Flow.Launcher version history
10 releases tracked, newest first.
v2.1.3
Jun 8, 2026- Fixed blur theme backdrop, corner, and margin handling.
- Resolved System.OverflowException in CustomScrollViewerEx mouse wheel handling.
- Improved thumbnail and icon loading with smarter fallbacks.
- Enhanced default browser detection for newer Windows versions.
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v2.1.2
May 10, 2026Release notes
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## Bug fixes
- Improved sound effect handling and fixed the application name in the volume mixer.
- Fixed the incorrect Pinyin search default option.
- Fixed a rare Alt+Tab case where the settings window stayed minimized when switched to.
- Improved Chinese character rendering.
- Improved the ranking of user folders in the Explorer plugin for higher placement.
- Fixed a rare Plugins Manager crash.
- Fixed Quick Access Link files not displaying their custom names in search results.
- Fixed a rare case where the settings window remained minimized when re-opened.
- Fixed a crash from editing a disabled Explorer plugin action keyword.
- Fixed a ReportWindow crash that occurred when the log directory was empty or missing.
- Improved the code quality for theme handling.
- Fixed relative path support for Python and Node.js executables.
- Fixed incorrect highlight matching when Everything is used.
- Updated translations.
## Contributions
We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.
@DavidGBrett, @Jack251970, @JohnTh
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v2.1.1
Mar 9, 2026Release notes
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## Bug fixes
- Fixed a crash caused by an "Unable to cast object of type" error.
- Resolved a rare crash occurring when the progress bar animation failed to load completely.
- Fixed an issue where Explorer plugin's Quick Access results were missing from general search results.
- Updated translations
## Contributions
We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.
@Jack251970 and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations, created plugins, reviewed pull requests, put through their ideas or reported bugs.
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v2.1.0
Feb 24, 2026# Release notes
## Theming
We have moved to a new UI framework, themes with namespaces pointing to `http://schemas.modernwpf.com/2019` will no longer work. Please update your themes by following the steps in this PR [comment](https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher/pull/3593#issuecomment-3341701934)
## Features
- Added a new option to show the taskbar when the search window opens.
- New action keywords for searching only folders or files in the Explorer plugin.
- Added an option to skip confirmation for power actions in the Sys plugin.
- Added a new setting to disable the thousands separator in the Calculator plugin.
- Added a max suggestion limit option to Search Query Autocomplete in the Web Search plugin.
- Web Search plugin search sources can now be moved up and down via drag and drop.
- New option in the URL plugin to always open URLs via HTTPS when the protocol is not specified.
- Added support for displaying .url file icons.
- New setting in the URL plugin to use a separate web browser profile for private mode and to manage window/tab behavior.
- Improved Flow's startup speed.
- Moved to a better-maintained UI Framework.
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v2.0.3
Nov 20, 2025# Release notes
## Bug fixes
- Added handling of the DWM composition errors
- Fixed an issue where the Program plugin did not finish indexing on startup if the 'Open Flow Launcher' hotkey was constantly pressed
- Fixed an issue with the Explorer plugin showing unrelated results while traversing a directory path
- Fixed an issue causing Dialog Jump to not work when in the root directory
- Updated translations
## Contributions
We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.
@01Dri, @90gq29, @Jack251970
A big thank you to @benello for sponsoring us! ❤️
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v2.0.2
Oct 14, 2025# Release notes
## Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where Flow's settings were not saved if the computer's shutdown or restart was initiated via the Sys plugin
- Fixed an issue causing Flow's animation sound effect to be missing after using Modern Standby sleep mode
- Fixed an issue with the Web Search plugin that could cause an ArgumentOutOfRangeException error when editing search sources in the settings
- Fixed a crash when opening a URL to a non-existent local file
- Fixed an issue where Flow was incorrectly determined to still be in portable mode after switching to installed mode in certain usage scenarios
- Updated translations
## Contributions
We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.
