2.7.0

Major release highlights:

• Localization.
• Compose key.

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Character display:

• Check for misplaced underline by looking for underline only in descender section to decide whether to draw it ourselves (#604).
• New option UnderlineColour to set colour for all lining modes and enforce manual underlining (~#604).

Terminal:

• Compose key.
• Workaround to enable Shift+space in modifyOtherKeys mode.
• Avoiding multiple device attribute reports (#606).
• Dynamic switching escape sequences for wide Indic and Extra characters (#553).

Configuration:

• User interface localization (#537, #1).
• New option value -Rm to report system's monitor configuration (/#599).
• New option --wsl to enable WSL feature adaptations (mintty/wsltty/#8).
• Manual: fixed description of copy/paste shortcuts and refer to option CtrlExchangeShift (#602, #524).
• Case-insensitive lookup for X11 color names (#600).
• Dropped experimental options WideIndic and WideExtra in favour of dynamic switching escape sequences (/#553).
• Detection and graceful handling of corrupt font installation.

2.6.2

Terminal geometry:

• Enabling initial scrollbar (as configured) on Windows 10 (#597).
• Adapting search bar height to font height (zooming, DPI scaling) (#85, #233).
• Fixed zoom anomaly (e.g. Shift+Ctrl+mouse) with search bar (#85, #233).
• Considering search bar (#85) for pixel size setting/reporting.

DPI scaling:

• Tweaked DPI scaling of window decoration, considering option HandleDPI.
• Tuning window size according to DPI again.
• Workaround for Windows non-client DPI scaling ignoring window name for title bar.

Character display:

• Support for "combining double" characters that cover two base characters (~#553).
• Expanding characters as appropriate for wide display (#123, /#570).
• Option --nobidi / --nortl to disable bidi mode (right-to-left support) (#592).

Sixel image display:

• Changed non-graphic display substitute for Sixel image to space to reduce flickering (~#587).
• Changed non-graphic clipboard substitute for Sixel image to configurable string, default space (#587).
• Fixed Sixel colour registers handling (#593), thanks to Hayaki Saito.
• Stuffed Sixel buffer leak (#595).
• Fixed slow scrolling with Sixel images (Windows resource leak, #594).

Configuration:

• New command line option --dir to change the initial working directory (#558, #58).
• Option --nobidi / --nortl to disable bidi mode (right-to-left support) (#592).
• Revised help text (-H).

2.6.1

• Tweaked DPI scaling to avoid terminal resizing on font selection (~#492).
• Enabling auto-scaling of window decoration (#547, #517, thanks to Jason Mansour #588).
• Option AllowSetSelection to enable OSC 52 control sequence to set clipboard for pasting (#258, thanks to kangjianbin).
• Tweaks for Sixel graphics feature.
• Tweaked underscore cursor position, considering row spacing (#589).
• Retaining config file comments (#574).

2.6.0

• Sixel graphics support (#572, thanks to Hayaki Saito).
• VT340 terminal ID configuration option (corresponding to Sixel feature).
• Fixed primary DA response, depending on configured terminal ID.

2.5.1

• Fixed disappearing VT100 graphic characters when font size too small (#578).
• Fixed font scaling behaviour in Windows 7 and XP (#492).
• Fixed DPI scaling of Options menu (#492).
• Fixed font description formatting in Options menu.

2.5.0

• Revise DPI handling (#470; #492, #487); always consider individual monitor DPI.

2.4.3

• Fix trails when moving other window over mintty under certain conditions (#576).
• Fix format of double child creation error message.

2.4.2

• Revert change (#123) that spoiled wide character display (#570).
• Changed bell to make sound by default (like xterm) (#568).

2.4.1

Window handling:

• Tweak and guard DPI change handling (#566, #470).

Text display:

• Combined enhancement for rendering of combined characters (#565).
• Enforce font selection at uniform size, to ensure using bold font.
• Restored self-drawn, overstriking bold mode (#567).
• Stretching narrow characters that are expected wide (#123).
• Option WideExtra for double-width display of extra wide/long Unicode characters (experimental).

Terminal:

• Fixed ESC[14t to report same pixel size as xterm would (without padding).

2.4.0

Configuration:

• Drag-and-drop for Theme and Wave sound file name configuration (#193).
• Link to Color Scheme Configurator in Options menu (#193).
• Drag-and-drop and Store from Color Scheme Configurator (#193).
• Drag-and-drop and Store from theme file on the web (#193).
• Loading theme and bell sound resources also from XDG default config dir (#525), Windows AppData dir, or /usr/share/mintty.
• Enabling cygwin path style for wave file configuration.
• Size option -s is not persisted in config file on Save.

Text display:

• Handling low-contrast of configured cursor colours more gracefully (#548).
• Tweaked manual underline to scale with font and avoid scroll glitches.
• Manual drawing of VT100 line drawing graphics (#130, ~#551).
• Fixed right-to-left mirroring of '('.
• Not combining characters to unexisting glyphs.
• Preventing mangled digit rendering if surrounded by certain scripts (~#285).
• Preventing mangled combining characters by drawing them separately (~#553, #295).
• Option WideIndic for double-width display of wide Indic characters (#553) (experimental).

Window handling:

• Tweaked DPI changes to stabilize roundtrips of font and window size (#470).
• Option HandleDPI=false to disable handling of DPI changes (#547, #492).
• Heuristic attempt to stabilize font size roundtrips after fullscreen.