Changelogs

Microsoft PowerToys changelog

Source: GitHub official PowerToys releases page

Last updated: July 27, 2026

Coverage: v0.85.1 through v0.100.2 using official GitHub release pages 1–3.

This changelog page is based on the official PowerToys GitHub releases history and covers the latest releases from v0.100.2 down to v0.85.1. The official releases list spans 14 pages, but this page focuses on the most recent 30 releases from the last ~2 years.

v0.100.2 — June 26, 2026 (Latest, Patch Release)

This patch release fixes a Command Palette memory leak identified in v0.100.1. Check out the v0.100.1 notes below for the full list of changes.

• Reverted a Performance Monitor dock refresh change that had forced item refreshes on every metric update.
• Fixed a memory leak in the Performance Monitor dock extension by reusing stable network upload/download band items instead of creating new list items on every refresh.

v0.100.1 — June 24, 2026 (Patch Release)

This patch release fixes several stability and behavior issues identified in v0.100.0.

• Keyboard Manager: fixed remapped modifier keys being delivered as system-key events, which caused issues such as Alt-to-Backspace deleting whole words instead of a single character.
• Power Display: fixed the monitor power-state "On" control not waking a monitor from standby, and corrected built-in display detection and brightness control on dual-GPU laptops.
• Color Picker: fixed the main window appearing trapped inside its own zoomed-in picker view.
• Command Palette: fixed Run history initialization in AOT builds, and limited the "pin to dock" dialog to displays where the dock is enabled.
• Quick Access: fixed flyout crashes caused by unhandled XAML exceptions during launch or page navigation.
• Shortcut Guide: corrected number-key rendering in shortcut manifests.
• Workspaces: fixed discovery of VS Code workspaces after VS Code moved recently-opened workspace data to shared storage.
• Fixed the Performance Monitor dock item showing "???" after restart, and the Hibernate command using the wrong (Sleep) icon.

v0.100.0 — June 10, 2026

Highlights: Brand-new Shortcut Guide, Command Palette Extension Gallery + multi-monitor Dock, .NET 10 upgrade, smaller installer.

New Features

• Shortcut Guide (redesigned): Side-panel guide that detects the active application and shows relevant shortcuts for it, along with Windows and PowerToys shortcuts.
• Command Palette Extension Gallery: Browse, install, update, and remove extensions directly from within Command Palette.
• Dock — Multi-monitor support: Each monitor can now have its own independent Dock configuration.
• Performance Monitor: Added a new Battery widget with charge level, charging status, and time remaining.
• ZoomIt: Added webcam overlay recording support and the ability to append clips with transitions.

Improvements

• PowerToys now runs on .NET 10, improving overall performance.
• Installer size reduced by 15%.
• Auto-update is more reliable with improved relaunch, success notifications, and automatic settings backup.
• Quick Accent and Workspaces now use native Fluent-style WPF theming.
• Power Display now starts faster, detects monitors better, and includes a new Max Compatibility Mode.
• Keyboard Manager now ships with the new WinUI 3 editor by default.
• Mouse Without Borders now includes a Refresh Connections action.
• Image Resizer settings changes are now applied automatically.
• Quick Accent has improved high-DPI and multi-monitor reliability, plus Greek Polytonic character support.
• Peek now includes an option to disable file preview tooltips.
• PowerToys Run improved complex-number calculator handling.

Bug Fixes

• Advanced Paste clipboard-to-JSON conversion now returns an empty result instead of an error.

v0.99.1 — April 29, 2026 (Patch Release)

This patch release fixes stability issues introduced in v0.99.0.

• Command Palette: Startup crash fix for null DockSettings, plus dock label settings persistence fix.
• Grab And Move: Alt key release bug fix, Start menu draggability bug fix, and G key / Game Bar conflict fix.
• Power Display: Added extra diagnostic logging, and disruptive controls including Input Source, Color Temperature, and Power State are now disabled by default with a confirmation dialog. The built-in display name is now localized.

v0.99.0 — April 28, 2026

Highlights: Power Display and Grab And Move new utilities, together with Command Palette and Dock improvements.

New Features

• Grab And Move (Preview): A new utility to drag or resize windows from anywhere with Alt + Left Click for drag and Alt + Right Click for resize; the Windows key can also be used as an option.
• Power Display (Preview): Control monitors from the system tray, including volume, brightness, contrast, and color profile management. Profiles can be created and auto-switched with Light Switch.
• Command Palette: Added plain text and image viewer content types, persistent calculator history, Dock always-on-top option, and a new Compact Dock mode.
• Keyboard Manager: Supports manually adjusting recorded keys and includes a new Disabled action shortcut mode.
• ZoomIt: Supports scrolling screenshots, text extraction while snipping, and a screen saver mode in break timer.

