Release v0.88.0

In the v0.88 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and improvements.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.88.0-x64.exe	5BBA2E06603CAAE0269DFBC991095C6664FD934130335197C1BA3120E19B7CA3
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.88.0-arm64.exe	E79723F9F94068C699E01334C8CC0C85F37818EB4664FC772D2B545A1C37C3FA
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Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.88.0-arm64.exe	AEE4A67643C886336F31F86C4117BA5F01BCA5E0E99FF34524217DC91AFA7132

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Highlights

• New utility: ZoomIt - a screen zoom, annotation, and recording tool for technical presentations and demos. This utility from Sysinternals has had its source code released and included in PowerToys. ZoomIt will still continue to be updated and shipped by Sysinternals for users who prefer to have it as a standalone utility outside of PowerToys. Thanks @markrussinovich, @foxmsft and @johnstep for contributing the original code and reviewing the PowerToys integration!
• Video Conference Mute has been deprecated and was removed from PowerToys.
• .Net 9.0.1 fixed many issue in WPF, improving stability for PowerToys Run.

General

• Applied a workaround for the Windows App SDK applications title bar override that was causing accent color to not be shown on the top bar of applications on Windows 10. Thanks @pingzing!
• Improved the "admin application running" notification checking logic to be less demanding on resources. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed an issue causing many utilities to crash when the GPO to disable data diagnostics was applied.

Advanced Paste

• Fixed a crash when the application was exiting. (This was a hotfix for 0.87)
• Added a Json format validation step to verify if a conversion to Json should be applied.
• Fixed accessibility issues when using a screen reader.
• Added support for all BitmapDecoder supported image file types to the Image to Text functionality. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed an issue causing Advanced Paste initialization errors to hang the PowerToys main process.

FancyZones

• Removed Workspaces Editor from the exclusions list so it can be snapped by FancyZones.

Keyboard Manager

• Added an option to make a shortcut remapping only trigger with exact modifiers.

Monaco Preview

• Added support for .resx and .resw files in Peek and File Explorer add-ons. Thanks @asif4318!
• Added a setting to make the code minimap toggle-able in Peek and File Explorer add-ons. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Fixed an issue causing Json format preview setting to not be applied correctly.
• Fixed an issue causing the wrong Monaco assets to be used at runtime.

Mouse Without Borders

• Fixed an issue causing clipboard to stop working after going through a UAC screen when using the Service mode. Thanks @YDKK!

New+

• Fixed an issue causing New+ to override the New file or folder creation from the File Explorer Ribbon buttons or keyboard shortcuts on Windows 10.
• When creating file or folders through a template, they should now have the current time as the last modified date. Thanks @cgaarden!

Peek

• Fixed an issue causing Peek to not appear if it was previously minimized. Thanks @asif4318!

PowerToys Run

• Fixed a transparent border issue on Windows 10. (This was a hotfix for 0.87)
• Fixed a crash in the OneNote plugin after the .Net 9 update. (This was a hotfix for 0.87)
• Fixed an issue causing the Calculator plugin to return division by zero errors when dividing by hexadecimal numbers. Thanks @plante-msft!
• Updated the Calculator plugin Mages library to 3.0.0 and added support for the random integer function. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Improved handling of non-base 10 numbers to add support for binary and octal numbers in the Calculator plugin. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Added a setting to enable selection of which units to use for trigonometric functions. Thanks @OldUser101!
• Fixed a .NET 9 regression causing the PowerToys Run dialog to not be draggable. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Added context menu buttons for the VS Code Workspaces plugin, for copying the path, opening in File Explorer or in Console. Thanks @programming-with-ia!
• Added some telemetry to gather data on which hotkey is used to trigger PowerToys Run.
• Removed the workarounds that were in place to fix some WPF issues that were fixed in .NET 9.0.1.
• Fixed a typo in the Value Generator plugin messages. Thanks @OldUser101!

Quick Accent

• Added the ć character to the Slovenian character set. Thanks @dsoklic!
• Added the Proto-Indo-European character set.

Registry Preview

• Fixed an issue causing line breaks to not be parsed correctly for REG_MULTI_SZ values. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added a tooltip to values to show multiple lines of data. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added a context menu to enable copying type, value and key paths. Thanks @htcfreek!

