v18.7.1 - Bringing back the `blinkshell` xcallback-url so your workflows are not interrupted. A new version is coming, please check out https://github.com/blinksh/blink/issues/2253

Blink 18.7.0 Three of Blink's core systems — the session engine, the layout manager and the appearance system — were rebuilt from the ground up. Everything should feel faster and far more predictable, and it lays the groundwork for what's coming next. BEFORE YOU UPDATE - Your running sessions will not be restored, for the first time in ten years— the session format changed. Please terminate any mosh-server processes on your remotes before updating, or you will leave them orphaned. NEW - Post-quantum SSH. Updated to LibSSH 0.12 and OpenSSL 3.0, adding support for post-quantum key exchange. SetEnv is now supported in SSH config and on the command line. - Fonts and themes. A new Appearance section: import fonts and themes from your device or straight from a URL, pick any monospaced font installed on your system, and assign an alternative theme that kicks in automatically in dark mode — or flip it live with the switchTheme shortcut. - A new Display section to separate features that pertain to layout. - A new session engine. Your workspace is now owned by a single engine that decides when sessions suspend, restore and stop. Day to day you may not notice a thing, and that is the point. - Smarter layouts. Cover, Fit and Fill were rebuilt with better math for every screen. Cover now properly covers the bottom of the terminal, Fit always respects the Status Bar, and the layout locks in place instead of being pulled around by the keyboard. - Pragmata updated to 903 with better symbols. FIXED - Blank terminal that needed an Enter to redraw - Mosh sessions occasionally needing a tab switch to resume - Software keyboard placement - Blink stealing focus back from apps running side by side - Paste landing on the previous terminal after opening a new window - Terminal font, theme and zoom silently resetting to defaults - Copying a selection containing wide characters returned the wrong text - Bookmarked folders not being reachable from the command line right after launch - Missing glyphs now fall back to Pragmata Pro. - IME colors, cursor blink saving, secondary click and drag, and an updated hterm - Several crashes when returning to the app AFTER YOU UPDATE Check your connections. We have been testing for months, but moving to LibSSH 0.12 and OpenSSL 3.0 touches every connection Blink makes. We will be prioritizing any Issues related to connections. mosh1, ssh2 and x-callback-url have been removed. The first two depended on libssh2 — use mosh and ssh instead. A new Commands system is on the way to replace x-callback-url; if that breaks a workflow you depend on, please get in touch. External displays. On A-series devices, projecting a terminal to an external display is now opt-in: turn it on in Settings > External Display. Apple Silicon devices drive external displays natively and no longer can use projection. Full notes on https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2247

Blink 18.6.3 • Added a close button to Settings for easier dismissal. • Settings now clearly indicates that Blink Build isn't available during the trial. • Fixed copying selected text so it no longer includes the wrong characters, including with wide (CJK/emoji) glyphs.

v18.6.2 - HTerm's fixes to DSR5 sequences (thanks to robertmryan and kylesower) #2256. - Fixes IME cursor issues (thanks to oddlid, rfc1459 and sundebug)

- On Files.app, disabled operations on bootstrap that are causing the extension to get flagged (with a symbol (!) ) on start. The functionality was not affected, but the warning symbol was causing confusion.

v18.6.0 - New Appearance settings, splitting Style and Display. - Files.app validation restored. - Fixed issue on the shell where some commands could not be found. - Fixed snippets creation to always default to shell type. - Fixed snippets not working in the local shell. - Fixed issue with Snippets blocking modifiers after release.