Improvements

• Image Resizer UI migrated from WPF to WinUI 3.
• Advanced Paste now has an auto-copy fix for Electron/Chromium apps such as Teams and VS Code.
• System tray icon refresh: new monochrome icon plus update-available badge.
• Improved reliability for multi-line text replacement.

v0.98.1 — March 26, 2026 (Patch Release)

This patch release fixes stability issues from v0.98.0.

• Always On Top: Opacity hotkeys can now be configured independently of the main pin hotkey.
• Command Palette: Multiple fixes for context menu, primary command, scroll container, DockWindow cleanup, and dock popup crash behavior.
• Keyboard Shortcut Manager: Added support for whitespace-only shortcuts.
• Settings: Fixed a PowerToys Run crash caused by a missing DLL dependency and corrected What's New page navigation.

v0.98.0 — March 17, 2026

Highlights: Refreshed Keyboard Manager, new Command Palette Dock, and better CursorWrap.

New Features

• Keyboard Manager Editor (Preview): Rebuilt on WinUI 3 with a unified single-view editor and toggle-based remapping support.
• Command Palette Dock (Preview): New persistent command and extension dock mode that can be anchored to any side of the screen.
• Command Palette: Added window transparency, search text persistence, and an option to hide non-app results.
• CursorWrap: Improved multi-monitor support and added a single-monitor disable option.

Improvements

• Always On Top: Supports right-click pin/unpin from the title bar and transparency adjustments using Ctrl + Shift + +/-.
• ZoomIt: Added a video editor to trim recordings.
• Advanced Paste: Added auto-copy for custom action hotkeys and improved Foundry Local support.
• New+: Added the ability to hide the Windows built-in New context menu item.

v0.97.2 — February 10, 2026 (Patch Release)

This patch release fixes stability issues from v0.97.0.

• Advanced Paste JSON deserialization crash fix, Color Picker contrast fix, and Command Palette localization fix.
• CursorWrap single-monitor disable persistence fix.
• Image Resizer fix for Windows 10 failures after upgrade.
• LightSwitch startup theme logic fix.
• Workspaces DPI-related overlay positioning fix.

v0.97.1 — January 28, 2026 (Patch Release)

This patch release also fixes stability issues from v0.97.0.

• Advanced Paste settings crash fix, plus Command Palette icon-loading and deadlock fixes.
• CursorWrap: laptop lid close detection and new Wrap mode setting for horizontal, vertical, or both directions.
• Peek: fixed accidental triggers while renaming, searching, or typing in the address bar.
• PowerRename regex $ fix.
• Added GPO support for CursorWrap policy templates.

v0.97.0 — January 20, 2026

Highlights: Major Command Palette update, new CursorWrap utility, and expanded CLI support.

New Features

• CursorWrap: Wrap the mouse cursor around screen edges for multi-monitor users.
• Command Palette: Added personalization page support (background image + tinting), fallback ranking, direct PowerToys controls, Pinyin support, Remote Desktop extension, custom search engine, and drag-and-drop support.
• CLI support expanded for FancyZones, Image Resizer, and File Locksmith.

Improvements

• Quick Access flyout moved to its own process for faster launch.
• Monochrome tray icon option.
• Light Switch can now follow Night Light.
• Advanced Paste: HEX color previews, plus image input support for AI transforms.

v0.96.1 — November 26, 2025 (Patch Release)

This patch release fixes stability issues from v0.96.0.

• Advanced Paste: deprecated OpenAI settings removed and GPT-5.1 support with Azure OpenAI enabled.
• Foundry Local model parameters updated for longer output tokens.
• A bug where model foundry-download immediately showed as unavailable was fixed.

v0.96.0 — November 19, 2025

Highlights: Advanced Paste with multiple AI providers, Command Palette improvements, and PowerRename photo metadata support.

New Features

• Advanced Paste: supports Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, Foundry Local, and Ollama.
• PowerRename: photo EXIF/XMP metadata patterns such as %Camera, %Lens, and %ExposureTime can now be used.
• Command Palette: file search filters, better clipboard history metadata, context-menu styling, and multiple bug fixes.

