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Dev Home Preview v0.1801.640.0

02 Oct 22:05
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This is a patch release for version 0.18 of Dev Home. Here are the fixes:

Bug fixes

  • The SSH wallet widget should no longer crash Dev Home. (#3895)

Dev Home Preview v0.18

17 Sep 17:36
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Welcome to version 0.18 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on adding File Explorer source control integration, code health, and quality improvements! Check them out:

Accessibility fixes

  • Narrator should now read out content when the "committing changes" dialog appears on the Virtualization feature management page in Windows customization. (#3640)
  • Environments cards now have a higher contrast. (#3808)

Changes

  • File Explorer source control integration is now available as an experimental feature in Windows Insider Program Dev (26120.1620+) and Beta (22635.4082+) channels. You can register repository folders using Dev Home to see source control content in File Explorer, such as branch name, status, last change message, etc. (#3542)
  • When enabling an experimental feature, you can now navigate directly to where that feature lives (Thanks @davidegiacometti!). (#3595)
  • Project Ironsides has been renamed to Dev Diagnostics. (#3738)
  • The WSL extension should now use your default terminal to launch and install distros. (#3742)

Bug fixes

  • You should now be able to add a standard user account to the Hyper-V Administrator group when elevating using a separate admin account. (#3589)
  • Navigating away from the dashboard should no longer crash Dev Home. (#3619)
  • You can now create multiple Hyper-V VMs at the same time in Environments. (#3687)
  • Errors have been fixed when creating a WSL environment. (#3743)
  • Windows customization should now respect Dev Home's theme. (#3750)
  • The SSH wallet widget should now update when the config file changes. (#3850)

Dev Home Preview v0.17

21 Aug 20:39
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Welcome to version 0.17 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on code health and quality improvements! Check them out:

Accessibility fixes

  • Widgets can now be rearranged with the keyboard (Alt+Shift+Arrow Keys). (#3426)
  • Narrator should now announce the information button next to "Generate Configuration file" and the content in its teaching tip within Machine Configuration. (#3497)
  • Narrator should now announce when you click the "remove all" button on the Install Applications page. (#3605)

Changes

  • You can now configure an environment from the Environments page. (#3492)

Bug fixes

  • Disabling an extension now hides its widgets. (#3253)
  • The summary view for configuration files should now load much faster. (#3397)
  • The maximized state should no longer be lost when launching a second instance (Thanks @davidegiacometti!). (#3437)
  • The Dev Home process should now fully terminate the Dev Home process. (#3524)
  • The correct user should now be added when adding yourself to the Hyper-V admin group. (#3532)
    • Dev Home should no longer crash when navigating away from the Dashboard while widgets were still loading. (#3587)
  • Pinned WinGet packages should now load in the Install Applications page. (#3596)

Dev Home Preview v0.16

18 Jul 15:52
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Welcome to version 0.16 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on code health, quality improvements, and adding new features! Check them out:

Accessibility fixes

  • Narrator should now properly announce the progress bar and loading screen messages when installing apps. (#3271) (#3274)

Changes

  • You can now add external tools to Project Ironsides from the list of installed apps along with .bat, .cmd, .ps1, and .msc files. (#3255) (#3406)
  • General system and virtualization feature settings are now available in Windows customization. (#3268)
  • Dev Drive insights folder path is now prepopulated (Thanks @willibrandon!). (#3287)
  • WSL is now available as an environment type in Environments (Thanks @crramirez!). (#3365)

Bug fixes

  • Disabling an extension will now hide its widgets from the dashboard. (#3253)
  • There should no longer be an error due to localization for adding a user to the Hyper-V administrators group (Thanks @MJECloud!). (#3373)

Dev Home Preview v0.15

19 Jun 20:06
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Welcome to version 0.15 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on quality improvements and adding new features! Check them out:

