What's new

Version 5.6.2 / 2023.11.28​

🎉 New features​

• PRO add audio recording dialog (#108)

🌟 Enhancements​

• optimizing macOS tray icon by utilizing template images and supporting dark mode
• improving the display of the app version
• new TagSpaces logo
• redisigning the way how the app version is shown
• adding a file creation menu
• migration most of the redux functions to context providers
• added open directory from the search results

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix issue with adding and removing many tags
• manipulate tags on files it scrolls back all the way to the top (#2009)
• disabling directory menu in case no location is opened
• fix issue with connecting locations located in the same drive as the app installation https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces/issues/1999
• fix reflect create/delete entries in KanBan
• Show correct folder content menu on right click on the folder background
• fix the colors of the tags in the stored search queries
• fix uploading file in root of S3 bucket
• fix markdown previewing and editing in dark mode https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces/issues/1990
• PRO fix reflect create/delete entries in KanBan

Version 5.5.4 / 2023.10.16​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fixed some minor bugs

Version 5.5.2 / 2023.10.02​

🎉 New features​

• redesign of the area for viewing the file properties by adding tabs and extracting the description in separate tab
• added new description viewer supporting markdown based on milkdown 7
• added context menu in the file extensions for the desktop app supporting operations such as copy, paste or select all

🌟 Enhancements​

• updated to electron 25.8.3, fix for CVE-2023-4863
• added a confirmation dialog for listing more than 1000 objects on a S3 bucket
• optimizations in the functionality for uploading files
• migration to react 18 and typescript 5
• adding button for toggle entry preview height

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix body background color of the file extensions according to the theme
• fix issue with thumbnails in search results 1961
• fix allow using only file urls in the electron window

Version 5.4.4 / 2023.07.19​

🎉 New features​

• PRO - Sharing of multiple files from a S3 object store at once

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix issue by file selection with the SHIFT key #1957
• fix issue in the selection of the search results #1956
• fix broken saving of files in Android #1955
• fix broken support custom logo

Version 5.4.2 / 2023.07.08​

🎉 New features​

• Added open in new window functionality for files, folder and locations
• Added background icons for audio, video, image, ebooks and note files

🌟 Enhancements​

• Greatly improving the usability of the search functionality
• CSV export now support exporting the selected file or the files from the search results
• Improvement in the file creation dialog
• UX improvement in the dialogs
• Show number of selected entries in the grid and list perspectives
• Enhancing the icon for selecting files and folder in the grid and list perspectives
• Improving the move/copy dialog
• Various performance optimizations
• PRO - Allow filtering for ebooks in the search
• PRO - Improvement in the gallery perspective
• PRO - Fixed read-only mode in Kanban
• PRO - Enabling folder drag and drop in Kanban

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed error on handling issues on connecting S3 buckets
• Fixed issue with the map pointer of the geo-tags
• PRO - Fixed issues with file watcher

Version 5.3.4 / 2023.04.27​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed broken media player
• Fixed search results not updating correctly 1912
• Fixed search results get lost after opening a file via double-click 1913

Version 5.3.3 / 2023.04.14​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed crash on "show files with this tags"
• Fixed issued by downloading files in the create file dialog
• Fixed crash by previewing or downloading big files from S3 buckets

Version 5.3.2 / 2023.04.07​

🎉 New features​

• Computing the folder size in the desktop application
• Moving folders is now possible in local files and within s3 buckets
• Improved folder selector for moving and copying files and folders
• Installable viewer and editor extensions, laying the ground for installable third party extensions
• Added support for downloading files and HTML pages from URL locally and on S3 buckets
• The link creation functionality for time limited S3 download links is extracted in a separate dialog, support generation of QR code for the link.
• Added menu item for duplicate location in the location's context menu (#1877)
• PRO Added configurable auto save for edited files
• PRO Added file revisions for the editable files
• PRO Added search history

🌟 Enhancements​

• Search for actions are now case insensitive
• The file creation dialog was visually improved
• Thumbnail are now generated after successful upload on S3 buckets
• Making click protection layer for location loading disappear automatically after 5 secs
• The design of file types tab in the settings was improved
• Added parameter for preventing search engine indexing of TagSpaces Web installations

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Improving work with keyboard and tab key, changing opening file key from enter to alt+enter, fixing #1837
• Removed the default styling in new HTML files, fixing issue with the dark mode
• Add sorting for search results by relevance (#1875)
• Fixed adding and removing sidecar tags in search results

Version 5.2.4 / 2023.02.08​

🌟 Enhancements​

• Search for actions are now case insensitive

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed bug with the colors of the file name based tags

Version 5.2.3 / 2023.02.02​

🌟 Enhancements​

• Making imprint and privacy policy links configurable in the extconfig.js
• Updating electron and sharp libraries
• Added new experimental extension for viewing slides based on reveal.js
• Added new experimental extension for displaying md-files as mind map based on markmap

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed issue by loading EPUB files on Windows
• Fixed issue with random sorting of files in the grid perspective 1694
• Fixed issue with tag collection functionality
• Fixed close and clear to clear the uploads
• Fixed navigation to parent folder from search results
• Fixed broken opening of files from the command line

Version 5.2.2 / 2023.01.26​

🎉 New features​

• Created new extension for preview of 3D model files in STL, OBJ, GLTF and GLB formats
• Create new extension for preview of emails in MSG format
• Enabled staying in edit mode after saving, added cancel editing button, added animation for the saving process
• Added support for deploying TagSpaces Web on Cloudflare Pages
• Add new component for composing search queries
• Added new version of pdf.js in PDF viewer supporting adding text and drawing to PDF files
• Integration of the opening locations and filtering history from the new search component
• Added preview for CR2, NEF, DNG, TGA, 3GP and 3G2 files
• PRO added thumbnail generation for CR2, NEF, DNG, TGA, TIFF files

