Changelog

💎 Improvements

• Quick AI and AI Chat: Improved loading speed for large amounts of chats and chats with lots of messages
• Quick AI and AI Chat: Reduced memory consumption when having lots of AI chats
• What’s New: Added a setting to the Changelog command to disable “What’s new?” items in the root search
• Hyper Key: Added better diagnostics for conflicting applications detection.
• Keyboard Settings: Added “Escape Key Closes Window” in Keyboard settings.
• Advanced Settings: Added “Window Activation Behavior” to select whether window move to the active space or the user is moved to the window space.
• Raycast Notes: Added “Show Notes Toggle in Menu Bar” and “Escape Key Loses Focus” settings.
• Root Search: Enable drag & drop for Applications

🐞 Fixes

• Clipboard History: Fix mislabeled Universal Clipboard source.
• Quick AI: Fixed Quick AI command not being available
• Settings Import/Export: Prevent timeout for large exports/imports.
• Snippets: Improved snippet injection within Raycast
• Windows: Fix floating windows not opening on top of full-screen applications
• My Schedule: Meetings should now be opened in the native application if available (Zoom, Teams, Slack huddles…).
• Hyper Key: Improve diagnostics and keyboard reconnection handling
• Emoji Picker: Fix duplicated info emoji
• Clipboard History: Improved pasting reliability for some applications (cmux)

💎 Improvements

• Confetti: You can now disable holiday confetti in settings
• Calendar: Open meeting urls directly in the associated app if available
• Contacts: Cleaned-up UI
• General: Toast is now automatically expandable (toast action panel) when overflowing
• Quicklinks: Added Edit, Duplicate, Disable, Delete actions in settings
• Quicklinks: Tidied up filters
• Root Search: Added support for What’s New item in compact mode
• Settings: Cleaned-up Appearance / Theming settings
• Snippets: Tidied up filters

🐞 Fixes

• Calendar: Improve auto-join scheduler reliability during sleep/wake cycles
• Clipboard History: Fixed an issue where copying from MS Word wouldn’t create new entries
• General: Fixed list hover flickering issue on Tahoe 26.4
• Importer: Fixed Clipboard History import for users with >20k records
• Importer: Fixed timeouts during long imports
• Importer: Avoid mapping hotkey characters to the number pad
• Quicklinks: Fixed icons for links using custom app protocols
• Settings: Fixed certificate file picker busting out UI in Advanced Settings
• Window Management: Fixed Custom Command form layout issues

The new Raycast is here! 🎉 

This next version is not only a UI refresh but a brand new revamped application. With this new app we have sweat the details, so really we hope you love the new experience as much as we do.

You can expect to see many new features and improvements across the app. This list aims to capture them all but we likely have missed some improvements here and there. We are not quite at 100% feature parity yet, but the remaining features will be released to you over the coming weeks.

Enjoy! ❤️

✨ What’s New

• General: A new refreshed look and feel across the app. Redesigned for Tahoe.
• General: A new, simplified compact mode design
• General: Symlinks of Applications are now visible in Root Search
• Shortcuts: A new and improved hotkey recorder
• Shortcuts: Assign hotkeys and aliases directly from the action panel in Root Search
• Quick AI: Redesigned to match AI Chat and with a more powerful composer
• AI Chat: Presets are now called Agents and are reused. If you change the configuration of an agent, the new configuration now applies to all chats using the agent
• AI Chat: Added memory to make chats more personal
• AI Chat: Skills installed on the computer are now supported and load in dynamically
• AI Chat: Chats can be auto-archived after a set period of time
• AI Chat: Danger mode which bypasses all confirmation prompts
• AI Chat: /-commands to quickly change chat settings like selecting a model
• File Search: Using a new indexing engine for faster search results and more filtering options
• File Search: Files and directories can now be found in Root Search
• Snippets: Added support for tagging
• Quicklinks: Added support for tagging
• Quicklinks: Added support for pinning
• Dynamic Placeholders: Added a new{calculator} dynamic placeholder. Available in Snippets, Quicklinks and AI Commands.
• Calculator: Added syntax highlighting
• Calculator: Inline translation with in suffix
• Clipboard: We can now save (and can restore) all original representations copied
• Clipboard: Added ability to rename clipboard entries
• Clipboard: Clipboard entries with multiple files/content are now grouped together
• Calendar: Added a new Create Event command
• Emoji Picker: Multiple grid size options are now available
• Translator: Default language settings
• Translator: Create custom commands with predefined language pairs, so you can quickly translate between your most-used languages without selecting them each time.
• Translator: "Use Selected Text as Source" setting. When enabled, triggering the translator via hotkey automatically fills the source text with your current selection.
• … and more

🔜  Coming Soon

• General: Raycast V2 Manual and links throughout the application
• General: Bigger font size
• Cloud Sync: Full Cloud Sync solution that will let you sync all of your data across platforms and Raycast versions.
• Raycast AI: Dictation
• Raycast AI: AI Extensions
• Raycast AI: MCP
• Raycast AI: Send to … AI chat commands
• Raycast AI: Local Models
• Teams: Create and Manage Webhook Commands
• Theming: Theme presets and the ability to create your own themes
• Window Management: Create Window Management Layout Commands
• Feature: Raycast Focus
• Feature: Auto Quit
• Feature: Inline Emoji Picker
• Affiliate Program: Become an Affiliate and Open Affiliate Dashboard Commands
• Referral Program: Share Raycast Command
• General: Share Feedback Command
• Calculator: Color picker
• Calculator: Flight tracker