# Raycast macOS 2.9: ⚡ Improvements

URL: https://www.raycast.com/changelog/macos/2-9
Released: 2026-10-22

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This update brings new commands, useful improvements, and plenty of fixes across Raycast. Send Notes directly to AI Chat, restart the frontmost app with a new command, and enjoy a more polished AI Chat experience. Search performance is improved by 50% in Root Search and menus, while Search Screenshots is 3× faster and uses 80% less memory.


## ✨ New

- **AI Commands**: Added a Default option to the model picker, so commands follow your default AI Command model. They also show the default reasoning effort
- **Notes**: Added a **Send to AI Chat** action to Search Notes and the Notes window. Press `⌘ + J` to attach the note to AI Chat
- **Restart Frontmost App**: New command that quits and reopens the app you're currently using

## 💎 Improvements

- **Action Panel**: Improved search ranking by prioritizing complete word matches
- **AI Chat**: Wide tables can now go past the usual text width to show more columns, while staying lined up with the text and keeping each column readable
- **AI Chat**: Long responses render more smoothly while they're streaming in
- **AI Chat**: Improved Mermaid diagram loading and added error details when a diagram couldn’t be rendered
- **AI Chat**: Improved readability and markdown rendering
- **AI Chat**: Commands sent to AI Chat (such as Send to AI Chat or Dictation) now respect the **Start New Chat** setting
- **AI**: Newly installed Extension-provided models are now searchable in model pickers
- **MCP**: Added connection error details to **Manage MCP Servers**
- **Restart / Shut Down**: The confirmation now has a "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox that follows your macOS setting, so windows only reopen when you want them to
- **Search**: Improved performance (50% faster) and reduced memory overhead in Root Search and menu searches
- **Search Screenshots**: Reduced memory usage when browsing images (3x faster and 80% less memory usage)
- **Settings**: Improved command settings, including descriptions, hotkeys, and aliases
- **Settings**: Moved Screen Awareness into a submenu of the AI settings tab
- **UI**: Improved handling of toast/hud dismissal, fixing recurring issue of toast/hud reappearing after dismissal
- **UI**: Added support for pending + progress display in HUDs
- **UI**: HUDs and in-window toasts can now be dismissed
- **Window Management**: Reduced visible flickering

## 🐞 Fixes

- **AI Chat**: Fixed deleting the open chat leaving nothing selected. The selection now moves to a nearby chat, like it did in the old window
- **Extensions**: Fixed tinted images failing to load from some websites
- **Extensions**: Fixed an issue where number hotkeys was taking priority over command action hotkeys
- **Extensions:** Fixed grid images appearing off-centre or clipped at larger interface sizes
- **Extensions:** Fixed grid item sizes being ignored in extensions using the legacy sizing option
- **Extensions:** Fixed an issue where dropdown items in an extension's search bar ignored their `keywords` when you typed to filter them
- **Extensions:** Fixed an issue where the blinking text cursor showed up in screenshots taken with Window Capture
- **MCP**: Fixed Microsoft 365 sign-in failures
- **MCP**: Fixed sign-in after initially connecting to a server without authentication
- **MCP**: Fixed connections to older servers when connection discovery timed out
- **MCP**: Fixed repeated reconnects during Cloud Sync
- **Notes**: Fixed `>>` and `<<` turning into `»` and `«`, which broke snippets using those keywords
- **Store**: Fixed commands of disabled extensions still showing up and running from the Store
- **UI**: Fixed an issue where some toasts could remain visibly stale
- **UI**: Fixed an issue where picking the Raycast glyph for some custom commands (ai, dictation, etc) would result in an empty tile icon without glyph