<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Happy Friday!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the 3rd beta of CoolTerm v1.9.0 is ready for testing. Here is what’s new:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">1.9.0b3</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">-------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Made the automatic re-connect function configurable. It is now possible to enable or disable the feature as well as to set the re-connect delay.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Improved the automatic re-connect function to work better with very short serial port connectivity interruptions.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Updated warning dialog when connection settings with an unavailable port are loaded with the option to select a different port, select the default port, or cancel, instead of just selecting the default port.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Changed the built-in help to use HTMLViewer and updated the help text with a hyperlinked table of contents.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">1.9.0b2</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">-------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Added new special character handling option to treat CR characters as real carriage returns. Instead of interpreting CR as a new line character, CoolTerm will instead move the insertion point to the beginning of the current line and overwrite the existing line with newly received characters.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Extended range for custom baudrate input field. It is now possible to specify custom baudrates up to 100,000,000 baud.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- [macOS] Development builds will now show the build number in the dock icon.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Added option to wait for line endings before adding timestamps to received data. This emulates the timestamp behavior of the Arduino serial monitor.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">1.9.0b1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">-------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Added support for transmit macros.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Added special character handling option to combine contiguous CR characters in to a single CR.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Updated behavior when pasting text into the terminal window. CoolTerm will now sound a system beep when pasting is attempted while the port is closed.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- It is now possible to paste directly into the terminal window when Line Mode is enabled.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Added code to detect sudden removal of serial devices. When a port is currently open, it will be closed when the device suddenly disappears.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Added code to detect re-appearance of serial devices. If a device has suddenly disappeared before while the port was open, CoolTerm will attempt to re-open the port. This is useful when attached microcontrollers are being rebooted.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Added a "Plain Text" option to the selection of capture formats. When "Plain Text" is selected, the "Special Character Handing" settings are applied to the received data before capturing to file.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- Added code to force a GUI update at Connect/Disconnect events as well as when a CoolTerm window first opens and when connection settings are changed. This avoids delays for GUI updates when long GUI refresh intervals are selected.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">1.8.1b1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">-------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- revised code to reference serial port object by their name instead of their index in array of available ports since that can change when the user adds/removes serial devices.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">- [macOS] supporting builds for M1 Macs (ARM).</font></div></div></body></html>