This document contains a list of breaking changes in each version and some notes to help migrate between versions. It is compiled manually from the commit history and changelog. We also tag PRs on github with a breaking change label.
This is a quick summary of the sections below:
- v0.26.0
Flex::Start
is the new default flex mode forLayout
patch_style
&reset_style
now consume and returnSelf
- Removed deprecated
Block::title_on_bottom
Line
now has an extrastyle
field which applies the style to the entire lineBlock
style methods cannot be created in a const contextTabs::new()
now acceptsIntoIterator<Item: Into<Line<'a>>>
Table::new
now acceptsIntoIterator<Item: Into<Row<'a>>>
.
- v0.25.0
- Removed
Axis::title_style
andBuffer::set_background
List::new()
now acceptsIntoIterator<Item = Into<ListItem<'a>>>
Table::new()
now requires specifying the widthsTable::widths()
now acceptsIntoIterator<Item = AsRef<Constraint>>
- Layout::new() now accepts direction and constraint parameters
- The default
Tabs::highlight_style
is nowStyle::new().reversed()
- Removed
- v0.24.0
- MSRV is now 1.70.0
ScrollbarState
:position
,content_length
, andviewport_content_length
are nowusize
BorderType
:line_symbols
is nowborder_symbols
and returnssymbols::border::set
Frame<'a, B: Backend>
is nowFrame<'a>
Stylize
shorthands forString
now consume the value and returnSpan<'static>
Spans
is removed
- v0.23.0
Scrollbar
:track_symbol
now takesOption<&str>
Scrollbar
: symbols moved tosymbols
module- MSRV is now 1.67.0
- v0.22.0
- serde representation of
Borders
andModifiers
has changed
- serde representation of
- v0.21.0
- MSRV is now 1.65.0
terminal::ViewPort
is now an enum"".as_ref()
must be annotated to implementInto<Text<'a>>
Marker::Block
renders as a block char instead of a bar char
- v0.20.0
- MSRV is now 1.63.0
List
no longer ignores empty strings
Previously, constraints would stretch to fill all available space, violating constraints if necessary.
With v0.26.0, Flex
modes are introduced and the default is Flex::Start
, which will align
areas associated with constraints to be beginning of the area. With v0.26.0, additionally,
Min
constraints grow to fill excess space. These changes will allow users to build layouts
more easily.
With v0.26.0, users will most likely not need to change what constraints they use to create
existing layouts with Flex::Start
. However, to get old behavior, use Flex::Legacy
.
- let rects = Layout::horizontal([Length(1), Length(2)]).split(area);
// becomes
+ let rects = Layout::horizontal([Length(1), Length(2)]).flex(Flex::Legacy).split(area);
Table::new()
now accepts IntoIterator<Item: Into<Row<'a>>>
(#774)
Previously, Table::new()
accepted IntoIterator<Item=Row<'a>>
. The argument change to
IntoIterator<Item: Into<Row<'a>>>
, This allows more flexible types from calling scopes, though it
can some break type inference in the calling scope for empty containers.
This can be resolved either by providing an explicit type (e.g. Vec::<Row>::new()
), or by using
Table::default()
.
- let table = Table::new(vec![], widths);
// becomes
+ let table = Table::default().widths(widths);
Tabs::new()
now accepts IntoIterator<Item: Into<Line<'a>>>
(#776)
Previously, Tabs::new()
accepted Vec<T>
where T: Into<Line<'a>>
. This allows more flexible
types from calling scopes, though it can break some type inference in the calling scope.
This typically occurs when collecting an iterator prior to calling Tabs::new
, and can be resolved
by removing the call to .collect()
.
- let tabs = Tabs::new((0.3).map(|i| format!("{i}")).collect());
// becomes
+ let tabs = Tabs::new((0.3).map(|i| format!("{i}")));
Table::default() now sets segment_size to None and column_spacing to (#751)
The default() implementation of Table now sets the column_spacing field to 1 and the segment_size field to SegmentSize::None. This will affect the rendering of a small amount of apps.
To use the previous default values, call table.segment_size(Default::default())
and
table.column_spacing(0)
.
patch_style
& reset_style
now consumes and returns Self
(#754)
Previously, patch_style
and reset_style
in Text
, Line
and Span
were using a mutable
reference to Self
. To be more consistent with the rest of ratatui
, which is using fluent
setters, these now take ownership of Self
and return it.
The following example shows how to migrate for Line
, but the same applies for Text
and Span
.
