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@ethanfangg ethanfangg released this 16 Dec 19:33
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v0.87.0
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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.
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