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PowerToys v0.99.0

Advanced Paste

• Eliminated 13 XAML compiler warnings by switching x:Bind expressions on non-observable properties from OneWay to OneTime mode in #46726
• Fixed auto-copy failing on Electron/Chromium apps (e.g. Teams, VS Code) by releasing held modifier keys before injecting Ctrl+C in #46486

Always On Top

• Fixed the pin/unpin sound playing even when the operation failed by gating sound playback on whether SetWindowPos actually succeeded in #46910

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 #46436. Thanks @niels9001!
• 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 #46699
• Made the Dock window stay on top of all other windows by default, automatically yielding when a full-screen app is detected in #46163. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Decoupled the Dock context menu from the Command Bar's active item so it no longer updates when a different list item is selected, and made the Dock search box position follow the Dock position in #46420. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed duplicate dock bands caused by missing duplicate check when pinning in #46438
• Fixed a build-breaking merge inconsistency in DockWindow.xaml.cs in #46639. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed the Dock not reflecting pin/unpin changes until restart in #47169
• Fixed the Dock window showing a visible frame on startup by hiding the DWM border during window creation in #47187

Extensions & SDK

• Added plain text viewer and image viewer IContent types to the extension SDK in #43964. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Added persistent calculator history with save, reuse, delete, and clear actions, configurable primary action, and replace-query-on-enter behavior in #45307. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Added a NetworkSpeedUnit choice setting to the Performance Monitor extension (bits/s, decimal bytes/s, IEC binary bytes/s) in #46320. Thanks @niels9001!
• 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 #46372
• Assigned stable IDs to FancyZones layout commands in the PowerToys extension so users can pin individual layouts to the dock in #46198. Thanks @vanzue!
• Hardened the Performance Monitor extension with exception handling and crash recovery via a sentinel file mechanism in #46541. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Gave each built-in extension its own settings file with transparent one-time migration from the legacy shared settings.json in #46685. Thanks @michaeljolley!
• Shipped Copilot instructions and 5 skills (publish-extension, add-adaptive-card-form, add-extension-settings, add-dock-band, add-fallback-commands) inside the extension template in #46683. Thanks @niels9001!
• Fixed invisible/corrupted icons in newly created extensions by extracting template expansion into a dedicated service that no longer rewrites binary files in #46490. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed a Watson crash where a single extension in a bad state would kill the entire extension-loading loop in #47032
• Fixed right-click context menus failing to open on the first attempt for slow out-of-process third-party extensions in #46626. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• 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 #47127
• Simplified the Time & Date extension page to recalculate results on every query rather than caching, breaking a potential infinite update loop in #46396. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed Calculator extension unit tests failing under non-English cultures in #46911. Thanks @niels9001!

Search & Indexer

• Improved indexer search with implicit filename broadening for plain free-text queries, retry-with-literal matching for punctuation-heavy searches, and a Windows Search availability indicator in #46907. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed a crash when converting large calculator results to hex/oct/bin by switching the secondary-results base conversion to BigInteger with a custom base converter in #46176. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Split the full-screen shortcut guard into separate full-screen and busy checks with an opt-in IgnoreShortcutWhenBusy setting, added a live diagnostic InfoBar, and introduced an opt-in triple-press breakthrough to bypass suppression in #45891. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed the Window Walker Close window command to respect the "Keep open after closing window" setting and automatically refreshed the window list in #45721. Thanks @jiripolasek!

Reliability & UX

• Fixed a 100% reproducible crash when typing in the search box by adding a reentrancy guard around filtered-items mutations in #47148. Thanks @MuyuanMS!
• Fixed a second typing crash that occurred when the indexer fallback was enabled by correcting a P/Invoke function signature in #47186
• Hardened ListViewModel item-fetch synchronization with copy-on-write cache publication, latest-fetch-wins semantics, and improved cancellation cleanup in #46429. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Refactored settings and app state to be immutable end-to-end to eliminate concurrency race conditions in #46451. Thanks @michaeljolley!
• Added a CanGoBack guard to Frame.GoBack, preventing a crash when navigating back with an empty navigation stack in #46493. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed duplicate and contradictory Pin to Dock/Unpin from dock context menu entries appearing on top-level home-page items in #46458. Thanks @michaeljolley!
• Prevented PgUp/PgDown paging from landing on non-interactive entries like separators and section headers in #46439. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed keyboard focus restoration on the Extensions settings page so Shift+Tab returns to the previously selected extension card in #45903. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Reverted focus-restoration on the Extensions settings page that was causing clicks to open the wrong extension item in #46642. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed inline code (backtick text) in the Details and Content panels being invisible on light-theme backgrounds in #46739. Thanks @michaeljolley!
• Fixed the Window Walker "Not Responding" tag being illegible in dark mode in #46924. Thanks @niels9001!
• Fixed a WinUI layout bug where the settings page content was visually offset when wrapped in a ScrollViewer with MaxWidth in #46568
• Fixed a regression in PinToDockDialogContent.xaml where a type rename was missed during a merge gap in #46599. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Fixed a screen reader accessibility issue where the Alias text box announced "Enter Alias" instead of just "Alias" in #45906
• Added screen reader announcements for shortcut key information on the settings button in #46164. Thanks @chatasweetie and @jiripolasek!
• Removed redundant container-level tab stops in the details panel for improved keyboard accessibility in #46346. Thanks @chatasweetie!

