Windows Terminal gets a bunch of useful updates in the latest release

Microsoft has released two new versions of Windows Terminal, the default command line app for Windows 11. These updates do not contain anything major, as Microsoft calls them "modest servicing updates" ahead of the upcoming version 1.25. In the changelog, you will mostly find minor improvements and various tweaks.

Here is what is new in Windows Terminal Preview 1.24.10212.0:

• The extraneous TerminalAzBridge executable has been removed from the Terminal package (#19528)
• The caption buttons will (finally!) dim when the window is out of focus (#19668) (thanks @Aliremu!)
• Compatibility with some popular Chinese and Japanese IMEs has been restored (#19738)
• Many of our cross-thread UI operations have been hardened against use-after-free (#19752)
• Terminal should no longer display an error dialog about "threading" when loading settings (#19755)
• Terminal should no longer hang if you have the large paste warning dialog enabled and paste a lot of text (#19721)
• The top-level WindowsTerminal process will now exit properly when the last window fails to tear down (#19743)
• We've checked in a speculative fix for an XAML focus crash (#19753)
• Themes setting a tab row background color will no longer have that color overridden by the acrylic material (#19622) (thanks @EclipseAditya!)

In addition to the changes above, the stable version of Windows Terminal received three more changes in version 1.23.20211.0:

• We have backported support for DECSET 2026 Synchronized Output from the Preview channel (#18826) (#18833)

• Terminal (Portable, Unpackaged) will no longer crash if you have a stray copy of Microsoft.UI.Xaml.dll on your %PATH% (#19268)

• The Cut/Copy/Paste menu in the settings UI is now properly localized (#18908) (thanks @consvc!)

   

You can download the latest Windows Terminal releases from the app's official GitHub repository. It is also available in the Microsoft Store, and it will update itself automatically in the background.

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Posted Monday 26 January 2026 at 4:55 am AEST (my time).

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