Settings

• Made the Advanced Paste paste OpenAI configuration modal scrollable.
• Fixed the text on the Quick Accent page to refer to "character sets" instead of "character set". Thanks @PesBandi!
• Added the plugin's dll file version and website to the PowerToys Run plugin settings. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added the Workspaces file to the list of files that gets backed up by the Back up / Restore functionality.
• Fixed an issue causing some of the selected character sets to be unselected when opening the character set expander in the Quick Accent page.
• Improved GPO logic, icons, info bar layout and enabled state of all modules settings pages. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Fixed some accessibility issues and refactored and improved quality of the code related to image sizes in the Image Resizer page. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed mentions of "Backup" to "Back up" when it should be used as a verb. Thanks @JackStuart!
• Added a "New" label to Settings to better highlight new utilities that get released. Thanks @niels9001 for the UI tweaks!

Text Extractor

• Fixed many accessibility and UI issues on the overlay UI. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Workspaces

• Fixed an issue causing the Workspaces Editor to start outside of visible desktop area.
• Fixed an issue to maintain command line arguments for applications when trying using the "Launch and Edit" feature.

Video Conference Mute

• The module has been deprecated in 0.88.0, being removed from PowerToys.

ZoomIt

• New utility: Zoom It - a screen zoom, annotation, and recording tool for technical presentations and demos. This utility from Sysinternals has had its source code released and included in PowerToys. ZoomIt will still continue to be updated and shipped by Sysinternals for users who prefer to have it as a standalone utility outside of PowerToys. Thanks @markrussinovich, @foxmsft and @johnstep for contributing the original code and reviewing the PowerToys integration!

Documentation

• Updated the PowerToys Run documentation to reflect documentation pages for new plugins.
• Added YubicoOauthOTP plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @dlnilsson!

Development

• Added fuzz testing for AdvancedPaste, with a new pipeline for OneFuzz.
• Added a new CI pipeline to build with the latest WindowsAppSDK.
• Added a new CI pipeline to build with the latest webview2 from Edge Canary.
• Made the HostsUILib project AOT compatible. Thanks @snickler for your help reviewing this!
• Made FilePreviewCommon and MarkdownPreviewHandler AOT compatible. Thanks @snickler for your help reviewing this!
• Made the PowerAccent.Core project AOT compatible. Thanks @snickler for your help reviewing this...

Release v0.87.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.87.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.87.0 for full release notes.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.87.1-x64.exe	8EFAF47ED00BF230D2C2CC3CB6765C903A6A47E0AAED0BBB329CEF918207B486
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.87.1-arm64.exe	212FC8055789BD2DC4DE554B9AEE291A9C077907E263A302939266263A9D512B
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.87.1-x64.exe	69AD65DDAC6436AEF292D2CC6AB1530021CE98083CB3F5FD3380A52A3B0DBB9A
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.87.1-arm64.exe	AEC9F1D02F1E23F0C1FCFDF95C337C962902394F44C0568012DF78BEDB45CF19

Highlights

• #36391 - Fixed an issue causing PowerToys Run to not have borders on Windows 10.
• #36417 - Fixed a crash when using the PowerToys Run OneNote plugin caused by the .NET 9 upgrade.
• #36428 - Fixed a crash when cleaning out Advanced Paste resources on exit.

Release v0.87.0

In the v0.87 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and improvements.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.87.0-x64.exe	A6549B8D78985CC995F091624D1A2B70907CAC8954334C1CAF61D26EBCF8A449
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.87.0-arm64.exe	3557D4F35AA52571334712A48F51D116F389FA8C43C6B27FE321A7525067E7AE
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.87.0-x64.exe	600CDC7F9AC296AA8B554CA34A0C7EA2D9B1E7E8E41BD096840851B416E63A3C
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.87.0-arm64.exe	387B5BF1BD923BDA215D7DF1D82A197AE12CD91A71A73267768E26757F7A5FE6

Highlights

• Advanced Paste has a new feature called "Advanced AI" that uses Semantic Kernel to allow setting up the orchestration of sequential clipboard transformations.
• Workspaces supports Progressive Web Applications.
• Workspaces has a new feature to move existing windows instead of creating new ones.
• Mouse Jump added new settings to allow customization of screens pop-up. Thanks @mikeclayton!
• New+ now works on Windows 10. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Quick Accent allows selecting the character sets that should appear on the UI. Thanks @Sirozha1337!

Advanced Paste

• Added a new optional feature allowing using AI to set up the orchestration of sequential clipboard transformations.

Awake

• Initialization, logging and tray icon setup improvements. Thanks @dend!

