Windows Terminal Preview v1.16.2641.0 #14066

DHowett · 2022-09-23T16:55:59Z

DHowett
Sep 23, 2022
Maintainer

Here on this day of September 2022, we've quashed a number of bugs in the 1.16 preview release and added some new features to boot.
Enjoy!

Terminal now understands the sizes of characters newly-added in Unicode 15.0 (Regenerate CodepointWidthDetector from Unicode 15.0 #14001)
We've added support for fractional font sizes (surprise! on a point release!) (Add support for fractional font sizes #14013) (Fix font size rounding in the settings UI #14040)
- If you're using the new text rendering engine plus the Terminus TTF font, you can now select a font size that perfectly matches a bitmap strike . . . and it works!

Bitmap fonts should look much better now (AtlasEngine: Fix bugs around bitmap font rendering #14014)
- As a side effect, we are now intentionally ignoring the typographic line gap. We have found that monospaced terminal fonts have a line gap of zero, and the ones that don't should.
- See above. Some bitmap fonts require fractional point sizes . . . so now you can see them in their full glory!
On devices that don't support Shader Model 4.0 but do support DirectX 10, we will no longer try to use the glyph atlas (AtlasEngine: Properly detect shader model 4 support #13994)
- ... and if we did, we would no longer tell you about the error 10,000 times (Stop DoSing users with renderer errors #13995) (thanks to @Its-Nevmo and @noinkling for testing!)
No longer should there be streaks of cursor left all over the left side of the screen (AtlasEngine: Fix cursor invalidation #14038)
If you were to specify \e#3, we might have crashed before, but now we will not (AtlasEngine: Fix a crash when drawing double width rows #13966)
You can once again use shaders for experimental.pixelShaderPath that are not technically perfect (ones that compile wit warnings) (Relax shader strictness in RELEASE mode #13998) (thanks @mrange!)
Some text (especially that which requires fake italics) should now look less like a RaNsOm nOtE (AtlasEngine: Fix uneven baselines when scaling glyphs #14039)
- It might still look a little bit like a ransom note, sorry. Just less so.

Tabs should no longer take up to infinity seconds to close (Fix potential lags/deadlocks during tab close #14041)
- If you see any instances of OpenConsole.exe hanging around after you close a tab (or a whole Terminal), please let us know!
The "Open in Terminal ..." context menu item should now show up and disappear more reliably (OpenHere: Replace explorer window lookup code w/ site lookup #14048)

This discussion was created from the release Windows Terminal Preview v1.16.2641.0.