Changelog.md

Version 8.0.0 - 11.10.2024r

Breaking changes

• Due to the removal image_type from image struct, old cache files are incompatible with new version and should be regenerated from scratch(it uses new name)
• Some CLI arguments could change short name, due fixing ambiguous names

Known regressions

• Slint 1.8 which Krokiet uses requires femtovg 0.9.2 which broke font rendering - slint-ui/slint#6298

CI

• Providing nightly builds - #1360 - https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/releases/tag/Nightly
• Added finding duplicated options in CLI -#1364

Core

• Removed some unnecessary panics - #1354
• Simplified usage of structures when sending/receiving progress information - #1354
• Added Median hash algorithm - #1354
• Fixed compilation with Rust >=1.80 - #1354
• Extracted tool input parameters, that helped to find not used parameters - #1354
• Added new mod to find similar music only in groups with similar title tag - #1354
• Printing to file/console no longer uses two backslashes in windows paths - #1354
• Fixed panic when failed to decode raw picture - #1355
• Remove useless saving/loading cache when there is no files to check - #1358
• Filtering hard links on windows - #1316
• Added jxl support - #1358
• Added avif support(via external C library, not enabled by default) - #1358
• Integer overflow are enabled by default(prepare for reporting bugs, slower performance and general unstability) - #1358
• Fixed crash when loading invalid image cache - #1230

Krokiet

• Fixed invalid default hash size in similar images - #1354
• Fixed and added more input parameters to the application - #1354
• Fixed problem with loading invalid preset - #1226
• Fixed crash when using 8 hash size with small similarity - #1359
• Disabling buttons when no files were found - #1359
• Changed way to close/open panel at bottom - #1359
• Modify logo a little - #1359
• Avoid errors when trying to load preview of not supported file - #1359
• Added ability to show preview of referenced folders - #1359
• Enable selecting with space and jumping over entries with arrows and opening with enter - #1359
• Added button to rename files with invalid extension -#1364

GTK GUI

• Fixed and added more input parameters to the application - #1355
• Added option to use external libraries instead gtk pixbuf loader for previews - #1358
• Using static runtime with zstd compression in appimage - #1350
• Restoring flatpak builds - #1275
• [External] Mac homebrew version of app - https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/czkawka

CLI

• Added options to find/remove images by size - #1255
• Fixed and added more input parameters to the application - #1354
• Fixed crash when stopping scan multiple times - #1355
• Print results also in debug build - #1355
• Added support for selecting reference directories -#1364

Version 7.0.0 - 19.02.2024r

BREAKING CHANGES

• Reducing size of cache files, made old cache files incompatible with new version
• -C in CLI now saves as compact json

GTK GUI

• Added drag&drop support for included/excluded folders - #1106
• Added information where are saved scan results - #1102

CLI

• Providing full static rust binary with Eyra - #1102
• Fixed duplicated -c argument, now saving as compact json is handled via -C - #1153
• Added scan progress bar - #1183
• Clean and safe cancelling of scan - #1183
• Unification of CLI arguments - #1183
• Hardlink support for similar images/videos - #1201

Krokiet GUI

• Initial release of new gui - #1102

Core

• Using normal crossbeam channels instead of asyncio tokio channel - #1102
• Fixed tool type when using progress of empty directories - #1102
• Fixed missing json support when saving size and name duplicate results - #1102
• Fix cross-compiled debug windows build - #1102
• Added bigger stack size by default(fixes stack overflow in some musl apps) - #1102
• Added optional libraw dependency(better single-core performance and support more raw files) - #1102
• Speedup checking for wildcards and fix invalid recognizing long excluded items - #1152
• Big speedup when searching for empty folders(especially with multithreading + cached FS schema) - #1152
• Collecting files for scan can be a lot of faster due lazy file metadata gathering - #1152
• Fixed recognizing not accessible folders as non-empty - #1152
• Unifying code for collecting files to scan - #1159
• Decrease memory usage when collecting files by removing unused fields in custom file entries structs - #1159
• Decrease a little size of cache by few percents and improve loading/saving speed - #1159
• Added ability to remove from scan files with excluded extensions - #1184
• Fixed not showing in similar images results, files with same hashes when using reference folders - #1184
• Optimize release binaries with LTO(~25/50% smaller, ~5/10% faster) - #1184

