Changelog

Every Oxide Terminal release, newest first. The same notes appear in the app under Help → What's New.

0.8.2 Oct 9, 2026

Changed

What's New opens on its own after this update (instead of the usual toast), so the note above about the upcoming rename is seen once. The next update goes back to the toast.

Security

The status bar and file tree poll git status in whatever directory a pane is in. Git runs the core.fsmonitor command from a repository's own .git/config during status, so an unpacked archive or shared folder carrying a planted one could run code the moment you cd into it. Those polls, and the git segment of Oxide's generated prompt, now switch fsmonitor off.
Dragging a file into the terminal, "Insert Path", and the cd fallback used without shell integration type the quoted path at the prompt. A filename holding control characters (^U, carriage return) could clear the line and run a command of its own. Such names are refused with a notice instead.
OSC 8 hyperlinks only open http, https and mailto targets. Because the link's text can say anything, a hidden file:// or app-scheme target could launch something on a cmd-click. While you hold cmd over a link, the real address is shown in the pane's corner, browser-style, and the whole link is underlined rather than one cell.
OSC 7 working-directory reports are ignored while the pane's foreground process is ssh, so a remote host can't point the file tree and git status at a local directory of its choosing.

0.8.1 Oct 7, 2026

Fixed

A markdown preview (and Help → What's New) now re-flows to fit its pane when the pane is resized. A preview opened in a thin split stayed that thin after the split was widened; now the text, tables and code boxes are laid out again for the new width.
Running source ~/.bashrc in a bash tab no longer crashes the shell. Re-running starship's setup wrapped Oxide's prompt hook inside starship's, and the two then called each other until bash ran out of stack and segfaulted, taking the tab's unsaved history with it. The hook now notices when it is already running and steps aside, and sourcing Oxide's own init file twice can no longer make it call itself.

0.8.0 Oct 2, 2026

Added

Inline images. Oxide now draws the pictures programs send, over all three protocols in use: kitty graphics (kitten icat, yazi, snacks.nvim, timg), iTerm2's (imgcat, wezterm imgcat) and sixel (img2sixel, lsix, chafa -f sixel). PNG, JPEG, WebP and GIF (the first frame) are all read, and on a Retina display images are drawn at the display's full resolution. A picture is part of the scrollback like the text around it: it scrolls, survives a window resize and a font zoom, goes when you clear or press cmd-k, and a selection copied across one is just the text. kitty's Unicode placeholders are supported, which is what lets images through tmux (set -g allow-passthrough on). Not there yet: animation, and kitty's layers — text printed over an image replaces that part of it instead of sitting on top. A new [images] section has enabled, and memory_limit for how much decoded image memory a pane may hold (128 MB by default).
Opening a picture shows the picture. enter on a PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP or BMP in the file tree — or picking one in the cmd-p finder, or cmd-clicking its path in output — opens it in a tab of its own, scaled down to fit when it's larger than the pane. Any key closes it. Set images.preview_in = "split" to have it open beside what you're doing instead. It used to be handed to $EDITOR like any other file.

Changed

Programs now see Oxide for what it is, and see its real size. TERM_PROGRAM is always Oxide — a shell launched from another terminal used to inherit that terminal's name, and tools would speak its dialect. The window's pixel size is reported in real device pixels (it used to be in points, rounded down, so image tools on a Retina display drew at half resolution), and stays right after a font zoom or a move to another display. Queries for the cell size (CSI 16 t) and the terminal's name and version (XTVERSION) are answered where they used to be ignored. With images on, the device-attributes reply is now ?62;4;22c rather than ?6c: the 4 is how sixel programs learn they can draw. Worth knowing if anything of yours matched the old value.

0.7.3 Oct 2, 2026

Fixed

A startup command that opens an interactive session — ssh -t into another machine, a REPL — now shows what you type when your shell is bash. bash handed the command its line editor's terminal settings, with echo off, and ssh carried them over to the remote machine: the remote prompt came up, but your typing stayed invisible. zsh wasn't affected.

0.7.2 Sep 30, 2026

Added

The text inputs — the command palette, the file finder, command history, the new/rename/move prompts, startup commands, and the tree's filter — now take the mouse and a selection. Click to put the cursor somewhere, drag or shift-click to select, or hold shift with any of the keys that move the cursor (shift-←, shift-opt-←, shift-cmd-→…). Typing or pasting replaces the selection. In the palette, finder, history, prompts and startup commands, cmd-a selects everything and cmd-c / cmd-x / cmd-v copy, cut and paste (ctrl-shift- on Linux).

