What's new in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 12
May 2, 2024
- Upgraded to electron 30
- Fixed bug which caused wrong Firefox profile to be selected by default
- Added new icon for Shortcuts extension
- Added automatic rescan scheduler
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 11 (Apr 17, 2024)
- Added back support for Firefox bookmarks
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 10 (Mar 8, 2024)
- Added Windows support in the System Commands extension.
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 9 (Mar 5, 2024)
- Removed extract-file-icon due to problems on Linux and Windows
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 7 (Feb 20, 2024)
- Added Currency Conversion extension
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 5 (Feb 17, 2024)
- Fixed bug that prevent "window.showOnStartup" option not to work properly
- Added Windows support for System Settings extension
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 4 (Feb 17, 2024)
- Added option to start app hidden
- Fix DeepL translator translation issue
- Added "always on top" option
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 3 (Feb 15, 2024)
- New Features:
- Added .appx build on Windows
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 2 (Feb 14, 2024)
New in ueli 9.0.0 Alpha 1 (Feb 14, 2024)
- New Features:
- Added support for system backdrop effect on Windows (Mica, Mica Tabbed, Acrylic)
- Added support for vibrancy effect on macOS
- Added Linux build
- Use FluentUI components for UI
- Made electron application more secure by disabling nodeIntegration in renderer process
- Changes for developers:
- Use react instead of vue
- Use fluentui/react-components instead of bulma
- Use vite instead of webpack
- Use vitest instead of jest
- Use i18next and i18next-react
- Enabled hot-module-reload when working on the renderer code
- Extensions are now code-owned, so that devs are free to do whatever they want in their extension folder and they get automatically notified about changes in code that they own
- Generally better separation of code
New in ueli 8.28.0 (Jan 29, 2024)
- Improvements:
- Add fallback to currency converter #1046 (Thanks to @wywywywy)
- Bug fixes:
- Prevent main window from being out of bounds #1066 (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Add ueli command for opening debug log #1065 (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Fix translation plugin #1064 (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
New in ueli 8.27.0 (Dec 4, 2023)
- Added Czech translations (Thanks @mjec)
New in ueli 8.25.0 (Oct 4, 2023)
- New features:
- Replace exchangerate.host in favor of https://github.com/fawazahmed0/currency-api in currency converter plugin (Thanks to @wywywywy)
New in ueli 8.24.1 (Sep 28, 2023)
- Fixes:
- Added support for macOS 14 Sonoma
New in ueli 8.24.0 (Apr 29, 2023)
- New Features:
- Added lorem ipsum plugin
- Improvements:
- Upgraded 3rd party dependencies
- Breaking changes:
- Removed support for Firefox bookmarks due to sqlite and pnpm implications
New in ueli 8.23.2 (Nov 2, 2022)
- Bugfixes:
- Added support for macOS 13 Ventura
New in ueli 8.23.1 (Oct 10, 2022)
- Automatic release to WinGet
New in ueli 8.23.0 (Oct 10, 2022)
- Features:
- Added Japanese translations (Thanks to @ykhrito)
- Added traditional Chinese translations (Thanks to @chungchungdev)
- Improvements:
- Skip updating config.json on window move if window position is not being tracked (Thanks to @sashaweiss)
- Upgraded to electron 20
New in ueli 8.22.1 (Jul 12, 2022)
- Improvements:
- Show "ueli" when hovering over tray icon (thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Disabled spellcheck
- Fixed typos in Finnish translations (thanks to @Alpakka31)
New in ueli 8.22.0 (May 14, 2022)
- New Features:
- Added Ukrainian UI translations (Thanks to @MetaMmodern)
- Added Finnish UI translations (Thanks to @Alpakka31)
- Improvements:
- Added /System/Applications to default app directories on macOS (Thanks to @343max)
- Removed unavailable languages in translation plugin (Thanks to @GovindKrishnan)
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed some security issues by upgrading 3rd party dependencies
New in ueli 8.21.0 (Mar 20, 2022)
- New features:
- Added hindi translations (Thanks to @GovindKrishnan)
- Added more languages to translator plugin (Thanks to @GovindKrishnan )
- Added the option to set a default currency in the currency converter (Thanks to @peterphmikkelsen)
- Bugfixes:
- Upgraded to electron 17, this fixes some certificate issues (Thanks to @NotWearingPants for helping out on this)
New in ueli 8.19.0 (Jan 17, 2022)
- New Features:
- Open WSL in Windows Terminal (thanks to @guoqi)
- Get favicon from websearch URL (thanks to @weiw11)
- Added polish translations (thanks to @JustAPhrog)
- Added italian translations (thanks to @mijorus)
- Added support for Yandex browsers (thanks to @popstas)
- Improvements:
- Catch and log errors of all plugins during index refresh (thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Bugfixes:
- Use -LiteralPath to ignore wildcard characters in paths (thanks to @tkohlmeier)
New in ueli 8.18.1 (Nov 9, 2021)
- Improvements:
- Added support for macOS Monterey (Thanks to @danitt)
- Bugfixes:
- Added missing translations (Thanks to @ykhrito)
- Handle mathjs evaluating to null (Thanks to @NotWearingPants)
- Fixed typo in Russian translation (Thanks to @Belonit)
New in ueli 8.17.1 (Oct 3, 2021)
- Fixed a bug which caused the devtools to open in 8.17.0
New in ueli 8.16.0 (Oct 3, 2021)
- Allow user to change font weights
New in ueli 8.15.0 (Sep 14, 2021)
- New Features:
- Added weather plugin (Thanks to @vishaluchil)
- Added Shades of Purple theme (Thanks to @Khoding)
- Improvements:
- Currency converter now also supports the syntax 10 USD EUR (Thanks to @vishaluchil)
- Added "Reboot" to the list of aliases of "Restart" (Thanks to @vishaluchil)
- Added a more accurate icon for URL search results (Thanks to @vishaluchil)
- Allow the browsing of search results with page up/page down (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Fixed typo "wofkflow" to "workflow" (Thanks to @vishaluchil)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed search result scrolling issues (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Display only the search results if they were retrieved by the last user input (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Fixed UI glitches in search results with very long search result names/descriptions (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
New in ueli 8.13.0 (Jun 10, 2021)
- New features:
- Added Korean translations (Thanks to @ddarkr)
- Added Japanese translations (Thanks to @ykhrito)
- Improvements:
- Execute workflow commands with default terminal (Thanks to @underthecocotree)
- Currency converter is now using api.exchangereate.host (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Upgraded 3rd party depenedencies
New in ueli 8.12.0 (Mar 16, 2021)
- New Features:
- Added support for Firefox browser bookmarks (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Added support for Chromium browser bookmarks (Thanks to @edoreld)
- Improvements:
- Added tab completion for web search engines (Thanks to @tmueller)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug which prevented UWP apps to be retreived (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Fixed issues in the web search (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
New in ueli 8.11.0 (Feb 21, 2021)
- New Features:
- Added a second optional hotkey modifier (Thanks to @tvollstaedt)
- Added chinese translations (Thanks to @cathaysia)
- Added spanish translations (Thanks to @jmlweb)
- Added support for reading Microsoft Edge browser bookmarks (Thanks to @tvollstaedt)
- Added support for reading SideKick browser bookmarks (Thanks to @jatisto)
- Improvements:
- Run reindex in background (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Added possibility to refresh indiced with F5 (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Added possibility to convert currencies using "to" instead of "in". For example: "100 USD to GBP" (Thanks to @Axieum)
- Show edit/remove buttons first in web search engine list for easier editing
- Updated 3rd party dependencies
New in ueli 8.11.0 (Feb 21, 2021)
- New Features:
- Added a second optional hotkey modifier (Thanks to @tvollstaedt)
- Added chinese translations (Thanks to @cathaysia)
- Added spanish translations (Thanks to @jmlweb)
- Added support for reading Microsoft Edge browser bookmarks (Thanks to @tvollstaedt)
- Added support for reading SideKick browser bookmarks (Thanks to @jatisto)
- Improvements:
- Run reindex in background (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Added possibility to refresh indiced with F5 (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Added possibility to convert currencies using "to" instead of "in". For example: "100 USD to GBP" (Thanks to @Axieum)
- Show edit/remove buttons first in web search engine list for easier editing
- Updated 3rd party dependencies
New in ueli 8.10.0 (Oct 18, 2020)
- New Features:
- Web search suggestions (Thanks to @AmrBinBashir):
- Portuese translations (Thanks to @anicetoclucas)
- Added the ability to launch powershell in Windows Terminal (Thanks to @mathiasandresen)