Version 6.1.0 - 15.10.2023r

• BREAKING CHANGE - Changed cache saving method, deduplicated, optimized and simplified procedure(all files needs to be hashed again) - #1072, #1086
• Remove up to 340ms of delay when waiting for results - #1070
• Added logger with useful info when debugging app (level can be adjusted via e.g. RUST_LOG=debug env) - #1072, #1070
• Core code cleanup - #1072, #1070, #1082
• Updated list of bad extensions and support for finding invalid jar files - #1070
• More default excluded items on Windows(like pagefile) - #1074
• Unified printing/saving method to files/terminal and fixed some differences/bugs - #1082
• Uses fun_time library to print how much functions take time - #1082
• Added exporting results into json file format - #1083
• Added new test/regression suite for CI - #1083
• Added ability to use relative paths - #1083
• Allowed removing similar images/videos/music from cli - #1087
• Added info about saving/loading items to cache in duplicate and music mode - #1091
• Fixed number of files to check in duplicate mode - #1091
• Added support for qoi image format(without preview yet) - e92a
• Fixed stability problem, that could remove invalid file in CLI - #1083
• Fix Windows gui crashes by using gtk 4.6 instead 4.8 or 4.10 - #992
• Fixed printing info about duplicated music files - #1016
• Fixed printing info about duplicated video files - #1017

Version 6.0.0 - 11.06.2023r

• Add finding similar audio files by content - #970
• Allow to find duplicates by name/size at once - #956
• Fix, simplify and speed up finding similar images - #983
• Fixed bug when cache for music tags not worked - #970
• Allow to set number of threads from CLI - #972
• Fix problem with invalid item sorting in bad extensions mode - #972
• Big refactor/cleaning of code - #956/#970/#972
• Use builtin gtk webp loader for previews - #923
• Fixed docker build - #947
• Restore snap builds broken since GTk 4 port - #965
• Instruction how to build native ARM64 binaries on Mac - #945/#971

Version 5.1.0 - 19.02.2023r

• Added sort button - #894
• Allow to set number of thread used to scan - #839
• Faster similar images comparing with reference folders - #826
• Update to clap 4 - #878
• Use FileChooserNative instead FileChooserDialog - #894
• Fix invalid music tags in music files when using reference folders - #894
• Updated pdf dependency(a lot of less amount of broken pdf false positives) - #894
• Changed strange PDF error message - "Try at" - #894
• Treat extensions Mp4 and m4v as identical - #834
• Improve thumbnail quality - #895
• Verify if hardlinking works, and if not, disable button with proper message - #881
• Apply some pydantic clippy lints on project - #901

Version 5.0.2 - 30.08.2022r

• Fixed problem with missing some similar images when using similarity > 0 - #799
• Prebuilt Linux binaries are compiled without heif support - 24b
• Similar videos stops to proceed video after certain amount of time(fixes freezes) - #815
• Add --version argument for czkawka_cli - #806
• Rewrite a little nonsense message about minimal file size - #807

Version 5.0.1 - 03.08.2022r

• Fixed problem with removing ending slash with empty disk window path - 975
• Added to CLI bad extensions mode - #795
• Restore default sorting method in CLI where finding biggest files - 5d7
• Added tests to CI - #791
• Show error message when all directories are set as reference folders - #795
• Added more info about new requirements on Linux - #795

Version 5.0.0 - 28.07.2022r

• GUI ported to use GTK 4 - #466
• Use multithreading and improved algorithm to compare image hashes - #762
• Resize preview with window - #466
• Fix removing only one item from list view - #466
• Fix showing help command in duplicate CLI mode - #720
• Fix freeze when not choosing any tag in similar music mode - #732
• Fix preview of files with non-lowercase extensions - #694
• Read more tags from music files - #705
• Improve checking for invalid extensions - #705, #747, #749
• Support for finding invalid PDF files - #705
• Re-enable checking for broken music files(libasound.so.2 no longer needed) - #705
• Fix disabled ui when using invalid settings in similar music - #740
• Speedup searching for invalid extensions - #740
• Support for finding the smallest files - #741
• Improved Windows CI - #749
• Ability to check for broken files by types - #749
• Add heif and Webp files support - #750
• Use in CLI Clap library instead StructOpt - #759
• Multiple directories can be added via Manual Add button - #782
• Option to exclude files from other filesystems in GUI(Linux) - #776