File Explorer add-ons

• Preview Pane extensions now use the PerMonitorV2 DPI mode to fix errors on different scales. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Keyboard Manager.

• Added labels to the IME On, IME Off keys. Thanks @kit494way!
• Fixed an issue that caused the Shift key to remain stuck if a numpad key was mapped to the Shift key.

Monaco Preview

• Added support for .ahk files to be shown as a plaintext file in Peek and File Explorer add-ons. Thanks @daverayment!
• Added support for .ion files to be shown as a plaintext file in Peek and File Explorer add-ons. Thanks @octastylos-pseudodipteros!
• Added support for syntax highlighting for .srt files in Peek and File Explorer add-ons. Thanks @PesBandi!

Mouse Jump

• Allow customizing the appearance of the UI of the Mouse Jump pop-up. Thanks @mikeclayton!

New+

• Added support for Windows 10. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Fixed an issue causing the renaming of new files to not trigger some times. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Updated the New+ icons. Thanks @niels9001!

Peek

• Peek now checks local capabilities to decide what image formats Image Previewer is able to support. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed an issue causing the Code Files Previewer to not load correctly under certain conditions. Thanks @daverayment!
• Refactored, improved and fixed logging when loading the user settings file. Thanks @daverayment!

PowerToys Run

• Added a scoring function for proper ordering of the WindowWalker plugin results. Thanks @andbartol!
• Added UUIDv7 support to the ValueGenerator plugin. Thanks @frederik-hoeft!
• The calculator plugin now allows scientific notation numbers with a lowercase 'e'. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Ported the UI from WPF-UI to .NET 9 WPF, to fix "Desktop composition is disabled" crashes.

Quick Accent

• Added a setting to allow selecting which character sets to show. Thanks @Sirozha1337!

Screen Ruler

• Added a Setting to also allow showing measurements in inches, centimeters or millimeters. Thanks @Sophanatprime!

Settings

• Fixed an issue causing all the links to milestones in the "What's new?" OOBE page to point to the same milestone.
• Removed extra space from the Welcome page. Thanks @agarwalishita!
• Updated left navigation bar icons. Thanks @niels9001!
• Fixed accessibility issues in the dashboard page. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Workspaces

• Added support for Progressive Web Applications to Workspaces.
• Implemented a feature to move existing windows instead of creating new ones.
• Fixed a crash when opening the workspaces editor that was caused by passing incorrect encoder parameters when saving Bitmap files.
• Workspaces editor position is now saved so that we can start it at the same position when we open it again.
• Fixed an issue causing many instances of the same application to be put in the same position instead of the intended position due to timer issues.
• Fixed detection of exact application version when many versions of the same application are installed.

Documentation

• Improved language in CONTRIBUTE.md. Thanks @sanskaarz!
• Added Bilibili plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @Whuihuan!
• Added CanIUse and TailwindCSS plugins mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @skttl!
• Added HttpStatusCodes plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @grzhan!
• Updated COMMUNITY.md with more contributors.

Development

• Upgraded to .NET 9. Thanks @snickler!
• Fixed building on Visual Studio 17.12.
• Upgraded the System.IO.Abstractions dependency to 21.0.29. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Upgraded the WindowsAppSDK dependency to 1.6.241114003. Thanks @shuaiyuanxx!
• Upgraded the MSTest dependency to 3.6.3. Thanks @Youssef1313!
• Upgraded the check-spelling CI dependency to 0.0.24 and fixed related spell checking issues. Thanks @jsoref!
• Removed duplicate names from the spellcheck allowed names file. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Improved logging of asynchronous methods call stacks when logging an error.
• Created a MSBuild props file to be imported by other projects to enable AOT support.
• Made the Peek utility source code AOT compatible.
• Updated .editorconfig rules to relax squiggly IDE errors in Visual Studio 17.12. Thanks @snickler!
• Moved Xaml.Styler from the root to the src folder.