🌟 Enhancements​

• Transferring theme color to extensions
• Migration of the most extensions to Bootstrap5
• Added a button for generating new location id and check for existing location id
• Added a switch in the settings of the grid perspective to disable showing the description of files and folders
• Extract tag library from redux, solving performance issue with big tag libraries (over 1000 tags)
• Upgrading to a newer electron version (21.3.3)
• Showing two lines of text in the entry title of the grid perspective
• Allowing saving screenshots from viewer/editor extensions
• PRO added Kanban cards filter

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed saving shortcut to not trigger the browser's save web page dialog
• Fixed issue preventing creation of new location having space in the path: https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces/issues/1831
• Fixed adding tags not reflected in search results
• Fixed updating the settings after adding new file types in the settings
• Fixed broken check for new version
• Fixed an issue with the number of tags in tags preview
• Fixed thumbs on search in custom location on Android
• Fixed removing of tags on files with the same name
• PRO Fixed creating and deleting new column/folders in Kanban of web
• PRO Fix column background image and color not refreshed on change in Kanban

Version 5.1.3 / 2022.12.14​

🌟 Enhancements​

• PRO improvements in the [Kanban](/usecases/kanban-boards) perspective
• Added Chinese Hong Kong Language

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed issue with saving text files on S3 location, after location switch

Version 5.1.2 / 2022.12.07​

🎉 New features​

• Added go back and go forward buttons for the navigation in the app's history (still in BETA)

🌟 Enhancements​

• Marking URLs leading to external web sites in the markdown files as external
• Making the ts sharing/internal links to start with ts://?
• Various improvements in the Kanban perspective
• Add a configuration key in the extconfig.js for skipping the check for new version.

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixing links in file and folder description
• Fixing embedding of images in file and folder description
• Fix issue with not loading default location introduced in 5.1.1

Version 5.1.1 / 2022.11.29​

🎉 New features​

• PRO The Kanban perspective was improved a lot and is again part of the PRO version
• PRO Importing Trello boards as files and folders
• TagSpaces' Links (starting ts:?) pointing to files, folders and location can be now pasted in the search field, starting the search will open the link in the application
• Add some new user interface themes
• Introducing support for system dark mode
• Added new how to start walkthough on the welcome screen

🌟 Enhancements​

• The new file creation dialog was extended with a text field containing the name of the file which will be created (for easy changing)
• Introducing the Milkdown markdown rendered in the app for file and folder descriptions
• Migrating the build system to webpack v5
• Updating the underlying Electron platform to 20.x
• The image viewer was extended to show the width and height of the currently viewed image and some more EXIF from JPG files
• Small improvements in the user interface and icons of the list and grid perspectives
• Fixed user interface glitches in the file types area in the settings
• Skipping opening default location while opening TagSpaces links (ts:?..)
• Disabling thumbnail generation for markdown and mhtml files
• Displaying the name of the currently opened file in the window title

🐛 Bug fixes​

• PRO Editing datetime tags was fixed, fixing date picker issue
• Added the location id to the currently edited file to prevent some edge cases in by saving
• Fixed not loading folder meta on when opened from TagSpaces link (ts:?..)
• Fixed inability to open folders containing percent character in the folder name (#1796)
• The dragging of images is now disabled, preventing some edge cases with the drag and drop functionality
• Fixed position of the file and folder context menus according to the mouse click
• Fixed uploading files with 0 bytes for AWS
• Fixed broken keyboard shortcuts for location manager and tag library #1777

Version 5.0.6 / 2022.11.16​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fix: app crash on canceling tag editing 1790
• Fix: loading file description
• Fix: crash on opening new window from file menu

Version 5.0.5 / 2022.10.27​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fix: reduce width of vertical splitter
• Fix: not loading folder meta on opening s3 location
• Fix: use of Metadata Features Prevents Preview of Files (#1702)
• Fix: reloading the background image on every file opening
• PRO Fix: use as walpaper image functionality on S3

Version 5.0.4 / 2022.10.20​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fix crash on opening a folder properties in Safari
• Fix creating tsi.json on Android
• Fix showing folder thumbnail in search results
• Fix loading the folder meta from the breadcrumbs
• Removing double click for opening files externally in list perspective
• Fix opening the folder properties opens the default perspective of the folder
• Fix issue with deleting to trash bin
• Improving full text indexing

Version 5.0.3 / 2022.10.10​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fix broken folder rename functionality

Version 5.0.2 / 2022.10.08​

🎉 New features​

• Making access to S3 buckets as locations a non-PRO feature
• Providing a free and open source web version of the app
• Improving the integration of the saved search queries, adding a dropdown menu as shortcut
• Quick access area redesigned by adding bookmarks and recently opened/edited files and folders lists
• Enabling preview of images in AVIF file format
• Allow multiple opening of the current file in a new window or tab
• Supporting creation of a new app instances in a separate window or tab by clicking the tagspaces logo or the file menu
• Added ability to open geo-tags in online map service like OpenStreetMap
• Added button for clearing custom directory perspective settings
• Added button for opening the parent folder of the current file in the app
• PRO Add ability to set an image or a color gradient as a background of a folder
• PRO Added functionality for bookmarking of files and folders
• PRO Added ability to collect and display recently opened or edited files
• PRO Added ability to collect and display recently opened folders
• PRO Added support for custom perspective settings per folder
• PRO Initial experimental integration of WebDAV

