v1.19.1

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Explorer plugin to show an "Enabled" column in Customize Action Keyword settings tab for better clarity over the status of action keywords.

• Fixed Node.js path select error in settings window.

• Translations have been added

Contributions

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

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

v1.19.0

Release Notes

Features

• Added external preview support. Preview can now be changed to use any third party preview tools via a plugin.

• Added the ability to use QuickLook for previewing files. Look for the QuickLook plugin in the Plugin Store.

• Explorer plugin can now open Windows native context menu via Alt + Enter or Flow's own context menu.

• The search window can now be resized with the mouse.

• Plugin zip file can now be installed locally.

• New ability in the search window to cycle through search history with Up Arrow or Alt + Up Arrow keys.

• Explorer plugin has a new added option to exclude specific file types.

• New option to enable/disable Everything's run count in Explorer plugin.

• Updated Flow's error icon for better visual communication.

• Updated Explorer plugin icons to align with design standards.

• New special tray icon when running local development build.

• New option to hide uninstallers from results in the Program plugin.

• Flow's install file size has been slightly reduced.

• Refined the hotkey system for better user experience and functionality.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed QTTabBar support. It can now be configured via settings.

• Fixed Explorer plugin's Everything search not honouring the max number of results. It now defaults to returning 100 results from search.

• Fixed an issues causing partial environment variable search to not work in Explorer plugin.

• Fixed an issue where mouse hovering over results was interfering with keyboard navigation.

• Added new translations, including new Vietnamese language support.

• Localized start-up messages about missing Python/NodeJS installation.

• Fixed a minor Plugin Manager setting panel UI issue.

• Fixed DPI scaling issues.

• Fixed search window's display positioning in certain setups.

• Correctly display clock and date preview in settings window based on the language selected.

• Fixed an issue where search queries were unnecessarily re-running.

• Tweaked minor issues in the settings window UI display.

• Made adjustments to the preview panel for better usability.

• Updated Program plugin's caching policy for improved performance.

• Ensured the settings window is centered correctly on first launch.

• Made adjustments to themes for better visual consistency.

• Fixed ComboBox control localization in the settings window to ensure new language change is reflected immediately.

• Fixed localization issues with ToggleSwitch controls in the settings window.

• Localized the start-up error message about not able to register hotkey.

• Minor fixes made to the Calculator plugin.

• Fixed an issue where animation sound was not working due to missing Windows Media Player on user machine.

• Added some missing support for screen readers to improve accessibility.

• Fixed Shell Plugin to use shell execute.

Contributions

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

@flooxo, @futag, @Garulf, @Ishmaeel, @onesounds, @taooceros, @VictoriousRaptor, @Yusyuriv, @z1nc0r3, and @Zissue 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 @coderabbitai and @tikkatek for sponsoring us! ❤️

v1.18.0

Release Notes

Features

• Program plugin now shows the target path when hovering over the result

• Context Menu's query speed has been improved for JsonRPC plugins

• Added a new feature ReQuery to the plugin API, allowing plugin developers to reload queries in order to refresh plugin result data

• Sound effect volume is now adjustable

• Added a new context menu for Program plugin to open the destination folder for resutls that are program shortcuts

• The search window will now be hidden when dragging results

• Added a new keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C to copy the result path

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with Opera bookmarks

• Fixed Custom Query Shortcut logic when two or more share the same prefix

• Fixed Program plugin's indexer, which will now run when either Win32 or UWP application cache is empty

• Node plugins using V2 JsonRPC now works as expected

• Added new and updated translations

• Reworked image caching

Contributions

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

@AminSallah, @AsafMah, @flooxo, @Garulf, @Phoenix-, @taooceros, @VictoriousRaptor, @Yusyuriv and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.17.2

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed a rare issue where Plugin Store could crash due to some missing added/released plugin dates

• Fixed new translations

• Fixed an issue causing JS/TS plugins to stop working

• Fixed an issue causing some Python plugins to be missing settings fields

• Fixed missing DuckDuckGo autocomplete search option in Web Searches plugin

Contributions

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

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

v1.17.1

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed Explorer plugin's Windows Index search returning no results

• Fixed the search window's clipboard paste issue

• Fixed tab to complete functionality missing action keyword

Contributions

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

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

v1.17.0

Release Notes

Features

• Search in context menu is now faster

• Added 'Open With' option in context menu for files found by Explorer plugin

• ToggleGameMode is now available via Sys plugin

• Updated Calculator plugin with additional functionalities- factorial, sign, isprime, isinfty, remainder & comparisons

• When an error occurs with a plugin, flow now shows it as an error result instead of a pop-up dialog

• New option added for Shell plugin to close shell by manually pressing key

• PluginsManager/Store has the added option for user to manually restart after doing bulk installing/uninstalling/updating plugins

• Added ability for PluginsManager plugin to update all applicable plugins at once

• Added code for plugins to use JSON-RPC V2

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with pasting multi-line text in the search window

• Translation updates

• Fixed missing reserved keywords for Explorer plugin

• General project README fixes

• Add new translatable words for Sys Plugin

• Fixed BrowserBookmark plugin crash during loading due to missing key in loaded data

• Missing 'Sign Out' text is added as an alias for 'Log Off'

• Fix an issue when pressing Ctrl+Num to open result, the Ctrl+Enter action is triggered.

