v1.10.0

Release Notes

Highlights

• New Preview Panel

• New clock & date display in search window

• Plugin Store search

• Ability to drag and drop files

• New applications and bookmarks will now be automatically indexed, no need to manual reload

• New and updated themes, don't forget to check them out

• New keyboard shortcuts to adjust the search window's width and number of displayed results

• Everything plugin is now part of Explorer plugin (remember to remove the existing standalone Everything plugin if installed)

• Pre-releases are now available to try at Flow-Launcher/Prereleases

Features

• Bookmarks can now be loaded by browser with the ability to switch on/off

• Adjusted general designs & texts of the search and settings window

• Added open recycle bin and indexing option to commands to Sys plugin

• Added Illustrations when setting custom query windows

• Adjust plugin info area's look and feel

• Added text focus to plugin & plugin store search box so can start typing to search

• Added 'Become A Sponsor' Button in settings window

• Improved and added new themes

• Pre-releases are now deployed to Flow-Launcher/Prereleases

• Updated setting window designs

• Results appear higher up for a match that is closer to the start of the search string

• Added ability to search programs in PATH

• Support .url file searches via Programs plugin

• Plugin Store plugin display is updated

• Added 10th result hotkey

• Added dragging and dropping files

• Added uninstall button to each of plugin's settings

• Added a 'Clear Log' button in About tab of settings

• Added new keyboard shortcuts to adjust the search window's width and number of displayed results, as well as to toggle game mode on/off

• Setting window's size and location will now be remembered

• Added new search window positions, it can now appear based on the location of your mouse

• Drive space will be displayed when in root

• Preview panel has been added

• Clock & date display in search window has been added

• Rounded icons for plugins have been added

• Plugins can now use web URL as an icon path

• Implemented asynchronous result execution for JsonRPC plugins

• User's query containing trailing whitespace will not be trimmed when passed through to plugins

• Everything plugin is now merged into Explorer plugin

• Minor enhancements made to search window's auto-completion

• Made some improvements to the PluginManager plugin

• Added glyph Icon Support

• Updated icons & non-glyph icons for context menus

• Application Uri execution is now supported in OpenUrl API call

• Auto re-index for Program and Bookmark plugins

• Added Custom Query Shortcut

• Hotkey for triggering the search window is now displayed in tray icon's context menu

• Search window's search icon now changes based on the plugin (action keyword) you are using

• Search plugins in the Plugin Store as well as plugins tab

• Use Ctrl + Backspace in the search window when navigating directories to go up one level

• Keyboard shortcut to copy file/folder result to clipboard

• Updated the default app missing icon image

• Upgraded to .Net 6

Bug fixes

• Fixed setting window's panel Layout

• Fixed Program plugin's setting display

• Fixed Program Plugin's button size

• Fixed some untranslatable text

• Bump NuGet CommandLine version

• Fixed clicking on tray icon not showing the search window

• Fixed missing 'Installing Plugin' string

• Refactored UWP class in Program plugin

• Fixed Theme Preview display

• Changed WindowsSettings plugin keyword to 's' from '*'

• Updated wording for Pingyin search message box

• Fixed Program plugin's ability to distinguish .lnks by arguments

• Fixed Context Menu design

• Fixed searching in Chinese even if Pinyin is enabled

• Fixed minor pipeline issues and added caching

• Fixed Plugin Store memory leaks

• General fixes on Program plugin

• Removed ColorProfileData in app_missing_img

• Changed the delete icon to a recycle bin icon

• Fixed a progress bar display issue

• Fixed WindowsSettings plugin untranslatable strings

• Fixed blurry search window context menu

• Fixed WebSearch plugin's search source setting guide

• Remove font-family style for Chinese

• Fixed LastQueryMode's selection language display when new language is selected

• Fixed Explorer crash on a reserved character when performing ole db query

• Fixed QueryTextbox's binding event

• Fixed some build warnings

• Updated readme

• New Crowdin updates

Contributions

We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.

