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PowerToys 0.87.1 has been released and addresses issues with stability present in the previous release. The update addresses the border issue in PowerToys Run on Windows 10, resolves crashes in the OneNote plugin resulting from the .NET 9 upgrade, and fixes crashes related to Advanced Paste resource cleanup. 

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PowerToys 0.87.0 prioritises new features, stability, and enhancements. Key features include Advanced Paste with "Advanced AI" using Semantic Kernel, Workspaces support for Progressive Web Applications, Workspaces feature to move existing windows instead of creating new ones, Mouse Jump with new settings for screen pop-up customisation, New+ now compatible with Windows 10, Quick Accent for character set selection, and improvements in initialisation, logging, and tray icon setup.

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TypeScript 5.7 has been released, enhancing JavaScript with additional syntax for type declarations and annotations. The TypeScript compiler utilizes this syntax to perform type-checking on code and subsequently erase it, resulting in clean and idiomatic JavaScript. TypeScript serves as a superset of JavaScript, ensuring that any valid JavaScript code is also valid TypeScript code.

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Windows Terminal Preview 1.22.3232.0 resembles a minor servicing release for the Preview version, featuring enhancements to the built-in Box Drawing glyphs, a drag-and-drop path translator, and updates to WSL profiles. It provides the option to "move tab left," "... right," and "... to new window" through a right-click on the tab. Recent updates address issues such as the resolution of the problem with auto-detected profiles being permanently forgotten, the addition of a Czech translation for "Open in Terminal," and the enhancement of high contrast mode functionality within the Command Palette and Settings UI.

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Windows Terminal 1.21.3231.0 has been released, featuring minor servicing improvements. These include changes to the drag-and-drop path translator for detecting WSL's new distribution profiles, the removal of auto-detected profiles, and the resolution of issues related to the Czech translation of "Open in Terminal."

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PowerShell 7.5 RC-1 is now available for testing, making it the platform's first "go-live" version based on.NET 9. This standard support release, which is built on top of.NET 9, will be supported for 18 months. Support for ACR as a container gallery, an enhanced PSReadLine, new cmdlets ConvertTo-CliXml and ConvertFrom-CliXml, online cmdlet improvements, and tab completion enhancements are among the highlights. Additionally, bug corrections have been implemented.

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Microsoft has released the Windows Package Manager 1.10.40 preview for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. This release addresses a crash issue in MSVC's C++ STL, ensuring that binaries remain stable when utilising older VCRuntime (msvcp140.dll).

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Microsoft has released Windows Package Manager 1.10.40 preview, which represents the second development build for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The update incorporates experimental features such as sixel support for icons and an enhanced progress visualization. To utilize these features, users are required to operate a terminal that is compatible with sixels, such as the most recent Windows Terminal Preview build. The handling of WinGet configuration files that utilize DSC resources requiring elevation has been improved for better efficiency. The experimental feature "Configure Self Elevation" is available for activation. The release addresses a bug that leads to a crash in MSVC's C++ STL, resulting in binaries compiled with newer tooling crashing when utilizing an older VCRuntime.

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Windows Package Manager 1.9.25200 has been released and represents the second stable release for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The update incorporates experimental features such as sixel support for icons and an enhanced progress visualization.

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TypeScript 5.7 is now available for download through npm. The release candidate includes several improvements, including checking for never-initialized variables, path rewriting for relative paths, and a new compiler option called --rewriteRelativeImportExtensions. TypeScript has been able to catch issues when a variable has not yet been initialized in all prior branches, but it now reports errors when variables have never been initialized at all.

Path rewriting for relative paths is also introduced. TypeScript now supports running TypeScript code "in-place" without requiring a build step that generates output JavaScript files. However, this requires importing the appropriate TypeScript extension at runtime. To support this scenario, a new compiler option called --rewriteRelativeImportExtensions is added.

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PowerToys 0.86.0 focused on new features, stability, and enhancements. Key enhancements include Advanced Paste, which now allows you to convert images to text and paste them to files, changing left navigation to group utilities, and correcting workspace problems. Telemetry opt-in is now available in the Settings General tab, and users are encouraged to enable it to help guide development efforts.

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Microsoft released AttackSurfaceAnalyzer v2.3.313. This update includes the addition of a release to NuGet and GitHub, the implementation of a release stage with signing, the initiation of the templating release pipeline, and the migration to 1ES templates.

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Microsoft has released Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0-Preview1, a new version of the PowerShell help file generating tool that makes the process easier by converting help files to Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML).

The new version includes various enhancements, such as more accurate descriptions of PowerShell cmdlets, improved efficiency, an object model for the help file, and cmdlets for chaining complex processes. The primary goal is to address long-standing issues, introduce schema-driven functionality, and improve validity checks. The new version contains a C# rewrite, a new Markdown schema, new cmdlets, full YAML serialization, automatic conversion of existing Markdown to the new object model, and export to Markdown, Yaml, and MAML.