Changed

A new app icon: the terminal prompt in a ring that's rusting away at one edge. It's in the Dock, the Linux app menu and on oxideterminal.com.

Fixed

A long startup command wraps onto more lines instead of running off the edge of its box, both while you type it and in the list of a workspace's commands. The other inputs wrap the same way.

0.7.1 Sep 30, 2026

Added

bell = "sound" now plays the system bell sound on Linux, through canberra-gtk-play or paplay. With neither installed, it falls back to the visual flash. ((#4), thanks @agustux for contributing!)
Dragging a file or directory in the file tree scrolls the tree when the drag nears its top or bottom edge, so a destination that's out of view is one drag away instead of a drag, a scroll, and another drag.
The file tree keeps a strip of empty space at the bottom of its panel. A tree full of directories used to leave nowhere to drop for the root; now there always is, wherever the tree is scrolled to.
The file tree's right-click menu does more. On a file or directory it adds Rename… and Delete (to the Trash, after the same y the d key asks for); on a directory, New file or folder… inside it. Right-click the root's name at the top, or the empty space under the rows, to add to the root.
P (shift-p) in the file tree previews the selected markdown file, the same as Preview markdown on right-click. It's the tree::preview action, if you'd rather bind another key (p alone is "select parent").
Selecting text with the mouse scrolls the terminal when the drag reaches the pane's first or last row, and keeps scrolling for as long as you hold it there — faster once you're past the pane's edge — so a selection can run longer than the screen.
Each workspace in the drawer has a × that deletes it, straight away. d still asks for a y first.
tabs.close_last = "workspace" | "new_tab" chooses what closing a workspace's last tab does. "workspace" (the default, and how it has always worked) closes the workspace with it, and the window with the last workspace. "new_tab" keeps the workspace and leaves it a fresh tab in your home directory.
Double-click the drawer's right edge to put it back to tree.width.

Fixed

Text in the small input boxes (the palette, rename, the tree's filter and prompts) stays put as the cursor moves through it. The caret used to push the letters after it sideways, so they jiggled with every arrow key.
A tab's × closes the whole tab when it's the workspace's last one, as it does for any other tab. It used to close only the focused pane of a split.
A new workspace is named workspace 1 again once nothing else has that name, and otherwise takes the lowest number that's free. The number used to keep counting up for as long as the window was open, so deleting workspace 1 and adding another gave you workspace 2.
A drag in a program that tracks the mouse (neovim, tmux, lazygit) keeps going when the pointer leaves the pane: the program hears about the nearest cell, and about the release. It used to hear nothing past the pane's edge, so a neovim selection stopped scrolling there and the program could be left thinking the button was still down. Drags are also reported once per cell rather than sixty times a second on macOS.
A mouse selection that ends outside the pane it started in now ends there. The pane used to miss the release and keep selecting the next time the pointer crossed it with a button down.

0.7.0 Sep 28, 2026

Added

Updates now come from downloads.oxideterminal.com and are signed. Oxide checks each downloaded update against a key built into the app before offering to install it, and never installs one that doesn't match — even if the download or the server were tampered with. GitHub is no longer in the update path on macOS, so the check works even when GitHub is rate-limiting or down. Linux reads the same source to learn about a release; the pill still opens the release page, since packages come from the AUR or the tarball.
Drag a file or directory in the file tree to move it: drop it on a directory to move it inside, on a file to move it beside that file, or on the empty space below the rows to move it to the tree's root. Nothing is overwritten, same as m.
Drag a workspace in the drawer to reorder it, the way tabs already work. cmd-alt-1..9 follow the new order, and so do pinned workspaces after a restart.
Drag the drawer's right edge to resize it. The width is remembered across launches; changing tree.width in the config resets it.
markdown.preview_in = "tab" | "split" chooses where a markdown preview opens. "split" puts it beside the pane you're in, laid out for that narrower width. The default is still a new tab.
editor.open_in = "tab" | "split" chooses where a file opens when the focused pane can't take it (see Fixed). The default is a new tab.

