Version 3.7.0beta6 was built on July 3, 2026.

Note: if you are beta testing the iPhone companion
app iTerm2 Buddy, you'll need to update it after
upgrading iTerm2 to this version.

Changes since 3.7.0beta5:

New Features:
- The iPhone companion app, iTerm2 Buddy, can now
  stream to your phone as video, so you can watch
  output live, scroll back through history, zoom,
  and select, copy, and paste text, without
  re-implementing the terminal on the phone.
- Push notifications to iTerm2 Buddy now use
  end-to-end encryption so Apple can't see
  anything about them.
- Companion app setup was made hopefully simpler.
- The Make Screenshot window has a new “Save As…”
  button to choose where the image is saved,
  alongside the existing Save button that writes
  to your configured location.

Improvements:
- The iTerm2 Buddy iPhone app now supports
  landscape orientation.
- Settings > Keys > “Force keyboard” can now
  force the keyboard layout only once per
  session, the first time a newly created
  terminal receives keyboard focus, instead of
  continuously. This lets you switch layouts
  within a session without iTerm2 snapping it
  back. Restored sessions are not affected.
- A new iTerm2 > Save Retrospective Debug Logs
  menu item writes recently captured low-
  frequency diagnostics to a file you choose,
  even when debug logging was never turned on.
- Launching processes no longer briefly blocks
  the main thread, since child processes are now
  forked on a background thread.
- Newly downloaded Python runtimes are now
  ARM-only on macOS 27 beta and later.

Bug Fixes:
- Updated the bundled libsixel to fix a security
  vulnerability in SIXEL image decoding
  (CVE-2026-44637).
- tmux integration now parses pane state
  correctly on macOS 26 and later. A new system
  NSString method had shadowed one of ours and
  caused numeric fields to be dropped, which
  could also crash.
- Fixed a crash in Replace Selection (for
  example Replace with Pretty-Printed JSON) when
  the replacement had more lines than the
  selection. Saved locations inside the replaced
  region are now invalidated instead of drifting
  onto unrelated lines.
- SSH integration now runs the ssh command
  through your login shell, so a custom
  SSH_AUTH_SOCK (pointing at an agent that holds
  your keys) is honored. This fixes “Permission
  denied (publickey)” failures that only happened
  with the SSH command type. Issue 12909.
- Fixed dead-key composition (such as US
  International apostrophe then e) losing its
  accent under the Kitty keyboard protocol when
  both “report all keys as escape codes” and
  “report associated text” are enabled.
  Issue 12906.
- Fixed OSC 8 file:// hyperlinks whose path mixes
  percent-encoding with raw non-ASCII characters
  (such as ripgrep’s --hyperlink-format=file
  output) opening the wrong file. Issue 12914.
- Fixed a dashed underline on screen, with
  ligatures enabled, making box-drawing lines
  (such as a TUI input box) render dashed instead
  of solid. Issue 12907.
- On macOS Tahoe the tab activity/progress
  indicator now draws as a ring around the
  pill-shaped tab instead of a bar that crowded
  the tab title and status text.
- OSC 9;4 progress bars now draw over the
  profile’s background color instead of a fixed
  black or white background, so they blend with
  your theme. Issue 12916.
- In the Minimal theme, when panes in a tab have
  two or more different tab colors, each pane’s
  title bar is now tinted with its own tab color
  so you can tell them apart. Issue 12903.
- Saved and copied screenshots now fill margins
  and other uncovered areas with the session’s
  background (including a background image)
  instead of leaving them transparent.
- Fixed dead space in tabs when tab numbers are
  hidden.
- Lock Layout is now enforced more thoroughly.
  Opening a URL or file that would split or add a
  tab to a locked window now opens a new window
  instead, and menu items for blocked operations
  (split, close, move, swap, and duplicate) are
  disabled.
- AI orchestration chats now handle full-screen
  apps that use the alternate screen (such as
  Claude Code): they read the current screen and
  can use a new scroll-wheel tool to page back
  through the app’s own history.
- Fixed oversized gaps between messages when the
  inline chat panel first reveals an existing
  chat.
- Reinstalling the Claude Code integration now
  corrects a stale cc-status hook path left
  behind by a named instance.