none and line are treated as no border)

    fzf --popup --border

  • --border-label is set as the title of the floating pane, and is displayed on the border if pane-border-status is enabled in tmux

    fzf --popup --border-label ' fzf '

• On Zellij, --popup uses the native border by default, consistent with tmux, so that the pane can be moved and resized with the mouse; fzf draws its own border when a border style is explicitly specified with --border
  • --border-label is set as the name of the pane, displayed on the native border
• Added result-final event, a variant of result that is not triggered while the input stream is still open (#4835)
  • Use it for one-shot, per-query actions that would otherwise re-fire on every intermediate snapshot during loading

    # 'result' fires per intermediate snapshot (header keeps updating during load);
    # 'result-final' fires once after the stream closes (footer shows the final count)
    (seq 100; sleep 1; seq 100) | fzf --query 1 \
      --bind 'result:transform-header(echo result: $FZF_MATCH_COUNT),result-final:transform-footer(echo final: $FZF_MATCH_COUNT)'

• Added wait action to block subsequent actions until search completes (#4825)
  • Useful for chaining query-changing actions with motion actions to ensure operations on complete results

    # Wait for search to complete before moving to the best match
    fzf --bind 'start:change-query(foo)+wait+best'

  • The initial loading of the input is also considered a search in progress, so start:wait can be used to wait until the input is fully loaded

    # Move to the last item after the input is fully loaded
    (seq 1000; sleep 1; seq 1001 2000) | fzf --bind 'start:wait+last'

• Bound alt-left to backward-word and alt-right to forward-word by default (#4833)
• Bug fixes and improvements
  • Skip $FZF_CURRENT_ITEM export when the item is larger than 64 KB; a huge item can overflow ARG_MAX and break preview and other child commands with E2BIG (#4806)
  • transform and bg-transform now allow a bare put action in the output to insert the key that triggered the action

    # Insert the typed key ('a') into the query
    fzf --bind 'a:transform:echo put'

  • ALT-C in zsh no longer resolves symbolic links when changing the directory, consistent with the cd builtin (#4816) (@silverneko)
  • Fixed horizontal mouse wheel events being treated as vertical scrolling (#4848) (@jason5122)
  • Fixed bw theme not inheriting overridden colors
  • fish: CTRL-R now works when $fish_color_normal or $fish_color_comment is empty or invalid (#4831) (@bitraid)
  • Fixed empty-shell detection in the install script (#4813)
  • Fixed the install script writing nushell source lines into the config files of other shells (#4812)

• Bug fixes
  • Skip $FZF_CURRENT_ITEM export when the item contains a NUL byte; exec(2) rejects the env, breaking preview and other child commands (#4806)
  • Fixed O(n^2) HTTP body accumulation in --listen; a single ~390 KB request could block the single-threaded server for ~8 s (Michal Majchrowicz, Marcin Wyczechowski, AFINE Team)

Release highlights: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/releases/0.73.0/

• Nushell integration via fzf --nushell and the installer (#4630) (@sim590)
• New --preview-window=next position that places the preview adjacent to the input section, on the list side: above the input in the default layout, below it in --layout=reverse (#4798)
• Timer-driven every(N) event for --bind, where N is seconds
• Added $FZF_IDLE_TIME (whole seconds) and $FZF_IDLE_TIME_MS (milliseconds), holding the elapsed time since the last user activity
  • Pair with every(N) to build idle-based behavior such as auto-accept or auto-quit (#1211)

    # Live process list; --track --id-nth 2 keeps the cursor on the same PID across reloads
    fzf --header-lines 1 --track --id-nth 2 --bind 'start,every(2):reload-sync:ps -ef'
    
    # Auto-accept after 10 seconds of inactivity, with a countdown in the footer after 5s
    fzf --bind 'every(1):bg-transform:
      if   [[ $FZF_IDLE_TIME -lt 5  ]]; then echo change-footer:
      elif [[ $FZF_IDLE_TIME -lt 10 ]]; then echo "change-footer:auto-accept in $((10 - FZF_IDLE_TIME))s"
      else echo accept
      fi'

