Release v0.64.0

In the v0.64 release cycle, we focused on releasing new features and improvements.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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Highlights

• New utility: File Locksmith allows seeing which processes are currently using the selected files.
• New utility: Hosts File Editor allows you to edit your hosts file in an Editor UI. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Settings has a new feature for backing up / restoring the settings from a file. Thanks @jefflord!
• FancyZones allows you to set defaults for horizontal/vertical screens to get better intended behavior for new screens and cases where a monitor ID resets.
• PowerToys ships with Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enabling PowerToys utilities in organizations. Check the GPO docs for more details.
• Added a warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute in the future (v0.67), please check #21473 for more information.

Known issues

• The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.
• After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.
• There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server is a known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

Always on Top

• Detect and put a window on top again if it's no longer on top.

Color Picker

• Added the hexadecimal integer format. Thanks @marius-bughiu!

FancyZones

• Added a way for users to configure default layouts for horizontal and vertical screens.
• Replaced remaining Number Boxes in FancyZones Editor with Sliders, to improve accessibility for screen readers.
• Fixed an issue breaking window switching shortcuts.

File Locksmith

• Added a new utility: File Locksmith.
• Thanks @niels9001 for the design on the UI!

Group Policy Objects

• Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enabling PowerToys utilities.
• Thanks @htcfreek for your help in reviewing to make sure the shipped settings conform to system administrators expectations!

Hosts File Editor

• Added a new utility: Hosts File Editor. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Thanks @niels9001 for the design help on the UI!
• Thanks @davidegiacometti for fixing the bugs found and adding features up until release!
• Thanks @AtariDreams for consolidating the packages comparing to the rest of the project!
• Thanks @htcfreek for adding a scrollviewer to the entry editor!

Keyboard Manager

• Fixed a delay that was not being cancelled properly. Thanks @AtariDreams!

Mouse Utilities

• Changed the opacity setting to the 1-100 range. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

PowerToys Run

• Changed image loading to release the images in PowerToys Run main executable. This is a try to fix the "app.dark.png" missing issues received after a PowerToys update.
• Fixed the PowerToys Run hiding after the default action failed. Thanks @hlaueriksson!
• Fixed the PowerToys Run allows showing after a context menu action succeeded. Thanks @hlaueriksson!

Quick Accent

• Corrected "Dutch" word to "German". Thanks @damienleroy!
• Added the Portuguese language accents. Thanks @pcanavar!
• Fixed positioning of toolbar on scaled desktops.

Screen Ruler

• Improved the acrylic brush used in the menu. Thanks @niels9001!

Settings

• Added a feature to backup/restore settings to/from a file. Thanks @jefflord!
• Fixed an issue causing shortcuts shown in OOBE not updating to new values when the window was re-opened.
• Fixed the "Documents" folder usage in the backup/restore feature. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Text Extractor

• Added a warning about how to install languages for OCR recognition.
• Fixed the overlay not focusing after the first activation.
• Added spaces between CJK and non-CKJ words. Thanks @maggch97!

Video Conference Mute

• Added a setting to hide the Video Conference Mute overlay when muted. Thanks @akabhirav!
• Added a warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute in the future (v0.67), please check #21473 for more information.

Installer

• Added some missing files that were causing Settings and PowerRename to not function correctly on some configurations.
• Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.10.

Development

• Consolidated nuget packages and removed a few unused packages.
• Updated the Windows.CppRT to the latest version. Thanks @AtariDreams!
• Removed the cxxopts dependency, which was no longer used. Thanks @AtariDreams!
• Updated the cziplob dependency to 0.25. Thanks @AtariDreams!
• Updated the System.IO.Abstractions dependency. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Turned on C++ code analysis and incrementally fixing warnings.
• Added the install method to the issue template on GitHub, since some issues seem to be related to specific installation methods.
• Automated installer hash creation in the release CI.
• Simplified use of .First() on ImageResizer. Thanks @AtariDreams!
• Improved and clarified the issues templates. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
• Fixed a PTRun unit test to be more compatible with .NET 6. Thanks @AtariDreams!

