Release Date: 2026-05-20
This release introduces a unified bossterm CLI with MCP companion subcommands and a man page, plus several MCP server improvements including port fallback, pane listing, and response shortening. It also fixes mouse/focus handling in TUIs that capture mouse events.
- Unified
bosstermCLI: New top-level CLI with MCP companion subcommands and a man page (#257) - MCP
list_panestool: Clients can now address splits they didn't create (#256) - MCP port fallback: Automatically falls back to an available port when the configured port is busy (#255)
- UI: Cmd/Ctrl-held mouse events now route to BossTerm UI instead of being forwarded to the TUI (#261)
- UI: Clicking into a mouse-reporting TUI now correctly restores terminal focus (#260)
- MCP: Port fallback is now actually triggered when Ktor wraps the async
BindException(#258) - CLI: Post-#257 follow-ups — port targeting, signal/close/panes commands, and probe fixes (#259)
- MCP performance: Serena-style response shortening, projection arguments, and null omission to reduce payload size (#254)
- Documented the BossTerm MCP server and embedder hooks (#253)
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https://github.com/kshivang/BossTerm/compare/v1.1.95...v1.1.96