By: Deuce to All on Sun May 03 2026 05:12 pm

This is the second release candidate for SyncTERM v1.9. If there are no bugs, reported in the next week or two, this will become the official SyncTERM release.

To that end, if you use SyncTERM, please try the rc2 release, and report any bugs you find. If you're not sure if something is a bug, open a support ticket and ask.

Changes since 1.8:
Fix error when scrolling with a non-black background colour
Fix Prestel double-height bottom-half redraw on overwrite
Fix key repeat on Wayland
Fix Wayland content size change
Fix Quartz and Wayland mapping on non-PC charsets (ATASCII etc)
Change Qartz to map Command to Alt, not Option per Apple design
Rework filepick widget

Bugs and Support tickets (and feature requests) are tracked on the SourceForge page at http://sf.net/p/syncterm/ if you create a SourceForge account, you can be notified when I reply/fix bugs, and it really helps in case I need to ask follow-up questions, so please consider making that account and logging in before opening a ticket. That said, I would rather have bug reports as
anonymous than not know about issues.

Files for 1.9rc2: https://sf.net/projects/syncterm/files/syncterm/syncterm-1.9rc2
Bug Tracker: https://sf.net/p/syncterm/tickets/
Support Tracker: https://https://sf.net/p/syncterm/support-tickets/

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This is the fourth release candidate for SyncTERM v1.9. If there are no bugs, reported in the next week or two, this will become the official SyncTERM release.

To that end, if you use SyncTERM, please try the rc4 release, and report any bugs you find. If you're not sure if something is a bug, open a support ticket and ask.

Changes since 1.9rc3:
Add LF Expand option to dialing directory
Fix some PBM/PPM parsing errors
Fix several Sixel rendering and fragmented-input issues
Fix pixel graphics redraw when images start partway through a character cell Fix Prestel key mappings
Fix saving the custom video mode column count
Fix shifted navigation key and Alt+Delete handling
Fix mouse motion reporting when no button is pressed

Bugs and Support tickets (and feature requests) are tracked on the SourceForge page at http://sf.net/p/syncterm/ if you create a SourceForge account, you can be notified when I reply/fix bugs, and it really helps in case I need to ask follow-up questions, so please consider making that account and logging in before opening a ticket. That said, I would rather have bug reports as
anonymous than not know about issues.

Files for 1.9rc4: https://sf.net/projects/syncterm/files/syncterm/syncterm-1.9rc4/
Bug Tracker: https://sf.net/p/syncterm/tickets/
Support Tracker: https://sf.net/p/syncterm/support-tickets/

Home page: https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

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Re: SyncTERM v1.9rc4 released!
By: Deuce to All on Tue Aug 04 2026 10:53 pm

This is the fifth release candidate for SyncTERM v1.9. If there are no bugs, reported in the next week or two, this will become the official SyncTERM release.

To that end, if you use SyncTERM, please try the rc5 release, and report any bugs you find. If you're not sure if something is a bug, open a support ticket and ask.

Changes since 1.9rc4:
Fix fullscreen aspect ratio on Wayland and Quartz
Fix capture menu to indicate append not overwrite for ASCII and Raw

Bugs and Support tickets (and feature requests) are tracked on the SourceForge page at http://sf.net/p/syncterm/ if you create a SourceForge account, you can be notified when I reply/fix bugs, and it really helps in case I need to ask follow-up questions, so please consider making that account and logging in before opening a ticket. That said, I would rather have bug reports as anonymous than not know about issues.

Files for 1.9rc5: https://sf.net/projects/syncterm/files/syncterm/syncterm-1.9rc5/
Bug Tracker: https://sf.net/p/syncterm/tickets/
Support Tracker: https://sf.net/p/syncterm/support-tickets/

Home page: https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

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Re: SyncTERM v1.9rc5 released!
By: Deuce to All on Sun Aug 30 2026 02:37 pm

Thanks to everyone who has tested the release candidates and reported bugs.

Changes since 1.8:
Add LF Expand option to dialing directory
Fix error when scrolling with a non-black background colour
Fix Prestel double-height bottom-half redraw on overwrite
Fix key repeat on Wayland
Fix Wayland content size change
Fix Quartz and Wayland mapping on non-PC charsets (ATASCII etc)
Fix RTS/CTS handling on close() and in 3-Wire mode
Fix some PBM/PPM parsing errors
Fix several Sixel rendering and fragmented-input issues
Fix pixel graphics redraw when images start partway through a character cell Fix Prestel key mappings
Fix saving the custom video mode column count
Fix shifted navigation key and Alt+Delete handling
Fix mouse motion reporting when no button is pressed
Change audio backend try-order so PulseAudio is no longer tried first
Change Qartz to map Command to Alt, not Option per Apple design
Rework filepick widget
Fix fullscreen aspect ratio on Wayland and Quartz
Fix capture menu to indicate append not overwrite for ASCII and Raw

Bugs and Support tickets (and feature requests) are tracked on the SourceForge page at http://sf.net/p/syncterm/ if you create a SourceForge account, you can be notified when I reply/fix bugs, and it really helps in case I need to ask follow-up questions, so please consider making that account and logging in before opening a ticket. That said, I would rather have bug reports as anonymous than not know about issues.

Files for 1.9:
https://sf.net/projects/syncterm/files/syncterm/syncterm-1.9/
Bug Tracker: https://sf.net/p/syncterm/tickets/
Support Tracker: https://sf.net/p/syncterm/support-tickets/

Home page: https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

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