Image preview issue in vifm after upgrading kitty

Question

I have been using this to preview images in vifm running in kitty:

 fileviewer *.bmp,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.gif,*.xpm
    \ kitten icat --silent --transfer-mode=file --place=%pwx%ph@%pxx%py %c >/dev/tty </dev/tty %N
    \ %pc
    \ kitten icat --clear --silent >/dev/tty </dev/tty %N

It has been working great.

Recently I upgraded my kitty (no changes in vifm), and now the preview works for one or two images and then it starts to blink and turns black. As soon as I move the mouse it shows the preview.

I was wondering if you any opinion on what might be causing this and how to resolve this.
Thank you.

Comments

It stopped working in kitty 0.43.0.
It works fine in kitty 0.42.2.

Answer 1

The list of changes for v0.43 mentions:

A new protocol for multiple cursors in the terminal (#8927)

I would think it may be related, but there are a few other things that look suspicious. This may need bisecting differences between v0.42.2 and v0.43.