Does the native conhost.exe ever get updated

[Haha (Haha64142)]

I know that the OpenConsole.exe shipped with the Windows Terminal and C:/Windows/System32/conhost.exe are essentially the same piece of software. But does the native conhost get updated to the stable version of OpenConsole? I replaced conhost with OpenConsole as suggested by mintty because the native conhost liked screwing with certain escape sequences. Will there ever be a time where that replacement won't be necessary?

[Dustin L. Howett (DHowett)]

Yes, but only we only bring in major changes (like the new PTY host) during major windows updates.

mintty's instructions might leave you unable to install Windows updates. Not on purpose, but just because it changes the component store which is used for the binary delta patches that Windows Updates rely on.

mintty is ideologically opposed to shipping our "undocked" PTY host (it's just OpenConsole, plus a DLL), which is built out of this repository and releases monthly with every update to Terminal.

[Haha (Haha64142)]

I've done some reading (here, here, and a few other google searches) but all this PTY and ConPTY stuff is still new to me. I did find that mintty is actually calling the POSIX API forkpty and openpty, which is provided by msys-2.0.dll or cygwin1.dll. So mintty actually can't control conhost vs OpenConsole (correct me if I'm wrong about that).

I also looked into the file that handles ConPTY, and it looks like cygwin 3.7 will implement OpenConsole. Once that releases, it won't be long before the OpenConsole support makes it to msys2.