New Windows Terminal Preview 1.24.2372.0 for Windows 10 and Windows 11 - Aug. 26

Like a famously-hibernating animal coming out of a long sleep, Terminal Preview is back to eat a bunch of berries visit your machine with all of its new peculiarities.
We took a whole quarter off to focus on 1.23's stability, so this release might seem lighter than usual. That's only because we backported hundreds of changes to the now-stable 1.23!

We've changed how icons work, and now we let fragment authors include pixel shaders and stuff. It's a pretty cool release, so buckle up:

Features​

• Command Palette will now be displayed (and searchable!) in both your native language and English (assuming your native UI language is not already English) (#19166) (#19130) (#19165) (#19148) (#19131)
  • ... it now also uses the fuzzy searching algorithm popularized by fzf (which feels way more intuitive!) (#18700) (thanks @e82eric!)
• Icons, background images, and pixel shader paths can now refer to files relative to your settings file, whether you are a user or a fragment author. Learn more about distributing media resources with a fragment extension! (#19143) (#19223)
• Settings has a new Extensions page, where you can see (and disable!) the sources for all your profiles, color schemes and extra actions (#18559) (#18997)
• Terminal will now try to automatically detect hosts you may SSH to often (using your ssh_config) and generate a folder of quick-access SSH profiles (#18814) (#19239)
• The matchProfiles new tab menu entry now supports regular expressions (so you can match .*\.WSL, for example!) (#18654) (#18914)
• The right-click context menu now affords you quick access to splitting, moving, zooming and closing panes! (#18126) (thanks @dm17ryk!)
• We now support DEC private mode 2026, Synchronized Output! This gives screen-buffered applications a chance to complete rendering a frame before we display it on the screen (#18826) (#18833)
• We've added another core color scheme, Dimidium, based on the CAM16 color model (#18563) (thanks @dofuuz!)
• You can now disable the Ctrl and Ctrl+Shift mouse wheel shortcuts to change the font size (zoom) and opacity of the terminal (#19127) (#19151) (thanks @paulinek13!)

Changes​

• Bracketed pastes (via DEC private mode 2004) will no longer have trailing newlines removed; in addition, we have expanded the "multi-line paste warning" setting to allow you to enable it in more cases (#19067)
• Hovering over color scheme entries (and other previewable things) in the command palette will now also preview them (#18518) (thanks @eleadufresne!)
• If your system is using "high contrast" mode, Terminal will now automatically turn on perceptual color nudging (unless you have disabled it completely) (#17346)
• We've tightened up the settings UI and about dialog to make them more consistent and--dare we say?--more polished (#19001) (#19164) (#18993) (thanks @niels9001!)
• When you have session restoration enabled, we will now routinely save window layouts (not contents) to make sure Terminal comes back looking roughly the same in case of a crash (#18898)
• When you have snippet loading enabled, Terminal will now read .wt.json files from parent directories to the one you are in (as determined by OSC 9;9) (#18904)
• You can now configure an additional path translation mode, MinGW (mingw in JSON), which will map paths like C:\foo to C:/foo (#18759) (thanks @abutcher-gh!)
• The defaults profile will no longer remember values for the unsupported keys name, guid, source or commandline (#19225)
• We have added quick access and highly destructive "delete all my settings" and "delete all my cached info" buttons to the Settings UI (#18907)

Bug Fixes​

• Sixels: color handling during scrolling should now behave more faithfully to the VT330 and VT340, filling with the active background color rather than the original one (in background select modes 0 and 2) (#18260) (thanks @j4james!)
• Tab icons, close on exit state and the bell settings will once again be reloaded when the settings file changes (#19217)
• Terminal will no longer occasionally miss hard line breaks in full-screen applications such as tmux (#18899)
• We accidentally left some duplicate data in the default settings file; it is no longer duplicated (#18527) (thanks @joca-bt!)
• We will no longer try to render bidirection text isolates LRI, RLI, FSI and PDI (#18942) (thanks @adalinesimonian!)
• WSL profiles containing local overrides for the PATH environment variable will no longer destroy the PATH inside WSL (#19211)
• Terminal will now actually spawn all processes in windows and tabs created consecutively from the same wt invocation (#19220)
• The "Default Terminal" selector will no longer be misaligned in some cases (#19072) (thanks @HO-COOH!)
• Turning "Use active terminal title as application title" (JSON showTerminalTitleInTitlebar) on and off will no longer result in your window titles becoming stuck (#19212)
• Terminal's launch size now takes into account any custom cell width and height you may have specified (#18862) (thanks @j4james!)

Performance and Reliability​

• Buffers with a lot of scroll bar marks should be handled faster (#19242)
• Dragging invalid paths onto Terminal (actually, ones with incorrectly-constructed DataObjects) will no longer send your session into outer space (#19026) (thanks @jamespack!)
• Terminal will now attempt to delegate foreground priority to processes in the active tab (on some versions of Windows 11) (#19192)
• The experimental "reposition cursor on click" will no longer cause "snap on input" to, well, snap, as though input has been put in (#19182) (thanks @MengAiDev!)
• We have resolved a crash in context menu handling across multiple windows (#18854)
• Updating the title millions of times per second will no longer deadlock the UI (also, we improved our implementation of function debouncing across the board) (#19210)

Windows Console and WPF Control changes (pending release)​

• conhost: selection and color search will no longer come up one character short (#19259)
• conhost: we will now cnap on input and output more reliably in WSL and PowerShell (#19247) (#17453)
• conhost: when Win32 Input Mode is enabled, we will request that it be disabled as part of PTY teardown (#19229)
• conhost: the console now supports OSC 52 (Manipulate Selection Data) to write to the clipboard (#18949) (thanks @j4james!)
• wpf: the WPF control no longer builds for .NET 6 and .NET Framework 4.8, opting instead for 8 and 4.7.2 (#19199)

With thanks for build fixes, code hygiene improvements, spell checking and more to @Maddimax, @mdanish-kh, @HO-COOH, @jsoref, @jamespack, @mohiuddin-khan-shiam, @jamespack, @chawyehsu, and @zwJimRaynor.

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