- Added the ability to change the decimal separator used in calculator and curency converter
- Improvements:
- Grouped appearance and color theme settings into topics:
- Store favorites in dedicated file (Thanks to @sashaweiss)
- Bugfixes:
- Added missing folder separator when autocompleting search results in file browser
New in ueli 8.8.2 (Aug 25, 2020)
- Bugfixes:
- Added support for macOS 11 Big Sur
New in ueli 8.8.0 (Jul 2, 2020)
- New Features:
- Added turkish translations
- Added support for Brave browser in the browser bookmarks plugin
- Added "Sleep" command on macOS
- Added more appearance options
- Improvements:
- Added the possbility to browse up and down with Ctrl/Cmd+N & Ctrl/Cmd+P
- Use a more up-to-date API for the dictionary
- Index all Chrome bookmarks
- Fixed typos
- Filter out duplicates in the user input history
- Added the alpha slider in the color picker
- Added auto completion in the simple folder search plugin
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug which prevented the windows application icons to be generated
New in ueli 8.7.1 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Added "Super" as an option when choosing the hotkey modifier
- Bugfixes:
- Disabled powershell profile loading
- Fixed a bug which caused problems when activating the UWP plugin
- Fixed a bug which caused problems when importing a color theme
- Fixed encoding problems with powershell and everything
- Use correct way to retrieve apps on macOS 10.15 Catalina and newer
- Fixed a bug which caused problems with the application search on Windows when a folder was not accessible
- Fixed a bug which caused UI problems when using a transparent window
New in ueli 8.7.0 (May 5, 2020)
- New Features:
- Added proper support for UWP apps (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Added support for Powershell Core and WSL for shells in the commandline plugin
- Improvements:
- Made control panel plugin compatible with Powershell 4.0 (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Show loading indicator until execution is finished.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug which caused errors to occur if a file included square brackets on Windows. (#343)
- Fixed an issue where icons generation failed on macOS (Thanks to @BenoitGour) (#314)
New in ueli 8.6.1 (Mar 18, 2020)
- Bugfix:
- Fixed a bug which prevented the folder/file dialog not to work properly
New in ueli 8.5.3 (Feb 29, 2020)
- Show window always on current virtual deskto on macOS (#303)
New in ueli 8.5.2 (Feb 13, 2020)
- Bugfixes:
- Restore focus on previously focussed window (#182)
New in ueli 8.5.1 (Feb 11, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Opening files, folders, applications and URLs should be quicker (#185)
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug which prevented dictionary results to appear because they had no example (#239)
New in ueli 8.5.0 (Jan 4, 2020)
- New Features:
- Added Control panel plugin to search the "old" control panel in Windows (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)
- Improvements:
- Added the option to specify a shell in the commandline plugin (#201)
- Added the option to filter out search results with a keyword (#208)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug which caused the generation of application icons to break (#243, #202)
New in ueli 8.4.2 (Dec 29, 2019)
- Updated dependencies due to CVE-2019-19919
New in ueli 8.4.0 (Dec 3, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Allow other protocols than http and https for web search engines (Fixes #178)
- Treat \Share\... as a valid file path on Windows (Fixes #145)
- Added more Windows Settings (Fixes #97 and #168)
- Bug fixes:
- [only macOS] restore focus when hiding ueli (Fixes #182), thanks @sgruetter
New in ueli 8.3.0 (Nov 19, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Added Russian GUI translations, thanks to @Lukentui
- Added option to translate from english to russian, thanks to @Lukentui
- Added option to prevent window to hide after execution (Fixes #195)
- Fixed a typo, thanks @jcklpe
- Added a minimum for rescan interval (Fixes #221)
New in ueli 8.2.0 (Oct 14, 2019)
- Dictionary Plugin (#200):
- Type in dict?<term> to get a definition of a word
- Uses unofficial google dictionary API (https//googledictionaryapi.eu-gb.mybluemix.net/)
- Currently only english dictionary available
- Bookmarks Plugin (#119):
- Search your bookmarks from your web browser
- currently only Google Chrome bookmarks supported
New in ueli 8.1.3 (Sep 23, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Added option to lock window position
- Added nicer default icons for shortcuts