• Added improvements to JSON-RPC plugin settings

• Fixed Explorer Quick Access Links to use FuzzySearch

• Added missing Edge Workspace support for BrowserBookmark plugin

• Fix Program plugin search to ignore file extenstion

Contributions

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

@blankster, @flooxo, @Garulf, @ktos, @NoPlagiarism, @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 @Yuba4 for sponsoring us! ❤️

v1.16.2

Release Notes

Python upgrade

If you are using the Python installed by Flow (embedded), it will be automatically upgraded to v3.11.4 with this release. If you are using your own Python installation, you will need to manually upgrade it.

All Python plugins should now be supporting v3.11.4.

Bug fixes

• Updated Python from v3.8.9 to v3.11.4

• Published default plugins to the Plugin Store

• Fixed an issue where the resize bar is still draggable when preview is off

• Added explanation for using '@' prefix for custom shortcut

• Improved startup's hotkey registration failure popup message

• Fixed exclude path not working for index search

• Updated translations

Contributions

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

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

v1.16.1

Release Notes

Python upgrade

In the next release, the Python version supported by Flow will be v3.11.4.

If you are a Python plugin developer, please start testing your plugin against v3.11.4. Users who are using the Python installation managed by Flow (embeddable) will automatically update to the new version after the next release.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue in Explorer plugin caused by Windows Search returning empty paths in its own result set

• Set the main Flow Launcher project as the default start up project

• Removed the irrelevant action keyword in Shell plugin's description

• Translations have been added/updated

• Fixed the translated Slovak language name in Flow's settings window

Contributions

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

@Phoenix-, @sitiom, @VictoriousRaptor and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.16.0

Release Notes

Features

• Improved how we fetch community plugin data, new plugin updates should now arrive on time

• Added Czech and Arabic language support

• New plugin API feature for .Net plugins to monitor when the search window is visible/hidden

• New plugin API feature to manually hide the search window or check its visibility

• New search window animation slider to control how fast you want the animation to appear

• Shell plugin now supports Pwsh (PowerShell 7.x)

• New keyboard shortcut Ctrl + R to refresh results by rerunning the current query

• Clipboard copying functionality has been improved

Bug fixes

• New translation updates

• Fixed result comparison missing AutoComplete and CopyText fields

• Fixed ProcessKiller plugin to honor "Last Query Style" option after killing the process

• Fixed an issue with BrowserBookmarks plugin causing memory leaks on some occasions and locking up bookmark files

• Fixed an issue where auto startup option not working when there are spaces in flow's location path

• Resolved an issue where certain WindowsSettings plugin result fail silently when admin permission is required

• Resolved Plugin Store's refresh button issue causing search to not work after clicking

• Resolved occasional increased CPU and disk usage during Program plugin's startup

Contributions

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

@AlexDavies8, @deefrawley, @Garulf, @JamesNZL, @JohnTheGr8, @ngtr6788, @Odotocodot, @rainyl, @taooceros, @VictoriousRaptor and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.15.0

Release Notes

Features

• Added ability for Program plugin to open parent folder via Ctrl + Enter

• New option for Explorer plugin to open the folder instead of navigating the directry tree when pressing Enter

• The preview window can now be resized by mouse click and drag

• New search window position options

• Explorer plugin's Everything can now sort result based on its file action RunCount

Bug fixes

• Programs in Windows Start menu's startup folder will no longer be shown

• Fix an issue with image caching

• Fixed ProcessKiller plugin not updating its results after killing a process

• Fixed an issue with Files app intergration

• New translation updates

• Fixed Program plugin's duplicate results coming from Windows' registry

• Fixed an occasional problem with notification causing plugins to not install

• Fixed Explorer plugin's recursive search > not excluding whitespaces

• An issue with Plugin Store's version checking has been addressed

• Appearance section now has subtitle 'Theme' added

• An issue with WebSearch's column sorting has been fixed

• An issue for some users where there is no sound on search window activation has been addressed

Contributions

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

@deefrawley, @Garulf, @onesounds, @taooceros, @TheBestPessimist, @VictoriousRaptor, @xtyuns and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.