Changelog

🐞 Fixes

• Quicklinks: Fixed an issue where arguments weren’t enforced when executing a Quicklink command.
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where items with spaces in alias would not be ranked first when searching for the alias.
• Root Search: Relaxed auto-activating of aliased commands when pressing “Space” after the alias.
• Store: Fixed “Install Extension” action shortcut.

💎 Improvements

• General: Tweak the Raycast window position

🐞 Fixes

• Application Hotkeys: Fixed an issue where restarting Raycast would sometimes remove your saved application hotkey.
• Connection Settings: Proxy URLs are now handled properly regardless of whether they specify a protocol or not.

We are transitioning into beta and in the coming days we will start a slow rollout to our waitlist. This release includes branding changes and a load of final touches and polish to take our app into this next phase.

✨ New

• Onboarding: Shipped a new onboarding flow
• Quicklinks: Added the ability to import Quicklinks
• Snippets: Added the ability to import Snippets
• Favicon Provider: We added a new setting to let you pick your favicon provider or disable it altogether, allowing you to balance user experience and privacy. You can configure it via Raycast Settings → General → Favicon Provider.
• Feedback: Our feedback command now uses Featurebase to collate feedback

💎 Improvements

• Installer: We updated our installer to include all the required libraries.
• Design: Added new command icons for core Raycast features.
• Shortcuts: We change our delete shortcut to use the D key instead of delete to prevent conflicts with some editors and made this consistent through the app.

🐞 Fixes

• Hotkeys: Deleting an application with a hotkey will release the hotkey to be used elsewhere

🧠 Quick AI

Need a quick answer? Quick AI is here to help! Just open Raycast, type your question, and press Tab to get the response. Whether it’s a programming question, content iteration, or a dinner recommendation — it’s all just a Tab away.

We introduced Quick AI on macOS two years ago and we are now bringing it to Raycast on Windows. During the Beta phase, we are giving all testers free access to Quick AI, along with the ability to use the AI models available in our Pro subscription. You can switch between available AI models in Settings.

This is just the first step in bringing Raycast’s powerful AI tools to Windows. We will improve Quick AI along the way and gradually start adding more of our advanced features such as AI Chat, AI Commands, AI Extensions, and others into the Windows experience.

✨ New

• Snippets and Quicklinks: You can now add dynamic placeholders to Snippets and Quicklinks. Initial support includes the Clipboard, UUID, Date, Date Time, Day, Time. Quicklinks also support Arguments.
• Extensions: We have added a load of new extensions, including Linear, Github, Notion, Slack, Google Translate and Youtube amongst others. Go check them out in the Store.
• Settings: You can now assign hotkey and aliases to system settings
• Snippets: Snippets now support rich text editing (bold, italics, strike-through, underline)
• Root search: Added a command ‘Copy Raycast Logs’ to copy your most recent two log files to the clipboard
• Root search: Control panel now appears as an application in root search
• Root search: Added a command to reset your Raycast Windows called ‘Reset Raycast Window Position’

💎 Improvements

• General: Improved focus management in the main window
• Calculator: Improved speed and performance
• Navigation: When deleting a search term, backspace doesn’t navigate back immediately after deleting the last character. Instead, you have to release the backspace key and press again to navigate back
• Navigation: Added shortcuts for the various copy actions found in the actions panel
• Navigation: Your Raycast window position will default to the center of your focused screen and remember where you last placed it
• General: Text is now selectable/copyable in certain places (clipboard, file search, changelog, etc)

🐞 Fixes

• Hotkeys: Raycast will now correctly pop up when you use a hotkey for a command that contains an alert
• Root search: Fixed an issue with Adobe not launching after opening it in Raycast
• Root search: Fixed fallback searches not working in other languages
• Calculator: Now takes into account your timezone and locale
• Calculator: Fixed visual of calculator item when not selected
• General: Fixed an issue where one could open multiple panels at once
• File search: Ensured recent files is refreshed in root search when deleting an entry

This release aims to fix a number of instability issues that you have experienced around Raycast crashing and issues with shortcuts going to sleep.

It also includes one other important change where we are moving from an non-encrypted to an encrypted database. This is for an extra layer of security on your data, especially because soon we will ship OAuth for extensions and will need to store your API tokens.

💎 Improvements

• Database encryption keys now survive app uninstalls.
• A local backup of your databases is performed upon upgrading, so you can safely downgrade without loosing your data if something goes wrong.
• Added an 'Exclude from Index' quick action to File Search
• Show in systems tray will now be persisted after restarting Raycast
• Added confirmation dialogs for Shutdown and Restart commands
• Localised names are now used for applications
• Exe files will now launch through Raycast
• Apps can also be minimised with the hotkey
• Added experimental support to open files with Files and OneCommander, if set as your default file manager.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed Raycast crashing in the background due to our Clipboard History implementation
• Fixed Raycast hotkeys going to sleep
• Fixed database corruption issues.
• Removed system settings links from appearing in file search results