Changed

The markdown preview (and Help → What's New) now reads all of markdown, not the subset it used to. New: ~~strikethrough~~, _underscore_ emphasis, lists nested to any depth with paragraphs and code inside their items, numbered lists that keep their numbers, quotes inside quotes, GitHub's > [!NOTE] alerts, footnotes, reference-style links, <https://…> autolinks, headings underlined with ===, indented code blocks, definition lists, YAML front matter, and backslash escapes. Styles nest properly, so a bold or struck-through sentence with code in it stays bold or struck through to its end. Long lines wrap under their own text instead of back at the left edge, and blocks are set apart by a blank line.
Adding, renaming, and moving in the file tree, and adding and renaming workspaces, now ask for the name in a small modal in the middle of the window, titled with what you're doing ("Rename main.rs"), instead of a line squeezed into the drawer's footer. Renaming a tab uses the same one. The tree's / filter stays in the drawer, next to the rows it filters.

Fixed

The scroll wheel scrolls the view in Neovim, LazyGit, and other programs that track the mouse. It was being sent as arrow keys, so it moved the cursor instead. Programs that don't track the mouse (less, man) still get arrow keys, and shift + scroll still bypasses the program.
Opening a second file from the file tree, the file finder, or a cmd-click while a terminal editor still has the first one open no longer does nothing. The file opens in a new tab (or a split, with editor.open_in) that closes when you quit the editor. The same goes for Open Settings, and for any pane that's busy running something else.
macOS: window.blur = true blurs what's behind a translucent window again. On recent macOS it did nothing, and windows behind Oxide showed through sharp.
window.opacity now applies to the whole window evenly. The file tree, tab bar, and status bar used to stay solid while the workspaces panel was more see-through than the terminal. The terminal also came out more opaque than the number you set (0.5 looked like 0.75); it now matches, so an existing setting will look a little more transparent than before. Panes dimmed by window.inactive_pane_opacity stay as see-through as the focused one: only their contents fade, where before the dimming also made them more solid. The active tab is the same: lighter than the bar, not more solid. Opening the command palette or any other modal no longer turns a translucent window dark and solid; the modal simply sits on top.
Changing window.opacity or window.blur in the config applies to open windows straight away, including going between solid and translucent. That used to need a restart.
A markdown preview or What's New page shorter than the pane opens at the top of it, not pushed down to the bottom.
Text fields have a real cursor and word editing everywhere: the command palette, command history, file finder, startup commands, the tree filter, and the new prompt modal. Option+Left/Right move by word, Option+Delete deletes the word before the cursor, Cmd+Left/Right jump to the ends, and Cmd+Delete clears back to the start (Ctrl+arrows and Ctrl+Backspace on Linux). Before, most of these fields could only append and backspace.

0.6.3 Sep 26, 2026

Fixed

macOS: Option+Left/Right now jump by word and Option+Delete deletes the previous word in zsh and bash, matching Terminal.app and Ghostty. Before, Option+arrows rang the bell and printed ;3D or ;3C, and Option+Delete only deleted one character. Works regardless of option_as_meta. Linux keeps the standard xterm encoding for Alt+arrows, which tmux, vim and fish depend on. (#3)

0.6.2 Sep 25, 2026

Fixed

Linux: the release tarball starts again on Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12 and any other distro with a glibc older than 2.44. Earlier tarballs were built on Arch and inherited its glibc 2.44, so everywhere else they died with a GLIBC_2.43 not found error before a window appeared. Releases are now built against glibc 2.35 — Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 and everything newer — and the packaging step refuses to ship a binary that needs more. (#2)

0.6.1 Sep 24, 2026

Added

Linux: a ☰ button in the window's top-left corner opens the same Oxide, File, Edit, View, Window, and Help menus macOS shows in the menu bar, each entry with its shortcut. Whichever bar is in that corner (file tree header, tab bar, or a top status bar) makes room for it. app::menu opens it from the keyboard or the palette, for when every bar is hidden.
oxide --version / -V prints the version, and --help / -h the usage.
oxide -e <command> [args...] runs a program in the first pane instead of the shell, and --app-id <id> sets the window's Wayland app-id / X11 class. Together they are what xdg-terminal-exec passes to a terminal, so Oxide can now be the system default on Linux: on Omarchy, omarchy default terminal-style launches (Super+Return, omarchy launch tui btop) open in Oxide. The pane closes when the program exits cleanly; a failure keeps its output on screen, and the .desktop entry now declares both flags.

