Windows Terminal Preview 1.8 and Stable 1.7 Released

Today, the team behind the Windows Terminal app issued two new releases. The one is in the Stable channel, which is version 1.7, and the Preview release is version 1.8. Here what is new in these updates.

What's new in Windows Terminal 1.7

• Settings UI is default in stable. You can access the settings UI by clicking the settings button in the dropdown menu or by typing Ctrl+,.
• You can run a command in the current active window with wt -w 0, or in a specific window with wt -w 1
• Profile fragments, which app developers can use to provide additional information to Terminal

What's new in Windows Terminal 1.8

• Shift+Click to open a profile in a new window: You can now hold Shift and click on a profile in the dropdown menu to open that profile in a new window.
• Unfocused appearance settings: You can add the "unfocusedAppearance" object into your profile’s JSON object and specify appearance settings inside of it. These appearance settings will enable when that profile is open and unfocused.
• Window naming: You can specify wt commandline options to name a certain window with the --window,-w <window-id> argument.
• If you’d like to easily identify your window, you can use the identifyWindow action. You can name a new window with the command line or rename an existing window by using the command palette.

You can learn more about these changes in the official blog post HERE.

You can install Windows Terminal from Microsoft Store:

• Preview
• Stable

Also, you can download both versions from GitHub.