A major update which brings Unicode support for input text and PCRE2 regular expressions   ... read more
Patrick Drechsler included boxes in his list of Modern Linux Command Line Tools. We are honored, especially because of the “modern” attribution. :wink:
Boxes is now available as a chocolatey package. Chocolatey (or just “choco”) is the popular package manager on Windows. If you have choco, you can now simply
C:\> choco install boxes.portable
and boxes will be available on your system.   ... read more
Version 1.3 is out.
This release features a small number of bug fixes and several new box designs   ... read more
We put together some step-by-step instructions on how to call boxes directly from the Notepad++ editor on Windows. It requires a bit of clicking to set up, but works like a charm!
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John Schuster of the “Geek Must Have” blog published a blog post on boxes.
It gives very detailed guidance on how to set up boxes to work in Windows PowerShell. Thanks John!
In short, on Windows, you want boxes.exe and boxes.cfg in the same directory, ideally one that’s listed on the PATH environment variable.
Version 1.2 is out. This release features a minor enhancement to the configuration file capabilities, several bug fixes, improvements to the build, and several new box designs.   ... read more
Boxes is now part of Windows 10! This sounds amazing, and it is - albeit, to be honest, in an indirect way. Since this year’s “anniversary update”, Windows 10 features an optional Ubuntu Subsystem, which supports boxes natively. This is mostly thanks to @carnil, who maintains the Debian packages; and Debian being the foundation of Ubuntu. So, like I said, it is an indirect way, but still, we can’t help being a little proud of the fact!   ... read more
JetBrains have decided to support boxes with a free license for their C/C++ IDE CLion.
That's really nice - thank you!
  CLion