• Added $FZF_CURRENT_ITEM for shells where quoting {} is awkward (#4802)
• Bug fixes
  • Scoring: non-word characters at the start of input or after a delimiter now receive the same boundary bonus as word characters (#4795)
  • change-preview-window no longer resets wrap / wrap-word state set via toggle-preview-wrap / toggle-preview-wrap-word (#4791)
  • Stripped UTF-8-encoded C1 control characters from rendered items to prevent terminal control-sequence injection
  • Fixed integer-overflow panic in FuzzyMatchV2 on 32-bit builds (Michal Majchrowicz, Marcin Wyczechowski, AFINE Team)
  • Fixed bg-transform reload / exclude payloads being dropped
  • Fixed rendering glitch with preview window on the left combined with footer

Release highlights: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/releases/0.72.0/

• --header-border, --header-lines-border, and --footer-border now accept a new inline style that embeds the section inside the list frame, separated from the list content by a horizontal line. When the list border has side segments, the separator joins them as T-junctions.
  • Requires a --list-border shape that has both top and bottom segments (rounded, sharp, bold, double, block, thinblock, or horizontal); falls back to line otherwise. horizontal has no side borders, so the separator is drawn without T-junction endpoints.
  • Sections stack. Example combining all three:

    ps -ef | fzf --reverse --style full \
        --header 'Select a process' --header-lines 1 \
        --bind 'load:transform-footer:echo $FZF_TOTAL_COUNT processes' \
        --header-border dashed --header-first \
        --header-lines-border inline --footer-border inline

  • --header-label and --footer-label render on their respective separator row.
  • The separator inherits --color list-border when the section's own border color is not explicitly set.
  • inline takes precedence over --header-first: the inline section stays inside the list frame. --header-border=inline requires --header-lines-border to be inline or unset.
• New dashed border style with dashed edges (╶ / ┆) and rounded corners.
  • --border=dashed, --list-border=dashed, etc.
  • Works with inline sections (T-junctions render correctly).
• [vim] Move and resize popup window when detecting VimResized event (#4778) (@Vulcalien)
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed gutter display in --style=minimal
  • Fixed arrow keys / Home / End without modifiers being ignored under the kitty keyboard protocol (#4776) (@TymekDev)
  • bash: Persist history deletion when histappend is on (#4764)

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)

Demo: change-with-nth

Summary

• Added change-with-nth action for dynamically changing the --with-nth option.
  • Requires --with-nth to be set initially.
  • Multiple options separated by | can be given to cycle through.

  echo -e "a b c\nd e f\ng h i" | fzf --with-nth .. \
    --bind 'space:change-with-nth(1|2|3|1,3|2,3|)'

• Added change-header-lines action for dynamically changing the --header-lines option
• Performance improvements (1.3x to 1.9x faster filtering depending on query)

  === query: 'l' ===
    [all]   baseline:   168.87ms  current:    95.21ms  (1.77x)  matches: 5069891 (94.78%)
    [1T]    baseline:  1652.22ms  current:   841.40ms  (1.96x)  matches: 5069891 (94.78%)
  
  === query: 'lin' ===
    [all]   baseline:   343.27ms  current:   252.59ms  (1.36x)  matches: 3516507 (65.74%)
    [1T]    baseline:  3199.89ms  current:  2230.64ms  (1.43x)  matches: 3516507 (65.74%)
  
  === query: 'linux' ===
    [all]   baseline:    85.47ms  current:    63.72ms  (1.34x)  matches: 307229 (5.74%)
    [1T]    baseline:   774.64ms  current:   589.32ms  (1.31x)  matches: 307229 (5.74%)
  
  === query: 'linuxlinux' ===
    [all]   baseline:    55.13ms  current:    35.67ms  (1.55x)  matches: 12230 (0.23%)
    [1T]    baseline:   461.99ms  current:   332.38ms  (1.39x)  matches: 12230 (0.23%)
  
  === query: 'linuxlinuxlinux' ===
    [all]   baseline:    51.77ms  current:    32.53ms  (1.59x)  matches: 865 (0.02%)
    [1T]    baseline:   409.99ms  current:   296.33ms  (1.38x)  matches: 865 (0.02%)
  

