What's new in Serial 2.0.17
Dec 4, 2023
- Fix for timestamp rendering.
- Other bug fixes and improvements.
New in Serial 2.0.16 (Oct 5, 2023)
- Support for macOS 14.0 (Sonoma)
- Other bug fixes and improvements.
New in Serial 2.0.15 (May 5, 2023)
- Upgraded to libssh 0.9.7 to address CVE-2023-1667 and CVE-2023-2283
- Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1t
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.14 (Oct 20, 2022)
- Support for macOS 13 (Ventura)
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.13 (May 19, 2022)
- Fixed CP2101 driver
- Additional bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.12 (Oct 22, 2021)
- Support for macOS 12.0 (Monterey)
- Fixed potential crash while using Bluetooth SPP devices
- Fixed pasted text not echoed while local echo enabled
- Fixed control characters not echoed while local echo enabled
- Additional bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.11 (Aug 27, 2021)
- Upgraded to libssh 0.9.6 to address CVE-2021-3634
- Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1l to address CVE-2021-3711 and CVE-2021-3712
- Improved the send string view
New in Serial 2.0.10 (Apr 5, 2021)
- Fixed keyboard shortcut for reset emulation
- Fixed issue affecting FTDI H-series devices
New in Serial 2.0.9 (Apr 2, 2021)
- Fixed issue affecting character delay timing
- Fixed issue affecting USA-19HS devices
New in Serial 2.0.8 (Apr 1, 2021)
- Added support for Prolific PL2303G series devices
- Added support for the Keyspan/Tripp-Lite USA-49WGv2
- Added support for HM-10 Bluetooth modules
- Fixed issue with built-in FTDI driver running at 921600 bps
- Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1k to address CVE-2021-3450 and CVE-2021-3449
- Additional bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.7 (Jan 15, 2021)
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.6 (Nov 21, 2020)
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.5 (Nov 21, 2020)
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.4 (Nov 15, 2020)
- Native support for Apple Silicon
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.3 (Nov 11, 2020)
- Support for macOS 11.0 (Big Sur)
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.2 (Jun 30, 2020)
- Improved coexistence with certain kernel drivers
- Improved coexistence with DriverKit drivers
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.1 (Jun 18, 2020)
- Fixed bug where port settings may be incorrect after waking from sleep
- Fixed bug in hex view where CR and LF characters may be stripped
- Fixed occasional crash while using the find feature
- Allow copying text from device and connection info panels
- Numerous other bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 2.0.0 (Mar 4, 2020)
- Added SSH Support
- Added Telnet Support
- Added Hex View
- Added Bluetooth Smart Support
- Dozens of Bug Fixes and Improvements
New in Serial 1.4.2 (Oct 21, 2019)
- Prevents duplicate device entries caused by DriverKit
- Added warnings for several devices that do not work correctly with Apple's DriverKit drivers
- Added a workaround for potential crash in the Bluetooth stack on some versions of macOS
New in Serial 1.4.1 (Sep 27, 2019)
- Re-enables line drawing characters that were disabled by default in version 1.4
- Fixes a bug affecting the keypad enter key under certain circumstances
- Adds an option to strip the high bit in received data
New in Serial 1.4.0 (Sep 4, 2019)
- Added support for macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
- Added visual BEL indication
- Added configurable BEL sound support
- Added choice of send window size commands for different devices
- Added window size lock/unlock toggle in title bar
- Added adjustable character and line spacing
- Added cursor color, type and blink options
- Added greater flexibility in choosing fonts
- Added support for shift-click to extend the selection
- Improvements to full-screen mode
- Reduced the likelihood of changing to the alternate character set inadvertently
- Added per-character delay option for BT and CDC devices
- Added DEL and INS escape sequences
- Added ability to reset elapsed timestamp counter
- Improved binary log output
- Added support for additional devices
- Added support for dark mode
- Added support for hardened runtime
- Serial is now notarized
- Dozens of bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 1.3.9 (Sep 19, 2018)
- Added support for macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
- Added the ability to customize the session log save path
- Added CP437 and CP850 character set support
- Added support for additional devices
- Other bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 1.3.8 (Jul 2, 2018)
- Improved the CP2102N device driver
- Fixed send file options panel
- Now resets emulation state after changing baud rate
- Added support for several new device types
- Other bug fixes and improvements
New in Serial 1.3.7 (Jan 18, 2018)
- Fixed potential crash at launch during log rotation.
