Release notes 1.7.1

By Erik Jälevik on 15 July 2023

While only a minor release on the surface, this one contains a lot of plumbing improvements below ground, needed to squash some tenacious bugs, and to provide a smoother user experience overall.

Improvements

Sort folders before files consistently

This is now configurable by a new option in the Settings dialog, and is applied regardless of what column is sorted on.

Mac: Script support for Open With

You can now point the Open With > Other… dialog to a shell script (with file extension .sh), and it will run with the selected files as arguments. Note that the executable permission flag must be set on the script.

Other

Allow copy and paste of text from Text and Markdown previews.
Allow extending also partial selections with Shift-click.
Keyboard cursor and selection behaviour made more consistent overall.
Allow cancelling transfers in the middle of files.

Bug fixes

Fix broken rendering of file icons on some Windows versions.
Fix Open With not working on some Windows versions.
Fix double click sometimes opening the wrong file.
Fix links in markdown previews not working in expanded mode.
Fix potential crash when redoing adding a new pane.
Fix glitch where the preview background might not appear as it should.
Fix keyboard focus not always returning to active pane after clicking elsewhere.
Try harder to prevent pane toolbar from covering vertical scrollbar.
Jaggy app icon in Windows 11 start menu.

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