0.70.0 #

(Mar 2026)

Quick summary #

This release focuses on performance improvements and adds a couple of new actions for dynamically changing display options.

1. Performance improvements #

Filtering is now 1.3x to 1.9x faster depending on the query.

=== query: 'l' ===
  [all]   baseline:   168.87ms  current:    95.21ms  (1.77x)  matches: 5069891 (94.78%)
  [1T]    baseline:  1652.22ms  current:   841.40ms  (1.96x)  matches: 5069891 (94.78%)

=== query: 'lin' ===
  [all]   baseline:   343.27ms  current:   252.59ms  (1.36x)  matches: 3516507 (65.74%)
  [1T]    baseline:  3199.89ms  current:  2230.64ms  (1.43x)  matches: 3516507 (65.74%)

=== query: 'linux' ===
  [all]   baseline:    85.47ms  current:    63.72ms  (1.34x)  matches: 307229 (5.74%)
  [1T]    baseline:   774.64ms  current:   589.32ms  (1.31x)  matches: 307229 (5.74%)

=== query: 'linuxlinux' ===
  [all]   baseline:    55.13ms  current:    35.67ms  (1.55x)  matches: 12230 (0.23%)
  [1T]    baseline:   461.99ms  current:   332.38ms  (1.39x)  matches: 12230 (0.23%)

=== query: 'linuxlinuxlinux' ===
  [all]   baseline:    51.77ms  current:    32.53ms  (1.59x)  matches: 865 (0.02%)
  [1T]    baseline:   409.99ms  current:   296.33ms  (1.38x)  matches: 865 (0.02%)

2. New actions #

change-with-nth #

You can now dynamically change the --with-nth option using the change-with-nth action. Requires --with-nth to be set initially. Multiple options separated by | can be given to cycle through.

echo -e "a b c\nd e f\ng h i" | fzf --with-nth .. \
  --bind 'space:change-with-nth(1|2|3|1,3|2,3|)'

change-header-lines #

Similarly, change-header-lines lets you dynamically change the --header-lines option.

Bug fixes #

• Fixed nth attribute merge order to respect precedence hierarchy (#4697)
• bash: Replaced printf with builtin printf to bypass local indirections (#4684) (@DarrenBishop)