Download Windows Terminal 1.18

Microsoft has released version 1.18 of Windows Terminal. Windows Terminal is included with Windows 11 and allows you to open a command prompt, PowerShell, Windows PowerShell and Azure cloud shell in a tabbed screen. The program has support for themes and profiles. New in version 1.18 includes the ability to move and pull tabs from the terminal screen, and a new rendering engine with support for arbitrary glyph overhangs. The complete changelog looks like this:

Changes

• wt — foo will once again inherit the environment from its parent (#15897)
  • You can customize this behavior with wt –inheritEnvironment or wt –reloadEnvironment on a per-tab/per-pane basis.
  • You can also override this behavior with the profile setting {profile}.compatibility.reloadEnvironmentVariables (boolean, default true)
• We no longer load the Settings editor library on launch, saving you tens of kilobytes of memory (#15628) (#15631)
• You can now run profiles as Admin from the new tab menu by right-clicking them (#15679)
• The profile preview in settings now shows you what a “powerline” font will look like when one is selected (#15365)
• We actually did fix the homoglyph thing this time; hovering a URL that is pretending to be someone else through funny characters will see right through it (#15488)
• For those of you debugging Terminal/the console with ETW, you can now group all API calls by originating process (#15737)
• If you are using Preview, Canary or Dev we will now set an appropriate JSON $schema so you can auto-complete new settings (#15856)

Bug fixes

Accessibility

• We've added automation property names to the 'Delete Color Scheme' button (#15994)
• The key chord indicator in the command palette now has a background color (#15677)
• Settings now groups elements in their containers for screen readers (#15756)
• Screen reader users can now determine which color scheme is the current default (#15486)
• Default Terminal and Color Scheme ComboBoxes no longer crop at 200% text scale (#15762)
• Screen readers will now announce successful pane and tab moves (#15771)

VT and terminal emulation

• Hard Reset (RIS) no longer disables Win32 input mode or focus event mode for pty clients (like Terminal) (#15476)

Usability and UI

• We will no longer reload the settings as often when various OS knobs and switches change (#16004)
• You can once again restart the first pane in a split with Enter after it exits (#16001)
• All actions now remember which pane originated them, so things like “export text” and “Move tab to new window” and “Duplicate” no longer summon one of the Old Ones (#15773)
• The about dialog no longer tells you that you've got an update available to the same version you already have (#15378)
• When the tab close button is disabled, it will no longer randomly reappear to taunt you (#15914)
• The launch parameters (position, size) now properly support negative numbers (#15941)

New Rendering Engine

• We no longer leave cursors all over the place (#15904)
• Fonts like JetBrains Mono that render their ligatures in reverse now appear in the right colors (#15810)
• We no longer invalidate more of the screen than we need to (#15929)
• It now works properly on Windows versions earlier than 10.0.14393.0 (#15485)
• Font features and axes work once again! (#15912)
• We no longer crash when trying to render to a 0x0 surface (#15615)
• DRCS soft fonts that are invalid (or have disappeared, or were never enabled) no longer crash the Terminal (#15889)
• Both rendering engines have been prepared for horizontal scrolling (???) (#15707)

Reliability

• We will no longer crash when checking for updates without a network (#16002)
• If you're the one person who marks HKCU\Console as read-only, we won't crash during save for you (#15916)
• Actions with an empty keys array no longer cause unexpected kinetic disassembly (#16003)
• Duplicating elevate: true tabs has been fixed to not blast terminal off into space (#15548)
• The backing console no longer hangs when resizing while scrolling (#15618)
• Instead of leaking memory for each window on Windows 10, we'll cache old windows and recycle them as needed (#15424)
  • We introduced the leak to fix a crash in closing windows on Windows 10; this allows us to still leak the window but still be able to reclaim them.

Scheme

• No longer there is a multiple schema conflict on “colorScheme” (#15748)

Miscellaneous

• The WPF control now delay-loads UIAutomationCore.dll because it's incomplete in Windows RS1 (#15614)