# Raycast Windows 2.12: 🧮 New Calculator

URL: https://www.raycast.com/changelog/windows/2-12
Released: 2026-11-13

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**A brand new Calculator.** We rebuilt the calculator from scratch. It’s 60x faster and uses 65% less memory, and it understands a lot more. You can ask about the weather, track flights, look up any place and use many more units, functions and phrases. Learn more about the new Calculator on the [Raycast Manual](https://manual.raycast.com/calculator).


## ✨ New

- **Calculator (Weather)**: Ask with `weather in Paris`, `weather tomorrow`, `weather in 4 hours` or `London feels like`, and use the values in calculations, like `temperature in Paris in fahrenheit`
- **Calculator (Flights)**: Track a flight by its number, like `flight BA117`
- **Calculator (Places)**: Look up any place by name, not just big cities, like `time in Chamonix` or `distance from Chamonix to Paris`
- **Calculator (Dates & Time)**: Week numbers (`week 44 2026`), time left (`days left in this month`, `hours left in today`), `days since march`, time zone abbreviations (`4:00 PT in UTC`) and clock math in other places (`time in Brisbane + 4`)
- **Calculator (Functions)**: `e`, `round(23.456, 1)`, function-style lists like `sum(1, 2, 3)` or `max(2 hours 30 min, 200 min)`, rounding to steps (`3.3 to nearest quarter`), fractions (`1.75 as improper`) and any base up to 36
- **Calculator (Money)**: Tips, tax and VAT (`15% tip on $80`, `20% vat in 120`) and bill splitting (`25% off $60 split 3`)
- **Calculator (Units)**: Dozens of new units, physical constants (`speed of light in km/s`), chemistry (`molar mass of C6H12O6`), running pace (`5:00 min/km in km/h`), download times (`transfer 1 TB at 100 Mbps`), musical notes (`c4 to hz`) and text functions (`first 10 characters of "hello"`)
- **Organizations**: Copy an organization's invite link straight from Settings → Organizations with the new Copy Invite Link button

## 💎 Improvements

- **Auto Dark Mode**: Added a **Pause After Manual Changes** option that keeps an appearance you choose yourself until you change it back or the next scheduled switch, with a Resume action to restart the schedule right away
- **AI**: Updated design when dragging files into a chat
- **Calculator**: Improved accuracy. Discounts always subtract, tips always add, `15% decrease from 813` subtracts, unit conversions use exact factors, and negative times and lengths keep their sign.
- **Dictation:** Background audio options now include pausing and lowering audio, instead of solely just muting it.
- **Focus**: Duration fields understand more inputs, like `45m`, `1:30`, `until 3pm` or `by friday`
- **Memory Usage**: Reduced memory usage under the hood by about 25%.
- **Root Search**: When entering text in a field directly in the action panel (like setting an alias, renaming a clipboard entry/file, etc), we now shake the window when attempting to submit an empty value
- **Search Arguments (Design)**: Refreshed design with the command icon and larger fields and fonts, and better use of space so you can see more of your inputs
- **Search Arguments (Errors)**: Errors now only show when you submit
- **Search Arguments (Placeholders)**: The command name now shows as a placeholder next to arguments in every view that uses them, like Search Quicklinks, Snippets, Scripts and AI Commands

## 🐞 Fixes

- **Account**: Fixed a sign-in or sign-out sometimes being undone by a background refresh
- **AI**: Fixed MCP servers you stopped while they were connecting starting again
- **AI Chat**: Fixed sidebar rows appearing in incorrect positions and chats not restoring correctly after unarchiving
- **Calculator**: Fixed the time in another time zone showing your local date instead of that place’s date
- **Clipboard History**: Fixed an issue where the “Paste Sequentially” command wouldn’t retain all representations, thus sometimes dropping links
- **Cloud Sync**: Fixed sync not connecting after joining a VPN that uses a PAC proxy
- **Extensions**: Fixed a crash when an extension cancelled a network request
- **Extensions**: Fixed missing top/bottom padding in the detail view metadata panel
- **Extensions**: Fixed wrong ellipsis cutoff in detail view metadata when an icon is present
- **Hotkeys**: Fixed modifier keys sometimes staying stuck after an interrupted hotkey gesture
- **Hotkeys**: Fixed keyboard input staying blocked across the system if Raycast crashed while recording a hotkey
- **HUD**: Fixed an issue where huds from the main window would sometimes not adapt to the current appearance (light/dark) making the text unreadable
- **Root Search**: Fixed a bug where pressing escape to close a search argument dropdown would sometimes dismiss the window
- **Script Commands**: Fixed `.bat` scripts in folders with spaces failing when an argument needed quoting. Arguments are now passed more safely, and a missing interpreter shows a clear error.
- **Snippets**: Fixed placeholders not being replaced when a link split them or when they were inside a link’s URL. Nested snippets now keep their formatting and links too.
- **System**: Fixed Raycast moving to another monitor when opened again while already focused
- **System**: Fixed some windows, like apps launched from the Microsoft Store or the Open With dialog, not coming to the front when activated from Raycast
- **System**: Fixed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth commands sometimes failing to load after waking from sleep
- **UI**: Fixed an issue where very long tags could overflow the tag picker