Version 4.1.0 - 24.04.2022r

• New mode - finding files whose content not match with their extension - #678
• Builtin icons - no more invalid, theme/OS dependent icons - #659
• Big(usually 2x) speedup of showing previews of images(both previews in scan and compare window) - #660
• Fix selecting records by custom selection popup - #632
• Support more tags when comparing music files - #590
• Fix not proper selecting path - #656
• No more popups during scan for similar videos on Windows - #656 - external change 4056
• Custom selecting is now case-insensitive by default - #657
• Better approximate comparison of tags - #641
• Fix search problem due accumulated stop events - #623
• Option to ignore other filesystems in Unix OS(for now only in CLI) - #673
• Fix file hardlinking on Windows - #668
• Support for case-insensitive name grouping of files - #669
• Directories for search GUI can be passed by CLI - #677
• Prevent from getting non respond app notification from display servers - #625

Version 4.0.0 - 20.01.2022r

• Multithreading support for collecting files to check(2/3x speedup on 4 thread processor and SSD) - #502, #504
• Add multiple translations - Polish, Italian, French, German, Russian ... - #469, #508, 5be
• Add support for finding similar videos - #460
• GUI code refactoring and search code unification - #462, #531
• Fixed crash when trying to hard/symlink 0 files - #462
• GTK 4 compatibility improvements for future change of toolkit - #467, #468, #473, #474, #503, #505
• Change minimal supported OS to Ubuntu 20.04(needed by GTK) - #468
• Increased performance by avoiding creating unnecessary image previews - #468
• Improved performance due caching hash of broken/not supported images/videos = #471
• Option to not remove cache from non-existent files(e.g. from unplugged pendrive) - #472
• Add multiple tooltips with helpful messages - #472
• Allow caching prehash - #477
• Improve custom selecting of records(allows to use Rust regex) - #489
• Remove support for finding zeroed files - #461
• Remove HashMB mode - #476
• Approximate comparison of music - #483
• Enable column sorting for simple treeview - #487
• Allow hiding upper panel - #491
• Make UI take less space - #500
• Add support for raw images(NEF, CR2, KDC...) - #532
• Image compare performance and usability improvements - #529, #528, #530, #525
• Reorganize(unify) saving/loading data from file - #524
• Add "reference folders" - #516
• Add cache for similar music files - #558

Version 3.3.1 - 22.11.2021r

• Fix crash when moving buttons #457
• Hide move button at start c9ca230

Version 3.3.0 - 20.11.2021r

• Select files by pressing space key #415
• Add additional info to printed errors #446
• Add support for multiple image filters, hashes and sizes in similar images tool #447, #448
• Button to move files/folders to provided location #449
• Add non-clickable button to fix white theme #450
• Fixed freeze when opening in same thread file/folder #448
• Tool to check performance of different image filters and hash types and sizes #447
• Add scheduled CI and pin it to support Rust 1.53.0 7bb, #431
• Update snap file to use builtin rust plugin and update gnome extension 8f2
• Disable from checking in similar images webp, gif, bmp, ico extension which caused crashes #445, 49e

Version 3.2.0 - 07.08.2021r

• Use checkbox instead selection to select files #392
• Re-enable hardlink on windows - #410
• Fix symlink and hardlink creating - #409
• Add image preview to duplicate finder #408
• Add setting maximum file size #407
• Add new grouping algorithm to similar images #405
• Update to Rust 1.54 #400
• Add webp support to similar images #396
• Use GtkScale instead radio buttons for similarity #397
• Update all dependencies #405, #395
• Split UI into multiple files #391
• Update to gtk-rs 0.14 #383
• Fix bug with moving windows #361
• Generate Minimal Appimage #339

Version 3.1.0 - 09.05.2021r

• Clean README, by moving instructions to different files - 9aea6e9b
• Fix excluded items on Windows - #324
• Center windows and add missing settings icon - #323
• Sort cache - #322
• Add desktop file to Snap - 018d5bebb, ade2a756e2
• Customize minimum file size of cached records - #321
• Update benchmarks - 2044b9185
• Rearrange Instruction - 8e7ac4a2d7f5b0
• Add info that Czkawka and Bleachbit are not alternatives to each other - 30602a486
• Fix crashes with too small message queue - #316
• Fix a little unsorted results - #304
• Fix Appimage(external bug) - #299
• Fix error with saving results of name duplicates - #307
• Update to Rust 1.5.1 - #302

