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muCommander Changelog

What's new in muCommander 1.4.0

May 2, 2024
  • New features:
  • Added Google Cloud Storage as a file protocol that enables browsing and managing files in GCS buckets.
  • Added optional keyboard shortcut visual hints for actions invoked by clicks rather than keystroke.
  • Added OneDrive as a file protocol that enables browsing, uploading and downloading capabilities.
  • Improvements:
  • Faster start-up of muCommander (2-3 times faster)
  • The 'Space' key can be used to filter filenames with spaces in quick search. Files can be selected during an ongoing quick search using CTRL+Space (that was replaced with CTRL+SHIFT+Space for 'Popup menu' action).
  • Changed 'Store login and password' to 'Store credentials' to reflect that additional properties, like ssh-key, are also stored.
  • Set Shift+F4 as the default alternative keyboard shortcut for "Make file" action.
  • Command line (of Terminal) it can be now visible in folder view
  • Authenticate with the specified ssh-key when connecting to a different path on a server via SFTP from the location bar.
  • The rpm and dmg packages are now signed.
  • Added dmg package for aarch64.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed copying files to Finder.
  • Fixed drag-and-drop of action buttons in the 'Customize command bar' dialog.
  • Fixed Toolbar and Command bar actions not being updated when their shortcuts changed in Preferences.
  • Fixed incorrect block selection (using shift + click) on native L&Fs
  • Known issues:
  • Some translations may not be up-to-date.
  • SMB support may not work properly on non-multi-language JRE.
  • 'Copy files to clipboard' not working with some applications (files are not pasted).
  • Authentication issues when using several sets of credentials (login/password) for the same server.
  • Untrusted HTTPS connections are allowed without a warning.
  • Windows Vista/7: "java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: recv failed" error can appear when trying to access FTP sites. This seems to be a Windows firewall problem, with a possible workaround
  • Need to enable NTLM authentication manually in order to authenticate to Samba >= 4.5. This is done by adding 'ntlm auth = yes' to smb.conf.
  • MacOS: issues with browsing Documents/Desktop/Downloads may be solved by resetting Security and Privacy settings.
  • MacOS: muCommander may not start on older versions of macOS due to incompatibility of the bundled JRE.
  • MacOS: "Do you want the application "muCommander.app" to accept incoming network connections?" dialog keeps popping up on startup even if the dialog has been previously accepted (ticket #339), when 'Bonjour' support is enabled.
  • MacOS: some keyboard shortcuts may conflict with global system shortcuts.
  • Installing the deb package on Debian < 12 fails with: "error: archive ... uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up".
  • A possible workaround is described in: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/745467.

New in muCommander 1.3.0 (Jul 9, 2023)

