Windows Terminal v1.25.2733.0

[Dustin L. Howett (DHowett)]

Terminal 1.25 is finally stable!

Here are the highlights:

• A new settings search experience! We have a lot of settings; hopefully this helps you find them.
• A rich "actions" editor that will let you better customize how you interact with Terminal.
• Support for the "Kitty" input protocol, for a highly opinionated way to distinguish keyboard keys and how they were pressed.
• Window persistence with or without the scrollback history.
• Community translations into Ukrainian and Serbian (Cyrillic).
• The ability to configure how wide "ambiguous" Unicode characters are for improved compatibility with Chinese, Japanese and Korean console applications.

Please see the following release notes for additional details.

• Windows Terminal Preview v1.25.622.0
• Windows Terminal Preview v1.25.923.0
• Windows Terminal Preview v1.25.1171.0
• Windows Terminal Preview v1.25.1241.0
• Windows Terminal Preview v1.25.1322.0
• Windows Terminal Preview v1.25.1912.0

Note

This version began rolling out to the Dev, Canary and Beta Windows Insider channels when this GitHub Release was created. Other channels will be released as our reliability numbers indicate that we haven't broken anything. If you want to update to this release directly, download it below!

Why are there so many files? How do I choose?

Please visit our page documenting the different Windows Terminal Distributions!

Here are some of the things we backported from the new 1.26 release in the Preview channel.

Changes

• On newer versions of Windows, Terminal will use faster APIs to query the app catalog to find fragment extensions (tsm: use the much cheaper & non-async 26100 AppExtension APIs when possible #20356)
• Our build system now requires Visual Studio 2026 and Windows SDK 10.0.26100 (Move to Visual Studio 2026, SDK 26100 and toolset v145 #20225) (Remove PreferredToolArchitecture override now that we require VS 2026 #20518) (build: move OneBranch to WS 2025 VS 2026 #20609)
• Panes can no longer be reduced below 2 cells in either direction, to prevent screen corruption (Prevent panes from shrinking below 2x2 cells #20564) (thanks zhangxaochen!)
• Tab Search will now "preview" which tab you are about to jump to while you're searching (Preview the selected tab in tabSearch too #20256)
• Terminal will now cause DWM.exe to use less memory per Terminal window! (Using WS_EX_NOREDIRECTIONBITMAP disables the GDI redirection surface … #20655) (thanks Yexuan Xiao (@YexuanXiao)!)
• The "Open New Window" action has been improved to make it impervious to app execution alias failures (i.e. wt.exe being corrupted) (Convert the Open New Window handler to an event #20311)
• The info bar exhorting you to please not disable the "Touch, Keyboard, and Handwriting Input Service" has been removed (Remove the Input Service warning and almost all traces of it #20633)
• We got rid of the "new tab" animation, as it made the application appear slower (Removing new tab animation #20543)
• We have expanded our "built-in glyph" support to cover a large portion of the new Unicode "Symbols for Legacy Computing" block (we now cover U+1FB00 through U+1FB94, all sextants, filled triangles and trapezoids, and eighth blocks) (Add built-in glyphs for the first 149 "Symbols for Legacy Computing" #20424)
• When you close a tab, Terminal will now unconditionally jump to the previously most recently used tab (Always use MRU tab focus on tab close regardless of TabSwitcherMode #20272) (thanks Anshika Jain (@Anshikakalpana)!)

Bug Fixes

• IME candidate windows will no longer be positioned incorrectly when Terminal is maximized (Report the IME caret rect relative to the client area #20627) (thanks Genki (@9enki)!)
• Terminal will no longer send arrow key inputs (and others) in the middle of an IME composition (Deliver a finished composition before the key that ended it #20471) (thanks sanguneo (@sanguneo)!)
• Custom shaders which depend on the time parameter will no longer experience an early rollover (Fix integer overflow in custom shader Time calculation #20360) (thanks Shivam Kumar (@Zish19)!)
• Media paths referring to icon resources such as foo.exe,-1 will once again work (Fix indexed icon media resource resolution #20572) (thanks arista-ms!)
• Terminal should no longer leak memory with some graphics adapters when you are scrolled back into history or experience rendering lag after the machine resumes from sleep (Fix several Present issues in AtlasEngine #20723)
• The "Open Current Working Directory" action will no longer attempt to open non-directories (Only open File Explorer from OpenCWD when CWD is a real directory #20697) (thanks Sebastien Tardif (@SebTardif)!)
• The font face selector in the settings UI will no longer cause Terminal to undergo rapid unscheduled disassembly (Fix font face keyboard selection crash #20255) (thanks Danyal Ahmed (@danyalahmed1995)!)
  • ... it will also no longer instantly forget what you put in it (Preserve selected font face after focus changes #20359) (thanks Danyal Ahmed (@danyalahmed1995)!)
• The JSON settings schema has been updated to include persistedLayoutAndContent as a valid option for firstWindowPreference (schema: Add persistedLayoutAndContent and description #20475) (thanks doterik!)
• We now use the most recent Azure Cloud Shell API version, which ensures that you can still access your Cloud Shells (Upgrade Cloud Shell API to 2025-09-01-preview #20620) (thanks Mitchell Bifeld (@mbifeld)!)
• We've fixed some visual artifacts experienced by users of the "QQ Wubi" IME (Fix visual artifacts when using QQ Wubi IME #20542)

Reliability

• XBOX controllers will no longer cause Terminal to shuffle off this mortal coil (Fixes xbox controller crashing the Terminal #20234) (thanks Phil Scott (@phil-scott-78)!)
• We will take fewer trips to a farm upstate when you use "terminal pane" shortcuts on the Settings, Markdown or Snippets UI (Guard and tidy a couple instances of GetActiveTerminalControl #20458)
• The experimental "reposition mouse cursor with click" settings will now result in fewer "bucket-kicking" events (Clamp the cursor position in bounds during "reposition with click" #20442)

VT Support

• An application initiating an OSC 52 clipboard write at the same time as a title change will no longer experience a 5-second hang (Fix 5s lags when using OSC 52 clipboard copy #20728)
• A VT soft reset (DECSTR) will no longer result in the uploaded soft font (DRCS) being cleared (Preserve the DRCS font when performing a soft reset #20607) (thanks James Holderness (@j4james)!)
• Kitty Keyboard Protocol: auto-repeat events now work properly (Fix KKP auto-repeat events #20500)
• Kitty Keyboard Protocol: dead keys and numpad Enter now work properly (Fix two KKP ReportEventTypes issues #20551)
• Kitty Keyboard Protocol: non-ASCII keys, modifier repeats and AltGr keys now work properly (Fix various KKP encoding issues #20052)

Console Hosting

• ConPTY will no longer retry its cursor position request when the hosting application does not answer it (Do not retry a DSR-CPR if the ConPTY host did not respond #20510)
• ConPTY will no longer wait for a DA1 response before finishing initialization (ConPTY: Do not wait for DA1 on startup #20536)

With additional documentation, build system, schema, and code health fixes thanks to Tushar (@tusharsnx), MichaelK (@MichaelK05-dev), BamBamTram32, Alimkhan Slambek (@slambek), Raza Khan (@raza-khan0108), nsfxdyj, Dinah Xiaoman G (@DinahK-2SO), nsfxdyj, Winston Liu (@winstliu), and 盗天叔叔 (@1816586742-stack).

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Binary files inside the unpackaged distribution archive bear the version number 1.25.260930003.

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