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.

v1.14.1

Release Notes

Hotfix release

This is a hotfix release to address an issue causing Everything search engine to not be usable and plugins not installing properly. We think this issue is caused by Windows update to 10.0.22621.1413 or 10.0.22621.1485 and prior versions should not be affected.

Please note only if you are having the issue, after installing this hotfix you will not be able to see any notifications from Flow but Everything and plugins should start working. This is temporary while we investigate and resolve the root cause.

• Fix Windows 11 22H2 (22621) notification error

• Fix legacy notification not working on some Win 10 and below machines

Contributions

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

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

v1.14.0

Release Notes

Features

• Added custom Firefox browser support

• UI Improvement in Bookmarks plugin for managing custom browsers

Bug fixes

• Explorer plugin's Everything full path search can now be toggled on/off

• Adjusted sidebar texts in flow's settings window

• Fixed Sys plugin to show full path on delete confirm dialog

• Additional fixes for compatible preview hotkeys

• Translation fixes

Contributions

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

@guilherssousa, @Joehoel, @taooceros, @onesounds, @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 @TheBestPessimist for sponsoring us! ❤️

v1.13.0

Release Notes

Features

• Everything search in Explorer plugin can now match the full path of a file, e.g. typing 'wall arts' will match file path D:/all/wallpapers/artstation/

• Updated Flow's target framework to .Net 7

Bug fixes

• Adjusted plugin download success message to show the plugin name

• Adjusted the default action keyword for Plugin Indicator to '?'

• Adjusted Program plugin to read the list of programs from Start Menu folder instead of Start Menu/Programs

• Fixed backup settings load error when the original file doesn't exist

• Fixed Explorer plugin delete function's missing language key

• Fixed Custom Query Hotkey error when an invalid hokey is inputted

• Fixed Program plugin's auto-complete function

Contributions

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

@taooceros, @TheBestPessimist, @VictoriousRaptor, @z1nc0r3 and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.12.1

Release Notes

Theming

We have discovered and corrected a misspelled key in some of the theme files - updated BaseItemHotkeySelecetedStyle to BaseItemHotkeySelectedStyle. Going forward the incorrect BaseItemHotkeySelecetedStyle key will be removed, which will then break themes that are still using the incorrect key. If you have custom themes please do a quick find for this key and correct it.

Bug fixes

• Addressed an issue with saving settings files in v1.12.0 for new installations

Contributions

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

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

v1.12.0

Release Notes

Theming

We have discovered and corrected a misspelled key in some of the theme files - updated BaseItemHotkeySelecetedStyle to BaseItemHotkeySelectedStyle. Going forward the incorrect BaseItemHotkeySelecetedStyle key will be removed, which will then break themes that are still using it. If you have custom themes please do a quick find for this key and correct it.

Features

• Added ability to adjust the result height and icon size via theme file

• Added ability to search for localized program names via the Program plugin

• Added ability to insert the path of an active Explorer.exe window into Flow's search window via the builtin shortcut {active_explorer_path}

Bug fixes

• Maximum 100 and Minimum -100 values have been added to disallow going above or below when setting the priority value for a plugin.

• New translations have been added from Crowdin

• Plugin name can now be searched by Plugin Indicator to find the action keyword

• Hotkey validation has been added to prevent selecting unsupported keys

• Settings reset issue for some users have been addressed

• Log Off command from Sys plugin will now prompt before executing

• The issue where Flow terminates silently during auto updating has been addressed

• Glyph icons have been added for Explorer's 'Open With Shell' and 'Open With Editor' functionalities

• Refactored clear log folder logic

• Fixed Explorer plugin crashing when first input is colon ':'

• Fixed how Explorer plugin treats environment variables and only expand when path starts with %

• Fixed misspelled style key in theme files

• Addressed a error where exception was caused when killing unused JSON-RPC process

• Addressed an issue where Explorer plugin does not honour the UseLocationAsWorkingDir setting

• Addressed the logic how the Program plugin displays program descriptions

• Fixed many typos

Contributions

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

@onesounds, @stefnotch, @taooceros, @VictoriousRaptor, @z1nc0r3 and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.11.0

Release Notes

Plugin development

For plugins written in TypeScript or JavaScript, Flow now supports automatic Node.js environment setup. This means once you specify in your plugin.json file the 'Language' as JavaScript or TypeScript and the 'ExecuteFileName' to the path of your main.js/main.ts file, Flow will automatically download, extract and setup the zip version of Node.js to the Environment folder inside user data directory. Manual download and install is no longer required by users.

Features

• Preview panel toggle hotkey is now configurable

• New option to always be in English IME when typing in the search window

• New Explorer plugin option to select an editor for opening folders

• New clock formats 'hh:mm:ss tt' and 'HH:mm:ss' have been added

• Added an option for Program plugin to enable/disable UWP apps indexing

• Added support for Node.js environment setup

Bug fixes

• Fixed ImageCache when loading full image

• Fixed some typos

• Updated Explorer plugin's description

• Fixed quick access path search and autocomplete

• For Windows Settings plugin fixed failure to launch the diskmgmt item due to administrator privilege requirement

• Fixed an issue where after editing a Custom Query Shortcut then immediately unable to edit any other shortcut

• Disabled PATH option in Program plugin by default

• Fixed incorrect Everything service not available warning

• Explorer plugin drive space and open current folder result texts are now translatable

• Refactored Toggle Game Mode logic

• Removed duplicated Korean language key

• Fixed error when using shortcut expansion

• Changed Program plugin's all programs heading label from 'Enable' to 'Status'

• Fixed some texts and other minor issues in Explorer plugin

• Translations have been updated

Contributions

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

@fihorvat, @onesounds, @sitiom, @taooceros, @VictoriousRaptor, @z1nc0r3 and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.

v1.10.1

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where typing anything will cause a crash due to Windows Search service being disabled

• Fixed progress bar size and result list's margin during loading of results when used with preview panel

• Fixed env paths search

• Fixed a bottom margin issue when result loading is in progress

• Fixed Explorer context menu's opening with editor error when file path containing blanks

• Translations have been updated

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.

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

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! ❤️