Save Screenshots

• Use the File menu or Command-Shift-P
• Saves PNGs with transparency.
• Works with retina displays.

Bug Fixes

• A crash related to closing windows has been fixed.
• Typing in a disconnected terminal now works properly.
• Improved stability with the following graphics cards:
  • Intel HD 3000
  • ATI Radeon HD series

Bug Fixes

• Older MacBookPros no longer display an empty picture.
• Setting a custom reflection photo works once again.

Cosmetics

• New icon.
• New spring effect when scrolling or moving windows.

Other

• Better support for opening text files from the Finder or Dock.
• Fixed some crashes related to closing windows and multiple monitors.

Retina Display Support

• Enable it in the Preferences
• Leave it off for higher framerates
• Works with mixed monitor setups

New Mouse Options

• Copy on select
• Paste with the right or middle mouse button
• Enable these features in the Terminal section of the preferences

Visual Improvements

• The glow effect looks much more realistic
• Noise and retrace effects don't go outside the picture area
• Transparency works in Low rendering mode
• Minimal rendering mode text is sharp
• Fixed a bug that was causing a slight flash when switching windows

Misc:

• Autosaving can be disabled for text documents.
• Smoother window resizing and font zooming.
• Better resampling for Picture and Camera documents.
• Reflection image can be selected using an Open dialog.

Bug Fixes:

• Text no longer disappears in background windows on certain ATI graphics cards.
• Initial window sizing and placement is smarter.
• Scrolling never occurs when clicking in the toolbar.

Unicode

• Thousands of new characters: Punctuation, Symbols, Greek, Hebrew, Math, more Latin and Cyrillic, etc.
• Supported ranges are U+0000..U+0600, U+2000..U+2200, and U+25xx.
• Classic fonts fall back to Monaco, for now.

Sizing

• Window sizing is more consistent when resuming the app, making new documents, and changing themes.
• Font zooming is smoother, sharper, and more powerful.
• Classic and modern fonts are sized more consistently.

Other

• Immersive mouse cursor is now optional, and is off by default.
• The window title shows the grid size.
• Selection looks better over multiple foreground/background colors.
• Toolbar with font controls.

Font Scaling

• Text size can be controlled by scaling pixels, rather than just point size.
• A new "Lock Grid Size" option makes sizing less clunky.

Effects

• New "Vertical Interlace" effect can make nice looking square pixels.
• Ambient light on the frame looks better on many graphics cards.
• Glow and jitter look better at large font scales.

Misc

• Added more keyboard shortcuts for paragraph navigation in text documents.
• Effect sliders are disabled when not available at the current rendering quality.

Bug Fixes

• Very long text buffers aren't cut off when pasted.
• Favorites always respect their themes on launch.
• Very long lines in text documents are wrapped properly.

Terminal

• Many layout glitches have been solved -particularily in emacs
• Fixed a bug that was causing text to overwrite rather than insert
• Dark grey text is now visible

Rendering

• Choose between Minimal, Low, Medium, and High rendering modes
• Moving effect sliders down to 0 improves performance
• Selection is visible for black text on a white background

Other

• Supports Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
• ARC and modern Objective-C used under the hood
• No more crashes when deleting shortcuts

General

• Documents and windows are restored between app launches
• Text documents use auto-saving on Mac OS 10.7
• New menus for controlling fonts, colors, and themes

Favorites

• Common commands can be stored as Favorites
• Favorites can be launched with keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard and Mouse

• Middle click copies selected text, or pastes the clipboard
• PageUp/PageDown/Home/End keys can send custom control codes

Video

• A new "Camera" mode for converting live video feeds to ASCII art (see the Favorites menu)

Rendering

• New "minimal" rendering mode ("low" and "medium" coming soon)
• Smoother fluid mode resizing

Bugs

• Terminal no longer resizes when starting "screen"
• Fixed a bug that was inverting text incorrectly
• No more mouse cursor drawing conflicts
• DISPLAY envar is now properly set

General

• Open URLs by command double-clicking
• Scrollbars can be hidden when not using the mouse/trackpad
• Key repeat is back
• Drag and drop reflection image in preferences
• Scrolling now works smoothly in background windows

Terminal:

• 256 colors
• Blinking text
• Underlined text
• ASCII line drawing characters
• Set TERM (xterm/xterm-color/xterm-256color) from the preferences
• Better emulation, especially in Midnight Commander

Effects:

• New "overbright" property has been split out of "glow"
• Other monitor properties have been renamed (Interlace -> Scan-Lines, Contrast -> Backlight, Line -> Retrace)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a crash that count happen when closing windows or moving windows between multiple monitors.
• Fixed a bug that could truncate long strings when copied.
• Select-by-word properly understands cyrillic characters

Terminal:

• Huge improvements in emulation accuracy
• Cathode passes all the layout tests in vttest
• Lots of bugs fixed
• Prompt never appears on the wrong line

Display:

• Option to use a custom fullscreen mode that's nicer than Lion's
• Framerate slider
• Positional window perspective can be disabled
• Nicer mouse cursor

Cyrillic:

• Cyrillic glyphs are now available.
• Classic fonts have been updated.