  • What's Changed:
  • bump version to 1.3.0 by @ahadas in #891
  • Change filename comparison to be locale-sensitive by @ahadas in #899
  • Normalize filenames with NFD form on macOS by @ahadas in #900
  • Fix nightly builds by @aashipov in #897
  • use SearchProperty#SEARCH_TEXT in TextEditorImpl by @ahadas in #903
  • Search options in new editor by @pskowronek in #902
  • viewer/editor fix for #879 - regex match set when regex text selected by @pskowronek in #905
  • Undo/redo for binary editor by @hajdam in #908
  • viewer/editor added Find and Replace when in edit mode #879 #876 by @pskowronek in #907
  • Minor cleanup by @ahadas in #910
  • Make SFTP key authentication work again by @ahadas in #911
  • viewer/editor open file from Search and find the first occurrence #879 by @pskowronek in #906
  • Support multi volume rar files by @ShayArtzi in #881
  • Minor cleanup related to multi-volume rar files by @ahadas in #915
  • Document the addition of multi-volume RAR 5+ files by @ahadas in #916
  • Dock/TaskBar icon status with jobs progress updates by @pskowronek in #823
  • Improvements to shortcuts preferences tab by @ahadas in #931
  • Use try-with-resources in CommandManager by @ahadas in #932
  • Added Open With apps for macOS by @pskowronek in #917
  • Extract Bonjour handling to a separate OSGi bundle by @ahadas in #936
  • Fix for DE keyboard layout #933 by @pskowronek in #935
  • Document and cleanup last fix for using terminal with DE keyboard layout by @ahadas in #943
  • Bumped JediTerm to the newest version to address problem with decomposed chars by @pskowronek in #944
  • Add ADB by @ahadas in #919
  • Terminal - both Terminal and Run Command now use colors and font from prefs by @pskowronek in #946
  • adb: disable 'Android' menu when adb is disabled by @ahadas in #953
  • Enhanced bug report in github muC repo and in muC itself by @pskowronek in #934
  • Set minimum height for question dialogs by @ahadas in #959
  • Add 'Shared with me' files to Google Drive by @ahadas in #963
  • Add 'Trashed' files to Google Drive by @ahadas in #964
  • Show documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Drive by @ahadas in #965
  • Shortcuts Panel related refactor by @pskowronek in #967
  • Apply formatter on ShortcutsTable by @ahadas in #969
  • Shortcuts/ActionProperties - reformat with muC formatter by @pskowronek in #970
  • Cleanup in files that recently changed by @ahadas in #971
  • Main menu Open With now contains apps on macos by @pskowronek in #966
  • Update the readme file according to latest change in open-with menu by @ahadas in #985
  • Added search/find support for binary viewer by @hajdam in #968
  • Cleanup for search/replace functionality in binary editor by @ahadas in #986
  • Viewer/Editor Fix for NPE when opening certain Python files by @pskowronek in #987
  • Added version information to exe file - issue #719 by @hajdam in #979
  • Document last changes by @ahadas in #988
  • Added search/find support for binary viewer - fix by @hajdam in #990
  • Key mapping capabilities for terminal in Shortcuts prefs by @pskowronek in #973
  • Terminal - fix for themes switching, Menlo font added as default for Terminal by @pskowronek in #978
  • Binary editor - fix to issue #938 by @hajdam in #991
  • Add support for multi volume 7z files by @ShayArtzi in #980
  • Document support for multi-volume 7z files by @ahadas in #992
  • Enhancements to ADB by @ahadas in #993
  • adb: optimize downloads of large files by @ahadas in #994
  • Polish the readme file by @ahadas in #995

New in muCommander 1.2.0 (Mar 12, 2023)

