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## Summary of the Pull Request
## AI Summary
This pull request updates the `README.md` to document the 0.93 (August
2025) release of Microsoft PowerToys. It introduces a new, modern
settings dashboard, details major improvements and new features across
multiple modules, and updates installation links and documentation. The
release focuses on enhanced user experience, accessibility, performance,
stability, and test coverage.
Most important changes:
**Release and Installation Updates**
- Updated all installer links and release references from version 0.92.1
to 0.93.0, and milestone tracking for the next release to 0.94.
- Updated the release highlights and version number to reflect the 0.93
(August 2025) release, with a summary of new features and improvements.
**Settings and User Experience**
- Introduced a completely redesigned, card-based settings dashboard with
clearer descriptions, faster navigation, and improved release notes
formatting for a better user experience.
- Rewrote setting descriptions for clarity and consistency, added deep
link support to specific settings pages, and fixed various UI/UX issues
in the settings module.
**Command Palette and Extensions**
- Resolved over 99 issues in Command Palette, including accessibility
improvements, context menu enhancements, new navigation shortcuts, AOT
compilation mode (reducing install size and memory usage), and
re-enabled Clipboard History.
- Added new settings and features to Command Palette extensions, such as
command history in Run, improved Apps extension handling, and new
context menu options.
**Module Improvements and New Features**
- Mouse Utilities: Added a new spotlight highlighting mode for
presentations.
- Peek: Added instant previews and embedded thumbnail support for Binary
G-code (.bgcode) 3D printing files.
- Quick Accent: Added Vietnamese language support.
**Development, Testing, and Documentation**
- Upgraded .NET libraries and spell check system, improved CI pipelines,
reduced test timeouts, and added over 600 new unit tests (mainly for
Command Palette), doubling UI automation coverage.
- Added detailed developer documentation, fixed broken SDK links, and
documented new community plugins.
Other minor changes:
- Standardized naming, improved spelling, and cleaned up configuration
files for smoother development.
- Minor capitalization fix for "Mouse Utilities" in the utilities table.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Simply updates the install links in the README.
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## PR Checklist
- **Closes:** N/A
- **Communication:** This is a very minor change, for which
communication would only waste time, even if the work is rejected.
Communication is therefore unnecessary.
- **Tests:** None needed.
- [X] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized
- **Dev docs:** No updates needed.
- **New binaries:** None needed
- [JSON for
signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json)
for new binaries: not part of program
- [WXS for
installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs)
for new binaries and localization folder: Not part of program
- [YML for CI
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml)
for new test projects: No tests involved.
- [YML for signed
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml):
N/A
- **Documentation updated:** No update needed
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## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments
Figuring a way to automate this would be useful, as the updates for
patch releases are often overlooked.
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## Validation Steps Performed
Preview viewed and links tested.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
This PR applies a series of grammar, punctuation, and stylistic updates
across the main README and GitHub templates to improve consistency,
clarity, and alignment with formatting guidelines.
### File-Level Changes
| Change | Details | Files |
| ------ | ------- | ----- |
| Updated README.md for grammar, punctuation, and phrasing consistency |
<ul><li>Inserted missing commas and adjusted articles for clearer
sentences</li><li>Standardized hyphenation and removed extra spaces
around slashes</li><li>Refined bullet list punctuation and corrected
pluralization (‘number of bugs’)</li></ul> | `README.md` |
| Refined pull request template text for clarity and uniform formatting
| <ul><li>Hyphenated “end-user-facing” and added Oxford comma in
checklist items</li><li>Adjusted phrasing in communication bullet for
parallel structure</li><li>Reworded placeholder comment for detailed PR
description</li></ul> | `.github/pull_request_template.md` |
| Standardized issue templates with grammar and placeholder improvements
| <ul><li>Clarified label descriptions and added missing commas in
placeholders</li><li>Unified question phrasing across bug, feature,
translation, and docs templates</li><li>Corrected capitalization and
refined instructions for consistency</li></ul> |
`.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml`<br/>`.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml`<br/>`.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/translation_issue.yml`<br/>`.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation-issue.yml`
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## PR Checklist
- [ ] **Closes:** #xxx
- [X] **Communication:** I've already discussed this with core
contributors. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be
rejected
- [X] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass
- [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized
- [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated
- [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places
- [ ] [JSON for
signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json)
for new binaries
- [ ] [WXS for
installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs)
for new binaries and localization folder
- [ ] [YML for CI
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml)
for new test projects
- [ ] [YML for signed
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml)
- [X] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request
on [our docs
repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys)
and link it here:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs/pull/5447
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## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments
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## Validation Steps Performed
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Co-authored-by: Jay <65828559+Jay-o-Way@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update version to 0.91
Update version to 0.91
* Some PRs are still not included.
Some PRs are still not included.
* Add some PRs
* Add more PRs
* Add more PRs
* Add two more PRs
* Add some PRs
* Add one more PR
* Add all PRs up to this point, except for some documentation-related ones.