Changed

About Oxide now opens a panel in the window with the app icon, the version, and a link to the site, instead of sending you straight to the website. ⏎ or esc closes it.
oxide with no directory opens at the directory it was run from, as the docs always said, rather than at home. Launchers that hand the app / (Finder) still get home. Unknown options are now an error instead of being silently ignored.

Fixed

Linux (bash): the status bar no longer shows a printf "\033]0;…" title hook as a command that never finishes. bash 5.1+ keeps PROMPT_COMMAND as an array, and Arch's bashrc, starship, and zoxide all append to it; Oxide's shell integration kept only the first entry and left the rest running outside its hook, where they were logged as commands and stole the start marker from whatever you typed next. Every entry now runs inside Oxide's hook, and the init script itself is no longer logged either.

0.6.0 Sep 22, 2026

Added

Linux. Oxide now builds and runs on Linux (Wayland and X11, Vulkan), as a pacman package (makepkg -si from packaging/aur/oxide-terminal-bin; the AUR listing follows once registration reopens) or a release tarball with an install script. Everything that isn't the window chrome works the same: the tree follows cd and tab titles follow the foreground command through procfs, finished commands notify through notify-send (and a click on the notification brings the pane back where the daemon supports it), deleted files go to the XDG trash, "Reveal in File Manager" opens your file manager, and a newer release shows up in the top-right pill (it opens the release page; the package manager does the install).
A Linux keymap: ctrl-shift-* where macOS uses cmd-* (copy, paste, new tab, search, palette…), alt-1..9 for tabs and ctrl-alt-1..9 for workspaces, ctrl-click to open links and paths. Super is never bound — it belongs to the window manager. The ctrl-w chords are identical on both. Palette and overlay hints read Ctrl+Shift+P rather than ⇧⌘P.
Linux: selecting text sets the primary selection, and middle-click pastes it.
Shift held while Oxide launches skips startup commands on Linux too; the key state arrives with keyboard focus rather than at launch, so it's read in the first moment after the window opens.
Linux: closing the last window quits, rather than lingering with nothing to reopen from.

0.5.8 Sep 21, 2026

Added

m in the file tree moves the selected file or directory (also Move… on right-click). The input is prefilled with its path relative to the tree root, cursor at the start so a directory can be typed in front; edit and press enter. An existing directory as the destination moves the entry into it, missing directories are created, ~/ and absolute paths work, and nothing is ever overwritten.
The file tree's add, rename, and move inputs have a cursor: arrows, home/end (cmd-←/cmd-→, ctrl-a/ctrl-e), and forward delete work, so you can put a directory in front of a prefilled name instead of retyping it.

Changed

a in the file tree creates beside a collapsed directory, not inside it; an expanded directory still takes the new entry. Before, a tree of nothing but directories had no way to add at the top level. The input now says where the new entry will go.

Fixed

The "updated to vX" toast stayed until clicked. It now fades after twenty seconds, and every toast has an × to dismiss it without following its click action (the update toast opens What's New; Help → What's New gets you there later).

0.5.7 Sep 20, 2026

Added

cmd-alt-1 … cmd-alt-9 jump straight to a workspace, in the order the workspaces panel lists them — the workspace twin of cmd-1..9 for tabs. Rebind them through workspace::select_1 … workspace::select_9.
The tab bar can be hidden, like the status bar: View → Toggle Tab Bar (or app::toggle_tab_bar from the palette or a keybinding) flips it for the current window, and tabs.enabled = false keeps it off. cmd-1..9, cmd-t and the rest keep working without it.
Tabs show a small position number at their left edge — the n in cmd-n. tabs.show_numbers = false turns them off.
The status bar shows which tab you're on, in a chip beside the workspace name, so you keep your bearings with the tab bar hidden. It shows the tab's position by default — 2/5 for the second of five tabs; status_bar.tab = "name" shows its name instead.
tree.open_on_startup = false starts Oxide with the drawer hidden, for when you'd rather have the full width and call the tree up with cmd-b. It defaults to true, so nothing changes unless you set it.

Changed

The command palette offers the workspace actions — rename, pin, delete, edit startup commands — even with the drawer hidden, and typing "rename workspace" or "pin workspace" finds them. Running one opens the drawer on the current workspace. Before, they only appeared while the drawer was showing, under titles those searches didn't match.