V18.5.1 - Shortcut changes take effect immediately and across all terminals (blinksh/blink#2225) - Arrow keys visible again on the SmartKeys bar when Cmd is pressed — was a regression (blinksh/blink#2226). - Default shortcuts are now cleared, not deleted, and can restore the default shortcuts value (blinksh/blink#2228) - iOS no longer auto-corrects text in config fields — iOS was mangling with smart quotes and dashes in config fields (blinksh/blink#2221). Made a few more changes to the Shortcuts Config UI: - Custom Sequence editor moved to its own dedicated view from the actions list. This simplifies the code and makes the action more clear. - One Blink Shortcut per action — the action picker now only shows unassigned actions. - Done/Cancel editing flow — incomplete key presses are discarded (new) or reverted (existing) on Cancel, only saved on Done. This follows the behavior of other configuration flows. Check out https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2220 for more information

New Prompt Mode & Snips Enhancements (1077, 2212) - We have a new Prompt Mode for composing AI prompts, with voice input, text controls with enhanced editing capabilities and auto-submit once you are done. You can start it from the Snip's Scratch mode and select Prompt. - You can now also start Snips or Scratch mode from the Smart Keys bar or with keyboard shortcuts. - The Pin feature on Snips persists the interface after sending. So you can work on the next command, resend again, etc... - Passthrough mode during editing: you can now scroll while editing Snips or creating your prompt. Mouse Drag (395). We implemented mouse drag trying to replicate the "mode" you usually have with the keyboard, so you can have more precise cursor positioning, for both touch and the trackpad. - Trackpad: Cmd+click to start drag mode, move cursor while holding Cmd, release to stop. - Touch: Long press to start drag mode and place the cursor, then start a drag to move cursor and release to stop. - Remember you can use the keyboard while you drag. Terminal updates & Mosh Update + blink-v18.4.5 - Support for newest Unicode characters and other extensions. Improved terminal rendering. - Mosh with handling of UTF8 character extension codes. This should remove the garbled output and ghost characters or lines that we have seen on editors and tools like Claude. Thanks to jdrouhard Copy/Paste Improvements - Fixed terminal copy no longer adds trailing EOL whitespace (2133) - Fixed single CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) character copy selection (2136) - Added "Copy Raw" functionality with Cmd-Shift-C. Thanks to jiefeng-xu Lockdown Mode Fix (2137) - Fixed font persistence: bundled fonts now stay selected in Lockdown mode. - Non-bundled custom fonts still blocked as expected Thanks to jiefeng-xu UI Improvements - Block zoom when layout is locked. (1165) - New Hide keyboard button. (2105) - Font reset fixes to use the configure default. (1145, 1382) For more information, check out https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2220

- Fix OSC52 to use UTF8 encoding.(#1026) - RevCat update - clean up RevCat cache files in Documents folder (#2199) - Files.app showing the (!) icon sometimes, in particular during initialization (#2200). This was not affecting the performance in any way, but the icon also would indicate something may have gone wrong. Thanks to ChickenCutlass and Prairie-guy for the heads up! - Fixed possible issue during Snips initialization on first app launch (#2205).

Happy New Year! This is a set of fixes for iOS26 issues and small improvements in the app: - The Host password field now has a toggle to visualize the stored password. (Issue #2191) - SCP/SFTP command now process the source and will exit with an error if there are no files matching. (Issue #2095) - SCP/SFTP command now has autocompletion. (Issue #2192). - Blinking cursor on bottom of the screen (Issue #2152). The cursor will only appear when using IME mode or tapping the screen / starting a selection. The cursor should disappear immediately afterwards. - Shell Blank on return from background and other cases (Issue #2177). Not just that but the shells should be more responsive on switch, etc... - Space between keyboard and terminal (Issue #2181). redraws are now improved as a result of the previous issue. - Cmd key would get stuck after calling settings with "Cmd-,". This was a regression on 18.4. (Issue #2193) This was a large and tricky one. Thanks to werdnum, greirson, briann, phonedph1, alexdilley, rrgeorge, tanguy, mikebeller, brendandebeasi, kkebo, tamasarpad and everyone on TestFlight and Discord for all the help!

v18.4.2 - Add support for M5 iPad Pro. - Fixes on walkthrough.

v18.4.1 - Disabled AI Writing Tools on software keyboard. - Fixes possible crashes due to new keyboard layouts. - Fixes on FileProvider and SSHClient flows from TestFlight reports.