Release v0.63.0

In the v0.63 release cycle, we focused on stability and improvement.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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Highlights

• QuickAccent contains a new setting to select a language. This should reduce the number of accented characters a user needs to pick from. Thanks @damienleroy!
• Reduced installer (125 MB in 0.62.1 compared to 83 MB in 0.63.0) and installed (817 MB in 0.62.1 compared to 587 MB in 0.63.0) sizes by sharing the Windows App SDK, VC++ redistributable and PowerToys Interop runtime files between utilities. This is a step towards removing the UAC requirement on install. The next step is shipping .NET self-contained and shared between utilities.

Known issues

• The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.
• After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.
• There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server and MSI AfterBurner are known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

General

• Fixed an issue that caused bug report generation to fail. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)
• Updated the Windows App SDK runtimes to 1.1.5.

Always on Top

• Fixed an issue causing the border to linger when moving a window between virtual desktops.
• The minimum thickness for the borders is now 1. Thanks @unuing!
• Borders were showing in Virtual Desktop thumbnails. These were removed.
• Corrected the borders visuals to more closely follow the application borders.

Awake

• Fixed utility exit logic to close all threads and avoid crashes. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)

Color Picker

• Fixed utility exit logic to close all threads and avoid crashes. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)
• Fixed initialization error that caused the mouse position to be incorrectly set.

FancyZones

• Fixed FancyZones Editor exit logic to close all threads and avoid crashes. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)

File explorer add-ons

• Updated the WebView 2 dependency to 1.0.1343.22. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
• Fixed preview of .reg files.

Image Resizer

• Fixed a bug causing File Explorer to crash under some conditions when accessing the context menu.

PowerToys Run

• Added support to opening Terminal windows in quake mode. Thanks @FWest98!
• Fixed utility exit logic to close all threads and avoid crashes. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)
• Improve the icon shown in the Program plugin for application execution aliases. Thanks @MikeBarker-MSFT!
• Fix calls to the default browser when Firefox is installed from the Microsoft Store.
• Fixed accessibility issue in which controls appended to the result entries weren't announced.
• Search was improved and should now return results where the terms in the query appear at the end of the result.

Quick Accent

• Improved the keyboard hooks performance. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)
• Fixed a bug that was causing Quick Accent to interfere with Keyboard Manager. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)
• Added the correct ß uppercase character. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
• Accent character selection should now wrap around. Thanks @wmentha!
• Added language selection setting to reduce the number of accented characters shown. The available languages are Currency, Czech, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Maori, Pinyin, Polish, Romanian, Slovakian, Spanish and Turkish. Thanks @damienleroy!

Screen Ruler

• Improved UI/UX and settings descriptions.
• Fixed utility exit logic to close all threads and avoid crashes. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)

Settings

• UI icons updated. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
• Descriptions improvement and disambiguation. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
• Fixed checkbox margins and other design tweaks. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!

Text Extractor

• Removed extra spaces when recognizing Chinese, Japanese or Korean languages. Thanks @TheJoeFin!
• Fixed utility exit logic to close all threads and avoid crashes. (This was a hotfix for 0.62)
• Fixed an issue where a selection would start on right-click.

Installer

• Added logic to exit PowerToys on upgrade before trying to update .NET.
• Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.9.
• Added clearer installation step names for the bootstrapper. Thanks @htcfreek and @Jay-o-Way!
• Windows App SDK, VC++ redistributable and PowerToys Interop runtime files are now shared between utilities through hardlinks, reducing installation size.

Documentation

• Fixed typos in Keyboard Manager documentation. Thanks @eltociear!
• Replaced docs.microsoft.com links with learn.microsoft.com. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!

Development

• Fixed a build error that was restricting developers to switch between configuration without first cleaning local build files.
• C++ exception catches were corrected to be caught by reference to avoid unnecessary copy operations. Thanks @NN---!
• General C# code clean up, format fixing and removal of unused code analysis suppressions.
• Removed unnecessary muxc prefix from XAML files. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
• Re-enabled tests on our pipeline that depend on WebView2.
• Windows 11 tier 1 context menu packages now contain the "Microsoft.PowerToys" prefix.