Performance Improvements:

• New multi-threaded renderer gives smoother framerates.
• CPU and battery utilization have been reduced.
• Window resizing feels like butter.
• Fullscreen and background windows are less taxing on the system.

Other:

• Fixed some minor rendering glitches.
• Fixed a bug that had broken function keys.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing individual sounds from being disabled.
• Added a setting to disable all sounds.

Text Editor:

• You can now view and edit plain text files without an underlying terminal.
• Use "Open" or "New Editor" in the file menu.
• Supports standard Mac OS keyboard shortcuts for text navigation.
• Uses standard Mac OS open/save panels and change tracking.

Sound Effects:

• New section of the Preferences for customizing sounds.
• Categories:
• Startup chimes
• Ambient fan, hard drive, and CPU sounds
• Scroll feedback
• Character entry clicks
• Error beeps
• Modem noise

Custom Screen Reflection

• Use your webcam to take a static reflection photo of your environment.
• This is the most requested feature of all time.

Terminal

• Pasted text is no longer escaped with slashes.
• Use the option key and left/right arrows to move by word at the shell prompt.
• Fixed a bug that was causing copied text to be cropped.
• Fixed a crash caused by unexpected unicode characters.
• Removed some asserts that were accidentally left enabled in release builds.

Features:

• Lion-style fullscreen experience.
• Shift + page up/down now work like in Terminal.app.
• Locale environment variables can be disabled.
• Open any image file to generate ascii art.

Bug fixes:

• Keyboard combos for international characters have been restored.
• Cursor disappearing bug has been fixed.
• Issuing an exit command in a fullscreen window now works.
• Terminal emulation continues to improve.

Scrollbars

• Shown as needed, just like iOS and Mac OS X Lion
• Nice looks that don't interfere with the mood

Live Resizing

• New setting for linking column and row count to window size.

Integrated Graphics Cards

• Support for many on-board graphics cards from Intel
• Tested and working on the 2011 13" MacBook Pro, among others

Command Files

• Launch ".command" files from the finder
• Can contain shell scripts or simple commands
• Relaunch from the "Open Recent" menu

Terminal Options

• New "Terminal" section in Preferences (some options have moved)
• Close on exit
• Delete sends Ctrl-H
• Scroll on input
• Dynamically change the scrollback buffer size

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash that was occurring on Asian language systems
• More accurate terminal emulation

Scrollback

• Works with PageUp/PageDown/Home/End.
• Works with mouse gestures.
• Looks great.

Better International Text Support

• All characters from the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1 / Western Europe) standard are now supported.
• You can use standard Mac OS X key combos for entering characters. (eg. add an acute accent by typing option+'e' before a character).
• Classic bitmap fonts have been updated to support ISO-8859-1.
• UTF-8 is used internally for all data flow.
• The LANG environment variable is now set based on the language settings in System Preferences.

Terminal

• SSH no longer asks for passwords repeatedly. Cathode properly sets the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable.
• Bell sound can be disabled in the General Preferences.

New Command-Line Defaults

• "ScrollBackRowCount" (Default is 10000)
• "Color1", "Color2" ... "Color15" (For overriding the standard colors. Uses hex RGB strings. Eg. red would be "FF0000").
• "BackgroundWindowsRenderAtFullQuality" (The default is NO. Intended only for media centers/kiosks/servers. This feature can significantly slow down drawing in other apps.)

Known Issues

• There are driver issues with some of the brand new MacBooks (introduced on Feb 26th 2011). These are a top priority.
• Vttest still shows quite a few emulation layout bugs. These are a medium-to-high priority.

New Features:

• Mouse cursor.
• Mouse selection (by character, word, or line).
• Copy/Paste.
• Drag and drop files.
• Buffer clearing with command-K.
• Use option/alt as meta key.
• Forward delete key.
• Three new classic fonts (thanks to Damien Guard).
• More bit-rates to choose from.

Architecture:

• Now fully 64-bit, fully Cocoa, using the modern runtime, and compiled with LLVM.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some terminal alignment glitches (often seen in "screen").
• Fixed a crash that was occurring in "vttest".
• Fixed a bug that was causing jumbled text on nVidia 7300/7600 GT and 4500 FX graphics cards.
• Users are now properly warned about unsupported graphics hardware (Intel GMA 950/X3100, ATI Radeon 1600/1900).