Features
ALPHA FEATURE Windows Terminal Preview can now be set as the default console host on Windows Insider Dev builds (#9907) (#10170)
There are some known issues with this support; please see this query for the list of known bugs.
One such known bug is that you will need to resize the window before an application that spawned in Terminal becomes aware of its size. #9811
Another is that WSL doesn't work. At all. Sorry! #10134
If you still want to opt in, head over to the "Startup" section of the settings, or the "Terminal" section of the legacy console property sheet.
If you really need to run the traditional Windows Console, you can start it with conhost cmd or conhost powershell. smile
FINALLY: This feature will only work if you've installed Terminal via the MSIX. Unpackaged installations, such as the one offered by Scoop, are not supported.
Terminal now supports pinning an instance to the top of the screen that you can summon at any time (colloquially referred to as "Quake Mode") (#9785) (#9956) (#9977) (#10108) (#10113) (#10150)
It is bound by default to Win+` (#10122)
You can rebind this shortcut with the quakeMode action.
This behavior will be granted to any window whose name is _quake. You can use wt -w _quake to target the quake window with commands.
You can add a custom binding to summon any Terminal window with the globalSummon action! (#9854) (#9954) (#10092) (#10025) (#9963)
See the documentation on globalSummon for more details. This is a very flexible command!
This version of Terminal comes with Cascadia Code 2105.24, which has an italic variant.
We're so excited to finally show this off!
Due to an issue, only the italic variant will display as version 2105.24.
Terminal now supports mouse input for Windows console applications! (#9970) (#10138)
To the Far Manager folks (@alabuzhev et al): thank you for being a good model application.
You can now edit key bindings for existing actions on the Actions page (#9949) and actually save them, too! (#9926) (#9621)
The Appearance page will now show you a (tiny) preview of the Terminal (#9527)
We've added a new treatment for visual (#9270)
We have added a new "Add a new profile" page to the Settings UI, where you can choose to duplicate an existing profile (#9352)
We've added support for a focusPane action (focus by index) an the focus-pane/fp subcommand (#10142)
When you use the "Set color scheme..." action in the command palette, we will now show you a live preview of the new color scheme (#9794)
Changes
We have added support for the Windows (Super) key in key bindings (keyword win) (#9783)
There is now an experimental setting to disable URL detection (#10022)
At global scope, set experimental.detectURLs to false, or visit the Interaction page in the settings.
When you rename a window, we will now acknowledge that we actually did it (#9808)
Terminal will now show a more scrutable error message when your starting directory cannot be found (#10045)
Whitespace trimming in block selection can now be configured (#9807) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
Use the trimBlockSelection global property (boolean, default false) or visit the Interaction page in the settings.
Performance
Terminal is now built with profile-guided optimization for a bunch of common use cases (#10071)
VT Support
Terminal now has support for tab stops (which you will not notice, as it already had support for tab stops sorta) (#9597) (thanks @skyline75489!)
Refactoring and Internal Improvements
We have split TermControl into a Core, Interactivity, and Control layer (#9820) (#9980)
This will set us up very nicely for some of our vaguely menacing future plans.
Conhost now has a mechanism for passing through DCS data strings (#9307) (thanks @j4james!)
We've replaced our attribute run storage with a new RLE vector that performs slightly better and is far, far more reusable (#10099)
Bug Fixes
There was an issue that would result in blank profiles or profiles containing just one setting; it is now fixed (#9964)
The only known cause of this issue was editing the settings of a profile the first time you ever launch Terminal
If you have profiles named Default in your dropdown, this is probably why.
We will now attempt to heal settings files broken by this bug (#10143)
If you did have a profile that you actually liked that didn't have a name or a GUID or any settings, it will now be broken.
(Why? That's just a Command Prompt profile with no useful identifying information in it...)
We've fixed a bunch of instances of the terminal losing focus (#10048) (#10114)
We will no longer close a tab on middle-click down (because up is much more reasonable) (#9842) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
The "close tabs to the right" and "close other" options have finally returned, thanks to some quick out-of-the-box thinking (#9859) (thanks @mpela81!)
Nested commands will no longer interfere with deleting the > command palette mode character (#10164) (thanks @kovdu!)
The "new tab" dropdown will no longer go up when it used to go down; we no longer live in topsy turvy-land (#10009) (thanks @mpela81!)
Terminal will no longer create a new profile with the name "Profile 13" if you're weird enough to add a new profile called "Profile 13" yourself (as an example) (#9816) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
The window rename action will no longer also pop keys into the terminal (#9809) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
You can now navigate better using your key bindings in the Settings UI (focus mode, fullscreen, etc.) (#10121)
Terminal will no longer let an application emit more than one bell per second (#9812) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
In other news, a 1-second delay we accidentally introduced before a bell has been resolved (#10133)
The command palette will now respect your locale when you do a case-insensitive search (#9943) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
The "discard" button will try harder to keep you looking at the profile you're on (#10147) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
Terminal will try to keep the last selected pivot active when you move between profile pages (#10047) (thanks @kovdu!)
We fixed a bug that resulted in certain CJK punctuation characters being deleted (66b9b9d)
Duplicating a tab will now attempt to copy its title, when that title was provided by you, the user (#9813) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
The "Use parent process working directory" and starting directory settings have learned to stop fighting back (#9862)
The various long tooltips in the application will now be wrapped more ~ ~ AESTHETICALLY ~ ~ (#9913) (thanks
@don-Vito!)
VT Support
We fixed some places where we deviated with the informal OSC 9;4 specification (#10024)
The text buffer will be initialized with the default attributes on a resize (#5792)
This should mostly fix the issue where when you resize it floods with one color. Mostly.
Reliability
We should no longer crash on exit nearly as often -- either exiting a shell or the application (#10115) (#10042) (#10031)
Typing --tabColor into the command palette now has a 100% reduced chance of crashing (#10096)
Pressing Save in the Settings window twice will no longer launch Terminal into the great beyond (#10148)
We fixed a rare crash, which mostly impacted conhost, when there were multiple client applications sending API requests at the same time (c0ab9cb)
Performance
Some of our debug logging was being enabled by accident, so we've restricted its activation further (#10098)
This bug caused a significant reduction in rendering throughput!
WPF Control
The WPF control can now have a background that varies from the terminal background (#10026)