New Microsoft PowerToys pre-release version 0.102.2911.0 for Windows 11

This is a prerelease candidate for PowerToys 0.102, built from stable with stable-release intent. Although marked as a prerelease on GitHub, these binaries use the stable update channel. These notes cover changes since v0.102.2883.0, not the complete 0.102 changelog. This is not the final stable release.

Highlights​

• Color Picker: Kept editor selections within the configured color-history limit.
• Command Palette: Added Settings, logs, reload, and quit actions to the dock Home context menu.
• Command Palette: Reduced redundant dock rebuilding when providers load or change.
• Image Resizer: Fixed encoding options, multi-page TIFF resizing, and supported metadata preservation.
• PowerRename: Corrected GPS coordinates and author/creator metadata in filename templates.
• Settings: Refined hover highlights, parallax, and light trails in the Welcome animation.

Color Picker​

• Kept adjusted and similar-color selections within the configured history limit, trimming older entries while keeping the selected color first in #51356

Command Palette​

• Replaced the separate native keyboard service with a managed global keyboard listener, with explicit startup-error reporting and regression coverage for shortcut handling in #50981 by @jiripolasek
• Added a context menu to the dock's Home item for opening Settings and logs, reloading extensions, and quitting Command Palette in #51304
• Batched dock-band updates when loading, enabling, disabling, or removing providers to avoid repeatedly rebuilding every monitor's dock in #51362 by @Copilot

Image Resizer​

• Honored PNG interlacing and TIFF compression settings, resized every TIFF page, preserved supported image metadata and 16-bit precision, restored JPEG XR fallback output, and rejected invalid numeric CLI unit/fit values in #51359

PowerRename​

• Fixed EXIF GPS coordinates and XMP author/creator tokens in filename templates, including ordered lists of multiple creators in #51357

Settings​

• Refined the Welcome animation with subtle theme-aware tile highlights, removed the top-edge gap during parallax, and softened the introductory light trails in #51367

Development​

• Stabilized Keyboard Manager UI tests by retrying Notepad focus and restoring the test document's active tab, with clearer failure diagnostics in #51345
• Stabilized Quick Accent UI-test scroll checks on slow agents with longer waits and clearer selection and viewport diagnostics in #51346
• Stabilized Screen Ruler UI tests by waiting for the toolbar window before creating the automation session and allowing more time for UI Automation discovery in #51343
• Stabilized ZoomIt tray-icon UI tests by retrying notification-overflow opening and reporting the exact readiness condition that failed in #51344 by @Copilot
• Kept the pointer away from taskbar hover targets during ZoomIt tray-icon UI tests so the Windows 10 News and Interests feed cannot cover the overflow in #51395

Changes needing final review​

• Reverted the temporary Command Palette extension SDK build pin from #51326 in direct stable commit 4ce35264c2e4, restoring the unpinned SDK-job configuration by @LegendaryBlair and @Copilot. This is an exact revert of the earlier stable backport and has no separate PR.

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