Our goals for the v0.39 release cycle and v0.41 release cycle included stability updates and optimizations, general bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and supporting the integration of the new community led project, Awake, which allows Power-Users to now keep their computer awake on demand!
Full keyboard support for canvas editor's main window and context. Thanks @niels9001
New support for faster layout selection by double clicking a desired layout from the editor to automatically apply it and dismiss the editor.
New zone activation behavior allows users to snap a window to the zone who's center is closest to the cursor. Thanks @ulazy1!
Added process icon for FancyZones.
Fixed issue with zoning minimized windows.
Fixed a bunch of accessibility bugs
Now an independent exe, detached from the runner process.
File Explorer Add-Ons
Adjusted Markdown newline behavior to be less strict so the add-on behaves more like GitHub implementations Image Resizer
Fixed bug with custom size option where leaving a height/width value blank caused the output to be a 1 x 1 square pixel. Now the blank value automatically adjusts to the height/width that was set.
Image Resizer
Fixed bug where specifying a width but no height generated a 1x1 px image instead of auto-adjusting the height. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
PowerRename
Fixed File Explorer crash when running PowerRename
PowerToys Run
Multiple crashing bugs resolved.
New Unit Converter plugin! Activate in the query prompt with the default activation phrase %%. Ex: %% 10 ft in m. Thanks @jsoref and @ThiefZero!
New Windows Settings plugin! Search for specific Windows settings from PowerToys Run by utilizing the default activation phrase $ followed by the desired setting. Ex: $ Add/Remove Programs or $ Device:. Thanks @TobiasSekan and @htcfreek.
Updated the URL plugin to enable quickly launching the default browser with the action keyword, which defaults to //.
Added remainder/modulo support for Calculator plugin via % operator.
Faster launching from improved Win32 program indexing. Thanks @royvou!
Search text results now highlight matched characters from input. Thanks @niels9001!
Settings / Welcome to PowerToys
Fixed Color Picker’s key-binding information
Shortcut Guide
Customize key-binding from settings menu
Took Shortcut guide out of the runner process to remove unnecessary interdependencies
Installer
Updated .NET Core dependency to 3.1.15
Reduced the network traffic by making the updater not download files when they're already cached
Community contributions
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.
