Here on this day of September 2022, we've quashed a number of bugs in the 1.16 preview release and added some new features to boot. Enjoy!

Changes

• Terminal now understands the sizes of characters newly-added in Unicode 15.0 (#14001)
• We've added support for fractional font sizes (surprise! on a point release!) (#14013) (#14040)
  • If you're using the new text rendering engine plus the Terminus TTF font, you can now select a font size that perfectly matches a bitmap strike . . . and it works!

Bug Fixes

New Rendering Engine

• Bitmap fonts should look much better now (#14014)
  • As a side effect, we are now intentionally ignoring the typographic line gap. We have found that monospaced terminal fonts have a line gap of zero, and the ones that don't should.
  • See above. Some bitmap fonts require fractional point sizes . . . so now you can see them in their full glory!
• On devices that don't support Shader Model 4.0 but do support DirectX 10, we will no longer try to use the glyph atlas (#13994)
  • ... and if we did, we would no longer tell you about the error 10,000 times (#13995) (thanks to @Its-Nevmo and @noinkling for testing!)
• No longer should there be streaks of cursor left all over the left side of the screen (#14038)
• If you were to specify \e#3, we might have crashed before, but now we will not (#13966)
• You can once again use shaders for experimental.pixelShaderPath that are not technically perfect (that is, ones that compile with warnings) (#13998) (thanks @mrange!)
• Some text (especially that which requires fake italics) should now look less like a RaNsOm nOtE (#14039)
  • It might still look a little bit like a ransom note, sorry. Just less so.

Reliability

• Tabs should no longer take up to infinity seconds to close (#14041)
  • If you see any instances of OpenConsole.exe hanging around after you close a tab (or a whole Terminal), please let us know!
• The "Open in Terminal ..." context menu item should now show up and disappear more reliably (#14048)