Power Toys: v0.29.0 Release

Our goals for 0.29 release cycle were to focus on adding on end-user experience, stability, accessibility, localization and quality of life improvements for both the development team and our end users. Due to the short dev cycle due to the holidays this month, larger work items will show up next release such as FZ editor improvements and threenew plug-ins for PowerToys Run.

For the entire commit history, please look at the 0.29 release. Below are just a few of the bullet items from this release.

Where is the Video Conference utility?

This is only included in the experimental release. Our hope is to release an updated experimental release early in 2021.

Release Notes

General - Bug report tool and improved logging. - Various localization improvements. - CodeQL added. Triggered via a cron timer twice a day. - "How to use" docs moved to https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/ - This will allow the community to do direct PRs against those documents

ARM64 Progress - .NET Core upgrade for code bases the PowerToys team controls is complete. We still have two external dependencies that are .NET Framework that need to be updated.

Color Picker - General bug fixes - Added ability to provide the name of the color at parity with Office and WinUI Color Picker.

FancyZones - Allows to use Windows Snap on desktops that don't have a layout applied and for apps that are in the excluded list. - Bug fixes

PowerToys Run - Improved performance - PT Run now supports accented characters.

Installer - Option to extract the MSI from the .exe for enterprise scenarios and more options to do unattended installations. - Removed toast notifications during installation.

We'd like to directly mention (in alphabetical order) for their continued community support this month and helping directly make PowerToys a better piece of software.

@Aaron-Junker, @benjamhooper, @davidegiacometti, @eriawan, @htcfreek, @jhutchings1, @jsoref, @jay-o-way, @martinchrzan, @niels9001, @riverar, @snickler, and @TobiasSekan