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Changelog

swanshell 1.1.0 (4th March 2026)

  • Added: Enhanced system information menu.
  • Added: Enhanced USB shell:
    • New commands: cd, download, help, ls, mkdir, reboot, rm, rmdir, upload.
    • The Ctrl+C keybind is now supported.
    • The launch command now accepts an optional path.
  • Added: On firmware 1.1.0+, missing/low battery warnings.
  • Added: Saving /ram0 contents when loading .fx programs directly.
  • Added: Status icons - the cartridge’s status is now communicated visually in the bottom right corner.
  • Added: The option to hide save files.
  • Changed: On firmware 1.1.0+, inserting a removed storage card will trigger a cartridge reboot.
  • Changed: On firmware 1.1.0+, slightly improved battery draw in the menu when no USB cable is connected.
  • Changed: Text viewer improvements:
    • Minor performance improvements.
    • The text viewer now shows an approximate percentage position in the file being read.
    • The text viewer now supports going back in a file.
    • The text viewer now supports both Shift-JIS and UTF-8 encoded files, with automatic detection.
  • Changed: Tweaked visual padding for pop-up dialogs.
  • Fixed: Certain memory initialization issues when launching a program.
  • Fixed: Reliability problems when using XMODEM file transfers within the USB shell.
  • Other minor improvements.

swanshell 1.0.4 (23rd February 2026)

  • Changed: A warning is now displayed for overdumped save data.
  • Fixed: A soft reset patch was incorrectly applied to certain cartridge images.

swanshell 1.0.3 (23rd February 2026)

  • Changed: Minor translation updates.
  • Fixed: Some cartridge images were incorrectly detected as containing on-board NOR flash.
  • Fixed: The text viewer should now correctly read files over 64 KiB.

swanshell 1.0.2 (14th February 2026)

  • Added: Input repeat delay and rate configuration.
  • Added: New translations:
    • Chinese (Simplified) (PECO)
  • Added: Simple text viewer.
  • Added: Support for Chinese and partial support for Korean characters.
  • Changed: On a new installation, the user is automatically prompted for their preferred language.
  • Changed: Question marks are now used for characters without a matching glyph in the font.
  • Changed: The display fonts are now stored in separate files.
  • Fixed: The “Hide icons” option not saving or loading correctly.
  • Minor performance and reliability improvements.

swanshell 1.0.1 (7th February 2026)

  • Added: New translations:
    • German (Generic)
    • French (zeroballoons)
    • Spanish (Fossil)
  • Changed: The file selector now remembers its position in the list after deleting a file.
  • Minor performance and reliability improvements.

swanshell 1.0.0 (3rd January 2026)

  • Initial release.