The change to the keyboard handling model that we made in version 1.3.2 has shown to be insufficient (screens with no input fields did not accept input in h3270 anymore). In this release, the keyboard handling model is changed again so that it should deal well with any such situations.

For details, see the release notes.

A new feature in this release is that you can now have multiple h3270 sessions open at the same time, from the same browser. This works both in the servlet version (where you can have multiple h3270 windows or tabs open), and in the Portlet version (multiple h3270 portlets on the same page).

For details, see the release notes.

This release adds support for some 3270 extended attributes (colors and highlighting). The generated HTML should now be XHTML-compliant. Several bugs were fixed. Thanks to all who contributed code to this release.

The most notable change is that h3270 now comes with a portlet that is compliant with the JSR-168 Portlet API. You can deploy it to any compliant portal server such as Jetspeed or the IBM WebSphere Portal Server. We are also working on an h3270 IView for the SAP Portal Server, and provide some alpha-quality code for it in the current release. The original stand-alone web application continues to exist as well. For details, please see the release notes.

This is an update release which fixes a few layout problems and includes updated documentation. There is a small new feature that may be interesting for many users: You can now restrict h3270 so that users can only connect to a single host with it. See the release notes for details.

This is a maintenance release without any new features. h3270 properly ignores extended attributes now (which we don't support yet). The build process has been streamlined and the documentation has been updated.

This release fixes a bug. No new features were added.

see the release notes for details.

Since our initial release in December, we've learned that many people are happy with the character-based terminal emulation of h3270. They have no need for the more advanced, regex-based rendering engine. So we have spent some more work on the character-based mode, to make it behave like a real terminal emulator. This release adds the most crucial missing pieces: support for colors and multi-line input fields (see the release notes for details).

This is a prelease of the upcoming version 1.2. Since the data model inside h3270 changed considerably, we felt that people should be able to give it a try first, before we make the full release of 1.2.

Enjoy, and let us know what you think. The best forum for this is the h3270-devel mailing list. (Subscription link on the left.)

Our first release in December really attracted a small but growing community around h3270. Due to a lot of positive feedback, version 1.1 is a maintenance release that contains some minor new features mostly suggested by users. This includes:

• All PC function keys are now passed to h3270 (some of them used to be intercepted by the browser or operating system).
• Support for hidden, unmodifiable fields has been added.
• The standard z/OS login screen can now be handled by h3270 (it contains a multiline field which we couldn't deal with before). There is no full support for multiline fields yet, but we plan that for the next release.