I have considered iTerm one of my must-have OSX apps since I first got my MacBook Pro.  But I haven’t always kept it up to date.  On Friday evening, my MBP was running very, very slow.  I started shutting things down and, when I stopped iTerm, things sped up tremendously.  I usually have iTerm open for weeks, so I figured there must be a very slow memory link.  Getting the latest version may help the situation. So I upgraded yesterday afternoon.
And now I suggest that all of you make sure that you are on the latest version.

My old iTerm was at 0.8 and now I’m at 0.9.5.  In between those versions, they added Bonjour to automatically detect ssh and sftp servers on your network.  They also added support for Growl, so now you can be notified when a long-running process is done in one terminal and you using another.  I’ve also started using bookmarks — now a Ctrl-Cmd-g takes opens up another terminal and opens an ssh session to my Linux box in the basement.

One of my complaints in the older version is that they didn’t emulate many terminals by default.  Now you can configure a bookmark to use a profile.  A profile can have certain display and terminal types.  Maybe they had some of this before — I didn’t use bookmarks until after I upgraded. But the profile functionality seems to be fairly new.
So it’s worth upgrading.  Maybe this will help me get off my butt and learn some Applescript to see what cool things I could do.