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Dec 18, 2019
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Happy Holidays from the Windows Terminal Team!

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

What a crazy year 2019 has been for the Windows command line! Let's take a look at everything that has happened and where we're going from here. Announcement at Microsoft Build On May 6th of this year, the Windows Terminal was announced at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, WA. Here's all of the content that came with our announcement: ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Nov 26, 2019
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Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

Another release is out for the Windows Terminal preview! This release is labeled as v0.7 in the About section of the Terminal. As always, you can download the Terminal from the Microsoft Store and from the GitHub releases page. Here's what's new in this release: Windows Terminal Updates Panes You are now able to split your Terminal window into m...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Oct 30, 2019
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Memory Reclaim in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Craig Loewen
Craig Loewen

We’ve added a new Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) feature in Windows Insider Preview Build 19013: Memory Reclamation for WSL 2! Previously, when the memory needs of the WSL2 Virtual Machine (VM) would grow, either from your workflow or by the Linux kernel, the overall memory allocated to the VM would also grow by allocating more memory from the h...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Oct 23, 2019
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Windows Terminal Preview 1910 Release

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

Another update to the Windows Terminal has just been released! As always, you can download the Terminal from the Microsoft Store, the Microsoft Store for Business, and GitHub. 👉 Note: In the About popup within the Terminal, this version will appear as v0.6. Updated UI The Terminal now has even better tabs! The WinUI TabView used in the Terminal ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Oct 22, 2019
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Sharing SSH keys between Windows and WSL 2

Burke Holland
Burke Holland

I recently wrote an article for Smashing Magazine that covers how I set up my personal development environment to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL 2). One of the things that I cover in that article is how to get SSH setup in WSL with Github. I mention in that section that you can share SSH keys between Windows and WSL, but I never...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Oct 4, 2019
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Cascadia Code 1910.04

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

Cascadia Code has received a major update with some new characters! You can download the latest version of the font from the GitHub releases page and it is also shipped in the latest update of the Windows Terminal. 👉 Note: The Terminal will use its shipped version over the separately installed version from GitHub, however it will use font fallback...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Sep 26, 2019
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Integrate Linux Commands into Windows with PowerShell and the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Mike Battista
Mike Battista

A common question Windows developers have is “why doesn’t Windows have yet?”. Whether longing for a powerful pager like or wanting to use familiar commands like or , Windows developers desire easy access to these commands as part of their core workflow. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was a huge step forward here, enabling developers to c...

Command-LineWindows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Windows 10
Sep 24, 2019
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Windows Terminal Preview 1909

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

Welcome back to another release of the Windows Terminal! We have switched to the Windows version syntax, so this is the September 2019 release (1909). As always, you can download the latest release of the Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Cascadia Code Cascadia Code is finally here! Cascadia Code is the new monos...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Sep 18, 2019
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Cascadia Code

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

Cascadia Code is finally here! You can install it directly from the GitHub repository's releases page or automatically receive it in the next update of Windows Terminal. Wait, what's Cascadia Code? Cascadia Code was announced this past May at Microsoft's Build event. It is the latest monospaced font shipped from Microsoft and provides a fresh exp...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console
Aug 27, 2019
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Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Release

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

The time has come for another update to the Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 is now available in the Microsoft Store and on GitHub! And for those interested in more detail, please review the Terminal v0.4 release notes. Settings Updates Profiles.json is Now in LocalState The file has been moved from the folder to the folder....

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command-LineWindows Console