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QuickLook Changelog

What's new in QuickLook 3.7.3

Nov 24, 2022
  • Fix an issue where syntax highlighting does not work when previewing texts.

New in QuickLook 3.7.2 (Nov 6, 2022)

  • Supports tabbed File Explorer in Windows 11 22H2.
  • Adds an option (UseColorProfile) to respect monitor color profiles.
  • Uses Mica blur effect on Windows 10+.
  • Updates French, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese translations.

New in QuickLook 3.7.1 (Nov 16, 2021)

  • #1028, #1032: fixed a bug where previewing from Open and Save File Dialogs are not working.
  • Update 3rd party dependencies.

New in QuickLook 3.7.0 (Sep 18, 2021)

  • macOS-like hold-to-preview: hold the Spacebar for a longer time to peek into file contents.
  • #955: fixed delay when dragging the previous window on Windows 11.
  • #948: slowness when previewing text files of super long lines.
  • #941: Fixed an issue where UI language is not detected correctly.
  • #933: Added support for previewing RTF files.
  • Italian, Spanish, French, Korean, Slovak, and German translation updates.

New in QuickLook 3.6.11 (Mar 8, 2021)

  • Enhanced support for multiple monitors having different DPI scales
  • Fix thumbnail orientation for photos from a few camera models
  • Show annotations in PDF
  • Replace IE with MS Edge WebView2
  • Add CTRL-F search bar in Text Viewer
  • Close preview window correctly upon ALT-F4
  • Fix an error when reading previewing images with names containing URL-encoded strings
  • Fix wrong video orientation
  • Fix non-linear volume in video viewer

New in QuickLook 3.6.10 (Sep 20, 2020)

  • Support long (longer than 255) file path in Windows 10, opt-in here: How to Enable or Disable Win32 Long Paths in Windows 10
  • Fix #729: Option to hide the tray icon: Wiki | Advanced configurations | Hide the tray icon
  • Fix #731: write data to app folder in the portable mode
  • Fix #401: Static GIFs are not visible
  • Fix #669: HEIF images in wrong colours
  • Fix #715: Conflict with the Windows Explorer "type to select" feature
  • Fix #711: Single-page PDF is low in resolution
  • Fix #733: Detect Markdown file encoding
  • Add EXR, MXF, and AVIF image formats
  • Hungarian and Indonesian translation updates

New in QuickLook 3.6.9 (May 21, 2020)

  • Revert the previous change “preview windows no longer steal focus” due to serious bug. See #644 for details
  • Fix #579: Since Windows 10 1909, previews pop up accidentally when typing space into the Explorer’s search box

New in QuickLook 3.6.8 (May 21, 2020)

  • #644: Preview windows no longer steal focus (only on Windows 10)
  • #633: Preview window positioning enhancement: (1) now a preview will show on the monitor where you invoked it (2) preview will try to align itself to the edge of the screen just like on macOS
  • Fix #625: URL shortcuts containing non-http/https links are being previewed
  • Fix #515, #628, #640, and #650: Reworked Image Viewer to solve "image disappear" errors
  • Fix #638: Black texts in dark Mode in CSV viewer
  • Fix #623: Preview flashes for LNK shortcuts
  • #340, #445, #610: Implement a pixel-perfect image viewer
  • #385: Preview EMF and WMF vector images
  • New plugin for previewing PostScript (PS and EPS) files. See "Wiki" -> "Available Plugins" for details

New in QuickLook 3.6.7 (Apr 5, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • QuickLook got a new icon!
  • Fixes:
  • Video file is (finally) no longer locked during playing

New in QuickLook 3.6.6 (Mar 25, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Crash after opening a malformed .csv file
  • Clipboard is overwritten when using together with Everything
  • Wrong window size when videos are not in 16:9 ratio
  • Russian translation is not loaded correctly
  • .bat file highlighting is not loaded correctly
  • The “Open with XXX” button takes too much space
  • Improvements:
  • Support .aif and .m4r files
  • Display .url shortcuts as webpages
  • Add an option to auto-loop videos
  • Add double-click on images to reset the zoom level
  • Video file is no longer locked during playing
  • Add Ruby file (.rb) highlighting

New in QuickLook 3.6.5 (May 26, 2019)

  • This is a minor release that fixes the invisible try icon in Windows 10 1903.
  • Fixes
  • 488: SVG images cannot be previwed.
  • 503: Tray icon is invisible when using Windows 10 1903 Light Theme.
  • Slovak translation.

New in QuickLook 3.6.4 (Nov 8, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • Crash when closing a video preview before media has been loaded.
  • Handle Apple HEIC image format (note: not Nokia HEIC format).
  • #352: Unnecessary scrollbar when viewing images at 100% zoom.
  • #361: Separate icons for “Share” and “Open with”.
  • #371, #413: Exception when previewing any kind of audios/videos.
  • #377: Text preview is very slow when lines are too long.
  • #408: Fix blurry when using multiple monitors with different DPI or when changing system DPI.
  • #417: Performance improvements when previewing PNG images.
  • Hindi, Korean, Marathi, and Turkish translations.

