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Summary

  • Draft release notes for PowerToys v0.99
  • Covers 67 PRs merged since v0.98.0 on the stable branch
  • Excludes v0.98.1 (13 PRs) and v0.98.2 (5 PRs) hotfix PRs

Notes for reviewers

  • This is a draft for review — the release notes are placed in doc/release-notes/ for now
  • Highlights section covers the top 10 user-visible changes
  • 10 module sections + 1 development section
  • Community contributors are attributed with "Thanks @user!"
  • Not all 0.99 commits have been merged to stable yet — this will be updated incrementally

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  • Review highlights for accuracy and completeness
  • Review per-module bullet summaries
  • Verify community contributor attributions
  • Check for any missing PRs

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Release notes covering 67 PRs merged since v0.98.0, excluding
v0.98.1 and v0.98.2 hotfix PRs. Includes highlights, per-module
sections, and development changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- **Image Resizer**: Migrated from WPF to WinUI 3, enabling future AOT compilation for 1.5-3x performance improvements and aligning with Windows 11 design language
- **Command Palette**: Made the Dock window stay on top of all other windows by default, automatically yielding when a full-screen app is detected
- **Command Palette**: Improved full-screen detection for the activation shortcut, adding rapid-press breakthrough to bypass suppression and live diagnostics in Settings
- **Command Palette**: Added plain text viewer and image viewer content types for extensions, enabling safe display of raw text and zoomable images directly in the content pane

## Command Palette

- Added plain text viewer and image viewer content types for extensions, enabling safe display of raw text and zoomable images directly in the content pane in [#43964](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/43964). Thanks [@jiripolasek](https://github.com/jiripolasek)!
- Prevented PgUp/PgDown keyboard navigation from selecting non-interactive items such as separators or section headers in [#46439](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/46439). Thanks [@jiripolasek](https://github.com/jiripolasek)!
- Added a guard to prevent a crash when navigating back with an empty navigation stack in [#46493](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/46493). Thanks [@jiripolasek](https://github.com/jiripolasek)!
- Moved each built-in extension to its own settings file, preventing the shared settings file from being silently overwritten, with transparent migration from the legacy file in [#46685](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/46685)
- Hardened ListViewModel fetch synchronization to handle overlapping refreshes, cancellation, and re-entrant ItemsChanged scenarios in [#46429](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/46429). Thanks [@jiripolasek](https://github.com/jiripolasek)!

- Updated the Windows Implementation Library (WIL) to version 1.0.250325.1, now managed centrally via Directory.Packages.props in [#43503](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/43503)
- Upgraded the check-spelling CI action to v0.0.26, fixing spell-check failures on fork PRs and updating exclusion patterns in [#46851](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/46851). Thanks [@jsoref](https://github.com/jsoref)!
- Added contributor names from a recent PR to the spellchecker allow-list to prevent CI spelling errors in [#46765](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/46765). Thanks [@jiripolasek](https://github.com/jiripolasek)!
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