Windows Terminal Preview v1.13.10336.0

[DHowett]

Happy New Year! It's Terminal time once again! This is our first release of 2022, and it's a big one.

Announcements

• Windows Terminal Preview is now named Terminal Preview! It will, of course, still be called wt under the hood. (Rename "Windows Terminal" -> "Terminal" #12264)
  • Right now, you will not be able to find Windows Terminal _ (that is, with the "Windows" part) in the start menu. We are working with the search team to add a keyword match! Follow Windows Terminal cannot be found in the Start Menu #12344 for updates._
  • Sorry about your muscle memory. :(
• 1.12 is the last version of Terminal that will support Windows 19H1 or 19H2 (Bump the minversion of the Terminal #12129)
  • Folks who are on the Preview channel on these versions of Windows will get a one-time upgrade to the last servicing release of 1.12.
  • This version of windows is going out of support soon, so you may want to consider upgrading.
  • You only need to install 1.12.10335.0 if you are on Windows 19H1 or 19H2; it is included here for completeness.

Features

• Terminal now follows the Windows 11 UI guidelines (Switch WinUI to the Windows 11 styles #12241) (Add a BreadcrumbBar to the SUI #12144) (Don't open a hole in the terminal window when pasting #12208) (Fix a number of small issues with the SUI #12287) (Fix more SUI and Rejuvenated UI issues #12326) (Update our SUI to follow win 11 guidelines #11720) (Localize and polish Profile page navigators #12321)
  • This will make it look a little out of place on Windows 10; we're sorry
• We're testing out a new experimental text rendering engine, "AtlasEngine" (Introduce AtlasEngine - A new text rendering prototype #11623) (Add experimental.useAtlasEngine to schema #12304) (Add support for hyperlinks to AtlasEngine #12225) (atlas: apply colors/flags per column instead of just the first one #12189) (AtlasEngine: Fix support for combining diacritics #12307) (AtlasEngine: Fix various ClearType rendering issues #12278) (AtlasEngine: Implement ClearType blending #12242) (AtlasEngine: Make shader hot-reloads possible in Windows Terminal #12227) (AtlasEngine: Redraw immediately on opacity changes #12226)
  • You can enable it with the experimental.useAtlasEngine profile field or the "Use experimental text rendering
    engine" in Profile -> Advanced
  • We're tracking bugs, parity with the existing renderer, and future advancements in [MEGATHREAD] AtlasEngine bugs and missing features (experimental.useAtlasEngine) #9999.
• You can now configure a profile to always launch elevated (in a separate window)! (Profile auto-elevation, version 3 #12137) (Add Elevate flag to the SUI #12257)
  • This is controlled by the profile setting elevate (bool, default false).
  • Read more in our docs.
• Terminal learned to restore the last closed pane or tab! (Add restore recently closed panes #11471) (thanks @Rosefield!)
  • NOTE: This action, accessible through the command palette, will launch a new tab that has the same settings
    as the previous tab. It cannot bring protagonists processes back from the dead!
• You can now change the bell sound with profile.bellSound setting! (Enable changing the bell sound #11511)
  • bellSound takes a path to an audio file to play as the audible bell or an array of paths.
  • If you provide an array of paths, Terminal will choose one at random every single time it bells.
  • If you're a fan of Untitled Goose Game, this is an excellent opportunity to get your HONK on!
• Dropping a file on a WSL instance will now insert the WSL converted path (!) (Automatically convert paths dropped on WSL instances #11625) (thanks @petrsnm!)
• You now have the option to strip trailing whitespace on paste (trimPaste global setting, bool, default true) (Trim trailing whitespace option #11473) (thanks @lovef!)

