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Walkthroughs in the Windows Terminal Repository

September 5, 2023 Sep 5, 2023 09/5/23
Mike Griese
Note: You can also watch a video version of this blog post on Open at Microsoft. Driving open-source contributions in large projects can be a challenge. As a new contributor, you might have a great idea for a new feature, or want to help fix a nagging bug, but you don't know where to start. Even with a small project, it can be difficult ...

Windows Terminal on Open at Microsoft

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23
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 ...

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 ...

WinGet configuration Preview

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23
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...

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 ...

D3D12 GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available!

February 13, 2023 Feb 13, 2023 02/13/23
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 ...

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 ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11

November 22, 2022 Nov 22, 2022 11/22/22
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 wsl --install and easily upgradeable by running wsl --update for existing users. Using the Store version of...