@0xCCY, @dracp, @Garulf, @JohnTheGr8, @LeLocTai, @nachmore, @NeedJustWord, @onesounds, @Sparrkle, @taooceros, @VictoriousRaptor and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

A big thank you to @itsonlyfrans for sponsoring us! ❤️

v1.9.5

Release Notes

Plugin development

We have fixed the URL for reporting plugin errors to point directly at the plugin’s own repository. This means when users experience plugin errors, instead of previously directing them to create an issue in Flow’s repository, they will now be creating an issue in the repository of the plugin. If you find that the error is actually from Flow, please feel free to create an issue to let us know so we can fix it.

Bug fixes

• Fixed plugin exceptions handling to include the correct URL for reporting plugin errors

• Fixed missing Spanish & Spanish Latin America languages

• Fixed an issue where the error reporting URL opens twice

• Changed the maximum allowed search window width from 900 to 1920

• Fixed crashing when setting flow to start up with Windows and user does not have registry access

• Fixed plugin info not displaying when multiple action keywords exist

• Fixed an issue causing fonts on search window and result list to not update when changed

• Fixed theme fonts not changing separately for search window and result list

• Fixed incorrect cursor position in some scenarios where the Custom Query or Shell plugin's Win+R hotkey is used

• Added missing ability to open plugin website from the context menu

• Fixed random error 'IndexOutOfRangeException'

• Fixed random error 'Object reference null exception'

Contributions

We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.

@gissehel, @nachmore, @onesounds, @softwareengineerofficial, @taooceros and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

A big thank you to @appwrite and @itsonlyfrans for sponsoring us! ❤️

v1.9.4

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed a potential security issue with NuGet.CommandLine used in our release pipeline

• Fixed shell cmd command when used with quotes and spaces

• Fixed occasional NullReferenceException error

• Updated Python download mirrors

• Fixed font-anti-aliasing

• Fixed decimal separator when used as part of the query

• Fixed plugins inside settings window to expand correctly and fill the entire window when required

• Updated Shell plugin's default setting for replacing Win+R hotkey to off

• Fixed incorrect button visibility in Explorer plugin's setting panel

• Updated Explorer's path search to not use index by default when searching inside directories

• Fixed a silent error thrown when Chromium bookmarks are loaded

• Fixed typos in context menu result's plugin title and WindowsSettings' name

• Fixed the occasional error 'No process is associated with this object'

Contributions

We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.

@ethhaqn, @duurland, @lupinehorror, @mbrgm, @medlir, @onesounds, @Silventino, @taooceros and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

A big thank you to @hahaleyile for sponsoring us! ❤️

v1.9.3

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Addressed the issue where WindowsSettings plugin results appear higher than other results

• Fixed an issue where full screen mode does not disable hotkey when enabled

• Fixed some potential issues when loading plugins that use shared assembly

• Sorted out a race condition issue causing image loading on some results to fail

• Revised ttf/otf support

• Resolved the issue where WebSearch plugin would crash if not connected to internet

• Fixed incorrect text for "New Tab" and "New Window" buttons under Settings' default browser section

Contributions

We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.

@JohnTheGr8, @oSumAtrIX, @taooceros and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.9.2

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Address security vulnerability CVE-2021-32840 on a third party package used by PluginsManager

• Switch to Microsoft Package to handle toast notification

• Stop triggering hotkey Win + R by the Shell plugin when the plugin itself is not enabled

• Fix the positioning of toggle switch knobs in the settings window

• Fix untranslatable string 'Success' when setting a topmost record

• Fix misspellings in several areas

Contributions

We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.

@kubalav, @onesounds, @taooceros, @tech189 and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.9.1

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Updated translations via Crowdin

• Fixed an error which caused JavaScript/TypeScript plugins to error when used

• Fixed default browser setting's new tab & new window strings, they are now translatable

• Fixed autocomplete text being slightly misaligned in certain situations

• Fixed an issue causing Flow to crash during startup due to animation for the main search window not finished loading whilst being available for use

• Fixed a Bookmark plugin key string issue

• Notification of plugin manifest download failure has been changed to silent during app start up and update checks

• Adjusted vertical alignment and margins for Python plugin's settings panel

• Small design fixes in the Settings window

• Fixed incorrect cursor position in some scenarios

• Removed less used subtitle highlighting

• Updated Plugin API's documentation

Contributions

We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.

