The "+" button now opens a shell picker listing every shell found on
this machine — the login shell plus /etc/shells on Unix; PowerShell 7,
Windows PowerShell, cmd, Git Bash and WSL distributions on Windows — so
opening a tab in a different shell no longer requires hand-editing
config.json. The default entry leads the menu (Cmd+T still opens a
default tab in one keystroke), and splits inherit the pane's shell.
The Windows default shell now prefers PowerShell 7 when installed,
probed the way Warp does it (Program Files x64/x86/ARM, the Microsoft
Store shim, scoop, dotnet tools, then PATH), falling back to the
Windows PowerShell that ships with the OS.
Spawn precedence in the daemon is now: explicit per-spawn pick >
config.json `shell` > platform default. Wire compat is preserved across
GUI/daemon version skew: a default spawn keeps the legacy SPAWN frame
byte-for-byte, so an old daemon still serves a new GUI; only an
explicit pick uses the new SPAWN_SHELL kind, locked by a round-trip +
legacy-frame test.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ABey161AUxhgmJC3PRoYtF
tty7 is split into two Rust processes: a persistent daemon that owns the
shells and a GPU-rendered client that talks to it over a local socket.
Because the shells live in the daemon, quitting and reopening the app
leaves the session intact — detach and reattach, no tmux required.
- Persistent sessions — the daemon holds the PTYs and child processes, so
closing a window or swapping in a new build never takes a shell down.
- Performance — an 11 MB `cat` completes in 95 ms and DOOM-fire renders at
888 fps; the daemon drains the PTY at device speed off the render path.
- Shell-aware — new tabs and splits open in the current working directory;
zsh, bash, fish, and PowerShell are set up automatically.
- Enhanced prompt — inline completion, syntax highlighting, history, and
in-terminal search, with rich flag/subcommand signatures for common tools.
- Tabs, resizable splits, a command palette, click-to-open links, desktop
notifications, eight themes, and CJK/IME input.
Native builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Built on Zed's gpui and Alacritty's VT core.
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