There is a new version of PowerToys that has been made available. The update includes improvements to settings and GPO policies, as well as new languages, fixes for common startup crashes, and fixes for other common crashes. Along with fixing problems with the file watcher, AlwaysOnTop, Command Not Found, File Explorer add-ons, File Locksmith, and Find My Mouse, the update also fixes problems with the hosts File Editor.
PowerToys v0.78.0
In the v0.78 release cycle, we focused on stability and improvements.
Installer Hashes
Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.78.0-x64.exe 120B1CEFC94D76EC593A61D717BBB2E12AF195D19E04C811F519D3F9B9B3B5C0 Per user - ARM64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.78.0-arm64.exe 3C3C8A8A549ABDD1C5E5DA7DC22D254F7BBD0F9DC05DA17E51020B153662F083 Machine wide - x64 PowerToysSetup-0.78.0-x64.exe 19E025381588ABAEC209CDD0A18BB779EE58FC24646D898C2A7C38A4858EAEDB Machine wide - ARM64 PowerToysSetup-0.78.0-arm64.exe 5C70054A8991885A958F066B00D7FAFE608C730FC7A99178D6C64A1F03A3C109 Highlights
- New languages added: Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Hebrew, Persian and Ukrainian. We are going to assume we have some bugs. We want to identify & fix them and are open for community help.
- Many dependencies updated, aiming for security and stability.
- Fixed commonly reported PowerToys Run startup crashes after an upgrade.
- New settings and GPO policies to help control behavior after an upgrade. Thanks @htcfreek!
General
- Added Arabic (Saudi Arabia) translation.
- Added Hebrew translation.
- Added Persian translation.
- Added Ukrainian translation.
- Improved the file watcher used across many utilities to consume less resources. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
AlwaysOnTop
- Fixed an invisible border issue when the border color was set to the black color.
- Added the AlwayOnTop icon to the base application executable. Thanks @ckirby19!
Command Not Found
- Signed the PowerShell scripts used by the Command Not Found installation process.
File Explorer add-ons
- Fixed an issue causing SVG Thumbnail generation to hang when trying to preview SVG files at the same time.
File Locksmith
- Improved the context menu entry caption. Thanks @niels9001!
Find My Mouse
- Added more settings to tune shake detection when activating through mouse shake.
Hosts File Editor
- Added a feature to duplicate an entry. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
Installer
- Included the new languages localization files in the installer.
Image Resizer
- Improved the context menu entry caption. Thanks @niels9001!
Peek
- Added a missing tooltip for the file size. Thanks @HydroH!
PowerRename
- Improved and added localization to the context menu entry caption. Thanks @niels9001!
PowerToys Run
- Removed references to unused settings from the code, which were causing crashes on some machines. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Fixed an issue causing a scrollbar to be out of view. Thanks @niels9001!
- Added logic to try and detect running games to full screen detection. Thanks @anaisbetts!
- Added support for converting negative values in the Unit Converter plugin. Thanks @Dub1shu!
- Fixed stale results in the Visual Studio Code Workspaces plugin by checking if files still exist. Thanks @anderspk!
- Fixed an activation crash that occurred after 0.77 on some configurations.
- Fixed a startup crash that occurred when saving the new version of settings after an upgrade.
- You can now calculate bigger hexadecimal numbers in the Calculator plugin.
- The "max results to show before scrolling" setting can now also be applied to the initial plugin hint listing.
Quick Accent
- Added the ellipses character to all languages. Thanks @HydroH!
- Added an option to not activate when playing a game. Thanks @HydroH!
- Added the E with breve and pilcrow characters to all languages. Thanks @PesBandi!
Settings
- Removed the Command Not Found listing from the Settings dashboard and flyout, since it can't really be enabled or disabled from there.
- Added a settings and GPO rule to disable opening the What's New OOBE page after an update. Thanks @htcfreek!
- Added a settings and GPO rule to disable toast notifications about new updates being available. Thanks @htcfreek!
- Fixed an issue causing the Settings window to not be brought to the foreground after activating through the system tray icon.
- Standardized accent brush and corner radius on the dashboard page.
- Improved UI and messages for GPO locked settings. Thanks @htcfreek!
- Fixed an issue causing the OOBE window to maximize and hide the system taskbar.
- Reworked the update settings in the General page. Thanks @htcfreek!
- Tweaked UI for the update settings in the General page. Thanks @niels9001!
- Updated the modules images in the Settings and OOBE screens. Thanks @niels9001!
- Updated OOBE descriptions to take into account the changes in context menu captions. Thanks @niels9001!
Documentation
- Added Spotify plugin to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs. Thanks @waaverecords!
- Added InputTyper and ClipboardManager plugins to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs. Thanks @CoreyHayward!
- Added CurrencyConverter plugin to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs. Thanks @Advaith3600!
- Updated and cleaned up the new PowerToys plugin checklist documentation. Thanks @Parvezkhan0 and @hlaueriksson!
- Added a documentation page to describe status code colors for Mouse Without Borders. Thanks @ckirby19!
Development
- Fixed dependency issues on upgrading .NET from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1.
- Upgraded Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool from .NET 5 to .NET 8.
- Upgraded the Windows SDK Build Tools to 10.0.22621.2428.
- Upgraded the Windows Implementation Library to 1.0.231216.1.
- Upgraded NLog.Schema to 5.2.8 and NLog.Extensions.Logging to 5.3.8.
- Upgraded Markdig.Signed to 0.34.0.
- Upgraded Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk to 17.8.
- Upgraded CommunityToolkit.WinUI dependencies to 8.0.240109.
- Upgraded CommunityToolkit.Mvvm to 8.2.2. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Upgraded Windows App SDK to 1.4.4. Thanks @snickler!
- Upgraded WPFUI version to 3.0.0-preview.13. Thanks @niels9001!
- Upgraded StyleCop.Analyzers to 1.2.0-beta.556. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
- Upgraded Microsoft.Windows.Compatibility to 8.0.1.
- Upgraded System.Data.SqlClient to 4.8.6.
- Consolidate XAML Namespaces across the solutions. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!
- Removed the toolkit labs package source reference, since the controls we were using made it to the generally available community toolkit.
- Added Microsoft.MSBuildCache to experiment with build caching to reduce pipeline runs duration. Thanks @dfederm!
- Configured the release CI to follow the latest 1ES pipeline release version again.
- Removed the copyright year from assembly information. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
- Added the Command Not Found entry to the GitHub templates.
- Removed unused code for a GPO policy to control auto updating of PowerToys. Thanks @htcfreek!
- Improved code behind for getting the localization of context menu entries.
- Locked some terms in resource files to avoid localization.
