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@crutkas crutkas released this 23 May 15:00
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v0.70.0
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In the v0.70 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability and improvements.

Installer Hashes

Description Filename sha256 hash
Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.70.0-x64.exe A2C45CC2EA953FF07246C85C7E106A403EAA5ED51E7C777452238EE280C9F6EA
Per user - ARM64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.70.0-arm64.exe 2D9591A4752EFA7603C56EBDDC9CB4F70C5E938A4EF66ADC46B72FC60779E82C
Machine wide - x64 PowerToysSetup-0.70.0-x64.exe 2DBE97E599AA4ED5363F2A15D581113BBF13035FE503D9E9ED71650B1CEE7771
Machine wide - ARM64 PowerToysSetup-0.70.0-arm64.exe B0FA955D34C84F3FBF39335887F3BEB417A2094F7A06B9EEEB92B9A1000B258E

Highlights

  • New utility: Mouse Without Borders enables you to interact with other computers from the same keyboard and mouse and share clipboard and files between the machines. We’ve upgraded it to .NET 7 and made a few small adjustments to fit inside the PowerToys model. Thanks @truong2d and the rest of the contributors from the Microsoft Garage!
  • New utility: Peek is a utility that shows a quick preview of files selected in File Explorer when you press a shortcut (Ctrl+Space by default). Thanks @SamChaps!
  • Registry preview Quality of Life improvements. Thanks @randyrants!
  • Awake Quality of Life improvements. Thanks @dend!
  • Mouse Jump Quality of Life improvements. Thanks @mikeclayton!

General

  • New utility: Mouse Without Borders. Thanks @truong2d and other original contributors!
  • New utility: Peek. Thanks @SamChaps!
  • Fixed a bug causing saved settings to clear sometimes when upgrading PowerToys.
  • Font, icon and corner radius adjustments in the UI across utilities. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!

Awake

  • Update to command line output to match the arguments. Thanks @rpr69 for creating a PR to help fix this.
  • Fix crash happening when setting an expiration date on time zones with a negative offset relative to UTC (This was a hotfix for 0.69).
  • Fix missing logging file when installing (This was a hotfix for 0.69).
  • Upgraded Awake to a new version, with Quality of Life improvements and fixing many issues regarding Awake not resetting or not keeping the computer awake when expected. Thanks @dend!

FancyZones

  • Fixed accessibility issues on the Editor.

File Locksmith

  • Fixed tooltips having a transparent background (This was a hotfix for 0.69).

File Explorer add-ons

  • Add a Setting to select a background for the SVG Preview. Thanks @zanseb!

Installer

  • Added more utilities to terminate when installing to help prevent files that sometimes are leftover from uninstall.

Keyboard Manager

  • Fixed an issue causing mapping to media keys to type additional characters.

Measure Tool

  • Created a setting to specify the default measure tool. Thanks @zanseb!

Mouse Jump

  • Reduced dependency on WinForms utility classes. Thanks @mikeclayton!
  • Improved popup responsiveness. Thanks @mikeclayton!
  • Added a setting to set a custom sized window. Thanks @mikeclayton!
  • Added some shortcuts for screen navigation. Thanks @mikeclayton!

Peek

PowerToys Run

  • Add a plugin to start other PowerToys. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
  • Added code to the Shell plugin to use Windows Terminal. Currently accessible only through manipulating the settings file directly. Thanks @phoenix172!

Quick Accent

  • Added a missing character to the Welsh language.

Registry Preview

  • Specify minimum size / position values for the UI (This was a hotfix for 0.69). Thanks @randyrants!
  • Fixes in the UI command bar (This was a hotfix for 0.69). Thanks @randyrants!
  • Fix crash on opening a file picker when running elevated (This was a hotfix for 0.69). Thanks @randyrants!
  • Fixed tooltips having a transparent background (This was a hotfix for 0.69).
  • Fixed a file size limit typo. Thanks @idma88!
  • Improve hexadecimal value parsing. Thanks @randyrants!
  • Added a button to open the Registry Editor at a selected key. Thanks @randyrants!
  • Improve key and value parsing. Thanks @randyrants!
  • Better theme support for caption bar. Thanks @randyrants!
  • Fix an issue handling empty DWORD and QWORD values. Thanks @randyrants!

Settings

  • Update the What's New screen to hide the installer hashes in the new format (This was a hotfix for 0.69).
  • Fix crashes happening when using the Shortcut Control (This was a hotfix for 0.69).
  • The Settings window now has a minimum width. Thanks @niels9001!
  • Prevent a second Settings instance from being opened on upgrade.
  • Fix accessibility issues on many pages. Thanks @niels9001!

Documentation

  • Fix a dead link in documentation that was pointing to the wrong settings specification. Thanks @zanseb!
  • Added some missing contributors to COMMUNITY.md

Development

  • Fixed the CI release pipelines hash generation (This was a hotfix for 0.69).
  • Added per-user installers to the winget package submission script.
  • Upgraded the Community Toolkit Labs dependency. Thanks @niels9001!
  • Fixed building with Visual Studio 17.6. Thanks @snickler!
  • Upgraded the WebView 2 dependency.
  • Upgraded the WinAppSDK dependency to 1.3.1.
  • Fixed a typo preventing the clean up script to run. Thanks @Sajad-Lx!
  • Fixed encoding on a test file to fix running tests in some configurations. Thanks @VisualBasist!
  • Made the GPO release assets come named with a version in the build CI output.
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