--- title: Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release | daily.dev description: The Windows Terminal team is back with our first release of the year! This release introduces version 1.17 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/windows-terminal-preview-1-17-release-d8021gqmj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release | daily.dev og:description: The Windows Terminal team is back with our first release of the year! This release introduces version 1.17 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/windows-terminal-preview-1-17-release-d8021gqmj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/d8021GQMj.png og:image:alt: Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release **[Windows Command Line](https://daily.dev/sources/wincmd)** · 6 min read · 36 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary The Windows Terminal team is back with our first release of the year! This release introduces version 1.17 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to Version 1.16 with these new features. Mica Support Windows Terminal now supports using Mica as a background material on Windows 11. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@synchromatik** · 2 upvotes > Shaping up to be the best native terminal for windows. Hyper, Tabby, and the rest of the new terminals for windows are cool but extremely slow. Other native ones lack customization options. **@shubhsharma19** · 0 upvotes > Looks good NGL! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/windows-terminal-preview-1-17-release-d8021gqmj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/windows-terminal-preview-1-17-release-d8021gqmj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/windows-terminal-preview-1-17-release-d8021gqmj"},"datePublished":"2023-01-25T03:42:36.536Z","dateModified":"2023-01-25T03:42:36.389Z","description":"The Windows Terminal team is back with our first release of the year! 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