Release v0.86.0

In the v0.86 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and improvements.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.86.0-x64.exe	CFB9608B28B8FF12C9A7C9814A6EF981636EB5AB261DC278C28EC93FD959CCE2
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.86.0-arm64.exe	861CEDBFDCDA993D1D1056E3280319D5EA45D142CA3C737AB1FB4FABD651A5F5
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.86.0-x64.exe	857DE9DC5938D9602F82DFD6183DB5E6823B875A412AEC59B4BE93617E27E9CD
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.86.0-arm64.exe	6F37192534C195A02A80AAE1E449DF61C894C50763096A06195581801943FA31

Highlights

• Advanced Paste has new abilities: Image to text, and paste to file (text / png / html).
• In settings, we've adjusted the left navigation to group the utilities. As the number of utilities shipped with PowerToys keeps growing, we felt this was a needed adjustment. Thanks everyone for your feedback!
• Workspaces received many bug fixes, including the proper launching of many instances of the same application in the same workspace. Note, we are still actively looking at how to properly handle PWA detection.
• We've added a diagnostic data (telemetry) opt-in option in the Settings General tab. As it is off-by-default, we encourage users to turn it on as that helps direct our development efforts and their journeys. More information about the data we collect can be found in the PowerToys Data and Privacy documentation and what each event does.

General

• Added a setting for diagnostic data (telemetry) opt-in (off by default, however, see above for why we encourage you to opt-in!) and user controls to view data.
• Improved exception logging by adding the type of Exception and InnerException. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Advanced Paste

• Added new built-in actions: Image to text, and paste txt, png or html as a file.

Mouse Jump

• Refactored the common classes into a separate project. Thanks @mikeclayton!
• Brought back the telemetry events that were deleted across previous refactoring efforts.

Mouse Without Borders

• Refactored the Logger common classes. Thanks @mikeclayton!

New+

• Fixed the telemetry event for when the modules is enabled or disabled. (This was a hotfix for 0.85)
• Fixed bug when creating folders or files that contain Unicode characters. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Fixed bug when the name of a new folder collided with an already existing folder. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Updated the New+ icons to the fluent style.

Peek

• Folder preview enumeration of size and number of files is now more responsive and faster. Thanks @daverayment!

PowerToys Run

• Handled a culture not found error when checking for right-to-left languages.
• Fixed the WebSearch plugin results title being trimmed in the UI. Thanks @octastylos-pseudodipteros!
• The Unit Converter plugin will now show more significant digits. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Improved error handling when copying to the clipboard results in an error. Thanks @PesBandi!

Quick Accent

• Added support for the Serbian Cyrillic character set. Thanks @Sirozha1337!

Registry Preview

• Adopted the Monaco Editor as the UI text editor. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Settings

• Fixed a crash when trying to access a non-existing templates folder from the New+ page. (This was a hotfix for 0.85)
• Added a navigation tree to group utilities in the left navigation menu.
• Sorted the list of languages in the language selection combo box in the General tab. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed the state of the info bar about templates not being backed up to not close and react to the module's enabled state in the New+ page. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Fixed a crash caused by a dangling thread.
• Clicking a notification about there being an update available should now correctly open the Settings application in the General tab.
• Fixed a UI freeze when trying to access the Diagnostic Data Viewer files. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Workspaces

• Fixed launching the incorrect workspace when launching many workspaces quickly through shortcuts. (This was a hotfix for 0.85)
• Fixed launching many instances of the same application in a workspace.
• Fixed a crash when a previously captured monitor ID no longer existed.
• Fixed an issue causing the wrong coordinates to be saved for minimized applications.
• Fixed an issue causing a crash when stress testing workspace launching.
• Fixed application launching when UAC is off and every application always runs elevated.

Documentation

• Added HackMD plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @8LWXpg!
• Added SSH plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @8LWXpg!
• Added the Data and Privacy documentation to the repo.

Development

• Fixed the CI precheck action to take into account the recent changes in CI actions.
• Added the new Microsoft org issue types to the issue templates. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
• Updated System.Text.Json to 8.0.5 and System.Runtime.Caching to 8.0.1 and related dependencies to the latest to address security reports. Thanks @snickler!
• Updated WinAppSDK to 1.6.1 and CsWinRT to 2.1.5. Thanks @snickler!
• Upgraded the WpfUI dependency to 3.0.5.
• Updated MessagePack to 2.5.187 and StreamJsonRpc to 2.19.27 to address security reports.
• Removed some of the hacks that are no longer needed that tried to force same dependency versions in .csproj files.
• Removed the Markdown file exclusions from the conditions that trigger a full CI test.
• CI fails again when there are XAML style errors in a PR.
• Fixed CI actions that were not failing when one of the powershell scripts they tried to run was failing.
• Fixed analyzer violations to allow fully building PowerToys on Visual Studio 17.12. Thanks @snickler!

