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New in 20081230:

• Terminal view drag-and-drop now copies Unicode strings, for better interoperability with other applications.

New in 20081229:

• Internal changes to improve support for arbitrary text encodings.
• The Copy command now produces an accurate Unicode equivalent when text selections have VT graphics characters.

New in 20081221:

• Fixed text Copy to no longer include long streams of blank space at the end of each line.

New in 20081219:

• Fixed the insert-line and delete-line sequences of the VT102 emulator.

New in 20081215:

• Preferences window General pane Special tab now correctly saves changes to text fields (such as the window origin).

New in 20081213:

• Preferences window collections can now be reordered using new buttons in the drawer.
• Fixed Preferences window crashes that could occur when using items created by the Duplicate Collection command.

New in 20081212:

• Macros can now perform actions besides text entry, including: verbatim text entry, opening a URL, or running a command in a new window.
• Preferences window Macros pane now supports F13, F14, F15 and F16 as macro keys.
• Terminal view animation now only occurs for terminals in the active window, to reduce idle CPU usage.

New in 20081210:

• Terminal view cursor, if set to blink, now pulses with an effect similar to that of blinking terminal text.
• Terminal view cursor now has an anti-aliased appearance, which makes it seem brighter on dark backgrounds.
• Terminal view cursor now has an alpha channel so that it can use the text color without making text unreadable.

New in 20081209:

• Fixed a serious terminal view rendering bug, where a wrapping cursor could cause only the wrapped remnant of text to be drawn.
• Fixed the VT100 cursor-line-erase variant to invalidate the proper region, otherwise the erase may not occur right away.

New in 20081208:

• Terminal view renderer is now more efficient at rendering small changes to the contents of the screen.
• Fixed a rendering glitch that caused lines to be erased in certain cases, such as in text editors.
• Help updated to correct some minor points and expand on Preferences documentation.

New in 20081207:

• Terminal view renderer is now more efficient when drawing text that uses the normal background color.

New in 20081118:

• Preferences window Macros pane now correctly displays macro names in the list, which is also where they are now edited.

New in 20081115:

• Expanded macros are now implemented: allowing arbitrary key combinations, rapid switching between sets, and more.
• Preferences window Macros pane can now be used to edit most aspects of macros.
• Fixed the commands for choosing macro sets via the Map menu, including None which now turns off macros completely.
• The "Display a macros menu" preference now properly determines whether or not the Macros menu is visible.
• The menu items for importing and exporting macros have been temporarily removed.
• The old "Show Macro Editor" window has been permanently removed.

New in 20081109:

• Fixed the floating command line to use a cursor color that will not blend in with the user's custom background.

New in 20081108:

• Fixed an internal error which had broken the Copy and Open URL commands, as well as whether or not menu items were enabled.

New in 20081107:

• When reviewing windows at quitting time, tabs no longer shift positions as they close; the animation was too distracting.

New in 20081106:

• Fixed the tendency for certain new tabs to shift multiple spots, which also caused assertion failures in some cases.
• Improved the performance of Help.

New in 20081105:

• Contextual help items and help buttons once again bring up relevant search results in Help.
• Fixed the "New Default Session" command in the Dock menu.

New in 20081030:

• Due to the huge number of changes in the code base, renamed this to version 4.0.0 beta.

New in 20081011:

• Fixed a possible crash using default preferences, where "server-port" was saved as a string but read as a number.

New in 20081009:

• Terminal window tabs now open in the same tab group as the frontmost window, instead of always choosing the latest tab group.

New in 20080911:

• Fixed terminal view text selections to once again be modifiable using standard key equivalents such as shift-right-arrow.

New in 20080905:

• Preferences window Macros pane interface for selecting the base key has been slightly tweaked.

New in 20080827:

• Fixed the Preferences window Formats pane and similar interfaces to show text at the displayed font size, without scaling.

New in 20080821:

• Preferences window collections now always display Default values for any setting that is undefined, instead of a recent value.

