What's new

Fixed

• macOS: drag the empty part of the title bar to move a window again (in Mini mode, the empty part of a tab strip or the space under the window buttons). Double-clicking it does what System Settings says for a window’s title bar (by default, the window fills the screen). The first-start window moves too.
• macOS, Mini mode: the close, minimize and zoom buttons no longer cover the program icon and the first tab, and the program menu opens under its icon.

Good to know

• This is still a beta: back up your data folder before you update. Settings from 0.1.2 carry over.
• On Windows and Linux, nothing changes but the version number.
• To update on macOS, replace the app in Applications with the new one. It is not signed by Apple yet, so macOS may ask again before it opens (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway), and on macOS 15 and later again whether it may connect to devices on your local network.
• The Windows version is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn when it first starts: click More info, then Run anyway.
• There are no automatic updates; new versions are announced here.
• Keys held by an SSH agent are not used yet: give the connection its private key, or keep the key in the vault.

New

• macOS: one app for Macs with Apple silicon or an Intel processor, on macOS 13 Ventura or newer; unzip it, drag OwlAttic Terminal into Applications and open it. Input methods such as Chinese Pinyin work in the terminal, holding a key repeats it, and the vault also locks when the screen locks. For now, web pages open in your browser and extension panels are not shown inside the app (the extension list, switches and permissions in Settings work), and the device key, if you turn it on, is kept in your login keychain.
• The Mac menu bar: the OwlAttic Terminal menu has About, Settings… (⌘,), Services, Hide (⌘H), Hide Others (⌥⌘H), Show All and Quit (⌘Q); Edit has undo, redo, cut, copy, paste and select all for text fields; Window has New Window, Minimize (⌘M), Zoom and Enter or Exit Full Screen (⌃⌘F); Help opens the documentation and the download page on this site in your interface language. Quit is like closing every window at once: it confirms unsaved changes and ending sessions as needed, and saves every window’s layout so it can be restored on the next start, as your settings say.
• Option key: Option types the Mac’s special characters (é, ∫ …) as usual. To use it as Meta (Alt) in bash, zsh or Emacs, turn on Use Option as Meta in Settings → Terminal → Basics.
• App icon in the Dock: the icon you choose in Settings → Appearance → App icon also shows in the Dock and the app switcher while the app runs.

Fixed

• In Settings → Appearance → Interface icons, with icons colored By tool, the list of tools showed a globe for port forwarding; it now shows the port forwarding icon.
• Under File manager icons on the same page, a long name now wraps in its column instead of running into the sample icons.
• On a fresh install, the example snippets (Common, Disk space, Memory, Follow a log) are named in your interface language; they used to be in Chinese. Existing snippets are not changed.

Good to know

• This is still a beta: back up your data folder before you update. Settings from 0.1.1 carry over.
• The Windows version is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn when it first starts: click More info, then Run anyway.
• The macOS version is not signed by Apple yet. The first time you open it, macOS says it cannot check it for malicious software: close the message, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the message about OwlAttic Terminal, click Open Anyway and confirm. After that it opens like any other app.
• On macOS 15 and later, the first time you connect to a server on your local network, macOS asks whether OwlAttic Terminal may connect to devices on your local network: allow it, then press Enter in the tab to connect again (the first try fails while macOS asks). You can change it later in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network.
• There are no automatic updates; new versions are announced here.
• Keys held by an SSH agent are not used yet: give the connection its private key, or keep the key in the vault.

New

• Linux: 64-bit, with glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 and later); unpack it and run. For now, web pages open in your browser and extension panels are not shown inside the app, and the vault does not lock when the screen locks.
• Toolbars on both sides: put each tool on the left or the right, and drag it on the toolbar to reorder it or move it across; each toolbar turns on and off on its own. Tools on the left toolbar open at the left edge of the layout page, those on the right at the right edge, and panels such as files, port forwarding and server status start a quarter of the page wide.
• A title bar you arrange: the workbench and Mini mode each have their own buttons (quick connect, the two toolbar switches, Mini / workbench mode, settings, the vault lock, the portable tag); choose which show and in what order in Settings → Workspace → Toolbars & title bar, or right-click a toolbar or the title bar’s buttons and choose Customize toolbars and title bar…. New shortcut commands: “Left toolbar on / off” and “Right toolbar on / off”.
• Interface icons: besides OwlAttic’s own icons, choose one of 18 open icon sets, such as Lucide, Tabler, Phosphor, Material Symbols and Font Awesome, many in several styles (outline, filled and more), in Settings → Appearance → Interface icons.
• Icon colors: toolbar and title bar icons can be grey, brighter, colored by tool, or all in one color you pick; colored by tool, each tool’s color can be changed. Export the colors to a file to share them, or import someone else’s.
• File manager icons: colored file type icons by name and extension, from Material Icon Theme, Catppuccin or Seti; or plain icons by kind (code, image, archive, key …) that follow your interface icons.

Fixed

• On Windows, the program menu under the top-left icon is no longer hidden behind a web page or extension panel.
• Pressing Esc while a dropdown list is open in Settings closes the list first instead of closing Settings.
• The Windows package’s README says where to get the WebView2 Runtime if extension panels or web pages do not open.

Good to know

• This is still a beta: back up your data folder before you update. Settings from 0.1.0 carry over; if you had reordered the toolbar in 0.1.0, its tools all stay on the right toolbar in that order.
• The Windows version is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn when it first starts: click More info, then Run anyway.
• There are no automatic updates; new versions are announced here.
• Keys held by an SSH agent are not used yet: give the connection its private key, or keep the key in the vault.

In this version

• Connections: SSH with jump hosts and HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5 proxies; passwords, private keys or automatic sign-in like ssh; two-factor codes; login credentials shared by several servers; host key checks, keep-alives and automatic reconnects. Telnet, and serial ports with a hex view. Import from ~/.ssh/config.
• Two ways to work: the workbench, with connections, workspaces and layout pages, or Mini mode, with just tabs and the terminal. Switch at any time; no session drops.
• Layout: drag a tab to any edge of a pane to split it, keep several layout pages, and drag tabs into new windows or between windows. Windows, pages and tabs come back the next time you start.
• Beside the shell: an SFTP file panel; a remote file editor in its own window that keeps encodings and line endings and previews images; local, dynamic (SOCKS5) and remote port forwarding; server status for Linux servers; snippets with blanks to fill in; search in the terminal; session logs.
• Local shells: PowerShell, Command Prompt, WSL and Git Bash, found on their own.
• Security: an encrypted vault for passwords and private keys, locked by your master password and when your screen locks.
• Extensions: web panels and JavaScript scripts that can do only what you allow; scripts can run on a schedule or when a server connects.
• Look and feel: dark, light or follow Windows; thirteen color schemes, scheme import and a scheme editor; background images, acrylic and transparent windows; fonts with ligatures; an optional smooth cursor; shortcuts you choose.
• Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Good to know

• This is a beta. Settings and saved servers may not carry over to later versions: back up your data folder before you update.
• The app is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn when it first starts: click More info, then Run anyway.
• There are no automatic updates; new versions are announced here.
• Keys held by an SSH agent (Pageant, the Windows OpenSSH agent, 1Password) are not used yet: give the connection its private key, or keep the key in the vault.
• Importing from other apps (Xshell, MobaXterm, PuTTY, FinalShell) comes next; for now you can import ~/.ssh/config.