Release v0.85.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.85.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.85.0 for full release notes.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.85.1-x64.exe	5F287C34BF68972C55D7C26585EA5C449B0DBA7D458BF7039CFF448E1D7B732B
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.85.1-arm64.exe	6D5C3B24156E6E66FD38AD15076B8442F0A1C5CFCBBDC33AD478FB27E5E086AE
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.85.1-x64.exe	1CDD3C9602F6E5DDC19C66A4FDFE4231389C08E6A037DD22C0A6471F10C7BE02
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.85.1-arm64.exe	6F4DC0217495973B974B7AC1099FD01A2A0FCEE96E8719074EC97FBBC0ECAC4A

Highlights

• #35188 - Fixed an issue causing Workspaces to launch the wrong project through a shortcut.
• #35228 - Fixed a crash when opening the New+ templates folder through the Settings application.

Release v0.85.0

In the v0.85 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and improvements.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.85.0-x64.exe	28A8BEA61040751287FF47C9BAC627A53A4670CFEA0C17B96EE947219E9A6EA9
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.85.0-arm64.exe	2CA077E842B7C53BAFC75A25DBD16C1A4FCE20924C36FDA5AD8CF23CD836B855
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.85.0-x64.exe	4A248AA914EEE339AA99D467FDFBDB1FCD7A49A8564DDBBB811D0EC69CEBAB75
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.85.0-arm64.exe	B5FB04EAF44C4203E785411FF55025842B9C39D4970C0C934CB8ADBE79EF31AF

Highlights

• New utility: New+ - allows setting a personalized set of templates to quickly create files and folders from a File Explorer context menu. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Language selection - it's now possible to select which UI language should be used by PowerToys utilities.
• Lots of quality fixes for Workspaces, improving the number of supported applications.
• Reduced Peek memory usage by fixing image leaks. Thanks @daverayment!

General

• Added a general setting to select which UI language should be used in PowerToys utilities.
• Fixed internal code of some policies for Group Policy Objects, that were reading registry entries using the wrong internal functions, and structured code better to avoid future mistakes of the same kind. Thanks @htcfreek!

Advanced Paste

• Fixed some telemetry calls to signal Advanced Paste activation on the cases where a direct shortcut is being used without showing the UI.
• User-defined custom actions can only be used with AI turned on, so custom actions were disabled on Settings when AI is disabled and were hidden from the Advanced Paste UI.

Awake

• Fixed tray icon behaviors, not appearing and showing incorrect time. Thanks @dend!

Environment Variables Editor

• Added the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH, _NT_ALT_SYMBOL_PATH and _NT_SYMCACHE_PATH as variables that are shown as lists. Thanks @chwarr!

FancyZones

• Allow snapping applications that were launched by Workspaces.

File Locksmith

• Fixed an issue causing File Locksmith to be triggered by unrelated verbs in the context menu.

Mouse Pointer Crosshairs

• Allow crosshairs radius to be 0 pixels. Thanks @octastylos-pseudodipteros!

New+

• New utility - Allows setting a personalized set of templates to quickly create files and folders from a File Explorer context menu. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Added missing entry for New+ policy state reporting in the Bug Report tool. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added a policy for enabling/disabling whether filename extensions should be shown. Thanks @htcfreek!

Peek

• Properly show file's modified date instead of creation date in the file previewer. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed memory leak caused by unmanaged bitmap images not being freed. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed an issue causing Peek to not be displayed the first time when using a preview handler to display files. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Prevent tooltip in file previewer from overlapping with title bar controls. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed memory leaks in thumbnails and refactored image previewer. Thanks @daverayment!

PowerToys Run

• Improved the message boxes to be more specific when PowerToys Run failed to initialize itself or any plugin. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Use capital letters when showing degree results in the Unit Converter plugin. Thanks @PesBandi!

Quick Accent

• Add the Middle Eastern Romanization character set. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Add the degree sign, integral and vertical ellipsis when "All Languages" is selected. Thanks @rddunphy!

Settings

• Fixed the link to the Workspaces documentation. (This was a hotfix for 0.84)
• Fixed flyout issues after the Windows App SDK upgrade. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed initialization for the New+ settings page. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Fixed enabled state of a control on the New+ settings page if the module is enabled by policy. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Fixed a crash when cancelling the template folder selection in the New+ settings page.

