What's new (Archive)

Changes in version 3 of the TagSpaces:

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 Mapique 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 tuning 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