Windows Terminal Preview v1.24.3504.0

[DHowett]

It's the most Terminal time of the year! Here's a servicing update to fix a couple pretty annoying bugs before we all disappear for the holidays.

Bug Fixes

• When Terminal encounters a GPU or driver issue, it will attempt to fall back to software rendering before giving up and asking you to intervene (When the renderer fails, try to fall back to D2D + WARP #19636)
• DECRQCRA was erroneously disabled for everyone even if you turned it on; no longer! (Enable DECRQCRA at compile time for all Terminal builds #19606)
• Terminal can once again target the correct virtual desktop when creating a new window (Allow creating new windows on another virtual desktop #19458)
• Certain scroll wheels will no longer only scroll up (Fix negative delta scroll #19573) (thanks @penguin-sophist!)
• Icons, background images and pixel shaders specified by fragment profiles can no longer refer to UNC or network share paths (Disallow fragments from containing UNC media paths #19615)
• The "Command Not Found" quick tip now uses a more targeted search to match the Command Not Found PowerShell module (Update WinGet CNF for exact command matching #19432)
• The schema for settings.json has been updated to include answerbackMessage, ...forceVT, rendering.graphicsAPI=automatic and to deprecate some removed settings (Minor fixes to the settings schema #19387) (thanks @ralish!)
• Themes specifying an unfocusedBackground will no longer override the tab's active color (Fix unfocusedBackground being used as active tab color #19424)
• We will no longer hide your mouse cursor when you press a modifier (Ctrl, Alt, Shift...) alone over a Terminal window (Fix cursor being hidden when pressing modifier keys #19473) (thanks @angesie!)
• We've fixed some issues in the French, Korean, Chinese (Traditional) and Japanese localizations of Terminal (Localization Updates - fix ja-jp and fr-fr loc bugs - 12/04/2025 00:46:52 #19616) (Localization Updates - ko-KR - fix "aliasing" #19532) (Localization Updates - main - 10/15/2025 02:48:19 #19451) (thanks @hms5232, @monax-owo, and @loic-joly-sonarsource!)
• We've once again restored the localizations in the Copy, Cut and Paste menu (Make sure UIHelpers' resources are included in the final PRI file #19461)
• wpf: using the WPF control in an application with other IME integration will no longer cause a crash (Fix a WPF<>TSF crash by avoiding TF_TMAE_CONSOLE #19584)
• conhost will no longer crash when run in windowed mode as SYSTEM (Gracefully handle unavailable TSF from SYSTEM account #19635) (thanks @SEt-t!)
• conhost: snap-on-input is now only enabled by default when VT processing is enabled (Fix #19390: Make snap-on-input conditional to prevent blocking programmatic scroll #19414) (thanks @vididvidid!)

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Binary files inside the unpackaged distribution archive bear the version number 1.24.251216004-preview.

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