Workspaces

• Fixed detecting and snapping applications like Discord. (This was a hotfix for 0.84)
• Fixed detecting and snapping applications like Steam. (This was a hotfix for 0.84)
• Fixed button visibility in the UI. (This was a hotfix for 0.84)
• Fixed an issue launching the wrong project when the editor was closed without saving or cancelling a new project.
• Properly handle repositioning windows running as administrator.
• Properly handle cases where the monitor where a workspace was saved is no longer present.
• Fixed the workspace launcher restarting itself in a loop without success.
• Properly handle standalone applications.
• Fixed issues causing icons to not show.

Documentation

• Fixed the thirdPartyRunPlugins.md entry for the RDP plugin. Thanks @YisroelTech!

Development

• Upgraded Windows App SDK to 1.6.
• Upgraded the Target Platform Version to 10.0.22621.0.
• Added a bot trigger to automatically add a label to Workspaces issues. Thanks @plante-msft!
• Fixed a regular expression in the bot triggers for wanting to submit community contributions. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Fixed analyzer errors after the Visual Studio 17.12 update. Thanks @snickler!
• Fixed the TSA configuration for release CI builds.
• Refactored automated file component generation during installer builds.
• Rewrote the Azure Devops build system to be more modular and share more definitions between PR CI and Release CI.
• Fixed debugging of the New+ page of the Settings application when a settings file was not present.
• Fixed setting the version of the App Manifest in the File Locksmith and New+ context menu app packages.
• Fixed abstracted UI library nuget package signing on release CI.
• Removed build status from Github README.

Release v0.84.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.84.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.84.0 for full release notes.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.84.1-x64.exe	1CDAF3482B031D84DAE15188DE292FB44C5D211698089921040D94B256EBD3CA
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.84.1-arm64.exe	E0207EF5147EE281D4F438E87A30586D8CAA24DE948950FF1B12E05454622CD9
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.84.1-x64.exe	10DF9774DE1857051E135B9790A18A92C5C7F42587C733DEE991186E67231EE0
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.84.1-arm64.exe	EB5DDA5EFBA17E813DBF24AFF668DDF5424ED3659234ABBC15441D478D812699

Highlights

• #34558 - Fixed an issue causing Workspaces not correctly detecting popular applications like Discord or Steam.
• #34556 - Improved UI to more clearly show button outlines in the Workspaces Editor.
• #34588 - Fixed a broken link in Workspaces OOBE page.

Release v0.84.0

In the v0.84 release cycle, we focused on adding a new utility (PowerToys Workspaces), Advanced paste custom actions feature, stability, and improvements.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.84.0-x64.exe	6792180D697ED9FDF9AA7B3F0AB92767CF4C79B526715C802F545E2DCB201BE3
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.84.0-arm64.exe	3D071F009B5E3DBAD21D7450ADB53CBC85CAFB21016E44F414E2A03C188D2FAF
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.84.0-x64.exe	67B7E685AAF635803A87D8EE96CA1AF5024910B0BF00A9277CD77C810D049446
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.84.0-arm64.exe	259DA1EFB33A616CF64840B8D8AB84F86A43F61687578B43849D5DE11F77AF82

Highlights

• New utility: PowerToys Workspaces - this utility can launch a set of applications to a custom layout and configuration on the desktop. App arrangements can be saved as a workspace and then relaunched with one click from the Workspaces Editor or from a desktop shortcut. In the editor, app configuration can be customized using CLI arguments and "launch as admin" modifiers, and app window sizes and positions can be updated as desired. This is our first public version of Workspaces and we are excited for you to try it out for yourself! Make sure to file issues you encounter on our GitHub so the team can continue to improve the utility.
  • Known issues - the team is actively working on fixing these:
    • Apps that launch as admin are unable to be repositioned to the desired layout.
    • Border of "Remove" / "Add Back" app button in editor is not clearly visible on light themes.
• Added Awake --use-parent-pid CLI argument to attach to parent process. Thanks @dend!
• Added custom actions - user-specified pre-defined prompts for the AI model. Additionally, actions (both standard and custom) are now searchable from prompt box and Ctrl + number in-app shortcuts are now applicable for first 9 search results.
• Ported all C++/CX code to C++/WinRT as part of a refactor and upgrade series aimed at enabling AOT (Ahead of Time) compilation for enhanced performance and reduced disk footprint.

General

• Added DSC support for ImageResizer resize sizes property.

Advanced Paste

• Added custom actions - user-specified pre-defined prompts for the AI model. Additionally, actions (both standard and custom) are now searchable from prompt box and Ctrl + number in-app shortcuts are now applicable for first 9 search results.