New in 20080820:

• Preferences window Macros pane now properly saves and reads key modifier settings.

New in 20080806:

• Acquired a new multiprocessor Intel Mac for testing, and verified that the last daily build works fine on Intel Macs.
• Preferences window Macros pane enhanced further, now properly saves certain macro settings.

New in 20080704:

• Preferences window Macros pane has been redesigned (again), as work on enhanced macros continues.

New in 20080703:

• Application should no longer crash if the system Python has changed, as it can now locate another suitable interpreter.
• Application now uses a more descriptive interpreter process name, with only a suffix of "_python2.x".

New in 20080701:

• The Find Next and Find Previous commands now work, focusing on each match in turn (though all are highlighted at once).

New in 20080629:

• Preferences window General pane Options tab is now used to globally set the preference to display a menu for macros.

New in 20080627:

• Fixed framework search path for Quills so that it is once again easy to refer to it in terminals (e.g. "pydoc Quills").
• Added Session.pseudo_terminal_device_name() to Quills, which tells how to directly control the terminal of a session.
• Added Session.resource_location_string() to Quills, to determine what a session represents; normally, this is a command line.
• Added Session.state_string() to Quills, to determine the status (such as, "Running") of a session.

New in 20080626:

• New low-level preferences for setting notification frequencies (such as keep-alive and idle).

New in 20080625:

• Restored Panther compatibility by correcting an accidental dependency on a newer framework for Growl.

New in 20080616:

• Preferences window Sessions pane Resource tab no longer has wasted space at the bottom.
• Preferences window Sessions pane Resource tab now shows a correct progress indicator for domain name lookups.
• Internal improvements to the Preferences window Sessions pane and Custom New Session sheet.

New in 20080613:

• Preferences window Formats pane ANSI Colors tab now correctly uses factory defaults for resetting, instead of the Default set.
• Preferences window Terminals pane Emulation tab now correctly sets the identity, so you can "fake" the terminal type.

New in 20080611:

• Preferences window Terminals pane Options tab no longer has an "ANSI colors" checkbox (use the Emulation tab).
• Preferences window Terminals pane Emulation tab now correctly sets the emulator type.

New in 20080606:

• Modified the method for interfacing to Growl, now that Growl 1.1.3 fixes a key bug for Leopard users.

New in 20080604:

• Fixed a serious bug where batch copies of lines to scrollback (such as on clear) would occur in reverse order.

New in 20080603:

• Fixed a possible crash when choosing a Format from the View menu.
• Preferences window Formats pane now displays samples of all styles, as originally intended.
• Minor tweaks to the text of notifications.

New in 20080602:

• The Growl framework is now used for background notifications, when it is available.

New in 20080530:

• Preferences window Terminals pane Emulation tab now has an option for fixing the line wrap bug of a standard VT100.

New in 20080529:

• The floating command line is now a Cocoa window, which fixes numerous problems this window has had in the past.

New in 20080527:

• Fixed various contextual menu commands to better-match their menu bar equivalents.
• The keypads, Full Screen mode off-switch and "IP Addresses of This Mac" no longer steal keyboard focus when displayed.

New in 20080524:

• The off-switch window in Full Screen mode is now a Cocoa window.
• The off-switch window in Full Screen mode now remembers its position.

New in 20080523:

• Preferences window Terminals pane Emulation tab now has the intended list of checkboxes for terminal tweaks.

New in 20080522:

• Fixed the sample terminal display in places like the Preferences window Formats pane.
• The command line displayed as the default window title no longer has a trailing space.
• Help now contains some basic information on how to use Automator.

New in 20080520:

• The Open dialog is now implemented using Cocoa, which is an improvement on older versions of Mac OS X.

New in 20080517:

• Fixed a possible crash if a session is still trying to process data at the time it is terminated.
• Fixed startup errors, such as type -2703, that could appear on certain computers.
• Added Prefs.TRANSLATION to Quills, allowing Python functions to refer to this type of collection.

