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Oct 15, 2025
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PowerToys 0.95 is here: new Light Switch utility, faster Command Palette, and Peek with Spacebar

Niels Laute
Niels Laute

New month, new release! This oneโ€™s packed with quality-of-life improvements, performance boosts, and a bunch of long-standing community requests finally checked off the list โ€” all while keeping the focus on fundamentals like speed and reliability! Get the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or heading to the release page. Letโ€™s dive in! ...

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Aug 26, 2025
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.24 Release

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

Weโ€™re back with another Terminal release for you! This development cycle, we focused on overall quality of life improvements and bug fixes. We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.23, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. Some notable features to call out are: ๐ŸŒŸ A completely new and more reliable w...

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May 19, 2025
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Edit is now open source

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

What is Edit? Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub! This CLI text editor will be available to preview in the Windows Insider Program in the coming months. After that, it will ship as part of Windows 11! How to use Edit Open Edit by running in...

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Feb 5, 2025
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.23 Release

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

Happy New Year everyone! Here is our first Windows Terminal Preview release of the year! In this release, we focused on porting many of our beloved settings to the Settings UI. We also have several bug fixes and accessibility updates as well. We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.22 which will include all of the features from t...

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Oct 29, 2024
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GitHub Copilot in Windows Terminal

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

GitHub Copilot users can now use the power of GitHub Copilot to get command suggestions and explanations without leaving the terminal with Terminal Chat in Windows Terminal Canary ๐Ÿš€ This is available for all GitHub Copilot Individual, Business, and Enterprise customers. To get started, sign up for a GitHub Copilot free trial and check out the GitH...

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Aug 27, 2024
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.22 Release

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

Hello friends, we have a new Windows Terminal Preview release! Windows Terminal Preview 1.22 is a large release that contains new features such as Sixel image support (a LARGE community contribution!), Grapheme Cluster Support, the Snippets Pane, Quick Fixes in CMD, and a new Cooked Read popup in CMD to name a few! We are also updating Windows Ter...

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May 21, 2024
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WinGet.CommandNotFound

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

We are pleased to announce the release of ! This PowerShell module is a feedback provider plugin for PowerShell that leverages the Windows Package Manager to provide suggestions for packages to install when a native command cannot be found. The command-line predictor feature in PowerShell enables this module to display WinGet packages as predictive...

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May 8, 2024
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.21 Release

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

Windows Terminal is back with another preview release! Windows Terminal Preview 1.21 introduces long-awaited features like Buffer Restore and fontfall back as well as new experimental features like Scratchpad and the ability to load up an image as a texture. There's also a LOT MORE stuff so check out the rest of this blog post to learn more! We ar...

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Apr 30, 2024
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Cascadia Code 2404.23

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

Hello world! We are excited to announce the first major version update of Cascadia Code since the 2111.01 release three years ago! (Wow, time sure flies!) In this new 2404.03 release, we have added support for Quadrants, Sextants, Octants, Large Type Pieces, more legacy computing symbols, and Nerd Fonts to Cascadia Code. Huge shoutouts to Philippe...

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Feb 7, 2024
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Introducing Sudo for Windows!

Jordi Adoumie
Jordi Adoumie

Introducing Sudo for Windows We're excited to announce the release of Sudo for Windows in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052! Sudo for Windows is a new way for users to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session. It is an ergonomic and familiar solution for users who want to elevate a command without having to first open...

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