Download both from the Microsoft Store, GitHub, or using Windows Package Manager. Alongside Windows Terminal Preview 1.16, the regular Windows Terminal is being updated to version 1.15, with all the features available previously in the 1.15 Preview. The blog post goes into all the details, including the bug fixes and more minor improvements. The new renderer is more performant and now supports additional pixel shaders (including the retro effect), bold text, and underline/overline/hyperlink lines.

In this release, we are making this new renderer the default text renderer for all profiles. In version 1.13, we released the new, experimental text rendering engine under an experimental feature you could enable for a profile. What’s also neat is the introduction of a new text rendering engine, first introduced a few versions ago as an experiment. If you really want a searing white terminal, you still can, but you’ll have to enable it yourself. Additional visual enhancement tools include refinements to the default colors, and Windows Terminal Preview will now automatically launch in dark mode. Kayla Cinnamon, MicrosoftThrough a condensed demo, see the updates, Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft, and her team have been making on the new Wi.

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