Windows Terminal v1.17.11391.0

[DHowett]

Windows Terminal 1.17 is finally out of preview! It includes...

• The ability to customize the order and contents of the New Tab menu!
• scrollbarState always, for those of you who want to have a scrollbar constantly.
• Last-chance profile restarting with Enter after it exits! Excellent for those IoT devices you SSH into!

Please see the following release notes for additional details:

• Windows Terminal Preview v1.17.1023

Note The change from v1.17.1073 where we would munge our version number didn't live much longer than a single release. We finally rejoined the Windows 10 and Windows 11 packages!

Note that the new scrollbar mark feature is still not included in this Stable build (?)

Why are there so many packages? How do I choose?

Please visit our page documenting the Windows Terminal Distributions!

Features

• We have made some changes to the officially supported list of Terminal distributions!
  • The "unpackaged" distribution of Terminal is now officially supported on Windows 10 (10.0.19041.1 and higher) and
    Windows 11 (10.0.22000.1 and higher)! (Add support for an unpackaged distribution of Terminal #15034)
  • We now offer support for running in portable mode, where settings are saved into a directory alongside the
    app (Add "portable mode", where settings load from the install path #15051)
  • If you have multiple unpackaged or portable installations of Terminal, they will now properly isolate from
    eachother (When unpackaged, isolate the monarch by the install path #15118)
  • LEARN MORE at our new documentation page for Windows Terminal Distributions!
  • In 1.18 and above: We've removed any runtime dependency on the "desktop" C++ Runtime Library (Generalize OpenConsoleProxy's HybridCRT logic #14733) (Enable the Hybrid CRT for all C++ projects #15010) (Remove our dependency on any CRT--AppX or forwarders #15097)
    • If you are installing 1.17 or below, you still need to install a VC++ runtime. Even in portable mode. Sorry.
• We have added another way of detecting whether "Default Terminal" is available on your OS 👀 (Add a second way of detecting whether DefTerm is available #15040)

Changes

• file: URIs emitted by OSC 8 now support wsl$; URIs emitted by OSC 8 now support all valid schemas (Allow wsl$ in file URIs; generally allow all URI schemes #14993)
• The "Adjust Indistinguishable Text" feature now uses the Oklab color space (by Björn Ottosson) (Use Oklab for text and cursor contrast adjustments #15283)
  • It no longer has a measurable performance impact, either, so feel free to turn it on!
• Any WSL distributions named rancher-desktop or rancher-desktop-data will now be ignored (Skip generating a profile for rancher-desktop #15166) (thanks @jamespack!)
  • Really sorry if you were using those for your day-to-day WSLing, but... what?

User Interface and Usability

• The Profile Appearance preview now displays a more relevant and interesting preview (Add a fun new preview text in the SUI, enable the cursor #15363)
• We rewrote a bunch of the subtitles in the Settings UI for diction and flow (Reword or remove a bunch of subheadings in the SUI #15362) (Reword the AdjustIndistinguishableColors subhead and perf. note #15361)
• Rejoice! We have reintroduced the original Windows Terminal UI themes under the names Dark (Legacy), Light (Legacy) and System (Legacy) (Add "legacy" themes #15108)
• You will now be reprimanded harshly for choosing a proportional font (Add a warning when a proportional font is selected #15195) (thanks @jamespack!)

Performance

• The "Azure Cloud Shell" connection no longer depends on "cpprestsdk", the removal of which shrinks our package
  by about 3MB per architecture! (AzureConnection: remove our dependency on cpprestsdk #14776)
  • Due to differences in credential storage, this will require you to go through the Device Code authentication flow
    again.
• Terminal no longer needs to shell out to reg.exe to manipulate the registry to work around a platform limitation
  (Remove useRegExe and add rescap:unvirtualizedResources #15028) (Add flexible virtualization rules for HKCU\Console\Startup #15050)

Bug Fixes

• Starting Terminal with an elevate:true profile should no longer cause an admin elevation loop (oops) (Clearly differentiate running elevated vs. drag/drop breaking #14946)
• "Open in Terminal" no longer shows up in ZIP files (???) (Disable the context menu command inside a zipped folder #15236) (thanks @jamespack!)
• The "Developer Command Prompt / PowerShell" profiles no longer override your starting directory (VsDevCmdGenerator: respect the user's startingDirectory #15035)
• Copying HTML to your clipboard no longer results in reeeeeally tiny text on high-DPI displays (Fix font size of HTML clipboard contents #15046)
• On very wide monitors, the Outlines shader sample no longer looks quite bad (Fix offset calculation in the outlines shader #14971)

Accessibility

• The about dialog heading is now read out properly to a screen reader (Add automation heading level 1 to fix about dialog #15200) (thanks @BenConstable9!)
• The "reset color" button in the tab color picker is now more visible to screen readers (Make reset button accessible #15257) (thanks @BenConstable9!)

UI and stuff like it

• @jamespack has added epxlanatory text to "Always Show Tabs" explaining why it can't be turned off sometimes (Add subtext to why Always show tabs is not toggleable in SUI. #15154) (thanks @jamespack!)
• Opening a profile from a submenu no longer yeets keyboard focus off into space (Fix focus issue when profile selected from nested menu entry #15077) (thanks @kkostrzewa>!)
• When you're hovering over a URL, we now display it in a partially-encoded form to help you avoid homoglyph attacks (Format URLs for display when we show the tooltip #15095)

Reliability and Performance

• Animations are disabled during startup so as to make Terminal start a bit faster (Avoid animations during startup #15204)
• The system menu now opens when you press <kbd>Alt+Space</kbd> in the Settings UI (Default to XamlRoot when unable to find focused object #15189) (thanks @jamespack!) with bugfixes (Fix an infinite loop when pressing alt #15253)

VT and Compatibility

• We'll no longer crash when VTParameters::subspan is out of range (Prevent crash when VTParameters::subspan is out of range #15235) (thanks @j4james!)

Code Health, WPF and Windows Console

These changes impact the Terminal developer experience or the Windows Console Host. Changes to conhost will be released
in a coming Windows update.

• We have removed all traces of the UWP Terminal (which was an internal build for Windows 10X) (Remove IsUwp, RunAsUwp, defaults-universal and all fallout #15222)
• The WPF control now defaults to a history length of 9001 (wpf: Bump the history length to 9001 instead of 1000 #15129)

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This discussion was created from the release Windows Terminal v1.17.11391.0.

[ghost]

Portable mode is so useful. Thank you.

[DHowett]

Thanks for letting us know! I'm really glad it's helped someone :)