alacritty: Alacritty started crashing (segmentation fault) when seeing emoji

As of some time today, alacritty crashes for me whenever it tries to display an emoji. This can be triggered as easily as just pasting an emoji into it. It seems like this is related to a C dependency since it worked before and I didn’t upgrade alacritty; however I don’t see any other programs crashing. I upgraded a few font-related things today:

[2023-02-22T08:29:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded harfbuzz (7.0.0-1 -> 7.0.1-1)
[2023-02-22T08:29:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded harfbuzz-icu (7.0.0-1 -> 7.0.1-1)
[2023-02-22T08:29:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-harfbuzz (7.0.0-1 -> 7.0.1-1)
[2023-02-22T08:29:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded pango (1:1.50.12-1 -> 1:1.50.13-1)
[2023-02-22T08:29:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-pango (1:1.50.12-1 -> 1:1.50.13-1)
[2023-02-22T08:30:00+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libibus (1.5.27-1 -> 1.5.28-1)
[2023-02-22T08:30:00+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libxmlb (0.3.10-1 -> 0.3.11-1)

However, a friend with another arch installation says he can’t reproduce so there seems to be something setup specific to it as well. If somebody has capacity to look into this, let me know what extra information you need.

System

OS: Linux Version: alacritty 0.11.0 (8dbaa0bb) DE: sway (wayland)

Logs

[1]    106597 segmentation fault (core dumped)  alacritty

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@jplatte oh, also, could you try alacritty master, there might be a change in some handling of fonts? I do remember fixing some bug with freetype, but it never reached a release.