iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

(author here). I pushed out a promotion today to let users know about the new version before auto-updating everyone. It breaks backward compatibility with applescript, so it&#x27;ll be a rough upgrade for some folks.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear any thoughts on how to make this less painful.<p>My first experiment with in-app advertising (promoting the beta version through a popup dialog) has gone well, with a 31% click-through rate, and of those 25% downloaded the beta.

Great app. This announcement reminded me that I use it every day &amp; hadn&#x27;t donated yet, so I did. $10USD won&#x27;t be retirement money, but at least have a beer &amp; tip your bartender:)

I&#x27;m <i>sure</i> I&#x27;m missing iTerm2&#x27;s big appeal, but every time I try to use it, I find myself going back to Terminal.app, which I find more responsive and just as featureful, especially when combined with zsh and a windowing manager. That&#x27;s probably just because I&#x27;m familiar with it and I didn&#x27;t come from tmux or anything similar, but I keep hoping I&#x27;ll be &quot;enlightened&quot; at some point and realize the error of my ways ;)

I just donated $25. iTerm is an amazing piece of software and I honestly can&#x27;t imagine living without it.

Iterm2 was one of those things I was not expecting to miss so much when I switched to a Linux desktop. There&#x27;s something about the look and feel of text that I&#x27;m used too. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, there&#x27;s good terminals for Linux, but I think iterm2 was the best. I&#x27;d gladly pay for a Linux port.

I love iTerm2, I keep up with the &quot;current&quot; beta versions, using them all day in production.<p>I would love it if they&#x27;d make a &quot;dark&quot; titlebar version of the window chrome. My setup currently has windows without any titlebar at all (thanks to iTerm for that feature!), but it makes rearranging windows challenging.<p>I look forward to trying out the newer features!

One of the best mac apps in existence but holy jeebus is the naming a mess:<p>- It&#x27;s called iTerm2 Version 3 now, rather than iTerm3 - It&#x27;s called iTerm2 Version 3 now, but the actual app version is 2.9

I&#x27;m sure if you&#x27;re reading these comments, iTerm is the program you use the most on the Mac.<p>Give George a donation through the Donate button on his site (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iterm2.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iterm2.com&#x2F;</a>) to let him know how much we care about this tool. Takes 10 seconds if you have PayPal.

I played with iTerm2 for a while (coming from Linux) because I was told I had to have it. I switched back to Terminal.app after my last clean install because I didn&#x27;t really see what I was getting.<p>For someone who tmuxes for tabs and splits, what am I missing?

iTerm is OSX&#x27; killer app.<p>Couldn&#x27;t find anything similar on Windows. I used MobaXTerm which is ok but never feels as polished and slick as iTerm. Especially iTerm&#x27;s own fullscreen mode which allows to quickly alt-tab is great.

Another suggestion: how about simply calling it &quot;iTerm&quot;. This can be version 3. I know &quot;iTerm2&quot; was a fork of the defunct original iTerm. But now that you&#x27;re pushing through to v3, in kind of makes sense to reclaim the title.

So if I&#x27;m running iTerm2 Test release 2.9.date (current 2.9.20160206), does that mean I&#x27;m running the v3 beta?<p>Its version names are confusing.

Is there a way to make a previously hidden iTerm window show without also bringing any other iTerm windows to the front?<p>I&#x27;m looking to replace TotalTerminal with iTerm (since TT doesn&#x27;t work on El Capitan without making OS X less secure), and tried using a function key to hide&#x2F;show a small iTerm window, but while that does work, the problem is that when it shows the small window, it also shows my regular large iTerm window as well (which I have always running) and the times when I want to show the small iTerm window I don&#x27;t want the large iTerm window obscuring what&#x27;s behind it.<p>Not sure if I explained that well, but that&#x27;s what I&#x27;m hoping to find a way how to do: basically have a small, TotalTerminal-like iTerm2 window that pops up when I hit a certain keyboard shortcut, without also bringing up any other iTerm2 windows that I may have running in the background.<p>I&#x27;m also open to suggestions for other TotalTerminal replacements that work on El Capitan.

I have used iterm for a long time and I would like to donate to your project. I make all my donations with Patreon, would be great if you could add support for that, if it&#x27;s not too much trouble. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;</a>

&gt; Undo closing sessions, tabs, and windows. If you close a session by accident, you get five seconds to hit Cmd-Z to undo it.<p>Does that mean my session is not really closed until 5 seconds after I “closed” it?

&gt; Session Restoration allows your jobs to keep running after iTerm2 upgrades, is force-quit, or crashes. It&#x27;s like tmux without tmux!<p>Anyone know how this works? From my basic (possibly incorrect) understanding, iTerm currently spawns a bash shell for each tab which in turn has its own children for its processes; so killing iTerm would kill all of its children. Does it use a separate daemon process to spawn children now?

