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For the complete list of changes please visit our changelog on github

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

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
  • added support for saved searches
  • added support for sharable links with validation duration in object storage locations
  • add input fields for entering lat and long directly in the geo tagging dialog
  • export current folder content or search results entries as CSV file
  • added new smart icon as pin for files and folder, redesigning pin popup
  • implement coloring map icons according to the color of the first tag
  • extend the tag menu with add to tag group
  • 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)
  • 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
  • fix deleting folder in object storage containing others folders
  • hide mobile side-menu during the amplify login process
  • improve folder creation in object stores
  • 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
  • Added support for deleting not empty folders on object storage (#1351)
  • Added missing rename folder functionality on object storage (#1352)
  • Enable setting custom thumbnails on object storage locations
  • Directory watching adjusted to the new indexing strategy, changes in the sidecar are now reflected in the user interface
  • Added switcher toolbar for easy switching between perspectives
  • Added optional sessionToken parameter to object store locations
  • 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
  • Improving file uploading experience on object storage
  • Improvements in location export dialog, added select/deselect locations functionality
  • Refresh current folder after closing upload dialog in object storage mode
  • 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
  • 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
  • making smart tag deactivatable in the external config
  • theme colors are now customizable in the external config
  • welcome panel is configurable in the external config
  • make sidebar color and advanced search configurable in the external config
  • added custom logo for the web version
  • 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
  • handle renames and uploads on read-only S3 connection
  • switching S3 locations with no path broken
  • 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
  • Previewing files on S3 is optimized to load only the first 10000 bytes of a given file.
  • The editing of the description for files and folder can now be initiated with double click on the description field
  • Embedding images in the file and folder description and opening external links from there, basic markdown help added
  • In is now possible to select a default perspective for every folder
  • Format of the date in the date editor dialog changed to YYYY-MM-DD for 2020-09-24
  • 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
  • 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
  • Map in the Mapique perspective is now re-drawed after closing of a file or folder entry
  • 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
  • add a download button for files on S3 in Android
  • added a feature in beta status for importing macOS tags in TS
  • upload to S3 from/to sub directories tree only now possible
  • 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 (geo-tagging)
  • 🎉 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