New in 20080515:

• The "IP Addresses of This Mac" command now matches its window title, and is also in sync with the Dock menu.

New in 20080514:

• Preferences window Sessions pane Keyboard tab has been refined further.

New in 20080513:

• The "Show IP Addresses…" command is now in the Window menu, and has been renamed "IP Addresses".
• The IP Addresses window is now implemented using Cocoa, which made it trivial to support drags.
• "Send IP Address" was removed due to ambiguity; now, just use drag-and-drop from the IP Addresses window.

New in 20080511:

• The Preferences window Translations pane now displays localized names for all text encodings (character sets).

New in 20080510:

• Key palettes are now implemented using Cocoa, which makes them easier to use (for example, command-W works on them).

New in 20080506:

• The Special Key Sequences dialog now reuses the floating Control Keys palette to make changes, so the dialog is much smaller.

New in 20080505:

• Fixed a conflict in the Preferences window where using the Default command in the File menu would affect the collections list.
• Fixed name generation in the Preferences window collections drawer (for "+", and duplication) so the result is always unique.
• Terminal window tabs can now display much longer titles.
• Terminal window tabs now have a small side button for the "new workspace" behavior, instead of a huge button.

New in 20080504:

• Fixed the Preferences window Sessions pane Resource tab, so it is possible to properly save favorite commands or servers.

New in 20080501:

• Fixed the Preferences window Sessions pane Graphics tab.

New in 20080429:

• Dragging text into a background terminal window will now automatically bring the window to the front after a short delay.

New in 20080426:

• Fixed arrow key sequences in certain modes, noticeable in applications such as the "vim" text editor.
• Fixed command-option-click to once again send arrow key sequences to move the cursor to the clicked location.
• Fixed "Move cursor to text drop location" behavior.

New in 20080424:

• Added even more to the Low-Level Settings section in Help.

New in 20080422:

• Added more to the Low-Level Settings section in Help.

New in 20080421:

• Fixed the Preferences window Translations pane.
• Fixed the Map menu to display all Translation collections.

New in 20080418:

• Fixed some parts of the Preferences window Terminals pane Screen tab.

New in 20080417:

• Fixed background window text selections to allow immediate drags, as their enabled states imply.
• Changed the style of Help somewhat, to better fit the monospaced layout that the content generates.

New in 20080416:

• Started a Low-Level Settings section in Help to document preferences hidden from the main user interface.

New in 20080413:

• Fixed font selection in the Preferences window Translations pane.

New in 20080412:

• Redesigned parts of the Preferences window Translations pane to offer more useful rendering preferences.

New in 20080411:

• The About box now uses the Cocoa standard implementation.
• Fixed certain cases on Panther where user interface panels could become "unclickable".

New in 20080410:

• Fixed some glitches in the display of items in the Window menu.
• Fixed a possible crash at quitting time if the Command Line was ever displayed.

New in 20080409:

• Fixed random actions to be more random; used in such things as the splash screen and the random terminal format setting.

New in 20080408:

• The foreground and background colors used by TEK windows are now defined by Default Format preferences.
• The 6 other colors used by TEK windows are now defined by the normal ANSI Colors from Default Format preferences.
• Minor internal optimizations to TEK windows.

New in 20080406:

• Fixed a case where renaming a single window could propagate the change to every open terminal window.

New in 20080405:

• Fixed color boxes on Panther to no longer use the floating Color Panel, because it is too buggy on that system.
• TEK-related menu commands can now be used when a vector graphics window is frontmost.
• The Rename menu command now works with TEK windows.

New in 20080404:

• Fixed bug (recently introduced) with Copy command in TEK windows.
• Various minor layout improvements in the Preferences window.

New in 20080403:

• Fixed all known stability problems when using multiple TEK windows.
• Since the application cannot currently input text directly to TEK windows, it no longer puts them in front when they open.