Awake

• Added --use-parent-pid CLI argument to attach to parent process and fixed issue causing tray icon to disappear. Thanks @dend!

Hosts File Editor

• Fixed save failure when the hosts file is hidden. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

File Explorer add-ons

• Fixed multiple preview form positioning issues causing floating, detached windows, CoreWebView2 related exception and process leak. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Keyboard Manager

• Convert RemapBufferRow to a struct with descriptive field names. Thanks @masaru-iritani!
• Fixed issue causing stuck Ctrl key when shortcuts contain AltGr key.

Peek

• Added long paths support. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Quick Accent

• Moved number superscripts and subscripts from Portuguese to all languages definition. Thanks @octastylos-pseudodipteros!

PowerRename

• Updated the tooltip text of the replace box info button. Thanks @Agnibaan!

PowerToys Run

• Fixed window positioning on start-up introduced in 0.83.
• Improved default web browser detection. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed volume ounces conversion to support both imperial and metric. Thanks @GhostVaibhav!
• Fixed thread-safety issue causing results not to be shown on first launch.

Screen Ruler

• Added multiple measurements support for all measuring tools.

Settings

• Improved disabled animations InfoBar in Find My Mouse page. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Workspaces

• New utility: PowerToys Workspaces - this utility can launch a set of applications to a custom layout and configuration on the desktop. App arrangements can be saved as a workspace and then relaunched with one click from the Workspaces Editor or from a desktop shortcut. In the editor, app configuration can be customized using CLI arguments and "launch as admin" modifiers, and app window sizes and positions can be updated as desired. This is our first public version of Workspaces and we are excited for you to try it out for yourself! Make sure to file issues you encounter on our GitHub so the team can continue to improve the utility.

Documentation

• Added ChatGPTPowerToys plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @ferraridavide!

Development

• Ported all C++/CX code to C++/WinRT.
• Moved Version.props import to Directory.Build.props.
• Extracted self-containment related .csproj properties to src/Common.SelfContained.props.
• Unused and obsolete dependencies cleanup. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Extracted CSWinRT related .csproj properties to src/Common.Dotnet.CsWinRT.props.
• Upgraded Microsoft.Windows.CsWinRT to 2.0.8 and updated verifyDepsJsonLibraryVersions.ps1 to unblock PRs.
• Explicitly Set NuGet Audit Mode to Direct in Directory.Build.props to revert changes made with VS 17.12 update. Thanks @snickler!
• Upgraded UnitsNet to 5.56.0.

Release v0.83.0

In the v0.83 release cycle, we focused on stability and improvements.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.83.0-x64.exe	C78E24F21C611F2BD774D8460ADD4B9AC8519085CA1253941CB46129331AB8C8
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.83.0-arm64.exe	BA1C16003D55587D523A41B960D4A03718123CA37577D5F2A75E151D7653E6D3
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.83.0-x64.exe	7EC435A10849187D21A383E56A69213C1FF110B7FECA65900D9319D2F8162F35
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.83.0-arm64.exe	5E147424D1D12DFCA88DC4AA0657B7CC1F3B02812F1EBA3E564FAF691908D840

Highlights

• Awake Quality of Life changes, including changing the tray icon to reflect the current mode. Thanks @dend!
• Changes to general GPO policies and new policies for Mouse Without Borders. The names for some intune policy configuration sets might need to be updated as seen in https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs/pull/5045/files . Thanks @htcfreek!

General

• Reordered GPO policies, making it easier to find some policies. Thanks @htcfreek!

Advanced Paste

• Fixed CSV parser to support double quotes and escape delimiters when pasting as JSON. Thanks @GhostVaibhav!
• Improved double quote handling in the CSV parser when pasting as JSON. Thanks @htcfreek!

Awake

• Different modes will now show different icons in the system tray. Thanks @dend, and @niels9001 for the icon design!
• Removed the dependency on Windows Forms and used native Win32 APIs instead for the tray icon. Thanks @dend and @BrianPeek!
• Fixed an issue where the UI would become non-responsive after selecting no time for the timed mode. Thanks @dend!
• Refactored code for easier maintenance. Thanks @dend!
• The tray icon will now be shown when running Awake standalone to signal mode. Thanks @dend!
• The tray icon tooltip shows how much time is left on the timer. Thanks @dend!
• Added DPI awareness to the tray icon context menu. Thanks @dend!

Color Picker

• Added support to using the mouse wheel to scroll through the color history. Thanks @Fefedu973!

