Windows Terminal Preview has received a new version with several significant changes, bug fixes in Accessibility, “Default Terminal”, “Quake” Mode, Reliability and features. This roll-out comes with many of the preview changes in Windows Terminal v1.10 to the stable channel.
See the changes in the following part of this post.
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Windows Terminal Preview v1.10.2383.0 features, fixes, and changes
Here is the changelog –
- You can now select a different display language in the “Appearance” settings.
- Terminal will now present an icon in the system notification area when “Quake” mode is enabled.
- Kindly have a look at the following release notes for more information: Windows Terminal Preview v1.10.1933.0
- The original equipment manufacturers and system integrators who are willing to pre-packaging Windows Terminal with a Windows image are given a preinstallation kit.
- ou can see the details here – DISM documentation on preinstallation. If you don’t have an intention to pre-install Windows Terminal you should keep using the msixbundle distribution.
- The developers have also backported the underneath features, changes, and bug fixes from Windows Terminal Preview 1.11.2421.0:
Features
- You can now delete autogenerated profiles, that just about says it all, sorry for taking so long on this one! (#11007) (#10910).
- Bold or “intense” text can now be displayed as bright colors, a bold font, or both (#10759).
- We released 1.10 with the new default set to both bold and bright, but have reset it to just bright until we work out some text rendering issues (#10958).
- Set intenseTextStyle (flag enum, default bright, options bold, bright, all) in any profile.
Changes
- Windows Terminal Preview v1.10.2383.0 ships with Cascadia Code 2108.26, which contains fixes for some ligature issues, Hebrew glyph positioning, and more.
- In the settings UI, we’ve changed multiple tooltips to replace “checked” (as in, a checkbox) to “enabled” because they are toggle switches now (#10885).
Performance
- The console (and terminal) will no longer hold on to large memory allocations after large I/O requests (#10738).
- Windows Terminal Preview v1.10.2383.0 now loads WSL distributions in a different way, and will not hang on startup waiting for them (#10967).
Windows Terminal Preview v1.10.2383.0 Bug Fixes
Accessibility
- An issue where opening a tab with Narrator running resulted in no output has been fixed (#10971).
- Moving your screen reader cursor by line, character and document is now more reliable (#10991).
- …and should no longer cause an occasional deadlock. (#10937).
“Default Terminal”
- Command-line applications launched through “Default Terminal” now follow the windowing behavior setting (#10823).
- Applications launched into terminal no longer erroneously believe the screen to be 9001 lines tall (#10772).
- We fixed an issue resulting in Ctrl+C never reaching handoff applications (#10751).
“Quake” Mode
- The “quake” window’s borders will no longer appear on adjacent monitors (#10676).
- Dismissing the “quake” window and summoning it on another display will now properly update its size (#10674).
- Snapping the “quake” window to another display will also properly update its size (#10744).
Reliability
- Saving your settings will no longer destroy them if settings.json is a symbolic link (#10908) (thanks @Don-Vito!)
- When you attempt to use Alt+Arrow Keys with no panes, we will now send those keys to the connected client (#10806) (thanks @FWest98!)
- A crash during startup/command line execution regarding moving focus to a new pane has been quashed (#11040) (thanks @Rosefield!)
Terminal Emulation
- You can no longer erroneously interact with mouse-mode applications at bad coordinates when they are scrolled away (#10642)
- Selected text will no longer move off of its selected line as more text is output… (#10749)
… until it no longer fits on screen, at which point it absolutely will. - The alternate buffer now inherits its cursor state from the main buffer (#10843) (#10878) (thanks @j4james!)
- We’ve put a sock in a very loud exception handler (#10901)
- We will no longer try to resize the display if the size hasn’t changed, and no longer clear your selection (#10895) (thanks @Don-Vito!)
- C1 control characters in SetConsoleTitle will no longer cause Terminal to lose sanity (#10847) (thanks @j4james!)
- The terminal will no longer scroll vertically if you have a horizontal wheel (#10979)
- RIS no longer even has a chance of failing (thanks to @amie42 for spotting this after the PR merged!) (#10661)
User Interface
- No longer will dropdown menus and combo boxes fly wildly off the screen if you scroll or drag the window! Rejoice! (#10922)
- Restoring from fullscreen no longer accidentally counts the window border as part of the new size (#10737)
- The window border is likewise ignored when calculating the initial position of the window (#10902)
- We have removed a double scrollbar from the settings UI, which was a fix for another issue, which has now been fixed properly (#10716) (thanks @mimvdb!)
- We’ve fixed some focus tracking bugs that occur during complicated command line handling (#10978)
- There is no longer an annoying issue where some people on non-100%-scaling displays would not be able to use the tab bar when maximized (#10746)
- The settings UI animations are now slightly less obnoxious (#10934) (thanks @Don-Vito!).
Download Windows Terminal v1.10.2383.0 –
Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.10.2383.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle
Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.10.2383.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle_Windows10_PreinstallKit.zip
Source – Github.
That’s all!!