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asciinema

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Terminal session recorder

Last release 3 years ago
no release in 18 months
Release timing varies
gaps range from 2 months to 2.7 years
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 11 of 12 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
13 years old
12 releases · first in 2013

Release timeline

12 releases since 2013

20132015201720192021

Releases

2.4.023 Oct 20232 sources agree
When recording without file arg we now ask whether to save, upload or discard the recording
When recording without file arg we now ask whether to save, upload or discard the recording (#576)

Added capture of terminal resize events (#565)

Fixed blocking write error when PTY master is not ready (#569) (thanks @Low-power!)

Fixed "broken pipe" errors when piping certain commands during recording (#369) (thanks @Low-power!)

Fixed crash during playback of cast files with trailing blank line (#577)
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2.3.05 Jul 20232 sources agree
Added official support for Python 3.11
Added official support for Python 3.11

Dropped official support for Python 3.6

Implemented markers in rec and play -m commands

Added --loop option for looped playback in play command

Added --stream and --out-fmt option for customizing output of play command

Improved terminal charset detection (thanks @djds)

Extended cat command to support multiple files (thanks @Low-power)

Improved upload error messages

Fixed direct playback from URL

Made raw output start with terminal size sequence (\e[8;H;Wt)

Prevented recording to stdout when it's a TTY

Added target file permission checks to avoid ugly errors

Removed named pipe re-opening, which was causing hangs in certain scenarios

Improved PTY/TTY data reading - it goes in bigger chunks now (256 kb)

Fixed deadlock in PTY writes (thanks @Low-power)

Improved input forwarding from stdin

Ignored OSC responses in recorded stdin stream

2.2.07 May 20222 sources agree

Added official support for Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10

Added official support for Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10
Dropped official support for Python 3.5
Added --cols / --rows options for overriding size of pseudo-terminal reported to recorded program
Improved behaviour of --append when output file doesn't exist
Keyboard input is now explicitly read from a TTY device in addition to stdin (when stdin != TTY)
Recorded program output is now explicitly written to a TTY device instead of stdout
Dash char (-) can now be passed as output filename to write asciicast to stdout
Diagnostic messages are now printed to stderr (without colors when stderr != TTY)
Improved robustness of writing asciicast to named pipes
Lots of codebase modernizations (many thanks to Davis @djds Schirmer!)
Many other internal refactorings

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2.1.02 Oct 20212 sources agree

Ability to pause/resume terminal capture with C-\ key shortcut

Ability to pause/resume terminal capture with C-\ key shortcut
Desktop notifications - only for the above pause feature at the moment
Removed dependency on tput/ncurses (thanks @arp242 / Martin Tournoij!)
ASCIINEMA_REC env var is back (thanks @landonb / Landon Bouma!)
Terminal answerbacks (CSI 6 n) in asciinema cat are now hidden (thanks @djpohly / Devin J. Pohly!)
Codeset detection works on HP-UX now (thanks @michael-o / Michael Osipov!)
Attempt at recording to existing file suggests use of --overwrite option now
Upload for users with very long $USER is fixed
Added official support for Python 3.8 and 3.9
Dropped official support for EOL-ed Python 3.4 and 3.5

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2.0.14 Apr 2018Deprecated2 sources agree

Replaced deprecated encodestring (since Python 3.1) with encodebytes (thanks @delirious-lettuce!)

Fixed example in asciicast v2 format doc (thanks Josh "@anowlcalledjosh" Holland!)
Replaced deprecated encodestring (since Python 3.1) with encodebytes (thanks @delirious-lettuce!)
Fixed location of config dir (you can mv ~/.asciinema ~/.config/asciinema)
Internal refactorings

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1.4.011 Apr 20172 sources agree

Dropped distutils fallback in setup.py - setuptools required now (thanks Jakub "@jakubjedelsky" Jedelsky!)

Dropped distutils fallback in setup.py - setuptools required now (thanks Jakub "@jakubjedelsky" Jedelsky!)
Dropped official support for Python 3.2 (although it still works on 3.2)
New --speed option for asciinema play (thanks Bastiaan "@bastiaanb" Bakker!)
Ability to set API token via ASCIINEMA_API_TOKEN env variable (thanks Samantha "@samdmarshall" Marshall!)
Improved shutdown on more signals: CHLD, HUP, TERM, QUIT (thanks Richard "@typerlc"!)
Fixed stdin handling during playback via asciinema play

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1.3.013 Jul 20162 sources agree

This release brings back the original Python implementation of asciinema. It's based on 0.9.8 codebase and adds all features and bug fixes that have b

This release brings back the original Python implementation of asciinema. It's based on 0.9.8 codebase and adds all features and bug fixes that have been implemented in asciinema's Go version between 0.9.8 and 1.2.0.

Other notable changes:

Zero dependencies! (other than Python 3)
Fixed crash when resizing terminal window during recording (#167)
Fixed upload from IPv6 hosts (#94)
Improved UTF-8 charset detection (#160)
-q/--quiet option can be saved in config file now
Final "logout" (produced by csh) is now removed from recorded stdout
rec command now tries to write to target path before starting recording

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