What's new

Version 5.9.2 / 2024.07.10​

🎉 New features​

• added a location setting for opening a file automatically (e.g. index.html) on navigating to a folder in this location
• showing the internal ID the current folder or file in the entry properties section, if available
• dragged files from your desktop can be dropped on sub folders in the current perspective or location manager
• fuzzy search was improved by allowing the search of many words at once and the possibility to specify the position of the searched word in the searched contend (e.g. file name)
• PRO extraction of IPTC and EXIF information as file description
• PRO added full screen button for the Mapique perspective

🌟 Enhancements​

• PRO it is now possible to drag a file from a kanban column to location or folder in the location manager
• many small improvements in the search user experience
• the input in the search box is using now fuzzy search, for easy finding of the right command
• after duplication, the newly created file is the only selected file
• added download menu item to the context menu of a file in grid and list perspectives
• adjusting the internal shortcut for showing search to c+k
• making the background of some user interface areas translucent
• preventing opening file directly in edit mode if previous the file was in edit mode

🐛 Bug fixes​

• PRO fix extraction of IPTC keywords as tags
• PRO fix bug csv export for tags
• fix map not showing in the entry properties of a folder with geo tag
• fix creating search index for location with relative paths (relevant for the portable mode)
• fixed lost sorting after change thumbnail size in folder settings
• fixed wrong tooltip on data period tags
• fix the sorting in the custom folder settings
• fixed opening in new window from context menu of folder in grid perspective
• fix alert while opening next or previous file in edit mode
• fixing the play/resume button and shortcuts
• fixed not change the description by browsing files in the entry properties

Version 5.8.6 / 2024.06.21​

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fixed file sorting in the Android App
• fixed crash by selecting folder with hold CTRL and SHIFT keys

Version 5.8.5 / 2024.06.18​

🎉 New features​

• added switch in the settings for specifying the place of the filename tags in the filename

🌟 Enhancements​

• make md-editor-next is the default markdown editor
• making the color of the tags in the tag library with higher priority than the tags in the sidecar files
• optimizing the design of the tag component, making it visually more lightweight

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix notification message after trying to create folder with existing name
• fix app reloading from the advanced tab in the settings
• cancel loading kanban S3 sub-folders on folder change
• fix in the kanban perspective to allow sharing single file
• fix clean all tags in mixed sidecar and filename tags
• autofocus on the entry description after a double click it

Version 5.8.4 / 2024.06.07​

🌟 Enhancements​

• PRO improving the generated html in file sharing functionality
• making .ts folders on Windows hidden after the folder creation
• adding the file and folder meta id in the search criteria

🐛 Bug fixes​

• PRO fix prev and next buttons in treeviz perspective
• PRO fix issues with location tags
• fix issue by enabling third-party extensions
• fix issue with loosing meta data after html file save
• fix issue with bookmarks to s3 folders
• fix uploading files with drag and drop in the web version
• fix start thumbnail generation on copying local files with drag and drop
• fix issue by searching for entry's description
• fix issue by copying or moving a file to a folder where the file with the same name already exists
• fix issue by renaming file to the same filename

Version 5.8.3 / 2024.05.31​

🎉 New features​

• add new markdown editor (md-editor-next in the settings) based on the next version milkdown
• upload from files with drag and drop from local folder to s3 and vice versa

🌟 Enhancements​

• thumbnail generation for PDF files is now available in free version of TagSpaces
• improvement in the global search and index creation
• revisions tab is now shown, when any file type has revisions
• newly opened folders are scrolled to the top independent of the previous scroll position
• improving interface of the edit description functionality
• enabling automatic thumbnail generation after upload
• global shortcuts are disabled by default

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix issue with by loading third party extensions
• fix updating the content of the current file by restoring a revision
• PRO fix move up and down functionality for kanban cards
• fix crash by writing folder properties on read-only s3 folder
• fix description text truncated when adding a tag (#2100)
• disable showing welcome panel after empty search (#2098)
• migrating to the latest PDF.js version on viewer in the thumbnail generation for fixing the CVE-2024-4367
• adding text to the actions in the search
• fixing image size in the gallery perspective
• PRO fixing previous and next buttons in gallery, kanban and mapique perspectives (#2096)
• fix using the thumbnail of a given folder as thumbnail for the parent folder
• fix issue allowing opening of non existing folders from ts-links
• fix cancel indexing functionality
• fix thumbnails in global search results