New in 20080401:

• Fixed dynamic resize of TEK graphics, so they once again scale as the window is resized.
• Internal changes to improve vector graphics handling.

New in 20080330:

• Fixed bug (recently introduced) where closing a vector graphics window would not restore terminal input.
• Preferences window Terminals pane has been refined further.

New in 20080329:

• Improved overall terminal performance by adjusting the session loop to process data at a faster rate.

New in 20080328:

• Internal changes to improve vector graphics handling.

New in 20080327:

• Various minor tweaks to user interface text, such as alert messages.

New in 20080326:

• Internal changes to improve how process spawns are handled, and how process attributes are saved.

New in 20080325:

• Fixed a problem where icon-changing toolbar items (such as LEDs) may stop working after a toolbar is customized.
• Added a hidden preference (accessible through the "defaults" program) to randomize the Format of every new terminal window.

New in 20080324:

• Various minor changes to the menu bar layout, including the removal of the Action menu.
• Help updated with additional preferences information, and a few minor corrections.

New in 20080323:

• Fixed Preferences window Sessions pane Resource tab to properly handle text field entries.

New in 20080322:

• Selecting the name of a Format from the View menu will now transform the active terminal window to use those fonts/colors.
• It is now possible to override the state of an LED toolbar item just by clicking on it. (Can also be set by the terminal.)
• Fixed user interfaces to consult default preferences when a required setting is not actually defined by a chosen collection.
• Now using a slightly more correct control-key symbol in the Control Keys palette and various other user interface elements.
• Preferences window Sessions pane (and Special Key Sequences dialog) now using segmented views instead of menus in some places.
• Preferences window General pane Special tab now using a segmented view for cursor shape preferences.

New in 20080321:

• Fixed significant persistence problems in preference collections.
• Using Show Help Tags on the Control Keys palette now displays the common abbreviations and meanings of each control key.
• Internal changes to restructure preferences, renaming some keys and placing collections into their own domains.

New in 20080320:

• Preferences window Sessions pane Keyboard tab has been refined further.
• Session Info window now has a Device column, showing the pseudo-terminal connected to a process.
• Fixed setup of window title and command line display when creating certain kinds of sessions.

New in 20080319:

• Fixed Custom Format sheet to show the actual terminal font size.
• Minor fix to definition of text selection regions, visible through their outline shape in inactive windows.

New in 20080318:

• Preferences window General pane now allows command-N to be used for creating log-in shells.
• Preferences window Sessions pane (and Special Key Sequences dialog) slightly redesigned to collect keyboard-related settings.

New in 20080317:

• Fixed terminal windows to respond to changes in the font or font size.
• Terminal view matte now renders with precisely the chosen color, not a tinted version of it.
• Terminal view now renders extra space between the focus ring and text of a view, in the default background color; this is known as padding.
• Terminal views now read terminal margin preferences (hidden, but accessible through the "defaults" program) when setting matte thickness.
• Terminal views now interpret terminal padding preferences as the size of the new interior space, not the thickness of the matte.
• Help updated with additional preferences information, and a few minor corrections.

New in 20080316:

• Preferences window Formats pane and other color box interfaces now use a floating color panel.
• Fixed various keyboard focus quirks.

New in 20080315:

• Preferences window Macros pane redesigned because of far too many bugs in the Apple implementation of pop-up menus in lists.
• Fixed help tags in the Preferences window collections drawer.

New in 20080314:

• Fixed calculation of ideal terminal view size, which affected the dimensions chosen by commands such as Make Text Bigger.

New in 20080313:

• Fixed calculations that set terminal view size based on screen dimensions, to no longer lose a row or column in some cases.
• Terminal views now read terminal padding preferences (hidden, but accessible through the "defaults" program) when setting matte thickness.

New in 20080312:

• Fixed seemingly random display glitches, traced to a corner case in processing CSI parameters.

