Chariz

Some time passed since I wrote this post, and this week went a bit crazy with my attention being diverted in so many different places, so just updating (especially now that I can write 5000 characters in markdown):

• 👉 Zebra 1.1.30 – fixing a few things I broke in 1.1.29.

  Running behind when I really wanted this to release, but it’s still coming! This release also now supports searching for a single character in non-English languages – this is pretty important for languages such as Chinese – along with some various bug fixes.

• ⚪️ Cephei 1.18 – rootless support.

  It pretty much all works, with the exception of features that try to grab info from the dpkg status file, such as the package header cell, on Xina15. I’ll also be adding a built-in cell for linking to Mastodon profiles, because, well… it’s not exactly like I have much confidence in the direction the bird app is going right now.

• ⚪️ Alderis 1.2.2 – rootless support.

  Effectively I’ll just be creating a build for iphoneos-arm64 (proper rootless jailbreaks), since 1.2.2 works perfectly on iOS 15 and 16 under non-rootless/Xina15.

• ⚪️ NewTerm 3 beta 1 – near-total rewrite.

  Super excited for this! No doubt the most popular request I’ve been hearing over and over 😁 NewTerm 3 uses a more up-to-date terminal emulator framework supporting modern features. Just need to finish up a few things I left unfinished so I can start releasing official betas.

• ⚪️ Zebra 1.1.31 – Xina15 support.

  The way Xina15 has set up APT (or rather, not set it up) is very awkward, so all package managers needed to be updated to support it. I put this off for a bit so some of the awkward problems with it could be figured out first, and things start settling down to something stable I can work against. I feel we’re in a good position with it now, so I’m going to go ahead and implement this support soon.

• ⚪️ Zebra 2

  This is a longer-term thing, because it’s a very different beast (different horse?) from Zebra 1. I really hope we can start launching betas of Zebra 2 soon! If you haven’t seen it, check out our unveiling of the UI from a few months ago.