[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.5.3

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Thu Feb 3 17:48:11 GMT 2022


I have uploaded mintty 3.5.3 with the following changes:

Terminal features
   * Fixed combining characters colour rendering (~#710).

Desktop integration
   * WSL path conversion considers extended /etc/fstab entries (#1130).
   * WSL path conversion supports UNC paths (#1130).
   * Clipboard: strip terminating NUL (#1132).

Window handling
   * New key shortcut Shift+Shift+Alt+F2 (both Shift keys) to enforce 
new window outside tabbar.
   * Distinct system menu items "New Window" and "New Tab" if tabbar 
enabled (mintty/wsltty#295).
   * Limiting size of scrollback buffer to secure buffer and clipboard 
handling (#1134).
   * Avoid position gap after Options Apply (~#1126) in more cases, 
especially scrollbar toggling.
   * Always fix window position back to screen when widening beyond screen.
   * Save as Image (from Ctrl+right-click) with Shift also opens the 
image (#1139).
   * Horizontal scrolling feature (#138).

Font rendering
   * Tweak again handling of negative font leading (#948, #946).

Hotkey functions and user-definable functions
   * Deprecated default key assignments Control+Shift+N / +T / +P.
   * New user-definable functions new-tab and new-tab-cwd.

Configuration
   * New option NewTabs (mintty/wsltty#295).
   * New command-line option --newtabs.
   * New option MaxScrollbackLines.
   * Option OldModifyKeys to tune modified special keys.
   * New command-line option --horbar.
   * New user-definable functions for horizontal scrolling.

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

------
Thomas


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