# Raycast Windows 0.53: ✨ Bug Fixes & Improvements

URL: https://www.raycast.com/changelog/windows/0-53
Released: 2026-04-10

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## **💎 Improvements**

- **Quick AI**: Improved loading speed for large amounts of chats and chats with lots of messages
- **Quick AI**: Reduced memory consumption when having lots of AI chats
- **Settings:** Added “Escape Key Closes Window” in Keyboard settings. This allows you to close Settings or Notes windows using the Escape key.

## 🐞 Fixes

- **Applications**: Fix an issue where apps started from Raycast would run with the wrong `%PATH%` environment variable
- **Core:** Fix a rare issue where hotkeys/snippets wouldn’t be registered
- **Core:** Fix a rare issue were Raycast crashes on startup
- **Extensions**: Fixed an issue for opening applications from extensions
- **Quick AI**: Fixed Quick AI command not being available
- **Quick Look**: Close the Quick Look window with the CTRL+Y shortcut
- **Quick Look**: Fix audio still playing after closing the Quick Look window
- **Extensions:** Fixes a startup crash for misconfigured extensions