Dev Home 0.14 comes supercharged with Hosts File Editor, PowerToys tools, and more

Microsoft released a new version of the Dev Home app, a set of developer-focused facilities for Windows 10 and 11 users.

Dev Home 0.14 includes Hosts File Editor, Quickstart playground, Registry Preview, and Environment Variables Editor from PowerToys, some of which were discussed At the Build 2024 conference. In addition, a few bug fixes were introduced.

Here is the changelog available on GitHub

Welcome to version 0.14 of Dev Home! In this release, we focused on quality improvements and adding new features!

Accessibility features:

• Text on widgets should no longer get cut off when scaling changes.
• Dev Home should no longer crash when in high contrast on the Introducing Dev Home page.
• The add widget dialog now has tooltips.

Changes

• Utilities are now in Dev Home, including Hosts File Editor, Registry Preview, and Environment Variables editor from PowerToys.
• Environments is no longer marked as an experimental feature.
• Quickstart playground is now available as an experimental feature, providing a containerized way of creating development projects using AI.
• Hyper-V VMs in environments are not currently available on ARM.

Bug fixes

• Links within Dev Drive insights should now work properly.
• Deleting a running Hyper-V VM should no longer cause a crash.
• You should now be able to pin widgets after unpinning all of your widgets.
• Dev Home should no longer crash when updating environments page.

The preview of Dev Home 0.14 is available in its GitHub repository. You can also download the app from the Microsoft Store. Alternatively, you can launch Windows Terminal and use winget install –id Microsoft.DevHome -e command to install the app.

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