Changelog
swanshell 1.1.6 (2nd May 2026)
- Minor reliability improvements.
swanshell 1.1.5 (20th April 2026)
- Fixed: Software launching regression on “mono” consoles.
swanshell 1.1.4 (29th March 2026)
- Added: Japanese translation. (bigmoonur)
- Added: Uxn virtual machine plugin.
- Changed: Improved German translation. (Generic)
- Changed: Improved Chinese (Simplified) translation. (bigmoonur, PECO)
- Fixed: Startup state inconsistency for Color programs.
- Fixed: Various RTC date/time settings menu issues.
swanshell 1.1.3 (20th March 2026)
- Added: Option to erase a file’s related save data.
- Fixed: Issue with new SRAM save file initialization.
- Fixed: Issue with timer initialization when loading programs.
swanshell 1.1.2 (19th March 2026)
- Added: New USB shell commands:
cat, echo, pwd.
- Added: Option to scroll long file names in the file selector. (WIP)
- Fixed: Regression in swanshell 1.1.0 which led to slower XMODEM transfer start times.
- Fixed: RTC date/time settings menu occasionally reading corrupt information.
swanshell 1.1.1 (4th March 2026)
- Changed: Ctrl+C in the USB shell now activates interactive mode.
- Changed: Updated Chinese (Simplified) translation. (PECO)
- Fixed: Regression in EEPROM mode initialization.
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, 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: 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)