Can we configure iTerm2 v3 now with a simple file? It&#x27;s <i>so difficult</i> to programmatically create profiles, setup typefaces and colors.

&gt; iTerm2 has been updated for the modern Mac OS X &quot;flat&quot; look and is stunningly beautiful.<p>It does look very polished! Just two things:<p>When you choose &quot;No title bar&quot;, the rounded corners and drop shadows all disappear so it looks a bit too &quot;sharp&quot;.<p>And it would be really great if you can add an option to specify internal padding, similar to urxvt&#x27;s internalBorder.<p>Great work and thanks again!

Didn&#x27;t know you can ls and then cmd+click to open a folder&#x2F;file. And alt+click positions the cursor. Nice touches.

You guys deserve all the best. Will make the donation soon... (student here) I have never came across terminal app that is working with you... urxvt and many other on Linux were always working against me. This one was drag and drop and it works.

This is fantastic. I love the new look, and the font rendering seems to be even nicer than before.

I have been a long time Visor&#x2F;TotalTerminal user and wanted to try iTerm2 on 10.11 but was concerned with its use of the Sparkle updater framework. I could find no sign through all of my research if confirm if updates are performed through https instead of http and I declined to install it. I also couldn&#x27;t find a way to contact the anyone to ask, so I&#x27;m glad you posted. So? What does it use? Don&#x27;t you think this may be worth noting on the announcement or changelog?

I&#x27;m late to the thread but just wanted to say THANK YOU for all the hard work in general; and especially now for this:<p>&quot;iTerm2 can change your profile (for example, affecting the color of your terminal) when you ssh to a remote host, when you run sudo, or even depending on your current directory.&quot;<p>Like many people, I use profiles mostly to have different colors for different hosts. This will make my workflow a little easier and a lot more consistent Every. Single. Day.<p>Köszönöm!

There are a lot of people expressing their love for the tool but until now I fail to see why. &quot;Love&quot; is not a good enough reason for me to exchange a seemingly good enough standard tool with something else. Also the situations in which I want to optimize the Terminal are few. Right now I can only think about copy&amp;paste and as far as I can tell that is solved in the standard terminal already.

I&#x27;ve been trying iTerm on and off (sometimes using it for months) but always went back to the Terminal.<p>So far, this release seems it will finally make me switch.

Is there a screenshot for the new version...?

Undo closed window is sweet. Nice work.

Amazing work. This app has so many features that I think go unnoticed to many. I recommend going through all of the tips of the day (iTerm2 -&gt; Show Tip of the Day) and perusing the various preferences available in the app.<p>I donated a while back and will be donating again tonight.

Thank you for all the hard work of the iterm2 team.<p>I&#x27;ve used this application for years now and without it, I would be useless.<p>I do 99% of my development within it, so it really is a super important tool for me and I&#x27;m very very excited to see it&#x27;s continued improvement.

A quick and dirty one-liner to pull the newest xkcd:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;jgworks&#x2F;5c7bd0f731210133ebd4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;jgworks&#x2F;5c7bd0f731210133ebd4</a>

Thank you so much for your hard work. It&#x27;s default terminal for me.

One of my favorite new features has got to be true color support.

I just donated but do you ever consider charging? I think most here would pay. iTerm2 really is the best option and provides a lot of value to developers who make money using it.

Zsh shell via iTerm2, coupled with prezto or Oh my Zsh == Nirvana.

It would be great having little video&#x27;s of each new feature. For example with the automatic profile switching, or the marks&#x2F;shell integration features.

Awesome - I&#x27;ve almost forgotten Terminal.app exists these days. Shell integration is super exciting, I can see myself using that a whole lot in the coming months.

There is already the need for standardization on inline images, as notty uses another approach than iTerm2, which uses another approach than Terminology.

I started using Mac since September - Iterm2 saved from the horrible Mac Terminal.. But why is there no option to rename Tabs ?

I&#x27;m waiting for mutt and weechat to adopt a new iTerm2 inline images feature. That would be epic!

Kudos for the changelog starting with a very succinct summary + link, then expanding what changed :)

Issue: On mobile the hamburger menu isn&#x27;t expanding<p>Android, Samsung S4, Chrome V. 48.0.2564.96

I freaking love it, especially tabs and fonts, thank you for the hard work man.

Why is it not called iTerm3?

great app, i&#x27;ve been using it for a while (i also use terminator on linux). together with homebrew and fish it makes the osx command line experience fantastic!

that is the one thing i miss from osx .. i had all kinds of triggers on screen , specially colouring ip addresses , and urls and guids .. hope it comes to linux one day.

iterm is the best terminal i have found. well done!<p>ps. people should run iterm, and then press cmd-&#x2F; to see something fun! ive seen them change a few times.

Loving it so far! Thanks for all your hard work.

Love iTerm2, upgraded and donated :)

the linked filename says v2.9?