Release v0.62.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.62.0 to fix some bugs we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.62.0 for full release notes.

• #20297 - Fixed an issue causing a bug report to not be generated for some users, due to trying to include logs from a folder that might not exist yet.
• #20367 - Fixed an issue that made Quick Accent cause Keyboard Manager to not work correctly.
• #20430, #20450 and #20532 - Added more resilient exit code for background C# processes which were causing crashes being reported when upgrading PowerToys or the .NET runtimes.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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Release v0.62.0

In the v0.62 release cycle, we focused on releasing three new PowerToys.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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Highlights

• New utility: Screen Ruler is a quick and easy way to measure pixels on your screen.
• New utility: Quick Accent is an easy way to write letters with accents. Thanks @damienleroy!
• New utility: Text Extractor works like Snipping Tool, but copies the text out of the selected region using OCR and puts it on the clipboard. Thanks @TheJoeFin!
• PowerToy Run ships with a new Plugin letting you search in past query results. Thanks @jefflord!

Known issues

• The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.
• After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.
• There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server and MSI AfterBurner are known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

General

• Added a new utility: Screen Ruler.
• Added a new utility: Quick Accent. Thanks @damienleroy!
• Added a new utility: Text Extractor. Thanks @TheJoeFin!
• Upgraded the Windows App SDK runtimes to 1.1.4.

Always on Top

• Fixed a bug causing the border to linger when closing an Outlook popup window.

Color Picker

• Fixed the HSB color format to correctly track HSV instead of HSL.
• Fixed an issue where the zoom factor wasn't reset when reopening the zoom window. Thanks @FWest98!

FancyZones

• Removed the button to open Settings from the FancyZones Editor, as it was opening behind the overlay.
• Changed the Highlight distance control to a slider in the FancyZones Editor, to address accessibility issues with screen readers.
• Fixed an issue where the FancyZones Editor would duplicate or edit the wrong layout.
• Fixed an issue that caused canvas layout width/height to be changed without even opening the layout in FancyZones Editor.

File explorer add-ons

• Quality of life improvements to Developer Files preview, including a progress bar while loading, performance improvements, an improved dark mode, and logs. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
• Fixed possible WebView related vulnerabilities in the SVG and Markdown handlers.
• Fixed some race conditions in Developer Files preview causing the loading bar to hang.
• Added localization support to the Developer Files preview messages.
• It's now possible to configure default color for Stl Thumbnails. Thanks @pedrolamas!
• Added an option to format JSON and XML files before rendering. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

PowerRename

• Fixed an issue that was generating a silent crash when the context menu was triggered when not selecting any file or folder. (This was a hotfix for 0.61)
• Improved performance when loading a big number of files.
• Fixed a specific case in which PowerRename tried to rename a file to an empty string.
• The UI now shows when a file can't be renamed due to its name being too long or containing invalid characters.

PowerToys Run

• Added a fix to the VSCodeWorkspaces plugin to better support portable installations. Thanks @bkmeneguello!
• The Folder plugin now expands %HOMEPATH% correctly.
• Fixed a case where a previous result was being activated when searching for new results. Added a setting to better control input throttling. Thanks @jefflord!
• Added support for port numbers in the URI plugin. Thanks @KohGeek!
• Fixed query errors when the search delay option was turned off.
• New History plugin to search for old search results. Thanks @jefflord!
• Changed the default TimeDate activation keyword to ), as queries starting by ( are expected as Calculator global queries, and added information in Settings so users know that some activation keywords may conflict with normal usage of some plugins when trying to do a global query. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The Unit Converter plugin updated its UnitsNet dependency and now supports plural units. Thanks @FWest98!
• Improved the validation logic in the Calculator plugin. Thanks @htcfreek!

Runner

• Improved: Clean up old install folders and logs at startup. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Settings

• Image and phrasing adjustments.
• Icon and image updates for the new utilities. Thanks @niels9001!

Shortcut Guide

• Fixed the Narrator shortcut to include the newly added Control key.

Installer

• Fixed a regression that was causing the PowerToys shortcut to be deleted on update. (This was a hotfix for 0.61)
• Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.8.

