# What’s new in TagSpaces 3.9?

> This article will give you an overview of the changes in version 3.9 released in end of March 2021

![TagSpaces main window](/content/v3.9/main-shot.png)

TagSpaces **v3.9.5, our most advanced version yet, is now available**, building upon and further improving the change introduced in previous releases.

## User Interface and UX features and improvements

**Version 3.9.5.** has seen its share of UI and UX improvements.

Menus have seen some important additions and changes. The **option to “open parent folders internally” was added to the File menu**, this is most useful for file and folder entries in search results. When in **the Default or KanBan perspective, a right-click on an empty area will bring up the directory menu**, and **the locations context menu gained a “Close all locations” entry.**

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![The context of the location is in the location context menu](/content/v3.9/close-all-locations.png)

File context menus just got smarter too, now **right-clicking a multi-file selection will take into account the selected file-types, and only show the relevant menu options**. Many **dialogues also got an extra close button** now for easier dismissal.

Changing perspectives just got a lot easier in the **PRO** version with **the addition of the new Switcher toolbar**, that brings a serious usability improvement.

![The Switcher buttons are buttons for switching](/content/v3.9/perspective-switcher.png)

While **the KanBan perspective continued to improve** and got closer to production-ready, the **Default perspective now has user-definable thumbnails for folders.** When you right click a file, and choose “Use as thumbnail for current folder”, this file will become a cover image for that folder in the grid view, or gets displayed at the right-hand side in list-view, similarly to file preview images. This might seem most useful for image folders, but could be used for any kind of content.

![The folder covers cover the folders. Thumbnail style](/content/v3.9/folder-covers.png)

As a subtle change, the **file and folder titles in dark mode have** also **been adjusted**.

## Under the hood

**Version 3.9** offers **fixes for deleting tags and double tags in search results**, along **with updated Korean, Spanish, Armenian and Japanese translations.**

For **PRO** users, **directory watching was adjusted to the new indexing strategy** introduced in the previous version, as well as **changes made in the sidecar file being reflected in the user interface,** while **Enterprise** (not the spaceship) users can now a **load tag library from dynamoDB**.

## Remote storage systems

Remote storage-related improvements in **version 3.9** mainly affect the **PRO** and **Enterprise** versions: Now **deleting non-empty folders is supported on remote file systems**, and you can **rename folders** on object storages. **Custom thumbnails,** as seen above, **work on remote storages too** for **PRO** users, and **the file-upload experience has seen an improvement.**

As an under-the-hood improvement for remote locations, **object storages now have an optional sessionToken parameter**, which is useful for some connections to MinIO based bucket back-ends.

Meanwhile, the **Enterprise** version now has a **login screen with Cognito support.**

![The Cognito support is in incognito, but it’s still there](/content/v3.9/login_screen.png)

## So, should you upgrade?

If you have not already, **the short answer is: Yes, you should**. Most definitely should. Because why would you want to skip on all these cool new features? Until then, see you in the next release.