Improvements

• Command Palette settings page reorganized; Ctrl + , can now open settings from anywhere.
• Command Palette window now remembers its size and position.
• Hosts File Editor: customizable backup settings added.
• Mouse Without Borders: horizontal scrolling support.
• Peek: media file previews stay available after close; CLI file-preview support added.
• Find My Mouse: cursor busy-icon and focus-steal bug fixes.

v0.95.1 — October 23, 2025 (Patch Release)

This patch release fixes stability issues introduced in v0.95.0.

• Light Switch: default-enabled bug fix, manual schedule override fix, Manual renamed to Fixed Hours, and new Off mode added.
• Command Palette: crash fixes for Windows Terminal profile and Services pages, plus window-style refresh fix.
• Find My Mouse: focus-loss and busy-cursor bugs fixed.
• Installer: WiX v3 removed; all installer logic now uses WiX v5.

v0.95.0 — October 15, 2025

Highlights: New Light Switch utility, Command Palette search performance improvements, and Peek Space-bar activation.

New Features

• Light Switch (New): automatically switches Windows light/dark theme based on time or sunrise/sunset location scheduling.
• Command Palette: fuzzy matcher and smarter fallbacks improved search relevance and speed.
• Peek: can now be activated with the Space bar.
• Find My Mouse: transparent spotlight with independent backdrop opacity.

Improvements

• Settings gained better shortcuts delete/conflict-ignore behavior.
• Mouse Pointer Crosshairs: orientation options (vertical, horizontal, both).
• PowerRename: enumeration counter skip bug fixed.
• ZoomIt: legacy draw/snipping behavior restored and recording race fixes.

v0.94.2 — September 24, 2025 (Patch Release)

• Installer: fixed a missing vcruntime dependency error that blocked installs from GitHub, winget, and Microsoft Store.

v0.94.1 — September 18, 2025 (Patch Release)

• Installer: fixed the Failed to load SilentFilesInUseBAFunction.dll (0x8007007e) bootstrapper error, restoring successful installs from GitHub, winget, and Microsoft Store.

v0.94.0 — September 2, 2025

Highlights: Settings search, hotkey conflict detection, and the Gliding Cursor accessibility feature.

New Features

• Settings: fuzzy-matching search support added.
• Hotkey conflict detection: conflicts can now be identified and resolved directly from Settings.
• Mouse Pointer Crosshairs: added the "Gliding cursor" accessibility feature for single-button cursor movement and clicking.
• Quick Accent: Maltese language support added.

Improvements

• Installer upgraded from WiX 3 to WiX 5 for better security and reliability.
• Hosts Editor: added a "No leading spaces" option.
• Context menu registration now happens at runtime rather than during installation.
• Command Palette: added ListPage filter support for extension developers.

v0.93.0 — August 13, 2025

Highlights: Card-based Settings dashboard, Command Palette issue fixes, and AOT performance boost.

New Features

• Settings: new card-based dashboard, clearer descriptions, and faster navigation.
• Command Palette: Clipboard History returned, context menu shortcuts, app pinning, and Run history support.
• Peek: instant preview and thumbnails for Binary G-code (.bgcode) 3D-printing files.
• Mouse Utilities: new spotlight highlighting mode for presentations.

Improvements

• Command Palette startup memory, load time, extension loading time, and installation size improved thanks to AOT.
• 600+ new unit tests and doubled UI automation coverage added.
• Quick Accent: Vietnamese language support.

v0.92.1 — July 7, 2025 (Patch Release)

• File Explorer add-ons: fixed per-user installation regression causing Preview to fail.
• Command Palette: fixed a regression where Win32 applications could be missing and app state reset issues.

v0.92.0 — July 1, 2025

Highlights: System tray icon toggle, AOT-ready extensions, and customizable Color Picker clicks.

New Features

• Settings: toggle to show or hide the system tray icon.
• Command Palette: all first-party extensions are now AOT-compatible for better performance and stability.
• Color Picker: customizable mouse actions for left, right, and middle clicks.
• Bug Report Tool: faster reporting and progress indicators, with MSIX installer logs included.

Improvements

• File Explorer add-ons: improved PDF preview and thumbnail generation reliability.
• Registry Preview: added "Extended data preview" for complex REG_BINARY and REG_MULTI_SZ types.
• PowerToys Run: suppressed error UI for temporary DWM unavailability crashes.
• .NET libraries upgraded to 9.0.6 and WinAppSDK to 1.7.2.

v0.91.1 — May 19, 2025 (Patch Release)

• Command Palette: fixed a regression where admin mode ran as the admin instead of current user, and extension launch failures in admin mode were addressed.
• Workspaces: fixed a regression where classic Win32 apps like Edge and Chrome lost command-line options on launch.
• Quick Accent: fixed the activation key regression so users only need to hold the key after activation instead of during the delay period.

v0.91.0 — May 14, 2025

Highlights: Command Palette performance improvements and major features such as file search fallback and low-level hotkey hook.