Documentation

• Fixed wrong links to installers in README. Thanks @unuing!

Development

• Removed FXCop leftovers. Thanks @CleanCodeDeveloper!
• Added version number to missing binaries and added a CI script to verify that all binaries have their version numbers set correctly.
• Updated a dependency to fix building on Visual Studio 17.3 C++ tools.
• Fixed and reactivated the CI unit tests for FancyZones.
• Cleaned up and removed dead code from PowerRename code base.
• Added a script for verifying the solution targets match the expected CPU architectures. Thanks @snickler!
• Obsolete package Castle.Core was removed. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Language typos were corrected across the PowerToys assets. Thanks @pea-sys, @eltociear and @obairka!

Release v0.61.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.61.0 to fix two bugs we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.61.0 for full release notes.

• #19708 - Fixed an issue causing the PowerToys start menu shortcut to not be installed when updating PowerToys. This only happens on upgrade path.
• #19722 - Fixed an issue which created a crash report in the Event Viewer when trying to show PowerRename's Windows 11 context menu entry.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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Release v0.61.0

The v0.61 release cycle we focused on stability and improvements.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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This is a lighter release, with a shorter development cycle and focused on stability and improvements.

Highlights

• Quality of life improvements for Always on Top, FancyZones and PowerToys Run.

Known issues

• After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.
• There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server and MSI AfterBurner are known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

General

• Upgraded the Windows App SDK runtimes to 1.1.2.
• The new Windows 11 context menu entries are now correctly added to Windows 11 dev channel insider builds. (This was a hotfix for 0.60)
• The old context menu entries are shown alongside the new Windows 11 context menu entries to be compatible with software that overrides the Windows 11 context menu behavior. (This was a hotfix for 0.60)
• Consolidated C# language version across the solution. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Removed deprecated Segoe icon glyph codes and replaced them with the correct ones. Thanks @niels9001 and @Jay-o-Way!
• Fixed an issue that caused a random accent key to be pressed on certain keyboard layouts when enabling some modules.

Always on Top

• Fixed border flickering when activating. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed a bug causing Always on Top to activate and hang when exiting PowerToys. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed black edges appearing on rounded corners.
• Fixed a bug that was causing 100% CPU consumption.

FancyZones

• Fixed a bug that caused layouts to not be applied correctly when many monitors reported having the same serial number. (This was a hotfix for 0.60)
• Fixed a bug that caused layouts to not be applied correctly on some virtual monitor setups (This was a hotfix for 0.60)
• A "Rows" default layout is now applied to vertical monitors, instead of a "Columns" layout. Thanks @augustkarlstedt!

Image Resizer

• Screen reader now announces the size name instead of the class name.

File explorer add-ons

• Fixed an issue when creating thumbnails for SVG files created using Inkscape.

Keyboard Manager

• Adjusted wording on the editor when keys are orphaned.

Mouse utility

• Fixed a bug that caused the current Find My Mouse spotlight to hang when activated in the top left corner of the screen. (This was a hotfix for 0.60)

PowerRename

• The PowerRename window reacts to current dpi when created.

PowerToys Run

• Fixed a typo in the WindowWalker plugin UI. Thanks @rohanrdy!
• Improved performance by saving the search history files only on exit. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• PowerToys Run no longer shows results for some plugins when querying for empty spaces in a global query. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Added support for showing localized names for some win32 programs in the programs plugin. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The program plugin will now consider settings changed directly in ProgramPluginSettings.json. Thanks @bezgumption!

Settings

• PowerToys Run settings page properly greys out the score adjustment setting when a plugin is not global. Thanks @jefflord!
• PowerToys Run plugins score adjustment field accepts only numeric characters. Thanks @jefflord!
• Will not run if started directly from its executable, as it was before the WinUI 3 upgrade.
• Fixed a typo in a PowerToys Run settings page description. Thanks @eltociear!

Installer

• Removed the dead code to make a msix installer.
• Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.7.
• Won't create a new PowerToys shortcut on update if it's been removed manually by the user.

