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Michael Niksa has announced the release of Windows Terminal Preview 1.7.572.0.





Features

  • Terminal now supports single-instancing and remote control!
    • You can configure whether new instances of Terminal launch in a new window ( #9118)
      • For now, the default is to launch in a new window. Available options include launching in "a new window", "a window on the same desktop", "any existing window", "a totally random window"
        • I regret to inform you that the last option was a joke.
    • The newWindow action (bound to Ctrl+Shift+N by default) will create a new window ( #9208)
    • wt can now run commands in any window that already exists with wt -w # ( #8898)
      • You can specify wt -w -1 to force the creation of a new window even if you've disabled it with the Windowing Behaviors
      • Specifying a window that does not exist (wt -w 1048576) will result in a new window being created with that ID (!)
    • Windows that are activated through remote control will be pulled to the foreground ( #9137)
  • The Settings UI, first released in 1.6 preview, is now the default settings experience ( #9224)
    • The settings UI has been disabled in the stable release to give us more time to iterate on it.
  • Terminal now supports focus-follows-mouse mode among panes for that authentic X11 feeling (thanks @Don-Vito!) ( #8965) ( #9198)
  • You can now mark a pane as read-only—it can't be closed and will warn you if you type into it (thanks @Don-Vito!) ( #8867) ( #9107)
  • You can now bind the findNext and findPrev actions to move to the previous/next search (respectively) (thanks @Hegunumo!) ( #8917)
  • There is a new global setting, centerOnLaunch (boolean, default false) that determines pretty much what it says on the tin ( #9036)
  • We now have support for loading profiles and color schemes from auxiliary fragments provided by applications. See the  fragment extension documentation for more details! ( #7632)

Changes

  • This version of Terminal comes with  Cascadia Code 2102.25, which contains a number of bug fixes to the 2102.03 release.
  • You can now suppress that somewhat annoying "Touch Keyboard and Dialogs That Stop Me From Doing My Job" service warning with the inputServiceWarning global settings (boolean; default true) (thanks @WVVxm!) ( #9015)
  • The tab bell icon will now show up even when visual belling is disabled ( #9212)
  • The zoom, bell, read-only and progress indicators will now show up in the tab switcher (thanks @Don-Vito!) ( #9041) ( #9076)
  • A number of keys that did not properly report their Ctrl status now do so (thanks @lhecker!) ( #8870)
  • Leonard's fixed Ctrl+Alt+2 to properly send ^[^@ (thanks @lhecker!) ( #5272)
  • We've refactored how terminal settings propagate from your profile to a terminal, so please report any issues where your settings are lost/ignored/flicker/etc. ( #8602)
  • URLs under the file scheme are no longer considered invalid ( #7526)

Settings UI

  • Overridden settings will now present a "revert" arrow that lets you clear the overriding value ( #8919) ( #9079)
  • You can now typeahead search in combo boxes ( #9206)
  • The color schemes page has received a huge redesign (thanks @Chips1234@mdtauk@carlos-zamora!) ( #9196)
  • We've added a simple read-only page to the Settings that shows your key bindings ( #9253)

VT Support

  • Terminal now supports "bracketed paste" mode (DECSET 2004) and will filter out all control characters even during non-bracketed ("plebian") paste (thanks @skyline75489!) ( #9034)
  • We now support XTPUSHSGR and XTPOPSGR, sequences which will manipulate a 10-deep "SGR stack" (thanks @jazzdelightsme!) ( #1978)
    • XTPUSH/POPSGR are intended to allow applications to better coordinate their colors. Instead of resetting to the default colors at the end of a run, an
      enlightened application can push a "stack frame" before it changes the colors, change them, then pop that frame when it is done.
    • This sequence first became available in  xterm-334.
  • You can now "chain" OSC 10, 11 and 12 color changes (thanks @skyline75489!) ( #8999)

Bug Fixes

  • You can now navigate the tab color picker with the directional arrows (thanks @BenConstable9!) ( #9144)
  • We will try not to dismiss the selection when you're using a Windows-key shortcut (thanks @imaginary-person!) ( #9163)
  • We've ensured that hyperlinks de-underline when the pointer leaves the terminal (thanks @Don-Vito!) ( #9195)
  • The arrow keys should work in the tab switcher once more (thanks @Don-Vito!) ( #9140)
  • The build system was leaving a stray 600kb file in our package, which we've now removed (making the package smaller!) ( #9153)
  • Focus should now return to the terminal after you dismiss the tab rename field (thanks @Don-Vito!) ( #9162)

Accessibility

  • Narrator will no longer repeat the key binding twice when reading the command palette ( #9234)
  • Command palette items that open submenus now have an audible "help text" that mentions this fact ( #9271)
  • 1.6 preview totally broke the command palette being read by Narrator; that is now fixed! ( #9143)
  • 1.6 preview regressed tab headers being read by Narrator; this is also now fixed! ( #9258)

Performance and Reliability

  • We've further reduced the memory usage of the console host backing each terminal tab ( #8621)
Winterminal

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