What's new in Czkawka 7.0.0
Feb 19, 2024
- BREAKING CHANGES:
- Reducing size of cache files, made old cache files incompatible with new version
- -C in CLI now saves as compact json
- GTK GUI:
- Added drag&drop support for included/excluded folders - #1106
- Added information where are saved scan results - #1102
- CLI:
- Providing full static rust binary with Eyra - #1102
- Fixed duplicated -c argument, now saving as compact json is handled via -C - #1153
- Added scan progress bar - #1183
- Clean and safe cancelling of scan - #1183
- Unification of CLI arguments - #1183
- Hardlink support for similar images/videos - #1201
- Krokiet GUI:
- Initial release of new gui - #1102
- Core:
- Using normal crossbeam channels instead of asyncio tokio channel - #1102
- Fixed tool type when using progress of empty directories - #1102
- Fixed missing json support when saving size and name duplicate results - #1102
- Fix cross-compiled debug windows build - #1102
- Added bigger stack size by default(fixes stack overflow in some musl apps) - #1102
- Added optional libraw dependency(better single-core performance and support more raw files) - #1102
- Speedup checking for wildcards and fix invalid recognizing long excluded items - #1152
- Big speedup when searching for empty folders(especially with multithreading + cached FS schema) - #1152
- Collecting files for scan can be a lot of faster due lazy file metadata gathering - #1152
- Fixed recognizing not accessible folders as non-empty - #1152
- Unifying code for collecting files to scan - #1159
- Decrease memory usage when collecting files by removing unused fields in custom file entries structs - #1159
- Decrease a little size of cache by few percents and improve loading/saving speed - #1159
- Added ability to remove from scan files with excluded extensions - #1184
- Fixed not showing in similar images results, files with same hashes when using reference folders - #1184
- Optimize release binaries with LTO(~25/50% smaller, ~5/10% faster) - #1184
New in Czkawka 6.1.0 (Oct 15, 2023)
- BREAKING CHANGE - Changed cache saving method, deduplicated, optimized and simplified procedure(all files needs to be hashed again)
- Remove up to 340ms of delay when waiting for results
- Added logger with useful info when debugging app (level can be adjusted via e.g. RUST_LOG=debug env)
- Core code cleanup
- Updated list of bad extensions and support for finding invalid jar files
- More default excluded items on Windows(like pagefile)
- Unified printing/saving method to files/terminal and fixed some differences/bugs
- Uses fun_time library to print how much functions take time
- Added exporting results into json file format
- Added new test/regression suite for CI
- Added ability to use relative paths
- Allowed removing similar images/videos/music from cli
- Added info about saving/loading items to cache in duplicate and music mode
- Fixed number of files to check in duplicate mode
- Added support for qoi image format(without preview yet)
- Fixed stability problem, that could remove invalid file in CLI
- Fix Windows gui crashes by using gtk 4.6 instead 4.8 or 4.10
- Fixed printing info about duplicated music files
- Fixed printing info about duplicated video files
New in Czkawka 6.0.0 (Jun 12, 2023)
- Add finding similar audio files by content - #970
- Allow to find duplicates by name/size at once - #956
- Fix, simplify and speed up finding similar images - #983
- Fixed bug when cache for music tags not worked - #970
- Allow to set number of threads from CLI - #972
- Fix problem with invalid item sorting in bad extensions mode - #972
- Big refactor/cleaning of code - #956/#970/#972
- Use builtin gtk webp loader for previews - #923
- Fixed docker build - #947
- Restore snap builds broken since GTk 4 port - #965
- Instruction how to build native ARM64 binaries on Mac - #945/#971
New in Czkawka 5.1.0 (Feb 19, 2023)
- Added sort button - #894
- Allow to set number of thread used to scan - #839
- Faster similar images comparing with reference folders - #826
- Update to clap 4 - #878
- Use FileChooserNative instead FileChooserDialog - #894
- Fix invalid music tags in music files when using reference folders - #894
- Updated pdf dependency(a lot of less amount of broken pdf false positives) - #894
- Changed strange PDF error message - "Try at" - #894
- Treat extensions Mp4 and m4v as identical - #834
- Improve thumbnail quality - #895
- Verify if hardlinking works, and if not, disable button with proper message - #881
- Apply some pedantic clippy lints on project - #901
New in Czkawka 5.0.2 (Aug 30, 2022)
- Fixed problem with missing some similar images when using similarity > 0 - #799
- Prebuilt Linux binaries are compiled without heif support - 24b
- Similar videos stops to proceed video after certain amount of time(fixes freezes) - #815
- Add --version argument for czkawka_cli - #806
- Rewrite a little nonsense message about minimal file size - #807
New in Czkawka 5.0.1 (Aug 3, 2022)
- Fixed problem with removing ending slash with empty disk window path - 975
- Added to CLI bad extensions mode - #795
- Restore default sorting method in CLI where finding biggest files - 5d7
- Added tests to CI - #791
- Show error message when all directories are set as reference folders - #795
- Added more info about new requirements on Linux - #795
New in Czkawka 5.0.0 (Jul 28, 2022)
- GUI ported to use GTK 4 - #466
- Use multithreading and improved algorithm to compare image hashes - #762
- Resize preview with window - #466
