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Terminal Chat in Windows Terminal Canary

November 17, 2023 Nov 17, 2023 11/17/23
Christopher Nguyen
At Build 2023, we announced that Windows Terminal users will be able to take advantage of natural language AI to recommend commands, explain errors and take actions within Windows Terminal. Since then, we have been listening to customer feedback and iterating on our AI chat experiments in Windows Terminal. The Windows Terminal team is ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.19 Release

September 26, 2023 Sep 26, 2023 09/26/23
Christopher Nguyen
The Windows Terminal team is back with a new preview release! Windows Terminal Preview 1.19 introduces new features such as Broadcast Input, Web Search, the Suggestions UI and more! We are also updating Windows Terminal to version 1.18 which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. As always, you can install Windows ...

Shell integration in the Windows Terminal

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23
Mike Griese
Starting in Terminal 1.15 Preview, the Windows Terminal has started experimentally supporting some new "shell integration" features that make the command line easier to use. In earlier releases, we enabled the shell to inform the Terminal about the current working directory. Now, we have added support for more sequences that allow your shell ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.18 Release

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023 05/24/23
Christopher Nguyen
Welcome back to another Windows Terminal release! This release updates Windows Terminal to version 1.17 and includes all of the features from this previous blog post. Additionally, Windows Terminal Preview is getting an update to version 1.18 and will include all the features detailed here, so let's talk all about them! As always, you can ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
Christopher Nguyen
The Windows Terminal team is back with our first release of the year! 🎉 This release introduces version 1.17 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.16 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store, from the GitHub releases page, or by...

Windows Package Manager 1.4

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23
Demitrius Nelon
The Windows Package Manager team has been busy working on WinGet 1.4. This release introduces support for .zip-based packages. WinGet can now extract and run an installer inside of a .zip archive or install one or more portable packages from an archive. The WinGet open-source community has also been busy adding new features like command ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.16 Release

September 13, 2022 Sep 13, 2022 09/13/22
Kayla Cinnamon
The Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store, from the GitHub releases page, or by using ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.15 Release

July 6, 2022 Jul 6, 2022 07/6/22
Kayla Cinnamon
Welcome back to another Windows Terminal release! This release updates Windows Terminal to version 1.14 and includes all of the features from this previous blog post. Additionally, Windows Terminal Preview is getting an update to version 1.15 and will include all the features detailed here. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.14 Release

May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 05/24/22
Kayla Cinnamon
It's Microsoft Build! We have a Windows Terminal Preview release for you focused on fixing bugs and improving quality. This release also migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.13, which contains the new features defined in this previous blog post. As always, you can install Windows Terminal Preview and Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store...