Features

• We're flighting very early support for a "command palette", which will provide quick access to every Terminal feature (#6635)
  • If you bind commandPalette (I recommend Ctrl+Shift+P), you can open a filterable list of every action Terminal can perform.
  • This is a great way to find "focus mode" and "always on top" mode! (see below)
• We've added two window management features, "focus mode" and "always on top" (#6804) (#6903)
  • Focus mode removes the tab bar and caption buttons, and always on top mode always-on-tops the window.
  • Right now, they're accessible via the toggleFocusMode and toggleAlwaysOnTop action bindings. They are not bound to keys by default.
• Terminal has learned to pop up warning dialogs about clipboard content (thanks @greg904!) (#6631)
  • Pasting content over 5 KiB in length will result in a confirmation dialog.
    • This can be disabled with the global setting largePasteWarning (boolean, default true)
  • Pasting content that contains newline characters will result in a confirmation dialog.
    • This can be disabled with the global setting multiLinePasteWarning (boolean, default true)
• There is a handful of new action bindings, none of which are bound by default:
  • renameTab (activates the tab title text field) (thanks @ggadget6) (#6557)
  • toggleRetroEffect (#6691)
  • setTabColor and openTabColorPicker (#6567)
• This version of Windows Terminal ships with Cascadia Code 2007.15.

Changes

• The rowsToScroll setting has been removed (#6891).
  • It was added to work around precision touchpad scrolling issues, which we fixed correctly before 1.0
  • Terminal will now follow the system's "lines to scroll" setting.
  • In addition, it will no longer scroll backwards when the system setting is set to "one page at a time"
• The terminal will no longer jump to the bottom when you're scrolled up or when you have a selection (#6062)
• Holding down Shift while clicking has always expanded your selection. Now, however, you can take it two or three steps further by holding down Shift and double- or triple-clicking (#6322)
• You can now double-click a tab to rename it (thanks @greg904!) (#6628)
• wt will now accept shorthand nt, sp, ft versions of new-tab, split-pane, and focus-tab on the commandline (#6576)
• Our window borders will now always be unobtrusive, even when your system theme is light (thanks @greg904!) (#6624)
• The Solarized color schemes have been updated to fix "bright black" and "normal black" having been swapped (thanks @M-Pixel!) (#6985).
  • PowerShell's PSReadline prefers bright black to render command parameters, which rendered (!) them totally unreadable on Solarized Dark
• We can now hot reload a bunch of renderer settings like the experimental retro terminal effect and the software rendering flag (#6551)

UI

• Thanks to @jtippet, Terminal's UI is now fives of times more accessible in high contrast mode (#6833) (#6910)
  • This includes beautiful new icons (

    

    ) (#6915)
• Thanks again to @jtippet, our "new tab" button now looks much closer to the rest of the tab strip in shape and color (#6766) (#6812)
• You can now start selections from the padding area (#6343)

Terminal Basics

• Color representation has been significantly improved (thanks @j4james!)
  • In the old days (read: before 1.2), Terminal would try to map colors coming out of applications to their nearest paletted color index. This was inherently lossy.
  • The pseudoconsole will now forward colors and styles emitted by applications with higher fidelity (#6506)
  • We've added heuristic detection for applications using the traditional Win32 console API to set "defaulted" background/foreground colors (#6698)
    • PowerShell in particular required additional workarounds (#6810) (PowerShell/PSReadline#1626)
  • This required us to break and then somewhat fix DECSCNM (full screen inversion) (#6809)
• We can now render additional graphical attributes (thanks @j4james!)
  • SGR 4, "faint" (#6873)
    • Faint text will be rendered at roughly half intensity.
  • SGR 8, "concealed" (#6907)
    • Concealed text will not be visible, but it will be copyable to the clipboard and read out by screen readers.
  • SGR 53, "overline" (#6754)
    • It's like an underline, but not so much "under" as "over".
  • Care about SGRs a lot? Follow #6879 for yet more SGRs.
• Commandline applications can now put text on the clipboard using OSC 52 (thanks @uzxmx!) (#5823)
• Terminal (and conhost) will now be able to answer queries for further device attributes (DA2, DA3) (thanks @j4james!) (#6850)

Bug Fixes

• You can now run wt as an Administrator from the Run dialog with Ctrl+Shift+Enter (#6860)
  • This is a workaround for MSFT:25907286.
  • This change also fixes the issue where running wt from powershell would render your existing session inoperable.
    • App execution aliases aren't real executables, so they've got all sorts of fun caveats!
• Precision touchpads have been reined in and will no longer dispatch untold many VT mouse events on scroll (#6843)
• The hard reset sequence will now properly result in the entire terminal being reset (thanks @j4james!) (#6763)
• Terminal should no longer crash when you read its contents with Narrator's "scan mode" (#6447)

Performance

• We've made a good number of behind-the-scenes performance improvements:
  • "Improved ATTR_ROW::ReplaceAttrs performance" (thanks @lhecker!) (#6573)
  • "Improve bitmap::_calculateArea performance" (thanks @lhecker!) (#6572)
  • "Recycle assorted rendering components to accelerate drawing" (#6483)
  • "Restore simple text runs, correct for crashes" (#6695)
  • "Avoid copying the bitmap on the way into the tracing function" (#6839)
  • "Cache VT buffer line string to avoid (de)alloc on every paint" (#6840)
  • "Cache the size viewport structure inside TextBuffer" (#6841)
  • "Cache the viewport to make invalidation faster" (#6918)