Infrastructure & Code Quality

• Extracted persistence and file I/O logic from SettingsModel and AppStateModel into dedicated service classes in #46312. Thanks @michaeljolley!
• Introduced CmdPalLogger, CmdPalLoggerProvider, and an extension method integrating Microsoft.Extensions.Logging with ManagedCommon.Logger in #46768. Thanks @michaeljolley!
• Bumped all CommunityToolkit.WinUI packages from 8.2.250402 to 8.2.251219 and removed three SearchBar workaround hacks in #46027. Thanks @niels9001!
• Enabled telemetry event firing correctly in AOT builds by adding EventSourceSupport in #47121
• Updated the extension solution filter files to include new transitive dependencies and added a leaner SLNF for faster developer builds in #46896. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Updated the Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.PowerToys solution filter file to include missing project dependencies in #46136. Thanks @jiripolasek and @vanzue!
• Removed a legacy workaround for FontIconSource.CreateIconElement (fixed in WinAppSDK 1.8.4) in #45790. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Moved developer documentation to doc/devdocs/modules/cmdpal to align with other PowerToys modules in #46926. Thanks @niels9001!
• Bumped Command Palette version to 0.10 in #47181

Image Resizer

• Migrated Image Resizer from WPF to WinUI 3, unblocking future AOT compilation and aligning with Windows 11 design language in #45288. Thanks @moooyo and @niels9001!
• Restored honoring the user-configured JPEG quality setting when resizing JPEGs, which had been silently ignored at a fixed ~Q90 default after the WinUI 3 migration in #47134
• Fixed missing PNG encoder settings by applying codec-specific encoder properties in the transcode path in #46695. Thanks @moooyo!
• Fixed a regression where JsonPropertyName attributes were not forwarded by the ObservableProperty generator, restoring correct JSON serialization in #47056

Keyboard Manager

• Reverted multiline text replacement back to character-by-character sending with Shift+Enter for newlines, fixing multiline replacements in chat apps and plain editors in #46794
• 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 #46377

Light Switch

• Fixed Light Switch and PowerDisplay integration by re-enabling the Apply monitor settings expander and disabled-warning InfoBar in Settings, and ensuring every hotkey press notifies PowerDisplay instead of only every other press in #47190

Mouse Utilities

• Refactored PadImage in PowerOCR (Text Extractor) to improve memory management and nullability clarity in #44906. Thanks @adelobosko!

Peek

• Added auto-detection of file name encoding when previewing zip files, fixing garbled text for archives created on non-UTF-8 systems in #44799. Thanks @oxygen-dioxide!

Power Display

• Re-enabled the PowerDisplay module with a new icon/logo, DPI fixes, UI/UX improvements, and installer integration in #46489
• Cleaned up the PowerDisplay module by fixing resource leaks, removing dead code, converting a recursive parser to iterative, and changing the default activation shortcut to Win+Ctrl+Shift+P in #46979
• Fixed thread safety by marking shared fields as volatile, guarding color temperature writes behind a capability check, and correcting a misleading log message in #47008
• Fixed PowerDisplay startup restore, volume initialization, and Identify window lifecycle in #47051
• 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 #47097
• Polished Power Display by standardizing the module name, shrinking the flyout slightly, and removing dead code in #47163

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 #45554. Thanks @RinZ27!
• Removed unused XAML namespace declarations from PowerLauncher XAML files in #46221. Thanks @niels9001!

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 #45540. Thanks @Salehnaz!
• Added the missing Icelandic accented letter í to the VK_I key definition in #46424. Thanks @squirrelslair!
• Added Shift+N capitalization support for superscript Latin small letter n in #46571. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Restored the en-dash character under the VK_MINUS key in the Special Characters set in #47106
• Fixed the default "All available" language setting silently falling back to a small character set due to parsing issues, added case-insensitive parsing with invalid-entry warnings, and added two new Hungarian character mappings in #47117. Thanks @daverayment!