A new big version of Blink is just a few months away -- but we didn’t want to hold back updates that improve your experience in the new iOS 26 / iPadOS 26. This release also brings support for the new iPhone 17 series and Air. As always, thanks to everyone for helping us with this new release! For full notes, please check out: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2155 And to be the first to hear about the new Blink, please keep an eye on our Discord, Twitter and GitHub!

v18.3.2 build 1010 This is a continuation to the fix on v18.3.1. We discovered another corner case abusing the host and added additional constraints to generate proper shell tokens at the user and the host. Thanks again to David Leadbeater for the extra help! As this is a security fix, we are leaving here all the information from 18.3.1 for reference. This release fixes a security bug pointed by David Leadbeater! You can read all about it here: https://dgl.cx/2025/06/blink-at-a-url-handler. When calling SSH URLs, Blink will use the URL given by the system. The URL percentage encoded components at the Host or User may contain special control characters. Although those characters may not be allowed on host or user, the decoded characters can make it down to the shell. Blink will warn the user before executing links, but a malicious link may hide this behavior within markdown or even a QR code. This fixes the issue by rejecting sequences containing control characters before sending them to the terminal. Additionally, we are supporting proper SSH URI forms to connect additional parameters later on.

v18.3.1 build 1006 This release fixes a security bug pointed by David Leadbeater! You can read all about it here: https://dgl.cx/2025/06/blink-at-a-url-handler. When calling SSH URLs, Blink will use the URL given by the system. The URL percentage encoded components at the Host or User may contain special control characters. Although those characters may not be allowed on host or user, the decoded characters can make it down to the shell. Blink will warn the user before executing links, but a malicious link may hide this behavior within markdown or even a QR code. This fixes the issue by rejecting sequences containing control characters before sending them to the terminal. Additionally, we are supporting proper SSH URI forms to connect additional parameters later on. Special thanks again to David Leadbeater for the help!

v18.3.0 Build 1004 - Bookmark fixes when a location cannot be restored by the system and the URL is deemed invalid. - Fixes a screen corruption on clear when using SSH or Mosh. When pressing ctrl-l or clearing the terminal some elements on the screen would persist. This seems to be a bug in WebKit. Fixes #2127. Thanks to @Sandyel89, @mtrolley and @selevko for the thorough debugging!

We have changed our offerings and packages: - Blink now offers a 14-day free trial out of the box. - Blink Classic has been upgraded to offer all the features in our Blink+ package. If you are a Blink Classic user, help us keep the momentum going by supporting the team behind your favorite terminal. v18.2.1 - Fixes a bug on Restore Purchases. v18.2.2 - Added checks and alerts for subscriptions purchased on different groups. v18.2.3 - Fixes to Blink Classic subscription detection. And now we also allow Classic users to transition to a Blink+ again. v18.2.4 - Fixes notifications during trial and Blink+Build placement. If you run into any issues due to changes in our paywall, please reach out to us (support at blink.sh)

We have changed our offerings and packages: - Blink now offers a 14-day free trial out of the box. - Blink Classic has been upgraded to offer all the features in our Blink+ package. If you are a Blink Classic user, help us keep the momentum going by supporting the team behind your favorite terminal. v18.2.1 - Fixes a bug on Restore Purchases. v18.2.2 - Added checks and alerts for subscriptions purchased on different groups. v18.2.3 - Fixes to Blink Classic subscription detection. And now we also allow Classic users to transition to a Blink+ again. If you run into any issues due to changes in our paywall, please reach out to us (support at blink.sh)

We have changed our offerings and packages: - Blink now offers a 14-day free trial out of the box. - Blink Classic has been upgraded to offer all the features in our Blink+ package. If you are a Blink Classic user, help us keep the momentum going by supporting the team behind your favorite terminal. v18.2.1 - Fixes a bug on Restore Purchases. v18.2.2 - Added checks and alerts for subscriptions purchased on different groups. Please reach out to us if you are having any issues (support at blink.sh)

We have changed our offerings and packages: - Blink now offers a 14-day free trial out of the box. - Blink Classic has been upgraded to offer all the features in our Blink+ package. If you are a Blink Classic user, help us keep the momentum going by supporting the team behind your favorite terminal. v18.2.1 - Fixes a bug on Restore Purchases.

