23 May 16:59

DHowett

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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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27 Jan 20:15

DHowett

v1.16.10261.0

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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).

Asset Hashes

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24 Jan 18:15

DHowett

v1.17.1023

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Windows Terminal Preview v1.17.1023 Pre-release

Pre-release

Happy New Year! Unwrap the first Preview build of Terminal in 2023, and find inside . . .
a bunch of cool stuff! Our community really proverbially killed it last year, so we're proud to get their work (and ours, of course) out to the world.

Note From this version forward, we are dropping some of the more clutter-y parts of our version number in our git tag and about dialog.
For deployment purposes, however, the packages will retain all four version components. The package versions for this release are 1.17.10234.0 and 1.17.10235.0.

Features

You can now customize the order and contents of the New Tab menu (#13763) (thanks @FWest98!) (#14629)
- Right now, you can only do this with JSON; check out the docs for newTabMenu
- The first time you save your settings in 1.17, we'll convert your existing menu to the new format. This is
  lossless.
- This feature includes support for adding folders, separators, and profiles that meet certain criteria in addition
  to the standard/built-in default menu layout.
You can now set the scroll bar to be "always" displayed (thanks @sotteson1!) (#14047)
- JSON field $profile.scrollbarState has learned the new enum value always.
After a process terminates, you can press Ctrl+D to close its pane or Enter to relaunch it (#14060)
Terminal now supports the remaining FinalTerm mark types (command input start, command executed and command finished) (#14341)

Themes

Terminal now supports using Mica as a background material on Windows 11 (#13935) (#14675) (#14567) (#14540) (#14644) (#14708)
- Note As a reminder, theme settings are only available via JSON.
- To use Mica, set up a new theme with the following settings:
  - {"window": {"useMica": true}, "tabRow": {"background": "#00000000"}}
You can now configure a color scheme (per profile) to apply in System Light theme and System Dark theme (#14064) (thanks @bennettnicholas!)
- Set $profile.colorScheme to an object containing the keys light and dark, ala { "light": "Scheme One", "dark": "Scheme Two" }.
- When first implemented, this may have crashed; it no longer does so! (#14653) (thanks @jboelter!)
Likewise, you can do the same thing for the application theme (#14497)

Changes

Fundamentals

The backing buffer now stores surrogate pairs inline, and measures columns differently (#13626) with bug fixes from @j4james (thanks!) (#14650)
- Please report any unusual behavior regarding Unicode characters, including selection, copy, paste and display.
The contents of the Terminal package are now code-signed, so those of you who deploy it unzipped will no longer
get in trouble with your IT folks (#14710)

UI

We have changed how we display our version numbers, opting to hide "bookkeeping" information such as the final
digit of the version number. Those numbers will still be noted in the package release notes and are still germane to
deployment scenarios. (#14660)
You can now configure all of the launch position parameters in the Startup section of the Settings UI (#14569) (#14518) (#14186) (#14190) (#13605) plus community bug fixes (#14522) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
We've revamped the color schemes page for ease of understanding and sheer coolness (#14470) (#14706) (#14631) (#14550) (#14704)
When configuring a profile's color scheme, you will now see a tiny preview of that color scheme before you
select it (#14587) (#14572)

Usability

wt now supports the --pos and --size commandline arguments to control the position and size of the new
window (#13730) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
When you duplicate a tab, the new will open next to the current tab (#14521) (thanks @vamsiikrishnaak!)
You can now use exe and dll resources for icon paths, as in C:\Windows\system32\shell32.dll,41 (#14107)
- However, it looks like we have an off-by-one error (that should be 42 above, but whoops. We'll fix that.)
The context menu now has tooltips (#14058)

VT and Output

@j4james did approximately a hundred things, so I'm going to summarize them in brief here:

... added support for DEC macro operations (#14402)
... added support for DECARM (Auto Repeat Mode) (#13981)
... added support for IRM (Insert Replace Mode), which will be of particular interest to @vixie (sorry for the
delay, Paul!) (#14700)
... added support for private options in DSR queries (#14290)
... added support for selective erase operations (DECSED) (#14046)
... added support for the DECRQM escape sequence (#14444)
... added support for the rectangular area operations (DEC*RA) (#14285)
... merged the legacy and extended attributes (#14036)
... rewrote how we handled text embedded in a stream of VT, which closed like 8 bugs (seriously) (#14640)
... added support for line rendition attributes (DECDHL) over ConPTY (#13933)
... added support for soft fonts over (DECDLD) ConPTY as well (#13965)

Bug Fixes

The Export and Find context menu items work on unfocused tabs (#14673) (#14379) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
We've retooled how we launch Terminal elevated when you use an elevate: true profile (or
Ctrl+Shift-click a profile in the dropdown menu.) (#14637) (thanks @jboelter!)
The about dialog (and other dialogs) will finally block the entire window even if you resize it (#14722)
We now attempt to account for transparent tab backgrounds when calculating the text foreground color (#14643)
You can now drag/drop more than 16 items directly out of 7-Zip (and some other applications) (#14648) (thanks @jiejasonliu!)
Malformed settings objects will no longer cause an "Application error 0x%" settings warning (#14668)
Note that "Use Acrylic in Tab Row" no longer requires a relaunch (#14478)
Terminal now more reliably handles text selections in very scrolly environments (#14636)
Split pane borders no longer display in the wrong theme color (#14486)
We've updated the JSON schema to contain theme objects (#14672) (#14666)
In separate titlebar mode, Terminal will now default to a dark title bar when you are using a dark theme (#14536)