🌟 Enhancements​

• Migration to the MUI v.5 featuring slightly changed user interface controls
• Switching back to npm
• Making the number of the selected files visible in the drag layer
• Updating German, Chinese, French and other translations
• Redesigning the entry properties area and the advanced search popover
• Optimizing the dialog for creating and editing locations
• PRO Added a set of default folder thumbnails and icons
• PRO Add sample images to be used as background for folders
• PRO Added option for canceling the subscription for the PRO version

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fix inability to edit empty markdown file
• Fix Android build
• Fix broken drag and drop of files in sub folders

Version 4.5.2 / 2022.07.20​

🌟 Enhancements​

• Improving performance in grid/list perspectives
• Improving loading perfarmance by extracting the loading of meta sidecar from the loadDirectoryContent
• Offer move or copy dialog on drag and drop of files in the app
• Update typescript to version 4.x

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fix S3 upload progress dialog
• Fix moving and copying with drang and drop for S3 locations
• Fix broken thumbnails for folders on linux (#1679)
• Fix Move / Copy file functionality json and thumb files are not copied/moved if the name of the main file contains spaces
• Fix thumbnails issue on Windows
• Fix broken indexing on S3 buckets
• Fix minio upload issue
• Fixes issues by multiple file renames

Version 4.4.3 / 2022.05.20​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixes issue with broken tag deletion in the tag library

Version 4.4.2 / 2022.05.18​

🎉 New features​

• Selecting a default perspective in settings of the app is now possible
• Double click on files in list perspective will open the file natively
• New search widget instead of search icon
• Improvements for the search bar
• Making search tooltip interactive
• Improve usability inline search on mobile devices
• PRO Extract shooting datetime from EXIF in JPG files
• PRO Disabling EXIF extraction on readonly locations

🌟 Enhancements​

• Added app for notarization for macOS
• Updating to electron 17.1.2
• Enabling making newly create .ts folder hidden on Windows (winattr lib re-integration)
• Updating the German, French and Canadian French translations
• PRO Added initial implementation for adding background images and gradients as backgrounds for the folders in the Kanban perspective

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fix disabled perspective selector in the setting of the non-PRO version
• Fix for taking isreadonly mode of a location into account for enabling the "apply tag" functionality
• Fix thumbnail generation for HTML files
• Fix displaying the last modified tag datetime in tag edit dialog #1628
• Fix reordering tags in tag groups with drag and drop #1619
• PRO Fix saving order of the folder and files in the folders in the Kanban perspective
• PRO Fix show folder content in the Kanban perspective

Version 4.3.1 / 2022.03.16​

🎉 New features​

• Improved usability of the inline search
• Added search scope switch and tooltips
• Added initial tag preview
• Separating the default perspective into grid and list perspectives
• Extracting thumbs from .number, .pages and .key documents
• PRO Added new experimental wiki perspective
• PRO Show description and tags for the current folder
• PRO Adding initial wiki perspective, refactoring perspectives
• PRO Extending the thumbnail extraction logic for images having preview in the name

🌟 Enhancements​

• Fine-tuning perspective switching
• Updating Canadian-French and Chinese translations
• Rounding corners of the description field in the cell
• Extracting markdown convertion, refactoring deprecated execute command
• PRO Disabling link for dowloading S3 files on folders
• PRO Improving showing description, adding folder navigator in the Gallery perspective

🐛 Bug fixes​

• showing confirm delete dialog on empty selection
• making the entry close button always on top
• added missing vertical scrollbar in the folder properties
• improving color handing by tags and tag preview
• issue with ignoring search boxing in advanced search
• PRO Fixed issue with currently selected files not kept after opening it in the right panel in the Gallery perspective
• PRO Fixed changing folders in Kanban perspective not working

Version 4.2.1 / 2022.02.01​

🎉 New features​

• A viewer for EPUB files is re-integrated
• Tag collection is now part of the free version as suggested in #1598
• Added info about the number of files and folders at the bottom of the default perspective
• Added print/export functionality for the description of files and folders

🌟 Enhancements​

• Internal links link to files are opened now in full width
• Added entry size and last modified date time as title to the rows in the grid perspective
• Added show folder properties button in the default perspective' toolbar
• Maximal height of the file and folder description set to 400px, scrolling for the content is enabled
• Enabling the open in full-width button for folders
• The S3 endpoint URL is moved from the advanced to the simple location's settings
• The pause/resume playback global shortcut and tray option does not bring the app windows on top anymore
• Now ':' can be used in the file names e.g. by renaming
• The close fullscreen button was visually improved
• Select all now selects also folders
• The auto-hide controls in the media player is disabled
• Videos are now vertically centered in the media player
• Persisting opened folder tree in the location manager after switching back for another tab
• Speeding-up the loading of sub-folders in the location manager by removing the deep-level analysis
• Deactivated the folder change feature while loading folder content
• Improve the dark theme support in the md-editor
• Added shadow to file extension to increase readability
• Improved theming support for extensions
• Changed zoom-in shortcut for the desktop version to ctrl+shift+plus #1600
• PRO Improving in PWA experience
• PRO Added loading animation for listing object storage
• PRO Adjustments in the thumbnail generation for ZIP and EPUB files

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed broken folder sharing path
• Fixed potential issue with window.open functionality
• Fixed embedding local images in description markdown
• Fixed setting thumbnail for the parent folder
• Fixed issue with the tag group creation
• Fixed thumbnail rename issue
• Fixed print mode for the html and md editors

