Wintty 1.0.0-rc.2 release notes
In Pro, sessions keep running through updates, saved secrets are encrypted on disk, notifications work, and the palette and tab switcher open reliably.
Highlights
- Pro and Pro Legacy: your sessions keep running when you close Wintty or it updates, and come back when you reopen it. Ctrl+Alt+T opens another persistent tab.
- In Pro and Pro Legacy, the tokens and variables a restored session carries are encrypted on disk for your account rather than kept as plain text.
- One running instance per edition: launching Wintty again opens a new window in it, honouring a -e command, the working directory and the jump-list actions. Editions installed side by side, Wintty and Wintty Pro for example, stay separate.
- Pro: the command palette, the tab switcher (Ctrl+Tab) and the tab overview (Ctrl+Shift+E) open reliably.
- Updated to Windows App SDK 2.4.0 and WinUI 2.3.6.
Fixes
- Notifications work: update, sign-in and renewal notices appear.
- Shell profiles whose command is a quoted path or carries arguments, PowerShell 7 or wsl for example, start correctly.
- The terminal gets keyboard focus back when the sign-in window closes, so shortcuts work right after signing in. The pane that was focused when the window closed is focused again at launch.
- In-app notices dock in their own row, so the terminal is resized rather than covered.
- A restored tab whose profile no longer exists is skipped instead of opening broken.
- Stability improvements in session handling, updates and notifications.
- Stability improvements in startup, rendering and crash reporting.
Known issues
Warning
- To take an update, use the update popover inside the app; the buttons on the update toasts do not act yet.
- In Pro and Pro Legacy, updating from 1.0.0-rc.1 clears the scrollback your sessions resume with, one time only. Commands, folders and layout are kept.
- If the update fails, install this version from the download page.
- The Start menu's All apps entry can show a small, upscaled icon; the Desktop and Start menu shortcuts carry the proper icon.
Who gets this version
| Tier | How this version reaches you |
|---|---|
| OSS | Source only, by design: no installer and no update channel, so build the current windows branch yourself. |
| Sponsor | On the tip channel as an update to rc.1: the app updates itself, or sign in with GitHub on the download page to install fresh. |
| Pro | On the tip channel, through the same sign-in as the Sponsor build. The stable channel follows with the 1.0.0 release. |
| Pro Enterprise | Not part of this release. |
| Pro Legacy | On the tip channel, included with Pro. This is the DirectX 11 build, for machines whose graphics hardware cannot run the DirectX 12 renderer. |
Found a problem?
Say which version you are on. Bugs and feature ideas: deblasis/wintty issues. Anything with logs or crash dumps: Discord or @polyMatto on X, or by email, which is easy enough to find, not a public issue.