- Show default websearch icon if no icon is defined
- Only refresh index of affected plugin when updating settings
- Added indicator in settings window if plugin is enabled
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed issue where stdout maxlength was exceeded when searching large folders with simple folder search plugin (#192)
New in ueli 8.1.2 (Sep 16, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Use native tools to scan installed applications
- Use native tools to scan system preferences on macOS
- Use native tools to scan files and folers in Simple folder search plugin
- Only regenerate app icons which don't exist yet
- Shortcuts: use execution argument as fallback description if there is no description
- Added indicator to main window if app is currently rescanning
- Added option to turn off native icons (might result in better rescan performance)
- Added Windows operating system command "Hibernate" (#191)
- Added better debug messages
- Misc:
- Removed setting to define application file extensions on macOS
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed bug which caused wrong app icons to show up
New in ueli 8.1.1 (Sep 4, 2019)
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed issue where app had a white border in macOS Mojave 10.14 (#186)
- Fixed issue where es.exe could not be found when have whitespace in its filepath (#172)
- Fixed issue which caused app to fade in weirdly on Windows (#160)
- Improvements:
- Added option to enable transparent background
New in ueli 8.1.0 (Aug 20, 2019)
- New Features:
- Added a new color conversion plugin (#133)
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed an issue where checkmarks were mixed up (#173)
- Fixed an issue where powershell executable could not be found (#171)
New in ueli 8.0.0 (Aug 14, 2019)
- New Features:
- A whole new settings window to make configuration easier.
- Added currency converter
- Added Everything feature (#93)
- Added mdfind feature
- Added translation feature
- Added workflow feature (#81)
- Improvements:
- Added option to make user input persistent (#117)
- Added option to make full file path visible (#123)
- Added option to enable user confirmation before execution for shortcuts (#124)
- Allow forward slashes in file paths on Windows (#153)
- Improved lock computer on macOS (#157)
- Added option to trigger rescan from tray icon (#159)
- Added option to keep window visible when focus is lost (#163)
- Added 32-bit builds for Windows (#165)
- Added "Sleep" to Windows operating system commands (#166)
- Added support for asynchronous code execution and therefore hopefully faster and more responsive
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed issue with unreadable commandline output by using the build in terminal (#146)
- Removed features:
- Mouse interaction
- Custom commands
- Compatibility with older versions:
- The configuration of your older ueli version is not compatible with this new release.
New in ueli 7.2.8 (Jul 18, 2019)
- Updated dependencies due to vulnerabilities
New in ueli 7.2.7 (Jun 26, 2019)
- Fixed startup issue when custom command contained empty prefix (#156)
New in ueli 7.2.6 (Jun 3, 2019)
- Updated dependencies due to security vulnerabilities:
- electron-store 2.0.0 -> 3.2.0
- webpack 4.17.1 -> 4.32.2
- webpack-cli 3.1.0 -> 3.3.2
- webpack-merge 4.1.4 -> 4.2.1
New in ueli 7.2.5 (Feb 8, 2019)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug which caused error when user input started with # (Fixes #108)
New in ueli 7.2.4 (Feb 8, 2019)
- New Features:
- Added option to show description on all search results (#107)
New in ueli 7.2.3 (Jan 30, 2019)
- Bugfixes:
- Added option to encode search term for web search engines (#104)
New in ueli 7.2.2 (Jan 24, 2019)
- New features:
- Specify the calculators precision in the settings
- For example: if precision is set to 4 then the calculation 1 / 3 gives the result 0.3333
- Precision is set to 16 by default, minimum is 0, maximum is 64
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed bug which distorted the calculator's result (#84)
New in ueli 7.2.1 (Jan 12, 2019)
- New Features
- Added user config option 'transparentWindow' (Fixes #89)
- Clear app icon store on quit
- Bug fixes
- Treat keyboard events always as lowercase (Fixes #82)
- Trim search term when building executionUrl for web searchres (Fixes #87)
New in ueli 7.2.0 (Dec 24, 2018)
- Winodws only: Launch programs as Admin with Shift Enter (#76)
- Added priorityand isFallback options to web search engines (#77) to specify and prioritize fallback web searches
- Added option to specify a special character or string for whitespace encoding for web searches (#66)
- Use full window width in settings view
