After 15 months a new stable release of Xfce Terminal is out full of improvements for everybody to enjoy!

A new maintainer

  From 2016 until 2020, Terminal was in the capable hands of Igor Zakharov. It became unmaintained for a few months in 2021 until I took up its development in September.
This is Terminal’s first stable release with me as its maintainer, and I hope you will find it worthy of the quality standards set by my predecessors
and the Xfce desktop environment as a whole.

A new versioning scheme

  After asking around the Xfce community about Terminal’s versioning scheme and looking into its history, I decided to adopt Thunar’s old versioning. That means that the next cycle of development
releases will be 1.1.x, and the next major stable release will be 1.2.0. That will continue until we reach 2.0.0 or some major change happens (for example, porting to GTK 4).

Improvements

  For anyone who hasn’t kept up with Terminal’s development here are the major improvements:

• The `Scrolling on ouput` preference has been improved and will now be temporarily disabled if you scroll up.
• Overlay scrollbars are now supported.
• You can now send signals to the foreground process through the UI.
• The ‘–tab’ and ‘–window’ command l