Windows Terminal v1.18.3181.0

Welcome to the mid-November servicing release for Windows Terminal!

This release includes the following bug fixes:

Bug Fixes

Usability

• Environment variables will no longer spontaneously disappear if one happens to have a NUL in it (#16190)
• The "Azure Cloud Shell" connector has been updated to support the new cloud shell protocol (#16247)
• The regression where "Cascadia Mono" (or "... Code") would not be found on upgrade has been un-regressed (#16196)
• The light color schemes now include a selection background that is actually visible (#16243) (thanks @TahaHaksal!)
  • You may need to delete the light color schemes from your settings to see this change.
• With the new rendering engine, some pixel shaders should no longer cause characters to have a black background (#16219)

Reliability

• Terminal no longer leaks nigh-unto infinite amounts of memory when it's out of focus (#16251)
• When you close a window on Windows 10, there's a much lower chance of Terminal blowing up spontaneously (#16267)
• (newly backported from 1.19) A rare crash seen on Windows 10 when creating a new window has been obliterated (#16047)

Miscellaneous

• The issue where stable-branded binaries contained a -preview moniker has been fixed (#16122)
• The system menu no longer grows hundreds of copies of the Settings... menu item when you close and reopen a window (#16225)

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Windows Terminal Preview v1.19.2831.0

Just like 1.18.2822.0 before it, this is a servicing release for some quick issues in Terminal 1.19.

Bug Fixes

Usability

• "Always close when process exits" now works again (ha) (#16090)
• Tearing out a tab when you have startupActions set no longer results in unexpected behavior (#16089)
• We will no longer display dialog boxes over top of menus when you close the terminal window (#16075) (thanks @codecruisedor!)
• Hovering over a file:// URI will no longer display "Invalid URL" (#16026)

Reliability

• Tab operations (dragging, indexing, switching) have been insulated from crashing (#16016)
• Custom themes without a tab entry no longer blow up Terminal (#16046)
• searchForText actions without a query URL no longer cause a crash when you open the command palette (#16054)
• A rare crash seen on Windows 10 when creating a new window has been obliterated (#16047)
• In theory, we fixed a "threading and callbacks are hard" crash (#16065)

JSON Schema

• allowEmpty now has the correct default value (#16040)

Miscellaneous Changes

• Terminal has moved to a new build pipeline, and builds that are integrated into Windows now come with a complete SBOM (#16081) (#16057)
• More of our constituent components are built with Control Flow Guard (#16056)

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Windows Terminal v1.18.2822.0

This is a quick servicing release to fix some of the top issues in 1.18.
Thanks to our Dev and Canary Windows Insiders for helping iron out the wrinkles in the previous 1.18 release!

Note
There is a cosmetic issue with the unpackaged or portable mode version numbers in this distribution.
The version numbers are erroneously marked with -preview.
This does not indicate that this is a preview build, and this build does not include preview features.
This issue was fixed by pull request #16122.

Bug Fixes

Usability

• Tearing out a tab when you have startupActions set no longer results in unexpected behavior (#16089)
• We will no longer display dialog boxes over top of menus when you close the terminal window (#16075) (thanks @codecruisedor!)
• Hovering over a file:// URI will no longer display "Invalid URL" (#16026)

Reliability

• Tab operations (dragging, indexing, switching) have been insulated from crashing (#16016)
• In theory, we fixed a "threading and callbacks are hard" crash (#16065)

JSON Schema

• allowEmpty now has the correct default value (#16040)

Miscellaneous Changes

• Terminal has moved to a new build pipeline, and builds that are integrated into Windows now come with a complete SBOM (#16081) (#16057)
• More of our constituent components are built with Control Flow Guard (#16056)

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Windows Terminal Preview v1.19.2682.0

It's finally here: Windows Terminal Preview 1.19! We've been heads-down, working on a new input buffer, new output buffer, shell suggestions, and a bunch of other stuff that we're excited to finally release.

Buckle up! This release might be a little more Preview than you've come to expect . . . but that's the fun of the preview channel!

Why are there so many packages? How do I choose?

