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Raycast: 🗒️ Images In Notes
Raycast v2.10. Source highlight: In this week's release, we've made a bunch of updates to Raycast Notes, some of which have been highly requested!
Raycast Changelog & Release History
Supercharged productivity launcher with hundreds of extensions.
Partial archive: 10 tracked releases, Sep 01, 2026–Oct 28, 2026. Includes multiple channels and packages. Coverage & limitations.
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Tracked Raycast Releases (10)
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Raycast: ⚡ Improvements
Raycast v2.9. Source highlight: 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 Screensho
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Raycast: ⚡ Performance Improvements
Raycast v2.8. Source highlight: 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.
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Raycast: ⚡ More performance improvements and new ways to send context to AI
Raycast v2.7. Source highlight: We made more memory and performance improvements. AI Chat, Notes and Settings now each run in their own process, so a busy chat or a heavy note no longer slows down Root Search, and closing them frees up their memory. The launcher can use up to 35% less memory while idle. File Search uses up to 80%
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Raycast: 🎛️ Performance Improvements and Auto Model
Raycast v2.6. Source highlight: We made several memory and performance improvements. Raycast's host process now uses about 50% less memory. Each extension process uses about 30% less memory at startup and less CPU when launching, which helps menu bar commands, background refreshes, and AI tools. We also fixed a memory leak that gr
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Raycast: 🔌 External Model Providers
Raycast v2.5. Source highlight: Extensions can now provide their own AI models to Raycast. Just install a compatible extension from the Store, complete its setup, and choose its models in AI Chat. It’s an easy way to bring even more models into your everyday workflow.
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Raycast: 🌉 macOS Golden Gate Ready
Raycast v2.4. Source highlight: macOS Golden Gate is out, bringing many user interface changes. While there are no major new features, we've focused on implementing some of these design tweaks in Raycast, such as new sidebars / toolbars as well as Liquid Glass updates.
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✨ New In Raycast AI
Raycast v2.3. Source highlight: We rebuilt the core of Raycast AI. You can now give AI Chat a task and it works out a plan, uses your extensions, writes and runs code, checks the results, and keeps going until it's finished. When something fails, it tries a different approach. And when it needs a decision from you, it stops, asks
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Raycast: 🦙 Bring Your Own Model
Raycast v2.2. Source highlight: Bring Your Own Model brings three familiar ways to use your preferred AI models back to Raycast v2. Connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with
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Raycast: 😁 Inline Emoji Picker
Raycast v2.1. Source highlight: Your favorite emojis are now just a