This preview keeps Command Palette keyboard focus responsive, improves installer process cleanup, and expands end-to-end coverage for Environment Variables and Crop And Lock.

Installer Hashes

| Description | Filename | sha256 hash | | --- | --- | --- | | Per user - x64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.101.2512.0-x64.exe | DF70C660E903CD2A2AD6A2C13496CF65774B687DC5C9FA9490A2A1D8A54173BF | | Per user - ARM64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.101.2512.0-arm64.exe | 5BBDCB2377CEB16EBBE98219707C012EBBEBD17B49AC52594CB71709C566849A | | Machine wide - x64 | PowerToysSetup-0.101.2512.0-x64.exe | CE7D559D794CC499EB761B47468877D55E4B1E644032949D96CB8E2EAD04BBFF | | Machine wide - ARM64 | PowerToysSetup-0.101.2512.0-arm64.exe | A4A9073FF4C44538F0748E3789A7CCA12A760CCE3844952E5CF6524CF3C9AA36 |

Highlights

Command Palette: Prevented clicks on empty or non-focusable content from moving focus outside the shell and breaking keyboard shortcuts.
Installer: Added missing CLI and helper processes to setup cleanup so active binaries do not block updates.
Environment Variables: Added end-to-end coverage for user variables, profiles, overrides, PATH editing, and persistence.
Crop And Lock: Added end-to-end coverage for thumbnail and reparent modes with unpackaged and packaged applications.

Command Palette

Prevented ShellPage from losing focus when empty space or non-focusable content is clicked, preserving the search caret and keyboard shortcuts in #50448 by @jiripolasek.

Installer

Added missing CLI and helper executables to the process termination list and made executable matching case-insensitive in #50452.

General

Added recognition for the Shortcut Guide v2 contribution to the PowerToys community page in #50419 by @noraa-junker.

Development

Added six Environment Variables end-to-end scenarios covering user-variable management, profiles, overrides, PATH editing, persistence, and state recovery in #50429.
Added the first Crop And Lock end-to-end suite, covering thumbnail and reparent modes, packaged applications, module lifecycle, and selection cancellation in #50431.