Please visit our page documenting the different [Windows Terminal Distributions]!

Features

• We've added support for a new opt-in and shell-driven suggestions UI (#14938) (#15848)
  • The protocol for suggestions is not finalized, and will change before final release.
  • You can find more information on the Experimental Shell Completion Menu wiki page
  • Suggestions can take into account...
    • ... the command you've already typed on the input line (#15027)
    • ... commands you have recently submitted (#14943)
    • ... any sendInput actions you have in your settings file, to be used as a sort of "snippet" (#15664)
• The search box will now display a count of found results, and--if scrollbar marks are enabled--display graphical indicators for every match (#14045) (thanks @Don-Vito and @zadjii-msft!)
• You can now enable broadcast mode via the Command Palette, which will broadcast input to all panes in a tab (#14393) (#15993)
• You can now launch a profile via wt and keep its built-in command line with the --appendCommandLine flag (#15822) (thanks @hanpuliu-charles!)
  • For example, if your PowerShell profile specifies pwsh.exe, you can run wt --appendCommandLine -p PowerShell -- -Command echo Hello, which will run pwsh.exe -Command echo Hello. That's a lot of dashes. Wow.
• You can now search the web with your selected text via... (#15539) (thanks @mpela81!)
  • ...the experimental right-click context menu!
  • ...the searchWeb action!
    • You can customize each action to launch any search engine by specifying the queryUrl. %s will be replaced with your query.
  • You can customize the default search engine for both of these by specifying the global setting searchWebDefaultQueryUrl. %s will be replaced with your query.
• If you have shell integration enabled, you can enable using the mouse to reposition the text cursor (#15758)
  • {profile}.experimental.repositionCursorWithMouse (the dot is part of the name, sorry) (boolean, default false)

Theming and Scheming

• You can now set the window border color on Windows 11 via the {theme}.window.frame and {theme}.window.unfocusedFrame color entries (#15441)
  • For more fun, you can set {theme}.window's experimental.rainbowFrame to true 🙂
• You can now (finally!) enable support for using the acrylic material in an unfocused window (#15923) (#15944) (thanks @Jaswir!)
  • Set useAcrylic to true in {profile}.unfocusedAppearance
  • You can turn unfocused acrylic off globally with the global setting compatibility.enableUnfocusedAcrylic (boolean, default false)
• Themes can now indicate whether tab icons should be shown in color or monochrome or hidden entirely (#15948) (thanks @bundgaard!)
  • Set {theme}.tab.iconStyle (enum default, hidden, monochrome; default default (default))

