Windows Terminal Preview v1.20.10293.0

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Welcome to Windows Terminal Preview 1.20! We've got a pretty small release this time, since we focused mostly on
backportable bug fixes (50% of all checkins were backported to 1.19!). We did land some excellent community
contributions this time, however, so take a peek at the notes below for more.

Why are there so many assets? How do I choose?

Please visit our page documenting the different Windows Terminal Distributions!

Features

• We can now display colored and curly, dashed, or dotted and doubled underlines, even in conhost! (Support rendering of underline style and color #16097) (Fix curlyline rendering in AtlasEngine and GDIRenderer #16444) (thanks @tusharsnx!) with some help from the team (Put the final touches on GDI's underlines #16475)
• The new rendering engine is now enabled by default in all channels (Enable AtlasEngine by default #16277)
• Double-clicking a wrapped word will now select the entire thing. I know, it's 2024. (Wrap word-wise selection when the word is actually wrapped #16441) (thanks @js324!)
• We will now highlight all search results while the search box is open (Highlight all search results while the search box is open #16227) (thanks @e82eric!)
• You can now set a different opacity value for unfocused panes ( Allow Opacity to be set differently in both focused and unfocused terminals #15974) (thanks @Jaswir!)
• We've reimplemented resize with reflow; please be on the lookout for any bugs! (Reimplement TextBuffer::Reflow #15701)

Changes

• The "Canary" ZIP distribution will now default to portable mode (Build unpackaged Canary distributions in portable mode #16048)
• We will now automatically clear any "Failed to reload settings" dialogs when you fix your settings.json (Dismiss "Failed to reload settings" modals when settings.json is valid #16119) (thanks @codecruisedor!)
• Filenames and paths generated by dropping files/directories on a WSL instance will be wrapped in single quotes (rather than double quotes) (add single quotes to WSL drag and drop #16214) (thanks @js324!)
• The mouse wheel will now automatically scroll the application when the alternate buffer is in use ("Alternate Scroll Mode" is enabled by default) (Enable alternate scroll mode by default #16535) (thanks @j4james!)
• The performance and correctness of HTML and RTF copy has been vastly improved (Refactor TextBuffer::GenHTML/RTF to read the buffer directly #16377) (Avoid generating extra formatted copies when no action specific copyFormatting is set #16480) (thanks @tusharsnx!)
• We have removed a whole bunch of outdated telemetry from the console, like "which VT sequences are in use?" and "did you use Search Backwards or Search Forwards more often in Find?" Check out the PRs for more details: (Remove conhost telemetry #16253) (Add missing TraceLoggingRegister calls #16467) (Remove leftover telemetry code #16468)

VT and terminal emulation

• We now support DECST8C, which will reset the tab stops to every 8 columns (Add support for the DECST8C escape sequence #16534) (thanks @j4james!)
• We now support DSR queries for printer status, user-defined keys, keyboard status, locator status, locator identity, data integrity and multiple session status (Add support for more DSR queries. #16525) (thanks @j4james!)

Bug Fixes

• In cooked read clients, backspacing a control visualizer (e.g. ^X) no longer messes up the display (Fix backspacing over control visualizers #16400)
• INPUT_RECORD's KeyEvent.dwControlKeyState will no longer contain ENHANCED_KEY when it shouldn't (Fix dwControlKeyState always including ENHANCED_KEY #16335)
• Ctrl+Space now works properly (Fix Control+Space not sent to program running in terminal #16298) (thanks @lonnywong!)
• Mashing Enter will no longer disrupt CommandEnd scrollbar marks (in general, we now ignore back-to-back duplicate marks) (Don't end the current mark, if we get one of the same kind #16107)
• During RTF export, we will now use a background color directive that Microsoft Word understands (Use MSWord compatible RTF sequence for background text color #16035) (thanks @tusharsnx!)
• Once again, we've fixed another issue where Terminal will spontaneously fail to load Cascadia Mono (Fix nearby fonts for DxEngine again #16323)
• ReadFile with a too-small buffer size will no longer corrupt your input stream and drop events (Fix input buffering for A APIs #16313)
• We've fixed which glyph we use for the SUB control character (Change the SUB control glyph to U+2426 #16559) (thanks @j4james!)