  • Updated readme.txt and license files to mention JediTerm and replaced… by @pskowronek in #765
  • Change 'Show in enclosing folder' action to operate on the current tab by @ahadas in #776
  • Cleanup in CommandBar by @ahadas in #777
  • Fix NPE when the status bar is hidden and app gets focus by @ahadas in #778
  • Status bar improvements by @ahadas in #779
  • Bump 'commons-net' to version 3.8.0 by @ahadas in #780
  • Set compile-only deps from mucommander-core to jediterm by @ahadas in #781
  • Make timeout for 'quick search' configurable by @ahadas in #786
  • restore timestamp of parent directory after file deleting by @mfilser in #774
  • Added alternative default shortcuts for Mark/Unmark for keyboard w/o … by @pskowronek in #785
  • Change Viewer.label to point to 'view' in the dictionary by @ahadas in #790
  • Xfce open command prompt shortcut fix by @aashipov in #792
  • Terminal fixes: hide initial cd directory command, hide terminal when… by @pskowronek in #795
  • Document fixing 'Open command prompt' on Xfce by @ahadas in #796
  • Deeper zoom for image viewer by @hajdam in #788
  • Run unit tests using GitHub actions by @ahadas in #797
  • Rename workflow 'Unit Tests' to 'Tests' by @ahadas in #798
  • Tidy up mucommander.sh by @aashipov in #800
  • #801 Components' update by @aashipov in #802
  • Added syntax highlighting to editor and text viewer by @pskowronek in #787
  • Viewer/Editor added opening links if supported by platform by @pskowronek in #804
  • Viewer/Editor syntax style override by @pskowronek in #805
  • Viewer/Editor fix text selection across L&Fs #806 by @pskowronek in #807
  • Persist file search properties by @ahadas in #809
  • Viewer/Editor Fix for reliable links opening #811 by @pskowronek in #813
  • Viewer/Editor Bumping RSyntaxTextArea version to newest with a fix fo… by @pskowronek in #814
  • Upgrade to icepdf-viewer v7.0.0 by @ahadas in #815
  • Add CODEOWNERS by @ahadas in #816
  • Handle link scanning mask pressing/releasing by @ahadas in #817
  • Fix initial focus of text editor/viewer by @ahadas in #818
  • Add @hajdam as code owner of mucommander-viewer-binary/ by @ahadas in #819
  • Viewer/Editor make utf-8 default instead of ISO-8859-1 by @pskowronek in #821
  • Viewer/Editor reflect autodetected syntax mime-type in Syntax menu by @pskowronek in #822
  • Viewer/Editor Fixes for #825 and #824 by @pskowronek in #830
  • Viewer/Editor fix/workaround F3 for file search #838 by @pskowronek in #839
  • Bumped version of rsyntaxtextarea to 3.3.2 to fix #833 by @pskowronek in #842
  • Editor Fix to avoid writing BOM for new UTF-8 files by @pskowronek in #836
  • Renaming files in Google Drive by @ahadas in #843
  • Set credentials to Google Drive in the nightly version by @ahadas in #844
  • Propagate token by @ahadas in #845
  • Update token to release resources by @ahadas in #846
  • Set git config in create-release job by @ahadas in #847
  • Set credentials to Google Drive on macOS by @ahadas in #848
  • Fix Google Drive integration for Linux and Windows nightly artifacts by @ahadas in #849
  • Fix Dropbox integration in nightly artifacts by @ahadas in #851
  • Viewer/Editor TEXT_CURSOR as default cursor (still there's problem on… by @pskowronek in #820
  • Added status bar to image viewer by @hajdam in #854
  • Update dictionary_ko.properties by @VenusGirl in #853
  • Viewer/Editor replacing TextLineNumbersPanel with RTextScrollPane, may fix #841 by @pskowronek in #860
  • Filter out trashed files in Google Drive by @ahadas in #861
  • Editor added Undo/Redo menu items by @pskowronek in #863
  • Fix uploads of files bigger than 2G to NFS share by @ahadas in #864
  • Document eb6c4e8 by @ahadas in #865
  • Enable browsing and unpacking 7z archives by @ahadas in #866
  • Count hidden files only when they are shown by @ahadas in #868
  • Convert theme type to enum by @ahadas in #869
  • Eager loading of snapshot properties by @ahadas in #873
  • Viewer/Editor fix for folding gutter appear only if option is enabled by @pskowronek in #875
  • Allow rendering read-only files differently by @ahadas in #877
  • Support password-protected RAR 4 and below archives by @ahadas in #884
  • Improve handling of password-protected rar files by @ahadas in #885
  • Do not cache non-existing files by @ahadas in #886

New in muCommander 1.0.1-1 (Jun 30, 2022)

