New iTerm release (EDIT)
août 21st, 2008 by Prune
iTerm is the most powerfull terminal emulator I know on Mac osX. I first thought the dev of this projec was over when Apple released Leopard. Today a co-worker just get an update warning. Checking it shows there indeed was a new update, version 0820 (20th of August ? :)).
The changeLog on the website reference few features and small bug enhancement PLUS a “Fixed nasty crashing bug“. I really hope this is the one I had once and a while (especialy when doing copy/past).
My friend did the update. When starting iTerm he has lost all his (51) bookmarks. Personaly I don’t use bookmarks. But he was really pissed off. After few minutes searching WHY no iTerm.plist was created when changing the config of iTerm, I finaly found that the config file name was changed.
The solution is to rename iTerm.plist to net.sourceforge.iTerm.plist in the Library/Preferences folder of your user (Bibliotheque/Preferences for French users). You can also do it from the Terminal this way (and keep your original file) :
cp ~/Library/Preferences/iTerm.plist ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.iTerm.plist
-EDIT-
It wasn’t long for iTerm to correct this “bug” :
Version 0.9.5.0821 includes the following changes:
* Fixed a bug in 0.9.5.0821 that causes loss of preferences when upgrade.
Go download the new version at http://iterm.sourceforge.net/download.shtml
Strangely I just got prompted again today to upgrade iTerm again (today is the 26th of august) and after updating I am at 0.9.5.0821. I just updated a couple of days ago too though. All the updates make me nervous!
Yes, see my -EDIT- part of the post.
No problem to upgrade iterm, this release is really an improvement and correct the crash bug. The only difference between the last two update is the configuration file name which was changed, and which is now correct to the older file.
Take it easy, don’t be nervous
So I got another update to .0915!
All the updates make me nervous as I run an e-commerce business, and connect to my remote servers securely. The ‘weak links’ in the chain include my terminal program, so many updates over a short period of time in a program I thought was ‘locked down’ does make me nervous indeed. It could be (and is, apparently) legitimate but the update servers could have been compromised or something.
I do feel better knowing others out there are keeping an eye on it too. Also I do agree with you, it’s the best terminal program for OS X!
Yes.
this is another bug correction : the one when you have a lot of text going through the terminal and you use the scrilling bar : crash.
You can go for it
If you are scared, check on the website to see if the release is real and check for the changes.