iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa.

iTerm was merged from two projects, CTerminal and TerminalX, both of which were based on JTerminal project.

iTerm supports language encodings, VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation and many convenient GUI features.

Here are some key features of "iTerm":

· Native Cocoa application that supports both Jaguar and Panther.
· Native OS X user interface.
· Support of Applescript.
· Transparent windows and custm background pictures.
· Rendezvous support.
· Complete VT100 emulation, with additional support for most common xterm and ANSI escape sequences.
· Custom key-mapping.
· Supports select-to-copy and mid-button paste.
· Supports focus follow mouse.
· Supports xterm titling sequence to change tab label.
· Supports ANSI 16 colors, which are also fully customizable.
· Multi-tab within one window.
· Tabs can be drag and drop between windows.
· Tab labels can change color to indicate the session activiies.
· You can send keyboard input to multiple tabs.
· Bookmarks for storing settings of most used sessions.
· Anti-idle function that avoids disconnection because of no activity.
· Supports all language encodings that are available with OS X.
· User can specify a second font to display non-latin characters to achieve best look.
· Supports double-width characters, as used in eastern Asia languages
· Localized user interface for: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Japanese, Korean.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Smart window placement - new terminals are position to avoid overlap with existing ones
· Open new tab in previous directory (See FAQ to get this to work)
· Improved drawing performance, particularly when the scrollback buffer is full
· Better interactivity when terminals are busy, menus no longer block applications
· Various terminal emulation fixes
· Cryptographically signed auto updates