- let mut line = Line::from("foobar");
- line.patch_style(style);
// becomes
+ let line = Line::new("foobar").patch_style(style);
Remove deprecated Block::title_on_bottom
(#757)
Block::title_on_bottom
was deprecated in v0.22. Use Block::title
and Title::position
instead.
- block.title("foobar").title_on_bottom();
+ block.title(Title::from("foobar").position(Position::Bottom));
Block
style methods cannot be used in a const context (#720)
Previously the style()
, border_style()
and title_style()
methods could be used to create a
Block
in a constant context. These now accept Into<Style>
instead of Style
. These methods no
longer can be called from a constant context.
Line
now has a style
field that applies to the entire line (#708)
Previously the style of a Line
was stored in the Span
s that make up the line. Now the Line
itself has a style
field, which can be set with the Line::styled
method. Any code that creates
Line
s using the struct initializer instead of constructors will fail to compile due to the added
field. This can be easily fixed by adding ..Default::default()
to the field list or by using a
constructor method (Line::styled()
, Line::raw()
) or conversion method (Line::from()
).
Each Span
contained within the line will no longer have the style that is applied to the line in
the Span::style
field.
let line = Line {
spans: vec!["".into()],
alignment: Alignment::Left,
+ ..Default::default()
};
// or
let line = Line::raw(vec!["".into()])
.alignment(Alignment::Left);
Removed Axis::title_style
and Buffer::set_background
(#691)
These items were deprecated since 0.10.
- You should use styling capabilities of
text::Line
given as argument ofAxis::title
instead ofAxis::title_style
- You should use styling capabilities of
Buffer::set_style
instead ofBuffer::set_background
List::new()
now accepts IntoIterator<Item = Into<ListItem<'a>>>
(#672)
Previously List::new()
took Into<Vec<ListItem<'a>>>
. This change will throw a compilation
error for IntoIterator
s with an indeterminate item (e.g. empty vecs).
E.g.
- let list = List::new(vec![]);
// becomes
+ let list = List::default();
The default Tabs::highlight_style
is now Style::new().reversed()
(#635)
Previously the default highlight style for tabs was Style::default()
, which meant that a Tabs
widget in the default configuration would not show any indication of the selected tab.
The default Tabs::highlight_style
is now Style::new().reversed()
(#635)
Previously the default highlight style for tabs was Style::default()
, which meant that a Tabs
widget in the default configuration would not show any indication of the selected tab.
Table::new()
now requires specifying the widths of the columns (#664)
Previously Table
s could be constructed without widths. In almost all cases this is an error.
A new widths parameter is now mandatory on Table::new()
. Existing code of the form:
- Table::new(rows).widths(widths)
Should be updated to:
+ Table::new(rows, widths)
For ease of automated replacement in cases where the amount of code broken by this change is large
or complex, it may be convenient to replace Table::new
with Table::default().rows
.
- Table::new(rows).block(block).widths(widths);
// becomes
+ Table::default().rows(rows).widths(widths)
Table::widths()
now accepts IntoIterator<Item = AsRef<Constraint>>
(#663)
Previously Table::widths()
took a slice (&'a [Constraint]
). This change will introduce clippy
needless_borrow
warnings for places where slices are passed to this method. To fix these, remove
the &
.
E.g.
- let table = Table::new(rows).widths(&[Constraint::Length(1)]);
// becomes
+ let table = Table::new(rows, [Constraint::Length(1)]);
Layout::new() now accepts direction and constraint parameters (#557)
Previously layout new took no parameters. Existing code should either use Layout::default()
or
the new constructor.