New in ueli 7.1.0 (Dec 12, 2018)
- New Features:
- Added a confirmation dialog when executing 'dangerous' stuff like System shutdown/restart/logout (#73)
- Do not show dialog when error occurs when generating app icons (#74)
- Bug fixes:
- Treat all strings starting with http:// or https:// as a valid URL (#70)
New in ueli 7.0.1 (Dec 4, 2018)
- Bugfixes:
- Exit powershell process after icon generation (fixes #71)
- Fixed bug which prevented the main window to resize properly when 'useNativeIcons' is set to false (#72)
New in ueli 7.0.0 (Dec 3, 2018)
- New Features:
- Finally! Native icons for apps and files.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug which allowed long filenames to break GUI layout
New in ueli 6.1.4 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed bug which prevented subfolders to show up in recursive file search results
New in ueli 6.1.3 (Nov 9, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Enabled file browser feature by default
- Enabled operating system commands feature by default
- Show index size in settings view
- Include subfolders in file/folder search feature
New in ueli 6.1.2 (Oct 15, 2018)
- New Features:
- Added possibility to launch custom command without typing in the full prefix (#58)
- Added possibility to launch items with ctrl+number
- Improvements:
- Revised updating process
- Bug fixes:
- Only change active item when mouse interaction is enabled and mouse is moving (#63)
New in ueli 6.1.1 (Oct 8, 2018)
- Improved:
- Added more weight to frequently executed search results
- Fixed typo in settings
New in ueli 6.1.0 (Oct 5, 2018)
- New Features:
- GUI for user settings (open with Ctrl+i or search for Ueli settings:
- Added possibility to change user config path (#48)
- Added customizable icon sets
- Added customizable max window height
- Added customizable search engine limit to improve general performance
- Added colorful icons (can be fully user customized)
- Added possibility to reset user and app settings to default
- Added possibility to enable/disable all features
- Added possibility to add <img> tags as icons
- Added possibility to define a blacklist for file and folder search
- Added possibility to activate 'smooth scrolling'
- Improvement:
- Improved updating process (check/download updates in settings GUI)
- Improved scrolling behaviour
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug which rescan interval
- Fixed buggy tray icon
- Trim user input when using web search engine
- Fixed bug which prevented using Cmd+a to select all text on macOS
New in ueli 6.0.0 (Sep 17, 2018)
- When using calculator you can copy the result to the system clipboard by pressing Enter (#57)
- Added new system settings for macOS
New in ueli 5.1.0 (Aug 22, 2018)
- New Features:
- Added option to disable mouse interaction
- Moved to plain CSS and added support for custom themes (#44)
- Show search result description instead of execution argument
New in ueli 5.0.0 (Jul 20, 2018)
- New Features:
- Added option to hide tray icon (#36)
- Added new updater
- Added option to search folders recursively
- Added Windows 10 Photos app
- Indicate that command line tool has started (#41)
- Changed the way ueli opens up webpages/files/folders on Windows (#42)
- Bugfixes:
- Reset user input properly
- Close main window properly
- Destory tray icon when it already exists
New in ueli 4.7.0 (Jun 26, 2018)
- Added support for multiple screens (#33):
- By default ueli will show up on the display where your cursor is currently on
- If you want ueli always to show up on your primary display you can set alwaysShowOnPrimaryDisplay via configuration
New in ueli 4.6.0 (Jun 13, 2018)
- Added possibility to set up fallback web search engines (#10)
New in ueli 4.4.0 (Jun 4, 2018)
- New Features:
- Added possibility to start check for updates with "ueli:check-for-updates"
- Added possibility to customize search engine threshold
- Added possibility to customize folders which are scanned for files and folders (not recursively)
- Added possiblity to disable logging
New in ueli 4.3.0 (May 28, 2018)
- Added possibility to customize global hot key
- Addd input history browsing with Shift+ArrowUp and Shift+ArrowDown
New in ueli 4.2.0 (May 21, 2018)
New in ueli 4.1.0 (May 18, 2018)
- New Features:
- Added new color themes dark-mono, light-mono
- Added possibility to customize application file extensions with the config file (#28)
- Added .exe to default application file extensions on Windows
- Added Wikipedia to default web search engines
- Fixed:
- Reload config when reloading ueli with ueli:reload (#19)
New in ueli 3.1.1 (Apr 19, 2018)
- Fixes:
- Reset commandline output when hiding window