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Included in this servicing update and/or holiday gift: fixes for a number of annoying bugs!
Note
This update began rolling out to the Release Preview channel (and all higher channels) on 2025-12-17.
If all goes well, it will be released to GA shortly after.
Bug Fixes
- When Terminal encounters a GPU or driver issue, it will attempt to fall back to software rendering before giving up and asking you to intervene (#19636)
- DECRQCRA was erroneously disabled for everyone even if you turned it on; no longer! (#19606)
- Terminal can once again target the correct virtual desktop when creating a new window (#19458)
- The schema for settings.json has been updated to include answerbackMessage, ...forceVT, rendering.graphicsAPI=automatic and to deprecate some removed settings (#19387) (thanks @ralish!)
- Themes specifying an unfocusedBackground will no longer override the tab's active color (#19424)
- We will no longer hide your mouse cursor when you press a modifier (Ctrl, Alt, Shift...) alone over a Terminal window (#19473) (thanks @angesie!)
- We've fixed some issues in the French, Korean, Chinese (Traditional) and Japanese localizations of Terminal (#19616) (#19532) (#19451) (thanks @hms5232, @monax-owo, and @loic-joly-sonarsource!)
- We've once again restored the localizations in the Copy, Cut and Paste menu (#19461)
- wpf: using the WPF control in an application with other IME integration will no longer cause a crash (#19584)
- conhost will no longer crash when run in windowed mode as SYSTEM (#19635) (thanks @SEt-t!)
Source and downloads:
Release Windows Terminal v1.23.13503.0 · microsoft/terminal
Included in this servicing update and/or holiday gift: fixes for a number of annoying bugs! NoteThis update began rolling out to the Release Preview channel (and all higher channels) on 2025-12-17....
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