let layout = layout::new()
.direction(Direction::Vertical)
.constraints([Constraint::Min(1), Constraint::Max(2)]);
// becomes either
let layout = layout::default()
.direction(Direction::Vertical)
.constraints([Constraint::Min(1), Constraint::Max(2)]);
// or
let layout = layout::new(Direction::Vertical, [Constraint::Min(1), Constraint::Max(2)]);
ScrollbarState field type changed from u16
to usize
(#456)
In order to support larger content lengths, the position
, content_length
and
viewport_content_length
methods on ScrollbarState
now take usize
instead of u16
BorderType::line_symbols
renamed to border_symbols
(#529)
Applications can now set custom borders on a Block
by calling border_set()
. The
BorderType::line_symbols()
is renamed to border_symbols()
and now returns a new struct
symbols::border::Set
. E.g.:
- let line_set: symbols::line::Set = BorderType::line_symbols(BorderType::Plain);
// becomes
+ let border_set: symbols::border::Set = BorderType::border_symbols(BorderType::Plain);
Generic Backend
parameter removed from Frame
(#530)
Frame
is no longer generic over Backend. Code that accepted Frame<Backend>
will now need to
accept Frame
. To migrate existing code, remove any generic parameters from code that uses an
instance of a Frame. E.g.:
- fn ui<B: Backend>(frame: &mut Frame<B>) { ... }
// becomes
+ fn ui(frame: Frame) { ... }
Stylize
shorthands now consume rather than borrow String
(#466)
In order to support using Stylize
shorthands (e.g. "foo".red()
) on temporary String
values, a
new implementation of Stylize
was added that returns a Span<'static>
. This causes the value to
be consumed rather than borrowed. Existing code that expects to use the string after a call will no
longer compile. E.g.
- let s = String::new("foo");
- let span1 = s.red();
- let span2 = s.blue(); // will no longer compile as s is consumed by the previous line
// becomes
+ let span1 = s.clone().red();
+ let span2 = s.blue();
Deprecated Spans
type removed (replaced with Line
) (#426)
Spans
was replaced with Line
in 0.21.0. Buffer::set_spans
was replaced with
Buffer::set_line
.
- let spans = Spans::from(some_string_str_span_or_vec_span);
- buffer.set_spans(0, 0, spans, 10);
// becomes
+ let line - Line::from(some_string_str_span_or_vec_span);
+ buffer.set_line(0, 0, line, 10);
Scrollbar::track_symbol()
now takes an Option<&str>
instead of &str
(#360)
The track symbol of Scrollbar
is now optional, this method now takes an optional value.
- let scrollbar = Scrollbar::default().track_symbol("|");
// becomes
+ let scrollbar = Scrollbar::default().track_symbol(Some("|"));
Scrollbar
symbols moved to symbols::scrollbar
and widgets::scrollbar
module is private (#330)
The symbols for defining scrollbars have been moved to the symbols
module from the
widgets::scrollbar
module which is no longer public. To update your code update any imports to the
new module locations. E.g.:
- use ratatui::{widgets::scrollbar::{Scrollbar, Set}};
// becomes
+ use ratatui::{widgets::Scrollbar, symbols::scrollbar::Set}
MSRV updated to 1.67 (#361)
The MSRV of ratatui is now 1.67 due to an MSRV update in a dependency (time
).
bitflags updated to 2.3 (#205)
The serde representation of bitflags has changed. Any existing serialized types that have Borders or Modifiers will need to be re-serialized. This is documented in the bitflags changelog..
MSRV is 1.65.0 (#171)
The minimum supported rust version is now 1.65.0.
Terminal::with_options()
stabilized to allow configuring the viewport (#114)
In order to support inline viewports, the unstable method Terminal::with_options()
was stabilized
and ViewPort
was changed from a struct to an enum.
let terminal = Terminal::with_options(backend, TerminalOptions {
- viewport: Viewport::fixed(area),
});
// becomes
let terminal = Terminal::with_options(backend, TerminalOptions {
+ viewport: Viewport::Fixed(area),
});
Code that binds Into<Text<'a>>
now requires type annotations (#168)
A new type Masked
was introduced that implements From<Text<'a>>
. This causes any code that did
previously did not need to use type annotations to fail to compile. To fix this, annotate or call
to_string() / to_owned() / as_str() on the value. E.g.:
- let paragraph = Paragraph::new("".as_ref());
// becomes
+ let paragraph = Paragraph::new("".as_str());
Marker::Block
now renders as a block rather than a bar character (#133)
Code using the Block
marker that previously rendered using a half block character ('▀'``) now renders using the full block character (
'█'). A new marker variant
Bar` is introduced to replace
the existing code.
- let canvas = Canvas::default().marker(Marker::Block);
// becomes
+ let canvas = Canvas::default().marker(Marker::Bar);
v0.20.0 was the first release of Ratatui - versions prior to this were release as tui-rs. See the Changelog for more details.
MSRV is update to 1.63.0 (#80)
The minimum supported rust version is 1.63.0
List no longer ignores empty string in items (#42)
The following code now renders 3 items instead of 2. Code which relies on the previous behavior will need to manually filter empty items prior to display.
let items = vec![
ListItem::new("line one"),
ListItem::new(""),
ListItem::new("line four"),
];