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The focus for this release has been on improving performance, stability and reliability. There are a few new features too.
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After several months of developping, we proudly present you the latest release of iTerm. Many users have provided us with great feed backs and helped us nail down bugs. Lots of thanks to all of you!

Here is the change list:

•Full screen mode.
•xterm 256 color support.
•Much better wrapping behavior.
•Support for unlimited scrollback size
•Option to hide scrollbar.
•Press TAB key to open a new session with a command from the Execute field.
•Added support for opening .command, .tool, .sh, .zsh, .csh, .pl files as shell scripts.
•Greatly enhanced stability.
•Lots of other bug fixes and GUI tweaks as usual.

This version further improves on stability. Further more, we changed the font rendering to make it more in line with other Cocoa applications. Lastly, we have an updated Help that reflects the latest changes in the GUI. We encourage all users who use previous versions to upgrade. New changes
include:

•New font rendering code.
•Updated Help documentation.
•Improved support for the wide glyphs, especially for the eastern asian languages.
•Added a Google command in the context menu to launch a search session with selected text.
•Improved speed.
•Enhanced stability.
•Other bug fixes and GUI enhancements as usual.

•Terminfo support.
•New Execute field in toolbar for type in commands and URLs.
•Open all bookmarks with a folder.
•Paste strings with escape characters.
•Use option key to temporarily disable xterm mouse reporting.
•Added a "high priority" option to key mapping.
•Enhanced stability.
•Other bug fixes and GUI enhancements as usual.

This new release features a new preference system. It is based on the same "Profiles-oriented" idea of previous version, with enhancement targeted toward the user experiences. The new changes include:

•A Change of preferences settings:
Move bookmark tab to a separate window. Added an option to display bookmark window on startup.
Move profiles window outside of Preference Panel
The Profiles window shows profiles on the left and their contents on the right.
Now allows to rename a profile.
Now allows to edit existing keymapping.
Changed Preference Panel into 5 tabs. Any changes in these settings are immediate effecitve. Ok/Cancel buttons are gone.
Renamed Configure window to Info to avoid confusion. Made the window long to make it look like an Info window.
Cmd-I to open and close window.
Added a button to allow updating.
Re-ordered main menu.
Added a bookmark menu. Opening a window or a tab is controlled by option key.
Moved tab operations into Windows menu.
Added "Return to Default Size" menu item.
Script menu no longer shows when there are no scripts found.
Added option to quit iTerm when all windows are closed
Enhanced About dialog. It's now shown on startup whenever you installed a new version.... read more

Thanks to all the people who sent in their suggestion, feedback and bug reports. iTerm 0.9.0 is finally here. We have made the transistion to the new PSMTabBarControl. It gives iTerm a Safari-looking tab system. Further more, it supports drag and drop. This is a major upgrade from 0.8.2. The changes include:

• A brand new Safari-like tab look.
• Growl support.
• Support for Unsanity's Smart Crash Reporter.
• Added support for many xterm's window size/position escape sequences.
• Enhanced stability.
• Fixes for cmd-click URL selection.
• Many many bug fixes and GUI enhancements.... read more

iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator program for MacOS X written in Objective-C. It features VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation, full i18n support, multi-tab and other convenient GUI features.

iTerm is now a universal binary application! The new version also addresses
many bugs in the last version. We strongly encourage everybody who uses
0.8.1 to upgrade. Changes from previous release:

• Now a Universal Binary application, iTerm runs on Intel Macs natively.
• Added support of xterm mouse reporting, code provided by Geoff Reedy.
• Removed bouncing icon feature.
• Some speed improvements.
• Fixed "can't save settings" bug in 10.4.
• Fixed "find" function.
• Fixed "appending of spaces" bug.
• Fixed bugs of some mouse related actions.
• Other bug fixes and GUI adjustments as usual.... read more

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. It supports language encodings, VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation and many convenient GUI features.

Changes in this release:

Support to show bookmarks in a drawer of terminal window.
Added support to launch command line tools from Finder.
Fixes for printing problems in 0.8.0.
Added support to drag selection from terminal windows.
Added support to specify a bookmark as a default.
Added support for services.
Added an option to maximize windows vertically only.
Fixes for double/triple-click selection.
Fixed reverse video issues on OpenVMS
Added support to specify path to nested bookmark in AppleScript.
Other bug fixes and GUI enhancements as usual.

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. It supports language encodings, VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation and many convenient GUI features.

Changes in this release:

Now supports profiles for display, terminal settings, and key mappings.
New drawing code with speed enhancement up to several folds.
New improved bookmarks organization.
Rendezvous support.
Tab-bonding with key input sent to multiple tabs.
Supports customizable character spacing.
Other bug fixes and GUI enhancements as usual.

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. It supports language encodings, VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation and many convenient GUI features.

Changes in this release:

This is mainly a bug fix version

New German localizations provided by Felix Khne.
New icon contributed from sinomac.com.
Custom background image supported!
Printing a black-on-white copy of screen by default.
Significantly reduced CPU usage during idle.
Several big memory leaks fixed.
Fixed several emulation bugs that cause crashes.
Fixed incorrect background color problems.
Fixed Applescript bugs.
Other minor bug fixes and GUI enhancements as usual.

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. It supports language encodings, VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation and many convenient GUI features.

Changes in this release:

New icons designed by Edward Daze.
Added support for ANSI 16 color sequences.
Added support for mid-button paste.
Added support for alternate screen buffer mode.
When display is erased, contents are stored in scrollback buffer.
Users can now specify the size of scrollback buffer.
Fixed major bug in bookmarks.
Code re-organizations.
Other minor interface enhancement and bug fixes as usual.

iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator program for MacOS X written in Objective-C. It features VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation, full i18n support, multi-tab and other convenient GUI features.

This is mainly a bug fix release:

1. Fixed major bug where 'option' key was rendered useless.
2. Added direct link to default session settings to preferences.
3. Changes to running session are now saved correctly.
4. Cleaned up localizations.
5. Updated documents.
6. Other minor interface enhancement and bug fixes as usual.

iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator program for MacOS X written in Objective-C. It features VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation, full i18n support, multi-tab and other convenient GUI features.

Changes in this release:

1. Major rework of Preferencs and Bookmarks UI.

2. Significant performance increase in text rendering.

3. Support for graphical characters with all mono-spaced fonts, even those that don't supply them natively.... read more

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. It supports language encodings, VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation and many convenient GUI features.

Changes in this release:

Major improvement of Applescript support. See documents for details.
Now bundling FreeMono font with the application.
Ansi colors now can be customized.
Now you can specify a color for bold attributes.
Preliminary support for print-to-ansi.
New French localization.
Option-click to positon cursor.
Shortcut keys supported for quick-launching addressbok entries.
Updated documents
Other minor interface enhancement and bug fixes as usual.