Windows Terminal v1.14.228

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This servicing release of Windows Terminal v1.14 originally became available in the Release Preview channel on August 17th

Preinstallation Kit info

A preinstallation kit is available for system integrators and OEMs interested in prepackaging Windows Terminal with a Windows image. More information is available in the DISM documentation on preinstallation. Users who do not intend to preinstall Windows Terminal should continue using the msixbundle distribution.

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

This version of Windows Terminal is distributed in two bundles, one of which works on Windows 10-11 and the other of which only works on Windows 11. The Windows 11 version is much smaller because we no longer need to work around a platform issue related to our dependencies.

If you intend on using Terminal as an unpackaged application--that is, extracting the msix file--we recommend that
you use the Win10 bundle. You will need the Visual C++ runtime redistributable.

In addition, if you install the packaged version on either Windows 10 or Windows 11, it now depends on the Visual C++ Universal Runtime Package.

Despite these distributions having different version numbers, they are built from the same code and there is no
functional difference between them.

If you install the Windows 10 verison on Windows 11, it will probably automatically upgrade itself to the Windows 11
version. It turns out that it is impossible to have two bundles with the same version number, so it has to be this
way.

It contains the following fixes:

• We've upgraded to XAML 2.7.3 to fix a crash in closing the Settings page ([1.14] Update the MUX package to 2.7.3 #13761)
• The "Open Terminal Here" context menu item should show up more reliably (and crash less) (reverted PR Hide "Open in Terminal" context menu option appropriately #13206)
• We've solved--or at least, reduced the incidence of--one source of deadlocks in rendering (Call UpdatePatternLocations from a background thread #13758)
• Terminal will no longer replace colored backgrounds with blank spaces on first launch (Fix conpty not emitting colored spaces on the VERY FIRST frame #13665)
• We will once again display underlines, hyperlinks, and more to the end of the line instead of getting tired and stopping early (Fix the ConPTY extended attributes optimization #13661)
• SendInput with high unicode characters will no longer fail (Fix input corruption for high code points #13667)
• We've restored the ability for Alt+Tab to restore the Terminal after it was minimized with the taskbar icon (Restore the ability for alt+tab to restore the Terminal after minimizing with taskbar #13624)

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