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SoftwareSeptember 21, 2026, 19:44

Kitty 0.49 terminal adds custom shaders and up to 50% speedup

Kitty 0.49, the GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, is out with custom shader support for visual effects. Real-world throughput improves by 15–35%, ASCII-heavy workloads gain about 50%, and a new AVX-512 decoder boosts multibyte text by up to 75%.

Kitty 0.49 terminal adds custom shaders and up to 50% speedup
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