What's new in iTerm 0.10
Sep 4, 2010
- 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
New in iTerm 0.9.6.20090923 (Sep 24, 2009)
- Integrated new version of Sparkle for cryptographically protected updates. Should also be better about prompting for updates.
- Draw bold text the old fashioned way, much faster.
- Separate bold & highlight attributes for text.
- New behaviour gives four distinct modes -- plain, bold, highlight, bold+highlight Use the disable bold option to collapse the last 3 into one.
New in iTerm 0.9.6.20090920.1 (Sep 20, 2009)
- Fixed blinking text
- Fixed drawing corruption when new text is placed into a full buffer that is not scrolled to the bottom
- Fixed a careless redraw error
- Fixed refreshing of non-active tabs (#2862256)
New in iTerm 0.9.6.20090919 (Sep 20, 2009)
- Improved performance with full scrollback buffers
- Improved performance with large amounts of input from multiple terminals
- Viewing a menu or holding down the mouse button no longer blocks applications (#2682132)
- Save cursor position separately for alternate screens (#2833765)
- Show correct window titles (#2765347)
- Fixed CMD-num tab switching (#2271203)
- Selection text should always be correct when scrolling
- Always disable Apple's smooth scrolling to avoid drawing corruption
- More reliable and faster drawing
- Selected text will now be invalidated only one of the characters in the selection is changed.
- If no working directory is specified then new tabs will open in the same directory as the previous session. This doesn't work with the default settings yet. Need to execute /bin/bash -li
- Clear the bell symbol upon any key press
- Converted to XCode 3.1 project format and IB 3.0 XIBs
- Report as xterm patch level 95 so Vim detects ttymouse=xterm2, also increased default refresh rate.
New in iTerm 0.9.6.20090410 (Sep 20, 2009)
- Fixed clipping bottom of fonts that are not Monaco (#2735995)
- Smart window placement remembers initial window (#2736180)
- Windows will no longer be placed under the dock (#2740187)
- Fixed default background colour being drawn over background image
- Fixed a bug when pasting more than 1024 characters of text
- Fix overwriting of static window/bookmark titles (#2744363)
- Revert to old force screen update behaviour for 10.4 (#2738986)
- Rewrote large parts of PTYTask
New in iTerm 0.9.6.20090328 (Apr 6, 2009)
- Smarter placement of new terminal windows. New windows are positioned on screen to have the smallest overlap with existing terminal windows
- Guaranteed restoration of old window position upon exiting fullscreen
- Dramatically improved scrolling speed. iTerm on 10.5 no longer redraws whole terminal when scrolled, only the lines that have changed
- Scroll on new input stops/starts on pushing home/end respectively
- Allow antialiasing on very small fonts
- Fixed colour drawing bug that was triggered by changing ColorSync profiles, eg new monitors
- High density background colours are now supported
- Cursor is now double width when over a double-width character
- Refactored large parts of terminal drawing code, no more character cache. Selection handling doesn't touch the scrollback buffer.
New in iTerm 0.9.6.20090209 (Feb 9, 2009)
- Fixed permissions problem (again!).
- Fixed rendering bug causing bold characters to be drawn incorrectly, sometimes manifested as invisible characters.
- Terminal window title bar displays "Session" if an empty title is set.
- Restore window title bar colour when leaving send input to all tabs mode.
New in iTerm 0.9.6.1021 (Oct 22, 2008)
- Fixed a bug that cause crashes when using vim.
- 256 Color palette support (patch provided by Walter Dorwald).
- Improved URL handling for ssh/ftp/telnet.
- iTerm no longer sends a growl alert for a bell event if the winodw is the key window.
- Highlight window when it's in the "send input to all tab" mode.
- Better handling of "fork" errors.
- The anti-idle is no longer sent to all tabs when "send input to all tabs" is on.
- Other minor UI changes and bug fixes.
New in iTerm 0.9.6 (Sep 25, 2008)
- "Blur" effect for transparent windows
- Full screen mode now supports Spaces and multi-monitor setups.
- Automatically set up the locale in terminal sessions.
- Dropping a folder to the iTerm icon opens a new sesssion in the folder path.
- New option to prompt a warning when a multi-tab window is to be closed.
- Double-clicking the tab bar now launches a new session.
- Bookmarks are now sorted alphabetically.
- Double-clicking in the bookmark window now launches a bookmark.
- Editing profile names is now correctly implemented.
- Several keyboard issues are fixed.
- Several fixes for the UTF and double-width characters.
- No more execessive log entries in the system log.
- Fixed a bug that crashes iTerm when using Applescripts.
- Greatly enhanced stability.
New in iTerm 0.9.5.0915 (Sep 15, 2008)
- Support for multiple full screen terminals, works better with multiple monitors.
- Fixed profile name changes to update bookmarks.
- Add bookmark dialog now clears the text entries, and automatically fills profiles from the selected bookmark.
- Check if locale exists before setting LANG environment variables.
- ISO8859-* and eucXX encodings will get correct environment variables.
- Various other minor fixes.
New in iTerm 0.9.5.0909 (Sep 10, 2008)
- NEW: "blur" effect for transparent windows (Leopard only).
- NEW: Drop a folder to the dock icon to open a shell with its path.
- Now ask for confirmation when one closes multiple tabs/windows.
- Now automatically set up locales when launching a shell.
- Fixed a bug that causes iTerm to crash when executing scripts.
- Fixed the transparency setting bug.
- Fixed a bug that crashes iTerm when one scrolls up with a lot of new text coming in.
- Fixed enter key on the numeric keypad in keypad app mode.
- Disabled session bell Growl notification when key repeat is detected.
- Fixed resizing background image problem.
- Fixed a bug that closes the wrong tab when using contextual menu.
- Full-screen mode tweaks.
- A variety of other minor fixes and improvements.
New in iTerm 0.9.5.0902 (Sep 3, 2008)
- A few documentation spelling and grammar fixes.
- Fixed borders once and for all.
- Full-screen mode hides menubar rather than pretending to be a screensaver. This fixes Apple-Tab and other things.
- Fixed enter key on the numeric keypad in keypad app mode
- Fixed iTerm so that it can start with no preferences file again
- Fixed two double-width character related bugs.