  • New features:
  • - Added new looks and feels: FlatLaf Light, FlatLaf IntelliJ, FlatLaf Dark, FlatLaf Darcula, VAqua
  • - Added an option to overwrite files only if size differs
  • - Added the 'Desktop' folder to the drive menu
  • Improvements:
  • - Added a keyboard shortcut (ALT+DELETE) to Open Trash action
  • - Added a keyboard shortcut (CTRL+SPACE) to file contextual menu
  • - Contextual menu is available for file search results
  • - Local file search results can now be revealed in the native Desktop's file manager
  • - Added back the 'Go to forums' action that now points to the GitHub discussions page
  • - Speed up collecting file-system roots when Windows network shares disconnect
  • - Added an option to use system file icons only for folders
  • - Sort criterion/column and sort order are presented on file tables when using a non-native look and feel on macOS
  • - Added the 'Paste file(s)' action, when enabled, to the context menu of file tables
  • - Changed the rendering of the text field which is used when renaming a file/folder through the file table
  • - When searching a file that contains specified text, that text would be used by following 'Find next/previous' action within a text viewer/editor
  • - The tab headers within the Preferences dialog are placed at the left side (instead of top) of the dialog on Windows and Linux
  • - File search results can be deleted (or moved to trash when applicable)
  • - The size of non-empty files that are smaller than 1 KB is no longer rounded to 1 KB when 'Round displayed file sizes' is set
  • Localization:
  • - Korean translation updated
  • Bug fixes:
  • - Fixed broken links to: 'Online documentation', 'Report a bug' and 'Make a donation'
  • - If 'open -a Finder $f' is found in commands.xml, it is replaced with 'open -R $f' to preserve the behavior of 'Reveal in Finder' action
  • - Make folder operation creates the folder within the correct path rather than always within the root folder of Google Drive
  • - Fixed copying multiple files to Google Drive
  • - Fixed opening the authentication page for Google Drive in latest Chrome on Linux
  • - The headers of the file table(s) are now translated and no longer appear in uppercase letters
  • - Fixed possible IndexOutOfBoundsException that could have prevented file search from being completed
  • - File search with 'Search in subfolders' and 'Search in archive files' disabled no longer searches outside of the root folder
  • Known issues:
  • - Some translations may not be up-to-date.
  • - SMB support may not work properly on non multi-language JRE.
  • - 'Copy files to clipboard' not working with some applications (files are not pasted).
  • - Authentication issues when using several sets of credentials (login/password) for the same server.
  • - Untrusted HTTPS connections are allowed without a warning.
  • - Windows Vista/7: "java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: recv failed" error can appear when trying to access FTP
  • sites. This seems to be a Windows firewall problem, with a possible workaround:
  • http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7077696
  • - Unpacking files from 7z archive files can be slow.
  • - Need to enable NTLM authentication manually in order to authenticate to Samba >= 4.5. This is done by adding 'ntlm auth = yes' to smb.conf.
  • - Version 5.0 of RAR is not supported. Such archives would appear empty.
  • - macOS: issues with browsing Documents/Desktop/Downloads may be solved by resetting Security and Privacy settings.
  • See https://github.com/mucommander/mucommander/wiki/Reset-Security-&-Privacy-Settings-on-macOS for more details.
  • - macOS: muCommander may not start on older versions of macOS due to incompatibility of the bundled JRE.
  • - macOS: "Do you want the application "muCommander.app" to accept incoming network connections?" dialog keeps popping
  • up on startup even if the dialog has been previously accepted, when 'Bonjour' support is enabled.
  • - macOS: some keyboard shortcuts may conflict with global system shortcuts.

New in muCommander 0.9.7-1 (Jun 24, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Add Dropbox as a file protocol (including browsing, uploading and downloading capabilities).
  • Add an option to use a file viewer when failing to open a file.
  • Support for KDE 5.
  • Improvements:
  • Accelerate copying to remote servers using SFTP.
  • Invert selection also applies to directories now.
  • Set initial look and feel to "GTK+" on Linux as it better handles scaling for HiDPI.
  • Non-browsable initial locations that are specified by command line arguments are selected on startup.
  • Store user-files in '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mucommander' if environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set on Linux.
  • Create Felix cache directory within the system's temporary folder instead of within the installation folder.
  • Write logs also to file in order to ease debugging.
  • Local folders are automatically refreshed also on file systems in which their modification date doesn't
  • change when their content changes, like USB folders on macOS.
  • Detect Java versions 14 to 17.
  • The initial width of the built-in text viewer/editor is better calculated for files that contain more than 10k lines.
  • The visiblity of line numbers is persisted across invocations of the built-in text editor.
  • Add the refresh action to the file table's context menu.
  • When switching back to muCommander, the presented folders are immediately refreshed.
  • Localization:
  • Korean translation updated.
  • Bug fixes:
  • File-search returns matches in the root folder of the search when search-subfolders is disabled.
  • Fixed an issue that might cause file-search with case insensitive text search not to return all matches.
  • The application can start by a non-admin user after it started by an admin user.
  • The application can start with an inaccessible location at the right panel.
  • Files are transferred properly when the destination folder is not presented in the other panel.
  • Use the correct file viewer/editor when a warning is raised.
  • Known issues:
  • Mac OS X: "muCommander damaged and cannot be opened" may appear after downloading muCommander from the browser. This
  • can be solved by executing: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <jar_name>.jar
  • Some translations may not be up-to-date.
  • Mac OS X: "Do you want the application "muCommander.app" to accept incoming network connections?" dialog keeps popping
  • up on startup even if the dialog has been previously accepted (ticket #339), when 'Bonjour' support is enabled.
  • SMB support may not work properly on non multi-language JRE.
  • Copy files to clipboard' not working with some applications (files are not pasted).
  • Mac OS X: some keyboard shortcuts may conflict with global system shortcuts.
  • Authentication issues when using several sets of credentials (login/password) for the same server.
  • Untrusted HTTPS connections are allowed without a warning.
  • Windows Vista/7: "java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: recv failed" error can appear when trying to access FTP
  • sites. This seems to be a Windows firewall problem, with a possible workaround:
  • http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7077696
  • Unpacking files from 7z archive files can be slow.
  • Need to enable NTLM authentication manually in order to authenticate to Samba >= 4.5. This is done by adding 'ntlm auth = yes' to smb.conf.
  • Version 5.0 of RAR is not supported. Such archives would appear empty.
  • Issues with browsing Documents/Desktop/Downloads on macOS may be solved by resetting Security and Privacy settings.
  • See https://github.com/mucommander/mucommander/wiki/Reset-Security-&-Privacy-Settings-on-macOS for more details.
  • Mac OS X: muCommander may not be able to start on version <= 10.10 (OS X Yosemite) due to incompatibility of the bundled JRE.
  • This can be solved by installing Java 8 and running '/Applications/muCommander.app/Contents/replace_jre.sh'.

