Windows Terminal Preview v1.13.1073

[DHowett]

This is a servicing release to fix a number of big issues in 1.13 preview.

Changes

This version of Windows Terminal is now distributed in two bundles, one of which works on Windows 10-11 and the
other of which only works on Windows 11. The Windows 11 version is much smaller because we no longer need to work around
a platform issue related to our dependencies.

If you intend on using Terminal as an unpackaged application--that is, extracting the msix file--we recommend that
you use the Win10 bundle. You will need the Visual C++ runtime redistributable.

In addition, if you install the packaged version on either Windows 10 or Windows 11, it now depends on the Visual C++ Universal Runtime Package.

Despite these distributions having different version numbers, they are built from the same code and there is no
functional difference between them.

If you install the Windows 10 verison on Windows 11, it will probably automatically upgrade itself to the Windows 11
version. It turns out that it is impossible to have two bundles with the same version number, so it has to be this
way.

Bug Fixes

Usability

• Terminal can once again be configured as a startup application, and can be detected by tools like PowerToys (Copy localized strings from ContextMenu into the resource root #12491)
• We are once again usable on N (non-media) SKUs of Windows (DON'T default-construct the MediaPlayer #12463)
• There was a puzzling "Element not found" error during settings loading; there is no longer such an error (Fix "Element not found" error during settings loading #12687)
• Terminal will no longer mix up profiles when it is launched in response to a console application spawning (Fix off-by-one bug in NormalizeCommandLine #12484)
• Formatted copy will now try harder to preserve Unicode charatcers in RTF (Fix RTF generation for Unicode characters #12586) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
• Displaying multiple dialogs will no longer punch a giant hole in the Terminal (???) (Fix showing a dialog multiple times #12625) (No longer load content dialogs when there is already one being shown #12517)
• You spoke up about the scroll bars being WAY TOO THIN, so we chonked them up (Make the Scrollbar 16dips again #12608)
• We have replaced the word "Summon" with "Show/Hide" in the command palette for improved localization (Replace Summon with Show/Hide for improved i18n #12603)
• Our confidence in the settings UI's Save button has led to us no longer backing up the settings JSON file (Stop making settings.json backups #12652)
  • We won't be deleting the 61,000 backups we did leave on your hard drive, but what's a couple thousand kilobytes between friends?

Appearance

• We've improved the contrast of the tab strip (Update the tab colors some more #12635) (Update light theme tab background for greater contrast. #12529)
• Our iconography has been updated to the Windows 11 style (Updates all our icons to use Segoe Fluent #12469)
• We have given the issue where acrylic in the titlebar looked weird the heave-ho (Manually set the colors of the TabViewBackground #12460)
• Good good new UI fonts have been enabled (Segoe UI Variable) (Enable Segoe Variable #12462)

Accessibility

• Terminal now announces newly-printed text to any attached screen reader (Use UIA notifications for text output #12358)
• When you delete a profile, we will re-focus the delete button automatically (When we delete a profile, focus the delete button automatically #12558)
• Command palette search now tries to announce the number of results to the screen reader (Update the cmdpal narrator message to include the number of results. #12429)

Reliability

• We won't crash any longer if you give us a command line that is a directory (Don't crash trying to parse a command line that's a directory #12538) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
• Fixed a crash setting the hotkey during teardown (Fix a crash setting the hotkey during teardown #12580)
• Fixed a different pair of crashes, also likely related to default terminal handoff (Fix a pair of crashes, likely related to defterm #12666)
• ScrollConsoleScreenBuffer no longer takes the console upstate (Fix overflow in Viewport::FromDimensions #12669)
• Pressing Page Up or Page Down with an empty command palette, which seemed like a reasonable thing to do, was taught to not crash the Terminal (Protect the command palette against being paged with no items #12528)

Rendering

• Font axes/features once again work across a DPI change (Fix font axes/features not working on DPI change #12492)
• AtlasEngine: Fix ConstBuffer invalidation for background color changes (AtlasEngine: Fix ConstBuffer invalidation for background color changes #12667)
• AtlasEngine: Fix inverted cursor alpha (AtlasEngine: Fix inverted cursor alpha #12548)
• On Windows 10, you should see fewer "couldn't find Cascadia Mono, even though it is RIGHT NEXT TO US" dialogs (Fix Windows 10 support for nearby font loading #12554)

[5HT]

When proper UTF-8 ?

It is 2022 already.

[zadjii-msft]

As we mentioned in #10613 - follow #6555 and #8000 for updates. We're planning on having someone take a look at doing the buffer rewrite later this year. That's obviously a LOT of work, which has to both enable proper unicode support but also not break anything, so it'll take time to get it just right.