PowerToys github:
This preview migrates Color Picker to WinUI 3, adds multiple Command Palette clocks, improves Keyboard Manager validation, and lets Awake turn off the display while Windows is locked.
Highlights
- Color Picker: Migrated the picker, editor, zoom magnifier, resources, and input hooks from WPF to WinUI 3.
- Command Palette: Added multiple configurable clocks with independent time zones and formats.
- Awake: Allowed Windows to turn off the display while the workstation is locked without changing unlocked keep-awake behavior.
- PowerDisplay: Added JSON Lines output and structured errors to the CLI for scripting and automation.
Awake
- Added lock-state detection so the display can turn off while the workstation is locked and Awake can resume its configured behavior after unlock in #49388 by @Meister1977.
Color Picker
- Migrated Color Picker from WPF to WinUI 3, including the picking overlay, editor, zoom magnifier, resources, telemetry, and input hooks in #49174.
Command Palette
- Added multiple configurable clocks with independent time zones, display formats, pinning, and centralized updates in #49288 by @jiripolasek.
- Fixed the Remote Desktop extension to filter and rank connections using the entered search text in #50043.
- Fixed dock item activation with Enter and Space in #50044.
- Preserved configured title and subtitle visibility when adding new dock items in #50363.
- Guarded dynamic-page event invocation against extension exceptions in #50390 by @jiripolasek.
- Prevented shortcuts from being handled twice for non-action keyboard hook notifications in #50427 by @jiripolasek.
- Corrected the description of the low-level keyboard hook setting in #50428 by @jiripolasek.
Keyboard Manager
- Fixed duplicate and conflict validation when editing remaps by comparing mapping identities and conditions instead of list positions in #50265 by @MasaYan24.
PowerDisplay
- Added a global --json flag for compact JSON Lines results and structured errors in #50433.
PowerToys Run
- Added the New Chat for Claude community plugin to the third-party plugin list in #50381 by @tit-exe.
Development
- Disabled Settings search-index generation in Debug builds to reduce build time in #49709 by @noraa-junker.
- Added Runner diagnostics for Windows session-end messages and decoded termination reasons in #50273.
- Made automatically selected per-module UI tests and their resolver blocking in CI in #50344 by @app/copilot-swe-agent.
- Migrated Hosts File Editor UI tests to UITest.Next and added missing release-checklist coverage in #50370.
- Added seven Registry Preview end-to-end tests covering editing, importing, Explorer preview, keyboard launch, and file registration in #50387.
Source:
Release Preview v0.101.2492.0 · microsoft/PowerToys
PowerToys v0.101.2492.0 Preview This preview migrates Color Picker to WinUI 3, adds multiple Command Palette clocks, improves Keyboard Manager validation, and lets Awake turn off the display while ...
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