This is Wox v2 alpha release, it's not feature complete and may has bugs. If you use windows, you should use v1.x.x instead.

System Requirement

1. Macos requires 10.15 Catalina or above
2. Windows requires windows 10 or above

1. fix more uwp load
2. performance improvement for starup
3. performance improvement for first search
4. up to 100 times speedup for query and program/win32/uwp index
5. this will be the last prerelease before stable release.

wox-full-installer*.exe include all dependency, this is recommend approach.
wox*.exe is just the wox installer itself without everything.exe and python.exe. require everything version > 1.4.1.
*.zip is used for portable mode, don't use it unless you know what is portable mode.

1. fix more uwp icon load
2. fix control panel items load
3. performance improvement and memory leak fix for pinyin

wox-full-installer*.exe include all dependency, this is recommend approach.
wox*.exe is just the wox installer itself without everything.exe and python.exe. require everything version > 1.4.1.
*.zip is used for portable mode, don't use it unless you know what is portable mode.

bug fix and performance improvement.

wox-full-installer*.exe include all dependency, this is recommend approach.
wox*.exe is just the wox installer itself without everything.exe and python.exe. require everything version > 1.4.1.
*.zip is used for portable mode, don't use it unless you know what is portable mode.

1 huge query performance improvement
1.1 query cancellation for program plugin and everything plugin
1.2 fine grained cache for fuzzy match and pinyin
2 fix windows7 and windows 8 support

wox-full-installer*.exe include all dependency, this is recommend approach.
wox*.exe is just the wox installer itself without everything.exe and python.exe. require everything version > 1.4.1.
*.zip is used for portable mode, don't use it unless you know what is portable mode.

performance improvement for icon load.
fix icon load for control panel plugin.
fix windows 7 and windows 8 support.
fix portable mode support.

full-installer*.exe include all dependency, this is recommend approach.
wox*.exe is just the wox installer itself without everything.exe and python.exe. require everything version > 1.4.1
*.zip is used for portable mode, don't use it unless you know what is portable mode.

fix image load permission issue
use everything native hight light data, which require everything version > 1.4.1

full-installer*.exe include everything.exe and python.exe.
*.zip is used for portable mode without everything.exe and python.exe..
wox*.exe is just the wox installer itself without everything.exe and python.exe.

fix auto startup
fix image cache calculation
fix websearch plugin
fix plugin action keyword
fix icon in for program list in control panel
fix error report
use everything native hight light data, which require everything version > 1.4.1

full-installer*.exe include everything.exe and python.exe.
*.zip is used for portable mode without everything.exe and python.exe..
wox*.exe is just the wox installer itself without everything.exe and python.exe.

1. fix ui block by using smart image cache and default image.
2. add two new theme "System Dark" and "System Light", which will change blue color according to system settings.

1. ui rendering logic rewrite, less cpu usage and more responsive for result list.
2. auto crash report using raygun.
3. first search after startup won't block

1. various bug fixed. including theme compatibility and setting page display.
2. include a full installer, which include everything and python.
3. program plugin bug fix, can index all uwp and lnk program without exception now.

1. various bug fix.
2. performance improvement, fast typing won't cause blocking, unresponsive or high (>60%) cpu usage.
3. ability to opt-in auto update for prerelease

1. MS ClearType enabled

2. Better result highlight
   

3. Enable portable mode by making a directory named UserData along with Wox.exe

Portable mode
Drastically improved search experience
Auto-complete text suggestion
Highlighting of how results are matched during query search
Search all subfolders and files
Option to always run CMD or Powershell as administrator
Run CMD, Powershell and programs as a different user
Open web search result as a tab or a new window
Manage what programs should be loaded
Reload/update plugin data

Release Notes

New feature:

• Added a setting to hide/remove tray icon (3dac6fd1c39ba9893b6a480168571157905b7204)
• Added HiDPI UWP icon support (#1515)

Fix:

• Skip calucation of pinyin socre for very long string, reducing memory usage. (7fe01f07646ddbdfec34d19f1c94527bc73e17bd)
• Respect the font setting (#2186)
• Skip broken folder when re-index (#2004)
• Rewrite the ImageLoader, now image related actions should be more stable. (#1836)

More languages support:

• Added Norwegian Bokmål (#2184)
• Added Italian (#2143)
• Added Portuguese (Brazil) (#2119)
• Added Serbian (#2029)
• Updated Janpanese (#1982)

website has been changed to wox.one

Release Notes

Fixes:

• Fixed folder unauthorized exception (PR #1282, https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/commit/808523b814ddbb82c6ac13f1da697342bc29b6a0, PR #1780)
• Indexing now continues after unauthorized exceptions (#1779, PR #1780)
• Prevents ActionKeyword from being empty
• Empty cache files no longer crash Wox (#1394, PR #1776)

Changes:

• ReportWindow exception formatting reverted to a simple ToString as it is more informative for AggregateExceptions and the like (PR #1778)
• Calculator plugin: YAMP switched to Mages (PR #1628)

New features:

• Added context menu to non C# plugins https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/pull/1366

Release Notes:

1. Fix win7 exception #1251
2. UWP support #198
3. faster startup / query
4. fix null reference #783
5. fix web search settings
6. fix blur in settings #875 #1190
7. fix cursor jumping #813
8. fix update issue #1320 and System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCanceledException #1266
9. the theme website has been updated, delete your old theme file if you still have theme file issue #880

Release Notes:

1. Fix win7 exception #1251
2. UWP support #198
3. faster startup / query
4. fix null reference #783
5. fix web search settings
6. fix blur in settings #875 #1190
7. fix cursor jumping

Known problems:

1. System.UriFormatException: delete your old theme file
2. System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCanceledException: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/happlebao/wox/build/1.3.414/artifacts

Release Notes:

1. UWP support #198
2. faster startup / query
3. fix null reference #783
4. fix web search settings
5. fix blur in settings #875 #1190

Known problems:

1. System.UriFormatException: delete your old theme file
2. System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCanceledException: 设置 http 代理