0.5.6 Sep 19, 2026

Changed

Closing a markdown preview (or What's New) returns to the tab you opened it from, instead of jumping to the last tab.
The key hints under the file finder and command history follow your keymap: rebind overlay::confirm_reveal (say, because a window manager owns alt-enter) and the footer shows the new key instead of ⌥⏎.

Fixed

The file finder (cmd-p) stalled on every keystroke in large trees — and for a quarter of a second just opening it once you had a list of recent files. Opening is now instant and typing is 5–10× faster, with the same results in the same order. Command history search (cmd-r) got the same speed-up.
Long file names in the tree wrapped onto a second line and overlapped the row below. They now stay on one line and end in an ellipsis, with the full name on hover. Long workspace names get the same treatment.
Gitignored files vanished from the file tree entirely, with no way to bring them back. They now stay in the tree, dimmed. Set respect_gitignore = false under [tree] to show them like any other file.

0.5.5 Sep 18, 2026

Added

Preview markdown on the file tree's right-click menu for .md and .markdown files. It opens the file rendered in a new tab, paged with less; q closes it. Headings, lists, task boxes, quotes, and inline styles render; code blocks are boxed, syntax-highlighted in your theme's own colors, and carry a ⧉ copy link that puts the block on the clipboard (without a trailing newline, so a pasted command waits for you to press return); tables are drawn with aligned columns and cells wrapped to fit the tab; and README-style HTML (<h1>, centered <p>, <a>, <img>, <kbd>, comments, entities) is understood rather than shown as tags. Link URLs are shown so cmd-click opens them, and relative links resolve against the file's directory.

Changed

What's New and markdown previews wrap long lines at spaces instead of mid-word when your less supports --wordwrap. Links in What's New now show their URL, so they're clickable too.

0.5.4 Sep 18, 2026

Added

17 new theme presets from Omarchy: ethereal, everforest, flexoki-light, hackerman, kanagawa, last-horizon, lumon, lupine, matte-black, miasma, osaka-jade, retro-82, ristretto, rose-pine-dawn, solitude, vantablack, and white. That makes 25, four of them light. The theme picker (cmd-alt-t) now scrolls to fit them all.

0.5.3 Sep 18, 2026

Fixed

Right-click context menu in file tree drawer was clipping under the terminal and workspaces panel instead of displaying on top becasue it was a child of the tree rather than the app.

0.5.2 Sep 13, 2026

Added

In-app toasts in the bottom-right corner replace the yellow strip across the top of the window. Config and keymap errors show in red and stay until the next clean reload; other notices fade after a few seconds. Click any toast to dismiss it.
The first launch after an update shows a toast; clicking it opens the changelog, rendered, in a new tab of the current workspace. Help → What's New (app::changelog) opens the same tab any time, and it's in the command palette.
A failed update download is reported even on the automatic check, since the check itself just succeeded so the machine isn't offline.
scripts/bump.sh <version> prepares the release commit (Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, this file, RELEASING.md), and scripts/release.sh builds the notarized DMG and publishes the GitHub release with notes from this file.

0.5.1 Sep 13, 2026

Fixed

Double-clicking a directory in the file tree toggled it twice, so it ended up back where it started. Directories now open on the first click and stay open.
A hardcoded path left over from testing was removed.

Changed

Each release now uploads the DMG twice: Oxide-x.y.z.dmg for the website's download button and Oxide-x.y.z-update.dmg for the in-app updater. GitHub counts downloads per asset, so the website's counter reflects people who chose to download rather than installed copies updating themselves. The updater prefers the -update asset and falls back to the plain one for older releases.
Small cleanups from a code review: simpler pane and theme code, a redundant assertion dropped from the keymap tests.

0.5.0 Sep 9, 2026

Added

Startup commands, the tmuxinator move. Give a pane a command with ctrl-w r (prefilled with the last thing that ran there) and a pinned workspace re-runs it on restore, once that pane's shell is actually at a prompt rather than blindly typing into a shell that's still loading its rc files.
Per-pane on exit behaviour: drop back to the shell, close the pane, or restart with exponential backoff. A breaker stops the restarts after five exits inside a minute, so a crash-looping command can't spin forever; a run that lasts over a minute resets the count.
e in the workspaces panel (also on right-click) edits every pane's startup command in one overlay.
--no-startup-commands on the command line, or holding shift at launch, restores pinned layouts without running anything. The escape hatch for a command that wedges the app.
[workspaces] config: run_startup_commands and startup_timeout.
Shell integration gained a per-session run channel, so Oxide can hand a command to a specific shell without it echoing as typed input.

