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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Scripting improvements
 Interactive improvements
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 - Cancelling an initial command via control-C no longer prevents configuration scripts from running (:issue:`9024`).
+- If the terminal definition for $TERM can't be used, fish now tries using the "xterm-256color" and "xterm" definitions before "ansi" and "dumb". As the majority of terminal emulators in common use are now more or less xterm-compatible (often even explicitly claiming the xterm-256color entry), this should often result in a fully or almost fully usable terminal (:issue:`9026`).
 
 New or improved bindings
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