MEGATHREAD: Breaking settings changes in version 0.11!

[DHowett-MSFT]

BREAKING SETTINGS CHANGES IN 0.11

• BREAKING CHANGE We've deleted a lot of legacy settings handling (Remove a heap of legacy settings deserialization #5190)
  • Please see our blog post and our most recent status update for more information.
  • If you had settings hanging out in the globals dictionary, you'll want to move them out.
    • REMEDIATION: move everything from globals to the root of your settings file and delete the empty globals object.
    • Failure to do so will cause us to ignore your default profile, launch mode, etc., etc.
    • THIS INCLUDES defaultProfile
  • requestedTheme has been renamed to theme (Rename 'requestedTheme' to 'theme' #5265)
• profiles.json has been renamed to settings.json. This should be transparent to you as we'll rename it on first launch (rename profiles.json to settings.json, clean up the defaults #5199)
  • As a side effect, we'll finally stop resurrecting old pre-version-0.3 roaming profiles.
• If you don't specify a splitPane split mode, it'll default to automatic (Use an Automatic split for splitPane by default #5194)
• copy's original and poorly-understood trimWhitespace argument is now called singleLine to indicate that it will, in fact, copy text as a single line (Rename copy keybinding arg #5216)
• The default font for any profiles that don't specify a font is now Cascadia Mono (Set Cascadia Code as default font #5121)

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Do your settings look like this?

{
    "globals": {
        "defaultProfile": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}",
        "initialCols": 200,
        "initialRows": 65,
        "initialPosition": "0,0",
        "wordDelimiters" : " ()\"'-:,;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}~?\u2502",
        "confirmCloseAllTabs": true,
        "keybindings": [
            ...
        ]
    },
    "profiles": {
        ...
    }
}

Then change them to look like this:

{
    "defaultProfile": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}",
    "initialCols": 200,
    "initialRows": 65,
    "initialPosition": "0,0",
    "wordDelimiters" : " ()\"'-:,;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}~?\u2502",
    "confirmCloseAllTabs": true,
    "keybindings": [
        ...
    ],
    "profiles": {
        ...
    }
}

Or even better, make a backup of your settings file, and delete the contents entirely. We'll re-generate the file with some better formatting and more sane defaults, and you can copy the modifications you want back in.