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lanternterminal:start [2026-11-10 13:46] – Update Lantern Terminal guides for 0.5.0 slatermlanternterminal:start [2026-11-11 13:16] (current) – Main address is now kalretro.au slaterm
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 ====== Lantern Terminal ====== ====== Lantern Terminal ======
  
-Lantern Terminal is a desktop terminal and saved-connection manager for Windows and Linux. Version 0.5.0 includes SSH2 (with a built-in SSH engine), an SFTP Browser, Remote Desktop (RDP), Telnet, RLogin, raw TCP, serial ports and local shells, with tabs that can be torn off into their own windows, session folders synced between computers, visual colour selection, logging and Python/Lua scripting.+Lantern Terminal is a desktop terminal and saved-connection manager for Windows and Linux. Version 0.6.0 includes SSH2 (with a built-in SSH engine), an SFTP Browser, Remote Desktop (RDP), Telnet, RLogin, raw TCP, serial ports and local shells, a BBS Directory, with tabs that can be torn off into their own windows, session folders synced between computers, visual colour selection, logging and Python/Lua scripting.
  
-[[https://retro.theiguru.au/lantern-terminal/|Download installers and source code]]+[[https://kalretro.au/lantern-terminal/|Download installers and source code]]
  
 ===== Quick start ===== ===== Quick start =====
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 For a quick connection without first creating a profile, choose **File → Quick Connect**. To open a local terminal, choose **File → Connect local shell**. For a quick connection without first creating a profile, choose **File → Quick Connect**. To open a local terminal, choose **File → Connect local shell**.
  
-===== New in 0.5.0 =====+===== New in 0.6.0 ===== 
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 +  * **BBS Directory** (toolbar button, or **Tools → BBS Directory…**): download the Synchronet BBS List and the Telnet BBS Guide, search them and connect to a BBS in a tab with the BBS settings. BBSes you have used stay at the top under **Recent**, with the Kalgoorlie Retro BBS first. Add your own BBSes and save any of them as a session. Updating a list never changes the BBSes you have used or added. [[lanternterminal:bbsdirectory|BBS Directory guide]]. 
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 +===== Added in 0.5.0 =====
  
   * **SFTP Browser** (F7): this computer and the server side by side, with resumable transfers and permissions. [[lanternterminal:transfers|Transfers guide]].   * **SFTP Browser** (F7): this computer and the server side by side, with resumable transfers and permissions. [[lanternterminal:transfers|Transfers guide]].
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   * **SyncTERM-Lua scripts run unchanged.** Scripts written for the SyncTERM-Lua fork, such as BBS login scripts and door-game bots, run with **Script → Run**. [[lanternterminal:lua|Lua guide]].   * **SyncTERM-Lua scripts run unchanged.** Scripts written for the SyncTERM-Lua fork, such as BBS login scripts and door-game bots, run with **Script → Run**. [[lanternterminal:lua|Lua guide]].
   * **CP437 character encoding** for BBSes and door games (Session properties → Terminal → Appearance).   * **CP437 character encoding** for BBSes and door games (Session properties → Terminal → Appearance).
-  * **Experimental bot scripts** for LORD and TradeWars are on the [[https://retro.theiguru.au/lantern-terminal/#scripts|download page]].+  * **Experimental bot scripts** for LORD and TradeWars are on the [[https://kalretro.au/lantern-terminal/#scripts|download page]].
  
 ===== Added in 0.3.2 ===== ===== Added in 0.3.2 =====
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   * **Fixes:** two crashes (SFTP upload from a local-shell tab; closing the last tab of a split group), logon expect/send timing, scripts answering login prompts, faster drawing and correct highlighting after wide characters.   * **Fixes:** two crashes (SFTP upload from a local-shell tab; closing the last tab of a split group), logon expect/send timing, scripts answering login prompts, faster drawing and correct highlighting after wide characters.
  
-Full list: [[https://retro.theiguru.au/lantern-terminal/docs/CHANGELOG.md|changelog]].+Full list: [[https://kalretro.au/lantern-terminal/docs/CHANGELOG.md|changelog]].
  
 ===== Added in 0.3.1 ===== ===== Added in 0.3.1 =====
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   * [[lanternterminal:transfers|File transfers and logging]]   * [[lanternterminal:transfers|File transfers and logging]]
   * [[lanternterminal:scripting|Python and Lua scripting]]   * [[lanternterminal:scripting|Python and Lua scripting]]
 +  * [[lanternterminal:bbsdirectory|BBS Directory]]
   * [[lanternterminal:building|Building from source]]   * [[lanternterminal:building|Building from source]]
   * [[lanternterminal:capabilities|Capabilities, limits and release verification]]   * [[lanternterminal:capabilities|Capabilities, limits and release verification]]
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 ===== Release status ===== ===== Release status =====
  
-Version 0.5.0 adds the SFTP Browser, RDP, tear-off tabs, sync, update notifications, function keys, more of SSH in the built-in engine, Xmodem/Ymodem/Kermit and terminal emulation additions; 0.4.2 moved New BBS session to the Tools menu; 0.4.1 added Apply BBS settings; 0.4.0 added BBS support (RLogin, ANSI-BBS, VGA font, Zmodem, BBS list import); 0.3.4 fixed a crash with script messages; 0.3.3 added SyncTERM-Lua compatible scripting; 0.3.2 added the built-in SSH engine. All 16 Linux test suites passed (including the new SSH tools, transfer and RDP tests against real test servers), the Windows build's RDP and SSH engine passed under Wine, and the Windows SSH agent login was confirmed on a real Windows PC. Physical Windows ConPTY and device/provider tests remain outstanding. The full product specification includes features beyond those implemented in this release; the capabilities guide states the current scope. Lua runs independently of Python in a cancellable worker.+Version 0.6.0 adds the BBS Directory; 0.5.0 added the SFTP Browser, RDP, tear-off tabs, sync, update notifications, function keys, more of SSH in the built-in engine, Xmodem/Ymodem/Kermit and terminal emulation additions; 0.4.2 moved New BBS session to the Tools menu; 0.4.1 added Apply BBS settings; 0.4.0 added BBS support (RLogin, ANSI-BBS, VGA font, Zmodem, BBS list import); 0.3.4 fixed a crash with script messages; 0.3.3 added SyncTERM-Lua compatible scripting; 0.3.2 added the built-in SSH engine. All 17 Linux test suites passed (including the new BBS Directory tests and the SSH tools, transfer and RDP tests against real test servers), the Windows build's BBS Directory, RDP and SSH engine passed under Wine, and the Windows SSH agent login was confirmed on a real Windows PC. Physical Windows ConPTY and device/provider tests remain outstanding. The full product specification includes features beyond those implemented in this release; the capabilities guide states the current scope. Lua runs independently of Python in a cancellable worker.
  
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