Termy v0.2.40

Termy v0.2.40 delivers a major expansion of the plugin platform, more reliable terminal rendering, and stronger runtime behavior across desktop, CLI, FFI, and PTY integrations.

Highlights

• Fixed missing cursors in Pi and Claude Code.
• Significantly expanded the Termy plugin API and native plugin UI.
• Improved terminal, PTY, SSH, CLI, and FFI reliability.
• Preserved Termy’s established settings design and controls.

Terminal rendering

• Fixed Pi and Claude Code input cursors not appearing.
• Reverse-video cells now receive an explicit background when tools hide the terminal cursor and draw their own.
• Improved handling of default foreground and background colors.
• Added regression coverage for reverse-video cursor rendering.
• Improved terminal input, tab lifecycle, tmux actions, and rendering behavior.

Plugins

• Added declarative command availability conditions based on:
  • Selected text
  • Working-directory availability
  • Native or tmux runtime
  • Operating syste- Added asynchronous, searchable pick inputs.
• Added stable window, tab, and pane IDs for targeting terminal actions.
• Added cancellation signals and progress reporting for long-running operations.
• Added explicit actions for:
  • Sending text to terminals
  • Opening tabs, splits, and windows
  • Launching shell commands and structured programs
• Added native view parameters and navigation with view.open, view.replace, and view.close.
• Expanded native plugin UI with:
  • Text areas
  • Select controls
  • Searchable lists
  • List items
  • Empty states
  • Progress indicators
• Improved keyboard navigation across native plugin controls.
• Added lifecycle events for:
  • Pane activation
  • Tab creation and closure
  • Terminal bells
  • Command starts
• Added Git tools and todo-list example plugins.
• Expanded plugin validation, tests, documentation, and TypeScript definitions.

Runtime and platform reliability

• Extracted and simplified the Alacritty-backed terminal runtime.
• Strengthened PTY resource limits and Windows PTY behavior.
• Improved SSH session handling.
• Improved CLI config editing and runtime behavior.
• Hardened the headless terminal and C-compatible FFI APIs.
• Improved CI stability and release lockfile synchronization.

Interface

• Retained Termy’s previous settings design system.
• Restored the established buttons, selects, switches, text fields, badges, and feedback components.
• Preservedxisting settings workflows for plugins, SSH hosts, themes, and confirmations.
• Removed the temporary Glassy UI dependency and integration.

Maintenance

• Removed the obsolete hosted API service and deployment configuration.
• Removed tracked local Wrangler and website environment state.
• Improved website release handling.
• Updated architecture, plugin, development, and contributor documentation.

The UI revert was also committed and pushed to main as 3cd69772.