Released: May 4, 2026

Chess-tui 2.6.0

What's New​

Bug Fixes​

• Fallback to yay if stockfish not in pacman (#233) (351fb5e)

Chore​

• deps: Bump clap from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 (#241) (9a4d576)
• deps: Bump toml from 0.5.11 to 1.1.2+spec-1.1.0 (#244) (eb11f00)
• deps: Bump rand from 0.10.0 to 0.10.1 (#253) (2219ad2)
• deps: Bump dirs from 5.0.1 to 6.0.0 (#243) (9dd793a)
• deps: Bump reqwest from 0.11.27 to 0.13.3 (#242) (063e942)
• deps: Bump rodio from 0.18.1 to 0.22.2 (#245) (b7eeb1f)
• deps: Bump ratatui from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0 (#246) (b1681a6)
• Bump docusaurus (4fe201e)
• Fix docusaurus doc and warnings (5a303cb)
• Clean Cargo.toml (b1b2fa7)
• Bump 2.6.0 (0743bb1)

Dependencies​

• Remove unused deps (cargo udeps + cargo machete) (#232) (3e7a140)

Documentation​

• Update blog post, install doc and add screenshot (c7c75c0)
• Update readme and cargo (1686c16)

Features​

• Random side button (#237) (fec0f0b)
• Allow free cursor navigation on non-legal squares when a piece is selected (#234) (7056fef)
• PGN Import and visualization (#235) (807ceac)
• Running clippy --fix and fmt (#254) (3adccdb)
• Loading popup + async methods for lichess (#259) (42fae17)
• Website fresh landing + seo (#262) (7876869)

Refactoring​

• Clean code + documentation + website update (#240) (6b285a1)

• @houssamouhra made their first contribution in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/233
• @Tizzz-555 made their first contribution in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/237
• @madalintat made their first contribution in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/235
• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/241

Full Changelog​

For the complete list of changes, see the full changelog.

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Released: February 26, 2026

Released: February 26, 2026

Released: January 29, 2026

Released: January 5, 2026

Released: December 16, 2025

What's New​

• feat: blinking selected cell cursor by @thomas-mauran in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/169
• feat: improve the color selection popup by @thomas-mauran in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/171
• feat: allow engine to have an argument too by @thomas-mauran in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/172
• feat: deb build by @thomas-mauran in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/173

Released: December 15, 2025

• build on intel macos

Released: December 14, 2025

• fix style for the vertical alignment of the left side number
• fix the piece style with different scaling

Released: December 13, 2025

What's New​

• ci: build for aarch64-macos, aarch64-linux and x64-windows as well by @jarjk in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/162
• feat: add sounds by @thomas-mauran in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/161
• feat: lichess + doc + disconnect by @thomas-mauran in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/165
• feat: bot auto install script and debug popup by @thomas-mauran in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/166
• docs: blog posts + releases blog posts by @thomas-mauran in https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui/pull/167

Released: December 11, 2025

We're excited to announce the release of Chess TUI 2.0.0! This major update brings significant improvements and new features to enhance your chess playing experience.