[1.4.2-preview.3] - 2019-10-07

  • [UX] We've removed the dockable window mode of Quick Search since it wasn't playing nice with some loading and refreshing workflows and optimizations.
  • [UX] Add Resource provider, which lets you search all resources loaded by Unity.
  • [UX] Add documentation link to Help provider and version label.
  • [FIX] Add support for digits when splitting camel cases of file names.
  • FIX Only enable the search asset watcher once the quick search tool is used the first time.
  • [API] Make Unity.QuickSearch.QuickSearch public to allow user to open quick search explicitly with specific context data.
  • [API] Add QuickSearch.ShowWindow(float width, float height) to allow opening Quick Search at any size.

[1.4.1] - 2019-09-03

  • Quick Search is now a verified package.
  • [UX] Add UIElements experimental search provider.
  • [FIX] Add to the asset search provider type filter all ScriptableObject types.
  • [FIX] Fix Asset store URL.
  • [DOC] Document more public APIs.
  • [API] Add programming hooks to the scene search provider.

[1.3.2-preview] - 2019-07-24

  • [UX] Ignore filter ID casing in search text queries (i.e. H:camera will works like h:camera)
  • [FIX] Fix division by 0 when searching with no search provider enabled.
  • [API] Expose new async API and add more documentation XML tags.

[1.3.1-preview] - 2019-07-18

  • [UX] Show the async spinner while the scene and asset indexes are being built.
  • [UX] Removed the objects limit for the scene object provider.
  • [UX] Progressively show search item previews (preventing the UI to block when fetching large previews)
  • [FIX] Use the async fetchItems for the asset search provider returning result faster when using file system wildcard * (i.e. *.png)
  • [FIX] Optimize the scene object provider to build all indexes asynchronously.
  • [FIX] Optimize the insert and sort algorithm.
  • [API] Add new API SearchProvider.fetchPreview to fetch larger and slower preview of search item. fetchThumbnail is used to show a thumbnail and must be fast, then fetchPreview is called progressively to display a better and larger preview.

[1.3.0-preview] - 2019-07-12

  • [UX] Add the ability to enable or disable completely a search provider in the user preferences.
  • [UX] Add experimental Asset Store provider (disabled by default, see Quick Search preferences).
  • [UX] Add an experimental log search provider (disabled by default, see Quick Search preferences).
  • [UX] Add a spinner when search is in progress.
  • [FIX] Do not fetch scene root objects for invalid or unloaded scenes.
  • [FIX] Delay the track selection, keeping only the last selection to actually be pinged.
  • [FIX] Add support for one letter word indexing (i.e. Searching for "Rock A" should match asset Assets/Rock_A.png").
  • [API] Removed the old asynchronous API.
  • [API] Port the ESS provider example to the new asynchronous API.
  • [API] Port the AssetStore provider example to the new asynchronous API.
  • [API] Add asynchronous SearchProvider.fetchItems API.

[1.2.9-preview] - 2019-07-04

  • [UX] Show additional timing information in tooltips.
  • [FIX] Fix QUICKSEARCH_EXAMPLES and QUICKSEARCH_DEBUG compilation.
  • [FIX] Fix asset search provider performance regression at initialization.
  • [DOC] Update documentation with all the new workflows and apis.

[1.2.8-preview] - 2019-06-30

  • [FIX] Add more resilience when a domain reload happens while being searching indexes in another thread.
  • [FIX] Add search indexing to the scene search provider, providing better results.

[1.2.7-preview] - 2019-06-19

  • [FIX] Fix asset refreshing after quitting the application, causing Unity to freeze.
  • [FIX] Fix fetching scene object label when component are missing

[1.2.6-preview] - 2019-06-14

  • [FIX] Hot fix for crash on OSX when dragging an element.

[1.2.5-preview] - 2019-06-14

[1.2.4-preview] - 2019-06-13

  • [UX] Add support to search asset by its GUID.
  • [UX] Add scene objects root container asset information.
  • [UX] Add prefab instance preview for scene objects.
  • [FIX] Improve search provider filtering.
  • [FIX] Fix recently used item persistence.
  • [FIX] Add an active loop while installing and removing packages to prevent any race conditions.

[1.2.3-preview] - 2019-06-06

  • Add a new help search provider to guide the user how to use other search providers (type ? to get a list of search help items).
  • [UX] Draw some nice up and down arrows to order the search provider priority.
  • [UX] Add a status bar to give some context to the user what is going on and what is filtered or not.
  • [UX] Add a Reset Priorities button in the Settings window to restore all default search provider priorities if messed up for whatever reason.
  • [FIX] Fix the ordering of search provider priorities in the Settings window.
  • [FIX] Fix the order of explicit providers in the filter popup window.
  • [FIX] Fix a rare exception when the SearchIndexer is trying to write to the temporary index DB.
  • [API] Add SearchAction.closeWindowAfterExecution to indicate if the window should be closed after executing an action. Now an action can append to the search text and show additional search items.
  • [API] Add ISearchView interface for SearchContext.searchView to give access to some functionalities of the Quick Search host window.

