Update README.md for .55 release (#15825)

update for .055 readme.

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README.md

@@ -27,11 +27,14 @@ Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline
 ### Requirements
 
 - Windows 11 or Windows 10 v1903 (18362) or newer.
-- [.NET Core 3.1.22 Desktop Runtime](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-3.1.22-windows-x64-installer) or a newer 3.1.x runtime. The installer will handle this if not present.
+- Our installer will install the following items:
+   - [.NET Core 3.1.22 Desktop Runtime](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-3.1.22-windows-x64-installer) or a newer 3.1.x runtime. This is needed currently for the Settings application.
+   - [.NET 5.0.13 Desktop Runtime](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-5.0.13-windows-x64-installer) or a newer 5.0.x runtime. 
+   - [Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=2124703) bootstrapper. This will install the latest version. 
 
 ### Via GitHub with EXE [Recommended]
 
- [Microsoft PowerToys GitHub releases page][github-release-link], click on `Assets` at the bottom to show the files available in the release and then click on `PowerToysSetup-0.53.3-x64.exe` to download the PowerToys installer.
+ [Microsoft PowerToys GitHub releases page][github-release-link], click on `Assets` at the bottom to show the files available in the release and then click on `PowerToysSetup-0.55.0-x64.exe` to download the PowerToys installer.
 
 This is our preferred method.
 
@@ -66,98 +69,83 @@ For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the [developer docs](/doc/
 
 Our [prioritized roadmap][roadmap] of features and utilities that the core team is focusing on.
 
-#### 0.53 - December 2021 Update
+### 0.55 - January 2022 Update
 
-We hope everyone has had a wonderful December 2021. The PowerToys community has been busy with a bunch of improvements. We're still working on improving the installer but this should drastically improve things.  3 things you will want to check out are G-code support in file explorer preview pane and thumbnails, the new web search plugin from PowerToys Run via <kbd>??</kbd> action phrase, and the new Always on Top utility via <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>T</kbd>.
+In this release, we are continuing our progress toward getting PowerToys ARM64 ready, fix some top issues and new utilities.  Work from last month helped us enable us to upgrade the code base to .NET 5 and next month onward to .NET 6. This will provide stability and speed improvements.
 
-[@Aaron-Junker](https://github.com/Aaron-Junker) also has done some great progress on [implementing developer file preview pane](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/1527) via the Monaco engine from Visual Studio Code.
+We're also extremely excited to bring on 3 new PowerToy utilities.
 
-#### Things to be aware of
+- File Explorer add-on: Developer files for preview pane. This should add about 150 file extensions total. We are using the [Monaco Editor](https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor) to power this experience.  Thanks [@aaron-junker](https://github.com/aaron-junker)!
-- The new installer currently has a visual quirk when upgrade if you have a custom install path.  It will show the default install path but it will actually overwrite the current location.  We are investigating how to fix this.
+- File Explorer add-on: STL file format thumbnail and preview pane generation!  Since STL is a common 3D file format, this allows a quick visual check. Thanks [@pedrolamas](https://github.com/pedrolamas)!
+- Mouse Utility: Crosshair over pointer via <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>P</kbd>. This feature was co-developed with the accessibility team at Microsoft. When the team told us about the idea and described trying to find your cursor by looking through a straw, we knew we could leverage code from the other mouse utilities to quickly enable this feature. Below is a quote from one of the testers with a rough validation build:
+
+> "This will change my life and allow me to use any PC without constantly losing the pointer. This is huge! I will be able to work at my normal speed again. It is a total game changer for people with visual field impairments!" – Joanna A.
+
+#### Community
+- We would love to directly say THANK YOU. Filing issues and feature requests takes time and we greatly appreciate it. You help us quickly diagnose, spot trends, and prioritize. We love when people fix bugs and develop new PowerToys every little bit does really help.
+- [@edwinzap](https://github.com/edwinzap) really helped us validate translation issues when our localization system was in transition.
+- [@bdoserror](https://github.com/bdoserror) quickly pointed out a release note error
+
+#### General
+- .NET runtime is now on 5, our next release will be upgraded to .NET 6. Moving to .NET 5 and then 6 helped reduce our moving parts in a single release so we went this route.  Why this is important is this is one of the major work items needed for ARM64 support. In addition, this should help provide a speed boosts once we are on .NET 6.
+- [@jsoref's](https://github.com/jsoref) spelling plugin help
 
 #### Always on Top
-- Welcome to the family!  With a quick <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>T</kbd>, the window in focus is toggled to be on top.  Toggle again, and it reverts back to normal.
+- Fixed one of two borders showing incorrectly bugs.
+- Border defaults to OS accent color now. Thanks [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti)
+- Reduced CPU / GPU activity. Not done improving, we know we can do better.
 
