# MAO 0.7.7

Released 2026-10-02.

## New

- **A new first launch.** The four-step tour is replaced by a Welcome, a Choose your look screen and an Almost ready screen. On a first launch it goes on to open your first project (pick or drop a repository folder, with an optional workspace name) and start your first agent. On a free trial it also shows which day of the trial you are on, what the trial includes and what a licence adds.
- **Getting started checklist.** A small card at the bottom left of the canvas lists five steps and ticks each one off as you do it. A coach card points at the real control the current step needs, one at a time.
- **Terminal selection.** Double-click selects a word, triple-click selects a line, and Shift+click extends the selection. Dragging while output streams keeps the selection on the same text. Ctrl or Cmd+click opens a link, and typing clears the selection. On Linux, selecting fills the primary selection and middle-click pastes it. Nothing replaces your clipboard until you copy.
- **Mouse in terminal programs.** Programs that ask for the mouse, such as editors and pagers, now receive clicks, drags, the wheel and focus changes. Hold Shift to select text or open MAO's menu instead.
- **Cursor and text styles.** The terminal draws the cursor shape a program asks for, blinks it, and shows a hollow block when the terminal is not focused. Dim, struck-through, hidden and underlined text (single, double, curly, dotted and dashed) now render.
- **Scrollback keys.** Shift+PageUp, Shift+PageDown, Shift+Home and Shift+End scroll the terminal history (Cmd on macOS).
- **Paste protection.** Pasting text that would run several lines into a terminal that is not in bracketed paste mode now asks first, with a preview of what will be sent. Text that carries the end-of-paste sequence is always held.
- **Clipboard from programs.** Programs can write to your clipboard with OSC 52, for example a yank in Neovim over SSH. A program that asks to read your clipboard waits for you to click Allow.

## Changes

- **Light theme.** Neutral greys throughout, a canvas that sits under white, white card edges, a graphite primary button, readable secondary text and shadows at their true size.

Source: https://trymao.dev/changelog/0.7.7