Highlights:

• Enable terminal rewrap on resize by default.
• Optimise self-drawn Box Drawing characters.
• Touch screen touch scrolling support.
• ReGIS vector graphics support.
• Improve HTML export.

Terminal features

• Change HTML print/export to write unwrapped lines by default (#1336).
• New escape sequence variation CSI 10 ; 8 i to print scrollback and screen (#1336).
• Revise HTML blinking and invisible attributes; enable copying (#1336).
• OSC 52 response mirrors requested clipboard/buffer (#1337).
• OSC 1337 Capabilities Feature Reporting (#1341, iTerm2).
• Primary Device Attributes report leaves out disabled features.

Graphics support

• ReGIS vector graphics support.

Character rendering

• Optimise self-drawn Box Drawing characters for some speed-up (#1349).
• Howto: configure proper font-rendered box drawing characters (#1349).

Keyboard handling

• Fix sticky modifier while in IME input mode (#1345).

Touch screen handling

• Touch scrolling by recognition of Windows PAN gesture (#1073).

Window handling

• Enable terminal rewrap on resize by default.
• Declare per-monitor high DPI support in manifest (#1339).

Other

• The "About" display includes the mintty process ID.
• Enable saving image and HTML dumps to home directory, also in WSL (mintty/wsltty#372).
• Wiki: configuration example for text-to-speech output (~#1350).
• Fix log filter.

Configuration

• New option ExportHTMLUnwrapped (#1336).
• New user-definable function export-html-all (~#1336).
• Change default setting RewrapOnResize=yes.
• Renamed option ImageClipChars from SixelClipChars, keeping old name as alias.
• New options ReGISFont, ReGISTension, ReGISGrid.
• New option TouchScroll.

Unicode and Emoji data

• Unicode 17.0 update.
• Enable emoji support by default.

Terminal features

• Fix emoji selection highlighted background.
• Support DECSCS to select virtual communication speed or reset to option Baud.
• ST control terminator accepts multiple ESC (xterm).

Keyboard handling

• Optional click feedback for key press.

WSL support

• Workaround for display corruption in wsl/conpty/cygwin chain after entering ^O (#1332).

Window handling

• Revise close button handling for WSL, esp. in Windows 10 (mintty/wsltty#368).

Configuration

• Interactive configuration of normal and darkmode themes in switchable dialog box (~#1303).
• Optional configuration of normal and darkmode themes in two distinct dialog boxes (#1303).
• New option ConfigThemes to select themes configuration mode (~#1303).
• User-definable function config-log to show all effective log files (mintty/wsltty#333).
• New option LogFilter to avoid terminal reports on viewing log files.
• Change emoji default style from none to Emojis=noto.
• New option KeyClick.

Terminal features

• OSC 7 accepts an explicit localhost path //$HOSTNAME/path (#1330).

WSL support

• Set up HOSTTERM, HOSTLANG only if launching WSL.
• Fix WSL session launcher from terminal started from desktop shortcut.

Desktop integration

• Reestablish small icon support (dropped in 3.7.9) (#1329).
• Restore default/configured icon on invalid icon change sequence.
• Support many dynamic icon changes by handle resource management (#1329).
• Stabilise dynamic icon changes in border cases (~#1329).
• Session launcher: support icons for cmd and powershell.

Window handling

• Avoid tab colour to stick to "moving" indication (~#1293).

Configuration

• Fix reporting if config file to save to is actually read-only (#1331).
• Revised handling of downloaded colour schemes and storing themes (~#1303).
• New option ConfigThemes.
• New config file template, deploy with cygwin package.

Terminal features

• Fix darkmode/wakeup refresh to not override dynamic OSC colour settings.
• Fix emoji invisible and blinking attributes.
• Accept (but ignore) XTMODKEYS subparameters (xterm 398).
• Fix doubled underline (since 3.7.8).
• Avoid repetitive painting of images.
• Fix selection highlighting in configured colours on emojis.
• Full or dimmed selection highlighting depending on clipboard contents (#1322).
• Fix GR-mapped character sets in locking shift mode (vttest 3.10.).
• Indicate enabled OSC 52 in primary DA response (#1324).
• Fix OSC 52 response clipboard indication (#1327).
• Fix emoji background in reverse mode.

Character handling

• Workaround (for cygwin 3.6.4) for non-BMP characters in UTF-8 mode (#1325, #1326).
• Emoji icons are also looked up in /usr/share/emojis, to support common package deployment.

Keyboard handling

• Avoid sticky Ctrl state also after closing menu (~#1273, ~#1266).
• Support modifier combinations with right-Alt in modifyOtherKeys mode (#1108).
• Adapt character code to Shift state in modifyOtherKeys mode (xterm).

WSL support

• New mode to run WSL directly with Windows default access gateway wsl.exe.
• Drop wslbridge gateways by default.
• Derive default icon from WSL launcher shortcut (mintty/wsltty#110).
• Fix WSL icons in session launcher menu entries, also extracted from WSL launchers.

Window handling

• Integrate sessions launched from session launcher into tab set.

