Windows Terminal Preview 1.13.10336.0 released to Windows 10 and Windows 11


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Happy New Year! It's Terminal time once again! This is our first release of 2022, and it's a big one.

Announcements​

  • Windows Terminal Preview is now named Terminal Preview! It will, of course, still be called wt under the hood. (#12264)
    • Right now, you will not be able to find Windows Terminal _ (that is, with the "Windows" part) in the start menu. We are working with the search team to add a keyword match! Follow #12344 for updates._
    • Sorry about your muscle memory. :(
  • 1.12 is the last version of Terminal that will support Windows 19H1 or 19H2 (#12129)
    • Folks who are on the Preview channel on these versions of Windows will get a one-time upgrade to the last servicing release of 1.12.
    • This version of windows is going out of support soon, so you may want to consider upgrading.
    • You only need to install 1.12.10335.0 if you are on Windows 19H1 or 19H2; it is included here for completeness.

Features​

  • Terminal now follows the Windows 11 UI guidelines (#12241) (#12144) (#12208) (#12287) (#12326) (#11720) (#12321)
    • This will make it look a little out of place on Windows 10; we're sorry
  • We're testing out a new experimental text rendering engine, "AtlasEngine" (#11623) (#12304) (#12225) (#12189) (#12307) (#12278) (#12242) (#12227) (#12226)
    • You can enable it with the experimental.useAtlasEngine profile field or the "Use experimental text rendering
      engine" in Profile -> Advanced
    • We're tracking bugs, parity with the existing renderer, and future advancements in #9999.
  • You can now configure a profile to always launch elevated (in a separate window)! (#12137) (#12257)
    • This is controlled by the profile setting elevate (bool, default false).
    • Read more in our docs.
  • Terminal learned to restore the last closed pane or tab! (#11471) (thanks @Rosefield!)
    • NOTE: This action, accessible through the command palette, will launch a new tab that has the same settings
      as the previous tab. It cannot bring protagonists processes back from the dead!
  • You can now change the bell sound with profile.bellSound setting! (#11511)
    • bellSound takes a path to an audio file to play as the audible bell or an array of paths.
    • If you provide an array of paths, Terminal will choose one at random every single time it bells.
    • If you're a fan of Untitled Goose Game, this is an excellent opportunity to get your HONK on!
  • Dropping a file on a WSL instance will now insert the WSL converted path (!) (#11625) (thanks @petrsnm!)
  • You now have the option to strip trailing whitespace on paste (trimPaste global setting, bool, default true) (#11473) (thanks @lovef!)

Changes​

  • We're reworking how Terminal handles environment variables, starting with reverting the changes we made in
    Preview that broke PowerShell x86 (#12140)
  • The "adjust lightness of indistinguishable text" feature, present in 1.12 preview, has been disabled pending
    some bug fixes (#12160)
  • The "Open in Terminal" context menu is now localized in, like, 88 languages (#12090)
  • There is a new adjustOpacity action, which can be previewed live with the command palette (#12092)
  • Terminal will now store elevated window state separately from non-elevated window state (#11222)
  • You can now export the buffer with an action, exportBuffer (#12097)
  • There is now a "Settings" menu item in the title bar menu (#11404) (thanks @serd2011!)
  • You can now Ctrl-click on a profile in the dropdown to launch it as Administrator (in a separate window) (#12209)
  • Terminal (and conhost) will no longer accept C1 control codes by default (#11690) (thanks @j4james!)
  • The PowerShell profile generator now generates fully quoted paths (#12086) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
  • WSL instances now default to starting in ~ (or throwing an Invalid Parameter error) (#12315)
  • We've reworked how settings get into the individual terminal panes to prepare for tearoff and merge (#11619) (#12255) (#12095)

Bug Fixes​

  • The cursor should now start/stop blinking more reliably when Terminal is started without window focus (#12094)
  • Copying the "Azure Cloud Shell" profile will no longer result in a normal boring profile that tries to run Azure.exe (lol) (#12147)
  • The default "Command Prompt" and "Windows PowerShell" profiles have been updated to have fully qualified paths (again) (#12149)
  • Cursor movement will now more reliably update the IME/emoji picker/input line/cursor highlight for Accessibility (#12210)
  • HTML/RTF copy now respects the active background color instead of just the default one (#11991) (thanks @j4james!)
  • Session save/restore will now remember tab titles and maximize/focus/restore state (#12073) (thanks @Rosefield!)
  • The "Duplicate Profile" button will no longer be enabled when you don't actually have a profile selected (#12096) (thanks @davidegiacometti!)
  • //wsl$ paths will no longer result in you being unceremoniously dumped in / (in WSL) (#12102)
  • ~ now works as a starting directory for wsl.exe (#12050) (thanks @LuanVSO!)
  • Application-controlled titles will be sanitized for control sequences even if they are set with the SetConsoleTitle API (#12211) (thanks @j4james!)

Accessibility​

  • The command palette will now announce if any suggestions were found to screen readers (#12266)
  • ... so will the search box! (#12301)
  • The tab row/titlebar have stopped acting as a keyboard input/focus trap -- you can use keyboard shortcuts up there now (#12260)
  • We've done a pass over the controls in the settings UI and given them accessible names for screen reader users (#12299) (#12324)
  • The "Default Terminal" section will now properly read out terminal names to Narrator (#12259)
  • "Open JSON File" is now a better accessibility citizen as well (#12286)

Performance and Reliability​

  • We've fixed a (small) binary size regression in OpenConsole, which was more than eclipsed by all the new features above (#11727)
  • Improved:
    • base64 decode performance (#11467)
    • conhost CPU usage during text selection (#11634)
    • performance and binary size of til::enumset (#11493)
    • responsiveness of conhost/ConPTY for large inputs (#11890)
  • Removed wasteful virtuals according to SizeBench (#11889)
  • Typing an invalid background image path into the Settings UI will no longer send Terminal to a farm upstate (#11542) (thanks @serd2011!)
  • "Export Text" is more worky and less crashy (#12180) (thanks @ianjoneill!)


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Sadly, this breaks the two links in the Win+X Menu for Terminal... (which is mentioned, but I figured I'd let others know if they don't read the entire thing)
 

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