Windows 10: New Windows Terminal Release Candidate v0.11.1251.0 for Windows 10

Brink · May 6, 2020

Changes

This is the first release of Terminal whose name doesn't have "(Preview)" in it!

That doesn't necessarily mean we're done, but it does mean that this is the first release candidate.

Rendering (Performance!)

Terminal no longer renders the entire screen when something changes (#5345) (#5185) (#5092)

This saves 30-40% of the time it took to print out your huge synthetic test files from #1064 and it makes cmatrix run even faster.

RTL text should now be slightly more reliable (possibly readable! not necessarily "working" to any great degree) (thanks @schorrm!) (#5734)

Accessibility

Narrator and NVDA should once again be able to read out search results (#5478)

Input & Interaction

We've reworked how we handle titlebar dragging to not require us to cut a giant hole in the window (thanks @greg904!) (#5485)

Miscellaneous

Terminal now ships with the CRT embedded, so it can be deployed in places where the Store doesn't exist (#5661)

The terminal now has a minimum width (#5599)

If that width is too big for you, I'd love to learn why you want our beautiful child to be so tiny.

You can now click "Third-Party Notices" in our About dialog to see which OSS we're using (#5508)

cls (cmd) and Clear-Host (powershell) will now properly clear Terminal's scrollback (#5627)

This required some ingenuity. These two applications "clear" by printing a bunch of spaces down on top of the screen or "scrolling" the buffer to an absurd location.

The pseudoconsole host now detects these requests, only when they come from CMD or PowerShell, and translates them into the intended modern format of clear.

New tab/min/max/close buttons now have tooltips (thanks @Chips1234!) (#5484)

Bug Fixes

We fixed the bug where terminal wouldn't always scroll down to the bottom (and pretend it hadn't seen any lines below it) (#5630)

Pasting HTML-formatted buffer contents into Outlook Web/Gmail no longer includes a stray "WINDOWS TERMINAL !!!" (#5595)

When you request cleartype antialiasing over translucency, your text will now remain visible (#5277)

This comes at a performance cost. cleartype AA costs more when we have to compose it.

For those of you who like to use Ctrl+Alt as AltGr, that works again (thanks @lhecker!) (#5552)

The emoji picker should be better-aligned with your text (#5609)

VT & Translation

Lines that begin with blocks of color no longer sometimes have their colors stripped (#5550)

Performance

We now spend even less time constructing attribute runs and text render clusters (thanks @skyline75489!) (#5584) (#5644) (#5645)

Reliability

Terminal would, for some people, always crash on exit. An exit is an exit, but a crash is also a crash, and that made our reliability numbers stink. That's fixed. (#5629)

The backing console should no longer crash when you resize it when CMD is running (#5620)

A selection crash has been fixed (#5551)

Some accessibility scenarios involving the alternate buffer no longer cause crashes (#5399)

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Source: https://github.com/microsoft/termina...g/v0.11.1251.0

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Ahhzz · May 6, 2020

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

Open a new Explorer window.

Click View in the ribbon.

Click Options.

Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”

Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

Brink · May 6, 2020

Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 for Windows 10 scheduled for Feb. 11

Terminal v0.9 is scheduled for 2/11

This is the last release that will have new features before the v1 release

Subsequent releases are strictly for bug fixes and polishing

Features include:

Command line arguments

new-tab, split-pane, focus-tab

Examples:

wt -d . (opens a new Terminal in the current working directory)

wt -p "profile name" (opens a new Terminal with the given profile)

wt; new-tab -p "profile name"; split-pane -V -p "profile name" (demonstrated below)

Accessibility improvements

Community News

One Dev Minute Videos

Kayla has recorded some One Dev Minute videos about the Terminal

Three have been released so far:

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...20741409837056

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...26568349196288

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...51369883832324

Terminal v0.9 Work

Terminal Roadmap
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Source: Windows Terminal Status Updates . Issue #3600 . microsoft/terminal . GitHub

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Brink · May 6, 2020

New Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 release for Windows 10

Welcome to the v0.10 release of the Windows Terminal! As always, you can install the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or download the package from the GitHub releases page. Let’s dive into what’s new!

Mouse Input

The Terminal now supports mouse input in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) applications as well as Windows applications that use virtual terminal (VT) input. This means applications such as tmux and Midnight Commander will recognize when you click on items in the Terminal window! If an application is in mouse mode, you can hold down shift to make a selection instead of sending VT input.

Settings Update

Duplicate Pane

You can now open a new pane with a duplicate profile of the pane that is in focus. This can be done by adding "splitMode": "duplicate" to the "splitPane" command list in your key bindings. This key binding will duplicate the profile, but you can add other options such as "commandline", "index", "startingDirectory", and "tabTitle". If you’d like to read more about these key binding options, you can check out this blog post.

{"keys": ["ctrl+shift+d"], "command": {"action": "splitPane", "split": "auto", "splitMode": "duplicate"}}

Bug Fixes

The text behavior when it reflows on resizing of the window is significantly improved!
The borders when using dark theme aren’t white anymore!
If you have the taskbar auto-hidden and your Terminal is maximized, the taskbar now appears when you mouse over the bottom of the screen.
Azure Cloud Shell can now run PowerShell, accept mouse input, and follow the desired shell of your choice.
Touchpad and touchscreen scrolling now moves at a normal pace.

Top Contributors

Our community has done a fantastic job of staying involved and we’d like to recognize those who went above and beyond for this release!

Contributors Who Opened the Most Non-Duplicate Issues
greg904
keithn
grubba

Contributors Who Created the Most Merged Pull Requests
german-one
KevinAIreland
greg904
rpunt
adyprajwal

Contributors Who Provided the Most Comments on Pull Requests
greg904
jsoref
german-one

Roadmap

We’d like to give you an update on our roadmap so you know what to expect in the coming months! Currently, we are fixing bugs to prepare for the release of v1. Windows Terminal v1 will be released in May. After that, we’re planning to have the next update release in June in order to continue with our monthly ship cycle. Our releases will continue to be on both the Microsoft Store and GitHub!

Come Say Hello!

As always, if you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out to Kayla (@cinnamon_msft) on Twitter. If you have any feature requests or find any bugs, please file them on our GitHub repository. We hope you like this release of the Windows Terminal preview and we’ll chat with you soon!

Kayla Cinnamon,
Program Manager, Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, & Cascadia Code
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Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/comma...v0-10-release/

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Windows 10: New Windows Terminal Release Candidate v0.11.1251.0 for Windows 10

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