Changed

workspaces.json moved to a v3 format that carries startup commands. Older files still load.

0.4.0 Sep 8, 2026

Added

Scrollback search grew regex, case-sensitive, and whole-word toggles as clickable chips (cmd-alt-r / c / w). A malformed regex says so instead of silently matching nothing.
Copy mode (ctrl-w [ or cmd-shift-v) turns the scrollback into a vim buffer: hjkl, word motions, 0 ^ $, gg G, H M L, half and full page, counts like 5j, / and ? search with n/N, and v / V / ctrl-v selection. y yanks and leaves. Nothing typed reaches the shell until you esc.
tmux reflexes for panes: ctrl-w z zooms a pane to the full tab, ctrl-w b broadcasts typing to every pane in the tab (with a red border and a status-bar pill so you can't forget it's on), ctrl-w o closes the others, ctrl-w x swaps with the neighbour.
Light and dark: follow_system = true switches between preset_dark and preset_light with the macOS appearance. Every preset colour is individually overridable, including selection_fg.
SSH awareness: Oxide watches the foreground process. An ssh session shows ssh: host in the status bar, and [[ssh.hosts]] glob patterns give a host an accent colour on the pane border, so a production box is visibly red. The process name also titles the tab (vim, cargo, ssh prod-web).
Tabs: double-click or ctrl-w , to rename (names persist with pinned workspaces), drag to reorder, cmd-shift-t reopens the last closed one, and a close-all-tabs action.
A [cursor] section: block, bar, or underline; blink rate; how the cursor looks when the pane is unfocused. vim's per-mode DECSCUSR shapes are honoured.
window.inactive_pane_opacity dims the panes you aren't in, and inactive_window_opacity dims the whole window when another app is frontmost.
font.family accepts a fallback list, so CJK and emoji render even when the primary font lacks them.
A "2,340 lines above" pill while scrolled up, cmd-k to clear scrollback, and a configurable bell.

Changed

The theme picker moved to cmd-alt-t; GPUI's chord handling made the bare cmd-k prefix lag.

0.3.4 Sep 5, 2026

Added

Command awareness. The shell integration's OSC 133 markers are read straight off the PTY, so Oxide knows what's running, how long it took, and whether it failed: elapsed time in the status bar, activity dots on background tabs, a red flash on a background pane whose command failed, and a failure gutter you can click to jump back to the command.
Desktop notifications for long or failed commands in panes you aren't watching. Clicking one focuses the pane. Programs can post their own with OSC 9 / OSC 777. Thresholds live under [notifications].
Command history (cmd-r) searches every command run in any pane, with its directory and exit status. ⏎ inserts it at the prompt, ⌘⏎ runs it. cmd-shift-c copies the last command's output.
Fuzzy file finder (cmd-p) over everything under the tree root: ⏎ opens, ⌘⏎ inserts the path at the prompt, ⌥⏎ reveals it in the tree.
The tree/terminal seam: y inserts the selected path at the prompt, quoted and relative (Y for absolute); cmd-shift-r reveals the shell's directory; right-click a row to re-root, copy the path, cd the shell there, or reveal in Finder; drag rows or drop files onto a pane.
cmd-click a path:line:col in output opens it in $EDITOR at that line. nvim, VS Code, emacs, Sublime, and Helix argument dialects are built in; editor.open_at_line overrides.
Tree rows are coloured by git status (tree.git_status).

0.3.3 Sep 4, 2026

Added

Command palette (cmd-shift-p) lists every action with its binding, fuzzy-matched across title, category, and aliases, most-recently-used first. Focus returns to the pane you were in before the action runs.
Configurable keys. A [keymap] table in config.toml rebinds anything: flat pairs bind at the root, subtables ([keymap.terminal], [keymap.file_tree], …) bind per context, "" unbinds, and replace_defaults = true starts from nothing. An unknown action id gets a did-you-mean, a keystroke that doesn't parse is skipped, and a bare key that would steal from your shell is refused; all errors land in one banner while the rest of the map still binds. Reloads live.
An action registry behind both: every action now has a stable public id, and the palette, the keymap, and the menu bar read from the same table.
Resizable splits. Drag a divider, or ctrl-w < > - + to resize by a few cells and ctrl-w = to equalise. Panes have a 20×3 cell minimum.
scripts/docs.sh serves the docs site locally.

