Terminaux 7.0 Beta 4 Announcement

As we are closer to the final release (that we’ve prepared for you), we’ve released the fourth beta version of Terminaux 7.0 that concludes the beta program that we’ve started almost three months ago. Terminaux 7.0 brought many interesting changes, and this beta version is the latest representation of those improvements. We’ve primed the final version of Terminaux 7.0 for documentation and for testing to find bugs even before release.

We are very excited to announce that Terminaux 7.0 Beta 4 is now available on NuGet as version 7.0.0-beta4, which you can download to your project using the following command:

$ dotnet add package Terminaux --version 7.0.0-beta4

This version of Terminaux 7.0 brings many changes that were done after the third beta version released July 3rd. You can access the source code for the fourth beta version here on GitLab.

We’ve added theme color tools, which allows you to theme your Terminaux applications according to either the pre-defined theme type or the custom theme type that you define in your theme JSON file. This is a 1:1 implementation copied and moved straight from Nitrocid with appropriate modifications done, due to the older template tools being unsuitable for use with Nitrocid. Themes also support accents, which give a dynamic look to your Terminaux applications based on your color accent.

We’ve also added all features from Nitrocid’s shell implementation, effectively removing the implementation from the Nitrocid codebase. This is to make Terminaux applications using the shell features more powerful than never before. With features like MESH scripting, command redirects, and filesystem support, your applications now became more powerful than before! You can now more easily autocomplete the paths, and you can write scripts for your applications to automate the shell operations.

We’ve also added a new feature that most libraries don’t have, but appeals to users that prefer their native language. Starting from the fourth beta, your applications can now be localized! With the new localization feature powered by LocaleStation, you can now make your Terminaux application use your native language supported by our libraries! Common languages like French, Spanish, and Portuguese are available for you to try out, and you can use the existing APIs in the LocaleStation library to make Terminaux applications determine what language to use depending on your system culture settings, such as pt-BR for Portuguese (Brazil).

Of course, we’d improved the performance of your Terminaux applications when it comes to prompting users for a huge list of selections, which is tedious on the processor. We are speaking huge amounts like 700,000 choices! The final release brings more, but Terminaux 7.0 Beta 4 is the start of such improvements!

Are you ready for Terminaux 7.0 Beta 4?

Terminaux 7.0 Beta 2 Announcement

Since the first beta, we have done improvements to several Terminaux components that will improve your user and your developer experience to build your Terminaux applications without worry. We are so excited to announce that, today, we will release the second beta version of Terminaux 7.0 that allows you to try out the new improved beta.

You can download the second beta version of Terminaux from NuGet by looking for version v7.0.0-beta2.

The mouse support has been improved, bringing several essential improvements to the mouse event handler to make sure that you will be able to handle those events easier than never before. With the renewed event listener code, you can now use such support to get mouse and keyboard events to process input and execute functions based on it. Whether it’s a left click or a key press, you can easily identify the event using a new class, InputEventInfo.

Also, we have improved mouse positioning on Linux systems by changing the protocol used from the legacy X10 protocol that had a very low limit for mouse cursor position to the modern SGR protocol that supports bigger console sizes. This makes sure that you can use Terminaux applications seamlessly in a large terminal size without having to resize it to a smaller one.

In addition to that, we have employed a better and a more performant reverse RTL code that allows your Arabic and other RTL scripts to be displayed correctly in your console, if it doesn’t reverse such scripts automatically. For RTL users, you can now benefit from those improvements to make sure that your Terminaux applications become usable in RTL systems.

Adding on top of those improvements, we have done some general improvements worth doing in the second beta, while the third beta will feature some more exciting improvements that will make your Terminaux applications stronger than never before.

Why not try out the second beta version of Terminaux 7.0?

Terminaux 4.3.x EOL reminder

To go ahead with the development of Terminaux as a whole, we’ve decided to remind you about the end of support of Terminaux 4.3.x series. This end of support decision is important as we are going forward with the project.

Today, we’d like to remind you of the end of support for this version series of Terminaux on July 7th, 2025. After this date, we will no longer provide further updates for this series, including performance and security updates.

Such announcements are short, because the end of life for a version series means that we will no longer provide the following updates:

• Any new feature updates (if any)
• Any new security updates
• Any new general improvement updates

From now to July 7th, we are planning to halt all development in preparation for the end of life date, unless something serious crops up, just before the date. A notice will be made to remind users about this end of support date.

macOS 13 (Ventura) EOL for our projects

Generally, a macOS version is declared as out of support three years after the initial build. This has become a normal strategy to ensure that users keep using up-to-date hardware and software and to stay secure. This is because macOS updates usually bring in some new features, bug fixes, and security improvements.

Today, we are announcing a change to our support policy as we end support for running our projects on macOS 13 (Ventura) systems. Those include MacBooks and iMacs that use this version of the operating system. This means that there will be no more security and stability updates to this version, and users are encouraged to upgrade to the newer OS to stay secure.

We will end support of macOS 13 (Ventura) for our projects on July 1st, 2025. This means that we will no longer provide official support for this version. We are committed to providing quality services and applications, and we promise that we improve our projects gradually.

As a side note, we will remind users who are running our projects on One UI 5 to upgrade to One UI 6.x or higher to continue receiving support, as we’ll end support for the former version in the same abovementioned date.

If you want continued support, upgrade to the latest version of macOS available for your system.