Version 4.1.3 / 2022.01.05​

🌟 Enhancements​

• Added entry size and last modified date time as title to rows (small view) in the grid perspective
• Improve the support for themes in the extensions
• Added info about the number of files and folders
• Design of empty folders improved
• Added printing mode for markdown files
• PRO Last modified date in CSV exports is now ISO compatible

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Thumbnail rename issue fixed (#1581)
• Updated the summernote html editor,
• Fixed issue by setting thumbnail for the parent folder
• Fixed key shortcut for show drawer by clicking F1 and opening tag library
• Fixed issue with uploading files on Wasabi S3 service

Version 4.1.2 / 2021.12.20​

🎉 New features​

• added new Canadian French translation
• added support for htm files
• copy sharing link url functionality is accessible in read-only mode
• PRO create new user interface for user's profile

🌟 Enhancements​

• TagSpaces does not show in foregrond on changing files with global key combination
• Fully migrate the electron and cordova platforms to new the tagspaces-platform
• Updated husky, babel and other libs
• Updated various translations,
• Updated the pro teaser
• App's help and onboarding sections polished
• partial WebDAV re-integration
• various improvement for the Markdown editor
• improving the rendering of rows in the default perpsective
• deselect files by click on empty space
• select all now selects also folders

🐛 Bug fixes​

• after deleting file the view now does not scroll to top
• deleting file in fullwidth mode does not leave a blank white window
• improve slow tagging drag and drop action on a folders with many tagged files
• fix issue with deleting files to trashbin on Electron
• PRO fix PDF thumb generation on Android

Version 4.0.9 / 2021.11.24​

A dedicated article describing with more details the key new features in version 4.0 is available in this blog article.

Version 4.0.9 contains some bug-fixes:

• fix issues with links and diagrams in markdown files
• fix partially broken thumbnail generation on Linux

Version 4.0.8 / 2021.11.17​

Version 4.0.8 contains mainly bug-fixes and small improvements for version 4.0 of the application.

Version 4.0.4 / 2021.11.03​

A dedicated article describing with more details the key new features in version 4.0 is available in this blog article.

🎉 New features​

• redesign of the user interface, with a new library for splitting the working areas of the app
• allow adding many tags at once separated by comma in the tagging dialog
• finalizing the functionality for generation of links for sharing
• added dedicated area for the stored searches
• format json exports with 2 chars intent, improving the readability
• greatly improved the speed of thumbnails generation for images by utilizing the blazing fast sharp library, which is running as separate web service
• search index creation speed improved by running it as separate web service
• new more specific checks for application updates
• added iCloud folder on macOS as location
• redesign create new file dialog
• PRO an optional MGRS geo tagging system was integrated
• PRO the password field for export locations dialog is now hiding the input
• PRO partially supporting the ISO standard for date and time by adding T as delimiter

🌟 Enhancements​

• the icons for the button for navigating to the next and the previous file were exchanged with down and up arrows
• the app was migrated to electron 15.2.0
• the default mode of the grid perspective is now small, which looks better or smaller screens
• improve the design of filetypes in settings
• user interface in the search and entry container was optimized
• text from the perspective switcher button was removed
• updating Armenian and Norwegian translations
• the react-image-gallery library used in the Gallery perspective was updated
• making the new markdown editor default for editing and viewing markdown files
• scroll in pagination on folder change
• PRO added navigation to parent folder in folder area of the Mapique perspective

🐛 Bug fixes​

• file renamed on drag and drop without drop of tag
• position of pagination and perspective changer
• the size of the tray icon on macOS is fixed
• PRO wrong height of images in the gallery perspective was fixed
• PRO fixed issue with not stopping slideshow in Gallery perspective after exiting fullscreen

Version 3.11.6 / 2021.08.31​

A dedicated article describing with more details the key new features of this release can be found in our blog: What's new in version 3.11

🎉 New features​

• set tagging method per location
• move tag groups with drag and drop
• allow to change the order of the tags on a tagged file or folder with drag and drop
• added file duplicate feature — the newly created files get automatically two new tags: copy and the current date and time (old_file_name [tag1].txt -> old_file_name [tag1 copy 20210702~183456].txt)
• add "Apply tag" feature to the tag's menu in the tag library, allowing you to add a tag to selected files without drag and drop
• new optional WYSIWYG markdown editor added as editor and viewer extension
• sorting file extension list in the settings alphabetically
• added an option for disabling the warning by opening external files (#1495)
• PRO Add folder ignore patterns for navigation, indexing and watching (#1440)
• PRO Stored search queries for later use
• PRO Location tags allowing you save the tag groups in the location's folder, for easy sharing by syncing files to other users
• PRO Add show folders in the Mapique perspective, allowing navigation in sub directories

🌟 Enhancements​

• migration to a new extension structure, adjusting the list of the supported file types
• improve handling location tag groups
• user interface improvements in the search area
• migrate away from using remoteModule in Electron due to potential security issues
• do not show hidden files in search results if setting is do not show files with dot(.)
• added close button to all dialogs
• adding help links to perspectives
• adjusting fuzzy search parameters
• added a flag for generating thumbnails on loading directory content
• improving on-boarding dialog
• improving pagination of search result and default perspective, fixing Cordova issues
• updating to electron 13.2.2
• PRO Many improvement in the Mapigue perspective
• PRO Optimizing the CSV export of the search results, redefining the exported columns

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix refresh issue after adding tags #1371
• fixed issue for creating sub directories in location with a relative path
• fix Opening parent folder from the button in perspective does not always work on Windows network drives
• fix issue with empty search query
• fix hamburger menu in the mobile mode
• fix Android paths on locations
• upload in web to MinIO server broken
• fix Cordova android upload files
• fix downloader plugin
• remove takePicture for Android DirectoryMenu.tsx
• remove export and saveAs functionalities for Android