Accessibility fixes

  • Narrator should now announce proper content within the Environments flow. (#2986)
  • The Winget configuration and app install flows should be much more accessible now. (#2991)
  • Text in the add widget dialog and environments page should no longer get cut off. (#3009) (#3167)
  • Narrator should now announce errors in widgets. (#3023)
  • Machine configuration should now be fully navigable with arrow keys. (#3119)

Changes

  • You can now configure the SSH keychain widget with using a file picker, rather than manually typing in the path. (#2477)
  • SSH keychain widget now shows entries with multiple Host aliases (Thanks @gohellp!). (#2664)
  • You can now use the application install flow via a URI protocol, allowing you to programmatically install apps through Dev Home. (#2733)
  • Project Ironsides is now available as an experimental feature, intended to help you identify problems with applications and help provide solutions. (#2887)
  • You should now see an error in Dev Home if an environment fails to be created. (#3149)

Bug fixes

  • Launching a project from Quickstart Playground should no longer launch to a stale project. (#2930)
  • Sentence structure is now more consistent throughout Dev Home (Thanks @AndrewKeepCoding!). (#2988)
  • Environments search area should now be properly vertically aligned (Thanks @AndrewKeepCoding!). (#3002)
  • Dev Home should no longer crash when opening a content dialog at 200% text scaling. (#3020)

Dev Home Preview v0.14

23 May 14:05
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Welcome to version 0.14 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on quality improvements and adding new features! Check them out:

Accessibility fixes

  • Text on widgets should no longer get cut off when scaling changes. (#2723)
  • Dev Home should no longer crash when in high contrast on the Introducing Dev Home page. (#2788)
  • The add widget dialog now has tooltips. (#2908)

Changes

  • Utilities are now in Dev Home, including Hosts File Editor, Registry Preview, and Environment Variables editor from PowerToys. (#2795)
  • Environments is no longer marked as an experimental feature. (#2811)
  • Quickstart playground is now available as an experimental feature, providing a containerized way of creating development projects using AI. (#2846)
  • Hyper-V VMs in environments are not currently available on ARM. (#2858)

Bug fixes

  • Links within Dev Drive insights should now work properly. (#2803)
  • Deleting a running Hyper-V VM should no longer cause a crash. (#2880)
  • You should now be able to pin widgets after unpinning all of your widgets. (#2687)
  • Dev Home should no longer crash when updating environments page. (#2950)

Dev Home Preview v0.13

23 Apr 18:13
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Welcome to version 0.13 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on adding new features! Check them out:

Accessibility fixes

  • Narrator should now announce the headings of button groups and repository names within Machine Configuration. (#2490)
  • Narrator should now announce the titles of the banners. (#2510)
  • The popular apps pane should now look better in high contrast and Narrator should now read the class name instead of the settings card header in Machine Configuration. (#2516)
  • Widgets should now look better in high contrast. (#2522)
  • Narrator should now announce when a widget is removed from the dashboard. (#2537)
  • Narrator should now announce the name of the Dashboard page. (#2545)
  • You can now select widget size while now in scan mode. (#2555)
  • Extensions page should no longer have clipped text. (#2612)
  • The Learn more link on the Introducing Dev Home page should no longer get cut off. (#2691)

Changes

  • The memory widget now displays utilization percentage (Thanks @Gobinath-B!). (#2335)
  • Environments are now available in Dev Home, providing the ability to create, manage, and configure Hyper-V VMs and Microsoft Dev Boxes. (#2346) (#2438) (#2493) (#2639)
  • Files ending in *.winget can now activate the Configuration file flow in Machine Configuration. (#2379)
  • Windows customization is now available, with options to change File Explorer settings, access Dev Drive insights, and quiet background processes. (#2383) (#2486) (#2596)
  • The extensions page navigation item is now in the navigation footer. (#2431)
  • When cloning through the Machine Configuration tool, Dev Home can now detect configuration files in the repository. (#2459)
  • You can now generate a configuration file from the setup flow in Machine Configuration. (#2466)
  • Small widgets no longer display graphs. (#2472)
  • When using a configuration file in Dev Home, you can now see a summary view of the file before running it. (#2495)

