Release v0.99.0

1E3586A2ECD454B86FE61C44B003E0027FCC24DCB5135958B73D04A58285618C


Per user - ARM64

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Machine wide - ARM64

Grab And Move is ideal for large monitors or windows that have moved off-screen, and it integrates with the existing Settings experience including GPO policy support, an OOBE page, and a modifier-agnostic configuration UI.

🖥️ Meet Power Display: control your monitors right from the system tray (Preview)

Meet Power Display, a new utility that lets you control your hardware monitors right from the system tray. Once enabled, you can open the flyout from the tray icon or a configurable shortcut to quickly access your connected monitors. Power Display automatically detects your displays and, if supported, lets you adjust settings like volume, brightness, contrast, and color profile. No more reaching for those hard to find buttons on the back of your screen!

Lastly, Power Display profiles can now be automatically switched with Light Switch. In the Light Switch settings, you can select a profile as an action, making it easy to adjust your monitor settings based on the current light or dark theme.

⚡ Command Palette: Compact Dock, Calculator history, and reliability

This release brings a large set of fixes and improvements to Command Palette and the Dock. Alongside a wide range of performance and stability improvements, this release also introduces new capabilities, including support for plain text and image viewer content types for extensions, making it possible to display raw text and zoomable images directly in the content pane, as well as a persistent calculator history with options to save, reuse, delete, and clear entries, plus a configurable primary action and the ability to replace the query on enter.

We've also made several improvements to the Dock experience. You can now choose to keep the Dock always on top of other windows. When the Dock is positioned at the top or bottom of the screen, a new Compact mode is available, offering a more condensed layout that hides the subtitle!

This release also fixes two separate typing-crash scenarios, hardens extension loading so one faulty extension no longer takes down the whole list, improves indexer search with filename broadening and Windows Search availability indicators, and adds Windows Terminal profile pinning with per-profile icons.

Massive thanks to

We also added a new action called Disabled, which lets you quickly disable specific keys or shortcuts.

Command Palette

Dock

• Added a new pin-to-Dock dialog that gives users more control over how commands are pinned, replacing the previous one-click pin behavior in .


• Added a Compact Dock mode (28px tall, subtitle hidden) for Top/Bottom dock positions, and hid the Dock Size setting for Left/Right positions in by by


• Fixed a build-breaking merge inconsistency in DockWindow.xaml.cs in .


• Fixed the Dock not reflecting pin/unpin changes until restart in

Extensions & SDK

• Added plain text viewer and image viewer IContent types to the extension SDK in .


• Added persistent calculator history with save, reuse, delete, and clear actions, configurable primary action, and replace-query-on-enter behavior in .


• Added a NetworkSpeedUnit choice setting to the Performance Monitor extension (bits/s, decimal bytes/s, IEC binary bytes/s) in .


• Enabled dock pinning of Windows Terminal profiles with per-profile icons, and hardened GUID parsing so a malformed profile entry no longer breaks the whole list in by by by by by


• Fixed right-click context menus failing to open on the first attempt for slow out-of-process third-party extensions in .


• Fixed the Settings toggle for disabling fallback commands from out-of-process extensions by switching the type check from a concrete class to the WinRT interface in by by by by by by by


• Hardened ListViewModel item-fetch synchronization with copy-on-write cache publication, latest-fetch-wins semantics, and improved cancellation cleanup in .


• Refactored settings and app state to be immutable end-to-end to eliminate concurrency race conditions in .


• Added a CanGoBack guard to Frame.GoBack, preventing a crash when navigating back with an empty navigation stack in .


• Fixed duplicate and contradictory Pin to Dock/Unpin from dock context menu entries appearing on top-level home-page items in .


• Prevented PgUp/PgDown paging from landing on non-interactive entries like separators and section headers in .


• Fixed keyboard focus restoration on the Extensions settings page so Shift+Tab returns to the previously selected extension card in .


• Reverted focus-restoration on the Extensions settings page that was causing clicks to open the wrong extension item in .


• Fixed inline code (backtick text) in the Details and Content panels being invisible on light-theme backgrounds in .


• Fixed the Window Walker "Not Responding" tag being illegible in dark mode in .