Version 3.10.4 / 2021.06.15​

More on this release can be found in our blog

🎉 New features​

• added new viewer for opening spreadsheet files like CSV, ODT or XLSX
• make OpenStreetMap tile server configurable in the settings
• allow changing the order of locations with drag and drop
• geo tagging and custom date tagging many selected files does not work
• use the thumb of a folder as thumb for the parent folder
• extend the tag menu with add to tag group entry, enable dnd of tag from the default perspective to tag library
• added strict(case sensitive) and semi strict search
• adding support for JIF and JFIF files #1442
• added maximum age of the search index per location locations
• PRO added support for saved searches
• PRO added support for sharable links with validation duration in object storage locations
• PRO add input fields for entering lat and long directly in the geo tagging dialog
• PRO export current folder content or search results entries as CSV file
• PRO added new smart icon as pin for files and folder, redesigning pin popup
• PRO implement coloring map icons according to the color of the first tag
• PRO extend the tag menu with add to tag group
• ENTERPRISE added support for multi-factor auth (MFA)

🌟 Enhancements​

• create tab for advanced settings
• improve dark mode for the entry properties
• update Norwegian, Hungarian and Japanese translation
• improvements in the search and thumbnail generation snackbar
• parse text query for containing tags and optimize search reset (#1422)
• PRO improving thumbnail generation for text files

🐛 Bug fixes​

• reducing the usage of openFileNatively, fixing #1420
• removing the location limitation of the search string in the fussy search
• making index preparation more robust
• clear folder background color
• default sorting per name is now alphabetic
• search tags by camel case #1426
• PRO fix deleting folder in object storage containing others folders
• PRO hide mobile side-menu during the amplify login process
• PRO improve folder creation in object stores
• PRO fix show thumbnails in object stores

Version 3.9.5 / 2021.03.27​

🎉 New features​

• Added "Open parent folder internally" to the file menu, useful for file and folder entries in search results
• Searched for any of the tags in a given tag group (OR search) (#1364)
• Show directory menu on right click in the default and KanBan perspective
• Added experimental support for Mac arm64 architecture
• Changes in the context menu for files in the default perspective depending on the current selection
• Added "Close All Locations" functionality in the locations context menu
• Added "Use as Thumbnail for Current Folder" menu item in the file menu of the default perspective
• PRO Added support for deleting not empty folders on object storage (#1351)
• PRO Added missing rename folder functionality on object storage (#1352)
• PRO Enable setting custom thumbnails on object storage locations
• PRO Directory watching adjusted to the new indexing strategy, changes in the sidecar are now reflected in the user interface
• PRO Added switcher toolbar for easy switching between perspectives
• PRO Added optional sessionToken parameter to object store locations
• PRO Many improvements in the KanBan perspective
• [Enterprise] Added login screen with Cognito support
• [Enterprise] Added user profile area and a sign out button in the help section

🌟 Enhancements​

• Korean, Spanish, Armenian and Japanese translations updated
• Added auto-focus on the tagging input field in the tagging dialog #1320
• Added extra close button to some dialogs
• PRO Improving file uploading experience on object storage
• PRO Improvements in location export dialog, added select/deselect locations functionality
• PRO Refresh current folder after closing upload dialog in object storage mode
• PRO add isNotEditable in location's model, preventing exporting and editing locations
• [Enterprise] Allow tag library to be loaded from dynamoDB

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixing double tags in search results fixing #1354
• Fixing issue with deleting tags on multiple files

Version 3.8.4 / 2021.01.29​

🎉 New features​

• introducing open link functionality for handling external and internal links
• added link in entry properties for sharing files and folders
• integration of the help panel for mobile mode
• add reload app button in the setting general tab
• make uuid of locations visible and editable
• enable opening folders from command line as parameter
• added tool-tip in about dialog showing detailed version information
• improve showing paths for cloud locations
• adding history navigation in the desktop app as a experimental feature
• redesign entry extension badge in the entry opener and grid perspective
• read-only externally configured locations
• PRO adding support for importing and exporting location configurations

🌟 Enhancements​

• hide file menu by default on Windows and Linux. It can be made visible by clicking the ALT key.
• removing transparency of tags in the default perspective
• making default perspective toolbar translucent
• limit the logo width to 200px
• disable context menu on locations in read-only mode
• update German, Indonesian and Italian translations
• added current user interface theme as URL parameter for the viewers and editors
• PRO making smart tag deactivatable in the external config
• PRO theme colors are now customizable in the external config
• PRO welcome panel is configurable in the external config
• PRO make sidebar color and advanced search configurable in the external config
• PRO added custom logo for the web version
• PRO polish PWA app

🐛 Bug fixes​

• [android] fix folder selection for location in the Android app
• [android] fix Cordova paths for the SD card
• correct folder name in the deletion dialog
• re-enable open file from command line
• fix issue with two cloud locations with the same or no path are not selected properly
• fix update issue on folder deletion from top left folder menu
• fix rename a folder from the 3-dot menu
• fix select all entries state after change to empty location
• fix colors of the file and folder title in dark mode
• fix broken file editing after changing description or adding tag
• PRO handle renames and uploads on read-only S3 connection
• PRO switching S3 locations with no path broken
• PRO enable exiting full-screen in gallery perspective on mobile devices