-#### ColorPicker
+#### FancyZones 
-- HEX input improvements for adjust color menu including support for hex code without hashtag and short hex code like #CF0.  Thanks @htcfreek! 
+- Bug fixed to not lose zones after update
-- Better bottom right screen detection for overlay
+- Fixed editor margin issue for Chinese language.  Thanks [@niels9001](https://github.com/niels9001)
 
-#### FancyZones
+#### File explorer add-ons
-- Increased negative space margin
+- GCode thumbnails now have transparency. Thanks [@pedrolamas](https://github.com/pedrolamas)
-- Fix for not snapping child windows
+- New Utility - Developer files for File Explorer preview pane. This should add about 150 file extensions total. We are using the [Monaco Editor](https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor) to power this experience.  Thanks [@aaron-junker](https://github.com/aaron-junker)!
-- Fix for clearing keyboard focus on editor launch
+- New Utility - STL thumbnail and preview panes added!  Thanks [@pedrolamas](https://github.com/pedrolamas)!
-- Fix to improve overlays to reduce brightness and hide numbers. Thanks @davidegiacometti
-
-#### File Explorer
-- Added G-code support for thumbnails and preview pane.  Thanks @pedrolamas 
 
 #### Image Resizer
-- Fixed regression from Metadata tag removal of ColorSpace.  Thanks @CleanCodeDeveloper
+- Fixed bug with too much meta data.  Thanks [@CleanCodeDeveloper](https://github.com/CleanCodeDeveloper)
+- Fixed bug resizing bug for constant height while maintaining aspect ratio.  Thanks [@CleanCodeDeveloper](https://github.com/CleanCodeDeveloper)
+
+#### Mouse utilities
+- New Utility - Crosshair over pointer via <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>P</kbd>. This feature was co-developed with the accessibility team at Microsoft. Thanks [@niels9001](https://github.com/niels9001) for helping with the icon!
 
 #### PowerRename
-- Row highlighting + preview support now implemented. Thanks @niels9001
+- Files are sorted now how File Explorer sorts.
-- Fixed AltGR input issue
-- Improved folder renaming support
-- Opens on active monitor
 
 #### PowerToys Run
-- Web searching has been added! `?? What is the answer to life` will go to your favorite search engine via your browser.  You can change the default action key too!  Thanks @cyberrex5 for primary implementation and @franky920920 and @htcfreek for supporting
+- Improved speed and fixed bugs with Window walker plugin.  Thanks [@htcfreek](https://github.com/htcfreek)
-- VS Code workspace improvements. Thanks @ricardosantos9521
+- Window Walker will now show path of elevated apps.  Thanks [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti)
-- Binary and Hex number support.  Thanks @gsuberland
+- Added UEFI command to system commands. Thanks [@htcfreek](https://github.com/htcfreek)
-- Ability to use factorials in calculations
+- Fixed crashing bug in EnvironmentHelper class.  Thanks [@htcfreek](https://github.com/htcfreek)
-- PT Run will not show in Window Walker results anymore.  Thanks @davidegiacometti
+- Fix URI plugin bug with `^:`.  Thanks [@franky920920](https://github.com/franky920920)
-- Fix log / ln calculations
+- VS Code plugin not showing workspaces with latest Code version was corrected.  Thanks [@ricardosantos9521](https://github.com/ricardosantos9521)
-- Fix to make previous results clear
+- Fixed bug that caused plugins to not load. Thanks [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti)
-- Fix to detect symlinks and prevent recursive loops
+- Fixed crash in Uri plugin and Web search plugin. Thanks [@cyberrex5](https://github.com/cyberrex5)!
-- Fix for trackpad scrolling being too fast
-- Removed unneeded nuget package.  Thanks @ChaseKnowlden
-- Better detection for if a packaged app can be elevated
-- Improve crash resiliency for Program plugin.  Thanks @davidegiacometti
-- Improved Windows setting results.  Thanks @htcfreek
-- Fixed a bug where some similar activation phrases aren't working as expected. Thanks @htcfreek and @cyberrex5.
-
-#### Video conference mute
-- Disabled by default as this requires elevation to register the virtual camera.
-- Changed (default) hotkey for mute camera & microphone from <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>N</kbd> to <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Q</kbd> to not conflict with a Windows 11 keyboard shortcut
 
 #### Settings
-- Multiple accessibility, layout, image, string and icons fixes. Thanks @niels9001
+- Fixed a regression with settings being reset when moving from admin to non-admin
 