Development

• Updated the Windows Store Package submission script to show less UI while installing PowerToys. (This was a hotfix for 0.60)
• Added more functionality to the Monitor Report Tool.
• The release CI now includes the version number in the symbols artifacts.
• GitHub should now show .vsconfig as a JSON file. Thanks @osfanbuff63!
• Centralized the configurations for NetAnalyzers and StyleCop. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Check-spelling has been upgraded to version 0.0.20. Thanks @jsoref!

Release v0.60.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.60.0 to fix a few bugs we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.60.0 for full release notes.

• #19253 - Updated the Microsoft Store submission of PowerToys to not show UI while installing.
• #19203 - Fixed a bug causing FancyZones to not apply templates correctly when more than one monitor shared the same serial number.
• #19233 - Fixed the incompatibility not allowing the PowerRename and ImageResizer Windows 11 tier 1 context menus being shown on development insider builds.
• #19219 - The old context menus are now shown on Windows 11 as well, to account for configurations where other third party software might be overriding the Windows 11 context menus.
• #19263 - Fixed a bug making the Find My Mouse overlay hang when activated in the top left corner of the screen.
• #19223 - The FancyZones Editor should no longer crash on configurations where monitors are not detected connected to display devices.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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Release v0.60.0

The v0.60 release cycle we focused on stability and improvements.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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Highlights

• PowerRename and Image Resizer now appear on the new Windows 11 context menu.
• There's a new PowerToys Run plugin for OneNote. Thanks @palenshus!
• FancyZones uses a new zone identification with monitor Id to increase stability and avoid zone resets.
• AlwaysOnTop now uses rounded corners for highlighting rounded windows on Windows 11.
• Added settings to PowerToys Run to better control the query results order. Thanks @jefflord!

Known issues

• After installing PowerToys, the Windows 11 new context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer may not appear before a restart.
  • On some Windows 11 dev channel insider builds, the new context menu entries are not registering correctly and the classic context menu entries will be shown instead.
• There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server and MSI AfterBurner are known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

General

• Upgraded the Windows App SDK runtimes to 1.1.1. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)

Always on Top

• Added support for more diverse keyboard shortcuts with a fallback to low level keyboard hooks. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Added rounded corner highlights for rounded corner windows on Windows 11.

FancyZones

• Fixed a bug where windows shown on all desktops were not working with FancyZones. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
• When changing zone layouts, windows will match a new size/position if the option is on. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
• Minor UI fix in FancyZones Editor. Thanks @ZetaSp!
• Fixed proper canvas layout rendering in FancyZones Editor and the unscaled monitor resolution is now shown.
• Fixed an issue with transparency in certain windows causing the window to go blank.

Image Resizer

• The Image Resizer entry is now shown in the new Windows 11 context menu.

File explorer add-ons

• Add a viewBox attribute to svg file thumbnails so that it tries to show the whole image, similar to what was done in the preview handler.
• Removed access to a remote image in the tests for markdown preview.
• Fixed flakiness in the markdown preview test suite with proper component initialization timeouts.
• Fixed the leaking WebView2 resources caused by svg thumbnails.

Keyboard Manager

• The Editor title bar is now shown in the immersive dark mode theme. Thanks @WilliamABradley!

Mouse utility

• The Mouse Pointer Crosshairs default activation shortcut was changed to not collide with a special character combination on some internation keyboards.

PowerRename

• Fixed the file enumeration logic to only change enumerations at the end of the file name.
• Clicking on regex/date and time cheat sheet appends that item to the selected search or replace text field.
• The PowerRename entry is now shown in the new Windows 11 context menu.
• The title bar is now shown in the immersive dark mode theme. Thanks @WilliamABradley!