Version 3.7.6 / 2020.11.11​

🎉 New features​

• Indexing of a location on opening is now disabled
• Indexing starts on the first search in a given location. The index is valid for 10 minutes, after this time is elapsed the index is recreated on the next search. Every time a index is created it is saved in the current locations .ts folder as tst.json file
• After a successful indexing the amount of the indexed files is shown in the search panel
• Size of the location index was significantly reduced
• If an entry has a geo tag, a map is displayed in the entry properties showing the exact location of the tag
• The default electron spell-checker for desktop apps is enabled for the file and folder description filed and by editing of html files
• Pagination for the grid perspective was added, the max count of file in given page can be adjusted in the settings of the perspective
• PDF thumb generation in now in the main app windows, the hidden worker window is not shown anymore if a folder contains PDFs
• Explanation before stating the mac tag extraction was added
• Previewing files on Android was disabled due to security reasons
• Added support for ACC audio format
• Added ACC and FLAC file formats in search settings as audio formats
• Close and clear uploads button added in the upload status dialog
• PRO Previewing files on S3 is optimized to load only the first 10000 bytes of a given file.
• PRO The editing of the description for files and folder can now be initiated with double click on the description field
• PRO Embedding images in the file and folder description and opening external links from there, basic markdown help added
• PRO In is now possible to select a default perspective for every folder
• PRO Format of the date in the date editor dialog changed to YYYY-MM-DD for 2020-09-24
• PRO A new perspective in BETA status called KanBan was added

🌟 Enhancements​

• The tray menu on macOS was re-enabled
• The Smart Tags group can now be collapsed (#1246)
• Exiting full screen from the PDF-viewer fixed on touch enabled devices
• Folder properties are now be opened always with details switched on, switching the details off is not possible anymore
• The smart tags are now read-only and emoji icons were exchanged with real platform independent icons
• Generation of thumbnails for ZIP files was disabled due to a potential performance issues on large files
• Armenian, Japan, Korean and Chinese translations were updated
• PRO Button for navigation to parent directory added in the Mapique and Gallery perspectives

🐛 Bug fixes​

• Fixed showing thumbs and opening files from global search
• Fixed global search crash on no location
• Issues on switching directories and location locally and on S3 fixed
• PRO Map in the Mapique perspective is now re-drawed after closing of a file or folder entry
• PRO Fixed issues with uploading files to S3 from the desktop and the web version

Version 3.6.2 / 2020.09.16​

🎉 New features​

• added upload progress dialog for copying/uploading many files at once
• running in portable mode now visible in the desktop app
• taking advantage of the automatic rotation of JPG according to EXIF now native starting from Chrome 81
• PRO add a download button for files on S3 in Android
• PRO added a feature in beta status for importing macOS tags in TS
• PRO upload to S3 from/to sub directories tree only now possible
• PRO uploading many files from local folder to a S3 folder in the location manager and from the Desktop now possible

🌟 Enhancements​

• improved using of the Enter key for confirming most of the dialogs
• updated Japanese and Chinese translations
• enabling exit of the full screen from the PDF-viewer in touch screen only systems
• moving the PDF thumb generation in main windows in order to prevent showing the worker window
• fine tuning the importing of files
• added a custom preview for DnD tags
• added an uuid for the current folder in its tsm.json
• added hover for row elements in grid perspective
• improved entry selection in the row mode of the default perspective
• upgraded pdf.js to 2.4.456 and electron to 9.0.3

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fixed scrolling in the main folder panel
• fixed a typo and wrong tooltip (#1167)
• fixed user interface glitch in folder navigation (#1095)
• fixed drag and drop to leaf nodes
• fixed Move many files from local folder to sub folder on the same level
• fixed tag library import functionality
• fixed issue with deleting tags with the same name in different tag groups #1145
• fixed various small issues in the tag library
• fixed icon of broken thumbnail images
• fixed toggling file operation on selection change
• fixed open prev and next documents with keyboard shortcuts

Version 3.5.4 / 2020.06.08​

Community​

• 🎉 added support for picture-in-picture (PIP) playing mode in the media player
• 🎉 added switch for playing video with audio only, useful for saving cpu/battery resources while playing music videos
• 🎉 adding path or URL as title to entry extension
• 🎉 improving usability search area
• 🎉 showing URL in the property's path field
• 🎉 showing different icon in the property path depending on the where the file is located
• 🎉 enabling re-indexing switch for all kinds of searches
• 🎉 move files with drag & drop to the location's root folder #1130
• 🎉 enabling escape key for closing application dialogs
• 🎉 supporting enter for confirming changes in the dialog
• 🌟 updating Greek and French translations
• 🌟 upgrading to Electron 7.3.0
• 🐛 fixing long file extension in grid perspective row view
• 🐛 fix renaming files from dialog #1134
• 🐛 disabling drag and drop from cloud to local location and vice versa
• 🐛 fix opening directory in file manager on Windows
• 🐛 correcting the way of tagging for custom data tag #1124
• 🐛 fix showing main app window
• 🐛 fix file sorting bug in default perspective #1120
• 🐛 fix issues with file renaming and thumbnail showing in the entry properties

Pro​

• 🌟 global search with mix of local and cloud locations
• 🐛 fix uploading file to s3 from windows
• 🐛 fix handling object storage on windows
• 🐛 fix collecting tags from current location #1111
• 🐛 various issues with the global search, removing duplicates from the global search results