[1.2.2-preview] - 2019-06-05

  • Add more performance, productivity and fun!
  • Add fuzzy search to scene objects search provider.
  • [UX] Separate regular search providers from explicit search providers in the filter popup window.
  • [UX] Make the Quick Search window default size larger.
  • [UX] Make the asset indexed search the default search for the asset search provider.
  • [UX] Allow the user to change the default action to be executed for search item with multiple actions.
  • [UX] Add more tooltips to some controls to indicate more advance features.
  • [UX] Add ... to long search item description and show the entire description as a tooltip.
  • [API] Expose the SearchIndexer API to easily add new search provider with indexed data.
  • [API] Add SearchProvider.isExplicitProvider to mark a provider as explicit. An explicit provider only list search result if the the search query start with its filter id. In example, # will get into the calculator search provider and # will only return static method APIs.
  • [API] Add Search.customDescriptionFormatter to allow a search provider to indicate that the item description was already done and should not be done generically (used by the scene object search provider fuzzy search).

[1.2.1-preview] - 2019-05-29

  • Various domain reload fixes

[1.2.0-preview.1] - 2019-05-28

  • Add >COMMAND to execute a specific command on a specific item. (i.e. >reveal "Assets/My.asset", will reveal in the asset in the file explorer directly)
  • Add a search provider to quickly install packages.
  • Add a search provider to search and invoke any static method API.
  • Add Alt+Shift+C shortcut to open the quick search contextually to the selected editor window.
  • Add auto completion of asset type filter (i.e. start typing t:)
  • Add contextual action support to search item (i.e. opened by right clicking on an asset)
  • Add index acronym search result (i.e. WL will match Assets/WidgetLibrary.cs)
  • Add indexing item scoring to sort them (items with a better match are sorted first)
  • Add QuickSearchTool.OpenWithContextualProvider API to open the quick search for a specific type only.
  • Add selected search settings to analytics.
  • Add selection tracking fo the selected search item (can be turned off in the settings)
  • Add support for package indexing
  • Add support to sort search provider priorities in the user preferences
  • Commands using > are shown using the auto-complete drop down.
  • Do not show search provider in the filter window when opened for a specific type.
  • Give a higher score to recently used items so they get sorted first when searched.
  • Improve filter window styling
  • Improve item hovering when moving the mouse over items.
  • Improved fast typing debouncing
  • Improved item description highlighting of matching keywords
  • Launch Quick Search the first time it was installed from the an official 19.3 release.
  • Potential fix for ThreadAbortException
  • Remove type sub filters to the asset provider
  • Skip root items starting with a .

[1.1.0-preview.1] - 2019-05-14

  • Add a switch to let search provider fetch more results if requested (e.g. SearchContext.wantsMore)
  • Add selection tracking to the SearchProvider API.
  • Fix search item caching.
  • Improve quick search debouncing when typing.
  • Ping scene objects when the selection changes to a scene provider search item in the Quick Search window.
  • Track project changes so search provider can refresh themselves.
  • Update file indexes when the project content changes.
  • Update UI for Northstar retheming.

[1.0.9-preview.2] - 2019-05-06

  • Add editor analytics
  • Add fast indexing of the project assets file system.
  • Add option to open the quick search in a dockable window.
  • Add search service tests
  • Add shortcut key bindings to the menu item descriptor.
  • Add typing debouncing (to prevent searching for nothing while typing fast)
  • Add yamato-CI
  • Format the search item description to highlight the search terms.
  • Improve documentation
  • Improve the performance of searches when folder filter is selected.
  • Record average fetch time of search provider and display those times in the Filter Window.
  • Remove assets and scene search provider default shortcuts. They were conflicting with other core shortcuts.
  • Remove duplicate items from search result.

[1.0.1-preview.1] - 2019-02-27

  • Fix ReflectionTypeLoadException exception for certain user with invalid project assemblies
  • Optimize fetching results from menu, asset and scene search providers (~50x boost).

[1.0.0-preview.2] - 2019-02-26

  • Update style to work better with the Northstar branch.
  • Use Alt+Left to open the filter window box.
  • Use Alt+Down to cycle to next recent search.
  • Navigate the filter window using the keyboard only.
  • Consolidate web search providers into a single one with sub categories.
  • Update documentation to include new features.
  • Set the game object as the selected active game object when activated.

[0.9.95-preview] - 2019-02-25

  • Add AssetStoreProvider example
  • Add HTTP asynchronous item loading by querying the asset store.
  • Add onEnable/onDisable API for Search provider.
  • Add Page Up and Down support to scroll the item list faster.
  • Add search provider examples
  • Add support for async results
  • Cycle too previous search query using ALT+UpArrow
  • Fix various Mac UX issues
  • New icons
  • Select first item by default en pressing

[0.9.9-preview.2] - 2019-02-21

  • Added drag and drop support. You can drag an item from the quick search tool to a drop target.
  • Open the item contextual menu by pressing the keyboard right arrow of the selected item.
  • Fixed folder entry search results when only the folder filter is selected.
  • Fixed showing popup when alt-tabbing between windows.
  • Add support for rich text label and description.
  • Updated documentation

[0.9.7-preview.3] - 2019-02-20

  • Fixed cursor blinking
  • Improved fetched scene object results

[0.9.6-preview.1] - 2019-02-20

  • Moved menu items under Help/
  • Added a warning when all filters are disabled.
  • Added search field cursor blinking.
  • Added search field placeholder text when not search is made yet.
  • Fixed a layout scoping issue when scrolling.

[0.9.5-preview.1] - 2019-02-19

  • First Version
  • Search menu items
  • Search project assets
  • Search current scene game objects
  • Search project and preference settings
  • Build a search query for Unity Answers web site
  • Build a search query for the Unity Documentation web site
  • Build a search query for the Unity Store web site

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