Changed

workspaces.json gained a version field. v0.3.2 files still load and get even splits.

Known issues

Narrowing a pane past the width of a multi-line bash prompt can scroll the prompt's first line into scrollback until the next prompt is drawn.

0.3.2 Sep 2, 2026

Added

The documentation site at oxideterminal.com/docs: install, terminal, file tree, tabs and splits, workspaces, prompt, themes, keybindings, configuration, and troubleshooting pages.
Shell integration for fish, nushell, and the csh family, alongside zsh and bash. Anything Oxide types at a prompt is now routed through /bin/sh on shells where the Bourne one-liner would be a syntax error.

Changed

"Open Settings" runs the editor command silently instead of echoing it at your prompt.

Fixed

Paths containing ', \, or ! open correctly in every supported shell.

0.3.1 Sep 2, 2026

Added

JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono is bundled, so a machine with no Nerd Font installed still gets every powerline and tree glyph. Set font.family to use your own.
Double-clicking the window's padding band zooms the window, respecting the System Settings double-click action, matching a real titlebar.

Fixed

Opening a file with no $EDITOR set now hands it to the macOS default text editor instead of failing with "command not found: nvim".
On a Mac without the Command Line Tools, the git status poll no longer triggers Apple's "Install Developer Tools?" dialog every three seconds.
Shell integration tests pass on Apple's bash 3.2 as well as Homebrew bash 5.

0.3.0 Sep 1, 2026

Added

Workspaces: named sets of tabs and splits, tmux-session style, managed from a panel below the file tree (a add, r rename, d delete, p pin; ctrl-w p focuses the panel, tab toggles tree ↔ workspaces). Temporary by default; pinned ones survive restarts, restoring layout, tabs, splits, and each pane's directory with fresh shells. Right-click for the same actions.
In-app tabs. A Zed-style tab bar replaces macOS window tabbing, so tabs work everywhere, including under tiling window managers like AeroSpace and yabai that previously turned every tab into a window. cmd-1..9 jump straight to a tab.
MIT license, and the oxideterminal.com landing page.

Fixed

Workspace persistence writes atomically, so a crash mid-save can't leave an empty file.
New workspaces start at ~ rather than wherever the previous shell was.

0.2.0 Aug 31, 2026

Added

Split panes. Split in any direction (ctrl-w v / s, or cmd-d / cmd-shift-d) and nest freely. ctrl-w h j k l or cmd-opt-arrows move between panes by what's on screen; exit or ctrl-w q closes a pane and its neighbour reclaims the space.
The file tree follows the focused pane, so switching splits re-roots it to that shell's directory.
The oxideterminal.com landing page.

Known issues

Splits divide their space evenly and can't be resized yet.

0.1.1 Aug 31, 2026

Added

Native macOS window tabs (cmd-t); new tabs start in the current directory or ~/ (window.new_tab_directory).
The prompt switches with the file tree: cd-ing in the shell re-roots the tree, and picking a directory in the tree changes the shell's directory.
cmd-click opens URLs, copy-on-select as an option, font size at runtime.

Fixed

ls output columns rendered wrongly.

0.1.0 Aug 31, 2026

First release: a native macOS terminal emulator built on GPUI and alacritty_terminal, with a vim-navigable file tree drawer.

Terminal: full VT emulation with truecolor, wide glyphs and combining marks, bracketed paste, SGR mouse reporting, alternate-screen scrolling, OSC 8 hyperlinks, and OSC 52 clipboard. vim, htop, and tmux work as expected.
File tree drawer: modeless vim navigation (j/k/gg/G, nvim-tree h/l), / to filter, a/r/d to add, rename, and delete to Trash. Respects .gitignore, watches the filesystem, and follows the shell's cd.
Scrollback search (cmd-f), live and case-insensitive.
Prompt jumping (cmd-↑/cmd-↓) between previous prompts via OSC 133.
Status bar with cwd, git branch, dirty state, and ahead/behind.
Theme picker with live preview across eight presets.
Configurable prompt: a powerline prompt compiled from TOML segments and injected without touching your dotfiles. prompt.enabled = false keeps starship or p10k.
Native menu bar and a self-updater that installs later releases with one click.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized, so the DMG opens with a normal double-click.

Known limitations

No IME or dead-key composition yet.
No tabs or splits.
Apple Silicon only.