Windows Terminal Preview v1.16.3463.0 and v1.16.3464.0

[DHowett]

Finally, a servicing update for our beloved Preview users! Sorry we left you on read for so long... but we think you'll like the changes in this update. Hope they're worth the wait!

Windows Terminal v1.16.346{3,4}.0 contain the following backports from https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main:

Changes

• Vintage transparency now works on Windows 10! Turn off useAcrylic to use it! (Enable vintage opacity on Windows 10 #14481)
• You can now configure whether you are warned before you close more than one tab (Add the setting "confirmCloseAllTabs" to SUI #14419) (thanks @leejy12!) (with wording improvements (reword en-US value for confirmCloseAllTabs #14473) thanks to @crazo7924!)
• Multiple changes to the new text rendering engine:
  • We will now attempt to better scale block and box drawing glyphs (AtlasEngine: Block chars done right-er #14099)
  • It will no longer crash with a heap overflow when presented with a malformed DBCS sequence (AtlasEngine: Fix a heap overflow bug #14275)
  • We've adjusted how glyphs are scaled when they are way outside their bounding boxes in poorly-behaved fonts (AtlasEngine: Partially revert glyph scaling changes #14085)
• We've started collecting information on how often FTCS marks and themes are used (Find out how often are people actually using marks, Themes #14356)
• We've tweaked the layout of the color schemes page to address some issues on Windows 10 (Reorder the color chips grid in the color schemes page #14223)
• Using the mouse wheel to turn off transparency will now disable the acrylic material effect (Disable acrylic material (temporarily) when opacity is set to 100% #14193) (thanks @JerBast!)

Bug Fixes

• Windows Terminal once again works on Windows N (no media) SKUs
• We've fixed the following issues that could lead to a local denial of service or worse (with many thanks to @dgl for reporting):
  • OSC 9;9 will now reject malformed paths and not further propagate them into wsl --cd (Reject illegal paths in OSC 9;9 #14093) REMOTE CODE EXECUTION CVE-2022-44702
  • OSC 8 URIs will be limited to 2MB in length, following iTerm2 (and only 1024 bytes will be displayed in the tooltip) (Add a maximum OSC 8 URI length of 2MB following iTerm2 #14198)
• We will no longer leak OpenConsole processes when they're running a Visual Studio Developer Shell (Fix a deadlock during ConPTY shutdown #14160)
• experimental.useBackgroundImageForWindow has 50% fewer rendering bugs! (Fix a couple issues with experimental.useBackgroundImageForWindow #14456)
• We will no longer clip the progress ring in tab when the tab title is too long (Fix clipped progress ring in tab when tab title is too long #14167) (thanks @JonathanMeier!)
• START /MAX should now more reliably maximize the Terminal window when Terminal is set as the default console host (Respect the "/max" parameter when starting console apps with defterm enabled #14222)
• --pos will now override the "center on launch" setting when specified on the command line (Override center on launch setting when position specified on cmdline #14229) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
• Bracketed paste, forced titles, and the default cursor shape are no longer randomly initialized (Initialize all members of Terminal #14345)
  • This fixes an issue where pasted text would occasionally be incorrectly mangled (as opposed to correctly mangled...)
• RIS will no longer utterly tank Terminal's ability to handle C1 control characters (Make sure Terminal state machine always accepts C1 controls #13969) (thanks @j4james!)
• Console applications will now be correctly identified as the owners of their associated "pseudo-console" window (Give the root PID ownership of the pseudoconsole window #14196)
• Ctrl+C will now skip any currently-playing DECPS sounds (thanks @dgl for reporting) (Skip DECPS/MIDI output on Ctrl+C/Break #14214)
• Applications should more reliably receive close signals when you close a tab, and we will no longer unceremoniously terminate their console sessions (Wait for clients to exit on ConPTY shutdown #14282)
• You can now duplicate unfocused tabs (Fix duplication issue for unfocused tabs #13964) (thanks @JerBast!)
• The Open in Terminal shell extension should appear more reliably on the Desktop context menu (OpenHere: Replace explorer window lookup code w/ site lookup #14048) (OpenHere: stop failing if there's no site... #14211)
• intenseTextStyle is now included properly in the JSON schema (whoops) (Fix a missing entry for intenseTextStyle in the Profile schema #14210) (thanks @neersighted!)
• JSON Schema: startingDirectory is now correctly identified as supporting null ([schema] Update allowed types for startingDirectory #14408)

Accessibility & Usability

• Alt+Space will now open the system menu in the Settings UI and Command Palette (Pipe DirectKey events into TerminalPage for Alt+Space #14221)
• Text boxes in the settings UI have been made more discoverable by screen readers (Apply AutoProps to TextBox settings in SUI #14178)
• There will no longer no longer not be redundant tooltips in the Settings UI (Remove redundant tooltips from settings UI #14244)
• The WPF control now supports accessibility notifications ([wpf] Add UIA events #14097)
• The Settings UI title/breadcrumb bar is now readable by screen readers (Make SUI breadcrumb readable by screen readers #14180)

Reliability

• An application calling system() on its main thread will no longer deadlock itself and Terminal (when Terminal is set as default) (Disallow a window waiting on system() to block DefTerm startup #14195)
• We've fixed one source of deadlocks in windowing management for console applications (such as hanging when they're exiting...) (Fix a potential deadlock for PtySignal::SetParent #14463)
• Launching thousands of instances of cmd.exe back to back will no longer take down your console session (MSFT PR !8072712, 86928bb)
• We've worked around a miscompilation in Visual Studio 2022 Update 4 that results in an out-of-bounds read (MSFT PR !8189936, 3c10444)
• wpf: it is no longer possible to call WriteString with a null terminal instance (Added null check before rendering a string from the terminal connection #14515)
• wpf: It is now no longer possible to resize the terminal down to 0x0 (Harden against resizing down to 0 columns/rows #14467)

Code Hygiene

• ConsoleProcessList has been given some love and modernized to improve some of our ConPTY infrastructure (Refactor ConsoleProcessList #14421)

Dependency Updates

brought to you by @AtariDreams

• IntervalTree.h (Update IntervalTree.h dependency #14148)
• jsoncpp 1.9.3 => 1.9.5 (Update jsoncpp from 1.9.3 to 1.9.5 #14122)
• libpopcnt => 2.5 (Update libpopcnt to 2.5 #14140)
• XAML => 2.7.3 (Update to XAML 2.7.3 #14123)

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This discussion was created from the release Windows Terminal Preview v1.16.3463.0 and v1.16.3464.0.

[ofek]

There will no longer no longer not be redundant tooltips in the Settings UI

😂 well played

[jessey-git]

Seems that winget wasn't updated. Again?

[rboxman]

Winget remains stuck on version 1.16.2641.0