3.1.0 - 2026-02-13

Release Notes

🚀 Features

• (cli) Add SKIM_OPTIONS_FILE (#972)
• Add set-preview-cmd action to change preview (#969)

Install skim 3.1.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v3.1.0/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 3.1.0

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

v3.0.1

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Restart_matcher race condition (closes #970)

📚 Documentation

• Add link to sqlite_skim (#971) [skip ci]

New Contributors

• @tzachar made their first contribution in #971

Install skim 3.0.1

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v3.0.1/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 3.0.1

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

v3.0.0

Description

Changes

For everyone

Memory usage was optimized, bringing a ~25% reduction in memory usage in our benches. Thanks to @kimono-koans for the initial idea and help with this.

For CLI users

• Added a :pty preview-window flag that will make the preview run in a PTY. This allows for more interactive commands and more complicated display, including running sk itself inside sk's preview (run SKIM_DEFAULT_OPTIONS='--preview "sk" --preview-window ":pty"' sk for the extreme version).
  Note: the pty preview does not take input (for now). For instance, scrolling in paged output will not work.
• Readded --sync functionality after it was broken in v1

For library users

• A more fine-grained control over skim's event loop is now possible using tokio and the new methods on Skim. Check them out if you want to interact with the skim instance while it is running.
• [breaking] The SkimOptionsBuilder's setter methods are back to taking raw &strs instead of Strings. This should match the behavior pre-v1, sorry for the extra work that some of you already put in to migrate.

🚀 Features

• Interactive pty preview & concurrency optimizations (#952)
• Optimize match_item to use ref and not Arc (#962)
• Reduce DefaultSkimItem memory footprint by around 25% by default (#966)
• [breaking] Use smarter setters, remove the need for Some(...) and String::from() in setters
• Readd --sync functionality
• (lib) Add fine-grained control over skim's event loop (#968)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Manually patch modifiers (closes #945)
• Implement cursor_pos_from_tty ourselves (#963)
• Run preview on move after selection

📚 Documentation

• Specify nightly version in README
• Update nightly version [skip ci]
• Detail pty preview window flag [skip ci]

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Ignore coverage files [skip ci]
• Add coverage flag to README
• Test matchers
• Update frizbee and nightly version
• (ci) Make codecov less aggressive

New Contributors

• @kimono-koans made their first contribution in #962

Install skim 3.0.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v3.0.0/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 3.0.0

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

v2.0.2

Install skim 2.0.2

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v2.0.2/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 2.0.2

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

2.0.1 - 2026-02-01

Release Notes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (linux) Run preview in a PTY (closes #894) (#897)

Install skim 2.0.1

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v2.0.1/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 2.0.1

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

2.0.0 - 2026-01-31

Release Notes

🚀 Features

• [breaking] library Send & receive items in batches (#938)
  This should not affect TUI users other than in improving the app's performance

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Add valgrind and thread sanitizer test profiles [skip ci]

Install skim 2.0.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v2.0.0/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 2.0.0

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

1.11.2 - 2026-01-29

Release Notes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Always make ctrl-d abort (closes #941)

Install skim 1.11.2

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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v1.11.2/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 1.11.2

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

1.11.1 - 2026-01-29

Release Notes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Do not enter TUI early if the matcher needs restarting before ingestion done (closes #940)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Add nix flake for dev [skip ci]
• Reduce FPS for better performance

Install skim 1.11.1

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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v1.11.1/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 1.11.1

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

1.11.0 - 2026-01-27

Release Notes

🚀 Features

• Add custom action for lib usage (closes #537)

Install skim 1.11.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v1.11.0/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 1.11.0

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

1.10.0 - 2026-01-27

Release Notes

🚀 Features

• Add --normalize to ignore accents etc. when matching (closes #453) (#914)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (frizbee) Correctly compute max_typos
• Make -1 reset highlights (#937)
• Always display item_list (closes #939)

Install skim 1.10.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/skim-rs/skim/releases/download/v1.10.0/skim-installer.sh | sh

Download skim 1.10.0

File	Platform	Checksum
skim-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
skim-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
skim-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
skim-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum