winTerm 1.3.0-beta3

winTerm 1.3.0-beta3

This is a beta prerelease. The current stable release remains
v1.2.0, and
/releases/latest continues to point there. The beta is listed on the winTerm
website next to the stable download and is published as a GitHub prerelease;
it is not submitted to WinGet.

winTerm 1.3.0-beta3 is the third beta of the Command Timeline release.
It fixes one Visual Progress defect reported from beta2 field testing and is
otherwise identical to beta2.

Fixed since 1.3.0-beta2

• Long-running commands no longer animate the progress bar forever. Any
  command without a real progress source used to keep the Visual Progress
  rainbow animation looping until it exited — effectively forever for
  Alternate Screen applications (k9s, vim, top, htop), development servers
  (FastAPI/uvicorn, Spring Boot, Node.js), tail -f, and
  kubectl port-forward. The OSC 133 launch fallback is now a bounded
  one-shot launch indication: the comet makes one traversal, then the overlay
  disappears and releases its animation resources while the command keeps
  printing output normally. Entering or leaving the Alternate Screen,
  resizing, or switching tabs does not replay it, and the eventual real
  result still shows the normal success, error, or cancelled presentation.
  Explicit OSC 9;4 progress, recognized CLI providers (Docker, pip, Git,
  curl, wget, npm/pnpm/yarn, nvm, Maven, Gradle), and short-lived commands
  keep their existing behavior, and no command-name or process-name matching
  is involved. Screen readers hear neither a fake completion nor a fake
  cancellation when the launch indication ends.

What is new since v1.2.0: Command Timeline

The Command Timeline is a per-pane, in-memory list of the commands that pane
has run. Open it with Ctrl+Tab, or with the thin auto-hiding handle on the
left edge of the terminal; click the terminal, press Escape, or press
Ctrl+Tab again to close it.

• Per-pane history. Each pane keeps its own list, built from OSC 133
  shell integration only. winTerm never guesses where a prompt or output
  begins, and cmd.exe — which does not report command boundaries — shows
  Command timeline unavailable rather than untrustworthy results.
• Works out of the box. A profile whose commandline is a bare
  powershell.exe or pwsh.exe (optionally with -NoLogo/-NoExit)
  automatically imports the packaged winTerm.Shell integration module at
  startup. Any customized commandline launches unchanged; the per-profile
  setting "shellIntegration.autoInject": false turns the rewrite off.
• Load without executing. Enter or a single click puts the selected
  command on the input line and stops there. No carriage return is ever sent,
  the Windows clipboard is never read, and input broadcast never forwards the
  load to another pane.
• Filtering. Press / or Tab and type to narrow the list. Matching is
  a plain, case-insensitive substring match over command text only — no
  wildcards, no regular expressions, no fuzzy matching, and command output is
  never searched.
• Copy and jump. Right-click an entry to copy the command, copy its
  output, or scroll to where its output begins. Output is read from the
  terminal buffer only at that moment and is never cached.
• Trustworthy status. A command shows ● Running while it executes and
  resolves to ✓ Succeeded or ✕ Failed when the shell reports its exit code.
  Unknown appears only when the shell genuinely did not report a result,
  and explains itself on hover. Status is never conveyed by color alone.
• Readable rows. Hover any row for the full command text; the selection
  moves without rebuilding rows, so the list stays steady under the arrow
  keys.

Keyboard

Shortcut	Behavior
Ctrl+Tab	Toggle the Command Timeline for the focused pane
Ctrl+T	Next tab
Ctrl+Shift+T	Previous tab
Ctrl+Alt+T	Open new tab

While the Timeline is open:

Key	Behavior
/ or Tab	Move focus to the filter box
Up / Down	Move the selection by one command
Left / Right	Select the first / last command on the current page
Enter	Load the selected command; never runs it
Space	Scroll the terminal to that command's output
Ctrl+C	Copy the selected command text
Escape	Clear the filter, or close the Timeline if the filter is empty

Your own key bindings take precedence over every default above. Keys the
Timeline consumes are not sent to the shell, and filter text never reaches
the shell.

Settings

{
  "commandTimeline.enabled": true,
  "commandTimeline.historyLimit": 500
}

Per profile:

{
  "shellIntegration.autoInject": true
}

• Show command timeline defaults on. Turning it off hides the handle,
  closes an open overlay, and stops Ctrl+Tab from opening it.
• Commands remembered per pane defaults to 500 and accepts 50 through
  5000. An out-of-range value is clamped rather than failing the settings
  load.

An existing settings file needs no migration. Visual Progress settings are
unchanged; the bounded launch behavior needs no new setting.

Changes accumulated through the prerelease series

• alpha2: auto-injected shell integration, the auto-hiding handle,
  terminal-click light dismiss, and the recognition-engine fixes for stuck
  progress bars.
• alpha3: correct FinalTerm mark emission (no stray characters, exact command
  capture), no progress bar at an idle prompt, no phantom Timeline row, no
  selection jitter, and silent degradation when antivirus blocks an optional
  module component.
• alpha4: the antivirus write-then-execute false positive removed at its
  source, ✓/✕ results restored through the Enter-keypress lifecycle
  notification, and full-command tooltips.
• beta2: real exit codes restored to the finished mark, so failures resolve
  to ✕ Failed instead of a false ✓ Succeeded.
• beta3: the Shell Integration launch fallback is a bounded one-shot, so
  long-running commands no longer animate the progress bar forever.

Privacy

• Command text lives only in memory, only in the pane that ran it, and only
  while that pane is open. Nothing is written to disk; there is no command
  history file or database.
• Command output is never cached, indexed, or searched.
• Filter text is never saved and never leaves the pane.
• No telemetry is written, and no command, output, path, or filter text is
  logged.
• The clipboard is written only by an explicit copy action, and is never
  read.

See the privacy policy.

Unchanged in this release

Workspace schema (2), docking model (1), shell protocol (1), theme schema
(1), update manifest schema (1), package identity, and signing policy are all
unchanged from v1.2.0. Visual Progress keeps its v1.2.0 semantics for
explicit progress, recognized providers, determinate values, and the
success/error/cancelled presentations; only the generic launch fallback is
now bounded as described above.

Known limitations

• The Timeline requires OSC 133 shell integration; it stays unavailable under
  cmd.exe.
• A multi-line command is refused when the shell has not enabled bracketed
  paste, because unbracketed line breaks would be read as pressing Enter.
• Loading a command longer than 1024 characters asks for a confirming
  Enter.
• Command history does not survive closing a pane, and is intentionally never
  persisted.

Installation

The Setup EXE supports current-user and all-users installation; the Portable
ZIP can be extracted to a writable directory and run without installation.
Installing the beta over v1.2.0 or an earlier prerelease is supported; the
file version is 1.3.0.6. Package identity stays separate from Microsoft
Terminal, so it does not disturb an existing Windows Terminal installation.

Publisher: helloThisWorld. Tag: v1.3.0-beta3.

Signing

The winTerm 1.3.0-beta3 Setup EXE is not Authenticode-signed. Windows may
display Unknown Publisher or a SmartScreen warning. Download only from the
official GitHub Release and verify the file against SHA256SUMS.txt before
running it.

Policies

• Code signing policy
• Privacy policy