Changes

• We're reworking how Terminal handles environment variables, starting with reverting the changes we made in
  Preview that broke PowerShell x86 (Combined revert of Environment Block Changes #12140)
• The "adjust lightness of indistinguishable text" feature, present in 1.12 preview, has been disabled pending
  some bug fixes (Disable being able to set the automatic adjustment of indistinguishable text #12160)
• The "Open in Terminal" context menu is now localized in, like, 88 languages (Move the context menu strings to a separate resw compartment #12090)
• There is a new adjustOpacity action, which can be previewed live with the command palette (Add adjustOpacity action #12092)
• Terminal will now store elevated window state separately from non-elevated window state (Add a file for storing elevated-only state #11222)
• You can now export the buffer with an action, exportBuffer (Add an exportBuffer action #12097)
• There is now a "Settings" menu item in the title bar menu (Add settings entry into titlebar context menu #11404) (thanks @serd2011!)
• You can now Ctrl-click on a profile in the dropdown to launch it as Administrator (in a separate window) (Add support for ctrl+click on the dropdown to launch elevated #12209)
• Terminal (and conhost) will no longer accept C1 control codes by default (Disable the acceptance of C1 control codes by default #11690) (thanks @j4james!)
• The PowerShell profile generator now generates fully quoted paths (Ensure PowerShell Core profile commandline is quoted #12086) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
• WSL instances now default to starting in ~ (or throwing an Invalid Parameter error) (Set the default WSL starting directory to ~ #12315)
• We've reworked how settings get into the individual terminal panes to prepare for tearoff and merge (Change the ControlCore layer to own a copy of its settings #11619) (Fix Opacity in Windows 10, again #12255) (Fix scheme previewing on Appearances page of SUI #12095)

Bug Fixes

• The cursor should now start/stop blinking more reliably when Terminal is started without window focus (Initialize cursorOn to match focus state #12094)
• Copying the "Azure Cloud Shell" profile will no longer result in a normal boring profile that tries to run Azure.exe (lol) (Make sure to copy connectionType for the azure shell #12147)
• The default "Command Prompt" and "Windows PowerShell" profiles have been updated to have fully qualified paths (again) (Manually replace unqualified cmd, powershell paths for the default profiles #12149)
• Cursor movement will now more reliably update the IME/emoji picker/input line/cursor highlight for Accessibility (Send an updated cursor position at the end of writing a run #12210)
• HTML/RTF copy now respects the active background color instead of just the default one (Use the correct background color when copying to clipboard #11991) (thanks @j4james!)
• Session save/restore will now remember tab titles and maximize/focus/restore state (Persist Runtime TabTitle and Maximize/Focus/Fullscreen states #12073) (thanks @Rosefield!)
• The "Duplicate Profile" button will no longer be enabled when you don't actually have a profile selected (Disable duplicate button without selected profile #12096) (thanks @davidegiacometti!)
• //wsl$ paths will no longer result in you being unceremoniously dumped in / (in WSL) (Fix //wsl$ paths not working in MangleStartingDirectoryForWSL #12102)
• ~ now works as a starting directory for wsl.exe (fix ~ not work as startingDirectory for WSL #12050) (thanks @LuanVSO!)
• Application-controlled titles will be sanitized for control sequences even if they are set with the SetConsoleTitle API (Make sure titles always sanitized before passing over conpty #12211) (thanks @j4james!)

Accessibility

• The command palette will now announce if any suggestions were found to screen readers ([Command Palette] Announce if suggestions were found to screen readers #12266)
• ... so will the search box! (Make the SearchBox announce if it found results or not #12301)
• The tab row/titlebar have stopped acting as a keyboard input/focus trap -- you can use keyboard shortcuts up there now (Add a keyboard shortcut handler to the TabRowControl #12260)
• We've done a pass over the controls in the settings UI and given them accessible names for screen reader users (Add a11y names to more controls #12299) (Update accessible names for 'add profile' page buttons #12324)
• The "Default Terminal" section will now properly read out terminal names to Narrator (Expose Defterm info to ComboBoxItem properly #12259)
• "Open JSON File" is now a better accessibility citizen as well (Fix SizeOfSet and PositionInSet for 'Open JSON File' nav item #12286)

