# Raycast Windows 2.8: ⚡ Performance Improvements

URL: https://www.raycast.com/changelog/windows/2-8
Released: 2026-10-16

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This update is about speed. File Search returns results up to 6× faster and handles typos much better, Root Search and other lists scroll smoother than ever, and extensions install and update about 4× faster on average. Raycast also starts with about 20% less memory.


## ✨ New

- **AI Skills**: Browse installed extension skills in AI settings
- **Emoji & Symbols**: Added Greek letters
- **Notes**: Cmd+click on a parent todo now toggles all nested todos

## 💎 Improvements

- **AI Chat**: Added a primary action setting to Send Window and Send Element to AI
- **AI Chat**: Added the New Project keyboard shortcut to button tooltips and made project creation action names consistent
- **AI Chat**: Clarified when you’ve reached the weekly Claude Fable usage limit
- **AI Chat**: Images you attach when using local models now stay on your device when Cloud Sync or AI Chat History sync is turned off
- **AI Chat**: Made mention labels clearer by distinguishing skills and MCP tools
- **AI Chat**: Reduced the data sent at the start of a chat by loading extension tools more selectively
- **Clipboard History**: Improved image & file icons
- **Core**: Improved performance all over the application, which should fix issues such as when Raycast is slow to show up after being idle for a while
- **Core**: Raycast now recovers on its own when the WebView2 browser process crashes or is killed
- **Custom Providers**: Numeric provider API keys are now kept exactly as written, and authentication failures are explained better when they occur
- **Dictation:** Settings are now organised better, making it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for
- **Extensions**: Installs and updates are about 4× faster on average, and up to 30× faster
- **File Search**: Results show up to 6× faster, slow searches are gone, and typos are handled much better
- **Lighter at startup**: Raycast uses about 20% less memory at launch and starts faster
- **Proxy**: Raycast now honors HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY for all its traffic.
- **Smoother scrolling**: Root Search and other lists scroll up to 2× faster
- **Root Search**: Commands are grouped by extension when search field is empty

## 🐞 Fixes

- **AI Chat**: Agents you turn off in Settings no longer appear in the composer
- **AI Chat**: Fixed archived chats also appearing in their project’s sidebar section
- **AI Chat**: Fixed Claude subscription models compacting too early
- **AI Chat**: Fixed image generation being unavailable with Ollama and extension models
- **AI Chat**: Fixed mention pills getting lost when you copy and paste them inside the composer
- **AI Chat**: Fixed missing skill names when restoring chat history
- **AI Chat**: Fixed new chats sending the wrong model when the saved model is unavailable
- **AI Chat**: Fixed pasting into the composer not working when it isn’t focused
- **AI Chat**: Fixed pressing Return not sending messages containing paths starting with `/`
- **AI Chat**: Fixed sidebar actions not responding while peeking at the sidebar
- **AI Chat**: Fixed the window freezing during streaming of very long lists
- **AI Chat**: Pasting a link copied from Edge's address bar into the composer now inserts the URL rather than the page title
- **AI Chat**: Removed a misplaced loading indicator from the sidebar
- **AI Chat**: Show a subscription prompt when sending a message while signed out, instead of showing a send error
- **Apps**: Fixed apps launched from Raycast showing up under Raycast in Task Manager and running inside Raycast's package sandbox
- **Billing**: Fixed a "Subtotal" typo on the billing interval update page
- **Calendar**: Fixed the menu bar item disappearing when an event title was cut off mid-emoji.
- **Capture Window**: Fixed custom wallpaper accepting non-image files
- **Clipboard History**: Fixed Paste Sequentially repeating multi-category clipboard entries
- **Extensions**: Fixed ghost hotkeys for removed extension commands
- **Extensions**: Fixed unnecessary scroll jumps while navigating lists and grids
- **File Index**: Fixed changes made while Raycast was closed sometimes not being picked up on launch
- **File Search**: Fixed the “Indexing Files…” row sometimes spinning forever after launch
- **General**: Fixed Show in File Explorer sometimes doing nothing
- **General**: Fixed the missing Raycast version in database error alerts
- **Manage Bluetooth Devices**: Fixed Bluetooth commands showing on PCs without a Bluetooth adapter, and turning Bluetooth on or off sometimes failing
- **Manage Wi-Fi Connections**: Fixed Wi-Fi commands showing on PCs without a Wi-Fi adapter, and show what to do when Windows' WLAN AutoConfig service is stopped instead of a generic error
- **Menu Bar:** Items that hide themselves stay hidden after a restart.
- **Open Camera**: Fixed Open Camera popping back to root while the preview is visible
- **Quick AI**: Fixed an issue where the action bar would sometimes appear too high in authentication views
- **Quick AI**: Fixed the missing Regenerate with Model action
- **Quicklinks**: Fixed "Invalid URL" being shown when {selection} could not be resolved
- **Root Search**: Fixed an issue affecting compact mode users where alias would sometimes not activate after pressing space
- **Script Commands**: Fixed inline scripts showing stale output after an error
- **Script Commands**: Fixed optional argument prompts being skipped when launching from a hotkey
- **Settings**: Fixed signed-in accounts without a display name incorrectly showing “Not Signed In”
- **Translator**: Fixed an issue where swapping language when the translation is loading would clear the input
- **UI**: Fixed an issue in the toast action panel where too much space was left below the description when no actions are present
- **Window Management**: Fixed Save Current Layout, Switch Windows and other window commands missing Chrome windows from profiles that have no desktop shortcut
- **Window Management**: Fixed window commands failing with "Focused window is not on a valid desktop" on windows pinned to all desktops. These windows now stay pinned after a command moves them
- **Window Management**: Ignored hotkeys for missing layouts and custom commands