From time to time, you’ll find here the latest changes and newest features for what will come in the next release. These ‘release candidates’ have a limited lifespan, an expiration date. Not to be confused with your 30-day demo period, release candidates expire on a specific date that it will announce to you each time you run it, something like this:
By that time, either a NEW release candidate will be announced (on this page) or the release candidate will become final and posted to the normal download section of the website.
Current Release Candidate: AbsoluteTelnet 13.17 RC3
Deployed Date: June 17, 2026
Expiration Date: July 11, 2026
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This release candidate for version 13.17 contains the following changes:
RC1
- Implemented Bracketed Paste MIME
- Implemented Kitty style ClipboardImplemented OSC52 keyboard
- Fully populate capabilities exposed through XTGETTCAP
- Implemented DECRQCRA – host queries checksum for a rectangular area of the screen
- Fix implementation of DECRQSS – host requests information about a specific mode
- Implement support for Kitty styled and colored underlines
- Implement Italic text attribute
- Added support for color Emoji
- Added in-band window resizing
- Better support for symbols not supported in most fixed-width fonts
- Enhanced speed by decoupling socket workers from UI updates
- Added popup ‘toast’ when data is copied to the clipboard
- Add support for XTVERSION – send application name and version to host
- Fixed caret rendering issue when ESO is used.
- Fixed problem with scrollbar caused by 13.16
RC2
- Implemented sixel graphics within the terminal
- Implemented kitty keyboard protocol
- Fixed a few display glitches in RC1
- pixel calculations in pty-req and window change SSH messages are now accurate
- Disable scrollbar and scrollback when alt screen is enabled (claude fullscreen tui)
- Add some missing xterm key bindings.
RC3
- Fixed display glitch in RC1/RC2