Version 3.5.2 / 2020.04.19​

Community​

• 🎉 Added global key shortcut ctrl/cmd + shift + f for showing TagSpaces in search mode
• 🌟 fine tunning ui of the entry properties area
• 🌟 optimizing compact mode in grid perspective
• 🌟 upgrading electron, material-ui, aws-sdk libs
• 🌟 improving speed by removing the usage of id for tags
• 🌟 showing tags for which it is searched in the search area
• 🌟 optimizing displaying search results by removing the text content
• 🌟 improving ui of the search panel
• 🌟 enabling creating the index for all locations at once
• 🌟 improving TagSpaces performance (by removing search index from Redux store)
• 🐛 removing extra file with portable script because causing issue with MacOS signing
• 🐛 fix issues with file renaming and thumbnail showing in the entry properties
• 🐛 fix geo pointer shadow icon

Pro​

• 🎉 implementing multi location search, which we call Global search
• 🎉 support connecting Minio and Digital Ocean Spaces locations
• 🌟 allow browsing the root folder of a S3 bucket
• 🐛 fix folder properties in s3 locations

Version 3.4.2 / 2020.03.06​

Community​

• 🎉 implementing switch for toggling tags visibility
• 🌟 improving handling of key bindings
• 🌟 adding dmg builds for Mac OS
• 🌟 restore showing tags in the compact list mode
• 🌟 added confirmation for opening external links
• 🌟 upgrading to electron 7
• 🌟 code base migration to Typescript with Prettier
• 🌟 updating Armenian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanize and German translations
• 🌟 add menu with link to help in the Search area and location manager
• 🌟 lazy loading thumbnails
• 🌟 allowing spaces as separator for tags
• 🐛 fixed crash on document save in some cased #1090
• 🐛 fixed wrong panel in drawer or vertical panel
• 🐛 changing default markdown formats

Version 3.3.0 / 2019.11.08​

Community​

• 🌟 Make newly created files open in edit mode
• 🌟 Make dialogs and the ui in general mobile friendly
• 🌟 Improve navigation to parent folder #1038
• 🌟 Add app detecting mobile mode
• 🌟 Updating Armenian translation
• 🌟 Adding platform information in about box
• 🌟 Extending the welcome window
• 🐛 Fixed missing uuid by tags, fixing #975
• 🐛 Fixed auto focus in the create file dialog and the dialog for adding and removing tag #1033
• 🐛 Prevent adding tags which already existing in a given tag group
• 🐛 Fixing crash on mobile switch #1037
• 🐛 Now the app exits on window close under macOS
• 🐛 Fixing drag and drop highlight of tags #1021

Pro​

• 🎉 Added support for perspectives
• 🎉 Added mapique perspective for showing geo-tags in map
• 🎉 Added gallery perspective for presenting the images in a folder
• 🎉 Added mobile mode with PWA support
• 🐛 Allow geo tagging also in file names

For this release we have prepared a dedicated blog post.

Version 3.2.5 / 2019.10.10​

Community​

• 🌟 Added new help panel, which can be opened from the vertical toolbar
• 🌟 Improving the onboarding wizard dialog and the help panel
• 🌟 Added help button in the tag library and default perspective menus
• 🌟 Click on the search result counter now opens search panel
• 🌟 Showing a warning message when the folders are hidden and no files are in the current folder
• 🌟 Improving the onboarding dialog
• 🐛 Fixing the tag group imports
• 🐛 Fixing removing tags issue by mixture of sidecar and filename
• 🐛 Fixing issue, preventing the removal of the last tag in the properties area
• 🐛 Fixed global shortcuts for playing/pause media content
• 🐛 Fixing not working tray menu
• 🐛 Fixing drag and drop highlight of tags #1021

Pro​

• 🎉 Added new experimental perspective for viewing folders containing images as gallery
• 🌟 Added initial perspective switch in the directory menu
• 🌟 Optimizing update process for PRO users

Version 3.2.3​

Released on 2019.09.23

Community​

• 🌟 Improving showing file and folder description in grid mode
• 🌟 Hiding the button for moving folders from the properties section
• 🌟 Changing the default background color for thumbnails to white
• 🐛 Fixing adding new file types issue
• 🐛 Fixing version check crash in the About dialog #1016
• 🐛 Fixing word wrap on cell description
• 🐛 Fixing file moving issue with drag and drop #1017

Version 3.2.1​

Released on 2019.08.20

Community​

• 🌟 Major refactoring of the smart tags functionalities, smart tags are now ignored by the tag library exports
• 🌟 Fixing row's compact mode in grid perspective
• 🌟 Translations for spanish, german, check and other languages updated
• 🌟 Improvements in the settings dialog
• 🌟 Many small user interface and usability changes
• 🌟 Add show in file manager functionality to the location context menu #1010
• 🌟 Now the .ts folders are created only when needed #998
• 🌟 Showing file entries count in the search results #991
• 🌟 Skipping Unix like hidden folders (name starting with .) by the index generation
• 🌟 Search is now started on change of the criteria in the search section
• 🌟 Version number added on the right to the app logo
• 🐛 Fixing #908 multiple file selection on Mac OS
• 🐛 Fixing user interface shift on location change in some web browsers
• 🐛 Fixing #1009 tagging issue
• 🐛 Fixing audio playback issues on Android
• 🐛 Disabling the tray icon and menu on Mac OS
• 🐛 Bug when add new Tag #997

Pro​

• 🎉 Implemented ability to add geo locations as tags (geotagging)
• 🎉 Implemented ability to tag files with custom date and time
• 🎉 Implemented feature for changing the thumbnail of any file or directory manually
• 🐛 Fixing broken download functionality on s3 locations

