{"id":11062,"date":"2025-11-19T05:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:45:17","slug":"powertoys-0-96-is-here-endpoints-for-advanced-paste-metadata-support-for-powerrename-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/powertoys-0-96-is-here-endpoints-for-advanced-paste-metadata-support-for-powerrename-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerToys 0.96 is here: endpoints for Advanced Paste, metadata support for PowerRename and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are back with a fresh PowerToys release! This month brings a redesigned Advanced Paste experience with support for multiple AI model endpoints, a wave of improvements to Command Palette, and plenty of smaller upgrades across the utility suite. Grab the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or heading to the release page<\/a>. Let’s jump in!<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udccb Smarter, faster, and more flexible: Advanced Paste gets a big upgrade<\/h3>\n

We have been hard at work improving Advanced Paste. Both the Settings experience and the Advanced Paste UI have been refreshed with a cleaner, more modern design. A lot of you asked for more flexibility in choosing which AI models and endpoints you can use with Advanced Paste. We listened. You can now configure online endpoints from Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Gemini, and Mistral. Prefer local models? No problem. Advanced Paste now supports Foundry Local and Ollama, so you can keep your data on your device and take advantage of your hardware like the NPU. To get started, open the Advanced Paste Settings page and select Add endpoint. You can choose your provider and set things like API keys, endpoints, and model names directly in the dialog.<\/p>\n

\"Advanced<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also configure more than one endpoint. This can be useful when different models work better for different types of clipboard content. With multiple endpoints set up, you can quickly switch between them when needed.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a><\/p>\n

The new Advanced Paste window has gotten a revamp too! It now shows your current clipboard content (this can be disabled in Settings) and includes a model selection drop-down, making it easy to switch between your configured endpoints on the fly. It is quick, simple, and a lot more powerful!<\/p>\n

PR: #41987<\/a><\/p>\n

\u26a1 Polish and improvements for Command Palette<\/h3>\n

Command Palette has received a lot of small improvements and bug fixes in this release. The extensions overview in Settings now includes search, the labeling of built-in extensions has been simplified for a quieter experience, and you can choose whether the Command Palette window should reopen at its last position or re-center itself. It also remembers its last window size after a restart and we\u2019ve fixed numerous bugs in some of the built-in extensions. Be sure to check out the full list of improvements in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcf7 PowerRename gains image metadata support<\/h3>\n

Another long-standing request was for PowerRename to extract information from images when renaming files. We have added support for EXIF and XMP metadata, so when you select one or more image files, all available tags will appear in the regex flyout for you to use.<\/p>\n

\"powerrename<\/a><\/p>\n

PR: #41987<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83e\udde9 Other notable changes<\/h3>\n

Light Switch<\/h4>\n

Since introducing Light Switch in the previous release, we have been working hard to improve its reliability and performance. This update also adds the ability to manually set your location for sunrise and sunset calculations. To use it, open the Light Switch settings, enable automatic mode, and select the location button. In the dialog, you can let Windows detect your location or enter your latitude and longitude manually.<\/p>\n

\"LightSwitch<\/a><\/p>\n

Dashboard<\/h4>\n

We fixed several issues in the Settings dashboard and added a new option to sort the list of toggles alphabetically or by status.<\/p>\n

\"Sorting<\/a><\/p>\n

ZoomIt<\/h4>\n

Zooming in ZoomIt is now smoother, and we have added support for recording your screen and exporting it as a GIF.<\/p>\n

And much more<\/h4>\n

Check out the complete list of changes in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2728 Big thanks to the community<\/h3>\n

As always, a big thank-you<\/strong> to everyone who contributed \u2014 we couldn’t do this release without you! Thanks @daverayment<\/a>, @lzandman<\/a>, @jiripolasek<\/a>, @samrueby<\/a>, @DevLGuilherme<\/a>, @Lee-WonJun<\/a>, @davidegiacometti<\/a>, @mikehall-ms<\/a>, @MasonBergstrom<\/a>, @prochan2<\/a>, @trevorNgo<\/a>, @anselumjuju<\/a>, @foxmsft<\/a>, @MarioHewardt<\/a> and @snickler<\/a> for your pull requests!<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude80 What’s next?<\/h3>\n

We are taking a little more time for our next iteration and plan to release version 0.97 in January. This gives us extra room to focus on stability, performance improvements, and bug fixes across the suite. We are also working on fallback sorting in Command Palette, a refreshed Keyboard Manager experience, a new Shortcut Guide and much more. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

We’re always happy to get your feedback and contributions \u2013 whether it’s a bug report, a feature idea, or a pull request. Head over to the PowerToys repo<\/a> to jump in.<\/p>\n

The full release notes can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd17 Useful links<\/h3>\n