Dev Home Preview v0.5

Welcome to version 0.5 of Dev Home! In this release, we added an extensions page to help you manage and discover new extensions. We also focused on accessibility, fixing bugs, and improving quality. Here are our latest improvements:

Extensions page

• Extensions page now exists in Dev Home and lists installed and available Dev Home extensions from the Microsoft Store. (#1529)

Accessibility fixes

• Keyboard navigation should now work properly on the machine configuration page. (#1419)
• Keyboard navigation now works in the app install page of machine configuration. (#1433)
• The app install experience should now have the right colors in high contrast mode. (#1434)
• Narrator should now have better announcements when used on the dashboard. (#1287)
• Narrator should now have better announcements when using the setup flow in machine configuration. (#1450)

Changes

• The Dev Drive checkbox in the add repo step of machine configuration is now automatically checked. (#1389)
• Page headers now take up less space on the page. (#1401)
• End task buttons have been removed from the CPU widget due to its update frequency. (#1467)
• GitHub extension is no longer automatically installed. (#1529)
• Installation notes are now displayed in the summary page after machine configuration. (#1533)

Bug fixes

• The Dev Drive UI should now appear in Beta and Canary Windows Insider channels. (#1431)
• UAC prompts should now work properly in the machine configuration tool. (#1495)
• Account provider is no longer shown after signing out (Thanks @PankajBhojwani!). (#1528)
• Relative paths with spaces should no longer crash Dev Home. (#1570)