v2.0.0-beta.5

• Fix a regression issue that some settings can't be changed on beta.4 @yougg

v2.0.0-beta.4

• Add

  • Quick Select to choose results via digits
    
  • MRU for query mode. User can now display MRU results when opening Wox by default
    
    
  • Custom Python and Node.js path configuration (#4220)
  • Edge bookmarks loading across platforms
  • Calculator plugin: add power operator (^) support

• Improve

  • Migrate settings from JSON to a unified, type-safe SQLite store
  • Reduce clipboard memory usage
  • Windows UX: app display details, Unicode handling, and UWP icon retrieval

• Fix

  • Key conflict when holding Ctrl and repeatedly pressing other keys
  • "Last display position" not restored after restart
  • Windows app extension checks (case-insensitive, #4251)
  • Image loading error handling in image view

v2.0.0-beta.3

• Fix issue where Windows sometimes cannot gain focus #4198
• [Chat plugin], support multiple tool calls executed simultaneously in a single request
• [Chat plugin], support custom agents
• Support ScriptPlugin

v2.0.0-beta.2

• Added Chat plugin, you can now chat with AI directly through this plugin, supporting MCP.
  
• The settings interface now follows the theme color.
  
• Added double modifiers hotkey as a shortcut, E.g. double-click ctrl key.
• [Windows only] Added support for everything (file plugin).
• [Windows only] Resolved the issue of focus not returning on Windows #4144 #4166
• [Windows only] Optimized transparent display effect on Windows.

v2.0.0-beta.1

Overview

We're excited to announce the beta release of Wox v2.0.0! This major update represents a complete rewrite of Wox as a cross-platform launcher, now supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux. Wox v2 is designed to be a powerful alternative to Alfred and Launchy, with a focus on simplicity, extensibility, and performance.

Key Features

Cross-Platform Support

• Now available on macOS, Windows, and Linux
• Consistent experience across all platforms
• Single executable file, no installation required

Enhanced UI/UX

• Modern and clean interface
• New preview panel
• AI-ready commands

Plugin System

• Support for JavaScript and Python plugins
• Improved plugin management
• Enhanced plugin store with growing collection of plugins
• Better action filtering and result scoring

AI Integration

• Enhanced AI command response processing
• AI-powered theme creation

Internationalization

• Comprehensive localization support
• Multilingual UI for settings

Deep Linking

• Enhanced platform deep link processing

Known Issues

• This is a beta release and may contain bugs
• Some features are still under active development

Feedback

We welcome your feedback and bug reports! Please join our discussions or submit issues on GitHub.

Thank you for using Wox!

v2.0.0-2025.02-nightly

This is Wox v2 nightly 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

v1.4.1196

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.

v1.4.1129

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.

v1.4.1115

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.

v1.3.1073

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.