Microsoft releases Windows Terminal Preview 1.10

Features

• ALPHA FEATURE We had to update the interface in Windows that allows Terminal to act as the default console host.
  Due to the change, 1.10+ is required with Windows 22000.65 and above.
  • We can now hand off WSL sessions, and Ctrl+C now works in handoff sessions (#10415)
• We've reintroduced the UI that allows you to edit default settings that apply to all profiles, as well as arrow
  buttons that let you revert individual settings (#10588)
• You can now select a different default display language for Terminal in the Appearance settings (#10309)
  • JSON field preferredLanguage
• On the Actions page, you can now edit existing actions and add new ones (#10550) (#10220)
• Terminal will now present a tray icon when the "Quake mode" window is in use (#10179)
• The closeTab action has to close tabs by index via the index field (#10447) (thanks @ianjoneill)
• Screen reader users can now navigate the contents of the screen by attribute (color, font, underline...) (#10336)
• Terminal will now render SGR 1 ("intensity") in glorious chonky bold (#10498) (#9201) (#10521) (thanks @skyline75489)

Changes

• Terminal windows launched via "Open Here" will open new tabs in the same directory (#10546) (thanks @ianjoneill)
• The "quake mode" action is now named "Summon Quake window" instead of "Global summon something something window _quake" (#10641)
• JSON settings: font options are now specified in a single "font": {} group in each Profile (#10433)
  • Your settings will automatically migrate to the new format when you press Save.
• We've promoted the Command Palette to the main dropdown menu to improve its discoverability (#10297) (thanks @KnapSac)
• The terminal tab color picker's UI is now much more refined, thanks to @gabrielconl (#10219)
• The opacity slider will now display a % sign like it should have to begin with (#10369) (thanks @chingucoding)

Bug Fixes

• An accessibility issue that resulted in misshapen selection regions has been fixed (#10544)
• Terminal will no longer minimize itself when targeted by a commandline application (#10389)
  • ... or when you target it with -w (#10396)
• We will no longer destroy commands using iterateOn when you press Save (#10373)
• Nested commands now dismiss more reliably when using the command palette (#10392) (thanks @kovdu)
• We will not attempt to not un-toggle the command palette if you choose to toggle it while it is open (#10423) (thanks @kovdu)
• When we encounter a malformed fragment document, we will no longer fail to read any future fragment documents (#10601)
• The action editor should now be more usable in Light theme (#10412)
• "Open Windows Terminal Here" will now appear in your language (#10446)
• Terminal will no longer exit unceremoniously when your startingDirectory cannot be found (#10263)
  • We made a change to how starting directories are processed that may expose issues in your configuration. This change was made to improve launch performance and reliability.
• A window that receives an incoming console application will now spring to the foreground (#10217)

Performance

• During heavy output load, we will spend a lot less time ...
  • formatting VT strings (#10426) (thanks @skyline75489!)
  • creating temporary string_views (#10471) (thanks @skyline75489!)
  • notifying an accessibility channel that has been disconnected (#10537) (#10569)
  • emitting debugging information (#10533)

Reliability

• Terminal should crash less often when you are closing a tab (#10549)
• We've fixed a crash in reloading the settings with the Settings page open (#10390)
• An application setting the Terminal background should probably not crash it, huh? (#10357)
• If our packaged fonts cannot be found, we will now be more robust and less likely to faceplant on launch (#10260)
• The "default terminal" feature no longer causes crashes on OS versions where it is unavailable (#10238)
• If we can't accept handoff ("default terminal") connections when we start, we'll no longer crash on launch (#10261)
• The settings UI will no longer overflow its frame on launch/reload (#10619) (thanks @mimvdb)
• Terminal will try to do a better job recovering the profile you were looking at when the settings reload (#10618) (thanks @mimvdb)
• The "default terminal" dropdown has been fixed for High Contrast users (#10185)

VT Support

• RIS will now reset mouse mode and encoding (#10602)
• DECSET 12 (enable/disable cursor blink) is no longer ignored (#10589)

WPF Control

• We've fixed an issue in the WPF control's 64-bit build that resulted in hilarious colors (#10486)