pTerm released, update due soon

Newly arrived in the App Store is pTerm, an iPhone port of the PuTTY terminal emulator. It supports SSH and Telnet, among other things, and has a built-in Control key.

But developer Eric Maland has been in touch with us to say that a 1.1 update is already on its way (it has been submitted to Apple and is awaiting approval). Unfortunately a handful of "major crashy bugs" (as Eric puts it) were discovered after the 1.0 release had been submitted.

Planned features for future releases include multiple simultaneous connections, custom sizes and colors, port forwarding and lots more. Details on the pTerm home page.

And in the meantime, if you download and experience crashy behavior, Eric's message is: be patient. The fixes are done, but when they reach the Store is out of his hands.

pTerm is $4.99US in the US App Store (We haven't seen it in the UK store).

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Source: http://www.instantcocoa.com/products/pTerm/

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Josh

Apple needs to put a strict limit of 1 update/submission a month for apps, really.

Developers are trying to rush the store to get there first, and are putting out buggy, untested code, then immediately (usually before 1.0 gets live in the store) putting in updates, one of the flickr apps was on 1.4 when 1.1 went live in the store...

If apple would step up and put a minimum wait time of a month on updates from the previous ones, I think it would help nudge developers into taking a little more time to get their stuff straight.

August 08 2008 at 10:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jon Wise

$5 seems like too much for basic UNIX functionality...
Kudos for getting this on the AppStore, but I think I'll stick with my Jailbreak for this functionality.

August 08 2008 at 10:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Oscar T

Feels like the majority of apps are only available in the us store, what about lil ol Sweden n Europe :/ ?

August 08 2008 at 10:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James Massey

I doubt this will be coming to us outside the States, because some silly governments consider SSH to be a weapon.

August 08 2008 at 10:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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eddy

The developer of iSSH, in this thread:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6001352#post5999376

said his SSH client got the necessary government approvals.

August 08 2008 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stephen.4

Wow, SSH is allowed in the App Store?

August 08 2008 at 10:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

harald

can't find it in the german appstore :( -- that would have been the app i've most waited for.

August 08 2008 at 10:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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fahne

I was too waiting for an app like this, why isn't it availible in Germany or in the UK and propably in a lot more countries

August 08 2008 at 10:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sterling

If it contains any cryptographic stuff then if has to go through some US government export vetting process. Because we all know the internet keeps things like SSH secretly hidden with the borders of the US I guess?

August 08 2008 at 11:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremy Dye

But can you get root?

August 08 2008 at 10:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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delight1

this isn't a terminal application, it is for connecting to remote servers...

personally i'll just stick with the free, and better, terminal app... (jailbreak)

August 08 2008 at 10:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply