Windows Command Line

Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release

Kayla CinnamonMarch 17, 2020Mar 17, 202003/17/20

Welcome to the v0.10 release of the Windows Terminal! As always, you can install the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or download the package from the GitHub releases page. Let's dive into what's new! Mouse Input The Terminal now supports mouse input in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) applications as well as Windows applications ...

WSL 2 will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004

Craig LoewenMarch 13, 2020Mar 13, 202003/13/20

WSL 2 will soon be officially available as part of Windows 10, version 2004! As we get ready for general availability, we want to share one additional change: updating how the Linux kernel inside of WSL 2 is installed and serviced on your machine. We’ve heard lots of community feedback that the install experience could be streamlined, and we...

Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 Release

Kayla CinnamonFebruary 13, 2020Feb 13, 202002/13/20

The v0.9 release of the Windows Terminal has arrived! This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features before the v1 release. You can download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let's dive into what's new! Command Line Arguments The wt execution alias now supports command ...

Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release

Kayla CinnamonJanuary 14, 2020Jan 14, 202001/14/20

The release of the Windows Terminal preview v0.8 has arrived! You can download the Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let's jump into what's new! Search Search functionality has been added to the Terminal! The default key binding to invoke the search dropdown is {"command": "find", "keys": ["ctrl+shift+f"]}. ...

Happy Holidays from the Windows Terminal Team!

Kayla CinnamonDecember 18, 2019Dec 18, 201912/18/19

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 ...

Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release

Kayla CinnamonNovember 26, 2019Nov 26, 201911/26/19

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 ...

Memory Reclaim in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Craig LoewenOctober 30, 2019Oct 30, 201910/30/19

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 ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1910 Release

Kayla CinnamonOctober 23, 2019Oct 23, 201910/23/19

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 ...

Sharing SSH keys between Windows and WSL 2

Burke HollandOctober 22, 2019Oct 22, 201910/22/19

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 ...

Cascadia Code 1910.04

Kayla CinnamonOctober 4, 2019Oct 4, 201910/4/19

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 ...