Version 3.0.0 - 11.03.2021r

• Option to not ignore hardlinks - #273
• Hardlink support for GUI - #276
• New settings window - #262
• Unify file removing - #278
• Dryrun in duplicates CLI - #277
• Option to turn off cache - #263
• Update Image dependency and fix crashes - #270, e3aca69
• Add confirmation dialog when trying to remove all files in group - #281
• Add confirmation dialog when removing files with delete key - #282
• Open file when clicking at the Enter button - #285
• Allow to put files to trash instead fully remove them - #284

Version 2.4.0 - 22.02.2021r

• Add about dialog - #226
• Remove checking for ico in similar images - #227
• Change progress dialog to progress window - #229
• Restore snap confinement - #218, 8dcb718
• Add support for CRC32 and XXH3 hash - #243
• Add delete method to replace duplicate files with hard links - #236
• Add checking for broken music opt-in - #249
• Allow to save to file similar images results - 10156ccfd3
• Keep original file if replacing duplicate with hardlink fails - #256
• Fix Windows theme - #265
• Windows taskbar progress support - #264
• Ignore duplicates if those are hard links - #234
• Support the hash type parameter in the CLI - #267
• Use one implementation for all hash calculations - #268
• Disable for now broken tga and gif files - #270

Version 2.3.2 - 21.01.2021r

• Add support for moving selection by keyboard to update similar image preview #223

This version is only needed to test flatpak build

Version 2.3.1 - 20.01.2021r

• Added flatpak support - #203
• Spell fixes - #222, #219

Version 2.3.0 - 15.01.2021r

• Add cache for duplicate finder - #205
• Add cache for broken files - #204
• Decrease ram usage - #212
• Add support for finding broken zip and audio files - #210
• Sort Results by path where it is possible - #211
• Add missing popover info for invalid symlinks - #209
• Use the oldest available OS in Linux and Mac CI and the newest on Windows - #206
• Add broken files support - #202
• Remove save workaround and fix crashes when loading/saving cache - #200
• Fix error when closing dialog progress by X - #199

Version 2.2.0 - 11.01.2021r

• Adds Mac GUI - #160
• Use master gtk plugin again - #179
• Only show preview when 1 image is selected - #183
• Add buffered write/read - #186
• Fix included/excluded files which contains commas - #195
• Move image cache to cache from config dir - #197
• Reorganize GUI Code(no visible changes) - #184, #184, #189, #190, #194

Version 2.1.0 - 31.12.2020r

• Hide preview when deleting images or symlinking it - #167
• Add manual adding of directories - #165, #168
• Add resizable top panel - #164
• Add support for delete button - #159
• Allow to select multiple entries in File Chooser - #154
• Add cache support for similar images - #139
• Add selecting images with its size - #138
• Modernize popovers code and simplify later changes - #137

Version 2.0.0 - 23.12.2020r

• Add Snap support - ee3d4
• Select longer names by default - #113
• Add setting for deletion confirmation dialog - #114
• Add button to hide/show text view errors - #115
• Remove console window in Windows - #116
• Add custom selection/unselection - #117
• Add Image preview to similar images - #118
• Remove orbtk frontend - #119
• Update Icon - #120
• Add setting button to disable/enable previews(enabled by default) - #121
• Add button to enable/disable in settings text view errors - #122
• Add support for symbolic links - #123
• Add support for checking for invalid symlinks - #124
• Add new windows dark theme - #125
• Fix appimage crash by adding PNG version of icon - #126
• Split symlink path to two path and file name - #127
• Add option to open folders by double right click - #128
• Add minimal similarity level - #129
• Show errors in image previewer when failed to generate it - #130
• Added instruction - 58e6221a, 598aec345e, afaa402b

Version 1.5.1 - 08.12.2020r

• Fix errors in progress bar caused by dividing by 0 - #109
• Add option to save file, store settings and load them - #108
• Center dialog to current window - a04

