Windows Terminal Preview v1.21.1272.0

[DHowett]

Windows Terminal 1.21 turned out to have WAY more in it than we had expected--we were busy doing things like sudo for Windows and File Explorer's 7zip, RAR and tar support... and still we ended up landing a bunch of Terminal work too!
Enjoy!

Features

• Terminal will now remember and restore the contents of the screen when you use the "Open windows from a previous session" startup option! (Implement buffer restore #16598) (Buffer Restore: Fix serializing >32KiB #17022) (Buffer Restore: Fix turning off intense/faint #16970) (Don't explode on session restore #16998) (Fix remaining buffer serialization bugs #17182) (General improvements in preparation for #16598 #16601) (Add a system message to session restore #17113)
  • Buffer snapshots are stored in human-readable (albeit UTF-16) VT-encoded text in your package's local state directory, next to your settings. This directory is typically secured to your user account, but if you are using the portable distribution be aware of the implications.
• You can now specify multiple active fonts; glyphs which are not found in your first font will be sought in all later fonts (Add support for customizing font fallback #16821) (Fix bugs introduced in #16821 (custom font fallback) #16993)
  • {profile}.font.face now supports comma-separated face names, e.g. Courier New, Cascadia Code PL, Bahnschrift
  • Metrics will be based on your primary font.
  • Unfortunately, the preview window doesn't usually use any non-existent glyphs so you won't really be able to preview it...
• Terminal now renders pixel-perfect block elements, box-drawing characters and PowerLine symbols, as well as high-fidelity textured shade glyphs (Add support for custom box drawing and powerline glyphs #16729) (Make shaded block glyphs look even betterer #16760)
  • We know this can be a controversial feature, so you can turn it off by disabling "Built-in Glyphs" in the Settings (or in JSON: {profile}.font.builtinGlyphs, boolean, default true)
• You can now customize the OpenType Features and Axes of your font stack in the Settings UI (Allow editing font axes in the Settings UI #16104) (Allow editing font features in the Settings UI #16678) (Fix being unable to delete a changed Font Axis or Font Feature #16790) (Fix font axes/features settings UI #17164) (Fix font axis/feature SUI issues #17173)
• Rounding out the above font changes, you can also turn off full-color emoji (setting {profile}.font.colorGlyphs, boolean, default true) for when you really want to eat a wireframe burrito (Add support for turning off full-color Emoji #16871)
• We've completely rewritten prompt marks--they now reflow on resize, clear properly, and more!--in preparation for calling them Stable (Rewrite how marks are stored & add reflow #16937) (Make marks a stable feature #16938) (Fix the location that selecting a mark uses #17138) (Fix clearing marks #17144)
• You amazing pixel shader authors can now load up an image as a texture with the experimental.pixelShaderImagePath setting (Added experimental.pixelShaderImagePath #14073) (thanks @mrange!)
  • It will be accessible in register t1, type Texture2D. See the BackgroundImage shader for a small sample.
• You can now run terminal panes side-by-side with non-terminal things... (Get rid of UpdateTerminalSettings #17009) (Prevent multiple settings tabs from being persisted #17169) (Refactor Pane to be able to host non-terminal content #16170) (Refactor the SettingsTab to be a pane #16172) (Don't always focus pane content on Tapped, if the pane is already focused #17174) (Don't explode when duplicating a pane #17110) (Add support for restoring non-terminal panes, and opening them with splitPane, newTab #16914)
  • ...like our experimental (and ephemeral!) "scratchpad", which shows up as a free-form text box next to your terminal.
    • Add the action {"action":"splitPane","type":"scratchpad"} to try it out.
    • ⚠️ We may remove or meaningfully change the scratchpad in a future version.
• We have rewritten the Input Method Editor (IME) integration from the ground up (A minor TSF refactoring #17067)
• JSON Fragment Extensions can now add custom actions (Add support for actions in fragments #16185)
• You can now access the features from the experimental. namespace in the Settings UI (Add a pile of 'experimental' settings to the profile SUI #16809)
• The original text rendering engine (versions 0.1 to 1.20) has moved on to the next life, and will not be returning. RIP. 🪦 (Remove DxEngine #16278)

