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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.