New in 20080311:

• Preferences window Terminals pane is now visible, though incomplete.
• Fixed blink rate to not change as more windows are opened.
• Fixed blink to not include a random color (usually black) at the end.
• Fixed crash when clicking the close box of the command line window.

New in 20080310:

• Terminal views now render blinking text with a quadratic-delay pulse effect.
• Terminal view renderer has been further optimized in minor ways.

New in 20080308:

• Custom Format dialog now correctly affects a single window and not global preferences.
• Preferences window Formats pane now sets the sample correctly, but due to a display bug this can only be seen after resizing the window.

New in 20080307:

• Terminal view renderer has had several internal improvements, now only partially redrawing the screen in many cases (which is faster).

New in 20080306:

• Finally on Leopard, the application menu is no longer named "Python", and preferences will no longer be saved in the Python domain.
• Fixed bug with files not opening correctly after the application first launched.
• The preferences converter no longer displays graphical alerts, although it will print a status line to the console.
• Find dialog search highlighting now has a unique appearance that does not interfere with normal text selection.
• Find dialog now allows blank queries, so it is possible to remove all previous search highlighting when the dialog is closed.

New in 20080305:

• New Log-In Shell (hidden command requiring Option key in File menu) now runs "/usr/bin/login -p -f user" so there is no password prompt.

New in 20080303:

• Reverted the default emulator to VT100 (from VT102), pending some important accuracy fixes in VT102.
• Floating command line appearance improvements.

New in 20080302:

• Preferences window Formats pane now correctly updates font and color preferences.
• Preferences window Formats pane now uses the system font panel; though only for font name and size settings.
• Any font can now be chosen, but the application takes a performance hit from forcing monospaced layout on proportional fonts.
• A warning is now displayed in the Format pane if the user chooses a font that will be slow.
• Terminal inactivity notification now supports an additional reaction, "keep alive", which sends text to the server after 10 minutes.
• Added Session.set_keep_alive_transmission(str) to Quills, allowing Python to override what is sent after a keep-alive timer expires.
• Added Session.keep_alive_transmission() to Quills, to determine what string is sent to sessions when keep-alive timers expire.

New in 20080301:

• Preferences window Formats pane is now as wide as many other panels, which avoids some resizing and truncation of toolbar icons.
• Major internal changes to improve handling of clipboard data, and rendering in the Clipboard window.

New in 20080229:

• Fixed "Automatically Copy selected text" preference to also Copy selections from double-clicks, triple-clicks and keyboard selections.
• Fixed the rendering of text selection outlines for such things as inactive windows and drags.

New in 20080228:

• Terminal view text selections now support shift-down-arrow and shift-up-arrow to manipulate by one line vertically.
• Terminal view text selections now support shift-left-arrow and shift-right-arrow to manipulate by one character horizontally (with wrap).
• Terminal view text selections now support shift-command-left-arrow to jump to the beginning of the line.
• Terminal view text selections now support shift-command-right-arrow to jump to the end of the line.
• Terminal view rectangular text selections are also changed intelligently when these new keyboard short-cuts are used.
• The cursor location or cursor line can now be selected simply by using a new extension short-cut while no text selection exists.

New in 20080227:

• Even more tweaks to the Find dialog; it is now horizontally much narrower by default, but still resizable.
• Find dialog history menu no longer saves empty or all-whitespace searches.
• Fixed help tags in the Find dialog.

New in 20080226:

• Further tweaks to the Find dialog; it is now about as vertically small as it can be, to show as many results as possible.

New in 20080224:

• Significantly changed the layout of the Find dialog, to increase visibility of the terminal text underneath.
• Menus now correctly display the names of various Preferences collections as they are added.
• Preferences window once again has a help button; but a footer frame was added to give the button a logical place to be.
• Preferences window General pane Options tab now has correct keyboard focus ordering.
• Added accessibility descriptions for color boxes and the add/remove buttons in the Preferences window.
• Added accessibility relationships between certain labels and views (useful with VoiceOver, for instance) in the Preferences window.

