Windows Terminal Status Updates

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This issue contains all of the status updates for Windows Terminal. This helps provide insight into where the project is at between releases.

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October 25, 2019 Status

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## Recent News / Releases ### [Terminal 1910 was released on Wednesday][1] * Announced dynamic profiles and cascading settings * New tabs from WinUI  * These look very much like our original mockups from March :)  ## Current Status ### Plan for 1911 is in place * Accessibility improvements * Suppress application title * Progress on search functionality * UI tweaks * Bug fixes * (Fewer features because of Ignite) ### Cascadia Code * Features currently in scope: * UFO conversion * Character extensions (Cyrillic, Greek, and Vietnamese) ### Ignite Session * Carlos and Kayla are delivering a 45-minute breakout session at Ignite ## [Windows In-box Console/ConHost 20H1 Issues][2] ## [Terminal 1911 Work][3] ## [Terminal Roadmap][4] [1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1910-release/ [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/milestone/9 [3]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/milestone/16 [4]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/terminal-v1-roadmap.md

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November 15, 2019 Status

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## Recent News / Releases ### Terminal 1911 will be released in 2 weeks * Terminal 1911 (v0.7) was released to selfhosters yesterday and another version will be released next week. The release will go out to the public on Tuesday, 11/26 * Features include: * Tab reordering * You can now rearrange your tabs within the Terminal window! * Panes * Opening multiple terminal sessions within the same tab is supported! *  * Bug fixes * Line endings when pasting is fixed! * Profiles without starting directories won’t crash! * Using Alt+Arrow-Keys won’t print extra characters! ### Ignite session * Carlos and Kayla delivered a 45 minute session at Ignite * Session link: [https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/81329?source=sessions][1] ## Current Status ### Planning for 1912 will occur on Monday, 11/18 * We're planning to be feature complete in 1912 ### Cascadia Code * Additional features that have been approved: * UFO conversion * Character extensions (Cyrillic, Greek, and Vietnamese) * Aaron (our font designer) has a draft PR in covering both the UFO conversion and character extensions ## [Terminal 1911 Work][2] ## [Terminal Roadmap][3] [1]: https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/81329?source=sessions [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/milestone/16 [3]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/terminal-v1-roadmap.md

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December 5, 2019 Status

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## Recent News / Releases ### Terminal v0.7 was released on Tuesday 11/26 * Features included: * Tab reordering * Panes (multiple terminal windows within the same tab) * Suppress application title (custom tab titles) * Bug fixes * Copying and pasting works better now :) ### Terminal v0.8 is scheduled for 1/7 * Planned features include: * Search (below are mockups)   * Accessibility improvements * VT mouse mode * Tab sizing (below are mockups)   * Servicing releases are scheduled for before the holidays * Bug fixes! ### Cascadia Code * https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases * New versions include: * Cascadia Code * Base version, includes coding ligatures, new version includes character tweaks * Cascadia Mono * Does not include coding ligatures * Cascadia Code PL * Base version with powerline glyphs * Cascadia Mono PL * No coding ligatures, with powerline glyphs * The newest base version of Cascadia Code was shipped inside the v0.7 Terminal release ## Community News ### Node+JS Interactive * Kayla is going to [Node+JS Interactive][3] in Montreal from December 10 - 12 * Demo/Labs on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) and Terminal * 20 minute lightning talk: The New Command Line Experience on Windows ## [Terminal 1912 Work][1] ## [Terminal Roadmap][2] [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/milestone/17 [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/terminal-v1-roadmap.md [3]: https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/nodejs-interactive-2019/

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January 9, 2020 Status

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## Recent News / Releases ### Terminal v0.8 will be released on Tuesday 1/14 * Release candidate is going out to internal Microsoft employees today * Features include: * Search  * Tab sizing   * Retro-style CRT effects (experimental feature)  (font used is PxPlus IBM VGA8 from https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/) * Enhanced panes and tabs key bindings * You can now specify a profile to open using custom key bindings * Ex: `{ "command": { "action": "newTab", "profile": "Ubuntu" }, "keys": [ "ctrl+shift+u" ] }` * Custom default settings * You can now apply one setting to all of your profiles in your profiles.json file  ## [Terminal v0.8 Work][1] ## [Terminal v0.9 Work][2] ## [Terminal Roadmap][3] [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/milestone/17 [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/milestone/18 [3]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/terminal-v1-roadmap.md