Changes

• wt -- foo will once again inherit the environment from its parent (#15897)
  • You can customize this behavior with wt --inheritEnvironment or wt --reloadEnvironment on a per-tab/per-pane basis.
  • You can also override this behavior with the profile setting {profile}.compatibility.reloadEnvironmentVariables (boolean, default true)
• We have rewritten "cooked read", the input line used by Command Prompt, Python, and a whole host of other applications (#15930) (#15780) (#15782) (#15783) (#15880)
  • This includes changes to command history, popups (F7 and the like), and how input is echoed to the display.
  • This may have a wide-ranging impact, so please file any unexpected input issues in Win32 applications!
• Input event record handling has been rewritten to support wide encodings like UTF-8, to be more maintainable, and to be much simpler to read (#15671) (#15606) (#15605) (#15611) (#15673) (#15672)
• Console applications can now more reliably print characters composed of surrogate pairs (aka "We've been trying to reach you about your WriteCharsLegacy's extended Emoji support") (#15567)
• We've added an action that opens the about dialog (openAbout) (#15990)
• conhost will now ignore key events with an invalid virtual keycode and a scan code of 0 (such as those emitted by strange software keyboards) (#15753) (thanks @tusharsnx!)
• We will no longer generate WINDOW_BUFFER_SIZE_EVENT when the viewport moves, confusing applications that translate it into a destructive operation (#15935)
• You can now configure any copy action to dismiss or keep the selection after it runs (dismissSelection, boolean, default true) (#15552) (thanks @gonzalo-garcian!)
• The text buffer has been reorganized to be (1) faster (2) smaller (3) harder, better, etc.
  • Rows are initialized lazily in chunks of 128 or so; we no longer spend memory on blank space you'll never see (#15524) (#15582)
  • Reading, writing, initialization, etc. has been cleaned up and vectorized (#15501) (#15498) with fast passes and other optimizations (#15499) (#15879) (#15541) (#15497)
  • We've rewritten resize with reflow so it's like a billion times faster and more correct (#15701)
    • If you see any issues when resizing (other than "bash prints the prompt 600 times every frame" (that's apparently just how bash works)), please file them!
• We no longer load the Settings editor library on launch, saving you tens of kilobytes of memory (#15628) (#15631)
• We will now display an indicator in the tab of any disconnected/closed/crashed application. You can right-click the tab to restart it! (#15760) (thanks @mpela81!)
• You can now run profiles as Admin from the new tab menu by right-clicking them (#15679) (thanks @jamespack!)
• The profile preview in settings now shows you what a "powerline" font will look like when one is selected (#15365)
• We actually did fix the homoglyph thing this time; hovering a URL that is pretending to be someone else through funny characters will see right through it (#15488)
• You can now right-click a tab and move it to a new window (#15376) (thanks @Jaswir!)
• All text search now uses ICU, and is like blazing fast. URL detection, Search, everything is covered! (#15858) (#15998) (#15892)
• For those of you debugging Terminal/the console with ETW, you can now group all API calls by originating process (#15737)
• Also for debugging purposes, you can now add the debugTerminalCwd action to display a pop-up with Terminal's current "virtual" working directory (#15282)
• If you are using Preview, Canary or Dev we will now set an appropriate JSON $schema so you can auto-complete new settings (#15856)

VT

• We now support Erase Color Mode (DECECM) (#15469) (thanks @j4james!)
• The horizontal scrolling sequences DECIC, DECDC, DECBI and DECFI finally work! (#15368) (thanks @j4james!)
• @tusharsnx put a lot of work into making ITU T.416 color sequences work! He...
  • ... added support for sub-parameters separated with : (#15648)
  • ... added support for ODA SGR sequences (38:2::R:G:B, 48:...) (#15729) (#15844)
• We will now pass through kitty's underline color (58:...) and style (4:...) sequences (we won't render them yet! but maybe soon! 🤞) (#15795) (thanks @tusharsnx!)

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• We've added automation property names to the 'Delete Color Scheme' button (#15994)
• The key chord indicator in the command palette now has a background color (#15677) (thanks @RickleAndMortimer!)
• Settings now groups elements in their containers for screen readers (#15756)
• Screen reader users can now determine which color scheme is the current default (#15486)
• Default Terminal and Color Scheme ComboBoxes no longer crop at 200% text scale (#15762)
• Screen readers will now announce successful pane and tab moves (#15771)

VT and terminal emulation

• Hard Reset (RIS) no longer disables Win32 input mode or focus event mode for pty clients (like Terminal) (#15476) (thanks @j4james!)
• We no longer log traces or telemetry about aggregated VT sequence use (#15494) (thanks @j4james!)
  • We started to do this in ~2016 or so when we were trying to figure out what VT sequences applications were using. We're way beyond needing that now!
• The Terminal will now enter mouse mode immediately when a Win32 console app enables it (among other output flushing changes! If you see any flickering in modern VT applications, let us know!) (#15991)
• Scrollbar marks will now be cleared by clear (and friends) (#15686)

Usability and UI

• We will no longer reload the settings as often when various OS knobs and switches change (#16004)
• The tab right-click menu now remembers which terminal pane was active when it was invoked... (#15999)
• You can once again restart the first pane in a split with Enter after it exits (#16001)
• All actions now remember which pane originated them, so things like "export text" and "Move tab to new window" and "Duplicate" no longer summon one of the Old Ones (#15773)
• The about dialog no longer tells you that you've got an update available to the same version you already have (#15378)
• When the tab close button is disabled, it will no longer randomly reappear to taunt you (#15914)
• Duplicated tabs now consider the existing configuration option for where to put tabs (#15972) (thanks @codecruisedor!)
• The launch parameters (position, size) now properly support negative numbers (#15941) (thanks @codecruisedor!)