• Fixed nth attribute merge order to respect precedence hierarchy (#4697)
• bash: Replaced printf with builtin printf to bypass local indirections (#4684) (@DarrenBishop)

• Implemented word wrapping in the list section
  • Added --wrap=word (or --wrap-word) option and toggle-wrap-word action for word-level line wrapping in the list section
  • Changed default binding of ctrl-/ and alt-/ from toggle-wrap to toggle-wrap-word

  fzf --wrap=word

• Implemented word wrapping in the preview window
  • Added wrap-word flag for --preview-window to enable word-level wrapping
  • Added toggle-preview-wrap-word action

  fzf --preview 'bat --style=plain --color=always {}' \
      --preview-window wrap-word \
      --bind space:toggle-preview-wrap-word

• Added support for underline style variants in --color: underline-double, underline-curly, underline-dotted, underline-dashed

  fzf --color 'fg:underline-curly,current-fg:underline-dashed'

• Added support for underline styles (4:N) and underline colors (SGR 58/59)

  # In the list section
  printf '\e[4:3;58;2;255;0;0mRed curly underline\e[0m\n' | fzf --ansi
  
  # In the preview window
  fzf --preview "printf '\e[4:3;58;2;255;0;0mRed curly underline\e[0m\n'"

• Added --preview-wrap-sign to set a different wrap indicator for the preview window
• Added alt-gutter color option (#4602) (@hedgieinsocks)
• Added $FZF_WRAP environment variable to child processes (char or word when wrapping is enabled) (#4672) (@bitraid)
• fish: Improved command history (CTRL-R) (#4672) (@bitraid)
  • Enabled syntax highlighting in the list on fish 4.3.3+
  • Added syntax-highlighted preview window that auto-shows for long or multi-line commands
  • Added ALT-ENTER to reformat and insert selected commands
  • Improved handling of bulk deletion of selected history entries (SHIFT-DELETE)
• Added fish completion support (#4605) (@lalvarezt)
• zsh: Handle multi-line history selection (#4595) (@LangLangBart)
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed _fzf_compgen_{path,dir} to respect FZF_COMPLETION_{PATH,DIR}_OPTS (#4592) (@shtse8, @LangLangBart)
  • Fixed --preview-window follow not working correctly with wrapping (#3243, #4258)
  • Fixed symlinks to directories being returned as files (#4676) (@skk64)
  • Fixed SIGHUP signal handling (#4668) (@LangLangBart)
  • Fixed preview process not killed on exit (#4667)
  • Fixed coloring of items with zero-width characters (#4620)
  • Fixed track-current unset after a combined movement action (#4649)
  • Fixed --accept-nth being ignored in filter mode (#4636) (@charemma)
  • Fixed display width calculation with maxWidth (#4596) (@LangLangBart)
  • Fixed clearing of the rest of the current line on start (#4652)
  • Fixed x-api-key header not required for GET requests (#4627)
  • Fixed key reading not cancelled when execute triggered via a server request (#4653)
  • Fixed rebind of readline command redraw-current-line (#4635) (@jameslazo)
  • Fixed fzf-tmux TERM quoting and added mktemp usage (#4664) (@Goofygiraffe06)
  • Do not allow very long queries in FuzzyMatchV2 (#4608)

• Added --freeze-left=N option to keep the leftmost N columns always visible.

  # Keep the file name column fixed and always visible
  git grep --line-number --color=always -- '' |
      fzf --ansi --delimiter : --freeze-left 1
  
  # Can be used with --keep-right
  git grep --line-number --color=always -- '' |
      fzf --ansi --delimiter : --freeze-left 1 --keep-right

• Also added --freeze-right=N option to keep the rightmost N columns always visible.

  # Stronger version of --keep-right that always keeps the right-end visible
  fd | fzf --freeze-right 1
  
  # Keep the base name always visible
  fd | fzf --freeze-right 1 --delimiter /
  
  # Keep both leftmost and rightmost components visible
  fd | fzf --freeze-left 1 --freeze-right 1 --delimiter /

• Updated --info=inline to print the spinner (load indicator).
• Bug fixes