Character handling and rendering
- CJK brackets are expanded if needed to ensure their symmetry (#756).
- Support of emoji style text attribute SGR 51/52 (mintty/wsltty#82, #600).
- Fixed emoji display variation selector handling.
- Character Info displays emoji sequence short names (mintty/wsltty#82, #600).
- Reverted Sixel colour registers patch that could fail Sixel display or even stall mintty window (#740, mintty/wsltty#90).
Input
- Reenabled Ctrl+key escape sequences (#743).
- Input optionally keeps selection highlighting (ClearSelectionOnInput=false) (#222).
Mouse handling
- Reenabled drag-and-drop text selection on focussing at a threshhold (~#717).
Configuration
- Alt+F2 and mintty --dir=... stay in selected dir even in login mode (#500, #744).
- Fixed option --dir=...
- Context menu configuration (MenuMenu etc): new flags 'x' and 'u' (#755).
- More layout-tolerant colour value syntax (#758).
- Invocation as wsl*[-distro].exe implies a --WSL[=distro] parameter (mintty/wsltty#63).
- Added missing option
mintheme --list
. - New mintheme options --file (#762) and --query.
- New option ClearSelectionOnInput=false disables selection highlight clearing on input (#222).
Window handling
- Clear selection when clipboard content updated (#742).
- Skip refresh after colour setting if nothing changed (e.g. by prompt).
Desktop integration
- WSL mount point configuration (/etc/wsl.conf or fstab) is considered in path conversion for open/paste (mintty/wsltty#91).
- Workaround for ConEmu WM_MOUSEACTIVATE bug (#724).
Documentation