New R...

Windows Terminal v1.18.2681.0

Windows Terminal 1.18 is here, and with it comes the coolest set of features ever:

• You can finally pull tabs out of Terminal windows! You can also put other tabs back into other Terminal
  windows. It's a whole thing.
• A new new rendering engine that supports arbitrary glyph overhangs (including some new fixes backported from
  1.19!)
• An experimental (opt-in) right-click context menu (profile setting {profile}.rightClickContextMenu)

Please see the following release notes for additional details.

• Windows Terminal Preview v1.18.1421.0
• Windows Terminal Preview v1.18.1462.0

Note that scrollbar marks and shell integration features are still considered experimental and
are not included in this stable release!

Note
This version began rolling out to the Dev and Canary Windows Insider channels on 2023-09-26. Other channels will be released
as our reliability numbers indicate that we haven't broken anything. If you want to update to this release directly, download it below!

Why are there so many packages? How do I choose?

Please visit our page documenting the different Windows Terminal Distributions!

This release also includes the following changes and bug fixes backported from Preview 1.19:

Changes

• wt -- foo will once again inherit the environment from its parent (#15897)
  • You can customize this behavior with wt --inheritEnvironment or wt --reloadEnvironment on a per-tab/per-pane basis.
  • You can also override this behavior with the profile setting {profile}.compatibility.reloadEnvironmentVariables (boolean, default true)
• We no longer load the Settings editor library on launch, saving you tens of kilobytes of memory (#15628) (#15631)
• You can now run profiles as Admin from the new tab menu by right-clicking them (#15679) (thanks @jamespack!)
• The profile preview in settings now shows you what a "powerline" font will look like when one is selected (#15365)
• We actually did fix the homoglyph thing this time; hovering a URL that is pretending to be someone else through funny characters will see right through it (#15488)
• For those of you debugging Terminal/the console with ETW, you can now group all API calls by originating process (#15737)
• If you are using Preview, Canary or Dev we will now set an appropriate JSON $schema so you can auto-complete new settings (#15856)

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• We've added automation property names to the 'Delete Color Scheme' button (#15994)
• The key chord indicator in the command palette now has a background color (#15677) (thanks @RickleAndMortimer!)
• Settings now groups elements in their containers for screen readers (#15756)
• Screen reader users can now determine which color scheme is the current default (#15486)
• Default Terminal and Color Scheme ComboBoxes no longer crop at 200% text scale (#15762)
• Screen readers will now announce successful pane and tab moves (#15771)

VT and terminal emulation

• Hard Reset (RIS) no longer disables Win32 input mode or focus event mode for pty clients (like Terminal) (#15476) (thanks @j4james!)

Usability and UI

• We will no longer reload the settings as often when various OS knobs and switches change (#16004)
• You can once again restart the first pane in a split with Enter after it exits (#16001)
• All actions now remember which pane originated them, so things like "export text" and "Move tab to new window" and "Duplicate" no longer summon one of the Old Ones (#15773)
• The about dialog no longer tells you that you've got an update available to the same version you already have (#15378)
• When the tab close button is disabled, it will no longer randomly reappear to taunt you (#15914)
• The launch parameters (position, size) now properly support negative numbers (#15941) (thanks @codecruisedor!)

New Rendering Engine

• We no longer leave cursors all over the place (#15904)
• Fonts like JetBrains Mono that render their ligatures in reverse now appear in the right colors (#15810)
• We no longer invalidate more of the screen than we need to (#15929)
• It now works properly on Windows versions earlier than 10.0.14393.0 (#15485)
• Font features and axes work once again! (#15912)
• We no longer crash when trying to render to a 0x0 surface (#15615)
• DRCS soft fonts that are invalid (or have disappeared, or were never enabled) no longer crash the Terminal (#15889)
• Both rendering engines have been prepared for horizontal scrolling (???) (#15707)