• Fixed a WinUI layout bug where the settings page content was visually offset when wrapped in a ScrollViewer with MaxWidth in by


• Added screen reader announcements for shortcut key information on the settings button in and by by by by


• Updated the extension solution filter files to include new transitive dependencies and added a leaner SLNF for faster developer builds in .


• Updated the Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.PowerToys solution filter file to include missing project dependencies in and by by

Image Resizer

• Migrated Image Resizer from WPF to WinUI 3, unblocking future AOT compilation and aligning with Windows 11 design language in and


• Fixed missing PNG encoder settings by applying codec-specific encoder properties in the transcode path in .


• Fixed a regression where JsonPropertyName attributes were not forwarded by the ObservableProperty generator, restoring correct JSON serialization in


• Addressed code review feedback on manual key selection: fixed localization, centralized VK_DISABLED constants, added validation for disable mappings, fixed dropdown revert logic, and plugged Process handle leaks in

Mouse Utilities

• Refactored PadImage in PowerOCR (Text Extractor) to improve memory management and nullability clarity in .

Peek

• Added auto-detection of file name encoding when previewing zip files, fixing garbled text for archives created on non-UTF-8 systems in .

Power Display

• Re-enabled the PowerDisplay module with a new icon/logo, DPI fixes, UI/UX improvements, and installer integration in


• Fixed thread safety by marking shared fields as volatile, guarding color temperature writes behind a capability check, and correcting a misleading log message in


• Introduced a shared flyout positioning helper used by PowerDisplay and Quick Access, fixing taskbar overlap at 100% scaling and off-screen rendering after DPI changes in

PowerToys Run

• Fixed a command breakout in the Shell plugin by escaping double quotes in the command string, while still allowing environment variables to expand in .


• Removed unused XAML namespace declarations from PowerLauncher XAML files in .

Quick Accent

• Added subscript and superscript Unicode characters to the Special Characters set for keys 0-9, A, E, N, X, Y, Z, and math operators in .


• Added the missing Icelandic accented letter í to the VK_I key definition in .


• Added Shift+N capitalization support for superscript Latin small letter n in .


• Restored the en-dash character under the VK_MINUS key in the Special Characters set in by by


• Fixed Dashboard layout issues by removing excessive empty scroll space, restoring responsive behavior, and correcting a 1-pixel vertical alignment mismatch in by


• Fixed the backup folder path being visually clipped on the General and Image Resizer pages in


• Fixed missing images in the Settings UI by adjusting the project file so image assets are packaged correctly in

Text Extractor

• Removed the third-party WPF-UI library in favor of native WPF Fluent theming with custom control templates in


• Unstuck the Alt key after Ctrl+Alt+Del or Alt+Tab into an admin process, made Win selectable as the move/resize activation modifier, and made the window geometry readout opaque in .


• Updated Grab And Move Settings strings to be modifier-agnostic now that Win is selectable alongside Alt in by , and by


• Added an update-available badged tray icon, a new "Update available" tray menu entry that opens Settings to General, and raised the update InfoBar severity to Warning in


• Changed default-on state for new installations by disabling 7 modules by default to streamline the initial experience for new users in


• Updated the Windows Implementation Library (WIL) from 1.0.231216.1 to 1.0.250325.1 via Central Package Management in by by by


• Reverted the pinning of the check-spelling action after determining that the pin was unrelated to the pipeline issue in .


• Added contributor names from a recent PR to the spellchecker allow-list to prevent CI spelling errors in .


• Added comprehensive DSC (Desired State Configuration) documentation with per-module reference pages, settings examples, and an overview guide covering 25+ PowerToys modules in .


• Cleaned up root-folder Markdown files by consolidating bullet styles, fixing spelling and grammar, converting HTML to Markdown, and applying sentence-case headers in .


• Documented three missing telemetry events (ModuleLaunchedFromSettings, CmdPal_DockConfiguration, KeyboardManager_LaunchEditor) in by


• Fixed MSTEST0017 analyzer warnings by correcting assertion argument order in 22 Assert calls across 8 test files in


• Resolved StyleCop SA1614, SA1616, SA1622, and SA1623 warnings across Command Palette, Power Display, Settings UI, DSC, and Extensions Toolkit code in ,


• Bumped the azure/login GitHub Action from v2 to v3 in the MS Store submissions workflow in