The QDirStat project proudly presents its latest release: QDirStat
1.8.
This is a stable release. It brings a some new features and bug
fixes:
New view: File Age Statistics
Navigation history like in a web browser (Back, Forward)
Bug fixes
Some small improvements
Details
New view: File Age Statistics
This shows the number of files per year and/or per month that were
last modified in that year or month, together with the total size
of those files and a percent bar for both (number and total size).
This view is extensively documented in the File Age Statistics
Document.
Navigation History
This implements a navigation history for directories like in a web
browser:
New buttons Back / Forward in the tool bar
Standard keyboard shortcuts [Alt] [Cursor Left] / [Alt] [Cursor
Right] like in all common web browsers
Support for Back / Forward mouse buttons if the mouse has them
History menu on those buttons (long press on the buttons) for
the last 16 directories
Bug Fixes
Fixed GitHub issue #169: Shorten path components in the
breadcrumb widget for insanely long paths.
Now closing a left-over Permissions error panel when refreshing
from disk: After the re-read, the permissions error may no
longer be there.
Other Improvements
In the Mounted Filesystems window, don't show inactive mounts
managed by the automounter anymore.
In the Open Directory window, automatically open the first
directory level if a path was clicked in the Places list on
the left, and scroll the tree on the right so that path is at
the top.
Added a little margin to the left in the main window's tree
view for the Size column so it looks now less cramped.
Internal restructuring and refactoring to keep the code
maintainable.
This is a stable release. It brings a number new features and some bug fixes:
* Closing the gap between sizes reported by QDirstat and sizes reported by the
du command: Now also taking the allocated size into account.
* Now also displaying the allocated size where it makes sense.
* New "Mounted Filesystems" window showing output similar to the df command
(but without the cruft).
* New directory selection dialog showing all (real) filesystems.
* New checkbox to cross filesystems (temporarily) in the directory selection
dialog.
* Workaround for NTFS oddities: Ignoring hard links on NTFS.
* Added config option to ignore hard links in general.
* Added a document about Btrfs free size and how different tools tend to show
different values: Btrfs-Free-Size.md
* Bug fixes
Suggested by the upstream author Stefan Hundhammer in
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2020/02/13/msg030448.html.
Changes since 1.6:
- Much better handling for "permission denied" errors while reading directories.
- Now showing the exact byte size (134 495 994 Bytes instead of 128.3 MB)
upon mouse click in the tree (right click) and in the details panel (left or
right click).
- New optional tree column "Oldest File" (not enabled by default).
- Bug fix: Support for dark widget themes in File Size Histogram window.
This is a stable release. It brings performance improvements, new features
and some bug fixes:
* Performance improvement while reading directories
* Vast performance improvement for huge directories (100.000+ entries in a
single directory)
* New packages view
* New unpackaged files view
* New standard cleanup: Check File Type
* Support for excluding directories containing a file with a specific name
or pattern.
* Greatly improved man page
* Some minor bug fixes.
1.5
- (Optional) breadcrumbs navigation
- (Optional) a new "details" panel for the currently selected item
- (Optional) new tree columns: owner, group, permissions both in "rwxrwxrwx"
and in octal format
- Package manager support for the major Linux package managers (dpkg / rpm /
pacman) to see what package a system file belongs to.
- Quick-switchable different layouts for the main window
- A new "General" page in the configuration dialog
- Show in the window title if the program runs with root permissions (sudo
etc.)
- (Optional) show the URL in the window title
- Some bug fixes
1.4
- File size statistics window with histogram
- Filling the gaps in the treemap (directories with lots of small files)
- Checked code with Coverity and fixed all issues it pointed out
- Improved support for file and directory names with UTF-8 special characters
(Qt 4 only issue)
- Improved support for directories that have read, but not execute permissions
1.3
- File type statistics window
- Locate files per directory by file type
- Display path and size of the current item in the status line while
hovering over a treemap tile
- Optional alternate layout of the main window: Tree view and treemap side
by side
- Improved logging: More secure and rotating logs
- New document: QDirStat for Headless Servers for server admins
- New document: The GitHub Workflow for developers
1.2
- Btrfs improvements
1.1
- This is mostly a bug fix release with some small features thrown in.
QDirStat is a graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and
to help you to clean it up.
This is a Qt-only port of the old Qt3/KDE3-based KDirStat, now based on the
latest Qt 5. It does not need any KDE libs or infrastructure. It runs on every
X11-based desktop on Linux, BSD and other Unix-like systems.
