Ghostty's last signed release was March 2026 — seven months ago
No new Ghostty updates since March
Ghostty's GitHub tags page tells a quiet story: the last verified release, v1.3.1, was signed by Mitchell Hashimoto on March 13, 2026. Since then only the rolling "tip" continuous build has moved, most recently on October 7, 2026. The pattern is a long gap after a dense stretch of releases through 2025, from v1.1.1 in February to v1.2.3 in October.
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- mitchellh
Creator of Ghostty here.
We run on a 6 month release cycle as noted in our release notes. The 1.4 release was scheduled for the last week of September (~a week ago), but it had to be pushed to October due to personal family travel as well as some lagging localization PRs. After we release in October, there won't be another release until March.
I'm actually working on the 1.4 changelog right now and I put out a call for help for the translations yesterday on X. The only risk now is that my 3 year old became very sick today and my wife is out of town, so I'm solo parent and that's now impacting things.
There's been literally over a thousand changes on main between March and today and if you look at our commit history we're extremely active with commits almost every day. So I'm not sure what anyone is trying to imply by sharing this with this title, but please don't read into it in any weird way.
- devin
Other comments have pointed out that this seems fine, and that the project has commits as recent as 4 hours ago.
This bizarre measure of software, that it needs to constantly be getting new releases and be under constant change is ridiculous. Good things are stable enough that they don't require 900 tiny releases. This is often a good measure of mature software, the fact that it doesn't change endlessly.
How often does `rxvt-unicode` change?
It's a TERMINAL, folks.
- dpoloncsak
Seems to be pretty on-par with their release history? Big #.0 updates every ~8 months, quick bug fixes after