Changelog

The Keyboard Shortcut infrastructure has been revamped to support more shortcut types and multiple keyboard layouts. The User Interface for setting shortcuts has also been updated to allow for greater interaction. You can now differentiate between left, right, or any modifier; change the targeted keys to make them layout-dependent or independent; and support double-tap modifier shortcuts.

Please note that we are migrating your hotkey data into a new data structure. While we have tried to cover all edge cases, there is a possibility that some hotkey information may be lost. We are also aware some users are experiencing issues with software that creates virtual key presses or modifies keyboard state. This update doesn’t resolve those problems, but we are investigating them.

✨ New

• Clipboard History: Added a new Copy Formatted JSON action.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Delete Entries… action with further options to delete recent entries (Last 5 Minutes, Last 15 Minutes, Last 30 Minutes, Last Hour, Last 24 Hours)
• File Search: Added a new Open in Terminal action.
• General: All list-based components now support number hotkeys to trigger the nth item (eg. CTRL + 3 will trigger the 3rd item). This works in all list views as well as all menus.
• Settings: New UI for assigning Hotkeys.
• Settings: Support for double-tap modifier shortcuts.
• Settings: Support for specific modifier selection (any, left, or right)
• Settings: Support for selecting a key equivalent or layout independent key.
• Store: Filter extensions by category.
• System: Show value of Increase/Decrease Volume commands in notifications.

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: Improved performance for large text entries.
• File Search: Improved performance for large text files.
• Root Search: More relevant suggested commands in Root Search based on usage.
• Settings: The hotkey view now supports more filters (e.g. enabled, disabled).

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: fixed an issue where sometimes applications are missing and added better diagnostic logs if it’s still there.
• Clipboard History: Fixed behavior of pasting from Clipboard History, the last pasted content now will correctly remain in the OS clipboard, ready to be pasted again.
• Clipboard History: Fixed a titling issue when copying very large single-line text.
• Clipboard History: Reduced the numbers of errors in details panel.
• Clipboard History: Fixed a few regressions around being able to preview images/screenshots.
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where history would be enabled with an arrow up key repeat.
• Root Search: Removed duplicate Configure Extension action on file items.
• Root Search: Removed some duplicate actions on Quicklink items.
• Root Search: Fixed an issue when Root Search history wasn’t working with ArrowUp from compact mode.
• Store: Fixed wrong icon on Open Command action.

✨ New

• Root Search: You can now go back to previous searches by pressing the ArrowUp key
• Root Search: Added a new Uninstall Application action for applications
• Root Search: Added a new Disable command action
• Root Search: Added a new Copy Raycast version command to help with logging issues on Featurebase

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: non-qualified links are now categorised/previewed correctly
• General: Scrollbar UI was simplified
• Quicklinks: User-created Quicklinks are now separated from normal commands in settings

🐞 Fixes

• Clipboard History: Fixed ‘Paste as plain text’ shortcut not working
• General: Fixed an issue where sometimes the top items of dropdown could not be clicked
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where some images (data uri) wouldn’t load in a Detail view
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where a Toast or HUD could linger off after an command was done
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where getAllApplications would return an empty array when called with a path to a directory
• General: Improved Raycast memory consumption by not keeping the Settings Window in memory
• Onboarding: Welcome window now adapts to low-resolution displays and updates when the display changes
• Snippets: Text is now selectable in the snippet preview
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where a local extension could appear twice int he root search

Starting today, power users and developers can spin up custom extensions on Windows. We’ve added a set of new commands that make scaffolding, developing, and testing extensions on Windows easier. Whether you’re wiring up internal APIs, adding quick actions for your daily tasks, or experimenting with AI-powered flows, you’ll be up and running in minutes, just follow the guide!

✨ New

• Extensions: Added a new Create Extension command
• Extensions: Added a new Import Extension command
• Extensions: Added a new Fork Extension action
• Dynamic Placeholders: Added a new {calculator} dynamic placeholder

💎 Improvements

• Extensions: When an issue occurs in an extension, you’ll be able to report it to the extension’s author and contributors
• Extensions: When an issue occurs in a local extension, you’ll be able to see both the React Component stack trace as well as the JavaScript stack trace
• Store: Improve sorting of extensions

🐞 Fixes

• Calculator: Fixed a crash due to an unsupported timezone format
• Extensions: Fixed an crash with the CopyName common shortcut
• File Search: Removed displaying empty size for folders
• Root Search: Ensured we get out of compact mode when an alert needs showing
• Settings: Fixed an issue where the caret would jump to the end of some inputs when editing text
• Dynamic Placeholders: Fixed the {selection} placeholder not being recognised

The search algorithm now takes into account the terms that were used to open previous commands. It will prioritize commands that you already opened with a given search term making results more relevant.

✨ New

• Dynamic Placeholders: You can now use modifiers in dynamic placeholders
• Extensions: Allow installing extensions from your organisation store
• Extensions: You can now install extensions from the web store

💎 Improvements

• Quick AI: Improved rendering of partial response while it is streaming in, especially for citations
• Quick AI: When changing the AI model, models are grouped by brand

🐞 Fixes

• Root Search: Applications are now discovered and cleared as they are installed or uninstalled as intended
• File Search: The “Exclude from index” action now works as intended
• Quick AI: Fix vertical alignment of citations without a favicon
• General: Do not copy emoji to the Clipboard when pasting the emoji
• Extensions: Fix an issue where some text could be lost when typing in a textarea
• Extensions: Fix an issue where Raycast would lose focus when showing the required preferences screen

We are happy to introduce a new and faster file system indexer for Windows. By enabling this feature, you can enjoy faster indexing of your local NTFS drives. Other drives will be indexed with the default indexer.