New in muCommander 0.9.2 (Jun 12, 2017)

  • show the right license in the license dialog

New in muCommander 0.9.1 (Jan 9, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Lock tab capability, which prevents closing/moving the tab or changing its location.
  • New quick list that presents open tabs in the current panel, mapped onto Alt+6 by default (ticket #450).
  • Added the option to set fixed title for tab.
  • Added the following actions: add tab, duplicate tab, clone tab to other panel.
  • Added support for VMware vSphere virtual machines file system
  • Improvements:
  • The state of all windows from last run is now restored on startup.
  • Added the ability to copy the base name of files (ticket #462)
  • User can choose to always display tabs headers from preferences dialog (even when the panel contains single tab).
  • The visited locations history is now saved per-tab.
  • The recently visited locations quick list now presents the visited locations on all tabs and windows.
  • The content of recently visited locations quick list is now restored from previous run on startup (ticket #471).
  • Text file editor/viewer restore the full screen mode of last used (closed) editor/viewer on startup.
  • preferences) to prevent firewall dialog which keeps popping up on startup (workaround for ticket #339).
  • Added 'ctrl+m' keystroke to toggle text file editor/viewer full screen mode.
  • Tab can be closed by clicking on its header with middle mouse button.
  • Assign 'ctrl+page_down' keystroke for switching to next tab, and 'ctrl+page_up' for switching to
  • previous tab (the keystrokes that were previously assigned to those actions remain as alternative keystrokes).
  • Improved names and descriptions presented for tab-related actions.
  • Added new category of actions in the 'shortcuts dialog' for tab-related actions.
  • Changed tab's not-fixed-title to be in the pattern ':'
  • Show backward/forward locations list when pressing with right click on the back/forward buttons in the toolbar
  • instead of trigger back/forward actions
  • Keyboard shortcuts can now be set for commands defined at commands.xml (ticket #456),
  • Show empty name in the make file/directory dialog when it is opened (ticket #512)
  • System files can now be filtered also on windows, contributed by Markus Bullmann.
  • Added Windows 8, 8.1 and 10; and Mac OS X 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12 to the OS versions.
  • Localization:
  • Turkish translation has been updated.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Recycle Bin is now working on Windows 64-bit with a 64-bit Java runtime (ticket #234).
  • Key combinations that contain the TAB key can be set as shortcuts (ticket #465).
  • Fix installation via software center on Ubuntu.
  • Symbolic links cannot be opened (ticket #467).
  • Encoding of text file is changed after being modified by the viewer/editor (ticket #438).
  • Cannot connect to some FTP/SFTP bookmarks if there are more than 4 of them (ticket #525)
  • Quick lists on the right panel sometimes not being focused (ticket #552)

