New Microsoft PowerToys Dev preview version 0.103.3052.0 for Windows 11

Highlights​

• Command Palette: Fixed top-level search getting stuck during rapid typing, clearing, and re-entering queries.
• DSC: Generated configuration scripts now recognize matching installed versions written with three or four numeric components.
• PowerDisplay: Improved startup reliability when a cold UI launch takes longer to connect.
• PowerRename: Renames between linguistically equivalent but different names, such as German sharp S to ss, now appear in previews and can be applied.
• PowerToys Run: Unit Converter now correctly handles sqmi and sqmil shorthand.
• PowerToys Run: Plugin score modifiers can now range from -20,000 to 20,000 to override high built-in result scores.
• PowerToys Run: Calculator copies persist without misleading failure dialogs after the text has already been copied.
• Registry Preview: Added a flatter, full-page workspace with slimmer splitters and scrollbars shown only when needed.
• ZoomIt: Restored Settings and Exit tray actions when running through PowerToys.
• ZoomIt: Fixed skipped frames in screen recordings, particularly while zooming and annotating.

Command Palette​

• Fixed two Command Palette top-level search hangs that could occur when rapidly typing, clearing, and re-entering queries in #51599.

DSC​

• Fixed generated DSC configuration scripts matching installed PowerToys versions when three- and four-component version strings differ only by a trailing zero in #51537 by @Gijsreyn.

General​

• Updated release tooling to refresh maintainer exclusions, omit automated contributor credits, and validate four-component display titles while retaining three-component tags in #51665.
• Standardized .NET SDK selection through global.json at version 10.0.403, updated the runtime package version to 10.0.14, and moved SDK builds to Visual Studio 2026 in #51781.

PowerDisplay​

• Improved PowerDisplay cold-start reliability by allowing more time for its UI connection and added end-to-end lifecycle and monitor-control tests in #51784.

PowerRename​

• Enabled PowerRename previews and applying renames for linguistically equivalent but different names, such as German sharp S to ss, while preserving normalization-only behavior in #51297 by @dark13b.

PowerToys Run​

• Fixed Unit Converter parsing of sqmi and sqmil shorthand so square-unit conversions use the intended units in #50637 by @sanskarIN.
• Expanded plugin score modifiers to -20,000 through 20,000 so user preferences can override high built-in result scores in #51195 by @muhammadmahadazher.
• Improved copying Calculator results so successful copies persist without misleading post-write failure dialogs in #51197 by @muhammadmahadazher.

Registry Preview​

• Updated Registry Preview to a flatter, full-page layout with slimmer splitters and scrollbars shown only when needed in #50757 by @matthudson.

ZoomIt​

• Restored Settings and Exit tray actions when ZoomIt runs through PowerToys; Settings opens the ZoomIt settings page and Exit closes only ZoomIt in #51726 by @MarioHewardt.
• Fixed skipped frames in ZoomIt screen recordings, particularly while zooming and annotating in #51729 by @MarioHewardt and @markrussinovich.

Development​

• Updated the .NET setup action used by Microsoft Store submission workflows to 6.0.0 in #49862.
• Updated the Python setup action used by issue-triage workflows to 7.1.0 in #51746.
• Updated the Azure login action used by Microsoft Store submission workflows to 3.1.0 in #51747.
• Updated the artifact-upload action used by issue-triage workflows to 7.0.2 in #51748.
• Updated Node.js setup actions used by PR intake and developer-documentation workflows to 7.1.0 in #51749.
• Separated Command Palette dock flyout presentation from its controller to simplify future maintenance and presentation changes in #51689.
• Corrected shared shortcut-control property metadata and documented collection-analyzer exceptions while preserving existing UI control APIs in #50736 by @matthudson.
• Switched legacy UI-test screenshot comparisons to structural similarity (SSIM) and removed image-hash dependencies in #51653.
• Added Grab and Move end-to-end UI tests for window movement and resizing, with virtual-HID input infrastructure in #51634.
• Improved Mouse Without Borders Sandbox test provisioning by separating startup and payload-preparation deadlines and adding progress diagnostics in #51778.
• Changed ZoomIt to build its precompiled header once so its C++ sources can compile in parallel in #51674.

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