Reliability

• We will no longer crash when checking for updates without a network (#16002)
• If you're the one person who marks HKCU\Console as read-only, we won't crash during save for you (#15916)
• Actions with an empty keys array no longer cause unexpected kinetic disassembly (#16003)
• Duplicating elevate: true tabs has been fixed to not blast terminal off into space (#15548)
• The backing console no longer hangs when resizing while scrolling (#15618)
• Instead of leaking memory for each window on Windows 10, we'll cache old windows and recycle them as needed (#15424)
  • We introduced the leak to fix a crash in closing windows on Windows 10; this allows us to still leak the window but still be able to reclaim them.

Schema

• No longer is there a multiple schema conflict on "colorScheme" (#15748) (thanks @brandondong!)

Miscellaneous

• The WPF control now delay-loads UIAutomationCore.dll because it's incomplete in Windows RS1 (#15614)

With additional thanks to @floh96, @daverayment, @ushuz, and @LitoMore for documentation updates and @tusharsnx,
@Jvr2022, @Dan-Albrecht, @ebarnabas644, @jamespack for build system, project config, and compiler compatibility fixes.

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Windows Terminal Preview v1.18.1462.0

Wow, it looks like 1.18 had a bunch of issues. Thanks for bearing with us and using the Preview channel!

• Bug fixes for the new rendering engine:
  • Glyphs that extend above or below the screen (like certain NerdFont varieties) no longer cause rendering failures (#15403)
  • There should be 100% fewer leftover cursor pieces during scrolling (#15427)
  • DRCS soft fonts no longer cause crashes (#15419)
  • We've improved scrolling and device invalidation (#15425)
• wt --help now no longer emits a crash log after it exits (oops) (#15445)
• In general (outside of the --help case,) Terminal should crash even less on exit (#15451)
• We've stamped out some crashes on resize during shutdown (#15457)
• The new environment variable support will now always expand PATH, even if it is not a REG_EXPAND_SZ (#15444) (thanks @sotteson1!)
• OpenConsole: block selection now properly records line breaks (#15423)
• The "Developer Command Prompt" profiles are no longer totally busted (#15439)
• Terminal no longer crashes when you have focusFollowMouse mode enabled (#15420)

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Windows Terminal v1.17.11461.0

Enjoy this quick bug fix release!

• The "Developer Command Prompt" profiles are no longer totally busted (#15439)
• Terminal no longer crashes when you have focusFollowMouse mode enabled (#15420)

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Windows Terminal Preview v1.18.1421.0

Welcome to the Q2 release of Windows Terminal! Since we moved to a quarterly release cycle, these release notes have
really gotten out of control. Buckle up!

Note Well, the change from v1.17.1073 where we would munge our version number didn't live much longer than a single release. We finally rejoined the Windows 10 and Windows 11 packages!

Why are there so many packages? How do I choose?

Please visit our page documenting the [Windows Terminal Distributions]!