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January 31, 2020 Status

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## Recent News / Releases ### Terminal v0.9 is scheduled for 2/11 * This is the last release that will have new features before the v1 release * Subsequent releases are strictly for bug fixes and polishing * Features include: * Command line arguments * new-tab, split-pane, focus-tab * Examples: * wt -d . (opens a new Terminal in the current working directory) * wt -p "profile name" (opens a new Terminal with the given profile) * wt; new-tab -p "profile name"; split-pane -V -p "profile name" (demonstrated below)  * Accessibility improvements ### Community News #### One Dev Minute Videos * Kayla has recorded some One Dev Minute videos about the Terminal * Three have been released so far: * https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/status/1220020741409837056 * https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/status/1221826568349196288 * https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/status/1222551369883832324 ## [Terminal v0.9 Work][1] ## [Terminal Roadmap][2] [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/milestone/18 [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/terminal-v1-roadmap.md

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April 3, 2020 Status

Recent News / Releases

Settings changes are coming

• The following changes have been made on GitHub and will be released via the Store in our next servicing release (v0.11):
  • Profiles.json has been renamed to settings.json
  • Ctrl+c/v will be shipped inside the settings.json file for copy and paste and will automatically appear for NEW installations/settings files.
    • Ctrl+shift+c/v will still be bound be default to copy and paste in the defaults.json file
  • The following deprecated settings have been removed on the master branch:

Deprecated Setting	Replacement Setting
copyTextWithoutNewlines	{ "command": { "action": "copy", "singleLine": true }, "keys": "ctrl+c" }
decreaseFontSize	{ "command": { "action": "adjustFontSize", "delta": -1 }, "keys": "ctrl+-" }
increaseFontSize	{ "command": { "action": "adjustFontSize", "delta": 1 }, "keys": "ctrl+=" }
moveFocusDown	{ "command": { "action": "moveFocus", "direction": "down" }, "keys": "alt+down" }
moveFocusUp	{ "command": { "action": "moveFocus", "direction": "up" }, "keys": "alt+up" }
moveFocusLeft	{ "command": { "action": "moveFocus", "direction": "left" }, "keys": "alt+left" }
moveFocusRight	{ "command": { "action": "moveFocus", "direction": "right" }, "keys": "alt+right" }
newTabProfile0 - newTabProfile8	{ "command": { "action": "newTab", "index": NUMBER }, "keys": "ctrl+shift+NUMBER" }
resizePaneDown	{ "command": { "action": "resizePane", "direction": "down" }, "keys": "alt+shift+down" }
resizePaneUp	{ "command": { "action": "resizePane", "direction": "up" }, "keys": "alt+shift+up" }
resizePaneLeft	{ "command": { "action": "resizePane", "direction": "left" }, "keys": "alt+shift+left" }
resizePaneRight	{ "command": { "action": "resizePane", "direction": "right" }, "keys": "alt+shift+right" }
splitHorizontal	{ "command": { "action": "splitPane", "split": "horizontal"}, "keys": "alt+shift+-" }
splitVertical	{ "command": { "action": "splitPane", "split": "vertical"}, "keys": "alt+shift+plus" }
switchToTab0 - switchToTab8	{ "command": { "action": "switchToTab", "index": NUMBER }, "keys": "ctrl+alt+NUMBER" }
trimWhitespace	{ "command": { "action": "copy", "singleLine": true }, "keys": "ctrl+c" }

Terminal v1.0 Work

Terminal Roadmap

[zadjii-msft]

We've kinda gone in another direction with posting status updates. I'm gonna close this one out for now.