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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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