PowerToys

In the v0.86 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and improvements.

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• Advanced Paste has new abilities: Image to text, and paste to file (text / png / html).
• In settings, we've adjusted the left navigation to group the utilities. As the number of utilities shipped with PowerToys keeps growing, we felt this was a needed adjustment. Thanks everyone for your feedback!
• Workspaces received many bug fixes, including the proper launching of many instances of the same application in the same workspace. Note, we are still actively looking at how to properly handle PWA detection.
• We've added a telemetry opt-in option in the Settings General tab. As it is off-by-default, we encourage users to turn it on as that helps direct our

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.85.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.85.0 for full release notes.

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• #35188 - Fixed an issue causing Workspaces to launch the wrong project through a shortcut.
• #35228 - Fixed a crash when opening the New+ templates folder through the Settings application.

In the v0.85 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and improvements.

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• New utility: New+ - allows setting a personalized set of templates to quickly create files and folders from a File Explorer context menu. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Language selection - it's now possible to select which UI language should be used by PowerToys utilities.
• Lots of quality fixes for Workspaces, improving the number of supported applications.
• Reduced Peek memory usage by fixing image leaks. Thanks @daverayment!

General

• Added a general setting to select which UI language should be used in PowerToys utilities.
• Fixed internal code of some policies for Group Policy Objects

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.84.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.84.0 for full release notes.

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• #34558 - Fixed an issue causing Workspaces not correctly detecting popular applications like Discord or Steam.
• #34556 - Improved UI to more clearly show button outlines in the Workspaces Editor.
• #34588 - Fixed a broken link in Workspaces OOBE page.

In the v0.84 release cycle, we focused on adding a new utility (PowerToys Workspaces), Advanced paste custom actions feature, stability, and improvements.

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• New utility: PowerToys Workspaces - this utility can launch a set of applications to a custom layout and configuration on the desktop. App arrangements can be saved as a workspace and then relaunched with one click from the Workspaces Editor or from a desktop shortcut. In the editor, app configuration can be customized using CLI arguments and "launch as admin" modifiers, and app window sizes and positions can be updated as desired. This is our first public version of Workspaces and we are excited for you to try it out for yourself! Make sure to file issues you encounter on our GitHub so the team can continu

In the v0.83 release cycle, we focused on stability and improvements.

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• Awake Quality of Life changes, including changing the tray icon to reflect the current mode. Thanks @dend!
• Changes to general GPO policies and new policies for Mouse Without Borders. The names for some intune policy configuration sets might need to be updated as seen in https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs/pull/5045/files . Thanks @htcfreek!

General

• Reordered GPO policies, making it easier to find some policies. Thanks @htcfreek!

Advanced Paste

• Fixed CSV parser to support double quotes and escape delimiters when pasting as JSON. Th

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.82.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.82.0 for full release notes.

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• #33504 - Fixed a crash when starting PowerToys Run on Windows 11 SV1 (build number 22000).
• #33622 - Fixed PowerToys Run appearing too bright on Windows 10.
• #33744 - Fixed the installation location of DSC files on user-scoped installations, causing winget configure to not work correctly with PowerToys.

In the v0.82 release cycle, we focused on stability and improvements.

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• New feature added to PowerRename to allow using sequences of random characters and UUIDs when renaming files. Thanks @jhirvioja!
• Improvements in the Paste As JSON feature to better handle other CSV delimiters and converting from ini files. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Fixed UI issues that were reported after upgrading to WPF UI on Color Picker and PowerToys Run.
• Bug fixes and stability.

Advanced Paste

• Fixed an issue causing external applications triggering Advanced Paste. (This was a hotfix for 0.81)
• Added a GPO rule to disallow using online models in Advanced Paste. (This was a hotfix for 0.81)

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.81.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.81.0 for full release notes.

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• #32971 - Fixed Advanced Paste was being triggered by some external software when some of the hotkeys were not set. Slack's tray icon was the most common example in the issues that were opened.
• #32947 - Added a GPO rule for Advanced Paste to disable AI online models usage and prevent users from entering the API key.
• #33006 - Improved descriptions on Advanced Paste Settings and OOBE pages to clarify that usage of AI is opt-in and that it can be used without AI.
• #32945 - Fixed the Advanced Paste settings page UX showing that it could enabl

In the v0.81 release cycle, we focused on stability, improvements and new features.

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• New utility: Advanced Paste, an AI powered tool to convert your clipboard content into another format. Thanks @craigloewen-msft for the core functionality and @niels9001 for the UI/UX design!
• Command Not Found now uses the PowerShell Gallery release and now supports ARM64. Thanks @carlos-zamora!
• Fixed most accessibility issues opened after the latest accessibility review.
• Refactored, packaged and released the main Environment Variables Editor, Hosts File Editor and Registry Preview utilities functionality as controls to be integrated into DevHome. Thanks @dabhattimsft for validating and integrating

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.80.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.80.0 for full release notes.

The next release is planned to be released during Microsoft Build 2024 (late May).

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• #32315 - Updated .NET to 8.0.4 to fix crashes on the startup of many utilities when running on older CPUs.
• #32341 - Fixed install failures that occurred when the folders we want to install the DSC module in aren't accessible by the WiX installer.
• #31708 - Fixed Keyboard Manager Editor crashes on startup when Visual C++ Redistributable was not installed.
• #32352 - Fixed Text Extractor settings page not opening when pressing the button directly in the