Release notes from Windows-MCP

v0.7.0

2026-03-17T17:27:29Z

What's Changed

fix: keyboard focus not transferred when switching foreground window by @JezaChen in #106
fix: import _INPUTUnion from enums to fix NameError by @JezaChen in #108
fix: resolve Known Folder GUID paths before launching apps by @JezaChen in #110
feat: Screenshot tool with DXCam backend reporting and UIAutomation hang fix by @yasuhirofujii-medley in #104
refactor: extract tool definitions into tools/ subpackage by @yasuhirofujii-medley in #111
fix: validate app ID via shell:AppsFolder instead of string check by @JezaChen in #112

Full Changelog: v0.6.9...v0.7.0

v0.6.9

2026-03-15T04:39:02Z

v0.6.9

Improvements

Tool discoverability — Added keyword synonyms to App, PowerShell, Snapshot, Scrape, Clipboard, Process, and Registry descriptions so AI clients surface the right tool on the first search
Scrape sampling — Scrape now uses MCP sampling to summarise webpage content server-side, eliminating markdown bloat in the caller's context. New query param to focus extraction; use_sampling=False to get raw content

Bug Fixes & Features

#98 Snapshot fast screenshot-only path via use_ui_tree=False, skipping expensive accessibility tree traversal for vision-only workflows (Thanks to @yasuhirofujii-medley)
#97 App resize mode now accepts name to target a specific window directly without switching focus first (Thanks to @JezaChen)
#96 Switching to a minimized window now restores and focuses it in a single call — (Thanks to @JezaChen)
#95 Snapshot exposes use_annotation=False to return clean screenshots without bounding box overlays (Thanks to @yasuhirofujii-medley)
#94 Snapshot accepts display=[0] / display=[0,1] to limit output to specific monitors in multi-monitor setups (Thanks to @xqdd)

Install

uvx windows-mcp==0.6.9

v0.6.2

2026-02-04T13:01:12Z

Changes in v0.6.2

Extended boolean parameter compatibility to the \desktop\ module.
Improved handling of tool arguments from LLMs.
Updated 'manifest.json' for 'mcpb' compatibility in Claude Desktop (Thanks to @bryan-anthropic ).

Changes in v0.6.1

Fixed Shell tool output issues (Thanks to @yakub268).
Improved boolean parameter compatibility for main tool definitions.

v0.6.0 - Performance & Stability Improvements

2026-01-30T03:32:08Z

What's Changed

Performance Optimization: Fixed tool execution latency caused by PostHog analytics interference. Analytics are now batched asynchronously, resulting in ~6x faster tool completion times.
Improved Initialization: Fixed the issue where the MCP server took too much time to initialize.
Bug Fixes: Resolved the 'Thread Detach Error' that occurred when switching between applications.

Key Performance Gains

Removed blocking network calls in tools.
Reduced server startup time.
More stable application lifecycle management.

Windows-MCP v0.5.8

2026-01-17T02:04:46Z

Fixes

Removed dependency on live-inspect

Refactoring

Migrated from the uiautomation library, for more comprehensive use of the Accessibility API.

Windows-MCP v0.5.4

2025-12-12T08:48:58Z

Features

Added support to check only the DOM content inside the browser for State-Tool
Used the DOM content from the tree used in Scrape-Tool

Refactor

Refactored the code base to support installation as uvx from PYPI.

Windows-MCP v0.3

2025-08-28T09:15:14Z

Fixes

Fixed issues with windows in Chinese language (Thank you @tangflash).
Fixed issues vscode when using tools (Thank you @Klauxs )
Fixed minor issues in the Switch-Tool

Windows-MCP v0.2

2025-08-03T03:52:40Z

Features

Added Resize-Tool to resize/move an app to a location.
Added Switch-Tool for easy switching between apps.
Type-Tool have a press_enter parameter to avoid using Key-Tool
Added default language and browser to the State-Tool, added for understanding the system better.
Updated the manifest.json file for the DXT (Thank you @felixrieseberg)

Fixes

Fixed issues occurring when clicking on desktop apps.
Avoid treating the context window as an app.
Removed the human_cursor because of issues with DPI. (Thank you @Kikk79)

Performance

Added necessary pruning logics to speed up the traversal (helpful for lengthy apps like browsers)

Windows-MCP v0.1

2025-08-03T03:51:52Z

Features

Included tools for GUI Interaction like Click Tool,..etc
Included tools for non-GUI Interaction like Shell Tool, Scrape Tool
Added State Tool to check the state of the desktop