Features

• You can now drag tabs between windows or drop them off in space to make a new window! (#14866) (#14901) (#14935)
  • All instances of Windows Terminal now run in the same process (#14843); please know that this may expose some
    reliability issues. This is a preview build! It might break! Please let us know if it does.
  • Terminal has learned to (optionally) keep running without any windows open (#14944)
    • Enable global setting compatibility.allowHeadless (boolean, default false).
    • This will allow you to summon a "Quake mode" window even if there aren't any other Terminal windows open!
  • You can move tabs or panes individually to new windows with a new action in the command palette, as well (#15258)
    • We have extended the moveTab and movePane actions with support for a window parameter; the format is the
      same as that of the -w command line argument.
  • As a side effect of this work, Terminal no longer locks the directory from which it was spawned (rejoice!)
  • Please note: Due to a bug in Windows 10, every window you close will leak about 15MiB of memory. This is
    intentional and prevents a crash (yeah, not amazing. We're tracking a fix!) (#15397)
• The experimental new text rendering engine AtlasEngine is now newer and still experimental!. It has been
  nearly completely rewritten with support for overlapping text! (#14959)
  • Practically speaking, this means that it will no longer cut off italic text, Emoji, or "complex" scripts. It
    will continue to clip box drawing glyphs to ensure that they look great. (#15343)
  • We've ensured that it still supports animated shaders (#15353), Han unification (#15358), and locl glyph variants (#15278)
  • It will now be used to display the Appearance preview in the Settings UI for profiles for which it is enabled (#15355)
• Terminal now offers an experimental, optional right-click context menu (#14775) (#14252) (#15079)
  • Enable the menu with the profile setting experimental.rightClickContextMenu (boolean, default false)
  • You can invoke the menu--even if it is disabled--with action showContextMenu (#14254)
  • When you have shell integration enabled (FTCS marks, mentioned below), you can use the menu to select a command or
    its output (#15020)
• You can now customize the height (and width) of character cells in the terminal (#14255)
  • See the "line height" setting in Profile -> Appearance
  • Configurable via JSON in $profile.font.cellWidth and $profile.font.cellHeight (string, see below, default
    automatically calculated for optimal rightness)
    • Valid units include:
      • 1.0, 100%: multiplier or percent of font size
      • 12px: raw size in device independent pixels (supports fractional pixels)
      • 12pt: raw size in font points (1/72 of an inch; supports fractional points)
      • 1ch: multiplier of font advance width (supports fractional multiplier)
• Thanks to @ianjoneill, Terminal is now way better at handling environment variables.
  • New tabs/panes will now automatically reload the system environment (#14999) (#14839)
    • You can disable this feature with the global JSON setting compatibility.reloadEnvironmentVariables (bool,
      default true)
  • Profiles can now contain environment variables! (#15082)
    • Set JSON setting environment (map string -> string; default null)
      • As an example, "environment": { "COOL": "very", "HOW_COOL_IS_THIS": "it is %COOL% cool" }
• The "About" dialog will now inform you when an update is available (if you are using the "MSIX bundle" or
  "preinstallation kit" distributions; see below) (#13437)
• "Open Terminal Here" now supports Ctrl+Shift to launch an elevated session (#15137) (thanks @jamespack!)
• If you are using the FTCS "start of command", "start of output" and "end of output" marks (OSC 133), you can now use
  the selectCommand and selectOutput actions to select the command or output as demarcated by those sequences (#14807)
• You can now enable or disable read-only mode, rather than just toggling it, with the enableReadOnly and
  disableReadOnly actions (#14995) (thanks @Swinkid!)
• You can now immediately restart a connection via the restartConnection action (#15241)
• We have made some changes to the officially supported list of Terminal distributions!
  • The "unpackaged" distribution of Terminal is now officially supported on Windows 10 (10.0.19041.1 and higher) and
    Windows 11 (10.0.22000.1 and higher)! (#15034)
  • We now offer support for running in [portable mode], where settings are saved into a directory alongside the
    app (#15051)
  • If you have multiple unpackaged or portable installations of Terminal, they will now properly isolate from
    eachother (#15118)
  • LEARN MORE at our new documentation page for [Windows Terminal Distributions]!
  • In 1.18 and above: We've removed any runtime dependency on the "desktop" C++ Runtime Library (#14733) (#15010) (#15097)
    • If you are installing 1.17 or below, you still need to install a VC++ runtime. Even in portable mode. Sorry.
• We have added another way of detecting whether "Default Terminal" is available on your OS 👀 (#15040)
• $theme.tab.showCloseButton now supports activeOnly, to display the x only on the active tab (#15237) (thanks @kovdu!)

Changes

• file: URIs emitted by OSC 8 now support wsl$; URIs emitted by OSC 8 now support all valid schemas (#14993)
• The "Adjust Indistinguishable Text" feature now uses the Oklab color space (by Björn Ottosson) (#15283)
  • It no longer has a measurable performance impact, either, so feel free to turn it on!
• Terminal will now send individual key down and key up events to console applications (#15130) (thanks @j4james!)
• We've refactored how Unicode input works for the ReadConsoleInput APIs in the Console and Terminal (#14745)
• Any WSL distributions named rancher-desktop or rancher-desktop-data will now be ignored (#15166) (thanks @jamespack!)
  • Really sorry if you were using those for your day-to-day WSLing, but... what?

