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Oct 11, 2023
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Introducing Windows Terminal Canary

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

Windows Terminal is distributed in a variety of formats. We are thrilled to announce that we are adding Windows Terminal Canary to the Windows Terminal family. Windows Terminal Canary is a new canary channel of Windows Terminal that ships nightly and includes “hot off the presses” features. This Canary channel gives users the opportunity to try new...

Command Line
Sep 26, 2023
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.19 Release

Christopher Nguyen
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 Terminal ...

Command LineCommand-LineWindows Console
Aug 28, 2023
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Windows Terminal on Open at Microsoft

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

Are curious about how the Windows Terminal project got started? Are you interested in open sourcing your own project? Check out this special Open at Microsoft episode where we discuss the history of Windows Terminal and recap the decisions that led to Windows Terminal being an open-source project 🙂 What is Open at Microsoft? Open at Microsoft i...

Command Line
May 25, 2023
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Shell integration in the Windows Terminal

Mike Griese
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 to sem...

Command LineCommand-LineWindows Terminal
May 25, 2023
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WinGet configuration Preview

Demitrius Nelon
Demitrius Nelon

The Windows Package Manager team has been working on several things we're sure you will be very excited about. If you've been following the WinGet blogs, you're already familiar with package management on Windows. We've got some goodies in store for you like package pinning, our new PowerShell module, and running WinGet in the system context. We'v...

Windows Package ManagerCommand LineWindows
May 24, 2023
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.18 Release

Christopher Nguyen
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 install ...

Command LineCommand-LineWindows Console
Feb 13, 2023
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D3D12 GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available!

Sil Vilerino
Sil Vilerino

Introduction In DirectX ❤ Linux - DirectX Developer Blog we wrote about DXCore & D3D12 support on WSLg and described OpenGL & OpenCL support by adding a D3D12 backend to Mesa 3D, allowing such 3D and compute workloads to be offloaded to the GPU. To extend the types of workloads that we can accelerate with the GPU in WSLg, we also recentl...

Command LineWindows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Jan 24, 2023
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release

Christopher Nguyen
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 using w...

Command-LineWindows ConsoleCommand Line
Jan 23, 2023
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Windows Package Manager 1.4

Demitrius Nelon
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 aliases to ...

Command-LineWindows ConsoleCommand Line
Nov 22, 2022
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11

Craig Loewen
Craig Loewen

Today the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the Microsoft Store is dropping its “Preview” label and becomes generally available with our latest release! We are also making the Store version of WSL the default for new users who run and easily upgradeable by running for existing users. Using the Store version of WSL allows you to get updates to ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)Command Line