- Fix removing only one item from list view - #466
- Fix showing help command in duplicate CLI mode - #720
- Fix freeze when not choosing any tag in similar music mode - #732
- Fix preview of files with non-lowercase extensions - #694
- Read more tags from music files - #705
- Improve checking for invalid extensions - #705, #747, #749
- Support for finding invalid PDF files - #705
- Re-enable checking for broken music files(libasound.so.2 no longer needed) - #705
- Fix disabled ui when using invalid settings in similar music - #740
- Speedup searching for invalid extensions - #740
- Support for finding the smallest files - #741
- Improved Windows CI - #749
- Ability to check for broken files by types - #749
- Add heif and Webp files support - #750
- Use in CLI Clap library instead StructOpt - #759
- Multiple directories can be added via Manual Add button - #782
- Option to exclude files from other filesystems in GUI(Linux) - #776
New in Czkawka 4.1.0 (Apr 24, 2022)
- New mode - finding files whose content not match with their extension - #678
- Builtin icons - no more invalid, theme/OS dependent icons - #659
- Big(usually 2x) speedup of showing previews of images(both previews in scan and compare window) - #660
- Fix selecting records by custom selection popup - #632
- Support more tags when comparing music files - #590
- Fix not proper selecting path - #656
- No more popups during scan for similar videos on Windows - #656 - external change 4056
- Custom selecting is now case-insensitive by default - #657
- Better approximate comparison of tags - #641
- Fix search problem due accumulated stop events - #623
- Option to ignore other filesystems in Unix OS(for now only in CLI) - #673
- Fix file hardlinking on Windows - #668
- Support for case-insensitive name grouping of files - #669
- Directories for search GUI can be passed by CLI - #677
- Prevent from getting non respond app notification from display servers - #625
New in Czkawka 4.0.0 (Jan 20, 2022)
- Multithreading support for collecting files to check(2/3x speedup on 4 thread processor and SSD) - #502, #504
- Add multiple translations - Polish, Italian, French, German, Russian ... - #469, #508, 5be
- Add support for finding similar videos - #460
- GUI code refactoring and search code unification - #462, #531
- Fixed crash when trying to hard/symlink 0 files - #462
- GTK 4 compatibility improvements for future change of toolkit - #467, #468, #473, #474, #503, #505
- Change minimal supported OS to Ubuntu 20.04(needed by GTK) - #468
- Increased performance by avoiding creating unnecessary image previews - #468
- Improved performance due caching hash of broken/not supported images/videos = #471
- Option to not remove cache from non existent files(e.g. from unplugged pendrive) - #472
- Add multiple tooltips with helpful messages - #472
- Allow caching prehash - #477
- Improve custom selecting of records(allows to use Rust regex) - #489
- Remove support for finding zeroed files - #461
- Remove HashMB mode - #476
- Approximate comparison of music - #483
- Enable column sorting for simple treeview - #487
- Allow hiding upper panel - #491
- Make UI take less space - #500
- Add support for raw images(NEF, CR2, KDC...) - #532
- Image compare performance and usability improvements - #529, #528, #530, #525
- Reorganize(unify) saving/loading data from file - #524
- Add "reference folders" - #516
- Add cache for similar music files - #558
New in Czkawka 3.3.1 (Nov 22, 2021)
- Fix crash when moving buttons #457
- Hide move button at start c9ca230
New in Czkawka 3.3.0 (Nov 20, 2021)
- Select files by pressing space key #415
- Add additional info to printed errors #446
- Add support for multiple image filters, hashes and sizes in similar images tool #447, #448
- Button to move files/folders to provided location #449
- Add non clickable button to fix white theme #450
- Fixed freeze when opening in same thread file/folder #448
- Tool to check performance of different image filters and hash types and sizes #447
- Add scheduled CI and pin it to support Rust 1.53.0 7bb, #431
- Update snap file to use builtin rust plugin and update gnome extension 8f2
- Disable from checking in similar images webp, gif, bmp, ico extension which caused crashes #445, 49e
New in Czkawka 3.2.0 (Aug 7, 2021)
- Use checkbox instead selection to select files #392
- Re-enable hardlink on windows - #410
- Fix symlink and harlink creating - #409
- Add image preview to duplicate finder #408
- Add setting maximum file size #407
- Add new grouping algorithm to similar images #405
- Update to Rust 1.54 #400
- Add webp support to similar images #396
- Use GtkScale instead radio buttons for similarity #397
- Update all dependencies #405, #395
- Split UI into multiple files #391
- Update to gtk-rs 0.14 #383
- Fix bug with moving windows #361
- Generate Minimal Appimage #339
New in Czkawka 3.1.0 (May 28, 2021)
- Clean README, by moving instructions to different files - 9aea6e9b
- Fix excluded items on Windows - #324
- Center windows and add missing settings icon - #323
- Sort cache - #322
- Add desktop file to Snap - 018d5bebb, ade2a756e2
- Customize minimum file size of cached records - #321
- Update benchmarks - 2044b9185
- Rearrange Instruction - 8e7ac4a2d7f5b0
- Add info that Czkawka and Bleachbit are not alternatives to each other - 30602a486
- Fix crashes with too small message queue - #316
- Fix a little unsorted results - #304
- Fix Appimage(external bug) - #299
- Fix error with saving results of name duplicates - #307
- Update to Rust 1.5.1 - #302