-#### Runner
+#### Video Conference Mute
-- Improved mutex support to prevent multiple PT Run instances from running
+- Fixed crashing bug with Zoom and other clients. We found someone we could remotely debug with and identify the actual crashing part.
-
+- Change of behavior: When leaving a meeting, VCM will now leave your microphone in the state it was.  This mimics behavior of applications if VCM was not present.
-#### Installer
+- Change of behavior: When you exit PowerToys, your current microphone state will remain.
-- **NOTE:**  The new installer currently has a visual quirk when upgrade if you have a custom install path.  It will show the default install path but it will actually overwrite the current location.  We are investigating how to fix this.
-- Large progress toward user based installing vs machine wide. Upgrade scenario still needs additional work.
-- Removed custom bootstrapper and now are using a WiX bundle.
-- Removed unused image assets that were still being shipped. Thanks @niels9001
-
-#### ARM64 support
-- Setting WinUI3 proof-of-concept and validate we do need at least one more feature, elevation support from WinUI 3 unpackaged applications.
-
-#### Dev improvements
-- New YAML based pipeline for building our signed installer. This will allow us to consolidate our CI to use same file. This was critical for us to unblock ARM64 and .NET 6 migration.
-- Our submodules will no longer auto fetch to prevent locking issues. If you want a refresher on how to do this, head to [our dev docs](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/main/doc/devdocs#get-submodules-to-compile)
-- Localization system shifted to Touchdown from CDPx.  This should remove many of the loc issues.
-- Consolidated a lot of the naming of EXEs and DLLs along with projects
-- Update to spell checker.  Thanks @jsoref
-- /dup response has been added
-- /reportbug /bugreport will ask for a "report bug" zip
 
 #### Community contributions
 
 We'd like to directly mention certain contributors (in alphabetical order) for their continued community support this month and helping directly make PowerToys a better piece of software. 
+[@Aaron-Junker](https://github.com/Aaron-Junker), [@bdoserror](https://github.com/bdoserror), [@CleanCodeDeveloper](https://github.com/CleanCodeDeveloper), [@cyberrex5](https://github.com/cyberrex5), [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti), [@edwinzap](https://github.com/edwinzap), [@franky920920](https://github.com/franky920920),  [@jay-o-way](https://github.com/jay-o-way), [@jsoref](https://github.com/jsoref), [@niels9001](https://github.com/niels9001), and [@ricardosantos9521](https://github.com/ricardosantos9521)
 
-[@Aaron-Junker](https://github.com/Aaron-Junker), [@ChaseKnowlden](https://github.com/ChaseKnowlden), [@CleanCodeDeveloper](https://github.com/CleanCodeDeveloper), [@cyberrex5](https://github.com/cyberrex5), [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti), [@franky920920](https://github.com/franky920920), [@gsuberland](https://github.com/gsuberland),  [@jay-o-way](https://github.com/jay-o-way), [@jsoref](https://github.com/jsoref), [@niels9001](https://github.com/niels9001), and [@ricardosantos9521](https://github.com/ricardosantos9521)
 
-#### What is being planned for v0.55
+#### What is being planned for v0.56
 
-For [v0.55][github-next-release-work], we'll work on adding more stability in with VCM and getting dev file preview pane added in so we get 150 file types :)
+For [v0.56][github-next-release-work], we plan on finishing up the .NET upgrade path to 6.  This will require development to migrate to Visual Studio 2022. We are also shifting back to a continuous version number system versus Odd for main and Even for experimental releases.
 
-- We are working to heavily reduce / remove the UAC prompt over the next few releases on install. This is a big shift so it is spanning multiple releases so we can isolate issues if they do occur. Work is tracked in [#10126](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/10126)
-- Getting the dev file preview pane work integrated. (Monaco Editor)
 - .NET 6 upgrade to all available surfaces
-- Find my mouse feature, accessibility cross-hair
+- A Dialog on update making you aware of what has changed. 
+- 'Shake to activate' find my mouse
+- PowerToy Run plugin improvements
 
 ## PowerToys Community
 
@@ -184,5 +172,5 @@ The application logs basic telemetry. Our Telemetry Data page (Coming Soon) has
 [usingPowerToys-docs-link]: https://aka.ms/powertoys-docs
 
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-[github-next-release-work]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+project%3Amicrosoft%2FPowerToys%2F28
+[github-next-release-work]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+project%3Amicrosoft%2FPowerToys%2F29
-[github-current-release-work]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+project%3Amicrosoft%2FPowerToys%2F27
+[github-current-release-work]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+project%3Amicrosoft%2FPowerToys%2F28