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)

Dev Home Preview v0.7

Welcome to version 0.7 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on creating the Azure extension to add in ADO features to Dev Home. Here are our latest improvements:

Azure extension

• We've just released the Azure extension for Dev Home! The repository can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/devhomeazureextension
• Initial implementation includes repository cloning for Azure DevOps (ADO) and ADO widgets.

Accessibility fixes

• Text should now wrap rather than get clipped when text scaling is greater than 100% or the window is too narrow. (#1756) (#1782) (#1800) (#1808)
• You can now keyboard navigate to all items in the navigation view. (#1804)
• Narrator should now properly announce the components on the app installation page of Machine Configuration. (#1780)

Changes

• There's now an experimental features page in Settings. We don't have any experimental features yet, but now we have a place for them to be enabled once they're developed. (#1707)
• Disabled widget sizes are now hidden from the context menu, rather than just appearing as disabled. (#1698)
• You'll now be asked to sign in (if you haven't already) when attempting to clone a private repository by URL. (#1711)
• There's now an option to report a documentation issue from the Feedback page (Thanks @hamnarauf!). (#1823)

Bug fixes

• When adding multiple repositories to clone, you can now select a different clone path when re-entering the repository selection dialog and the previously selected repos won't update their clone location. (#1766)
• The title bar should now properly update its colors when changing theme. (#1759)
• Zombie widgets should no longer stick around forever. (#1770) (#1810)
• You can now actually customize a widget, rather than replacing the widget with a new one when clicking customize. (#1819)
• Dev Home should no longer crash when clicking Add Widget. (#1831)
• Child windows should now follow the parent's theme. (#1881)

Dev Home Preview v0.601.297.0

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.6 to fix a bug that could prevent the stub app from updating. See v0.6 for full release notes.

Dev Home Preview v0.6

Welcome to version 0.6 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on accessibility, fixing bugs, and improving quality. Here are our latest improvements:

Accessibility fixes

• Buttons should no longer be clipped or hidden when increasing scaling. (#1673)

Changes

• The machine configuration summary now shows more detailed information (Thanks @betanzos!). (#912)
• The machine configuration summary should now show errors that occurred. (#1583)

Bug fixes

• The dashboard should now be more responsive when rendering widgets. (#1564)
• Entering a relative path for cloning a repo via URL should no longer crash Dev Home. (#1570)
• The machine configuration banner should no longer return after it's been dismissed (Thanks @davidegiacometti!). (#1591)
• Custom widgets should no longer need a Microsoft package ID in order to appear in Dev Home. (#1605)
• The margins should now be fixed on the extensions page (Thanks @hamnarauf!). (#1610)
• Adding a repository should now be more reliable. (#1616)
• The machine configuration summary errors should now follow the proper theme (Thanks @hamnarauf!). (#1632)
• The machine configuration errors are now selectable (Thanks @hamnarauf!). (#1668)