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A new version of PowerToys has been released.



PowerToys 0.56.1 

The  v0.56 release cycle focused heavily on stability and improvements. Below are some of the highlights!

Installer Hash

C54DDD1D325D3C6F537CAEF2A57F763131F51CAA2BDB23B3E3360185E6032AAC

Highlights

  • Upgrade notes! A big feedback items for new versions was upgrade notes. We have the release notes on GitHub as well.
  • FancyZones zone limit has been increased to 128 zones. Before the limit was 40.
  • Timezone conversion plugin for PowerToys Run! Thanks  @TobiasSekan
  • Child and Popup window support for FancyZones. To enable, go to Settings→FancyZones→Windows. These were bugs we fixed that without realizing it was a useful feature to most.
  • Find my mouse will now activate via shaking the mouse with a settings change!

Always on Top

  • Fixed excess GPU / CPU usage when enabled
  • If border has focus, not closable via F4
  • Changing border sizes should resize correctly for existing windows
  • Border goes away with Outlook modal windows

ColorPicker

  • No longer crashes during theme change

FancyZones

  • Increased zone limit from 40 to 128.
  • Child and Popup window support for FancyZones. To enable, go to Settings→FancyZones→Windows. These were bugs we fixed that without realizing it was a useful feature to most.

File explorer

  • Fixes for Dev file preview: (Thanks  @Aaron-Junker)
    • Fix fix for object reference not set.
    • Fix for encoding UTF-8.
    • Fix for file is in use.
    • Fix for saying the file is too big.

Image Resizer

Mouse utility

  • Find my mouse will now activate via shaking the mouse with a settings change!
  • Find my mouse now can excludes apps.
  • Fix for crosshair thickness looking odd due to anti-aliasing
  • Fix for a hard crash on crosshair (This was a hotfix for 0.55)

PowerRename

  • Will not spells check file names anymore. Thanks  @niels9001
  • Autocomplete result box to not obscure apply button. Thanks  @niels9001
  • Regex fix

PowerToys Run

  • Timezone conversion plugin for PowerToys Run! Thanks  @TobiasSekan
  • Hexadecimal and binary numbers now are supported in the calculator plugin. This was added a bit ago and we'd like to extend a belated thanks to  @gsuberland
  • Terminal plugin performance boost. Thanks  @htcfreek!
  • Terminal will now be found via the Program plugin again.
  • Shutdown command is now using hybrid fast argument for shutting down
  • Support for VSCodium with VS Code workplace plugin. Thanks  @makeProjectGreatAgain

Video conference mute

  • nVidia Broadcast software won't crash anymore

Settings

  • Upgrade notes in OOBE
  • Fix for settings being lost (This was a hotfix for 0.55)
  • UX improvements. Thanks  @niels9001

Installer

  • Believe we have a fix for the long hated "app.dark.png is missing" error. Thanks to  @robmen for having a great blog!
  • Installer will launch PowerToys under appropriate elevation versus Admin only due to UAC prompt for installation (This was a hotfix for 0.55)
  • PowerToys will now start if installed under different user

Development

  • ARM64 - We removed the last .NET Framework dependency. Thanks  @snickler for helping get this across the finish line!
  • .NET 6 upgrade, now on the newest and hottest .NET runtime
  • Code analyzers have been upgraded! Thanks  @CleanCodeDeveloper!
  • Symbols are back!
  • Code refactoring, thanks  @CleanCodeDeveloper and  @cyberrex5 for helping here!
  • We are now on VS 2022 with the .NET 6 upgrade.

Community contributions

We'd like to directly mention certain contributors (in alphabetical order) for their continued community support this month and helping directly make PowerToys a better piece of software.
@Aaron-Junker @CleanCodeDeveloper @cyberrex5 @franky920920 @gsuberland @htcfreek @jay-o-way @makeProjectGreatAgain @niels9001 @robmen @snickler, and  @TobiasSekan .



Release Release v0.56.1 · microsoft/PowerToys