New in muCommander 0.8.5 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added support for Amazon S3.
  • Added support for the Hadoop HDFS filesystem.
  • Improvements:
  • A proper error message is displayed when muCommander is started in a headless environment.
  • Upgraded the commons-net FTP library to version 2.0 for increased server compatibility.
  • Actions relying on a file operation that is not supported by the current folder's filesystem are now disabled contextually.
  • Optimized the opening speed of Zip files.
  • Improved the HTTP filesystem: better HTML/XHTML detection, follows links correctly.
  • Free space indicator now changes color gradually; adjusted free space warning threshold.
  • Adjusted the layout of the main window to save some screen estate around the toolbar.
  • Lowered memory usage by caching file attributes only when they are in use.
  • Migrated the codebase to Java 1.5 ; Java 1.4 is no longer supported.
  • Localization:
  • Dutch translation updated with a few corrections.
  • Bug fixes:
  • "Round displayed file sizes" checkbox does not refresh the panel correctly
  • Single click on folder panel treated as double click
  • Fixed 'startup_error' message that wasn't properly localized.
  • Fixed 7zip files left open after being browsed
  • Unsafe behavior when deleting a bookmark from the file panel

New in muCommander 0.8.4 (Oct 24, 2009)

  • New features include a Tree view, Batch renamer, Quick-lists, native RAR archive support, SFTP public key authentication, GNOME trash support, configurable FTP connection retries, improved Zip attributes support and a new Danish translation. 11 bugs were fixed.

New in muCommander 0.8.3 (Oct 22, 2008)

  • 2 new translations were contributed : Japanese and Swedish
  • a whopping 26 bugs were squashed
  • support for the Windows Recycle Bin was added
  • Zip and FTP performance was improved significantly
  • new 'Calculate checksum' functionality
  • new 'Verify data integrity' transfer option
  • new actions for opening folders
  • new 'Owner' and 'Group' columns
  • new 'Rename' option when a file already exists in the destination, contributed by Mariusz Jakubowski

New in muCommander 0.8.2 (Apr 17, 2008)

  • 2 new translations were contributed : Japanese and Swedish, thanks to Nardog and Jakob Ekstr�m
  • a whopping 26 bugs were squashed
  • support for the Windows Recycle Bin was added
  • Zip and FTP performance were improved significantly
  • new 'Calculate checksum' functionality
  • new 'Verify data integrity' transfer option
  • new actions for opening folders
  • new 'Rename' option when a file already exists in the destination, contributed by Mariusz Jakubowski

New in muCommander 0.8 Final (Oct 5, 2007)

  • The most significant new features of this release are on-the-fly modification of Zip archives, support for the system trash under Mac OS X and KDE, support for NFS shares, notifications when a transfer is complete (System tray or Growl), smart encoding detection, a new theme editor, visual improvements to the quick search, an option to display system file icons, Zip performance and UI responsiveness improvements and 5 new languages: KR, pt_BR, NL, SK, and en_GB. The source code has been released under the GPL v3.

New in muCommander 0.8 beta 3 (Mar 8, 2007)