Bug fixes

  • The Add Widget dialog now respects Windows theme changes. (#2407)
  • The scroll bars no longer overlap page content. (#2423) (#2445)
  • Dev Home should no longer crash when attempting to add a repository at certain screen resolutions. (#2524)

Dev Home Preview v0.12

19 Mar 20:37
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Welcome to version 0.12 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on accessibility and quality improvements. Here are our latest changes:

Accessibility fixes

  • You can now use mouse navigation in Dev Home. (#2164)
  • Manage extension toggle now has an accessible name and Feedback is no longer clipped when text is scaled. (#2292)
  • Accessible names have been added to the buttons on the Introducing Dev Home page. (#2311)
  • Combo boxes in widgets should now have accessible names. (#2319)
  • The close button on the popular applications page in machine configuration now has an accessible name. (#2323)
  • Narrator should now announce the selection state of list items in widget tiles. (#2338)
  • Widgets now have more accessible colors for error messages and proper button styling. (#2349)

Changes

  • You can now select which app version you'd like to install when installing applications through machine configuration. (#2272)
  • Extension settings have been removed from the Settings page and are now only accessible through the Extensions page. (#2301)
  • WinAppSDK has been upgraded to version 1.5. (#2337)

Bug fixes

  • Memory widget dark mode screenshot now has the proper text and scaling when going to pin. (#2343)
  • The order of widgets should now be maintained on reboot after deleting and adding new widgets. (#2352)
  • Installing an extension should now update the Extensions page without needing to relaunch Dev Home. (#2372)

Dev Home Preview v0.11

21 Feb 23:08
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Welcome to version 0.11 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on multiple GitHub account support and quality improvements. Here are our latest changes:

Changes

  • Dev Home now supports multiple GitHub accounts. (#2140)
  • Error messages should now be displayed when running a DSC configuration file in Dev Home. (#2183) (#2197)
  • CPU, GPU, and Network widgets are now pinned by default after first launch. (#2233)

Bug fixes

  • Featured apps provided by extensions should now update properly when the extensions are installed, uninstalled, enabled, or disabled. (#2091)
  • The buttons on the GPU and Network widgets are back from their vacation. (#2208)
  • Dev Home should no longer get stuck on initialization after launching for the first time on Windows 10. (#2226)
  • Dev Home should use less of your CPU now with a fix to quiet the widgets down once navigating away from the dashboard. (#2240)
  • Dev Home now displays an error on the dashboard if catalog subscriptions fail. (#2253)
  • The dashboard should no longer hang if an extension that had widgets was uninstalled. (#2256)
  • An error message is now displayed if widget creation fails. (#2264)

Dev Home Preview v0.10

29 Jan 20:46
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Welcome to version 0.10 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on accessibility fixes and quality improvements. Here are our latest changes:

Accessibility fixes

  • App package titles are now fully visible when at 200% zoom. (#2037)
  • Text in textboxes should no longer get clipped when at 200% zoom. (#2112)
  • Text should properly wrap instead of getting clipped on the Feedback page. (#2117)

Changes

  • You can now choose to remove all selected applications when installing apps through machine configuration (Thanks @hamnarauf!). (#1626)
  • Dev Home has been upgraded to use .NET 8 (Thanks @snickler!). (#1968)
  • The create dev drive button on the Introducing Dev Home page now has an icon to indicate it'll open a new window (Thanks @gregalantiu2!). (#2062)
  • Extensions page expanders are now closed by default (Thanks @eddyfadeev!). (#2107)
  • The widget pinning experience now displays preview images of the widgets before pinning. (#2110) (#2147)
  • The Dev Home GitHub Extension is now installed alongside Dev Home. (#2116)

Bug fixes

  • Secondary windows should now properly follow the app's theme. (#1881)
  • Widgets will now display an error rather than an undefined variable name. (#2129)