Power Toys: v0.65.0 Release

In the v0.65 release cycle, we focused on stability and improvements.

Installer Hashes

x64 Installer Hash

8151675EE508CD3C91DF3088C52192C58080A15A4EDF958ADA99EBDA19C31CF1

ARM64 Installer Hash

8780CF5E82F21BAAF3234F630A89175782A26D22EB7E32FD23F78FB3E4C336A2

Highlights

• The codebase was upgraded to work with .NET 7. Thanks @snickler!
• Quick Accent can now show a description of the selected character. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
• ColorPicker now supports adding custom formats.

Known issues

• The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.
• After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.
• There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server is a known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

General

• Downgraded the ModernWPF dependency to 0.9.4 to avoid issues on certain virtualization technologies. (This was a hotfix for 0.64)
• Upgraded and fixed the code to work with .NET 7. Thanks @snickler!

Always on Top

• Added telemetry for the pinning/unpinning events.

Awake

• Added telemetry.
• Removed exiting Awake from the tray icon when starting from the runner. Utilities started from the runner should be disabled in the Settings to avoid discrepancies.

Color Picker

• Fixed an infinite loop due to a looping UI refresh. (This was a hotfix for 0.64)
• Added a feature to allow users to create their own color formats.

FancyZones

• Fixed an issue that caused turning off spaces between zones to not apply correctly. (This was a hotfix for 0.64)
• Prevent the shift key press from trickling down to the focused window. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed a bug causing FancyZones to try resizing hidden windows.
• Fixed the focus layout preview being empty on first run in the editor.
• Fixed UI margin in the "Create new layout" dialog.
• Fixed window positioning issues when switching between virtual desktops.
• Fixed snapping by hotkey in single zone layouts.

File explorer add-ons

• Added .log file support to the Monaco preview handler. Thanks @Eagle3386!

File Locksmith

• Query system and other users processes when elevated. (This was a hotfix for 0.64)
• Icon and UI fixes. Thanks @niels9001! (This was a hotfix for 0.64)

Group Policy Objects

• Removed a obsolete dependency from the admx file to fix importing on Intune. Thanks @htcfreek! (This was a hotfix for 0.64)

Hosts File Editor

• Added a scrollbar to the additional lines dialog. Thanks @davidegiacometti! (This was a hotfix for 0.64)
• Updated the plus icon. Thanks @niels9001! (This was a hotfix for 0.64)
• Prevent the new entry content dialog from overlapping the title bar.
• Updated the name for the additional lines feature. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added a workaround for an issue causing the context menu not opening on right-click. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Image Resizer

• Fixed a silent crash when trying to show the tier 1 context menu on Windows 11.

PowerToys Run

• Added pinyin support to the search. Thanks @frg2089!
• Fixed an error in the TimeZone plugin preventing searching for standard time zones. Thanks @Tantalus13A98B5F!
• Added the English abbreviations as fallbacks in the UnitConverter plugin. Thanks @Tantalus13A98B5F!

Quick Accent

• Added mappings for the mu, omicron, upsilon and thorn characters.
• Added a setting to exclude apps from activating Quick Accent.
• Fixed an issue causing the selector to trigger when leaving the lock screen. Thanks @damienleroy!
• Added the Croatian, Netherlands, Swedish and Welsh character sets. Thanks @damienleroy!
• Added support for more unicode characters. Thanks @char-46!
• Shift-space can now navigate backwards in the selector. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Added the Catalan accented characters. Thanks @ivocarbajo and @codingneko!
• Added the Kurdish accented characters.
• Added the Serbian accented characters. Thanks @damienleroy!
• Added the Irish and Scottish accented characters.
• Added the description for the currently selected character in the selector.
• Fixed a bug causing the selector window to appear blank.

Runner

• Fixed a crash on a racing condition accessing the IPC communication with Settings.

Settings

• Fixed settings name in the QuickAccent page. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added a message indicating there's no network available when looking for updates.
• Fixed an error causing the backup/restore feature to not find the backup file. Thanks @jefflord!
• Fixed localization for the "All apps" expression in the keyboard manager page.
• UI refactoring, clean-up and bringing in modern controls. Thanks @niels9001!
• Improved settings/OOBE screens text. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
• The backup/restore feature also backs up FancyZones layouts.

Shortcut Guide

• Added a setting to make the shortcuts and taskbar icons have different configurable response times. Thanks @OkamiWong!

Video Conference Mute

• Changed the warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute to saying it's going to go into legacy mode, thanks to community feedback. (This was a hotfix for 0.64)

Documentation

• Added the core team to COMMUNITY.md

Development

• Fixed some errors in the GitHub issue templates. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
• Updated the Windows implementation library. Thanks @AtariDreams!
• Added Hosts File Editor to the issue templates. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Turned on C++ code analysis and incrementally fixing warnings.
• Cleaned up unused dependencies. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed building on the latest MSVC.
• Fixed multi-processor build on the latest MSBuild.
• Added a message to suggest the feedback hub to the fabric bot triggers.
• Optimized every png file with the zopfli algorithm. Thanks @pea-sys!
• Updated the .vsconfig file for a quicker development setup. Thanks @ChaseKnowlden!
• Fixed a language typo in the code. Thanks @eltociear!
• Fixed wrong x86 target in the solution file.
• Added a script to fail building when the nuget packages aren't consolidated. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Upgraded the Vanara.Invoke dependencies.
• Upgraded and brought back the spell-checker. Thanks @jsoref!
• Added a new dependencies feed and fixed release CI. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!