General

• This release splits the universal macOS build into two separate builds for:
  • arm64 (macOS computers with an M1/M2/M3 chip)
  • x64 (macOS computer with an Intel chip)

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with prebuilt binaries on macOS

This is the first major release in almost 5 years! 🎉
Thanks for everyone who contributed to this project! ❤️

New Features

• Added Linux support
• Added support for automatic dark/light themes
• Added support for system backdrop effect on Windows (Mica, Mica Tabbed, Acrylic)
• Added support for vibrancy effect on macOS
• Use FluentUI react components for better accessibility
• Added more reliable translation extension by using DeepL
• Added back Firefox bookmarks
• Added ability to search bookmarks from different browsers at the same time
• Added new extension "Terminal Launcher"
• Added the option to switch between different filtering algorithms. Currently supported: "Fuse.js" and "fuzzysort"

Improvements

• Made electron application more secure by disabling nodeIntegration in renderer process
• Complete rewrite of the whole application. Code separation should now be better and it should be easier to add new extensions
• Generally improved developer experience by using vite and making use of HMR
• Improved extraction of native icons

Changes from v8

• The settings from v8 are incompatible with v9, therefore the default settings will be applied when you upgrade to v9. You can downgrade to v8 at any time.
• As ueli uses FluentUI react components most of the visual customization options are dropped
• As ueli v9 was rewritten from the ground up it's very likely that certain features or bug fixes are missing in v9
• Formerly called "Plugins" are now called "Extensions"
• Because of the rewrite most of the translations could not be migrated. The only languages supported are:
  • English (US)
  • German (Switzerland)

Discontinued plugins from v8

These plugins are not lost, but just not ported to v9 as they need a partial rewrite. If there is a high demand, we can still port them later.

• Color converter
• Commandline => repaled by Terminal Launcher extension
• Dictionary
• Email
• File browser
• Lorem ipsum
• Shortcuts => replaced by Workflows extension
• Simple folder search
• Translation => replaced by DeepL extension
• URL
• UWP => integrated into Application Search extension
• Weather

Improvements

• Grouped search results by favorites and others

Bug fixes

Terminal Launcher extension

• Fixed bug which prevented the terminal launcher extension settings to work properly

Changes:

• No features, improvements or bug fixes added
• ⚠️ As this is the last v8 version and we don't want to auto-update to v9, the auto updater was removed in this version.

New Features

General

• Added ability to browse search history
  

Workflow extension

• Added ability to launch terminals with a given command

Improvements

• Tidied up settings UI by grouping items together and move label before control
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed some translation issues

Improvements

General

• Added loading indicator before first rescan is complete

Application Search Extension

• Added option to launch applications as administrator on Windows
• Improved app icon generation on Linux

New Features

Workflow extension

• This extension allows you to run multiple things at once
• This extension acts as a port of the "Workflows" plugin from ueli v8
• For now you can open files, URLs and execute commands, more to come...

Improvements

• Added more options on when to hide window

Bug fixes

• Prevent opening of dev tools when app is packaged
• Prevent flash on Windows

Removals

• Removed "Shortcuts" extension in favor of the new "Workflow" extension

New features:

Browser Bookmarks:

• Added the ability to search browser bookmarks of multiple browsers at the same time (#743)
  
  
• Added the ability to choose if the search result item icon should be the favicon or the browser icon
  

Bug fixes:

• Windows: restore focus correctly to previously focused window (#1101)

New features:

Windows Control Panel (Thanks to @tkohlmeier!)

Improvements:

• Sorted search result items alphabetically (when no search term given) for better overview
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that prevented the icon generation to work correctly for Windows applications with umlauts in their name (Thanks to @tkohlmeier)

New Features:

• Show favorites and search result items on start screen (when no search term is given)
  

New features:

• Added the option to switch between different filtering algorithms. Currently supported: Fuse.js and fuzzysort. This will solve problems where users experienced unexpected search result items to show up.
  

New features:

• Terminal Launcher extension:
  • This extension allows you to launch commands in your terminal with the following pattern: <prefix><command>
  • Example screenshots
    
  • Supported terminals:
    • Windows: Command prompt, Powershell, Powershell Core, WSL
    • macOS: Terminal, iTerm

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused the Application Search extension to return an empty result list, when one of the application files contained an umlaut, e.g.: "ä", "ö" or "ü" in their file name (Thanks to @Enubia)

Features:

• Added Linux support for the Application Search extension (Thanks to @ke1v)

• 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

• Added back support for Firefox bookmarks

Added Windows support in the System Commands extension.

Removed extract-file-icon due to problems on Linux and Windows

• Added Currency Conversion extension

• Simplified the generation of url and file/folder icons
• use file dialog for file shortcuts