@Garulf, @JohnTheGr8 @kubalav, @onesounds, @taooceros and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.9.0

Release Notes

This release contains some major redesigns to Flow's main search and settings window UIs, we would like to say a big thank you to @onesounds for the tremendous work in modernising Flow's look and feel. Please see below for the highlights and full change log.

Highlights

• All new UI design

• New themes

• New Settings window

• Animation & sound effect for search window

• Light/Dark/Windows System Default color

• New Plugin Store

• Game Mode for when you are playing games

• Wizard window for beginners

• Python plugins can now have settings in the Settings window

• Global browser and explorer settings

• Crowdin support for translations

Features

• Global browser setting with private mode option

• Python plugin setting support for the settings window

• Added Portuguese (Portugal) Language

• Added tab to autocomplete result

• Explorer plugin now supports autocomplete of directory/file path

• Wizard window for our beginners

• Added Glyph Icon support

• Added Quick Access action keyword for Explorer

• Added Crowdin Integration

• Copy to clipboard is available via the API for plugins

• Added Flow's version data as environmental vars that can be accessed by Python plugins

• Switched off the default launch on system start up, so Flow will not start up when the computer starts by default

• You can now hide app's path for Program plugin

• Game Mode added for those that would like to pause Flow during their gaming

• Manual plugin installation

• Animation and sound when triggering Flow

• Default theme is changed

• Settings control template updated

• Updated Slovak translations

• Default File manager in settings that can be switched to use different explorers globally

• Tweaked translation api

• the Tray Menu is redesigned kind/ui

• For latest Windows release, Flow's popup now uses Windows notification

• Plugins can now execute shell commands via Flow's API

• New WindowsSettings plugin, replacing ControlPanel plugin

• New Plugin Store

• Tweaked language functionality

• Added modern themes

• Support download plugins via CDN

• Refactor Bookmark plugin

• Added Advanced Boot Options restart for Sys plugin

• Added run as administrator when holding ctrl and shift

• Bumped applicable nuget packages to latest versions

• Refactor JsonRPC structure

• Updated Embedded Python download message from install to download

• Cache program result

Bug fixes

• Fixed misaligned suggestion text when query is long, especially in WebSearch plugin

• Fixed overlapping of scrollbar and resize area

• Fixed Typo TermSeparator & removed the actionkeyword in Terms (API)

• Make suggestions hidden if query matches

• Refactored Shell Command

• Fixed HideonStartup

• Adjusted WebSearch plugin

• Added width in setting and fixed max result displayed not reflected in real-time

• Fix empty query issue

• Tweaked result update functionality

• Fixed Explorer plugin crash on semicolon

• Fixed WinGet update CI

• Implemented re-query option and added re-query when calling customQueryHotkey

Contributions

We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release, making Flow even better as this year wraps up.

@deefrawley, @Garulf, @JohnTheGr8, @kubalav, @onesounds, @pc223, @spedrickson, @taooceros, @themike10452, @Zeroto521 and everyone who has joined discussions, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.8.3

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed File Content Search's action keyword change error, and you can also now disable it too

v1.8.2

Release Notes

Changing to Flow-Launcher-Setup.exe

We have switched the naming of the setup file from Flow-Launcher-v<version> to Flow-Launcher-Setup.exe. This will make it easier to link directly to the exe installer.

Bug fixes

• Fix Explorer's file result subtitle tool tip as file path instead
• Fixed image loading to have better speed
• Fixed JsonRPC plugin exception handling
• Fixed PluginsManager's install to update transition query window focus
• Fixed a potential issue that could cause Explorer plugin's action keywords to multiply
• Fixed the issue where search precision score is not being saved after Flow exists
• Fixed Explorer plugin crashing due to Windows Index Search service not activated

v1.8.1

Release Notes

Portable Zip Download

You can now download portable version directly from the releases page. This is the same as manually enabling portable mode after the installation.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where Python plugins could not display more than 49 results
• Fixed Explorer crashing due to Windows Index Search service not activated
• Fixed progress bar animation not rerunning after query window reappears during loading
• Resolved the scenario where settings not saved after Python path is set. Settings now save after flow finished starting up
• Reduced query window's magnifying glass icon size so it looks more aligned with the rest of the icons and text boxes
• Updated Slovak translations
• Added some space to the bottom of the General tab in Settings window