PowerToys Run

• A setting was added to disable and configure the input delay on searching queries. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
• Fixed and added logs for default Web Browser detection. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
• The Program plugin can now search .lnk shortcuts by their executable name. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• A new plugin for OneNote was added. Thanks @palenshus!
• Query caching and delayed execution was added to the OneNote plugin. Thanks @palenshus!
• Quality of life fixes for the TimeZone plugin, including fixes for empty subtitles, missing time zones and results not being found when expected. Thanks @TobiasSekan!
• Calls to the obsolete WebRequest API were removed. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Added common names for the share settings in the Settings plugins. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The Calculator Mages engine was updated to 2.0.1, for higher precision. Thanks for the testing and for pushing for the changes @htcfreek!
• Translation fixes for the Calculator and TimeDate plugins. Thanks @htcfreek!
• An entry for "Search Settings" was added to the Settings plugin. Thanks @jefflord!
• Removed uses of the deprecated BinaryFormatter, which contained vulnerabilities. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Added settings to better control the query results order. Thanks @jefflord!
• The Terminal plugin now uses a better API to detect installed Terminal packages. Thanks @htcfreek!

Settings

• Fixed a bug that said an update had failed, even if PowerToys was fully updated. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
• OOBE window is resizable. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
• OOBE can now show release notes through authenticated proxies.
• OOBE now hides the x64 and ARM64 installer hashes on the What's New page.
• Minor UI fix in the Keyboard Manager page. Thanks @ZetaSp!
• Fix in internal data type of CheckBox controls. Thanks @ghost1372!
• The title bar is now shown in the immersive dark mode theme. Thanks @WilliamABradley!
• Fixed a crash accessing the loading the System.Management API on ARM64 versions of Windows.

Installer

• Fixed signing of the setup custom actions dll in the new pipeline.
• The Visual C++ redistributable was updated to 14.32.31332 and fixed an installer error when a newer version was installed. Thanks @snickler!
• Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.6.

Development

• Clean up of the CA1031 warning suppression. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Support for ARM64 binaries was added to the Microsoft Store submission task. Thanks @azchohfi!
• Added code for a tool to help identify monitor IDs.
• Support for ARM64 binaries was added to the winget package creation task.
• Updated the Pull Request template to better reflect project changes.
• Component Governance checks were re-activated on the new main branch.
• CI is failing to run tests calling the newer WebView 2 version, so these were disabled until a fix is found.
• Updated the tests SDK to 17.2.0.
• Nuget package versions used in the solution were consolidated.
• The CodeQL CI task was disabled in the repo, but was causing issues on forks, so it was removed.
• A specific Newtonsoft.Json version was specified in tests to avoid a vulnerability present in previous versions.
• FabricBot configurations were added to the repository.
• Added a dependabot configuration for updating GitHub actions dependencies. Thanks @naveensrinivasan!
• Updated the check-spelling action and added quality of life fixes to the workflow. Thanks @jsoref!

Release v0.59.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.59.0 to fix a few bugs we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.59.0 for full release notes.

• #18657: FancyZones not working with windows showing in all desktops is fixed.
• #18663: Messages showing there was an error updating should no longer appear when PowerToys is up-to-date.
• #18712: On some systems OOBE Windows renders a bit too big, so we made the window resizable.
• #18696: Added a setting to disable the search delay in PowerToys Run, as some users preferred the old behavior.
• #18679: A FancyZones bug where windows were not snapping after switching layouts is fixed.
• #18761: PowerToys Run is not getting the default web browser under some conditions. Potential fixes and added logs are included.
• #18842: Upgraded the Windows App SDK runtime to 1.1.1, containing the newest fixes.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

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Release v0.59.0

The v0.59 release cycle we focused on wrapping up building for native ARM64 and releasing the first experimental build. Below are some of the highlights!

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

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ARM64 Installer Hash

B7125697BDBF4A6F835757B4CFB9F71A5A5C6E08C073777112A3D212DC04B170

Highlights

• The work for running natively on ARM64 has been wrapped up and a build is released. Thanks @snickler!
• Power Rename now is running on WinUI 3.
• Keyboard Manager now allows up to 4 modifier keys for shortcuts and has received some quality fixes.
• Upgraded the Windows App SDK runtimes to 1.1.0, fixing an issue where Settings wouldn't start with UAC off and improving performance.
• The Windows App SDK runtime binaries are being shipped with PowerToys which should resolve the installations issues reported with WinAppSDK.

Known issues

• There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server and MSI AfterBurner are known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

General

• Some typos were fixed. Thanks @eltociear, @rcmaehl and @ShyPixie!

