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)

Dev Home Preview v0.5

Welcome to version 0.5 of Dev Home! In this release, we added an extensions page to help you manage and discover new extensions. We also focused on accessibility, fixing bugs, and improving quality. Here are our latest improvements:

Extensions page

• Extensions page now exists in Dev Home and lists installed and available Dev Home extensions from the Microsoft Store. (#1529)

Accessibility fixes

• Keyboard navigation should now work properly on the machine configuration page. (#1419)
• Keyboard navigation now works in the app install page of machine configuration. (#1433)
• The app install experience should now have the right colors in high contrast mode. (#1434)
• Narrator should now have better announcements when used on the dashboard. (#1287)
• Narrator should now have better announcements when using the setup flow in machine configuration. (#1450)

Changes

• The Dev Drive checkbox in the add repo step of machine configuration is now automatically checked. (#1389)
• Page headers now take up less space on the page. (#1401)
• End task buttons have been removed from the CPU widget due to its update frequency. (#1467)
• GitHub extension is no longer automatically installed. (#1529)
• Installation notes are now displayed in the summary page after machine configuration. (#1533)

Bug fixes

• The Dev Drive UI should now appear in Beta and Canary Windows Insider channels. (#1431)
• UAC prompts should now work properly in the machine configuration tool. (#1495)
• Account provider is no longer shown after signing out (Thanks @PankajBhojwani!). (#1528)
• Relative paths with spaces should no longer crash Dev Home. (#1570)

Dev Home Preview v0.4

Welcome to version 0.4 of Dev Home! This release we focused on accessibility, fixing bugs, and improving quality. Here are our latest improvements:

Accessibility fixes

• You can now navigate widgets with the keyboard using Tab and the left and right arrow keys. (#1368)
• Narrator will now appropriately read the names of available widgets in the Add Widgets dialog. (#1324)
• The navigation experiences between scan and non-scan modes are now aligned. (#1348)
• The banner is now scrollable on 200% zoom. (#1352)

Changes

• Dev Home now indicates if it's run as administrator. (#1327)
• Widget charts now use SVG to render. (#1257)
• The Restore apps description now includes the last modified date. (#1325)
• Close buttons are now consistently styled throughout the UI. (#1329)

Bug fixes

• The banner text will be aligned appropriately in RTL languages. (#1320)
• Dev Home should now remain responsive after the file picker dialog is closed. (#1331)
• Dev Home is brought to the foreground when a second instance is opened with redirection (Thanks @davidegiacometti!). (#1268)

Dev Home Preview v0.301.198.0

Welcome to version 0.3 of Dev Home! This release we focused fixing bugs and improving quality. Here are our latest improvements:

Changes

• Widgets can now be rearranged. (#1273)
• Widget order should persist and not randomly rearrange itself. (#1198)
• In the repository review and repository tool dialogs, long names are now truncated. The tooltip will show the whole name. (#1236)
• We’ve added progress rings for when Dev Home is fetching repositories. (#1185)
• The terms checkbox in the setup tool review page should only be shown if apps are selected to be installed. (#1191)

Bug fixes

• Our localization should be improved.
• The speed on the CPU widget should now show the actual CPU speed (Thanks @daxter44!). (#1122)
• Clicking the Add widget button shouldn’t crash Dev Home anymore. (#1261)

Dev Home Preview v0.200.170.0

Welcome to version 0.2 of Dev Home! This release we focused fixing bugs and improving quality. Here are our latest improvements:

Changes

• A WinGet YAML configuration file for NodeJS has been added to the repository. (#1031)
• The dashboard now displays a loading progress ring while loading widgets (Thanks @aksoftware98!). (#874)
• System widget graphs now use antialiasing for a smoother appearance. (#1093)
• Core widgets now work on ARM64 devices (Thanks @snickler!). (#986)
• The repository cloning tool now shows you repositories you’ve previously cloned. (#668)

Bug fixes

• Switching the theme doesn’t get into a broken state anymore (we’re pretty sure). (#743)
• Installing apps through the end-to-end setup tool shouldn’t crash anymore. (#1070)
• Background contrast should be much better now (Thanks @BreeceW!). (#750)
• The add widget dialogs now dynamically size with the window, ensuring all buttons are clickable. (#1033)