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.
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.
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.
Microsoft has announced the release of the October 2024 update for the Azure SDK.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft has released the September 2024 edition of the Azure SDK.
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.
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.
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.
TypeScript 5.6 is a language built on JavaScript, throwing in some extra syntax for types.
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.
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.
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.