New in QuickLook 3.6.2 (Sep 12, 2018)

  • Starting from this version, we will remove the leading 0. from the version number. This change is to accompany Windows Store’s release rule, which requires the last digit of a version be 0.
  • Fixes:
  • #347: QuickLook crashes when being launched on a Polish Windows.
  • Better PDF thumbnail loading.
  • Ukrainian translation.

New in QuickLook 0.3.6.1 (Sep 5, 2018)

  • This release is a hotfix for 0.3.6, addressing an issue where images can be in the wrong orientation: #337.

New in QuickLook 0.3.6 (Sep 3, 2018)

  • QuickLook now supports plugins!
  • Brand-new Office viewer, which does not require MS Office (as a plugin).
  • Dark theme (follows System colour scheme).
  • Nearby Sharing for newer Windows 10.
  • Speed improvements for Image viewer, based on NConvert.
  • New video player based on LAVFilters.
  • Polish, Russian, and Vietnamese translation.

New in QuickLook 0.3.5 (Mar 7, 2018)

  • TextViewer: Support more highlighting schemes.
  • Modify message text as requested for pre-installation package.

New in QuickLook 0.3.4 (Feb 18, 2018)

  • Fix for possible crash on few Windows OS

New in QuickLook 0.3.3 (Feb 13, 2018)

  • Highlights:
  • Lots of user experience, stability and CPU usage improvements: semi-transparent window, open/close animation, etc.
  • Catalan, French, German, Japanese and Norwegian translation
  • Video playback with hardware decoding and subtitle support

New in QuickLook 0.3.2.1 (Nov 7, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • Previewing images is now significantly faster.

New in QuickLook 0.3.2 (Nov 6, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • Add Portuguese Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian and Dutch(Belgium) translations.
  • Minor adjustments to new UI design.
  • Get rid of VLC playback engine. Switch back to FFmpeg.
  • Fixes:
  • Broken image for some compressed .gif files.
  • File in use: .gif file handle is not closed.
  • Incorrect preview size for low-resolution images.
  • Switching preview resets window size.
  • Pressing Spacebar in Listary toolbar brings up the preview.
  • Switching preview causes 1px window movement.
  • Previewing low-resolution image thumbnails and load the full image in the background.
  • Known Issues:
  • Previewing MS Office files causes crash sometimes. I have not yet figured out how to deal with it.

New in QuickLook 0.3.1 Pre-Release (Oct 31, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Pressing arrow keys in explorer window will bring up QuickLook even when not previewing.
  • Shorter auto-hide timeout for the title bar when previewing images and videos.
  • Add back the volume slider, which is missing in v0.3.0 but useful for touchscreens.

New in QuickLook 0.2.5 (Aug 6, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Fix the instability when previewing video and audios, which was introduced in version 0.2.4.
  • #50: Window moved unexpectedly when size is small.
  • #55: Incorrect plural words: "files" and "folders" when there is only one of which.
  • Improvements:
  • Chinese (Taiwan) translation (Thanks to 2htw.)

New in QuickLook 0.2.4 (Aug 6, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Icon resolution is low on Hi-DPI devices when installing from the Windows Store.
  • Encoding of file names in .zip archive is not correct when it mismatch with system code page.
  • AccessViolationException crash when previewing from a File Explorer window on a few devices.
  • Improvements:
  • Spanish (Spain) translation.
  • Touchscreen friendly: scroll and pinch zoom with your finger :)
  • Click on the 📌 pin icon for the second time will now close the window.
  • New home-cooked GIF and APNG viewer.
  • Audio files is now played correctly.
  • Redesigned video & audio player UI (great thanks to unosquare/FFME!)
  • Determine supported video & audio formats by on FFprobe from FFmpeg.
  • Use self-compiled FFmpeg binaries to reduce file size.

New in QuickLook 0.2.3.1 (Jul 16, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Unexpected failure in version 0.2.3.
  • #39: File encoding (e.g. GBK, Shift-JIS) is not detected correctly.
  • Improvements:
  • Multi-language support. If you would like to contribute a translation, see this page.
  • Minor font and UI tweaking.
  • You may “pin” a preview window to keep it for later use.

New in QuickLook 0.2.2 (Jul 4, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • The scroll bars in PDF and Image viewer is not useable.
  • The preview window is not on top in first-time show.
  • Fail to invoke preview from an Open Dialog which belongs to a 32-bit application.
  • Error message may shown when uninstalling.
  • Improvements:
  • .csv, Outlook .msg and .eml viewers.
  • Enlarged scroll bars.
  • You can now drag and move the window by click-hold-move anywhere in the InfoPanel (which is the one when you previewing a directory.)
  • Update 3rd party packages: Gif lib, compress lib etc.

