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Later than we hoped, 0.9 is here! You can download it from Launchpad, or read more at http://www.tenshu.net/terminator
It's been far too long, but here it is. Terminator 0.9. As usual, head over to the home page to get all the links and information you need. "So what's new in this release?" Well let's have a little look at the ChangeLog:
It's taken us some time to get there, but as this page shows, we now have all of the bugs we want solved for 0.9, solved :D The string freeze came way too late unfortunately, so I'm expecting we'll want to do a 0.9.1 consisting of translations and fixes for any other bugs we figure out on the road to 1.0. I now need to prepare all of the parts required for a release and push out a final RC build into our PPA and if all is well, 0.9 will be released very shortly! Please test it now and tell us if you hit any last minute problems.
The list of milestone bugs is now clear of items which affect the UI, so we are now in string freeze. I uploaded a new POT for 0.9 so the wonderful, wonderful community of translators can weave their magic. We did have a small false start which required changing one string, but unless anyone shakes out any new bugs, that's it. 0.9 is one step closer to release.
The list of bugs left for Terminator 0.9 is getting shorter (although I do keep failing to resist the temptation to add more) and so it's time to try and get some wider testing. Therefore, we've started uploading beta packages of 0.9 to our PPA. If you want to help test and you run Ubuntu, add this apt source:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ubuntu hardy main
If you have Terminator installed already from a package, it should then be offered to you as an upgrade, otherwise run:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install terminator
Please report any bugs you find to http://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/ and please feel free to drop by #terminator on irc.freenode.net with any feedback!
I have just pushed a revision to trunk which moves the default location for terminatorrc to ~/.config/terminator/config. Testers of 0.9 please make this change too if you use terminatorrc.
The tabs feature is in. drag&dropping terminals is in. For bonus points we've even thrown in a branch that lets you quickly hide all the terminals apart from one (I'm experimentally calling this "terminal zooming"). So that's it for new features for 0.9 and apart from fixing bugs we are now only tweaking the existing features to get them right. In the next week or so I'll declare a string freeze and get a translation template up so our fantastic translators can get to work while we take care of the final bugs. Right after that, a glorious 0.9 will roll out of the door and into a tarball/PPA/Intrepid near you!
After learning to use Meld and much chatting with chantra, I'm pleased to announce that we have landed his dnd-tabs branch into Terminator trunk.
What does all of that mean? Well, it means that we are a major step closer to being able to release 0.9 (which I have arbitrarily decided should be released only when we have tab support). That's not to say that the release will be today or even in the next week - the branch landing may bring us all the infrastructure we need, but it needs some UI and behaviour love to make sure people don't get lost in a maze of nested tabs (although this seems like such a powerful feature for some users that it may well be available as an option). This is the sort of thing I want to avoid out of the box:
One other nice thing we get from chantra's branch is drag&drop re-ordering of terminals. You can kind of see it at work in the screenshot below - we highlight the area of the window where the terminal being dragged will end up (note that you can't see the mouse pointer - it should be over the grey square with a drag icon of a terminal):
Thanks very much to chantra for his hard work on this, and indeed all of the team who have been rocking trunk for weeks now. We'll get this polished and fixed ASAP and into a tarball/PPA and hopefully into things like Fedora and OpenSUSE :)
It's a month since my last news item and since it's also now almost a month since Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) was released, work has picked up again on Terminator. We're landing lots of fixes and architectural tweaks all the time, with a few features slipping in there too.
There's no firm deadline for 0.9 yet, but tabs is still the main blocking feature (drag&drop terminal arranging will be included free with that, which is extremely nice). The team continues to grow, and we're getting more and more blog coverage. Thanks to everyone involved!