This release brings some assorted top-hitting bug fixes into the preview channel from the main development branch.

For the holiday season, enjoy the following:

Changes

• This version of Windows Terminal ships with Cascadia Code 2111.01.
  • The hinting on the brace ligatures was incorrect in the Italic style, which looked downright hilarious. See microsoft/cascadia-code#595 for more details.
• On Windows 11, the Terminal now supports the "snap layouts" feature (#11680)

Bug Fixes

• The Default Terminal option will now work on machines that do not have the Visual C++ Redistributable (#11610)
• Splitting a non-focused tab will no longer blast Terminal into outer space (#11635)
• All of the alternative character set slots have been defaulted to ASCII (#11658) (thanks @j4james!)
  • This is in line with other terminals, and should reduce the incidence of a stray escape character turning your screen into soup.
• We were seeing some crashes on window painting in the synthetic test lab, which we think we've addressed (#11674)
• The background image path should once again be displayed in the settings UI (#11580) (thanks @ianjoneill!)
• AltGr should once again work in the Settings UI (#11808) (#11814)
• GetConsoleCommandHistoryLengthA will now respond with the correct length (???) (#11897)
• Fragments that update multiple profiles will no longer confuse and enrage us (#11598)
• There will once again be a window border when you use Win+↓ in fullscreen mode (#11653) (thanks @serd2011!)
• Launching additional applications in "default terminal" windows has been made more reliable (#11646)
• The opacity slider once again appears when it should (and disappears when it shouldn't), rather than the other way around (#11643)
• Our informational tips will no longer obscure the tabs when showTabsInTitleBar is false (#11609)
• We made the mistake of printing hex error codes with negative signs (oops); we've fixed that (#11667)
• Shutdown has been made slightly more reliable (#11857) (thanks @Rosefield!)
• Detected URLs will no longer be offset by complex unicode characters on the same line (#11915) (thanks @comzyh!)
• On Windows Server, Terminal will no longer render the display in "ransom note" style (#11764)