  • New features:
  • Keyboard shortcuts, toolbar and command bar buttons can now be customized (no GUI yet, see .xml files in preferences folder)
  • New theme engine with predefined themes allowing more customization options (GUI not updated yet)
  • Custom file opener and file associations (no GUI yet)
  • Drag and Drop support: files can be copied or moved to and from muCommander windows and other applications, current folder can be changed by dropping a file or folder on the location field
  • Clipboard support: files can be copied and pasted to/from the clipboard (Ctrl C / Ctrl V by default), works with other applications
  • New quick search with visual feedback, editable search string, jump to next/previous matches and ability to cancel it
  • Connection pooling (SFTP,FTP) and automatic disconnection after timeout, active connections can be listed and closed (Shift Ctrl K by default)
  • New file transfer progress window with 'Pause'/'Resume', 'Skip' current file and speed limit options, current/total remaining time, elapsed time, current speed and speed graph, and option to leave the window open when finished
  • Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2 archives can now be created
  • Read support for ISO and NRG images over local and SMB filesystems (contributed by Xavier Martin)
  • Read/write support for Bzip2 archives (.bz2, .tbz2, .tar.bz2 extensions)
  • Read support for AR and Debian archives, GNU and BSD variants supported (.ar, .deb extensions)
  • Read support for LST catalog files
  • Support for HTTP Basic Authentication
  • Bonjour/Zeroconf services discovery
  • New permissions column in table, sort by permissions option
  • File permissions are properly preserved during transfers (Java 1.6 required for local files)
  • New 'Change permissions' and 'Change date' dialogs
  • 'Run command' is now interactive, allows shell customization, quick recall of previous commands, color customization, uses the customisable shell to parse commands.
  • Command line options
  • Ability to execute remote or archive entries files: these are copied to a temporary local directory and executed
  • Location combo box now allows to quickly recall parent folders
  • Icons magnification option for toolbar, command bar and files
  • New credentials management: authentication dialog allows to choose between credentials matching a location, persistent credentials can be edited using the 'Edit credentials' dialog, passwords are (weakly) encrypted when stored to disk
  • New and improved 'Edit bookmarks' dialog
  • New 'Go' menu
  • New 'Copy name(s)' and 'Copy path(s)' actions to copy marked files names / paths (Alt C / Shift Alt C by default)
  • New 'Mkfile' action (Shift F7 by default)
  • New 'Mark page up/page down' action (Shift Page Up/Shift Page Down by default)
  • New 'Mark up to first/last row' action (Shift Home/Shift End by default)
  • New 'Split horizontally', 'Split vertically', 'Split equally' actions in 'Window' menu
  • Added show/hide columns to 'View' menu
  • 'Reveal in desktop' now available for Windows, KDE, GNOME (on top of Mac OS X)
  • Ability to open files with native file associations under KDE and GNOME
  • Ability to open URLs under KDE and GNOME
  • 'Show .DS_Store files' option under Mac OS X
  • 'Show system folders' option under Mac OS X
  • 'Change current location' keyboard shortcut (Ctrl G by default)
  • 'Reveal in desktop' keyboard shortcut (Ctrl L by default)
  • New file icons for Mac OS X and Windows executables, libraries, Java, Powerpoint and Visual studio files
  • New toolbar icon for 'Reveal in desktop'
  • New 'Report a bug' item in 'Help' menu
  • Windows: new mucommander.exe launcher replacing both mucommander.bat and mucommander.jar
  • Improvements:
  • Major code cleanup before source code release
  • Improved file handling performance, especially under Windows
  • Optimized handling of Zip and Tar archives which can now be accessed much faster
  • Faster table rendering
  • Toolbar and command bar now contextually show whether the action can be triggered or not
  • Free/total volume space now automatically refreshes (every 60 seconds)
  • Status bar shows a graphical representation of the amount of free space on the current volume (where available)
  • 'File collision' dialog improved, attempts to transfer a folder to one of its subfolders are now detected
  • KB/MB/GB/TB are now calculated accurately by multiples of 1024 instead of 1000
  • Decimal and thousands separators are now localized
  • Environment variables are now retained when using 'Run command'
  • In-table file renaming now used everywhere instead of 'Rename' dialog
  • In-table file renaming must now to be validated by ENTER for safety reasons
  • 'Quit' action with confirmation dialog added for platforms other than OS X (Ctrl Q by default)
  • Right-click menu reworked, added 'Copy name(s)' / 'Copy path(s)' actions
  • Improved Windows launcher
  • Splash screen shows loading progress
  • Currently selected file is displayed in a different color (configurable) when focus is out of the file table or application
  • 'Go back' and 'Go forward' toolbar buttons display a list of back/forward folders when the mouse button is held down
  • Left/Right keyboard shortcuts added for 'Go to parent' and 'Open' (customizable)
  • Window number displayed in title if more than one window is opened