Version 3.1.4​

Released on 2019.04.04

Community​

• 🎉 adding open location code / plus codes support
• 🎉 added ability to open GPS coordinates in Openstreetmap
• 🎉 added initial support for opening files from command prompt and url
• 🌟 performance optimizations by updating the search index state
• 🌟 detecting date and geo tags and displaying them as icon
• 🌟 ignoring plus code by tag collection
• 🌟 make updating the index optional after adding new tags
• 🌟 updating electron to 4.1.0
• 🌟 updating translations
• 🌟 updating to fuse 3.4.2
• 🐛 fixing wrong content scrolling on directory change
• 🐛 fix crashes on MacOS Mojave

Pro​

• 🎉 content extraction of GPS and shooting date from EXIF and keyword from IPTC in JPGs
• 🎉 add content extraction button in the directory menu
• 🎉 extending search to support time periods and plus codes
• 🎉 added search by last modified date and search by file size
• 🎉 implementing read-only mode
• 🎉 Supported loading external config with tag library and locations
• 🐛 fix index persistence

Version 3.1.1​

Released on 2019.02.23

Community​

• 🎉 making searching for tags case insensitive
• 🎉 added the support for semi-transparent color for tags and folders
• 🎉 extending redux to support external configs
• 🎉 added read-only support for folder thumbnails
• 🎉 adding option for the default perspective, making a single click to select only an entry #909
• 🎉 added mkv to the list of the supported file formats for thumbnail generation, search and playing with the audio video
• 🎉 adding show files with this tags to entry tag menu
• 🎉 added the ability to add tags to all selected files by ctrl+clicking a tag in the tag library
• 🎉 added the feature to tag all selected files when drag and dropping a tag onto a file
• 🎉 making the app usable on small screens, hiding the middle panel if the height of the window is greater than the width
• 🎉 first public release of TagSpaces v3 for Android with a minimum Android version of 6.0 (SDK 23)
• 🌟 making the toolbars usable on small screens
• 🌟 improving performance by converting react component to stateless functional components
• 🌟 enabling drag and drop of tags from one entry to another
• 🌟 enter confirm adding tags in the add tags dialog
• 🌟 showing all notification in the bottom middle part of the screen
• 🌟 showing the correct icon for the currently opened location
• 🌟 exchanging folder separator in the folder breadcrumb
• 🌟 enabling settings upgrade for keybindings and files types
• 🌟 improving startup speed by introducing lazy loading for some components
• 🌟 upgrading to electron 4.0.4, stabilizing MacOS Mojave
• 🌟 updating react to 16.8.2 and some other libraries
• 🐛 fix exception by not existing date for entry properties
• 🐛 fixing remove file type icon
• 🐛 disabling spaces, commas and hashes in the tag names
• 🐛 updating to marked 0.6.0 fixing #913
• 🐛 folder view not updating when selecting next or prev file in the file viewer

Pro​

• 🎉 added support for custom background color per folder

• 🌟 always persisting index while on object store locations

Version 3.0.9​

Released on 2019.02.01

Community​

• extending the tag search to support AND, OR and negative searches, thanks to @IHappyDayI
• added search boxing enabling search restriction to the current folder
• clear folder content on directory change
• added some basic statistics for tag library #865
• sorting tags in all tags lists #849
• replaced "Open Containing Folder" function with "Show in File Manager" function.
• add function to generate video thumbnails
• add openUrl functionality to web version
• playing next file follows selection in perspective
• limit the parent directory navigation to current location
• fix various usability issue in folder container toolbar
• updated split pane resizer style to prevent the divider from overlapping with the scroll bar #855
• added random sort order for directory content, useful when using TagSpaces as media player
• getting previous and next entries iterate now only over files
• previous and next file button select file in the perspective
• added the ability to select multiple files by holding the shift key. #852
• added the ability to add multiple files to the selection by holding the shift + ctrl key.
• reflecting changing of meta data like description in file and search indexes
• usability improvements in many dialogs
• refactoring sorting functionality, added sorting by first tag, showing folder always first

Pro​

• added experimental full text search support for TXT, MD and HTML files in the desktop app
• added functionality for find and extract all the tags from the current location
• fix navigation to parent folder on Windows and for s3

Version 3.0.5​

Released on 2019.01.18

Community​

• add collecting tag after rename #832
• fix tag moving bug in tag library
• fix the check for new version
• setting minimum height for an empty tag group in tag library
• making single file click configurable in default perspective
• added different view modes in default perspective
• added thumbnail mode switch (css cover vs contain) in default perspective
• fixing sort order #820
• fixing broken hiding hidden files and folders #836
• fixing header text color in dark mode #835
• updating electron to 3.1.0
• fixing crash on quit by mac os #816
• accessing the context menu for locations, tag groups and folders with a right mouse click
• setting max width to location and tag group names
• making the location switcher always visible
• fixed the icons in the location menu
• fixed the braking of the path history #821
• fixed the scrolling issues in the location manager and tag library
• fixed the hiding of the thumbs in row view by long texts
• updating translations

Pro​

• added search filters for bookmarks and ebooks

Version 3.0.1​

Released on 2018.12.31

Community​

• fixing tag color issues #799
• fix tag name validation
• fixing dark theme issue in settings
• fix showing location initially by existing default location
• disable spaces and other symbols in the tag names
• fixing max height of the tag area in the grid view #801
• fixing importing tag library in web edition #804

Pro​

• fixing pdf thumb generation

Version 3.0.0​

Released on 2018.12.21

Community​

• New user interface based on React.js with resizable panels
• Location indexing for faster search
• Tree folder navigation
• Dark theme
• Preview for PSD, TIFF, DOCX files
• Playing modes for audio and video files

Pro​

• Connecting of AWS S3 compatible storage locations
• Watching for changes in a location
• New advance search functionalities

Changes for older versions can be found here version 1 and version 2.