User Interface and Usability

• Terminal has updated to Microsoft.UI.Xaml 2.8 (#15078) (#15183) (#15280) (#15313) (#15217)
• We have added a Close Pane action to the tab context menu (#15198) (thanks @joadoumie!)
• Since we have so many Close-related actions in the tab context menu, they've moved into a Close... submenu (#15250)
• The Profile Appearance preview now displays a more relevant and interesting preview (#15363)
• We rewrote a bunch of the subtitles in the Settings UI for diction and flow (#15362) (#15361)
• Rejoice! We have reintroduced the original Windows Terminal UI themes under the names Dark (Legacy), Light (Legacy) and System (Legacy) (#15108)
• You will now be reprimanded harshly for choosing a proportional font (#15195) (thanks @jamespack!)
• Connection restarting with Enter (after hangup) or via the new action above is now safer and more reliable (#15240)

Performance

• We have refactored text output to achieve a roughly 4x speedup in the common case (#14821)
• The "Azure Cloud Shell" connection no longer depends on "cpprestsdk", the removal of which shrinks our package
  by about 3MB per architecture! (#14776)
  • Due to differences in credential storage, this will require you to go through the Device Code authentication flow
    again.
• Terminal no longer needs to shell out to reg.exe to manipulate the registry to work around a platform
  limitation (#15028) (#15050)

VT and Compatibility

• Thanks to @j4james, we now support a whole new heap of control sequences! Thank you!
  • ... horizontal margins via DECSLRM (requires `DECSLRM) (#15084)
  • ... LNM (Line Feed/New Line Mode) (#15261)
  • ... DECAC queries via DECRQSS (#14990)
  • ... DECRQCRA, to checksum a region of the screen (#14989)
  • ... presentation state reports, via DECRQPSR and DECRSPS (#14998)
  • ... a more detailed Device Attributes report DA (#14906)
  • (with additional thanks to @al20878 for hands-on validation against the original hardware ❤️)
• The VT engine will now filter out control characters that don't do anything (#15075) (thanks @j4james!)
• In addition, @michalnpl added support for querying the window size in cells via CSI 18 t! (#15295) (thanks @michalnpl!)
• Merge the LineFeed functionality into AdaptDispatch (#14874) (thanks @j4james!)

Bug Fixes

• centerOnLaunch no longer overrides the restoration of window positions (#15179)
• Indirect icon references (like foo.exe,-123) now work in the jump list (#15221) (thanks @jamespack!)
• The command palette should no longer flee in terror when you activate it from the dropdown menu (#15340)
• We believe we have staked the DesktopWindowXamlSource window that would sometimes appear through the heart like a
  vampire (#15165)
• start /min wt and friends should now work properly (#13838) (#15213)
• Starting Terminal with an elevate:true profile should no longer cause an admin elevation loop (oops) (#14946)
• "Open in Terminal" no longer shows up in ZIP files (???) (#15236) (thanks @jamespack!)
• The "Developer Command Prompt / PowerShe...

Windows Terminal v1.17.11391.0

Windows Terminal 1.17 is finally out of preview! It includes...

• The ability to customize the order and contents of the New Tab menu!
• scrollbarState always, for those of you who want to have a scrollbar constantly.
• Last-chance profile restarting with Enter after it exits! Excellent for those IoT devices you SSH into!

Please see the following release notes for additional details:

• Windows Terminal Preview v1.17.1023

Note The change from v1.17.1073 where we would munge our version number didn't live much longer than a single release. We finally rejoined the Windows 10 and Windows 11 packages!

Note that the new scrollbar mark feature is still not included in this Stable build (?)

Why are there so many packages? How do I choose?

Please visit our page documenting the Windows Terminal Distributions!