@dcog989, @Jack251970
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v2.0.1
Sep 21, 2025Release notes
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## Bug fixes
- Fixed missing Everything sort options in the plugin settings
- Fixed an issue where constantly changing language via settings could cause high memory
- Fixed an issue where the Appearance tab in settings would keep a wallpaper file locked and never release it
- Fixed issues with the Calculator plugin's handling of decimal separators and functions with multiple arguments
- Fixed text wrapping for the JsonRPC plugin's settings panels
- Optimised Program plugin's indexing lock logic
- Changed the log message for plugins manifest fetch failure to be more user-friendly
- Added handling of empty or corrupted favicons for Browser Bookmarks plugin
- Added missing translatable default strings for Default Browser and File Explorer in settings
- Fixed an issue where clearing the cache twice via settings will cause an error in the logs
- Translations updated
## Contributions
We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.
@dcog989, @Jack251970
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v2.0.0
Sep 6, 2025Release notes
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## Highlights
### Dialog Jump
<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/046c00da-6e4e-4960-8424-b413852300ad" width="400">
- Use <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>G</kbd> to quickly jump the Open/Save As dialog window path to the path of the active file manager.
- Search for a file/folder and quickly jump to its path in the Open/Save As dialog window. This is enabled via settings 'General' section.
### Automatic Plugin Update Check
<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f15d2cda-01ee-43a7-abcb-f39af0fec899" width="400">
<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d07997a6-d303-4806-baa2-e51af37abc0c" width="400">
- A new option to enable automatic checking for plugin updates.
- A new update dialog will allow for selective plugin updating.
### Release Notes Window
<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a587de95-e450-4258-9b00-cedf501136f4" width="400">
- A release notes window will be available when a new update arrives, allowing you to check the release notes directly from the app. You can also access this window from the "About" section in settings.
### Double Pinyin Search
<img src="htt
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v1.20.2
Jul 13, 2025Release notes
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## Bug fixes
- Fix an issue where UWP changes are not monitored
- Fix an issue where the result selection hotkeys on the Home Page results not updated when visibility/modifier key is changed
- Fix an issue where Home Page not updated when language changes
- Fix an issue causing flow to crash when pasting into the search window
- Updated translations
- Fix an issue where the Plugin project's NuGet package does not have documentation generated
- Fix an issue causing incorrect Plugin version comparison
- Fix some minor UI issues with settings window
- Fix Explorer plugin's preview margin
- Pre-releases now include the associated PR in the release note
- Fix Shell plugin's cmd command parsing error
- Plugins Manager plugin can now be removed without impacting Plugin Store
- Fix culture info issue for plugins that use WinForm
## Contributions
We would like to directly mention and thank the following people (in alphabetical order) for their contribution and support in this release.
@Deigue, @Jack251970, @onesounds, @OrigamiDev-Pete, @VictoriousRaptor and everyone who has joined discussions, added translations,
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v1.20.1
Jun 14, 2025Release notes
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## Bug fixes
- Fixed the Browser Bookmark plugin taking a long time to load due to favicons. An option has been added to enable or disable favicons; after this release, favicons will be set to off by default. You can turn them on again via the plugin settings.
- Fixed an issue with the missing PendingLineStyle key in custom themes, which caused flow to error on startup.
- Fixed an unhandled external plugin exception that caused flow to crash after typing a search query.
- Fixed an issue with the Program plugin displaying a pop-up dialog when unable to resolve LNK shortcuts.
- Fixed button width not adjusting to text in plugin settings.
- Fixed minor issues found in the settings window UI.
- Added additional missing media types for display in the Preview window.
- Fixed an issue causing settings to fail to save.
- Fixed Explorer plugin settings panel display issue when scaling is greater than 125%.
- Added support for loading MSIX Firefox bookmarks.
- Fixed an index out of range error when loading Firefox bookmarks.
- Fixed an issue with running commands in pswh.exe.
- Added handling for when Everything installat
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