WARNING! These are testing releases! If you want a stable release, please stick to 0.9.6


Version 0.9.6.20090410 includes the following changes:

• 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

Version 0.9.6.20090328 includes the following changes:

• 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.

Version 0.9.6.20090209 includes the following changes:

• 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

Version 0.9.6.1201 includes the following changes:

• ITConfigPanel can now only set transparency in integer multiples
• ITConfigPanel font spacing now snaps to ticks
• Fixed the screen blanking bug on setWindowTitle (#2188028)
• Improved the layout of ITConfigPanel
• Removed "Use transparency" button from ITConfigPanel as it was causing confusion. To disable transparency just set it to 0%.
• Fixed a problem with pasting a big chunk of stuff.
• Detached tabs now keep their size/font settings.
• Removed the writing threads to avoid potential sync problems.
• Now iTerm automatically restores its window title after a window resizes.

Version 0.9.6.1021 includes the following changes:

• 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.

Version 0.9.6.1012 includes the following changes:

• Greatly enhanced stability. All the "scrollup" crashes should no longer happen.
• Reduced CPU usage when multiple sessions are open.
• Implemented xterm's window report sequences.
• Bookmark sort now an option.
• Folder name in bookmarks window is now editable.
• Double-clicking folder names in the bookmark window to expand/collapse them.
• Fixed a bug that stops one to create a bbookmark in an empty folder.
• Tweaked close confirmation behavior.
• Allow bookmark names to include macros defined by $$ (bug #2142459).
• Fixed a bug that causes the bell icon never shows.
• Pasting DOS-format strings now no longer have extra new lines.
• Fixed a bug of processing wrapping text.
• Fixed DECCOLM: now screens are correctly cleared.
• If the preference panel loses focus, we now close font menu to avoid confuse.

Release 0.9.6 9/24/08

This is our first release after Leopard was released. Besides the Leopard support, 0.9.6 has the following features and fixes:

• "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.
• A bunch of UI improvements, including:
• 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.
• As usual, there are many bug fixes including
• 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.