{"id":10903,"date":"2025-08-26T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:02:26","slug":"windows-terminal-preview-1-24-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/windows-terminal-preview-1-24-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Terminal Preview 1.24 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re back with another Terminal release for you! This development cycle, we focused on overall quality of life improvements and bug fixes.<\/p>\n

We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.23, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post<\/a>. Some notable features to call out are:<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf1f A completely new and more reliable windowing architecture, featuring a more robust tray icon, window actions, and “summoning” (i.e. Quake mode).<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf1f A new UI in settings for customizing your New Tab dropdown menu.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf1f Additional settings that have been added to the settings UI that originally only existed in the depths of the settings.json file: bell sounds, compatibility, cell size customization, profile-specific foreground\/background, a new spatial “padding” editor, an icon picker, and more.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf1f Drag and drop path translation a.k.a. flipping your slashes to face the right way depending on the shell you\u2019re using (amongst other formatting things).<\/p>\n

You can install Windows Terminal<\/a> and Windows Terminal Preview<\/a> from the Microsoft Store, from the GitHub releases page<\/a>, or by using winget. If you are interested in being at the forefront of our new features, you can also download Windows Terminal Canary from our GitHub repo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now without further ado, let\u2019s get into what\u2019s new! (Rhyme intended \ud83d\ude09)<\/p>\n

Command palette additional language support<\/h1>\n

If you have English and another language enabled on your machine, you can now search in both languages and the command palette will display both!<\/p>\n

\"cmdpal<\/a><\/p>\n

Settings enhancements<\/h1>\n

Extensions settings page<\/h3>\n

We\u2019ve added a new Extensions page within the settings that allows you to view and toggle the sources for all of your profiles and color schemes.<\/p>\n

\"settings<\/a><\/p>\n

Relative file paths<\/h3>\n

You can now use relative file paths for icons, background images, and pixel shader paths. These paths are relative to your settings file, whether you\u2019re a user or a fragment author. If you\u2019re interested in writing fragments, learn more about distributing media resources with a fragment extension<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Dimidium color scheme<\/h3>\n

Dimidium has been added as a new core color scheme, based on the CAM16 color model. (Thanks @dofuuz<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

\"dimidum<\/a><\/p>\n

Disable zoom and opacity shortcuts<\/h3>\n

You can now disable the Ctrl<\/kbd> and Ctrl<\/kbd>+Shift<\/kbd> mouse wheel shortcuts to change the font size (zoom) and opacity of the terminal, respectively. (Thanks @paulinek13<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

\"mouse<\/a><\/p>\n

Reset your settings<\/h3>\n

You can now reset to default settings and clear your cache within the Settings UI on the Compatibility page!<\/p>\n

\"reset<\/a><\/p>\n

Broader snippet detection<\/h3>\n

Terminal will now read .wt.json files from parent directories to the one you are in. This allows you to use snippets that are defined in files that live in adjacent folders, giving you a broader set of actions to use when invoking the snippets pane or command palette.<\/p>\n

SSH dynamic profiles<\/h1>\n

Using your ssh_config, Terminal will now try to automatically detect hosts you may SSH to often and generate a folder of quick access SSH profiles. (Thanks @jonthysell<\/a> for your initial implementation!)<\/p>\n

Context menu pane support<\/h1>\n

The right-click context menu now has more options to quick access splitting, moving, zooming, and closing panes! (Thanks @dm17ryk<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

\"pane<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udca1 Tip:<\/strong> You can enable the context menu with right-click in your profile settings on the Advanced page! Use the Defaults section if you want this to apply to all your profiles.<\/p>\n

\"settings<\/a><\/p>\n

Miscellaneous improvements<\/h1>\n

\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f The \"matchProfiles\"<\/code> new tab menu entry now supports regular expressions (so you can match .*.WSL, for example!).<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f The command palette now uses the fuzzy searching algorithm popularized by fzf, making it feel way better! (Thanks @e82eric<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f The command palette will now display previews on hover for items that can be previewed, such as color schemes. (Thanks @eleadufresne<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f If your system is using “high contrast” mode, Terminal will now automatically turn on perceptual color nudging (unless you have disabled it completely). This setting is located at in the profiles section under Appearance titled \u201cAutomatically adjust lightness of indistinguishable text\u201d and is enabled by default.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f You can now configure an additional path translation mode, MinGW (mingw<\/code> in JSON), which will map paths like C:\\foo to C:\/foo. (Thanks @abutcher-gh<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

Bug fixes<\/h1>\n

\ud83d\udc1b Dragging invalid paths onto Terminal with incorrectly-constructed DataObjects will no longer send your session into outer space. \ud83c\udf0c (Thanks @jamespack<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc1b Tab icons, close on exit state, and the bell settings will once again be reloaded when the settings file changes.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc1b Terminal will no longer occasionally miss hard line breaks in full-screen applications such as tmux.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc1b Turning “Use active terminal title as application title” (showTerminalTitleInTitlebar<\/code>in JSON) on and off will no longer result in your window titles becoming stuck.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc1b We have resolved a crash in context menu handling across multiple windows.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc1b We will no longer try to render bidirectional text isolates LRI, RLI, FSI and PDI. (Thanks @adalinesimonian<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc1b WSL profiles containing local overrides for the PATH environment variable will no longer destroy the PATH inside WSL.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc1b Terminal’s launch size now takes into account any custom cell width and height you may have specified. (Thanks @j4james<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

Special thanks goes out to @Maddimax<\/a>, @mdanish-kh<\/a>, @HO-COOH<\/a>, @jsoref<\/a>, @jamespack<\/a>, @mohiuddin-khan-shiam<\/a>, @chawyehsu<\/a>, and @zwJimRaynor<\/a> for build fixes, code hygiene improvements, spell checking and more.<\/p>\n

Top contributors<\/h1>\n

Terminal continues to improve with the help of our community. Here\u2019s who especially made an impact in this release:<\/p>\n

Contributors who opened the most non-duplicate issues<\/h3>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 vefatica<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 SaurabhNew<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 Darklocal<\/a><\/p>\n

Contributors who created the most merged pull requests<\/h3>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 j4james<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 aphistra<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 Techypanda<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 ReuelAlbert-Dev<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 mdanish-kh<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 jamespack<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 Blackspirits<\/a><\/p>\n

Contributors who provided the most comments on pull requests<\/h3>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 e82eric<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 jsoref<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfc6 j4james<\/a><\/p>\n

Cheers<\/h1>\n

We hope you enjoy this latest release of Windows Terminal! More information on these new features can be found on our docs site<\/a> and if you find any bugs or have feature requests, feel free to file them on GitHub<\/a>. If you have any questions you can reach out to Kayla (@kaylacinnamon<\/a>) on Bluesky or (@cinnamon_msft<\/a>) on X. See you next time!<\/p>\n

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