[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.8.2

[Thomas Wolff]

I have uploaded mintty 2.8.2 with the following changes:

Window and session control
 Â  * Transparent session switcher icons (#699).
 Â  * Avoid blocking when switching to other window which is 
blocked/suspended.
 Â  * Prevent initial bogus font zooming (#708).
 Â  * Prevent accidental text selection on mouse-click window activation 
(#717).
 Â  * Terminal Break available in extended context menu (#716).
 Â  * Terminal Break assignable to Break key (option Key_Break) (#716).

Configuration
 Â  * Support ~/ prefix for config files in SessionCommands configuration 
for session launcher.
 Â  * Support ~/ prefix for logfiles, especially for usage in config files.
 Â  * With --WSL, let option "-" request login shell.
 Â  * Icon determined via --WSL shall not override icon taken from shortcut.
 Â  * Option ShortLongOpts enables single-dash named options on command 
line (#600, requested by Brian Inglis).
 Â  * Convenience xterm-style command line options: -fn, -fs, -geometry, 
-fg, -bg, ...

Character rendering and text attribute handling
 Â  * Caching ambiguous character width for speed-up (#712).
 Â  * Revised weight attribute handling, esp. bold display (thanks to 
avih, #714, #710).
 Â  * Distinguishing ANSI colours 0..15 from palette colours 0..15 like 
xterm (~#714).
 Â  * OSC 6 can enable/disable bold foreground colour (xterm).
 Â  * Tweaked brightened bold to never decrease the text colour contrast.
 Â  * Terminal Reset also resets dynamic bold foreground colour.
 Â  * Fixed non-BMP italic display.
 Â  * Proper support of true colour attribute for Copy as rich text 
(thanks to avih, #710).
 Â  * Colour setting sequence OSC 4 limited to the defined palette range 
(~#710).
 Â  * Allowing minor font size deviation of bold font.
 Â  * Underlay manual underline and overline behind text.
 Â  * Option BoldAsRainbowSparkles.

Other
 Â  * Bundling selected theme files with the package (#711).
 Â  * Support Alt+F2 in same directory (after OSC 7) for WSL.
 Â  * MINTTY_PID in UserCommands: support to terminate foreground process 
(#716).
 Â  * Fixed bug when copying true-colour text as rich text (thanks to avih).
 Â  * Prevent HOME from being propagated back to Windows applications if 
called from WSL (mintty/wsltty#76).

The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
It also links to the issue tracker.

------
Thomas

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