Settings

• Fixed the Settings shortcut/key visuals so arrow glyphs (up/down/left/right) render as proper FontIcon glyphs instead of literal text in #46454. Thanks @vanzue!
• Formatted the last checked for updates timestamp as friendly relative strings (Today at 1:22 PM, Yesterday at 3:45 PM) in #46923
• Fixed Dashboard layout issues by removing excessive empty scroll space, restoring responsive behavior, and correcting a 1-pixel vertical alignment mismatch in #46922
• Fixed the Quick Accent character-sets grid being clipped and showing an inner horizontal scrollbar, so the list reflows from 3 to 2 to 1 columns on resize in #45986. Thanks @daverayment!
• Renamed the shortcut conflict checkbox label from "Ignore shortcut" to "Ignore conflict" for clarity in #46318
• Fixed the backup folder path being visually clipped on the General and Image Resizer pages in #46920
• Refreshed Settings UI assets and copy: fixed a ZoomIt page regression, updated the Command Palette settings page with current links and screenshots, and added missing overview screenshots in #47132
• Fixed missing images in the Settings UI by adjusting the project file so image assets are packaged correctly in #47165
• Tweaked wording on a handful of Settings strings for clarity and consistency in #47164

• Removed the third-party WPF-UI library in favor of native WPF Fluent theming with custom control templates in #46218

Window Manager (Grab And Move)

• Added the Grab And Move module enabling Alt+Left Click window dragging and Alt+Right Click window resizing, without needing to target title bars in #47024
• 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 #47052. Thanks @foxmsft!
• Updated Grab And Move Settings strings to be modifier-agnostic now that Win is selectable alongside Alt in #47178

ZoomIt

• Added panoramic/scrolling screenshot capture, text extraction when snipping, and break timer improvements with screen saver mode and optional computer lock in #46506. Thanks @foxmsft, @MarioHewardt, and @markrussinovich!
• Fixed ZoomIt x86 build compatibility by emulating the _mm_cvtsi128_si64 intrinsic with _mm_storel_epi64 for 32-bit targets in #46529. Thanks @foxmsft!

Development

• Added a full OOBE page for Grab And Move, high-resolution icons and overview images for both Grab And Move and PowerDisplay, NEW badges on Settings nav items, and refreshed the README utilities table in #47033
• 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 #47030
• Updated the dark-mode PowerToys tray icons to use the correct shade of black for the outline in #47166
• Changed default-on state for new installations by disabling 7 modules by default to streamline the initial experience for new users in #47027
• Added explicit default-disabled overrides to eight module interfaces so the native Runner defaults match the managed enabled-modules list, eliminating first-launch enable/disable flicker in #47144
• Updated the Windows Implementation Library (WIL) from 1.0.231216.1 to 1.0.250325.1 via Central Package Management in #43503
• Fixed the build.ps1 script so the -RestoreOnly switch works correctly and added support for the newer .slnf solution filter file format in #46012. Thanks @raycheung!
• Upgraded the check-spelling CI action to v0.0.26 which fixes spell-check failures on fork PRs and updates exclusion patterns in #46851. Thanks @jsoref!
• Refreshed the check-spelling action to 0.0.26 and synced dictionaries, patterns, and expect/reject lists across docs, source, and resource files in #47119. Thanks @jsoref!
• Pinned the check-spelling GitHub Action to v0.0.26 to attempt to fix the CI pipeline blocking PRs from forked repositories in #46746
• Reverted the pinning of the check-spelling action after determining that the pin was unrelated to the pipeline issue in #46749. Thanks @moooyo!
• Added contributor names from a recent PR to the spellchecker allow-list to prevent CI spelling errors in #46765. Thanks @jiripolasek!
• Added comprehensive DSC (Desired State Configuration) documentation with per-module reference pages, settings examples, and an overview guide covering 25+ PowerToys modules in #42554. Thanks @Gijsreyn!
• Cleaned up root-folder Markdown files by consolidating bullet styles, fixing spelling and grammar, converting HTML to Markdown, and applying sentence-case headers in #46582. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
• Documented three missing telemetry events (ModuleLaunchedFromSettings, CmdPal_DockConfiguration, KeyboardManager_LaunchEditor) in #46371
• Added telemetry event logging to CLI entry points for FileLocksmith, Awake, and Image Resizer so command-line invocations are tracked alongside GUI usage in #46872. Thanks @MuyuanMS!
• Added 75+ MSTest unit tests covering Hosts ValidationHelper (IPv4/IPv6/hostname validation) and ColorPicker ColorFormatHelper conversions (CMYK, HSB/HSI/HWB, CIE XYZ/LAB, Oklab/Oklch, sRGB-linear, NCol) in #46679
• Fixed MSTEST0017 analyzer warnings by correcting assertion argument order in 22 Assert calls across 8 test files in #46712
• Fixed a CI test hang where Common.Interop.UnitTests.TestSend could block for 80 minutes when a prior run left a named-pipe handle alive, by ensuring pipe names are unique per run and bounding handshake waits in #47123
• Resolved StyleCop SA1614, SA1616, SA1622, and SA1623 warnings across Command Palette, Power Display, Settings UI, DSC, and Extensions Toolkit code in #46706, #46707, #46717, #46718
• Bumped the azure/login GitHub Action from v2 to v3 in the MS Store submissions workflow in #46323
• Bumped the azure/cli GitHub Action from v2 to v3 in the MS Store submissions workflow in #46562