September 4th, 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
September 24th, 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.
September 20th, 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)
September 20th, 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.
September 20th, 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
April 6th, 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.
February 9th, 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.
October 22nd, 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.
September 25th, 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.
September 15th, 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.
September 10th, 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.
September 3rd, 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.
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