1.9.7

Updated to mintty 2.9.7; highlights:

• Significant improvements in bidirectional handling.
• Text can be selected with the keyboard.
• Explicit hyperlink attributes.
• Avoid keyboard/echo latency.

Specific to wsltty:

• Allow WSL commands as parameters to .bat invocation scripts (#147).

1.9.6

• Updated to mintty 2.9.6.

• Supporting icon customization, deploying alternative mintty icon (#132).

• Enabling default WSL context menu entry by avoiding Windows collision (#141).

• Cloning AppID from desktop shortcut (#96).

• Support for pasting from Windows clipboard history (#139).

• Option to lock title from being changed (#138).

1.9.5

• Updated to mintty 2.9.5.
  • Fixed startup directory after cloning new window after starting from desktop shortcut (#96).
  • Changed default handling of resolution change to HandleDPI=2.
  • Flexible Copy as HTML formatting levels, configurable in Options dialog.

1.9.4

Updated to mintty 2.9.4.
Enhanced taskbar icon grouping behaviour (#96).

1.9.3

Updated to mintty 2.9.3

• Fixed scroll-up problem (#128).

1.9.2

[removed 1.9.2 installer due to a serious bug in terminal handling]

Update to mintty 2.9.2

• Ligatures display support while being input (#123).
• Option to scale window to aspect ratio of background image (#122).
• Support for Windows pathnames in background filenames (#122).
• Special option setting AppID=@ to derive taskbar grouping implicitly from WSL distro name (#96).

Build

• Removed hen-or-egg dependency on wslbridge-backend (#118).

Installation:

• Consider manually tuned installdir and configdir (#119).
• Quote PATH setting (#121).

1.9.0.2

Fixed wslbridge version to include recent improvements.

1.9.0

Updated to mintty 2.9.0.
Updated wslbridge with recent enhancements.

• Fixed initial bold as font suppression glitch (#103).
• Keeping WSL windows together in Windows task bar (#96).
• Enabled OSC 7 current directory injection for Ctrl+click in WSL (#104, #19).
• Supporting mintheme tool on WSL.
• Option --WSLmode to tune behaviour for WSL distro but not launch (#99).

1.8.5

• Update to mintty 2.8.5.

• Update to wslbridge wslpath patch.

• Support for WSL mount point configuration (/etc/wsl.conf or fstab) (#91).

• Attempt to avoid virus scanners choking on VBS script name (#94).

• Invocation as wsl*[-distro].exe implies a --WSL[=distro] parameter (#63).

• Reverted Sixel colour registers patch that could fail Sixel display or even stall terminal (#90).

• Character Info support (display of character and emoji names) (#82).

1.8.4

Updated to mintty 2.8.4:

• Emoji support (#82).
• Windows taskbar "jump list" support.
• Focus-click tweaks (#88).

Other:

• Enhanced shell selection and login mode instructions (#56, ~#83).
• Fixed wsltty version check (#85).