New Features

• Command Palette: can now fall back to searching any file via a fallback command.
• Global hotkey support for Command Palette can now use a low-level keyboard hook.
• WebSearch extension: added an "open URL" fallback command.
• PT Run and Command Palette Date/Time plugins now allow custom format definitions.

Improvements

• Color Picker: fixed resource leaks and added support for Oklab and Oklch formats.
• Command Palette: DPI scaling fix, keyboard navigation improvements, JUMBO thumbnails support, AOT support, and many stability fixes.
• PowerRename: added 12-hour time format (AM/PM) support.

v0.90.1 — April 10, 2025 (Patch Release)

• Fixed an issue where WinGet could not install v0.90.
• Fixed Command Palette not launching when WinGet was unavailable.
• Fixed a crash when launching Command Palette as administrator.
• Updated the .NET package to 9.0.4.

v0.90.0 — March 31, 2025

Highlights: New Command Palette module, which evolved from PowerToys Run.

New Features

• Command Palette (New): a new extensible command launcher for apps, shell commands, files, and WinGet packages. Shortcut: Win + Alt + Space.
• Color Picker: switched from WPF UI to .NET WPF for better theme consistency.
• Peek: can now delete files directly from Peek.
• New+: added variable template support for date components and environment variables.

Improvements

• FancyZones: fixed layout delete and hotkey display bugs.
• PowerToys Run: fixed duplicate application visibility and added sq support in Unit Converter.

v0.89.0 — March 5, 2025

Highlights: Advanced Paste media transcoding and accessibility improvements.

New Features

• Advanced Paste: added media transcoding support for video and audio file conversion.

Improvements

• Fixed a thumbnail loading crash after the .NET 9 update.
• Accessibility improvements in FancyZones, Image Resizer, and Settings.
• PowerToys Run: dark mode detection fix and locale-based list separator fix in the calculator.
• Quick Accent: added new IPA characters and Greek final sigma support.

v0.88.0 — January 28, 2025

Highlights: New ZoomIt utility from Sysinternals and deprecation of Video Conference Mute.

New Features

• ZoomIt (New): screen zoom, annotation, and recording tool integrated from Sysinternals.
• Video Conference Mute: deprecated and removed from PowerToys.

Improvements

• .NET 9.0.1 improved WPF stability for PowerToys Run.
• Advanced Paste: expanded image-to-text file support and accessibility fixes.
• Monaco Preview: .resx/.resw support and code minimap toggle support.
• PowerToys Run: fixed hex division-by-zero and added binary/octal number support in the calculator.

v0.87.1 — December 19, 2024 (Patch Release)

• Fixed missing borders in PowerToys Run on Windows 10.
• Fixed OneNote plugin crashes after the .NET 9 upgrade.
• Fixed Advanced Paste crash on exit.

v0.87.0 — December 16, 2024

Highlights: Advanced Paste's Advanced AI orchestration and Workspaces PWA support.

New Features

• Advanced Paste: "Advanced AI" support through Semantic Kernel to orchestrate sequential clipboard transformations.
• Workspaces: Progressive Web Apps (PWA) support and new behavior for moving existing windows instead of creating new ones.
• New+: now works on Windows 10 too.
• Mouse Jump: new customizable popup screen settings.

Improvements

• Quick Accent: added character set selection.
• Screen Ruler: added inches/cm/mm measurement settings.
• Keyboard Manager: added labels for IME On/Off keys.

v0.86.0 — November 4, 2024

Highlights: Advanced Paste image-to-text, Settings navigation grouping, and telemetry opt-in.

New Features

• Advanced Paste: added image-to-text and paste-to-file actions for txt/png/html.
• Diagnostic data (telemetry) opt-in: added to Settings under General.

Improvements

• Settings: left navigation now groups utilities.
• Registry Preview: Monaco Editor UI adopted as a text editor.
• Workspaces: fixed launching multiple instances of the same app.
• Quick Accent: added Serbian Cyrillic support.

v0.85.1 — October 7, 2024 (Patch Release)

• Workspaces: fixed launching the wrong project using a shortcut.
• New+: fixed a crash when opening the templates folder from Settings.