Updated: mintty 3.8.3

Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-announce <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Jun 2026 00:46:51 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have uploaded mintty 3.8.3 with the following changes:

Terminal features
   * Font glyph coverage enquiry also works beyond the Unicode BMP (~#1352).
   * Suppress ReGIS delay command on graphics refresh.
   * Ensure refresh of blinking graphics (broken since 3.7.9).
   * Fix emoji sequence rendering in context of font or changing attributes.
   * Fix glitch of incomplete emoji joiner at end of line.
   * DECRQM requests for UTF-8, ambiguous-wide and emoji width modes 
(xterm 407).

Character rendering
   * Font substitution mechanism checks glyph coverage and selects 
suitable alternative font (#1352).
   * Narrow single-cell-rendered emoji graphics.
   * Narrow certain single-cell-rendered emoji text presentations from 
Miscellaneous ranges.
   * In emoji width mode, apply VS15 modifier to narrow character.
   * Do not display VS15/VS16 modifiers, or Fitzpatrick in emoji width mode.
   * Emoji width mode can be preconfigured as default.

Keyboard handling
   * After IME option switch, reset Control state to avoid input 
misinterpretation (#1353).
   * User-defined key assignments (setting KeyFunctions) stay in effect 
in shortcut override mode (~#1351).
   * Restrict VT220 application keypad sequences to VT220 mode by 
default (#1357).
   * Support previous special VT220-style keypad sequences if Escape key 
mode enabled (~#1357).

Window handling
   * Drag-and-drop onto terminal or Options sets window focus (#1354).
   * Keep window maximised after changing monitor dimensions 
(git-for-windows/git#6085).
   * Default width of line-style cursors can now be configured (#1360).

Other
   * Restore Windows XP compatibility.
   * Fix WSL home dir conversion (option -~).
   * Make reading from clipboard more reliable 
(https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2026-February/259438.html).
   * Manual: note on how to override overridden shortcuts (#1364) with 
user-defined functions.

Configuration
   * New option DropFocus (#1354).
   * New option FontSubst (#1352).
   * New option CursorSize (#1360).
   * New option OldAppKeypad (#1357).
   * New option EmojiWidth.
   * Enable drag-and-drop from updated 4bit Color Scheme Designer (#1363).

It is suggested to also install package emojis-noto
to enable graphic emojis display in default configuration.

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

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Thomas
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