Show Release Notes in Terminal on Update #15470

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opened 2026-01-31 04:39:32 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @Rosefield on GitHub (Oct 7, 2021).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

It would be cool if when the terminal upgrades it showed you the changes in the new version(s). This would help with feature discovery since many users would not know/think to look at the blog posts or github release notes.

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With https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/11308 there will be some precedence for showing non-terminal content in the terminal, and that infrastructure could potentially be used to show a modal/textbox with the release notes.

With the ApplicationState it can also store the last used version, so that a diff between old ~ new could be showed.

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Reference: starred/terminal#15470