Microsoft has released Windows Terminal 1.25.2733.0 to the stable channel, bringing a large collection of features and reliability fixes that had previously appeared across Terminal 1.25 preview builds. The update adds settings search, a redesigned actions editor, Kitty keyboard protocol support and window persistence while also addressing several crashes and input problems. Among the more unusual fixes, Microsoft says Xbox controllers should no longer be able to crash Terminal.
The stable release was published through Microsoft’s official Windows Terminal GitHub repository on October 2. Microsoft describes version 1.25 as “finally stable” after an extended preview and servicing cycle, with many fixes from the newer 1.26 development branch also backported into this release. The company says the update initially began rolling out through the Dev, Canary and Beta Windows Insider channels, with wider distribution dependent on reliability data.
One of the headline additions is a search function inside Terminal’s Settings interface, intended to make its increasingly large collection of configuration options easier to navigate. The Actions page has also been expanded into a richer editor, allowing users to customize actions, key bindings and command palette entries without relying solely on manual settings-file changes. Terminal 1.25 additionally supports persisting windows, with an option to retain their scrollback history when sessions are restored.
Keyboard handling receives a particularly substantial set of changes through support for the Kitty keyboard protocol. Microsoft says the stable build fixes problems involving auto-repeat events, dead keys, numpad Enter, non-ASCII characters, modifier repeats and AltGr combinations. Those changes are intended to provide applications running inside Terminal with more precise information about which keys were pressed and how they were modified.
Reliability improvements include a fix for a crash caused by Xbox controllers, an issue Microsoft humorously described in its release notes as controllers causing Terminal to “shuffle off this mortal coil.” The company has also reduced crashes associated with Terminal pane shortcuts used from Settings, Markdown or Snippets interfaces. An experimental feature that lets users reposition the mouse cursor by clicking has likewise received stability improvements.
Earlier 1.25 preview updates incorporated several other important stability fixes that now form part of the stable 1.25 line. Microsoft fixed memory corruption involving downloadable soft fonts, a potential deadlock connected to NVIDIA graphics drivers and a crash that could occur when dragging a small tab into a larger Terminal window. Previous servicing work also removed a significant source of memory leaks when screen readers or other assistive technologies were enabled.
Terminal’s virtual-terminal handling has been updated as well. An application performing an OSC 52 clipboard write while changing its title should no longer encounter a five-second hang, while DECSTR soft resets no longer clear uploaded soft fonts. ConPTY also stops repeatedly requesting cursor positions when the host application does not respond and no longer waits for a DA1 response before completing initialization.
There are several smaller usability changes alongside the larger fixes. Windows Terminal now uses faster APIs on newer Windows versions when querying the app catalog for fragment extensions, while the font selector has been fixed so it neither crashes Terminal nor immediately forgets a newly selected value. Visual artifacts affecting the QQ Wubi input method have been addressed, and the Azure Cloud Shell integration now uses a newer API version to maintain access to Cloud Shell environments.
Microsoft has also changed the development requirements for building Terminal itself. The project now requires Visual Studio 2026 and Windows SDK 10.0.26100, reflecting the continued modernization of its development toolchain. Binary files included in the unpackaged distribution carry the internal version number 1.25.260930003.
Windows Terminal remains available through the Microsoft Store, where updates can be delivered automatically, as well as through Microsoft’s GitHub releases and package managers including WinGet. The 1.25.2733.0 release is therefore less about one major feature than consolidating months of preview work into the stable channel, combining customization improvements with fixes for crashes, memory problems and keyboard-input edge cases.
