[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.8.4

[Thomas Wolff]

I have uploaded mintty 2.8.4 with the following changes:

Character handling and rendering
 Â  * Emoji support (mintty/wsltty#82, #600, ~#671, ~#430).
 Â  * Fixed double-width handling within right-to-left text.

Window handling
 Â  * Ctrl+Alt+mouse-click/drag moves the window (#729).
 Â  * Apply Virtual Tab position catching also on Alt+F2 (#699).
 Â  * Workaround for Windows failing to consider the taskbar properly 
when maximizing with no or frame-only border (#732).
 Â  * Workaround for caption-less window exceeding borders (#733) on 
Windows 10.

Mouse handling
 Â  * More selective suppression of mouse action on focus-click 
(mintty/wsltty#88, #717).
 Â  * Fixed mouse function in search bar (#85), broken since 2.8.2 (#717).

Desktop integration
 Â  * Support for taskbar "Tasks" list ("jump list") (#290).
 Â  * Session launcher icons (#699).

Configuration
 Â  * Options Emojis, EmojiPlacement to configure emojis style and display
 Â  * Option TaskCommands to configure a taskbar icon task list ("jump 
list").
 Â  * Limit tweaking of empty shortcut start dir to Start menu case (#737).

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

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Thomas

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