xterm.js

🎉 We are excited to announce new major release: 2.0 🎉

Official announcement: http://xtermjs.org/blog/articles/2016-10-03-xtermjs-2.0

Major changes

• Xterm.js now is broken into multiple ES2015 modules and compiled with Babel (#251)
• 🆕 Introduced new website http://xtermjs.org/ with docs and blog

⚠️ API breakages

• Xterm.js should be loaded from the dist directory, where the built files reside, instead of src, where the unbuilt modules reside

Updates

• 🆕 API to set terminal options: setOption (#272)
• 🆕 API to get terminal options: getOption (#282)
• 🆕 API to clear terminal: clear (#276)
• Fix scrolling in applications like Vim (#243)
• Better support for xterm function keys (#252)
• Better mouse support in terminal (#268)
• Support mouse wheel events in applications like Vim (#289)
• Fix right-click copy/paste regression introduced in 1.1.0 (#293)

Full list of patches

• Add support for IMEs (#175)
• Custom keydown handler support (#186)
• Add target option to Linkify add-on (#214)
• Introduce scrollbar (#218)
• Clarify documentation of mission and features of xterm.js (#219)
• Add support for resizing the terminal in the demo (#220)
• Require releases to be signed (#222)
• Improved mouse support (#231)

Full list of patches

Bugfixes from 1.1.2

• Automate release script to fix wrong NPM releases

Full list of patches

• Add support for IMEs (#175)
• Custom keydown handler support (#186)
• Add target option to Linkify add-on (#214)
• Introduce scrollbar (#218)
• Clarify documentation of mission and features of xterm.js (#219)
• Add support for resizing the terminal in the demo (#220)
• Require releases to be signed (#222)
• Improved mouse support (#231)

Full list of patches

Bugfixes from 1.1.1

• Fix Alt + ←/→ movements (#240)

Full list of patches

• Add support for IMEs (#175)
• Custom keydown handler support (#186)
• Add target option to Linkify add-on (#214)
• Introduce scrollbar (#218)
• Clarify documentation of mission and features of xterm.js (#219)
• Add support for resizing the terminal in the demo (#220)
• Require releases to be signed (#222)
• Improved mouse support (#231)

Full list of patches

Bugfixes from 1.1.0

• Ensure IME composition view is on top of cursor (#234)

Full list of patches

• Add support for IMEs (#175)
• Custom keydown handler support (#186)
• Add target option to Linkify add-on (#214)
• Introduce scrollbar (#218)
• Clarify documentation of mission and features of xterm.js (#219)
• Add support for resizing the terminal in the demo (#220)
• Require releases to be signed (#222)
• Improved mouse support (#231)

Full list of patches

• Remove hidden textarea for input handling
• Performance improvements in rendering
• Better support for international characters
• Ability to import add-ons with Node
• Fix inconsistent line height
• Fix rendering of inverse colors
• Introduced test suite
• Documented the whole public API of xterm.js; http://docs.xtermjs.org

Full list of patches

• Xterm.js is now CommonJS (and Node.js consequently) importable (#49)
• Fixed vertical line shifting when scrolling and resizing (#50)
• Fixed an issue with cursor blinking (#51)

Full list of patches

• Calculate character width and height in a way with less corner cases
• Increment character width by 1 in Firefox, since it seems to have a bug in calculating width of specific elements