Dev Home Preview v0.17

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Dev Home Preview v0.9

Welcome to version 0.9 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on adding support for Windows 10. Here are our latest changes:

⚠️ When upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11, your widgets will not persist on Dev Home's dashboard.

Accessibility fixes

• Screen readers should now announce when a navigation pane has been opened or closed. (#2028)

Changes

• Dev Home now works on Windows 10. (#2096)

Bug fixes

• Adding a GitHub account should now properly open the browser to allow you to sign in. (#2035)

Dev Home Preview v0.8

Welcome to version 0.8 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on bug fixes and quality improvements. Here are our latest changes:

Accessibility fixes

• The Pin button for adding widgets shouldn't get cut off anymore when the text scaling gets too large. (#1982)
• All of the buttons should now be properly read by Narrator. (#1962)

Changes

• UI tweaks for the Dev Drive creation flow. (#1969)
• Sample configurations are now linked on the Configuration file option in Machine Configuration. (#2010)

Bug fixes

• The Dev Home icon in the Windows widget picker should now look better. (#1990)
• We caught some strings that weren't getting properly localized, those should be localized now. (#1993)
• Microsoft Store pages should now be properly localized as well. (#1994)
• Widget names and descriptions should now also have proper localization. (#2008)