Termina 0.13.0 released

October 27, 2026 · 0.13.0

Termina 0.13.0 is the result of a full review of the app, its installers and its release process. Most of it is fixes, a few of them the kind that cost you work, and a handful of things that were missing.

Download

From the release page:

macOS: the macos-arm64 DMG for Apple Silicon, macos-x64 for Intel. Open it and drag Termina to Applications.
Windows (x64): the MSI.
Linux (x64 and ARM64): the DEB (sudo apt install ./Termina-*.deb) or the RPM (sudo dnf install ./Termina-*.rpm).

Each bundles its own Java runtime. The builds are unsigned: on macOS allow the first launch under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, and on Windows choose More info → Run anyway if SmartScreen warns. Verify a download against checksums_sha256.txt. Each installer now carries a build-provenance attestation too: gh attestation verify <file> --repo adriandeleon/Termina.

New

Padding around the text. Terminal → Display → Padding, 4 pixels by default, up to 32.
A hollow cursor where your keys are not going. In an unfocused pane or window a block cursor is drawn as an outline, and a bar or underline is dimmed, so the pane that takes your typing is the one with the solid block.
Reopen Closed Tab brings back a closed pane and a closed window, not only a tab. A pane comes back as a tab of its own beside the one it left; a window comes back as a window with its tabs.
-T title (--title) names the first tab, as Debian expects of an x-terminal-emulator.
The right-click menu has the command palette and About, beside Settings.
The Linux packages put termina on your path, list Termina in GNOME Software and KDE Discover, and the .deb adds it to the x-terminal-emulator choices without making it the default.

Changed

The command palette opens with Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P on a Mac), as in Windows Terminal and VS Code. Alt+X was Emacs’s and zsh’s M-x, taken from every program in the terminal. A chord you chose yourself is kept.
On macOS, New Tab With Profile 1–9 is Cmd+Option+1…9. Cmd+Shift+3, 4 and 5 are the system’s screenshot keys, so three of the nine never reached Termina.
The settings file takes backslashes literally and is UTF-8, so a Windows path is typed as it is. Files written by earlier versions read the same.
Shells no longer inherit the identity of the terminal Termina was started from: TMUX, kitty’s, WezTerm’s, iTerm2’s and Windows Terminal’s variables, COLUMNS and LINES are left out.

Fixed

Installing:

The .deb installs on Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 again. It depended on a sound library only newer systems have, for sound Termina never plays. The packages now declare the libraries the interface needs, so a minimal system installs them rather than failing at start.

The terminal:

Colors written with colons (ESC[38:2::255:0:0m, the form newer programs use for 24-bit color) printed the colons and lost the color. They read like their semicolon forms now.
An image sent with the kitty graphics protocol appeared as a line of base64. It is discarded, as xterm does.
The cursor drifted a cell right for each emoji or Nerd Font icon on its line, and text after a combining mark or ⚠️ shifted a cell left.
Hovering over a link no longer touches the disk while holding the terminal, which froze the window on a slow mount.

Settings and sessions:

A malformed settings file no longer stops Termina opening. It opens on defaults and keeps the file as settings.properties.bad-<time>.
Two Termina processes no longer overwrite each other’s settings.
When the shell cannot start, the window stays open and says why, rather than the app quitting.
A sync retried after another computer pushed sent back the older binding it had just received. It keeps the newer one now, and a sync that sent nothing no longer reports success.

Windows, tabs and keys:

Chords typed into the command palette or the find bar reached the menus behind them: Ctrl+Shift+W in the palette closed the tab.
Many tabs in a narrow window clipped the first and hid the selected tab’s name.
Closed windows stayed in memory until the app quit.

Security

A file: link to another machine, or a Windows network path, is never opened or looked up. On Windows that lookup is a connection to the other machine that sends it a hash of your password, and hovering over such a link made one.
A crafted .terminal theme can no longer hang or crash Termina on import.

New user-visible behavior, so the minor number moves. The full list is in the changelog.