  • Marking/unmarking stops when mark key is kept pressed and last file is reached
  • Mark key on '..' now selects next file instead of doing nothing
  • Shortcuts dialog uses tabs to show shortcut topics
  • Bookmark and root folder names can be entered in the location field to change the current folder
  • Location field now allows to correct paths that have failed or have been cancelled
  • 'Local copy' dialog now selects filename without extension just like 'Rename'
  • Added 'Open', 'Open natively' and 'Reveal in Desktop' actions to 'File' menu
  • Added 'Copy name(s)' / 'Copy path(s)' actions to 'Mark' menu
  • Added 'Recall previous/next window' actions to 'Window' menu
  • Folder pane divider can now be double-clicked to restore an equal split
  • Preference tabs now have icons, layout improved a bit
  • View and Editor windows now have icons
  • New font preview field to 'Appearance' preferences tab
  • New ascending / descending icons in sort tabs
  • New about screen
  • New extensions associated with Zip archives: .war, .wal, .wmz, .xpi, .ear, .sar, .odt, .ods, .odp, .odf, .odg
  • SMB performance improved when changing folders
  • Root folders of SMB shares now have a parent (smb://) to more easily browse workgroups/shares
  • SMB resources that are not browsable (printers, IPC...) are not displayed
  • SMB library (jCIFS) upgraded to version 1.2.13 which includes many bug fixes
  • Localization:
  • Romanian translation (contributed by Catalin Hritcu)
  • Italian translation (contributed by Roberto Angeletti)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed SFTP connections which could not be established to some servers not supporting the 'password' authentication method
  • Windows UNC network paths (those starting with ) are now properly handled, fixing startup problems under Windows if the user home is located on a network share
  • Paths to archive entries can now be properly resolved when entered in the location field
  • Paths to SMB folders entered in the location field do not need to end with '/' anymore
  • Improved focus management, fixing some previous focus issues
  • Fixed drive popup which doesn't immediately reflect bookmark changes
  • Fixed .GZ files not opened when extension is upper-cased
  • GZ files inside Tar archives can now be properly opened
  • Archive entries properly refreshed when an archive is being browsed and the archive file has changed
  • Fixed archive file staying locked when creation was interrupted because of an error
  • Fixed 'Sort by date'/'Sort by size' not properly sorting files that have the same date or size, these are now sorted by name
  • Preferences XML file now properly indented
  • Removed Preferences from 'File' menu under Mac OS X (already present in the Apple menu)
  • Fixed same directory which could be added several times in a row to history
  • Fixed HTTP errors and redirections not handled properly when browsing a website
  • Fixed improper error message when trying to create a file in an HTTP folder
  • Fixed drive button shrinking when browsing a folder with a long path
  • Email addresses can now be used as passwords
  • Fixed FTP overwrite problem which would cause the destination file to be renamed to filename.1
  • Fixed a bug in menu bar which could prevent some shortcuts from working properly
  • Added missing keyboard shortcut to 'Go to parent' menu item
  • Fixed a display bug which could lead to both panes showing a selected file
  • Fixed annoyance with drive popup under Mac OS X which redirected startup partition to /Volumes/PartitionName instead of /
  • Fixed muCommander cancelling Mac OS X shutdown / restart / logout
  • Fixed file editor not asking for save when quitting muCommander under OS X
  • Files/folders with extended characters can now properly be executed/revealed under Mac OS X (was caused by a bug in the Java 1.5 runtime)
  • Fixed folders failing to display when a filename contains a backslash under a forward slash-separated system (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed volume space indicator not showing anything in certain local folders (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed renamed file loses selection after renaming (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed marked files not properly retained when changing sort order (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed top-level directories which could not be created in sub-directories (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed handling of files containing leading or trailing white space characters (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed issue with filenames containing a '?' character (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed 'Edit bookmarks' changes not taken into account under certain conditions (since beta1)
  • Fixed in-table renaming which could stop working under certain conditions (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed total/free space not displayed for some locally mounted volumes (since 0.8 beta1)
  • Fixed newly created folders not selected (since 0.8 beta2)
  • Fixed user-defined font not properly taken into account (since 0.8 beta2)
  • Fixed a repaint bug which could cause the folder pane display to be corrupted (since 0.8 beta2)
  • Known issues:
  • Some translations are not up-to-date
  • Executable permissions are not preserved properly for local files prior with Java