File Explorer add-ons

• Allow copying from the right-click menu in Monaco and Markdown previewers.

File Locksmith

• Fixed a crash when there were a big number of entries being shown by moving the opened files of a process to another dialog.

Installer

• Fixed the path where DSC module files were installed for the user-scope installer. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)

Mouse Without Borders

• Disabled non supported options in the old Mouse Without Borders UI. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added new GPO policies to control the use of some features. Thanks @htcfreek!

Peek

• Allow copying from the right-click menu in Dev files and Markdown previews.

PowerToys Run

• Fixed a crash on Windows 11 build 22000. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)
• Blocked a transparency fix code from running on Windows 10, since it was causing graphical glitches. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)
• Accept speed abbreviations like kilometers per hour (kmph) in the Unit Converter plugin. Thanks @GhostVaibhav!
• Added settings to configure behavior of the "First week of year" and "First day of week" calculations in the DateTime plugin. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Fixed wrong initial position of the PowerToys Run when switching between monitors with different dpi values.
• Started allowing interchangeable use of / and \ in the registry plugin paths.
• Added support to automatic sign-in after rebooting with the System plugin. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added suggested use example results to the Value Generator plugin. Thanks @azlkiniue!

Quick Accent

• Added support for the Bulgarian character set. Thanks @octastylos-pseudodipteros!

Runner

• Add code to handle release tags with an upper V when trying to detect new updates. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Settings

• Fixed the UI spacing in the "update available" card. Thanks @Agnibaan!
• Fixed the information bars in the Mouse Without Borders settings page to hide when the module is disabled. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Improved consistency of the icons used in the Mouse Without Borders settings page. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Improved action keyword information bar padding in the PowerToys Run plugins section. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Fixed a crash in the dashboard when Keyboard Manager Editor settings file became locked.

Documentation

• Added the RDP plugin to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs. Thanks @anthony81799!
• Added the GitHubRepo and ProcessKiller plugins to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs. Thanks @8LWXpg!
• Fixed a typo in the 0.82.0 release notes in README. Thanks @walex999!

Development

• Disabled FancyZone UI tests, to unblock PRs. We plan to bring them back in the future. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)
• Fixed an issue where flakiness in CI was causing the installer custom actions DLL from being signed. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)
• Upgraded the Microsoft.Windows.Compatibility dependency to 8.0.7.
• Upgraded the System.Text.Json dependency to 8.0.4.
• Upgraded the Microsoft.Data.Sqlite dependency to 8.0.7.
• Upgraded the MSBuildCache dependency to 0.1.283-preview. Thanks @dfederm!
• Removed an unneeded /Zm compiler flag from Keyboard Manager Editor common build flags.
• Fixed the winget publish action to handle upper case V in the tag name. Thanks @mdanish-kh!
• Removed wildcard items from vcxproj files. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Removed the similar issues bot GitHub actions. Thanks @craigloewen-msft!
• Fixed CODEOWNERS to better protect changes in some files.
• Switched machines being used in CI and pointed status badges in README to the new machines.
• Fixed NU1503 build warnings when building PowerToys. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Use the MSTest meta dependency for running the tests instead of the individual testing packages. Thanks @stan-sz!
• Added missing CppWinRT references.

Release v0.82.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.82.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.82.0 for full release notes.

Installer Hashes

Description	Filename	sha256 hash
Per user - x64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.82.1-x64.exe	B594C9A32125079186DCE776431E2DC77B896774D2AEE2ACF51BAB8791683485
Per user - ARM64	PowerToysUserSetup-0.82.1-arm64.exe	41C1D9C0E8FA7EFFCE6F605C92C143AE933F8C999A2933A4D9D1115B16F14F67
Machine wide - x64	PowerToysSetup-0.82.1-x64.exe	B8FA7E7C8F88B69E070E234F561D32807634E2E9D782EDBB9DC35F3A454F2264
Machine wide - ARM64	PowerToysSetup-0.82.1-arm64.exe	58F22306F22CF9878C6DDE6AC128388DF4DFF78B76165E38A695490E55B3C8C4

Highlights

• #33504 - Fixed a crash when starting PowerToys Run on Windows 11 SV1 (build number 22000).
• #33622 - Fixed PowerToys Run appearing too bright on Windows 10.
• #33744 - Fixed the installation location of DSC files on user-scoped installations, causing winget configure to not work correctly with PowerToys.