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Windows Terminal Preview 1.22.2912.0 has been released, featuring minor updates such as the option to disable dynamic profiles like WSL and Azure Cloud Shell, various bug fixes, enhanced icon functionality, and the capability to select fonts.

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Windows Terminal 1.21.2911.0 has been released. The update encompasses modifications to facilitate dynamic profiles such as WSL and Azure Cloud Shell, resolve icon-related issues, and permit font selection.

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The second release candidate build of Windows Package Manager 1.9.25170 for Windows 10 and Windows 11 has been released. The modifications encompass an increase to 1.9, enhancements to localization pipelines, and resolutions for several issues. The package additionally offers support for extracting archives via tar.exe, enhancing SxS stability, and improving compatibility with versions that include preambles.

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The Windows Package Manager 1.9.2507 release candidate for Windows 10 and 11 is now available for testing. Experimental capabilities include Sixel support, portables with binary dependencies, and Entra ID authentication. The update also provides security enhancements and in-depth help material for PowerShell cmdlets.

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Daniel Rosenwasser has announced TypeScript 5.7 Beta, which introduces several new features. These include checks for never-initialized variables, path rewriting for relative paths, ECMAScript 2024 runtime support, and project ownership search in ancestor configuration files.

TypeScript now enforces rules to prevent runtime problems when importing from a.json file via the "nodenext" module. It also supports V8 compile caching in Node.js via the new API module.enableCompileCache(). Notable behavioral changes include more implicit errors on functions that return null or undefined, as well as support for V8 compile caching in Node.js. These modifications are intended to improve the user experience and eliminate the need to re-run build tasks.

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Microsoft has released .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 with final improvements to performance, stability, and optimizations. Developers with a go-live license are urged to test the current release and submit feedback to help include additional features into the final release as preparations for the public availability release in November continue.

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PowerToys Release v0.85.1 addresses stability issues in v0.85.0, such as erroneous project launches via shortcuts and crashes when opening the New+ templates folder from the Settings app.

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PowerToys 0.85.0 has been released, including new features, stability, and enhancements. Key enhancements include the new utility New+, which allows users to create personalized templates for creating files and folders from the File Explorer context menu. The variety of languages has been improved, as has the number of supported applications. Fixing image leaks reduced peek memory usage.

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Windows Terminal Preview v1.22.2702.0 has been released, with various changes, including the reintroduction of wt x-save, the Command Prompt "quick fix" capability, and the return of the color scheme to the user's preference. Furthermore, Alt+Keypad Plus is no longer recognized unless EnableHexNumpad is set in the registry.

The tab switcher now shows the color of each tab and allows users to set the default input scope for the IME. Bug fixes include the "Clear Buffer" command, which removes the buffer, and the experimental.colorSelection actions. The settings UI now responds more accurately to system-wide text scaling options, and the color contrast of the "reset" button on the settings page has been improved. Terminal Emulation and Console Compatibility have been improved, with VT reports no longer garbled and the scroll console screen buffer operating more dependably.

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Windows Terminal v1.21.2701.0 has been released with bug patches, many of which were backported from Canary and are included with the 1.22 Preview servicing update. The update fixes a hanging issue in Windows 11 23H2, allowing users to resume sleep mode or unlock their display.

The updates include the ability to use multiple Emoji at once on Windows 10, the prevention of command insertion from history, the updating of localizations, the improvement of focus transfer to windows created by hosted console programs, and the enhancement of accessibility. The settings UI now responds more accurately to system-wide text scaling options, and the color contrast of the "reset" button on the settings page has been improved. Furthermore, Terminal Emulation and Console Compatibility have been enhanced, with replies larger than 4kb no longer garbled.

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Microsoft has announced that .NET 9 Release Candidate 1 is now available, including improved WebSocket APIs, more compression options, advanced SignalR tracing, and modifications to.NET MAUI to improve text alignment. The update also features library improvements, SDK workload history, ASP.NET Core enhancements, WebSocket keep-alive timeout, keyed DI in middleware, and HorizontalTextAlignment.Justify with.NET MAUI.

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PowerToys 0.84.1 has got you covered with fixes for workspaces detecting popular apps, a spiffy UI upgrade for button outlines, and all those broken links in the workspaces OOBE page have been taken care of.

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Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.84.0 with a new utility called PowerToys Workspaces. Now you can launch applications with a custom desktop layout and configuration. Save the utility as a workspace and easily relaunch it with just one click from the Workspaces editor or a desktop shortcut. Customize your app configuration with CLI arguments and "launch as admin" modifiers. 

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Windows Package Manager version 1.9.2411-preview is now available for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Changes include dividing testing into distinct pipeline tasks, updating the notice, eliminating the CodeCoverage and WinGetUtil NuGet pipelines, adding missing solution dependencies, fixing build issues, sending unit telemetry, utilising the most recent SFS client, and producing test certificates in the pipeline.