Version 1.5.0 - 02.12.2020r

• Added progress bar - #106
• Removed unused buttons - #107

Version 1.4.0 - 09.11.2020r

• Multithreading Support to most modules - #98 #99 #100 #101
• Simplify GUI code #96
• Group similar images - #97
• Add select buttons to each type of mode - #102
• Fix GUI behavior in GUI when deleting similar image - #103
• Add new similarity level - #104

Version 1.3.0 - 02.11.2020r

• Appimage support - #77
• Removed warnings about non-existed excluded directories - #79
• Updated README - 8ec
• Added pre hash support(speedup for searching big duplicates) - #83
• Support for searching duplicates by file name - #84
• Added support for checking for zeroed file - #88
• Refactored GUI code to faster and safer changing/adding code - #89
• Added some missing options to CLI in some modes - #90
• Implemented finding duplicates by music tags - #95

Version 1.2.1 - 17.10.2020r

• Make image similarity search significantly faster. #72
• Improve similar images GUI a little and add sorting to Similarity Enum #73
• Improve deleting files in Similar files in GUI #75

Version 1.2.0 - 15.10.2020r

• Replace String with PathBuf for paths #59
• Add test suite to PR #65
• Support for finding similar images to CLI #66
• Fix grammar-related errors and Ponglish expressions #62, #63
• Don't delete by default files in duplicate finder in CLI - 23f203
• Support for finding similar images to GUI #69
• Add support for opening files/folders from GUI with double-click #70

Version 1.1.0 - 10.10.2020r

• Windows support #58
• Improve code quality/Simplify codebase #52
• Fixed skipping some correct results in specific situations #52
• Added support for searching in other thread #51
• Divide CI across files #48
• Added ability to stop task from GUI #55
• Fixed removing directories which contains only empty directories from GUI #57

Version 1.0.1 - 06.10.2020r

• Replaced default argument parser with StructOpt #37
• Added all(except macOS GTK build) builds to CI where can be freely downloaded #41 #39
• App can be downloaded also from Arch AUR and Cargo #36
• Fixed crash with invalid file modification date #33
• Upper tabs can hide and show when this is necessary #38
• Fixed crash when file/folder name have non Unicode character #44
• Added support for finding similar pictures in GUI #69

Version 1.0.0 - 02.10.2020r

• Added confirmation dialog to delete button
• Updated Readme
• Tested a lot app, so I think that it version 1.0.0 can be freely released

Version 0.1.4 - 01.10.2020r

• Fixes -f default argument
• Added save button to GUI
• Cleaned a little code
• Deleting files and folders i GUI
• Support for all notebooks items in GUI
• Support for deleting and adding directories to search and to exclude in GUI
• Support for light themes in GUI
• Changed SystemTime to u64 from EPOCH_TIME
• Selective selecting of rows duplicate finder in GUI
• Changed minimum version of GTK to 3.22
• Added save system to GUI
• Added Big, Temporary and Empty folders finder to GUI

Version 0.1.3 - 27.09.2020r

• Big code refactoring - now is a lot of easier create new modules and maintain old ones
• Added finding empty files
• Added new option to find duplicates by checking hash max 1MB of file
• Added support for finding temporary folder finder
• Improved README
• Simplify CLI help and improve it

Version 0.1.2 - 26.09.2020r

• Add basic search empty folders in GTK GUI
• Remember place where button are placed
• Read and parse more values from GUI
• Print errors/warnings/messages to text field in GUI
• Add upper notebook with included, excluded directories, items and extensions
• Improve a little GUI
• Add version argument which print version e.g. czkawka_gui --version
• Simple Empty folder support in GUI
• The biggest files support in CLI

Version 0.1.1 - 20.09.2020r

• Added images to readme
• Better GTK buttons and glade file
• Basic search in GTK
• Cleaned core from println
• Core functions doesn't use now process::exit(everything is done with help of messages/errors/warnings)
• Added support for non-recursive search
• Improved finding number and size of duplicated files
• Saving results to file
• Print how much data was read by duplicate finder(debug only)
• Added GitHub CI
• Only debug build prints debug information's
• Clean code
• Add basic idea config to misc folder

Version 0.1.0 - 07.09.2020r

• Initial Version
• Duplicate file finder
• Empty folder finder
• Very WIP Orbtk GUI frontend
• Basic GTK Frontend(without any logic)
• CLI

Initial commit - 26.08.2020r