Documentation

• Manual and wiki Tips: sections on tab session management (~#1284, ~#1201).
• Manual and wiki Tips: enhanced description of WSL support.
• Manual and wiki: enhanced description of text layout (reflow and bidi).

Configuration

• Changing default setting UnderlineManual=true for consistent line placement.
• New option WSLbridge, default 0 to use wsl.exe to launch WSL.
• New option SelectionMode.
• New user-definable function toggle-reverse-video.
• Logfile placeholders $h or $p are replaced with hostname or process ID.
• Enable logging toggling by default: Log=mintty.$h.%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.$p.log Logging=no (~#1167).

Terminal features

• SUB and CAN controls terminate ESC sequences and are displayed (DEC, xterm 397).
• LAM/ALEF single-cell joining mode (DECSET 2521).
• Arabic joining considers ZWJ and ZWNJ formatters.
• Fix graphics (image/sixel) and emoji display to adapt to horizontal scrolling.
• Fix mouse position click coordinates to adapt to horizontal scrolling.
• Fix reflow to avoid vanishing graphics on terminal resizing.
• Changed image size limit from 1MB to configurable value, default > 4MB.

Character rendering

• Fix overhang rendering for some characters, clipped in 3.7.7 (#1304).
• Optional single-cell rendering of Arabic LAM/ALEF ligatures.
• Revise background clearing to catch border cases (#1310).
• Option to center position of smaller glyphs in CJK ranges (#1313).

Keyboard handling

• Enforce Ctrl as held down (except with AltGr) (~#1266, ~#1273).

Window handling

• Fix frame adjustment when disabling darkmode.
• Display hair cross mouse pointer in pixel-grained mouse reporting modes.

Font configuration:

• Handle font metrics errors (#1309).

Configuration:

• New option ThemeDark to be used if Windows Darkmode is set (#1305, ~#1303).
• New glyph centering prefix ">" for option FontChoice (#1313).
• Propagate TERM config setting to WSL HOSTTERM variable (mintty/wsltty#290, ~mintty/wsltty#278).
• New option PixMousePointer.
• New option MaxImageSize.

Terminal features

• VT52 emulation absolute position keeps row/column if out-of-bounds (#1299).

Character rendering

• Reenabled distinct blinking for combined characters (broken since 3.5.3).
• Fix skipping of accent to next position on background colour.
• Fix drawing of Powerline round symbols (mintty/wsltty#358).
• Fix rendering of right-to-left scripts on italic or cursor position.
• Tweak diagonal box characters for uniform appearance.
• Limit double-width enforcement by ZWJ to potential emoji base characters.

Window handling

• Show new tab at its target position right away (#1292).
• Live changing of reordered tabs while being dragged (#1293).
• Change mouse pointer while tab dragging (#1293).
• Adapt dynamic tab drag highlighting (~#1293).
• Swipe visualisation of tab reorder dragging (~#1293).
• New windows/Alt+F2 launches terminal on same monitor (broken since 2.9.5).
• Maximise/Restore keeps window on same monitor (broken since 3.6.5, ~#1226).
• Virtual transparency: fix background offset on multiple monitors (#1296).
• Virtual transparency: fix background offset with options Scrollbar=left or BorderStyle=frame/void (#1296).
• Image background: keep updated while moving/resizing.

Misc

• Avoid potentially blocking retrieval of printers list (#1295).
• Option -RR reports list of available printers.

Font and character rendering

• Fix rendering of repeated DEC graphics (#1288).

Window handling

• Tabs can be reordered interactively via drag-and-drop (#1283).
• Fix command-line options -B and --Border (#7).

Unicode and Emoji data

• Unicode 16.0 update.

Terminal features

• Emoji width mode (DECSET 2027) to always render emojis in 2-cell width.
• Dropped deprecated DECSET mode 2027 for terminal reflow.
• Fix CopyTab=true behaviour (#1281).

Character encoding

• Disable GB18030 workaround for cygwin since 3.5 which supports it natively.

Font and character rendering

• Fix rendering of combined characters in South East Asian scripts (#1285).
• Fix and enable rendering for geometric Powerline symbols (#979, #943).
• Avoid bottom padding artefacts of double-height self-drawn symbols.
• Box Drawing characters (U+2500..U+257F) are self-drawn (#935, #1119).

Mouse and menu handling

• Allow disabling of mouse menus by clearing Menu* (#1279).

Window handling

• Avoid interaction problem of tabbed/non-tabbed windows.
• Tabs can be reordered via user-definable functions (#1283).
• Tweak initial window display, mitigate bright flash (#1284).
• Border style can be set also via config file (#7).

Configuration

• New option BoxDrawing (#935, #1119).
• New user-definable functions tab-left, tab-right to reorder tabbar (#1283).
• Setting options Menu* to empty value disables the respective menu (#1279).
• Skip config files in $HOME if $HOME does not exist (mintty/wsltty#351).
• New option BorderStyle (#7).

Keyboard handling

• Tweak revised AltGr handling to avoid sticky Ctrl state (#1273, ~#1266).

Misc

• Fix version tag and package building problems.

Configuration

• Prevent saving changed settings to /etc/minttyrc.