We have changed our offerings and packages: - Blink now offers a 14-day free trial out of the box. - Blink Classic has been upgraded to offer all the features in our Blink+ package. If you are a Blink Classic user, help us keep the momentum going by supporting the team behind your favorite terminal.

v18.1.1 - Bookmarks now available on all plans. This substitutes the link-files command. Check out the docs for more information. - Fixes SFTP and SCP issues where wildcards would not work properly on source arguments. https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2067

**What’s New in 18.1.0** This release introduces some exciting updates to Blink Shell, including a new File Provider system, bookmark support, and several important fixes. Here’s what’s new: ### **File Provider Replicated Extension** The File Provider has been completely upgraded and is now the default option, automatically replacing the old integration. This new system significantly improves file management and expands what you can do with remote file systems: - **Files.app integration**: Access remote file systems directly from Files.app with improved progress control and automatic syncing to keep local and remote replicas consistent. - **Shell commands support**: With kernel-level integration, commands like `ls`, `cd`, `find`, and `vim` now work seamlessly with remote locations, making shell workflows feel as natural as working locally. - **Enhanced app compatibility**: Use remote file systems in other apps without requiring additional APIs. - **Storage Management** - The new provider also offloads storage management for downloaded files to the system, so the Blink app won't grow the storage used in your device, even when working with remote files. - **New capabilities**: Automatic syncing and re-downloads, support for **Veracrypt encryption**, better support for **symbolic links**, and **shortcut integrations**. Special thanks to pindab0ter, mhoran, abeth, 2xsaiko, aberrant, rrgeorge and those who left very useful feedback on TestFlight. ### **Bookmarks** Bookmarks bring a more flexible way to navigate remote and local file systems: - **Quick access**: Bookmark Blink folders or file locations exposed by other apps. These symlinked directories behave like local directories within the shell. - **Replacing link-files**: Bookmarks streamline workflows by replacing the old `link-files` command with a simpler and more reliable approach. - **Easy to set up**: Add bookmarks via **Settings > Bookmarks**, select a location in Files.app, and give the symlink a name. Navigate to your bookmarks directly from the shell. ### **General Improvements and Fixes** - **Custom key support**: Added support for `Function keys`, `Home`, `End`, `PgUp`, and `PgDown`, along with combinations like `Alt-Home` and `Alt-End` to better match your workflows. Thanks to namatoj and Karl. - **SFTP validation**: Validate SFTP connections directly in **Host > Files.app configuration**, making setup and troubleshooting more straightforward. - **ProxyJump fixes**: Fixed an issue where SSH sessions would require to use Ctrl-C before going back to the shell. - **Settings fixes**: Fixed issues where the Cmd key could get stuck or the software keyboard would appear unexpectedly when returning to the app. - **Pragmata Pro 830**: Shipping the latest version again (thanks to chipp for the heads up) For more details or a complete list of changes, check out `whatsnew` in the app and the changes to our Documentation. If you have questions, join us in our Discord or GitHub Discussions. Enjoy the new features, and as always, thank you to everyone who helped make this release possible!

Version 18.0.1 - Fixes keyboard auto-repeat for accentuated characters. https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2023

As we typically do, with every major iOS release, we release a Blink update. This gives us a chance to fix issues between versions and pave the way to next releases. Here is what’s new in Blink 18: * Added support for light and dark icons on the new iOS18 home screen. * Adjusted UI for new iPhone 16 seres. - On iOS18, fixed crashes on startup and when running certain commands. Thanks to TestFlight reports. - On iOS18, resolved issues with unresponsive sessions when switching tabs after restoring the app from the background. * Updated OpenSSH and other libraries for iOS18 compatibility. - Fixed file overwrite problems with SCP/SFTP.s. For more details, visit: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2023