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Windows Terminal Preview v1.22.2362.0 has been released. The update improves throughput, reliability, correctness, and allows applications to send unmodified VT directly to the terminal. Terminals supporting DEC rectangular operations should see higher fidelity app-based scrolling. Unicode now supports a wider range of characters, including Emoji with ZWJ and Grapheme Clusters. 

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Windows Terminal v1.21.2361.0 is a stable release with numerous improvements, including screen memory restoration, multiple active fonts, pixel-perfect box and line drawing glyphs, improved IME integration for input in various languages, scrollbar marks, simultaneous search results, and removal of the old text rendering engine.

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PowerToys v0.83.0 is a stable and improved version of the software, focusing on stability and improvements. The release cycle includes several updates, including changes to the Awake Quality of Life, General GPO policies, Advanced Paste, Awake, Color Picker, File Explorer add-ons, File Locksmith, Installer, Mouse Without Borders, and Peek.

Highlights include changes to the tray icon, the removal of dependency on Windows Forms, fixed issues with the UI becoming non-responsive after selecting no time for the timed mode, and refactoring code for easier maintenance. The tray icon tooltip now shows how much time is left on the timer, and DPI awareness is added to the tray icon context menu.

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PowerToys 0.82.1 has been released. The update addresses issues with PowerToys Run on Windows 11 SV1, Windows 10, and user-scoped installations, including a crash, brightness issue, and incorrect installation location of DSC files.

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Microsoft released PowerToys v0.82.0, which includes various changes, including as new PowerRename functionality, enhanced CSV delimiter handling, and improved telemetry. The update also resolved UI issues that were noticed after upgrading to WPF UI in Color Picker and PowerToys Run.

Advanced Paste was corrected to prevent external programs from triggering it, and a GPO rule was introduced to prohibit the use of online models in Advanced Paste. CSV delimiter handling and plain text parsing were enhanced, and the user interface was modified to convert from ini files. Memory leaks were repaired, and a feature to conceal the UI when it loses focus was introduced.

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A new development release of Windows Package Manager 1.9 is now available for Windows 10 and Windows 11. This release includes experimental features, which can be enabled by adding the following settings to the wings (winget settings) file. Changes include updating the localization pipeline to a new authentication type, fixing the loc pipeline service connection, enabling Microsoft Entra Id auth for displaycatalog, adding tests for configure mixed elevation, enabling v2 index EF by default, trimming versions when parsing, and improving support for versions with preambles.

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Windows Package Manager 1.8.1791 marks the first stable 1.8 version for Windows 10 and Windows 11. This release disables experimental functionality, and WinGet v1.8 will be the only stable version that does so. If Group Policy Objects (GPO) do not prevent it, stable releases will offer the option to enable experimental functionality starting with WinGet v1.9. The new capabilities include HTTP Proxy support, WinGet Configuration Mixed Elevation Mode support via COM, WinGet Package Icon support via COM, PowerShell Modules for ARM64, and control characters that are not permitted in user-generated content.

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Windows Terminal Preview 1.21.1772.0 is a channel servicing update that corrects many bugs, including a hyperlink bug. The version offers enhancements to the built-in box-drawing glyphs capability, bug fixes, and increased stability. It also addresses crashes when dismissing panes, notifies users about MacType versions that have been known to crash Terminal and other Windows software, removes a debug assert during search navigation, and fixes Korean, Italian, and Spanish language difficulties.

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Windows Terminal 1.20.11781.0, published 40 days after its last servicing release, addresses various outstanding bugs. The update includes bug fixes, increased stability, warnings for MacType versions that crash Terminal and other Windows software, the removal of a debug assert during search navigation, and solutions for localization issues in Korean, Italian, and Spanish.

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Updates to the localization pipeline, a fix for the loc pipeline service connection, and the ability to enable Microsoft Entra Id authentication for displaycatalog are all part of the second development build for Windows Package Manager 1.9.

Other changes include updating pipeline component versions, adding tests for configuring mixed elevation, enabling v2 index EF by default, trimming versions while parsing, removing installer type mapping for MSI/WIX and MSIX NonStore, stabilizing SxS, using digest verification APIs for MSIX, improving version support with preambles, launching COM server for elevated use via packaged path, fixing export manifest with multiple locales, updating expired certificates, and updating winget serve.

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Microsoft has released the second Windows Package Manager 1.8 release candidate build for Windows 10 (1809+) and Windows 11. HTTP Proxy support, WinGet Configuration Mixed Elevation Mode via COM, and WinGet Package Icon via COM are among the features. 

The updates include updating the WinGet Download standard with precise PS cmdlet assistance, introducing CDN troubleshooting steps, optimizing the fuzzing code coverage process, and more. The update also fixes issues with the x86 platform, SQLite wrapper, and PowerShellCmdlet.