Extraterm v0.49.0

New features:

• Support for font ligatures. This can also be turned on/off in the "Settings->Appearance" tab.

Bug fixes:

• Fix crash when a frame is created but is off screen due to the scrollback viewed.
• Fix a minor but still annoying shifting/glitch in the frames.

Changes:

• Replaced the included copy of font DejaVu Sans mono with a version containing patched ligatures. New font is called "Liga DejaVu Sans mono ".

Extraterm v0.48.0

New features:

• Added window transparency options for macOS.

Bug fixes:

• Correctly frame output when the cursor is half way up the screen. issue #225
• Correctly save and restore the hardware acceleration option in the settings. issue #209
• Fixed a bug where the right mouse button context menu would immediately close on Windows.
• Fixed pop up menu and context menu background color in combination with window transparency.

Changes:

• Keyboard shortcuts on macOS are shown formatted much closer to the normal macOS standard.
• Made the "restart needed" messages in Settings consistent

Extraterm v0.47.0

New features:

• Added window transparency options for Windows 10. issue #66

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug where Extraterm would crash if a command with no output returns a non-zero result code. issue #225 Special thanks go to Greg Resler.
• Added .desktop file for starting Extraterm directly on Linux desktops. issue #124

Changes:

• Added option to disable hardware acceleration. On some GPU and driver combinations hardware acceleration causes rendering problems. issue #209

Extraterm v0.46.0

The options for framing command output using the shell integration now support framing only when command output is longer than some line of lines.

People who have been seeing strange drawing problems and/or incorrect background colors can now try the "Reduce graphic effects" option in the General tab in the settings. This changes how the text selection and some other aspects are done and tries to avoid some CSS features which appear to have trouble with certain GPU and driver combinations.

New features:

• Option to frame output if it is longer than some amount of lines. issue #194

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug where rubbish characters can remain on the far right side of the terminal area after resizing the window.

Changes:

• Added option for reducing graphics effects which trigger buggy drawing in some GPU and driver combinations. issue #209

Extraterm v0.45.0

A lot of work has gone into improving mouse support for applications. Mouse wheel scrolling now works correctly in the micro and nano text editors and possibly others.

New features:

• Add Bracketed paste support.
• Unwrap lines when copying to clipboard. issue #69
• Send mouse wheel events to applications with mouse support. issue #196
• Send cursor up/down to applications using the alternate screen.

Bug fixes:

• Fix support for right mouse button for applications with mouse support.
• Fix bug where zoom wasn't applied to new frames.

Changes:

• Replace EmojiOne with Twemoji for better Unicode coverage.

Extraterm v0.44.1

Bug fix release:

• Fix fonts with spaces in their names would fail to load. issue 206
• Use all of the available colored glyphs on Windows.
• Prevent some cases where wide glyphs would be cut in half.
• Fixed a whole lot of memory leaks.
• The application version in package.json is correct this time. issue 207
• Reduce the amount of memory used when updating the terminal. (disable Ace UndoManager)
• Fix problem where horizontal scrolling won't show contents.
• Move focus away from the window maximise button after click.
• Fix the coordinates being out by (1,1) for urxvt mouse reporting.

Extraterm v0.44.0

Cursor styles, blinking and bug fixes

New features:

• Added cursor style options underscore/bar and vertical beam.
• Added cursor blink option.

Bug fixes:

• Fixes to the list-fonts-json utility which may have caused Extraterm not to start up. issue 200
• Fixed bug which caused the text viewer to not resize correctly.
• Make color emoji once again appear on Windows.

Extraterm v0.43.0

Improved character rendering and new features

This feature release brings big internal changes to how characters and text is drawn to the screen. This delivers more accurate glyph rendering and alignment, and in some cases it may also bring a speed boost. Most importantly it brings a solid foundation on which to build many new and many highly requested features.

New features:

• Improved character rendering and alignment
• 24bit color support
• Pixel perfect box drawing characters
• Curly character style
• Double underline character style
• "Overline" character style
• More Tips

Bug fixes:

• "Show and focus" how key will show the window but not properly focus. issue 203
• Improvements to how different screen DPIs are handled.
• Fixed bug which sometimes caused the terminal to have the wrong size at start up.
• Fixed the keyboard shortcuts in the tips.
• Added needed DLLs on Window for the font detection code. issue 200

Extraterm v0.42.2

Bug fix release:

• Fix the list-font-json.exe which had some compile weirdness which causes problems for some. issue 192
• Improvements and clarifications to the keybindings interface. issue 193
• Fix for switching tabs via keyboard messing things up when in edit mode.
• Fix for the problem where the command palette would sometimes refuse focus.
• Fixes for the show command. It now detects and shows more text file formats.

Extraterm v0.42.1

Bug fix:

• Fix the problem where the clipboard copy and paste shortcuts don't work. issue 190