Add changelog entries

Author: Jackenmen

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+### Changed
+
+- `console.get_windows_console_features` and `console.detect_legacy_windows` now have an optional `file` parameter https://github.com/Textualize/rich/pull/4072
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed the auto-detection of `Console.legacy_windows` for the stderr stream, when stdout is redirected https://github.com/Textualize/rich/pull/4072
+- Fixed legacy Windows rendering for the stderr stream https://github.com/Textualize/rich/pull/4072
+
 ## [14.3.3] - 2026-02-19
 
 ### Fixed

rich/_win32_console.py

@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
 from rich.style import Style
 
 try:
-    STDOUT_FILENO = sys.__stdout__.fileno()  # type: ignore[union-attr]
+    STDOUT_FILENO = sys.__stdout__.fileno()
 except Exception:
     STDOUT_FILENO = 1
 try:
-    STDERR_FILENO = sys.__stderr__.fileno()  # type: ignore[union-attr]
+    STDERR_FILENO = sys.__stderr__.fileno()
 except Exception:
     STDERR_FILENO = 2
 

rich/_windows.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import sys
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Optional
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -33,13 +34,13 @@ class WindowsConsoleFeatures:
 
 except (AttributeError, ImportError, ValueError):
     # Fallback if we can't load the Windows DLL
-    def get_windows_console_features(fileno: int) -> WindowsConsoleFeatures:
+    def get_windows_console_features(fileno: Optional[int] = None) -> WindowsConsoleFeatures:
         features = WindowsConsoleFeatures()
         return features
 
 else:
 
-    def get_windows_console_features(fileno: int) -> WindowsConsoleFeatures:
+    def get_windows_console_features(fileno: Optional[int] = None) -> WindowsConsoleFeatures:
         """Get windows console features.
 
         Returns:

rich/console.py

@@ -577,11 +577,7 @@ def get_windows_console_features(
         return _windows_console_features
     from ._windows import get_windows_console_features
 
-    fileno = None
-    if file is not None:
-        fileno = get_fileno(file)
-    if fileno is None:
-        fileno = _STDOUT_FILENO
+    fileno = get_fileno(file) if file is not None else None
 
     _windows_console_features = get_windows_console_features(fileno)
     return _windows_console_features