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title: Extraterm v0.53.0 released
date: 2020-08-28 20:00:00 +0200
categories: release
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**New features**

* GPU accelerated text rendering #218

**Changes**

* Improved font rendering; subpixel text antialiasing is used where possible #152
* Updated emoji support and updated Twemoji glyphs.
* Emoji widths more closely match iTerm2 and other terminals.
* Emoji are scaled down to fit inside cells when needed.
* Italic text is also scaled to fit inside cells.

Download it from [Github](https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm/releases/tag/v0.53.0)

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