Power Toys: v0.89.0 Release

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In the v0.89 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, accessibility and automation.

Installer Hashes

| Description | Filename | sha256 hash | |----------------|----------|-------------| | Per user - x64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.89.0-x64.exe | B4F130CC96F321024A257499247F6FF6DA56612215ED3882E868AAE26C689E33 | | Per user - ARM64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.89.0-arm64.exe | F69B00F4E520EB09FA0D1D1669E21910C5225FE7A2EEDC0FA7C283B201A5F9C6 | | Machine wide - x64 | PowerToysSetup-0.89.0-x64.exe | E18AC8F9023E341CF7DAD35367FB9DDDB6565D83D8155DBCDDB40AE8A24AE731 | | Machine wide - ARM64 | PowerToysSetup-0.89.0-arm64.exe | 17DEADEC601D6061D7AF4F487595CC36D9191813003CC2ECE381017F0EC71FBB |

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Highlights

• Enhanced Advanced Paste by adding media transcoding support to convert different video and audio file formats! Thanks @snickler for your help!
• Fixed crashes when loading thumbnails after the .NET 9 update and resolved PowerLauncher.exe blocking other MSI installers from creating shortcuts!
• Fixed accessibility issues across FancyZones, Image Resizer, and Settings to improve screen reader support and clarity!
• Enhanced UI automation framework across modules and added new tests to cover manual checks, with more improvements coming!

General

• Fixed an issue where updating PowerToys on Windows 11 did not properly update context menu entries, impacting New+, PowerRename, Image Resizer, and File Locksmith.
• Updated .NET Packages from 9.0.1 to 9.0.2. Thanks @snickler for this.
• Enabled compatibility with VS17.3 and later, for C++23. Thanks @LNKLEO for this.

Advanced Paste

• Added media transcoding support to convert different video and audio file formats, improved UI layouts, refined clipboard handling, and integrated Semantic Kernel for smarter pasting. Thanks @snickler for your help!

FancyZones

• Fixed accessibility by improving the text for monitors, ensuring clearer naming and help text for screen readers.

Image Resizer

• Fixed issues with Width and Height fields in Image Resizer's Custom preset, ensuring empty values no longer cause errors, settings save correctly, and auto-scaling behaves as expected. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed accessibility by ensuring screen readers announce selected image dimensions in the combo-box for better navigation.

Monaco Preview

• Fixed open link in default browser rather than Microsoft Edge. Thanks @OldUser101!

Mouse Highlighter

• Fixed a highlight released on an Administrator window will start fading, instead of staying on the screen indefinitely until the mouse button is pressed again on an unelevated window.

Mouse Without Borders

• Fixed an issue in service mode where copy-paste and drag-drop file transfers didn’t work, ensuring seamless file operations.
• Enabled GPO for enable/disable for Mouse Without Borders in Service Mode. Thanks @htcfreek for review and comments!
• Fixed code maintainability by refactoring the oversized 'Common' class in Mouse Without Borders into smaller, focused classes for better structure and clarity. Thanks @mikeclayton and thanks @htcfreek for review!

PowerRename

• Supported negative value as Start value in regular expression, e.g. ${start=-1314}
• Enhanced RegEx help by adding $, ^, quantifiers, and common patterns for better usability. Thanks @PesBandi and thanks @htcfreek for review.

PowerToys Run

• Fixed crashes when loading thumbnails after the .NET 9 update by disabling CETCompat.
• Fixed PowerLauncher.exe blocking other MSI installers creating shortcuts. Thanks @OneBlue!
• Fixed Run’s dark mode detection to work reliably, preventing issues with incorrect theme detection and ensuring a smoother user experience. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed list separator handling in Calculator, allowing functions with multiple arguments to work correctly across different locales. For example pow(2;3) would be replaced with pow(2,3). Thanks @PesBandi and thanks @htcfreek for review!
• Fixed angle unit conversions in the PowerToys Run calculator, allowing quick conversions between radians, degrees, and gradians. Thanks @OldUser101!

Quick Accent

• Added ǎ, ǒ and ǔ to the IPA character set. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Added ` (backtick) and ~ (tilde) to the VK_OEM_5 character set. Thanks @xanatos!
• Added ς (final sigma) to the Greek character set. Thanks @IamSmeagol!

Settings

• Enabled GPO for the "run at startup" setting. Thanks @htcfreek for review and comments!
• Fixed accessibility issue by allowing screen readers to announce the group name for secondary links in Settings pages, instead of reading link descriptions without context.
• Fixed an issue where the Color Picker shortcut was not displaying correctly in the Dashboard.

Workspaces

• Fixed if a window was last placed on a disconnected monitor, it launches minimized and repositions within the main monitor's visible area when restored, instead of remaining off-screen and invisible.
• Fixed on ARM64 to correctly display icons for packaged apps by resolving path mismatches.

ZoomIt

• Fixed warning C4706 and related error C2220 during build. Thanks @xanatos!

Documentation

• Fixed runner-ipc.md doc on the broken link. Thanks @daverayment!
• Fixed the new plugin checklist by updating the target framework, removing duplicates, and improving statement organization. Thanks @hlaueriksson!
• Updated runner documentation to align with the latest code structure.

Development

• Stabilized pipeline on ARM64 and forked build.
• Added fuzz testing for HostUILib, added as part of pipeline for OneFuzz.
• Fixed and improved UI-Test automation framework, and added new test cases for the FancyZones and Hosts module.
• Optimized Logger function as AOT compatible, improving performance by 18%.
• Made Common.UI and Setting.UI to be AOT compatible.