You can enable it via Settings > File Search > Use Fast File Scanner.

Please note that enabling or disabling this feature requires administrator privileges.

✨ New

• File Search: a new, experimental “Fast File Scanner” is now available via File Search Settings.

💎 Improvements

• Calculator: Support more complex syntax like time in 4 hours, time in 7 hours in San Francisco, or 1 week ago @ 19:30.
• Calculator: Support for percentage elapsed in calendar units (e.g. year percentage, month percentage, etc.).
• Calculator: Support more shorthand units like mo for months, yr for year, and deg for degrees.
• Calculator: Support for units without spaces (e.g. 1kUSD).
• Emoji Picker: Added a colorful, new selection state, making it even more fun to use
• Quick AI: Partial responses look smoother while content is streaming in by handling incomplete Markdown syntax

🐞 Fixes

• Clipboard: Fixed clipboard locking when copying from ShareX, Flow Launcher, and some other apps
• File Search: It’s now possible to trigger re-indexing manually if there are no results
• General: Fixed the “Copy Path” command for applications
• General: Fixed the wrong size and position when switching between different displays and DPIs
• General: Removed the Use System CAs option, this is now always the case
• HUD: Do not show HUD in the Window Switcher
• Extensions: Fix an issue where resetting a form item value after submitting the form wouldn’t reset to the correct value
• Extensions: Fix an issue where you’d have to change the value of a search bar dropdown before it would be used
• Extensions: Fix an issue where the actions shown for an empty view would be incorrect

🐞 Fixes

• Quick AI: Fixed an issue that prevented follow-up actions from being executed
• Quick AI: Fixed reasoning getting stuck in a loading state in some cases

🐞 Fixes

• Quicklinks: Fixed an issue where arguments weren’t enforced when executing a Quicklink command.
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where items with spaces in alias would not be ranked first when searching for the alias.
• Root Search: Relaxed auto-activating of aliased commands when pressing “Space” after the alias.
• Store: Fixed “Install Extension” action shortcut.

💎 Improvements

• General: Tweak the Raycast window position

🐞 Fixes

• Application Hotkeys: Fixed an issue where restarting Raycast would sometimes remove your saved application hotkey.
• Connection Settings: Proxy URLs are now handled properly regardless of whether they specify a protocol or not.

We are transitioning into beta and in the coming days we will start a slow rollout to our waitlist. This release includes branding changes and a load of final touches and polish to take our app into this next phase.

✨ New

• Onboarding: Shipped a new onboarding flow
• Quicklinks: Added the ability to import Quicklinks
• Snippets: Added the ability to import Snippets
• Favicon Provider: We added a new setting to let you pick your favicon provider or disable it altogether, allowing you to balance user experience and privacy. You can configure it via Raycast Settings → General → Favicon Provider.
• Feedback: Our feedback command now uses Featurebase to collate feedback

💎 Improvements

• Installer: We updated our installer to include all the required libraries.
• Design: Added new command icons for core Raycast features.
• Shortcuts: We change our delete shortcut to use the D key instead of delete to prevent conflicts with some editors and made this consistent through the app.

🐞 Fixes

• Hotkeys: Deleting an application with a hotkey will release the hotkey to be used elsewhere

🧠 Quick AI

Need a quick answer? Quick AI is here to help! Just open Raycast, type your question, and press Tab to get the response. Whether it’s a programming question, content iteration, or a dinner recommendation — it’s all just a Tab away.

We introduced Quick AI on macOS two years ago and we are now bringing it to Raycast on Windows. During the Beta phase, we are giving all testers free access to Quick AI, along with the ability to use the AI models available in our Pro subscription. You can switch between available AI models in Settings.

This is just the first step in bringing Raycast’s powerful AI tools to Windows. We will improve Quick AI along the way and gradually start adding more of our advanced features such as AI Chat, AI Commands, AI Extensions, and others into the Windows experience.

✨ New

• Snippets and Quicklinks: You can now add dynamic placeholders to Snippets and Quicklinks. Initial support includes the Clipboard, UUID, Date, Date Time, Day, Time. Quicklinks also support Arguments.
• Extensions: We have added a load of new extensions, including Linear, Github, Notion, Slack, Google Translate and Youtube amongst others. Go check them out in the Store.
• Settings: You can now assign hotkey and aliases to system settings
• Snippets: Snippets now support rich text editing (bold, italics, strike-through, underline)
• Root search: Added a command ‘Copy Raycast Logs’ to copy your most recent two log files to the clipboard
• Root search: Control panel now appears as an application in root search
• Root search: Added a command to reset your Raycast Windows called ‘Reset Raycast Window Position’

💎 Improvements

• General: Improved focus management in the main window
• Calculator: Improved speed and performance
• Navigation: When deleting a search term, backspace doesn’t navigate back immediately after deleting the last character. Instead, you have to release the backspace key and press again to navigate back
• Navigation: Added shortcuts for the various copy actions found in the actions panel
• Navigation: Your Raycast window position will default to the center of your focused screen and remember where you last placed it
• General: Text is now selectable/copyable in certain places (clipboard, file search, changelog, etc)

🐞 Fixes

• Hotkeys: Raycast will now correctly pop up when you use a hotkey for a command that contains an alert
• Root search: Fixed an issue with Adobe not launching after opening it in Raycast
• Root search: Fixed fallback searches not working in other languages
• Calculator: Now takes into account your timezone and locale
• Calculator: Fixed visual of calculator item when not selected
• General: Fixed an issue where one could open multiple panels at once
• File search: Ensured recent files is refreshed in root search when deleting an entry