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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, 2026
Release notes ============= ## 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, 2026
Release notes ============= ## 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, 2025
Release notes ============= ## 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, 2025
Release notes ========== ## 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, 2025
Release notes ============= ## 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, 2025
Release notes ============= ## 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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