#terminaux6 — Public Fediverse posts

Terminaux 6.1.x and 7.0.x are no longer supported

Terminaux 6.1.x and 7.0.x version series were released to provide new features and enhanced performance and reliability, while 7.0.x acted like a bridge between 6.1.x and 8.x.x. This bridge was important so that the necessary infrastructure could be built for the current version of Terminaux, which is supported. This helped us implement new features smoothly while improving existing features.

To emphasize the importance of such improvements, we’ve decided to end support for the below versions of Terminaux:

• Terminaux 6.1.x
• Terminaux 7.0.x

Both versions were scheduled to end support as of today, and Terminaux 6.1.x was originally supposed to have its support ended earlier, but we extended it due to bugs that came with the official Terminaux 6.0.x release, which 6.1.x improved.

We have marked the appropriate NuGet package versions as deprecated. If you are using Terminaux 6.1.x or 7.0.x on your console application projects, we recommend that you upgrade Terminaux to 8.x.x directly and follow the upgrade steps, depending on the direction:

• From Terminaux 6.1.x to 8.x.x: Consider the migration guide for both 7.0.x and 8.x.x
• From Terminaux 7.0.x to 8.x.x: Consider the migration guide for 8.x.x

We will no longer provide any official support for users who continue to use both Terminaux 6.1.x and 7.0.x after the end of support date.

Terminaux 8.7 will be released on August 20th, which will provide some more new features and enhancements, and the version after it will contain breaking changes you’ll have to follow during the upgrade.

To learn more, open the Aptivi Newsroom.

Terminaux 6.1.x and 7.0.x EOL Reminder

When Terminaux 6.1.x and 7.0.x were released, we gave them the dates that we are expected to stop providing further updates for these version series. Terminaux 6.1.x focused on adding wrapped writers and modern argument parsing from the Nitrocid codebase, which was an improvement over version 6.0.x that added many features. Meanwhile, v7.0.x focused on adding more features while restructuring critical parts of code and improving the writers.

We are, hereby, announcing that every project that uses both Terminaux 6.1.x and 7.0.x needs to be aware that the end of life date is reaching closer. We have assigned the end of life date for both version series to August 5th, 2026.

We recommend that every project migrate from v6.1.x and v7.0.x version series to the v8.x version series for continuous support, because we are now providing long-term support for the latter version series, as we explained here.

After August 5th, 2026, we won’t provide any new security updates and other updates to v6.1.x and v7.0.x.

We have prepared a migration guide in the GitBook docs in the below links. If you are running Terminaux v6.1.x, you’ll have to perform both steps 1 and 2. However, if you are running v7.0, you can just perform step 2.

Terminaux 8.0 adds audio cues, global password mask for inputs that are related to passwords and other secrets, support for hidden commands, and more features, as well as improvements and bug fixes. Since then, various incremental versions have been released, with v8.4 being the latest for adding support for FreeBSD systems.