Update:

Please use the 0.20.1 update which has a few critical bug fixes. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.20.1

Release Notes

Our goals for 0.20 release cycle were to focus on adding in a few new features along with a heavy focus on stability / quality fixes. Martin Chrzan helped contribute a new utility that was in our 2021 plans, a screen wide color picker! Chris Davis also helped contribute a SVG icon support for File Explorer!

Between 0.19 and 0.20 releases, we tracked down a lot of performance and memory issues with PowerToys Run as well. The most important ones got added to 0.19.1 and 0.19.2 releases. If you find something not working correctly, please make us aware.

In addition, we'd like to thank everyone who filed a bug, gave feedback or made a pull-request. The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community.

Feedback:

We'd also stress feedback is critical. We know there are areas for improvement on PowerToys Run. We would love feedback so we can improve. We also would love to know if you want us to be more aggressive on auto-upgrading.

Known issues

• Color Picker at times won't work when PT is running elevated - #5348

Release notes:

For the entire commit history, please look at the 0.20 release. Below are just a few of the bullet items from this release.

• Martin Chrzan's Color Picker was added in! With a quick <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>C</kbd>, get the color from your screen
• File Explorer - Can now render SVG icons thanks to Chris Davis
• FancyZones - you can now snap to any number of zones in FancyZones holding <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> while dragging a window
• PT Run - keyboard interaction improvements
• PT Run - freshly installed apps are now being detected
• PT Run - Lots of perf and bug fixes
• Keyboard manager - app level shortcuts
  • Example: For Outlook, Remap <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>F</kbd> to <kbd>F4</kbd> and now <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>F</kbd> will put up the find window :)
• Keyboard manager - Now can remap key to shortcut and shortcut to key.
• Settings - Now has improved OOBE based on the work the Microsoft Garage Interns did during their hackathon
• PowerRename improvements