Preview v0.101.2211.0

This preview includes the latest features, fixes, and improvements for PowerToys v0.101.

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Highlights

• Advanced Paste: Added an on-device Phi Silica provider and more per-action AI customization options.
• Command Palette: Improved dialog handling, icon loading, memory cleanup, theme behavior, and dock performance monitoring.
• Window management: Improved shutdown behavior across FancyZones, Grab And Move, and Always On Top, and made Always On Top borders render solidly at full opacity.
• Keyboard Manager: Fixed the elevated Run Program browse flow in the new editor.
• Mouse Jump: Moved Mouse Jump to the newer WinUI app architecture and packaged its new binaries into signed release builds.
• Settings: Added an update channel selector and a guided Bug Report flow with progress and a GitHub shortcut.
• Quick Accent: Made press-and-hold activation cancel cleanly so the picker appears only when intended.
• Preview releases: Added dedicated preview-release versioning and update-channel support so preview builds can be published and tested independently from stable releases.

Development

• Improved the release pipeline's version recovery flow so automatic builds and manual version overrides can continue after daily counter exhaustion in #49745 by @LegendaryBlair
• Advanced the checked-in release train to 0.101 so future automatic builds target the new version series in #49795 by @LegendaryBlair

Advanced Paste

• Added an on-device Phi Silica AI paste provider plus per-action prompts, provider selection, and extra custom actions in #46727 by @khmyznikov

Always On Top

• Made the Always On Top frame render as a solid border when opacity is set to 100% in #49698 by @crutkas

Command Palette

• Kept confirmation dialogs visible by expanding out of compact mode when needed in #49451 by @zadjii-msft
• Restored Command Palette page icons that change at runtime in #49672 by @jiripolasek
• Simplified the default Performance Monitor dock to show CPU, RAM, and a separate network-speed band more clearly in #49674 by @jiripolasek
• Aggregated network usage across adapters by default and added a command to choose a preferred adapter in #49678 by @jiripolasek
• Reduced Command Palette memory retention when top-level commands and dock bands are reloaded, removed, or disabled in #49728 by @jiripolasek
• Improved cleanup when commands or parameter lists are replaced, reducing stale Command Palette objects in memory in #49730 by @jiripolasek
• Fixed a Command Palette SDK subscription issue so replaced commands stop holding on to stale handlers in #49731 by @jiripolasek
• Released extension-owned objects more completely after navigation to reduce lingering Command Palette memory use in #49732 by @jiripolasek
• Reduced unnecessary refresh work in the Performance Monitor disk widget so metrics update with less overhead in #49735 by @jiripolasek
• Improved icon-loading responsiveness by removing broad adaptive-cache locks that could stall the UI in #49737 by @jiripolasek
• Made icon loading more reliable by separating in-flight requests from cached results during concurrent loads in #49738 by @jiripolasek
• Kept Command Palette Settings titlebar colors correct after theme changes in #49750 by @jiripolasek
• Shortened the file-picker prompt to "Select file" in #49752 by @jiripolasek
• Prevented Command Palette from crashing when switching window backdrops or transparency settings on the fly in #49755 by @jiripolasek
• Added deep links that open the Command Palette extension gallery or a specific extension directly in #49780 by @jiripolasek

Window management

• Improved sign-out and shutdown handling so FancyZones, Grab And Move, and Always On Top exit cleanly instead of hanging shutdown in #48404 by @yeelam-gordon

Keyboard Manager

• Fixed the Browse buttons in the elevated Keyboard Manager Run Program editor so file and folder pickers open correctly in #48876 by @niels9001

Mouse Jump

• Updated Mouse Jump to the newer WinUI app architecture, replacing its remaining WinForms UI and bringing over newer layout and rendering work in #48393 by @mikeclayton
• Added the new Mouse Jump WinUI binaries to release signing so the updated app is packaged correctly in this build in #49747 by @LegendaryBlair

PowerToys Run

• Corrected the PowerToys Run settings text from "searchbox" to "search box" in #49777 by @Hashim1999164

Quick Accent

• Made press-and-hold activation cancel cleanly when you press Space, arrow keys, or a different supported letter before the hold threshold in #49701 by @crutkas

Settings

• Improved runner and Settings reliability by making PowerToys claim named-pipe ownership up front and shut those connections down more predictably in #48902 by @yeelam-gordon
• Added a Bug Report progress window with saved-file details, an Open folder action, and a GitHub issue shortcut in #48980 by @niels9001
• Replaced the prerelease checkbox with an Update channel selector for Stable and Insider builds in #49722 by @niels9001

Shortcut Guide

• Added a Brave Browser shortcuts manifest so Shortcut Guide shows Brave-specific shortcuts when Brave is active in #49615 by @app/copilot-swe-agent