Updated: mintty 3.7.5

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Tue Sep 17 08:06:36 GMT 2024


I have uploaded mintty 3.7.5 with the following changes:

Highlights
   * Box Drawing characters (U+2500..U+257F) are self-drawn (#935, #1119).
   * Tabs can be reordered via user-definable functions (#1283).
   * Emoji width mode (DECSET 2027) to always render emojis in 2-cell width.
   * Fix rendering of combined characters in South East Asian scripts
(#1285).

Unicode and Emoji data
   * Unicode 16.0 update.

Terminal features
   * Emoji width mode (DECSET 2027) to always render emojis in 2-cell width.
   * Dropped deprecated DECSET mode 2027 for terminal reflow.
   * Fix CopyTab=true behaviour (#1281).

Character encoding
   * Disable GB18030 workaround for cygwin since 3.5 which supports it
natively.

Font and character rendering
   * Fix rendering of combined characters in South East Asian scripts
(#1285).
   * Fix and enable rendering for geometric Powerline symbols (#979, #943).
   * Avoid bottom padding artefacts of double-height self-drawn symbols.
   * Box Drawing characters (U+2500..U+257F) are self-drawn (#935, #1119).

Mouse and menu handling
   * Allow disabling of mouse menus by clearing Menu* (#1279).

Window handling
   * Avoid interaction problem of tabbed/non-tabbed windows.
   * Tabs can be reordered via user-definable functions (#1283).
   * Tweak initial window display, mitigate bright flash (#1284).
   * Border style can be set also via config file (#7).

Configuration
   * New option BoxDrawing (#935, #1119).
   * New user-definable functions tab-left, tab-right to reorder tabbar
(#1283).
   * Setting options Menu* to empty value disables the respective menu
(#1279).
   * Skip config files in $HOME if $HOME does not exist (mintty/wsltty#351).
   * New option BorderStyle (#7).

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

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Thomas


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