Features

• We have made some changes to the officially supported list of Terminal distributions!
  • The "unpackaged" distribution of Terminal is now officially supported on Windows 10 (10.0.19041.1 and higher) and
    Windows 11 (10.0.22000.1 and higher)! (#15034)
  • We now offer support for running in portable mode, where settings are saved into a directory alongside the
    app (#15051)
  • If you have multiple unpackaged or portable installations of Terminal, they will now properly isolate from
    eachother (#15118)
  • LEARN MORE at our new documentation page for Windows Terminal Distributions!
  • In 1.18 and above: We've removed any runtime dependency on the "desktop" C++ Runtime Library (#14733) (#15010) (#15097)
    • If you are installing 1.17 or below, you still need to install a VC++ runtime. Even in portable mode. Sorry.
• We have added another way of detecting whether "Default Terminal" is available on your OS 👀 (#15040)

Changes

• file: URIs emitted by OSC 8 now support wsl$; URIs emitted by OSC 8 now support all valid schemas (#14993)
• The "Adjust Indistinguishable Text" feature now uses the Oklab color space (by Björn Ottosson) (#15283)
  • It no longer has a measurable performance impact, either, so feel free to turn it on!
• Any WSL distributions named rancher-desktop or rancher-desktop-data will now be ignored (#15166) (thanks @jamespack!)
  • Really sorry if you were using those for your day-to-day WSLing, but... what?

User Interface and Usability

• The Profile Appearance preview now displays a more relevant and interesting preview (#15363)
• We rewrote a bunch of the subtitles in the Settings UI for diction and flow (#15362) (#15361)
• Rejoice! We have reintroduced the original Windows Terminal UI themes under the names Dark (Legacy), Light (Legacy) and System (Legacy) (#15108)
• You will now be reprimanded harshly for choosing a proportional font (#15195) (thanks @jamespack!)

Performance

• The "Azure Cloud Shell" connection no longer depends on "cpprestsdk", the removal of which shrinks our package
  by about 3MB per architecture! (#14776)
  • Due to differences in credential storage, this will require you to go through the Device Code authentication flow
    again.
• Terminal no longer needs to shell out to reg.exe to manipulate the registry to work around a platform limitation
  (#15028) (#15050)

Bug Fixes

• Starting Terminal with an elevate:true profile should no longer cause an admin elevation loop (oops) (#14946)
• "Open in Terminal" no longer shows up in ZIP files (???) (#15236) (thanks @jamespack!)
• The "Developer Command Prompt / PowerShell" profiles no longer override your starting directory (#15035)
• Copying HTML to your clipboard no longer results in reeeeeally tiny text on high-DPI displays (#15046)
• On very wide monitors, the Outlines shader sample no longer looks quite bad (#14971)

Accessibility

• The about dialog heading is now read out properly to a screen reader (#15200) (thanks @BenConstable9!)
• The "reset color" button in the tab color picker is now more visible to screen readers (#15257) (thanks @BenConstable9!)

UI and stuff like it

• @jamespack has added epxlanatory text to "Always Show Tabs" explaining why it can't be turned off sometimes (#15154) (thanks @jamespack!)
• Opening a profile from a submenu no longer yeets keyboard focus off into space (#15077) (thanks @kkostrzewa>!)
• When you're hovering over a URL, we now display it in a partially-encoded form to help you avoid homoglyph attacks (#15095)

Reliability and Performance

• Animations are disabled during startup so as to make Terminal start a bit faster (#15204)
• The system menu now opens when you press <kbd>Alt+Space</kbd> in the Settings UI (#15189) (thanks @jamespack!) with bugfixes (#15253)

VT and Compatibility

• We'll no longer crash when VTParameters::subspan is out of range (#15235) (thanks @j4james!)

Code Health, WPF and Windows Console

These changes impact the Terminal developer experience or the Windows Console Host. Changes to conhost will be released
in a coming Windows update.

• We have removed all traces of the UWP Terminal (which was an internal build for Windows 10X) (#15222)
• The WPF control now defaults to a history length of 9001 (#15129)

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Windows Terminal v1.16.1026 (1.16.10261.0 and 1.16.10262.0)

This release of Windows Terminal addresses a crash in self-elevation.

Huge thanks to @jboelter for fixing it in 1.17 (#14637).

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