Changes

• Behavior Change! The Pane keybindings Alt+Shift++ and Alt+Shift+- will now duplicate your active profile (Change default pane keybindings to duplicate, rather than use default profile #16951)
• @tusharsnx totally rewrote how search highlighting works to make it more robust and responsive (Improve Search Highlighting #16611) (thanks @tusharsnx!) plus additional fixes from the team (Fix search constantly triggering a scroll #17132) (Fix search highlights during reflow #17092)
• Terminal will now delete its in-box color schemes from your local settings file, unless you've modified them (Deduplicate identical inbox color schemes to heal user settings #12800)
  • You can no longer edit the color schemes that come with Terminal without copying them
• We've finally added new color schemes: Dark+, CGA and IBM (Add Dark+, CGA and IBM color schemes #16953)
• We have started laying the groundwork for action binding--also known as "exploding your settings file with actions"--so please be on the lookout for any strangeness! There shouldn't be any user-visible impact. Yet. Yeeetttt. (Add OriginTag to Command #16823) (Add IDs to Commands #16904) (No longer serialize generated IDs #17145) (Add action ID to schema #17146)
• Moving the cursor around was surprisingly expensive, so we paid to make that cost go away (Reduce cost of cursor invalidation #15500)
• You can now control the behavior of the Atlas engine in finer detail on the "Rendering" settings page (AtlasEngine: Make Direct2D/3D and Present1 configurable #16939)
• Profiles now default to the icons of their .exe files, if those can be determined. If you want your profile to have no icon, you must set the icon to "none" (or check the "Hide icon" box in Settings) (When the profile icon is set to null, fall back to the icon of the commandline #15843)

UI

• The Search box now animates in and out, looking very chic (Add SearchBox entry/exit animations #16808) (thanks @tusharsnx!)
• Instances of "it'll" have been replaced with "it will" to adhere to Microsoft Style Guidelines (Replace 'it'll' with 'it will' to adhere to Microsoft Style Guidelines #16955) (thanks @hellocharli!)
• We've restyled the Warning and Error displays around the font settings so that they're more readable (Add SettingContainer Warning/Error styles to replace InfoBar #16876)

VT Compatibility

• You can now set the window (tab, pane) title with DECSWT (Set Window Title) in addition to XTerm's OSC 2 (Add support for the DECSWT (Set Window Title) escape sequence #16804) (thanks @j4james!)
• We now support DECAUPSS, DECRQUPSS and ACS, which completes the 8-bit interface architecture (Complete the 8-bit interface architecture #16547) (thanks @j4james!)

Bug Fixes

• Double-clicking a word on the left side of the screen will no longer select parts of your RPROMPT (or right prompt) (Take wrapping into account when expanding wordwise selections #17170)
• Double-clicking a word in a double-width or double-height row now actually selects the right word (Fix selection expansion for Double-Width and Double-Height rows #16812) (thanks @tusharsnx!)
• Our light color schemes no longer have a truly unusable selection highlight color (Fix the bad default light theme selection background color #16789) (thanks @uoRetr0!)
• Once again, we've fixed an issue where hyperlinks are detected in the wrong place if there's a wide character (Fix the hyperlink detection when there are leading wide glyph in the row #16775) (thanks @comzyh!)
• You can no longer use the Settings UI to enter an initial size that is out of bounds (Add clamping of initial rows and columns settings #16989) (thanks @chingucoding!)
• The experimental repositionCursorWithMouse actually works after you've scrolled the screen (lol) (Fix repositionCursorWithMouse after the viewport starts scrolling #16950)
• doskey macros once again (and I mean, "since 2015"?) work on inputs with more than one consecutive space character (Fix doskey macros for inputs with >1 consecutive whitespace #17129)
• We've fixed a number of issues that may have resulted in cursors being left on the screen (Fix multiple cursor invalidation issues #17181)
• URLs that touch the right side of the screen or get resized are once again clickable (Make UTextFromTextBuffer newline aware #17120)

Reliability

• Tearing off a tab should no longer, in some circumstances, explode your Terminal (Fix wrong CommandPallete access #17069) (thanks @tusharsnx!)
• The Atlas engine has gotten somewhat better at reporting errors (AtlasEngine: Fix several error handling bugs #17193)
• The Atlas engine will no longer occasionally crash when rendering characters in the Unicode Private Use Area (AtlasEngine: Fix a OOB read when rendering PUA chars #16894)

Performance

• The console hosting backend no longer spuriously repaints single characters (Prevent the VT engine painting unnecessarily #17194) (thanks @j4james!)

