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


Version 0.9.6.20090928 includes the following changes:

• Fixed IME when option key is set to meta/esc
• Fix auto software update bug
• Fix showing toolbar when window is maximised (#2765328)
• Fixed window cycling (#2805216, #2688460)

Version 0.9.6.20090927 includes the following changes:

• Don't redraw the screen completely every 0.5 seconds (was too slow)
• Clear text selection when leaving alternate screens, eg vim
• Fixed option key as esc/meta under Snow Leopard (#2849154)
• Fixed focus follows mouse not working when viewing scrollback

Version 0.9.6.20090923 includes the following changes:

• 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

Version 0.9.6.20090920.1 includes the following changes:

• 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)

Version 0.9.6.20090919 includes the following changes:

• 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.

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.