A new branch of the dual-panel file manager, Double Commander 1.2, is now available. It builds on the Total Commander analog and ensures compatibility with its plugins. The 1.2 branch is currently rated as a beta version (in the 1.1.x branch, the beta flag was replaced with "gamma" in release 1.1.12, seven months after 1.1.0). Three user interface options are available: GTK2, Qt5, and Qt6. The code is written in Pascal and distributed under the GPLv2 license. Builds are available for Linux (AppImage, rpm, deb), FreeBSD, Windows и macOS.
Features of Double Commander include the ability to perform all operations in the background, support for renaming a group of files using a mask, a tab-based interface, a two-pane mode with vertical or horizontal panel placement, a built-in text editor with syntax highlighting, working with archives as virtual directories, advanced search tools, a customizable panel, support for all Total Commander plugin formats, and compatibility with platform plugins. Windows, a function for logging file operations.
Major changes:
- The password storage format in the pwd.ini file has been switched to use the Argon2 algorithm.
- Added a new GIF viewing engine.
- Implemented syntax highlighting for the YAML format.
- Added support for the Brotli compression algorithm and .BR and .TAR.BR archives.
- Added support for JPEG XL images.
- Work with TAR archives has been accelerated.
- Added a dialog for calculating checksums.
- Implemented creation of separate files with checksums for each directory.
- Calculation and verification of XXH128 hashes is provided.
- SHA3, SHA512, BLAKE3, and SHA256 hash calculations have been accelerated by leveraging the AVX2 and NEON instruction sets on x86_64 and ARM64 systems.
- Added option to display free disk space in the panel.
- Added the ability to rename files and directories by location.
- Added the SevenZip plugin, which supports archive formats at the level of the 7-Zip utility.
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