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### Via GitHub with EXE [Recommended]
Install from the [Microsoft PowerToys GitHub releases page][github-release-link]. Click on `Assets` to show the files available in the release and then click on `PowerToysSetup-0.21.1-x64.exe` to download the PowerToys installer.
Install from the [Microsoft PowerToys GitHub releases page][github-release-link]. Click on `Assets` to show the files available in the release and then click on `PowerToysSetup-0.23.0-x64.exe` to download the PowerToys installer.
This is our preferred method.
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## What's Happening
### August 2020 Update
### September 2020 Update
Our goals for 0.21 release cycle was to focus on stability, localization and quality of life improvements for both the development team and our end users.
Our goals for 0.23 release cycle was to focus on stability, accessibility, localization and quality of life improvements for both the development team and our end users. We have a full accessibility pass being done starting end of September to audit all of PowerToys. Our localization efforts now had data flowing both directions as well.
One of the longer term goal items we have made progress on is the Out of Box experience / initial onboarding experience (OOBE) improvements.[@Niels9001](https://github.com/niels9001/) created a [wicked awesome proof of concept of what the OOBE experience could be](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/1285#issuecomment-679268558). We are pretty stoked about this since it handles one an important item, critical shortcut default adjustments.
Our [prioritized roadmap][roadmap] of features and utilites that the core team is focusing on.
#### Highlights from August
#### Highlights from September
- We shipped [v0.21][github-release-link]!
- [Video conference muting first public release][vidConfOverview]
- We shipped [v0.23][github-release-link]! (0.24 Experimental build coming shortly)
**PT Run:**
- Removed need for space in action keywords. This means you now can type `>ipconfig`
- Icon caches fixed and now has colored icons
- Improved font rendering via ClearType (Shout out to [@AnuthaDev](https://github.com/AnuthaDev) doing the heavy lifting here)
- Result speed improvements
- URLs are supported
- Fixed bugs including calculating bugs
**General**
**FancyZone:**
- <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>Arrow key</kbd> is directional based on zone rect
- Fixed bugs
- Localization pipeline is flowing from our Github to the loc system and back. 0.25 should be localized now.
- The EXE installer should be at parity now with the MSI. Please go to the wiki for [installer args](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/Installer-arguments-for-exe)
**Runner:**
- Fixed toast notifications running elevated from non-admin account
**FancyZones**
**Shortcut Guide:**
- Improved vkey catching which will fix some use cases of it not showing up
- Fixed bug on not seeing a newly attached screen
- Fixed spanning across monitors bug
- Added in default layout for new users, a Priority Grid
- Added keyboard support to grow / shrink to multiple zones
- General bug fixes
**SVG in File Explorer:**
- Embedded image tags will now render in Explorer
**PT Run**
**Color Picker:**
- Fixed bug where it would launch via false positive keystrokes
- Multiple crash bugs fixed. Prioritized any users reported along with top hits from Watson reporting
- Stopped PT Run from interfering with an install
- Fixed folder bug if it had a # in it (Thanks @jjw24 for the PR!)
- Fixed a screen flicker for
- General bug fixes
**Accessibility:**
- Settings, PT Run and KBM undergoing improvements
**Keyboard manager**
**Localization:**
- Pipeline is now setup and will be doing a full E2E pass on all utilities shortly.
- Multiple crash bugs fixed. Prioritized any users reported along with top hits from Watson reporting
- Fixed multiple accessibility issues.
- General bug fixes
**Dev quality of life improvements:**
- Continued warning count reduction. This release ~80 removed
- StyleCop enabled E2E
- FxCop starting to be added in E2E
**Preview Pane**
#### New experiential PowerToys utility - Video conference muting:
- Added in Frontmatter and better (but still basic) latex support.
**Note:** This is only included in the [pre-release version of PowerToys installer][github-prerelease-link]. This PowerToy requires Windows 10 1903 (build 18362) or later.
**Settings**
Back in the June timeframe, we started prototyping an idea. With COVID-19, we're all multi-tasking and trying to make the best of everything and being able to quickly mute while on a conference call is critical regardless of where you are on your computer and what application has focus.
- Fixed scaling issue for responsive design on Image Resizer
- Fixed crash on empty color value.
- Fixed crash for toggling FancyZones on/off
- Fixed 0x00 NFTS crash for settings
- Fixed multiple accessibility issues.
- Layout adjustments (Thanks @niels9001)
- General bug fixes
The utility will mute not just your audio but your video as well with a single keystroke. You can do audio, video both. We knew this would impact our roadmap and goals but felt extremely strong that this is the right decision. We're all multi-tasking and trying to make the best of everything and being able to quickly mute while on a conference call is critical regardless of where you are on your computer.
**Dev related**
We know we have some issues and we have a [master tracking issue - #6246](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/6246). We know a certain laptops currently the video forwarding does not work and are proactively working on fixing this.
- FxCop is being rolled out across all PowerToys. This should catch a lot of possible leaks.
- Unified PT Run's log system
- PT Run's calc plugin now has unit tests (Thanks @P-Storm)
- Dev setup install script now supports VS preview (Thanks @TobiasSekan)
- @CaelestisZ, @kameshkotwani, @adriancampos, @RahulDas782 for doc tweaks
- Thanks @Aaron-Junker, @jay-o-way and @htcfreek for helping triage!
- Thanks for everyone that filled an issue. It really does help us prioritize
To use:
#### Experiential PowerToys utility - Video conference muting:
- Set your camera to the PowerToys Video driver in the target application
- <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>N</kbd> to toggle both Audio and Video at the same time
- <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>O</kbd> to toggle video
- <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>A</kbd> to toggle microphone
We'll ship the 0.24 experiential build shortly which will include all improvements from 0.23 in addition to the Video conference utility.
#### Video / GIF capture functional spec for public review
For a more information, head over to the [Video conference mute overview][vidConfOverview]
Deondre Davis created our [functional spec for creating a light weight, video / GIF recording tool](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/6900). We encourage everyone to review it and please leave comments in the pull request so we can adjust as needed. We'll be closing it for feedback on October 12th, 2020.
### What is being planned for 0.23
This is for work [post-stabilization of current roadmap work](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/Roadmap#post-stabilization) and is only the spec for what we are thinking about support. Just want to set expectations here.
For [0.23](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+project%3Amicrosoft%2FPowerToys%2F12), we are proactively working on:
### What is being planned for 0.25
For [0.25](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+project%3Amicrosoft%2FPowerToys%2F13), we are proactively working on:
- Stability
- Localization
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### PowerToys roadmap
Our [prioritized roadmap][roadmap] of features and utilites that the core team is focusing on..
Our [prioritized roadmap][roadmap] of features and utilites that the core team is focusing on.
## Developer Guidance