New in Serial 1.3.6 (Jan 17, 2018)
- Increased mouse cursor visibility over dark window backgrounds
- Fixed issue where Kermit file transfer changed filenames to uppercase
- Added support for xterm set window title escape sequence
- Fixed an issue where automatic session logs could be interrupted
- Added left/right arrow and home/end support in line buffered send mode
- Fixed send string command in line buffered send mode
- Added option to automatically send dropped files
- Added support for additional devices
- Other minor fixes and improvements
New in Serial 1.3.5 (Sep 18, 2017)
- Added support for clear scrollback escape sequence
- Fixed set cursor position escape sequence
- Other minor fixes and improvements
New in Serial 1.3.4 (Aug 2, 2017)
- Cmd-Left and Cmd-Right now go to beginning/end of line respectively
- Fixes potential crash when checking for updates
New in Serial 1.3.3 (Jun 30, 2017)
- Fixed severe text rendering issue affecting High Sierra beta users
- Fixed crash with certain escape sequences
- Other minor fixes and improvements
New in Serial 1.3.2 (May 16, 2017)
- Fixed bug with raw binary file transfer mode
- Fixed bug when overwriting a received file that already exists
- Other minor fixes and improvements
New in Serial 1.3.1 (May 6, 2017)
- Improved text pacing
- Improved reconnect reliability for devices that cycle on/off the USB bus frequently
- Fixed potential hang with some USB-connected Cisco devices
- Added X/YMODEM file transfer options
- Reduced scrollback memory usage
- Added keyboard shortcuts for file transfers
- Right-click in terminal window to quickly access profiles
- Other improvements and bug fixes
New in Serial 1.3.0 (Mar 23, 2017)
- Profiles
- Logging
- Timestamps
- Automatic line wrapping
- Send string with hex support
- In-app help
- Connect/disconnect option
- Improved support for CH340/CH341 devices
- Emulated XON/XOFF flow control where hardware support is lacking
- Emulated break support where hardware/kernel driver support is lacking
- Right-click to paste option (off by default)
- Character delay option
- Rewritten XMODEM and YMODEM implementations
- ZMODEM support
- Kermit support
- Improved text pacing
- Option to disable preserve prompt on Clear All
- Dozens of bug fixes
New in Serial 1.2.5 (Oct 21, 2016)
- Suppress device in-use warnings for some applications that indiscriminately touch all USB devices while running
- Fixed bug affecting file transfers
New in Serial 1.2.4 (Oct 13, 2016)
- Detect devices seized by VM software
- Fixed an incompatibility with OSX 10.7
- Fixed a potential crash introduced in 1.2.3
- Fixed an issue preventing some devices from being detected
- Dozens of other bug fixes and improvements
- Stay tuned for more very soon!
New in Serial 1.2.3 (Sep 16, 2016)
- Compatible with macOS Sierra (10.12).
- Fixes an issue with baud rate selection.
- Warns when certain drivers with known issues are installed.
- Fixes a compatibility issue with Spark Photon devices.
- Now works with the global find pasteboard.
- Fixes an issue with some multi-port Silicon Labs devices.
- Fixes an issue where CRLF was not echoed when local echo enabled.
- Dozens of other improvements and bug fixes.
- Stay tuned for more very soon!
New in Serial 1.2.2 (Sep 11, 2015)
- Additional fixes for OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
- Prevent character set change if emulation set to none.
- Improved compatibility with certain device drivers.
New in Serial 1.2.1 (Aug 12, 2015)
- Fixes minor issue affecting a small subset of users.
New in Serial 1.2 (Aug 7, 2015)
- Support for OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
- Added treat received CR as CRLF option.
- Added send raw file transfer option.
- Added support for several TUSB3410 based devices and adapters.
- Drop DTR on long duration break.
- Dozens of minor fixes and improvements.
New in Serial 1.1.10 (Jul 3, 2015)
- Resolves issues when using several identical adapters at the same time.
- Now drops DTR and RTS on close.
- Added support for additional devices.
- Added additional text pacing options.