Changelog - FluentFlyout

Major Update

December 20, 2025

📝 Changelog

⏯️ Added a new setting to enable new Taskbar Widget Media Controls buttons
🎨 Added a new setting to enable new subtle animations when a new song shows up
The Taskbar Widget will now automatically align next to the native widget if the setting is enabled, enabling support for left-aligned taskbars
If the artist name is empty, the title text will now be centered
Improved cover alignment
Other improvements and optimizations to the widget

Added debug/error logging to %AppData%\FluentFlyout\
🎉 Windows 10 compatibility — FluentFlyout will now fully work on Windows 10, expect less visual issues (updated MicaWPF package version to 6.3.2)
Updated settings window UI
Attempted to fix text overlap issues on the Lock Keys flyouts
Updated translations (thanks to @genotypePL, @maksymser, @ysfemreAlbyrk, @Xshadow9, @CC-D-Y, @weiss-rn, @logounet, @Pigeon0v0, @Aris-Offline, @Ste3798, @Nikolai-Misha, @xsm2 and others on Weblate!)
Full Changelog: https://github.com/unchihugo/FluentFlyout/compare/2.3.5...v2.4.0

@Simnico99, @unchihugo on GitHub

Minor Update

December 3, 2025

🛠️ Taskbar Widget position options: Choose to align the new taskbar widget to the left (default), center or right (next to the tray icon)!
🚀 Media Flyout performance updates: No more lag after rapidly pressing media keys!
Fixed issue where the "Launch on Startup" setting would always be switched off
Update translations from Hosted Weblate (thanks to @se34k, @CielWhitefox, @thinkii, @v3vishal, @yoyo435, @ThePerson-o, @fortIItude, @xsm2, @weiss-rn and everyone else on Weblate)
Refactor licensing for Microsoft Store version
Full Changelog: https://github.com/unchihugo/FluentFlyout/compare/v2.3.0...2.3.5

Fixed Taskbar Widget cover alignment when switching between placeholder and cover in https://github.com/unchihugo/FluentFlyout/pull/185

@unchihugo, @weblate on GitHub

Major Update

November 28, 2025

⭐ Media Flyout Taskbar Integration: A compact, built-in widget that lives right on your Windows Taskbar for instant access to your media, with customization options!
📥 Hide Tray Icon option: you can now choose to hide the Tray Icon completely!
Fix Media Player Info sometimes displaying Windows Explorer,
Pressing the start menu entry (or launching FluentFlyout) a second time will now open settings
Add Premium support for Windows Store (still completely free on GitHub)
Update translations from Hosted Weblate (thanks to everyone on Weblate),
Full Changelog: https://github.com/unchihugo/FluentFlyout/compare/v2.2.0...v2.3.0

@kitUIN, @unchihugo, @weblate on GitHub

Major Update

November 22, 2025

🎨 The seek bar on the Media Flyout is now properly accent-colored instead of grey on the progressed side!
💾 Media Flyout now caches the media player name and icon instead of searching on every flyout—you might notice improved performance
Added 5 new languages (Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Czech, French, German)
Right-to-left languages will now change every window and flyout's UI to follow right-to-left design
Update translations from Hosted Weblate (Thanks to @LOGYT-Eberk, @xsm2, @nath89-52, @tnhung2011, @ebraheemelteyb, @Atalanttore, @bropines, @Nikolai-Misha, @CC-D-Y, @Pigeon0v0 and others on Weblate!)
Updated READMEs
Other bug fixes
By @unchihugo
Full Changelog: https://github.com/unchihugo/FluentFlyout/compare/v2.1.0...v2.2.0

Major Update

November 3, 2025

📌 Always Display Widget — pin the Media Flyout to your desktop at all times with this new toggle, and dismiss it with a new close button!
✒️ Media Flyout now displays the proper app icon and name from the media player (e.g. Spotify will now display the Spotify icon and name instead of "spotifyab")!
🎨 Added Acrylic Blur toggles to "Next Up" and Lock Keys flyouts so you can have the new look on all flyouts!
Added fallback to Chinese and Japanese fonts (MS YaHei and MS JhengHei) to improve appearance and CJK character support
Fixed flyout mouse hover issue
Settings will now be shown to new users on first launch
Update translations from Hosted Weblate (Thanks to @tnhung2011, @Nikolai-Misha, @bropines, @LOGYT-Eberk, @Y-PLONI, @xsm2, @gustavo-bozzano, @ysfemreAlbyrk and others on Weblate!)
More bug fixes
By @unchihugo
Full Changelog: https://github.com/unchihugo/FluentFlyout/compare/v2.0.0...v2.1.0

@kitUIN on GitHub