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The new Colorizer extension has been added. This is a completely new extension which can automatically highlight certain words in the terminal output. For example, "Warning" and "Error". It is configurable and supports regular expressions so you can detect and highlight things like dates and IP addresses if you want to.

The Tips extension makes a come back in this version too.

Features

• Add Tips extension
• Add Colorizer extension
• Extension API supports adding pages to the Settings tab.
• Warn when the regexp is invalid in the Find extension
• Command line "scripting" interface is working again. Starting the app a second time will once again reuse the existing instance and open a new terminal.
• Add the application Quit command

Bug Fixes

• "Bracketed paste" was not always being applied.
• Fix a bug which broke the Aa and .* buttons in the Find extension.
• Move windows which are off screen, onto the visible screen.
• Fix bug where closing all terminals, then opening a new one => crash.
• Prevent the "Copy Command" from sometimes crashing the whole application.

Changes

• Convert line endings when pasting muli-line text on Windows.
• Tweaked the size of icons in block header bars.
• Keep the icon popup on screen in the Terminal Title extension.
• Catch and log exceptions and make the extension API more robust.
• Limit tabs commands to running only when a tab is focused

Find functionality has been added. It is fast and highlights occurences by default.

This also expands the foundations in Extraterm and makes it easier to implement similar extensions in the future.

Features

• Added Find extension.

Bug Fixes

• Fix problem where clipboard paste via a mouse button pasted twice.
• Fixed the window icon.

It is a busy time of the year and this release took much longer to reach than expected. A huge amount of work went into optimising the build process and the final application build files and packaging. Most of the code is now being compressed and unused code is aggressively being removed. This results in smaller package and installer sizes and also an application which starts up faster.

Features

• Optimised packaging of the whole application. Now takes less space on disk and starts up faster.
• Upgraded the node-pty version being used. This appears to give a nice speed boost to terminals on different platforms.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug which prevented terminal font size and the tab bar from reacting to screen DPI changes.
• Fixed a bunch of problems in the mouse support which affected recent versions of htop and mc.
• On Windows look for the user's home directory in $HOMEPATH instead of $HOME.
• Fixed bug which stopped custom keybindings from working. issue #387

Changes

• Removed the old URXVT and UTF8 mouse terminal protocol support.

Features

• Downloads are supported again via the show command
• Displaying images is supported again via show
• Images can now be zoomed in and out
• Images are zoomed to fit the window (on context menu)
• from command can pull contents from downloads/images
• System tray support and "minimize to tray" option is back
• Custom rendering is used for more Unicode block drawing characters and related geometric shapes.

Changes

• Extension API was expanded to support custom block types
• Added Linux AppImage to the list of package formats
• Debian package has been improved. Extraterm is now available via Debian's "alternatives" system.

Bug Fixes

• Shell integration script only runs for interactive sessions
• Launcher program was not finding already running Extraterm instances on Windows.

Features

• Shell integration utility from is back and working
• Added command to copy a block's contents or command line to the clipboard. These commands are also on the context menu.
• Added commands to maximise, minimise, and restore the size of the current window.
• Taskbar and windows now show the Extraterm logo.
• Now possible to configure the window title bar text for a terminal. This works much like tab titles.

Features

• "Insert Emoji" extension is back 🎉
• "Autocomplete" extension is back 🎉
• New terminals try to open in the same current directory (again)

Bug fixes

• Improved performance and eliminated Windows "slow down" bug. (Fixed in Qode which we depend on)
• On Linux, the "super" key is now treated correctly when recording keys. issue 379. (Thanks ashb!)
• Fix for the extension enable/disable button not updating in the Settings
• Fix for the terminal size being slightly wrong

Changes

• Command palette height changes to match the number of items
• Font size inc/dec commands gained icons
• "Clear scrollback", "Command Palette", and "Reset VT" were removed from the context menu
• "Command Palette" is now available on the window hamburger menu

Features

• Add the "pop out frame" feature back in
• Add "open last frame in tab" command
• Highlight the matched characters in the Command Palette when searching

Changes

• Increased the default UI font size
• Updated Twemoji font

Feature

• Added "Move tab to Window" command
• Implemented "Max. frames" and "Max. scrollback lines" config
• Implemented "Automatically copy selection to clipboard" config

Feature

• The return of the TLDR Pages extension.

First preview release of the Qt based version of Extraterm.

This can be safely installed along side the previous Electron based Extraterm versions (anything before version 0.60).

More information about this release can be found in the news post on the website.