Windows Terminal

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 (#20356)
• Our build system now requires Visual Studio 2026 and Windows SDK 10.0.26100 (#20225) (#20518) (#20609)
• Panes can no longer be reduced below 2 cells in either direction, to prevent screen corruption (#20564) (thanks @zhangxaochen!)
• Tab Search will now "preview" which tab you are about to jump to while you're searching (#20256)
• Terminal will now cause DWM.exe to use less memory per Terminal window! (#20655) (thanks @YexuanXiao!)
• The "Open New Window" action has been improved to make it impervious to app execution alias failures (i.e. wt.exe being corrupted) (#20311)
• The info bar exhorting you to please not disable the "Touch, Keyboard, and Handwriting Input Service" has been removed (#20633)
• We got rid of the "new tab" animation, as it made the application appear slower (#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) (#20424)
• When you close a tab, Terminal will now unconditionally jump to the previously most recently used tab (#20272) (thanks @Anshikakalpana!)

Bug Fixes

• IME candidate windows will no longer be positioned incorrectly when Terminal is maximized (#20627) (thanks @9enki!)
• Terminal will no longer send arrow key inputs (and others) in the middle of an IME composition (#20471) (thanks @sanguneo!)
• Custom shaders which depend on the time parameter will no longer experience an early rollover (#20360) (thanks @Zish19!)
• Media paths referring to icon resources such as foo.exe,-1 will once again work (#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 (#20723)
• The "Open Current Working Directory" action will no