Performance and Reliability

• We've fixed a (small) binary size regression in OpenConsole, which was more than eclipsed by all the new features above (Fix a conhost binary size regression due to fmt #11727)
• Improved:
  • base64 decode performance (Improve Base64::Decode performance #11467)
  • conhost CPU usage during text selection (Improve conhost CPU usage during text selection #11634)
  • performance and binary size of til::enumset (Improve performance and binary size of til::enumset #11493)
  • responsiveness of conhost/ConPTY for large inputs (Improve responsiveness of conhost/ConPTY for large inputs #11890)
• Removed wasteful virtuals according to SizeBench (Remove wasteful virtuals according to SizeBench #11889)
• Typing an invalid background image path into the Settings UI will no longer send Terminal to a farm upstate (Adds exception handling of uri creation in profile background image update #11542) (thanks @serd2011!)
• "Export Text" is more worky and less crashy (Prevent potential null pointer crash in export buffer action #12180) (thanks @ianjoneill!)

Documentation Changes

We'd like to thank @eltociear, @blakeheimann, @ghost1372, @Schweinepriester, and @ianjoneill for their contributions
to our documentation, roadmap, specs and schema.

Behind the Scenes

Over the holidays, we had an "Engineering Improvement" milestone! We chose to allocate it to improving our build
system, remove some dead code, etc. and our excellent community stepped up and did the same!

Here's some of the highlights

• Enable Software Bill of Materials generation for Windows Terminal (Enable SBOM generation for Windows Terminal #11908)
• Enable Security and Compliance tasks in our Release pipeline (Enable Security and Compliance tasks in our Release pipeline #11849)
• Add noexcept to all FontInfo structs (Add noexcept to all FontInfo structs #11640)
• Consolidate the color palette APIs (Consolidate the color palette APIs #11784) (thanks @j4james!)
• Consolidate the interfaces for setting VT input modes (Consolidate the interfaces for setting VT input modes #11384) (thanks @j4james!)
• Delete RendererTests.cpp (Delete RendererTests.cpp #11872) (thanks @j4james!)
• Enable /permissive- and remaining /Zc flags (Enable /permissive- and remaining /Zc flags #11816)
• fix build error at 74d21af (fix build error at 74d21af  #11691) (thanks @serd2011!)
• Fix for missing CopyComplete files in TerminalConnection.vcxproj (Fix for missing CopyComplete files in TerminalConnection.vcxproj #11804)
• Misc pane refactoring (Misc pane refactoring #11373) (thanks @Rosefield!)
• Move the common render settings into a shared class (Move the common render settings into a shared class #12127) (thanks @j4james!)
• Prepare til wrappers for migrating off of SMALL_RECT (Prepare til wrappers for migrating off of SMALL_RECT #11902)
• Rename the "Bold" SGR attribute as "Intense" (Rename the "Bold" SGR attribute as "Intense" #12270) (thanks @j4james!)
• Replace GetDefaultBrushColors with hardcoded default attributes (Replace GetDefaultBrushColors with hardcoded default attributes #11982) (thanks @j4james!)
• Replaced the sizeof parameter of the if statement with ARRAYSIZE (Replaced the sizeof parameter of the if statement with ARRAYSIZE #12273) (thanks @abdoulkkonate!)
• Simplify the handling of alpha values in the color table (Simplify the handling of alpha values in the color table #11900) (thanks @j4james!)
• Simplify the IStateMachineEngine interface (Simplify the IStateMachineEngine interface #12277) (thanks @j4james!)
• Standardize the color table order (Standardize the color table order #11602) (thanks @j4james!)
• Update RGB values when selecting a conhost color property (Update RGB values when selecting a conhost color property #12099) (thanks @j4james!)
• Use the til::enumset type for the SgrSaveRestoreStackOptions enum (Use the til::enumset type for the SgrSaveRestoreStackOptions enum #11888) (thanks @j4james!)

Finally -- if you want to see some of the wild stuff batch files are capable of, check out ansi-color,
contributed by @rbeesley as a test validation tool. (#11932)

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