- The pcl5 terminal has been extended to support PCL5e/PCL5c printers and
many modern gnuplot features.
- The pstricks terminal has been extended to support many modern gnuplot
features including RGB colors and transparency, filled polygons, and boxes.
- New terminal pict2e to use the LaTeX2e pict2e environment.
It directly supersedes older terminals latex, emtex, eepic, and tpic,
which are no longer built by default.
- The texdraw terminal has been extended to support text at arbitrary angles,
variable line width, v5 dashed lines, and filled boxes and polygons. It can
now be used with plain TeX, too.
- The previously experimental Direct2D variant of the windows terminal
replaces the GDI and GDI+ variants. It now supports printing using D2D
and color fonts.
- The pm OS/2 terminal has been modernized to support e.g. uft8, bold and
italic text, and dashed lines. (Since 5.2.7).
- The dospc and svga DOS terminals have been modernized and now support
interactive keyboard and mouse (svga only) input.