Highlights (details see below)
- Background image and texture support.
- Enhanced multi-monitor DPI handling.
- Underline styles and colours, CMYK colour specifications.
- Outer scrollbar mode, xterm-compatible.
- Enhanced text selection mouse support.
- Enhanced quick window switching.
- Tweaked start error handling.
- Tweaked WSL support.
Character attributes and rendering
- Support for colon-separated SGR sub-parameters (ISO/IEC 8613-6) (xterm 282):
- SGR escapes for ISO/IEC 8613-6 RGB, CMY, CMYK, and indexed colour formats.
- DECRQSS uses SGR sub-parameters for colour specifications (xterm 331).
- SGR 4:1...4:5 for underline styles solid, double, wavy, dotted, dashed.
- SGR 58/59 for underline colour (kitty, iTerm2).
- Fixed (almost) selection highlighting of emojis.
- Drawing Unicode Block Elements which are broken in many fonts (#264).
- Fixed initial bold as font suppression glitch (mintty/wsltty#103).
Window control
- DECSET 30 to enable/disable outer scrollbar (like xterm) (#159, ~#262).
- DECSET 1046 enables/disables alternate screen switching (xterm 331).
- Cursor style modes DECSET 12 (AT&T 610) (xterm 331) and SM 33/34 (Wyse).
Scrollbar
- Fixed scrollbar toggle (Ctrl+Shift+O) from forcing scrollbar to the right.
- Preventing font zooming after scrollbar toggle (Ctrl+Shift+O).
Window layout
Multi-monitor support
Text selection
- Drag-and-drop selection after focus click enabled by combined cell and time distance (#717).
- Only suppress focus-click selection if focus reporting disabled or mouse reporting not effective (#717).
- Ctrl+mouse-move hovering underlines URLs and filenames (#173).
- Selection highlighting can also indicate selection size (#660).
Window handling
- Revised Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab window switching (#773).
- Ctrl+Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab for window switching including iconized windows (#735).
- Win+Shift move coupling of tab sets if SessionGeomSync ≥ 2 (#600, #699).
Configuration
- CMY(K) colour specifications in OSC sequences and config file.
- Option Background and OSC 11 to set background image or texture (#18, #666).
- Option SelectionShowSize to enable selection size indication (#660).
Themes management
- Fixed syntax error in
mintheme
tool (#764). - Option
mintheme -d -q
for decimal colour format (#718). - Supporting
mintheme
tool on WSL. - Options
mintheme -p
andmintheme -t
to set background picture or texture. - Options
mintheme -s
andmintheme -S
for theme visualization and comparison.
Other
- Updated Emoji data and built-in width data to Unicode 11.0.
- Enabled OSC 7 current directory injection for Ctrl+click in WSL (mintty/wsltty#104, mintty/wsltty#19).
- Reporting start error (exit status 255) (#745).
- Changed start error exit code from 255 to 126 (#745).
- Fixed slowdown of Character Info mode if Unicode data are not deployed.
- Option --WSLmode to tune behaviour for WSL distro but not launch (mintty/wsltty#99).
- WSLtty appx mode triggered statically or dynamically (mintty/wsltty.appx#3).
- Clarified additional configuration requirements for option TaskCommands in the manual.