This release brings a whole bunch of the preview changes in Windows Terminal 1.14 to the Stable channel. Notably:
- Terminal now has better support for xterm's "Alternate Screen Buffer"
- Console application windowing will now work more consistently within Terminal: when an application requests that it be hidden or minimized,
we will minimize the associated terminal window. - Terminal can now pass xterm focus events on to connected client applications
- We've added a new experimental setting,
experimental.useBackgroundImageForWindow, that lets you use one image as the background for any number of panes (thanks @nico-abram!) - You can now change the bell sound with the
profile.bellSoundsetting
Note that the new text rendering engine is not included in this Stable build.
IMPORTANT
This version was made available to the Dev External flighting ring (Windows Insiders) first, and will be
released to general availability one or two weeks later depending on its reliability.
Please see the following release notes for additional details:
As a reminder, Terminal 1.12 was the last version of Windows Terminal that supports Windows 19H1 or 19H2. A preinstallation kit is available for system integrators and OEMs interested in prepackaging Windows Terminal with a Windows image. More information is available in the DISM documentation on preinstallation. Users who do not intend to preinstall Windows Terminal should continue using the msixbundle distribution.
If you intend on using Terminal as an unpackaged application--that is, extracting the In addition, if you install the packaged version on either Windows 10 or Windows 11, it now depends on the Visual C++ Universal Runtime Package.
Despite these distributions having different version numbers, they are built from the same code and there is no If you install the Windows 10 verison on Windows 11, it will probably automatically upgrade itself to the Windows 11
That version of windows is going out of support soon, so you may want to consider upgrading.
Preinstallation Kit info
Why are there so many packages? How do I choose?
This version of Windows Terminal is distributed in two bundles, one of which works on Windows 10-11 and the other of
which only works on Windows 11. The Windows 11 version is much smaller because we no longer need to work around a
platform issue related to our dependencies.
msix file--we recommend that
you use the Win10 bundle. You will need the Visual C++ runtime redistributable.
functional difference between them.
version. It turns out that it is impossible to have two bundles with the same version number, so it has to be this
way.
Also included in this release are some bug fixes and changes backported from 1.15:
Bug Fixes and Changes
- Keyboard selection now works better with
copyOnSelect(#13360) - Keyboard selection is now limited to the scrollable area (#13353) (#13372)
- "Open settings file" commands now explicitly mention "JSON" for easier searching (#13265)
- An accelerator key is now defined for the "Open in Terminal" shell extension (#13080) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
- We no longer crash when using the Default Terminal setting in the settings UI (#13160)
- The Default Terminal banner is now hidden if you opened a session via default terminal (#13344)
[Ois no longer output erroneously from focus events for clients of libuv like neovim (#13260)- We no longer crash when a screen reader is reading from a CLI app using the alt buffer (#13250)
- Deleting the last profile in the settings UI no longer causes a crash (#13242)
- Opening Windows Terminal via the Win+X menu no longer occasionally crashes (#13212)
- The "Open in Terminal" shell extension is now hidden when accessing a non-filesystem path like "Quick Actions" (#13206) (thanks @leejy12!)
- Clearing the screen via
clsorClear-Hostwon't leave behind an erroneous line of text (#13324) (thanks @j4james!) - Default Terminal sessions now properly pass focus events when opened (#13247)
- Terminal will now use Unicode 14.0 to determine the width of some Unicode characters (#13292)
- We will no longer try to launch
wslto ask it to tell us about distributions when it's obvious that you don't have any (#13436) - We've fixed a minor race condition in default terminal handoff that impacted nobody (#13410)
- The tab's context menu now has "Find" as an option (#13055) (thanks @Predelnik!)
SetConsoleWindowInfocan no longer crash a terminal tab (#13212)- An occasional crash while opening the settings UI has been stomped out (#13160)