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agg: all versions and old releases

agg is a command-line tool for generating animated GIF files from asciicast v2 files produced by asciinema terminal recorder.

10 versions of agg are listed here, from September 11, 2022 to the current 1.9.0. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2022: 1 1 22 2023: 3 3 23 2024: 1 1 24 2025: 2 2 25 2026: 3 3 26

10 versions over 4 years · about 2.7 a year

VersionDateSizeFiles
1.9.0Latest May 29, 2026 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
This release improves the rendering quality of certain glyph sets and adds the ability to select which frames to render:
- improved box drawing glyphs (light/heavy lines, half-lines, corners, junctions) by using font metric-based strokes
- improved rendering of Powerline symbols in the default (swash) renderer
- fixed the kanagawa-light theme
- added the --select option for frame selection (see below)
Example of box drawing, Powerline, and emoji rendering in 1.9.0:
Frame selection
The new --select <SELECTOR> option allows choosing which part of a recording to render.
It supports both animated excerpts and discrete/slideshow-style selections:
agg --select 5..30 demo.cast clip.gif
agg --select 12.5 demo.cast frame.gif
agg --select marker:build..marker:test demo.cast build.gif
agg --select markers demo.cast markers.gif
A selector can be:
- .. (default), POS.., ..POS, or POS..POS for time ranges
- POS or POS,POS,... for discrete positions
- markers for all marker positions
POS can be a time (12.5, 1m20s, 1:20), a percentage (50%), a marker (marker:build, marker:3), or an event index (event:100). Selection is resolved on the adjusted output timeline, after idle-time limiting and speed adjustment.
Range selections use the normal animated GIF path: visual deduplication, timestamp normalization, and FPS capping. Discrete selections keep every resolved selected position and assign sequential output timestamps using --last-frame-duration.
Example of a "slideshow" GIF generated from demo.cast (from this repo) using the following command:
agg --font-size 20 --select 20%,40%,63%,94% --last-frame-duration 2 demo.cast demo-select.gif
1.8.1 May 6, 2026 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
This is a quick follow up release for today's 1.8.0, which addresses a few rendering regressions:
- improved font fallback in the swash renderer: when configured font families don't contain a glyph, agg now tries other loaded system and --font-dir fonts before giving up
- improved font fallback in the resvg renderer to prefer agg's configured fallback chain before falling back to arbitrary fonts from the font database
- fixed clipping/overpainting of glyphs that extend beyond their own terminal cell in the swash renderer
The highlights from 1.8.0:
- added new swash font/text rendering backend, now the default, replacing fontdue; --renderer fontdue remains accepted as a compatibility alias
- improved font fallback, with built-in Noto Emoji and Nerd Font Symbols fallback fonts
- added --text-font-family and --emoji-font-family options for finer control over font selection; --font-family still works as an all-in-one override
- improved rendering of emoji, Nerd Font icons, CJK characters, bold/italic text, underlines, and block/mosaic drawing characters
- added explicit support for Apple Color Emoji on macOS
- added fallback handling for unsupported COLRv1 color emoji glyphs
- added --bold-is-bright option to render bold text using bright ANSI colors
- fixed faint text attribute and underlined spaces rendering in the resvg renderer
- --line-height values below 1.0 are now rejected with a clear error message
- upgraded avt to latest version to bring recent terminal emulation improvements
- upgraded rendering, CLI, HTTP, logging, and Nix-related dependencies
- updated Nix package/development setup
1.8.0 May 6, 2026 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
- added new swash font/text rendering backend, now the default, replacing fontdue; --renderer fontdue remains accepted as a compatibility alias
- improved font fallback, with built-in Noto Emoji and Nerd Font Symbols fallback fonts
- added --text-font-family and --emoji-font-family options for finer control over font selection; --font-family still works as an all-in-one override
- improved rendering of emoji, Nerd Font icons, CJK characters, bold/italic text, underlines, and block/mosaic drawing characters
- added explicit support for Apple Color Emoji on macOS
- added fallback handling for unsupported COLRv1 color emoji glyphs
- added --bold-is-bright option to render bold text using bright ANSI colors
- fixed faint text attribute and underlined spaces rendering in the resvg renderer
- --line-height values below 1.0 are now rejected with a clear error message
- upgraded avt to latest version to bring recent terminal emulation improvements
- upgraded rendering, CLI, HTTP, logging, and Nix-related dependencies
- updated Nix package/development setup
1.7.0 October 22, 2025 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
- added Kanagawa themes (thanks @Neved4!)
- when conversion fails the output file is now automatically removed (thanks @rcorre!)
- when input recording file has invalid terminal size a friendly error message is now displayed
- improved direct conversion from URL when self-hosted asciinema server is used with S3 file store
- bumped MSRV (minimum supported Rust version) to 1.85
- upgraded dependencies related to font/text rendering
- added --quiet option to hide progress bar
- changed default font size from 14 to 16
1.6.0 September 25, 2025 — 64-bit Portable
1.5.0 October 23, 2024 — 64-bit Portable
1.4.3 October 2, 2023 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
- upgraded avt to latest version to bring all recent terminal emulation improvements
1.4.2 June 11, 2023 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
- fixed rendering of initial blank frame
1.4.1 April 13, 2023 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
- fixed GIF looping
- removed timestamps from log messages
1.3.0 September 11, 2022 — 64-bit Portable

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