Accessibility

• Color buttons in the settings UI will now announce their RGB values for screen readers (Update SUI Color Scheme colors' AutoProp.Name and ToolTip #16544)

VT and terminal emulation

• Terminal will no longer double-encode some inputs, like mouse mode, mangling them beyond comprehension (Avoid encoding VT via win32 input mode #16407)
• Toggling the alternate screen buffer in a PROCESSED_INPUT console application will no longer crash the console (COOKED_READ: Fix reference counting woes #16187)
• DRCS soft fonts received in chunks are no longer corrupted (Fix chunked soft fonts not working #16349)
• ED2 (Erase in Display) will no longer emit a ton of blank lines (Reset _wrapForced when erasing scrollback #16610)
• @j4james rewrote and fixed 11 bugs in VT input mode, vastly improving our compatibility with other terminals and applications (Refactor VT terminal input #16511) (thanks @j4james!)
  • Including...
    • DECKPAM (application keypad mode)
    • Alt+Arrow Keys generating extra characters
    • Mouse input when DECARM (auto-repeat mode) is disabled
    • Ctrl+Anything that didn't have a Ctrl not generating any input
    • Ctrl+_ generating a RET
    • Ctrl+: on a JIS-106 keyboard generating a ^Z
    • Ctrl+Alt+\ not working in WSL
    • Ctrl being misinterpreted under some custom keyboard layouts
    • Alt not working for non-alphabetic control characters
    • AltGr behaving improperly on some keyboards with some input

Usability and UI

• The readability of our various settings disclaimers has been improved (and made more Roman) (Change DisclaimerStyle to be non-italic #16272) (thanks @chausner!)
• ... and those disclaimers will no longer overlap the content sometimes (Fix overlapping disclaimer text in Profiles' Defaults section #16602) (thanks @tusharsnx!)
• The settings page will no longer forget how far you'd scrolled when it reloads (Fix scrollbar resetting position on save #16261) (thanks @radu-cernatescu!)

Reliability

• Terminal should no longer crash after you close a couple windows on Windows 10 (Pump the message queue on frozen windows  #16588) (Avoid timer ticks on frozen windows #16587)
• Two memory leaks in our screen reader integration have been stoppered (Eliminate two memory leaks #16597) (thanks @glenrgordon!)
• We've eliminated an entire class of shutdown issues by just terminating the process directly when we think it's time (Use TerminateProcess to exit early #16575)
• We've stamped out a crash that would occur when closing some tabs (Fix a coroutine AV crash #16412)
• The Azure Cloud Shell integration should no longer crash on a network timeout (Fixed crash when cloud shell provider timed out or was closed waiting for login #16364) (thanks @reynoldsa!)

Schema

• We've fixed a number of issues in the JSON schema (Fix issues and warnings caused by profiles.schema.json #16103)

conhost and Console hosting

• conhost: the performance of scrolling text has been improved, like, 10x (Improve conhost's scrolling performance #16333)
• conhost: we un-broke rectangular copy via the Edit > Mark menu item (Fix rectangular clipboard copying initiated from the app menu #16197)
• conhost: "disable scroll forward" once again works (Fix scroll-forward-disable setting #16411)
• conhost: font preview is working again (Fix font preview for conhost #16324)
• conhost: SetConsoleWindowInfo no longer fails to refresh the display (Fix scrolling with SetConsoleWindowInfo #16334)
• conhost: we have removed all traces of EDP clipboard auditing (Remove EDP auditing completely #16460)
• conhost: we now retry a few times to open the clipboard and put standards-compliant CF_UNICODETEXT on it (Fix conhost clipboard handling bugs #16457)
• conpty: on exit, we will now deassert Win32 Input Mode (Disable win32 input mode on exit #16408)
• conpty: we now buffer more text input before deciding how to parse it (Increase VtInputThread buffer size #16470)
• conpty: we've fixed a shutdown deadlock with WSL (ConPTY: Fix a shutdown deadlock with WSL #16340)
• conpty: we will no longer deadlock waiting for DSR CPR when Win32 Input Mode is enabled (conpty: request DSR-CPR before Win32 input mode #16445)
• conpty: we will no longer return to the VT parsing ground state when we are expecting win32 input sequences; this fixes a pasting issue in SSH and WSL interop (Fix ConPTY inputs incorrectly being treated as plain text #16352) (Fix parsing of chunked win32-input-mode sequences #16466)

Miscellaneous

• With special thanks to @marcelwgn, @jsoref, @ryanlua, @AtariDreams, @debghs, @mdanish-kh, and @Jvr2022 for
  code quality, documentation, repository management, dependency and spelling updates across the board. We couldn't do
  it without you!

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