* Add the Highlights part
* Overall edits
* Add PRs about Doc changes
* Clean up the highlights section
* Update MD5
* Changed highlights and removed reg preview line item
* Put reg preview item back and updated highlights
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Co-authored-by: Kayla Cinnamon <cinnamon@microsoft.com>
* First Draft
* Update according to comments as well as re-reading
* Finished multiple wording comments
* Removed the module name that appeared at the beginning of the sentence, as it was already included in the section name.
* ZoomIt initial code dump
* Change vcxproj to normalize dependency versions
* Fix code quality to build
* Add to PowerToys solution
* Clean out C-style casts
* Fix some more analyzer errors
* Constexpr a function
* Disable some warnings locally that it seemed better not to touch
* Add ZoomIt module interface
* Add GPO
* Add Settings page with Enable button
* Output as PowerToys.ZoomIt.exe
* Extract ZoomIt Settings definition to its own header
* Make ZoomItModuleInterface build with ZoomItSettings too
* WinRT C++ interop for ZoomItSettings
* From Registry To PowerToys Json
* Properly fix const_cast analyzer error
* Initial Settings page loading from registry
* Zoom mode settings
* Save settings
* Add file picker and DemoType file support
* Remaining DemoType settings
* Have ZoomIt properly reloading Settings and exiting
* Remove context menu entries for Options and Exit
* ZoomIt simple Break Options
* Break advanced options
* Simple Record settings
* Record Microphone setting
* Fix break background file picker title
* Font setting
* Fix build issues after merge
* Add ZoomIt conflict warning to Settings
* Exclude Eula from spell checking
* Fix spellcheck errors
* Fix spell check for accelerated menu items
* Remove cursor files from spellcheck. They're binary
* Fix forbidden patterns
* Fix XAML style
* Fix C# analyzers
* Fix signing
* Also sign module interface dll
* Use actual ZoomIt icon
* Add OOBE page for ZoomIt
* ZoomIt image for Settings
* Flyout and Dashboard entries
* Fix type speed slider labels
* Correctly load default Font
* Correctly register shortcuts on ZoomIt startup first run
* Fix modifier keys not changing until restart
* Show MsgBox on taken shortcut
* Start PowerToys Settings
* Normalize ZoomIt file properties with rest of PowerToys
* Add attribution
* Add ZoomIt team to Community.md
* More copyright adjustments
* Fix spellcheck
* Fix MsgBox simultaneous instance to the front
* Add mention of capturevideosample code use
* Add ZoomIt to process lists
* Add telemetry
* Add logging
* React to gpo
* Normalize code to space identation
* Fix installer build
* Localize percent setting
* Fix XAML styling
* Update src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/Strings/en-us/Resources.resw
Co-authored-by: Stefan Markovic <57057282+stefansjfw@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fix spellcheck
* One more spellcheck fix
* Integrate LiveDraw feature changes from upstream
* Fix name reuse in same scope
* Fix c-style casts
* Also register LIVEDRAW_HOTKEY
* Fix newLiveZoomToggleKey
* Update LiveZoom description in Settings to take LiveDraw into account
* Fix spellcheck
* Fix more spellcheck
* Fix Sysinternals capitalization
* Fix ARM64 Debug build
* Support Sysinternals build (#36873)
* Remove unneeded files
* Make build compatible with Sysinternals
* Separate PowerToys ZoomIt product name (#36887)
* Separate PowerToys ZoomIt product name
To help maintain the Sysinternals branding in the standalone version.
* Clarify branding-related includes
* Remove ZoomIt.sln
* Add foxmsft to spell-check names
* Add ZoomIt to README
* Add ZoomIt to GH templates
* Add ZoomIt events to DATA_AND_PRIVACY.md
* Remove publish_config.json
* Remove publish_config.json from vcxproj too
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Co-authored-by: Alex Mihaiuc <69110671+foxmsft@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: John Stephens <johnstep@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Markovic <57057282+stefansjfw@users.noreply.github.com>
* Remove all VideoConferenceMute related code and files
* Clean up vcm driver registry keys
* Also remove the Webcam report tool
* Also clean out video conference on the installer
* Fix spellcheck
* Remove comment about video conf
* Update gpo files revision
* Revert removing the VCM policies
* Deprecate VCM GPO policy
* Change deprecation message to show first supported version
* Tweak supported strings in the adml
* 0.84 changelog
Readme update for the 0.83 release.
This will be copy / pasted for release notes.
* fix spelling errors
* fix spelling errors 2
* Update README.md
Co-authored-by: PesBandi <127593627+PesBandi@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update README.md
* Moved new utility highlight to top and added known issues list
* address PR comments
* Remove whitespace
* update
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Co-authored-by: Connor Plante <150482134+plante-msft@users.noreply.github.com>
Readme update for the 0.83 release.
This will be copy / pasted for release notes.
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Co-authored-by: Heiko <61519853+htcfreek@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Clint Rutkas <clint@rutkas.com>
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We renamed the tag for lower-case v.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Readme update for the 0.82 release.
This will be copy / pasted for release notes.
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Co-authored-by: Clint Rutkas <clint@rutkas.com>
Co-authored-by: Jay <65828559+Jay-o-Way@users.noreply.github.com>
