1.2.0 – February 22 2012

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 slider that is separate from Glow
  • Other monitor properties have been renamed (Interlace -> Scan-Lines, Contrast -> Backlight, Line -> Retrace)

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed a crash that could 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

1.1.1 – January 29 2012

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

1.0.0 – October 31 2011

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

0.9.9 – October 8 2011

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

0.9.8 – August 7 2011

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

0.9.7 – June 18 2011

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

0.9.6 – March 18 2011

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.)

0.9.5 – February 17 2011

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)

0.9.4 – January 18 2011

First public release.