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Terminal Chat in Windows Terminal Canary

November 17, 2023 Nov 17, 2023 11/17/23
Christopher Nguyen
At Build 2023, we announced that Windows Terminal users will be able to take advantage of natural language AI to recommend commands, explain errors and take actions within Windows Terminal. Since then, we have been listening to customer feedback and iterating on our AI chat experiments in Windows Terminal. The Windows Terminal team is ...

New enterprise-grade security controls for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23
Craig Loewen
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has added new enterprise-oriented features that will help you deploy, monitor, and configure WSL safely within your organization's setting. Virtual Machine-based environments, like WSL, can be difficult to manage security for in enterprise business settings. We've listened to your feedback and have ...

Introducing Windows Terminal Canary

October 11, 2023 Oct 11, 2023 10/11/23
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 ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.19 Release

September 26, 2023 Sep 26, 2023 09/26/23
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 ...

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 ...