Version 5.7.13 / 2024.04.12​

🌟 Enhancements​

• enabling to copy image to clipboard from the image viewer
• optimizing build-in thumbnail images for folder thumbnails
• added icon for entries with description in the entry container
• changing the way for signalization for folder specific settings

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fixed issue with swapped tag color in tag preview component for sidecar tags
• fixed issue with to short expiration date of signed urls
• fixed issue with opening edited files from the history
• fixed thumbnail generation in the Android app
• fixed various issue in the Android app

Version 5.7.12 / 2024.04.03​

🌟 Enhancements​

• improved the creation of sharing links, added a name to the link when copied to the clipboard

🐛 Bug fixes​

• PRO fix the tree creation for FolderViz perspective on Windows
• fix issue with disconnecting the thumbnails from renamed file

Version 5.7.10 / 2024.03.20​

🌟 Enhancements​

• PRO improved selection of the background color for folders
• disabled closing of the dialog for creating files on backdrop click
• improved support for sharing links (ts-links) in the viewer extensions

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix disappearing not saved entry description of resize of the area
• fix selecting tags in advanced search
• fix issue with more than one link on a line in markdown description

Version 5.7.9 / 2024.03.16​

🌟 Enhancements​

• optimizing the onboarding and pro-teaser dialog for desktop and mobile

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix issue when tags added in folder properties not visible in the title of the grid perspective
• fix issues with image height in some extensions and issue with with page height in ebook viewer
• fix broken fall-back indexing in desktop app by switched off web service
• PRO fix issues by choosing folder thumbnail and background image in folder properties
• PRO fix issue with ignoring files in locations
• PRO fix created date in the revision history should be taken from the file name

Version 5.7.8 / 2024.03.04​

🎉 New features​

• added ability to insert images in pdf files

🌟 Enhancements​

• location name is now visible in the app title, useful by many TagSpaces windows
• improvement in the image viewer
• migration to a new version of Electron
• PRO improvements in the gallery perspective

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix thumbnails in Folderviz perspective on S3 locations
• fixes in the moving files functionality

Version 5.7.6 / 2024.02.23​

🎉 New features​

• added switch for disabling thumbnail generation in location properties
• added support for the dock menu for mac OS
• added thumbnail generation and classification as video in the search for MOV files
• added thumbnail generation for S3 buckets
• added initial implementation for downloading multiple files in the web version

🌟 Enhancements​

• disable automatic file opening after successful upload
• adding button for calculation of folder size in folder properties
• PRO considering show Unix hidden entries switch by displaying trees in the FolderViz perspective

🐛 Bug fixes​

• fix issue with memorizing the warning for opening files externally
• fix issue showing that a edited file is externally modified after app resize
• fix extraction Exif information from JPG for the web versions
• fix integration issue with Pro extensions for the web versions
• fix issues with moving files
• PRO geo tags can now be added also as tags in filenames
• PRO fix issue by rename files in the gallery perspective causing reset in the slideshow

Version 5.7.4 / 2024.01.29​

🎉 New features​

• PRO FolderViz perspective reimplemented
• activating spellchecker for desktop app according to app language
• greatly improved the integration of the desktop app on MacOS
• redesign of the grid and list perspective, added ability to zoom the entries

🌟 Enhancements​

• PRO improving masonry view in gallery perspective
• showing location name in the app title
• updating translations
• added a shadow to the text elements in the folder details area to increase readability in dark mode
• manually chosen perspective should stay while navigation through folders
• added badge icon notification for new version
• hide thumbnail generation on folder change
• add web sockets for the communication with file watched on the desktop app
• improved user interface of the search autocomplete
• improving file deletion experience
• added new keybinding for opening a file in full width and improvements in entry menu
• improved many keybindings
• add ability for moving directories in Cordova for files

🐛 Bug fixes​

• PRO fix map resize issue in the Mapique perspective
• PRO fix rights for audio recording on MacOS
• disabled unsigned-executable-memory on MacOS
• fixed inconsistences in the file sorting order (#2022)
• creating files in S3 location without path not possible
• updating url parameter on navigation to parent folder
• fix issue with loading the app in specified language (#2030)
• fix entry deletion in full width
• fix moving files with dnd to the root of a location

Version 5.6.2 / 2023.11.28​

🎉 New features​

• PRO added ability to record audio files (#108)

🌟 Enhancements​

• optimizing macOS tray icon by utilizing template images and supporting dark mode
• improving the display of the app version
• new TagSpaces logo
• redesigning 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 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