VT Compatibility

• DCS sequences that span packets will no longer get sliced in half and--in so being--destroyed (Make sure DCS strings are flushed to conpty without delay #17195) (thanks @j4james!)

Packaging Changes

• Terminal distributions now come with an additional library, Microsoft.Terminal.UI.dll. Its .winmd is not required. (Introduce Microsoft.Terminal.UI and consolidate UI helpers #15107)

Code Health

We're trying something new, where we don't delete all of the code health improvements and just put them right in the changelog.

Code Health improvements included in this release

• Remove in-product uses of std::bind ([clang-tidy] Remove in-product uses of std::bind #16870)
• A minor cleanup of ProfileViewModel (A minor cleanup of ProfileViewModel #16788)
• Add a script to publish a folder of binaries as a GH release (Add a script to publish a folder of binaries as a GH release #13629)
• Add an automated conhost benchmark tool (Add an automated conhost benchmark tool #16453)
• Add an experimental "scratchpad pane", for testing (Add an experimental "scratchpad pane", for testing #16171)
• Add more profile GUID tests (Add more profile GUID tests #17030) (thanks @chingucoding!)
• Add new and extend existing til::string helpers (Add new and extend existing til::string helpers #16772)
• Add VSCode configs for better out-of-box LSP support (Add VSCode configs for better out-of-box LSP support #16920) (thanks @tusharsnx!)
• build: force the latest VCToolsVersion; see DD-1541167 for more (build: force the latest VCToolsVersion; see DD-1541167 for more #17156)
• Implement MVVM for the Actions page (Implement MVVM for the Actions page #14292)
• Make ColorFromXOrgAppColorName both smaller and more correct (Make ColorFromXOrgAppColorName both smaller and more correct #16824)
• Make the Settings Model tests into proper CI tests (Make the Settings Model tests into proper CI tests #16773)
• Remove dependency on IsGlyphFullWidth for IRM/DECSWL (Remove dependency on IsGlyphFullWidth for IRM/DECSWL #16903)
• Remove VtApiRoutines (Remove VtApiRoutines #16954)
• Replace til::bit_cast with std::bit_cast (Replace til::bit_cast with std::bit_cast #16948)
• Replace til::some with til::small_vector (Replace til::some with til::small_vector #16952)
• Replace usages of TYPED_EVENT with til::event (Replace usages of TYPED_EVENT with til::event #16837)
• Use .rc files in TSM instead of string literals (Use .rc files in TSM instead of string literals #16844)
• Use float instead of double by default (Use float instead of double by default #17100)
• AtlasEngine: Improve debuggability (AtlasEngine: Improve debuggability #17136)

With additional thanks to @Jvr2022 for keeping our dependencies up to date.

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This discussion was created from the release Windows Terminal Preview v1.21.1272.0.

[methbkts]

So much new stuff can't wait

[Curious-r]

Excited! Built-in Glyphs!

[fiddyschmitt]

Thanks!

What is File Explorer's 7zip?

[zadjii-msft]

We added native 7zip, rar, etc support to File Explorer this year. This article is a little dated - we've done a bunch of stuff to improve the compression work since then

You can now try Windows Copilot and native RAR and 7-Zip support in Windows 11 - The Verge

Image: Microsoft
If you’re a fan of RAR or 7-Zip files, then Microsoft is finally adding native support. The additional archive formats include tar, 7-zip, RAR, gz, and many others using the libarchive open-source project. Microsoft does warn there should be some initial performance issues with this new support as it works to improve it in future Windows Insider builds.

Microsoft said at Build that this improved archive format support will ship to everyone in September. “We also plan to provide support for creating those files in those formats in 2024,” said Sharla Soennichsen, a product manager at Microsoft, in a Build session.

[fiddyschmitt]

So good! Thanks Mike

[lost22git]

It also introduced some bugs😅