ARM64

• ARM64 support now fully added!
• Fixed PowerRename to work on ARM64.
• Fixed File Explorer tools to work on ARM64.
• Made changes for the installer projects to build ARM64 installers.
• Configured the CI and Release pipelines to build for ARM64.
• Added ARM64 build status to the README.

Always on Top

• Fixed an issue where the borders where sticking around when a window was minimized with Win+D.

FancyZones

• Fixed a bug that was consuming CPU cycles when the default layout was set.
• Fixed a bug where apps were not opened in their last known zones due to Virtual Desktop ID changes.
• Fixed a bug that was snapping popup menus opened by applications.
• Fixed a bug causing windows not to be snapped under some configurations.

Image Resizer

• No longer tries to change metadata on files that were not actually resized. Thanks @adamchilders!

File explorer add-ons

• Fixed a bug where modules depending on WebView2 would be limited to opening files smaller than 2 MB. Now the resulting html is generated into a temporary file before presenting it.
• Add a viewBox attribute to svg files that don't have one so that the preview tries to show the whole image.
• Remove scrollbar that was showing when rendering svg thumbnails.

Keyboard Manager

• Now up to four modifier keys can be used in shortcuts. This will allow you to use the Office key (which sends Win+Ctrl+Shift+Alt), for example.
• Fixed a bug locking Keyboard Manager when two shortcut mapping were pressed at the same time.
• Removed event spam for certain telemetry events.

PowerRename

• Ported to use WinUI 3 instead of WinUI 2.

PowerToys Run

• The Services plugin is able to search for parts of the name, display name or the service type or state. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The Services plugin now supports the startup type 'Automatic (Delayed Autostart)'. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The Services plugin now has tooltips for large service names and other UI improvements. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The TimeDate plugin gave results for queries containing just numbers on global queries. This has been fixed. Thanks @htcfreek!
• We've introduced a throttle before a query is done to ensure typing is done to increase performance. Thanks @shandsj!
• Fixed a crash in WebSearch when there's an empty pattern setup for the system's default browser.
• Fixed a bug where VSCodeWorkspaces was not finding portable installations of VSCode. Thanks @harvastum!
• The Calculator plugin reacts better to invalid input and internal errors. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The Calculator plugin can now be configured to use the US number format instead of the system one. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The Folder plugin supports paths containing "/". Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Settings

• Now the UI for adding excluded apps for FindMyMouse is disabled when the module is disabled. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Text was improved in the Settings UI for File Explorer. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
• Settings won't try to launch if everything runs elevated in the machine, and a warning message is shown instead.
• Some minor UI fixes. Thanks @niels9001!
• The Settings screen should now open correctly if the OOBE screen was opened first.
• The rounded corner settings for FancyZones now only show on Windows 11. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed a UI freeze when entering the Keyboard Manager page with clean settings.
• Fixed a UI glitch where a message was being shown that all PowerToys Run plugins were disabled when using the search function. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Upgraded the Windows App SDK runtimes to 1.1.0, fixing an issue where Settings wouldn't start with UAC off and improving performance.

Runner

• Auto-update takes into account if it's running on x64 or arm64 to download the right installer.

Installer

• Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.5.
• The installer is now built using a beta version of Wix 3.14 for arm64 support.
• Added the VC++ Redistributable binary as a requirement.
• The Windows App SDK runtime binaries are being shipped with PowerToys instead of running its installer. This should fix most of the install issues with 0.58.

Development

• New action added to GitHub to publish the winget package to PowerToys.
• New action added to GitHub to publish for the Microsoft Store. Thanks azchohfi!
• Documentation for installing the Windows App SDK dependencies and building the installer was updated.
• FxCop removed from the PowerToys Run TimeZone plugin and was replaced with NetAnalyzers. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Community contributions

We'd like to directly mention certain contributors (in alphabetical order) for their continued community support this month and helping directly make PowerToys a better piece of software.
@Aaron-Junker, @CleanCodeDeveloper, @davidegiacometti, @dend, @franky920920, @htcfreek, @jay-o-way, @jsoref, @niels9001, @snickler.