New in 20080223:

• The mouse pointer shape is now reset when selecting another window, to prevent (for instance) a persistent I-beam.
• Very minor tweaks to accessibility descriptions, affecting such things as speech when VoiceOver is on.

New in 20080222:

• Custom Format dialog and Preferences window Formats pane now display proper colors.

New in 20080220:

• Fixed presentation of Custom Format dialog.
• Help has received several minor corrections and other edits.

New in 20080216:

• Terminal bell sound can once again be arbitrary. See Preferences window, General pane, Notifications tab.
• The Print Screen command is no longer instantaneous, it displays a dialog (allowing export to PDF, among other print options).

New in 20080212:

• Fixed a possible crash if an item being renamed was deleted with the "-" button in the Preferences window collections drawer.

New in 20080210:

• Fixed a possible crash when quitting.
• Fixed item highlighting in Preferences window collections drawer, so that something is always selected.
• Preferences window collections drawer now contains a contextual menu button with commands for duplicating and renaming items.
• Preferences window collections drawer "-" button is no longer enabled for items that cannot be deleted.
• Terminal backing store can now use Unicode, which will enable better text and rendering support.

New in 20080205:

• Preferences window Translations pane now actually shows lists for the base character set and exceptions.

New in 20080203:

• Fixed truncation of the last line of text when copying or dragging rectangular selections.
• Fixed drag highlighting to not reveal text that is marked as "concealed".
• Fixed Preferences window General pane to properly save preferences in text fields (like window stacking origin).

New in 20080202:

• Find will now properly highlight matching text.
• Find will now highlight *every* match, anywhere in your terminal screen or scrollback, instead of just the first one.
• Find dialog now searches live, as you type or change search options!
• Find dialog now displays the number of matching terms during live search.
• Find dialog now disappears immediately when the Go button finds a match; sheet animation is bypassed.
• Find dialog search history menu no longer has a fixed size.
• Fixed a possible crash after several uses of the Find dialog.

New in 20080130:

• Save Selected Text interface has been modernized, displaying a sheet and using Unicode.

New in 20080129:

• The Quit warning is no longer displayed if every terminal window was recently opened.

New in 20080128:

• Window slide-animation during the review for Quit is now turned off for recently opened sessions, since they do not display alerts.
• Fixed file-opens for extensions that are not scripts, namely macros and session files!
• Added Terminal.dumb_strings_init(func) to Quills, allowing Python functions to define how a dumb terminal renders each character.

New in 20080126:

• Terminal view rendering speed now improved slightly in general, and noticeably during text selection.
• Fixed a possible crash in debug mode when setting the scroll region.
• Fixed Dock menu.

New in 20080121:

• Robustness improvements to the focus-follows-mouse feature, particularly with sheets and non-terminal windows.

New in 20080120:

• Implemented the special editing modes of the VT102 (delete character, insert line, delete line).
• Improved some rendering in the Clipboard window.
• Help updated with some terminal emulator information.

New in 20080115:

• Fixed drag and drop of text into terminal windows.
• Fixed print dialog display when Media Copy (line printing) sequences are sent by applications in VT102 terminals.
• The TERM variable is now properly initialized to match answerback preferences, instead of always using "vt100".

New in 20080111:

• Added Session.on_fileopen_call(func, extension) to Quills, allowing Python functions to respond to file open requests by type.
• Added Session.stop_fileopen_call(func, extension) to Quills, to mirror Session.on_fileopen_call().
• Now any common scripting extension (like ".py" and ".sh") can be opened.
• Preferences window Formats pane now has correctly sized tab content.
• Preferences window Translations pane is now visible, though incomplete.

New in 20080103:

• Terminal window tabs forced to the bottom edge by the system (window too close to menu bar) are now corrected when you move the window.

New in 20080101:

• Help has received several minor corrections and other edits.