New in QuickLook 0.2.1 (Jun 19, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Text is too big when previewing HTML and Markdown files
  • Improvements:
  • The preview window is no longer top-most.
  • “Table of Contents” for Markdown files.
  • Build-in 3rd-party file manager support:
  • Everything
  • Directory Opus

New in QuickLook 0.2.0 (Jun 19, 2017)

  • Huuuge Improvement: QuickLook can now preview selected files from Open and Save File Dialogs (See screenshot below.)
  • Speedup the previewing invoked by command line QuickLook.exe C:pathtofile.txt
  • Window placement improvement: now the preview window will not be centered to screen all the time.

New in QuickLook 0.1.14 (Jun 9, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Closing a paused terminal with the spacebar triggers the preview
  • The loading is not asynchronous which blocks the UI animation.
  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Improvements:
  • QuickLook is now a native 64-bit application. It will also run as a 32-bit one in a 32-bit OS.
  • VideoViewer: Video is now muted by default. You need to press a button to unmute it (see picture below).
  • ArchiveViewer: Now you can preview .tar.gz .tar.xz and .tar.bz2 archives (upstream updates).

New in QuickLook 0.1.13 (Jun 5, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Scroll/Zoom with a precision touchpad is too fast.
  • #25: Can't drag file on Desktop or in explorer after pressing ESC key twice.
  • Improvements:
  • Abandon Webkit browser engine: reduce package size by half.
  • Add supports for Adobe PSD and Camera RAW images: use ImageMagick to decode images (backed by ImageMagick.)

New in QuickLook 0.1.12 (May 29, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Dialogs, e.g. alert(), in .html file may lock the preview window.
  • Pressing Space key will not close the IPreviewHandler previews like Word and Excel.
  • Improvements:
  • #16: Preview OpenDocument formats with MS Office.
  • Pressing Enter key will execute/open the file.
  • Pressing Esc key will close the preview.
  • Move to .NET Framework 4.6.2.
  • More aggressive memory claim after window close (1 second after closing window).
  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Minor stability improvements.

New in QuickLook 0.1.11 (May 26, 2017)

  • Fix: error message when closing Excel preview in standalone mode.
  • Add: "Open with"/"Run" button (Pressing "Enter" will NOT invoke the button in this release)

New in QuickLook 0.1.10 (May 23, 2017)

  • Fix: The second instance will crash because of something.pid error.
  • Fix: .jpeg file is not handled correctly.
  • Improvement: Better and faster window resize.
  • Improvement: Refined Office file viewer (with minor flaws e.g. Lock up in Excel window*)
  • Note: If you encounter the lock up, try clicking between your desktop and the preview window one or two times.

New in QuickLook 0.1.9 (May 19, 2017)

  • Fix: press arrow key will bring up the preview window, even when it has been previously closed.
  • Fix: memory leak when switching file with arrow keys.
  • Fix: incorrect window position when there are multiple monitors (#12).
  • Fix: visual flickering while switching preview target.
  • Add: .msi installer package.

New in QuickLook 0.1.8 (May 17, 2017)

  • Improve loading speed (feedback wanted.)
  • Response to arrow keys.
  • Apply aero glass effect also on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.

New in QuickLook 0.1.7 (May 15, 2017)

  • Command line support: preview by executing QuickLook.exe path_to_file. Executing the command again will close the preview window. Hint: The F3 hotkey from Total Commander.
  • Minor fixes and improvements.
  • Adding HTML viewer backed by Webkit (.htm, .html).
  • Adding Markdown viewer (.md).

New in QuickLook 0.1.6 (May 15, 2017)

  • QuickLook will not crash when previewing corrupt files (#7).
  • Set assembly version to real version number (#7).

New in QuickLook 0.1.5 (May 15, 2017)

  • Add tray icon.
  • Support autostart.

New in QuickLook 0.1.4 (May 15, 2017)

  • A new VideoPlayer that support many video files (backed by FFmpeg)
  • Optimise preview window close logic invoked by SPACE key.

New in QuickLook 0.1.3 (May 15, 2017)

  • Fix file/folder thumbnails on low DPI machines.
  • Updated layout of InfoPanel.
  • Close existing preview windows only when pressing SPACE on the desktop or in explorer windows.

New in QuickLook 0.1.2 (May 15, 2017)

  • Fix a bug when previewing images which not contains Exif information.
  • Fix a packaging issue which the OfficeViewer plugin is not included in releases.

New in QuickLook 0.1.1 (May 15, 2017)

  • PdfViewer: Fix current page not updating when clicking on thumbnails list.