v1.7.1

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where PluginsManager is unable install downloaded plugin due to Flow being in a location other than C drive
• Fixed an issue where plugins using the JsonRPCModel would error out
• Fixed some Slovak translations
• Updated Web Site icon image in PluginsManager context menu to use the Plugin's icon
• Fixed the issue where uninstalling plugin does not remove its entry in Flow's settings
• Fixed scaling issue with Flow's setting's icon

v1.7.0

Release Notes

Features

• Added search using acronyms
• Add and remove files or folders in Explorer's Quick Access via context menu, you can now also launch Quick Access files
• Added additional functionalities to Flow's IPlugin interface, this means plugins can all utilise:
  • FuzzySearch to search for user's query against strings and text
  • Http.GetAsync, Http.GetStreamAsync and Http.DownloadAsync to download from the web
  • Plugins can also use add & remove ActionKeyword fuctionalities
• Improve Explorer plugin's handling of long running files and folders search, additionally enhanced result list update speed
• Hide Flow's progress bar when search window is hidden
• Auto re-index Programs plugin when re-index has not run for more than 3 days
• New themes Nord, Nord Darker and BlurBlack Darker
• Improved the logic for how search results are rendered and new results are added to the results list
• Added plugin priority setting, you can now set the priority of each plugin's result manually
• Added ability to manually reload the plugin manifest list, use reload plugin data
• Updated to avoid the task allocation during image processing
• Improved search window's icon(magnifying glass) rendering and quality
• Improved plugin's asynchronous operations and introduced new async interfaces
• Create and deploy releases from CI
• Upgraded the library used to load settings
• Added Slovak translation for PluginsManager

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue where the query c:\> does not use directory search
• Fixed missing translation files
• Use wildcard to include images in projects
• Fixed error causing PluginsManager unable to install plugins
• Added additional error handling and error logging when updating/downloading plugins #270
• Fixed several untranslatable settings text
• Fixed Slovak translation for settings, Url and WebSearch plugins text
• Fixed Http Proxy not initilized at startup and not working in some case.
• Fixed Explorer not opening folder path correctly when path contains a comma

v1.6.0

Release Notes

Features

• New website https://flow-launcher.github.io
• Enhance Pinyin search, now with more precision when using acronyms
• User made plugins are now available to download:
  • Added new PluginsManager plugin for managing the installing, uninstalling and updating of community-made plugins
  • Use hotkeys pm install, pm update and pm uninstall
  • Have a plugin you would like to share, or making one yourself? Head over to the PluginsManifest repo to submit it
  • Use context menu to go see plugin's website, source code or make an enhancement/bug fix request directly with the plugin developer
  • Archived the old PluginManagement plugin
• Improved web connection method for general connections and when via a proxy
• Color plugin has been moved out of Flow as a default plugin, and is available for download via pm install instead
• Added search suggestions from Bing

Bug Fixes

• Polished up Slovak translation on plugins
• Fixed image flickering on results list
• Fixed Python plugin support via JsonRPC.Python:
  • The Python API is now available via PyPI pip install flowlauncher
  • For details of the py support see https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher.JsonRPC.Python
• Fixed tray menu translation not updating
• Added notification when version update failed instead of just writing to log

v1.5.0

Release Notes

Features

• Improved the way Flow opens URLs:

  • The default web browser set on the computer will now be used.

  • URLs in Flow's settings will open as a new browser tab instead of window

• Added Slovak translations for plugins

• Added a quick link to open custom theme folder

Bug Fixes

• Fixed unauthorised access to directory causing Flow to quit loading Win32 apps altogether in Program plugin

v1.4.0

Release Notes

Features

• Upgraded Pinyin library to ToolGood.Words:

  • Store whole Chinese words instead of individual characters

  • No longer saves cache on disk

• For Program plugin, added ability to open containing folder using custom app + args, eg. Total Commander

• Improved Program plugin:

  • Optimized the querying of programs in Program plugin by using generics to concatenate Win32 and UWP apps.

  • Removed duplicate fuzzy search calls.

  • Greatly improved indexing speed by changing how Directory enumerates.

Bug fixes

• Added loading of Edge Dev bookmarks and fixed scoring based on fuzzy search

• Improve memory consumption by limiting number of images preloaded in memory:

  • Addressing the unnecessary high memory caused by improperly handling of image caching.

  • Set maximum number of images cached to 50 from 5000.

  • Clean up by removing infrequently used images from dictionary once they go over permissible factor (2) X number of images (50).

• Fix plugin dependency loading and remove excess duplicate package references:

  • Added a custom assembly loader for plugins and resolve any of the plugin's dependent assemblies to load from the plugin's own directory, or if the assembly exists with Flow.Launcher.Plugin then use the assembly there.

  • Added Directory.Build.targets so default plugins will automatically look to Flow.Launcher.Plugin's referenced packages if not available in the local plugin folder.

  • Used CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies=true in project file for both default and future external plugins so all referenced assemblies in the plugin are outputted and available for the main application to point to.

Note:
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v1.3.1

Release Notes

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Bug fixes

• Fixed encoding error when user's input is GB2312(Simplified Chinese)

• Fixed Calculator plugin copy error when Window's Clipboard is opened by another resource at the same time

v1.3.0

Release Notes

Features

• Added new icon for missing thumbnail image in search result instead of the error icon

• ProcessKiller plugin's result is now sorted in ascending order by title

• ProcessKiller kill all functionality enhancements

  • Do not show a "kill all instances" item in the context-menu of "kill all X processes"
  • Show name of the process when kill all is available and show the number of process that will be terminated
  • Hide the "kill all instances of X process" option when the associated executable path is empty

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with Explorer's directory search when the file or folder has '#' in its name resulting in broken path display and unable to open

• Fixed various unintended behaviours around Explorer's search

  • Fixed Quick Folder Access not triggering

  • Fixed behaviour to continue searching for files and folders using index search even when a match is found in Quick Folder Access list. This helps if user wants file/folder that has the same name in Quick Folder Access list but in different location

  • Prevent user from using global action keyword for content search

  • Exclude from Index Search when only '_' is typed

  • Fixed file extension search using '*' failing/not returning results

• Fixed method typos in Flow.Launcher.Plugin

v1.2.1

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Fix navigation to localized path when using Explorer plugin

• Fix environment variables not working, including %homepath%, %homedrive% and %systemdrive%.

v1.2.0

Release Notes

Features

Plugin:

• Added file content search for Explorer plugin. Search contents of .docx, .pdf, .txt and etc documents with the new hotkey doc:

• Added support for Microsoft Edge bookmarks in BrowserBookmarks plugin

• WebSearch will no longer activate for directory/network paths queries

• Removed Everything from default plugins as its core functionalities are superseded by Explorer plugin. Everything plugin's new location here

UI:

• Improvements to set browser path text boxes

• Removed the success message box after saving/changing custom query hotkey or plugin hotkey

General:

• Added messages to indicate version upgrade progress

• Cleaned up obsolete methods, properties and classes

Bug fixes

UI:

• Fixed several settings in General and Hotkey tabs to take effect without requiring a restart

• Fixed auto-suggestions font color for BlurWhite theme

• Fixed missing result list in theme preview in Theme tab

v1.1.2

Release Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue where BlurBlack theme auto-suggestion text color is not easy to read