docs/notes-3.7.0beta5.txt
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Version 3.7.0beta5 was built on June 23, 2026.
Note: if you are beta testing the iPhone companion
app iTerm2 Buddy, you'll need to update it after
upgrading iTerm2 to this version.
Changes since 3.7.0beta4:
New Features:
- Blinking cursors can now fade smoothly in and
out instead of toggling abruptly. Turn on
“Smooth blink” in Settings > Profiles > Text,
where you can tune the fade-in and fade-out
durations, easing curves, and how long the
cursor stays fully visible and fully hidden
between fades. Off by default.
- The status bar can now draw a separator line
between itself and the terminal content. Turn
it on in the status bar layout’s settings.
Improvements:
- The job name shown in titles, the session
icon, and automatic profile switching now
reflects the foreground job actually attached
to the terminal, hiding helper subprocesses
that run in the foreground process group but
are piped to their parent (for example an MCP
server spawned by claude, or caffeinate). The
raw deepest job is still available as the
deepestJob variable. Note that automatic
profile switching now matches the tty-attached
job, so a rule keyed on such a helper name
will no longer fire for it.
- You can now choose where tmux windows created
outside iTerm2 open: a new window, the focused
window, or the topmost window already hosting
that tmux session.
- Terminal-initiated downloads (it2dl) now ask
whether to save to the Downloads folder or to
choose a destination. The choice is
silenceable, so you can always save to
Downloads or always show a save panel.
Issue 12897.
- Added Edit > Marks and Annotations > Annotate
Selection, so annotating a selection can now
be given a keyboard shortcut. Previously it
was only on the right-click menu.
- In an AI orchestration chat, @-mentioning a
session or workgroup now grants the chat
standing permission to control it, so the
agent acts there without the one-time approval
prompt. A notice with a Revoke button lets you
take the permission back whenever you want.
- Anthropic prompt caching now also covers the
conversation history, not just the system
prompt and tools, so long chats reread the
earlier turns from cache instead of paying
full input price every turn.
- Right-click a row in the Session Status
toolbelt tool and choose Snooze to move it
below a divider at the bottom of the list
and dim it. A snoozed entry un-snoozes
automatically the next time its status
changes.
- The inline chat panel now has a toolbar to
create a new chat, switch chats, open the
session/link menu, and hide the panel. New
inline chats ask whether to link to the
session or become an orchestrator instead
of linking automatically.
- Chat lists now mark orchestrator chats with a
wand glyph. The inline chat switcher bolds chats
linked to the current session.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where a pane could restore in your
home directory instead of its previous working
directory after restarting iTerm2. Sessions
that used automatic profile switching saved a
value that could not be read back, which
silently dropped the rest of the restored
session state.
- SSH integration no longer leaves Ctrl+C unable
to interrupt programs on remote hosts whose
Python is older than 3.7 (e.g. CentOS 7,
AlmaLinux 8). The login shell handoff was
leaving signal generation disabled on the tty.
- The heavy window border now has a uniform
width: its corners no longer look thinner than
its edges or pick up semi-transparent pixels.
It is now drawn entirely inside the window
instead of straddling the window edge.
Issue 12882.
- The session-logging and archive folder pickers
now use the folder you select rather than its
parent when you don’t open it first.
- Clicking a notification posted by a background
tab of a dedicated hotkey window now selects
the source tab and pane instead of leaving the
previously-selected tab in front. Issue 12902.
- A full-screen program that does not use the
alternate screen (such as Claude Code) and
repaints from the top no longer overwrites a
fold above the cursor. The fold is scrolled
into history instead of being clobbered and
left with an orphaned unfold icon in the
margin. This works even without shell
integration installed.
- AI chat with DeepSeek no longer fails with an
“insufficient tool messages” error after a
tool call that was interrupted or left
unapproved.
- The AI orchestrator’s get_screen_contents tool
now marks faint text and the cursor position.
Inline shell suggestions and ghost completions
are drawn faint, so the agent used to mistake
a suggestion for a command you actually typed.
- An AI orchestrator watcher waiting on a
session’s reported status no longer hangs
forever if that status gets stuck. After five
minutes without the expected change it falls
back to reading the screen to confirm the real
state.
- OpenAI prompt caching is more reliable: the
Responses API request now sorts its JSON keys
so the cached prefix stays stable.
- Restoring a window with an open inline AI chat
panel now reopens the panel on the chat it was
showing, instead of widening the terminal.
- The companion device no longer triggers a
keychain confirmation prompt when it connects
or when a notification is sent. The paired
identity is now read once at launch, while you
are present, instead of mid-connection.