PowerToys 0.81.0
May 21, 2024
- Highlights:
- New utility: Advanced Paste, an AI powered tool to convert your clipboard content into another format. Thanks @craigloewen-msft for the core functionality and @niels9001 for the UI/UX design!
- Command Not Found now uses the PowerShell Gallery release and now supports ARM64. Thanks @carlos-zamora!
- Fixed most accessibility issues opened after the latest accessibility review.
- Refactored, packaged and released the main Environment Variables Editor, Hosts File Editor and Registry Preview utilities functionality as controls to be integrated into DevHome. Thanks @dabhattimsft for validating and integrating into DevHome!
- General:
- Fixed crashes on older CPUS by updating .NET to 8.0.4. (This was a hotfix for 0.80)
- Advanced Paste:
- New utility: Advanced Paste, an AI powered tool to convert your clipboard content into another format. Thanks @craigloewen-msft for the core functionality and @niels9001 for the UI/UX design!
- AlwaysOnTop:
- Enable border anti-aliasing. Thanks @ewancg!
- Color Picker:
- Improved accessibility by making the Settings and Copy to clipboard buttons focusable.
- Improved accessibility by supporting picking a color using the keyboard.
- Command Not Found:
- Upgraded the Command Not Found to use the new PowerShell Gallery release and support ARM64. Thanks @carlos-zamora!
- Environment Variables Editor:
- Refactored, packaged and released the main Environment Variables Editor functionality as a control to be integrated into DevHome. Thanks @dabhattimsft for validating and integrating into DevHome!
- FancyZones:
- Fixed window wrap around behavior when overriding Windows key and arrow shortcuts on single monitor scenarios. Thanks @DanRosenberry!
- Improved accessibility of the editor by listing the keyboard shortcuts in the Canvas Editor.
- File Explorer add-ons:
- Updated Monaco to 0.47 and added the new sticky scroll setting for DevFiles viewer. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
- Added the new font size setting for DevFiles viewer. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
- Added support for .srt (subtitle) file previewing in DevFiles viewer. Thanks @PesBandi!
- Hosts File Editor:
- Refactored, packaged and released the main Hosts File Editor functionality as a control to be integrated into DevHome. Thanks @dabhattimsft for validating and integrating into DevHome!
- Image Resizer:
- Supported narrator announcing the checkboxes in the UI and the sizes combobox. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Improved accessibility by increasing contrast in the text color of combobox items.
- Installer:
- Fixed some install failures when the folders the DSC module is to be installed in isn't accessible by the WiX installer. (This was a hotfix for 0.80)
- Detecting install location for DSC now uses registry instead of WMI to improve performance. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Fixed an error causing the machine scope installer to not install correctly in machines where the documents folder is in a UNC network path. We're still working in a fix for the user scope installer.
- Keyboard Manager:
- Fixed startup crashes in the editor when the Visual C++ Redistributable wasn't installed. (This was a hotfix for 0.80)
- Fixed an accessibility issue where the first button wasn't focused after adding a new row in the editor.
- Environment Variables are now expanded in arguments of programs started through a shortcut. Thanks @HydroH!
- Paste as Plain Text:
- Paste as Plain Text was removed as a separate utility, since its functionality is now part of the Advanced Paste utility.
- Peek:
- Updated icons, tweaked UI and refactored internal code. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
- Updated Monaco to 0.47 and added the new sticky scroll setting for DevFiles viewer. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
- Added the new font size setting for DevFiles viewer. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
- Upgrade the SharpCompress dependency to 0.37.2 and fixed archive parsing. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Fixed aliasing in the image viewer.
- Added support for .srt (subtitle) file previewing in DevFiles viewer. Thanks @PesBandi!
- Power Rename:
- Fixed the descriptions that were mixed up in the regex helper (S and w).
- PowerToys Run:
- Added support for UNC paths starting with // in the Folder plugin. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Fixed the plugin load failed message to list the failed plugins. Thanks @belkiss!
- Icons for MSIX packages are now updated when a package update is detected. Thanks @HydroH!
- Use Mica backdrop instead of Acrylic to fix random crashes caused by the Windows composition being momentarily turned off.
- Improved accessibility in the results list action buttons by improving contrast of hovered/focused buttons.
- Quick Accent:
- Added support for the Esperanto character set. Thanks @salutontalk and @ccmywish!
- Added the ǽ and ϑ characters. Thanks @PesBandi!
- Registry Preview:
- Refactored, packaged and released the main Registry Preview functionality as a control to be integrated into DevHome. Thanks @dabhattimsft for validating and integrating into DevHome!
- Text Extractor:
- Fixed an issue causing the Settings page to not be opened when clicking the Settings button in Text Extractor's overlay. (This was a hotfix for 0.80)
- Settings:
- Improved UI ordering of the File Explorer add-ons. Thanks @niels9001!
- Applied fixes to theme overriding and cleaned up unneeded code. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Fixed misspells in references to the Hosts File Editor utility. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Improved accessibility of the Select Folder button in the Settings Backup UI.
- Improved accessibility by improving focus and tab navigation in the ColorPicker page. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Added a description to the fallback encoder setting in the Image Resizer page. Thanks @Kissaki!
- Refactored and improved performance in the PowerToys Run plugins UI in the Settings page. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Fixed a crash when a user cleared the contents of a Number Box in the PowerToys Run plugins additional options. Thanks @htcfreek!
- Update the PATH environment variables with the user scope PATH when entering the Command Not Found page to improve PowerShell detection.
- Documentation:
- Added the WebSearchShortcut plugin to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs. Thanks @Daydreamer-riri!
- Updated COMMUNITY.md with the project managers that are part of the core team.
- Improved the DSC samples.
- Added the 1Password plugin to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs. Thanks @KairuDeibisu!
- Added the UnicodeInput plugin to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs. Thanks @nathancartlidge!
- Development:
- Updated System.Drawing.Common to 8.0.5 to fix CI builds after the .NET 8.0.5 upgrade was released.
- Fixed file permissions when doing a build using cache on PR CI. Thanks @dfederm!
- Removed the Test SDK reference on ARM64 to fix local building for ARM64. Thanks [@dfederm](https://github.com/d...
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