Windows Terminal: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Windows Terminal from Microsoft

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-10

What is Windows Terminal?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementWindows Terminal is a modern, powerful host application for command-line tools like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. It features a tabbed interface, allowing you to manage multiple sessions and environments within a single window.The application is highly customizable, supporting custom themes, background images, and unique profiles for different shells. Additionally, it utilizes a GPU-accelerated text rendering engine to display text and emojis much faster and smoother than the traditional console.
 

The entire lifecycle of Windows Terminal

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Windows Terminal. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Windows Terminal (Microsoft) release, version and end-of-life information
XWindows Terminal (Microsoft) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Windows Terminal (Microsoft)
 

Facts and figures about Windows Terminal

Product
Windows Terminal
Vendor
Microsoft
Latest version
1.25.622.0
Number of releases
2
Number of versions
168
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
101
Licence
MIT License
 
 

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