Windows Terminal Preview

Like 1.21, there's a small servicing release for Preview! This one is less small, but only slightly. If I spend more words on how small it is, though, the changelog will be longer than the diffs for the release.

Changes

• The built-in Box Drawing glyphs now look better on 100%-scale displays, and we've improved the ones with rounded corners (#18179)
• We've adjusted the drag-and-drop path translator to detect WSL's new distribution profiles (#18205)
• Terminal will now no longer generate WSL profiles when it can detect that WSL is going to do it (#18183)

Accessibility

• You can now access "move tab l

Very small releases this week.

Changes

• Enterprises can now disable dynamic profiles (such as WSL and Azure Cloud Shell) by listing their names in a new Disabled Profile Sources GPO policy¹ (#18009) (thanks @htcfreek for helping us ship our first policy!)

Bug Fixes

• Terminal will try a lot harder to avoid fighting with console applications about who exactly is minimized (#17829)
• icon none should once again work (#18030)
• You can now select fonts again (sorry!) (#17989)

Binary files inside the unpa

Bug fixes! Bug fixes for everyone! BEES! BEEEEEEEES!

Changes

• wt x-save was accidentally turned off in the Preview build, and has been turned on (#17881)
• The Command Prompt "quick fix" feature was accidentally turned off in the Preview build, and has been turned on (#17888)
• RIS (ESC c) will now return the color scheme to your preferred default if the application has modified it (#17879) (thanks @j4james!)
• Alt+Keypad Plus is no longer eaten unless EnableHexNumpad is enabled in the registry (#17954)
• The tab switcher wil

This is, perhaps, the largest release of Windows Terminal to date. I can't believe we're here, but we finally have support for Sixels and a new console hosting infrastructure (stay tuned for a NuGet package!) and more. Read up, and read down, to find out more.

Features

• Terminal and conhost now support Sixels! 🎤🫳 (#17421) (thanks @j4james!) (#17724) (thanks @j4james!) (#17581) (#17636)
• We have rewritten how hosted console applications are translated for Windows Terminal (and other ConPTY consumers) to be based on direct API->VT translation rather than "rendering" a point-in-time snapshot of the display.

Like its smaller and more stable cousin, this Preview channel servicing update fixes a handful of issues, including that annoying hyperlink bug. This update is currently rolling out via the store to everyone.

Changes

• The "built-in box-drawing glyphs" feature (as well as undercurls) now works with Direct2D as well (#17278) (#17454) (#17458) (#17464)

Bug Fixes

• New windows should more reliably come to the front when Terminal is already running (#17368) (thanks @flyingcat!)
• Autodetected URLs will no longer erroneously include the character after them (#17326

Sorry for the late servicing release, folks! This has been rolling out through the various channels for a while now.

Bug Fixes

• We've resolved a crash that occurred if you closed a pane too soon after opening it (#17199)
• We will no longer crash if you zoom in too much; we will in fact put a stop to such behavior (or I will turn this car around!) (#17258)
• Terminal will no longer try to remember tabs even after you tell it not to (#17211)
• Terminal will now remember tabs that came in through "default terminal" (#17268)
• Output containing OSC sequences is once again outputted (#17212)
• Assi

Windows Terminal 1.21 turned out to have WAY more in it than we had expected--we were busy doing things like sudo for Windows and File Explorer's 7zip, RAR and tar support... and still we ended up landing a bunch of Terminal work too!
Enjoy!

Features

• Terminal will now remember and restore the contents of the screen when you use the "Open windows from a previous session" startup option! (#16598) (#17022) (#16970) (#16998) (#17182) (#16601) (#17113)
  • Buffer snapshots are stored in human-readable (albeit UTF-16) VT-encoded text in your package's local state directory, next to your settings. Th

1.20 is about to go stable, but before we do that there's some bug fixes we just had to get into your hands.

Changes

• Terminal now comes with Cascadia Code 2404.23, which has a couple hundred new glyphs! (#17137)
• Search result highlighting has been removed from 1.20. It had a few issues, and the fixes came in too late in the 1.21 for us to backport them (#17103)
• You can now use %WT_SETTINGS_DIR% in settings.json to refer to paths relative to your settings folder; this is
  great for portable mode! (#16949)
• We've moved to the latest Azure Cloud Shell API version to prevent it from breaking on you (

Windows Terminal Preview 1.20 needed some servicing too, so I figured... why not?

Bug Fixes and Changes

• We've rolled back to an older compiler to get Terminal working on Intel Core 2 Duo machines again (!) (#16907)
• ReadConsoleOutputCharacterW no longer fails on lines containing narrow surrogate pairs (#16898)
• Auto-detected URLs and search results are no longer pushed around by wide characters (oops) (#16787) (thanks @comzyh and @lhecker!)
• We will now display control characters literally if they were produced with the Windows Console APIs (#16825) (thanks @j4james

Terminal 1.20 is great, but it did have a couple bugs. Thanks for reporting them!

Changes

• Dashed, dotted and curly underlines have been changed to be slightly more readable (and pretty!) (#16719)

Bug Fixes

• In CMD, pressing Tab in the middle of a line will finally clear the remainder of the line from the screen (#16718)
• DECKPAM is no longer supported for this build, as it was causing zsh users a lot of trouble (#16675)
• We have removed one source of graphical issues on x86, which was caused by a compiler bug (#16742)

Let us pretend that this is the actual release 1.20 should have been.

Bug Fixes

• wt $COMMAND no longer blows away the entire process environment, and it now works properly (#16624)

Binary files inside the unpackaged distribution archive bear the version number 1.20.240130003-preview.

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