tmux Version History
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Current Stable Release
Released 2026-08-17
Version Timeline
Highlights
- •Floating panes: new-pane opens a pane above the tiled layout (Prefix + *)
- •Line numbers in copy mode with copy-mode-line-numbers
- •Messages and prompts can overlay part of the status line (message-format)
- •focus-follows-mouse option and OSC 9;4 progress bar forwarding
New Features
Create a floating pane above the tiled layout; unlike popups it is not modal and behaves like a regular pane (bound to * by default)
Show line numbers in copy mode — default, absolute, relative or hybrid — styled with copy-mode-line-number-style and copy-mode-current-line-number-style
Draw messages and prompts as a single format that can overlay part of the status line (message-style needs "fill" to cover the whole width)
Automatically make the pane under the mouse pointer the active pane
Customize the preview indicator in tree mode (with tree-mode-preview-style)
When enabled, clipboard requests from a pane are forwarded to the outside terminal
New copy-mode commands: scroll-to-mouse, recentre-top-bottom, and scroll-exit-on/off/toggle
Breaking Changes
- !message-style now needs "fill" to cover the whole status line width (the default includes "fill=yellow")