PowerToys version 0.27 out with a bunch of improvements and bug fixes

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PowerToys 0.87.0

Dec 16, 2024

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 Release v0.87.0 · microsoft/PowerToys