Alpha 0.4.0

[jamiepine]

Introducing the 4th major update to our Alpha, packed with features and bug fixes. This update sets the stage for 0.5.0 with an enormous amount of sync and networking infrastructure to support the official release of our mobile app with multi-device connection and sync.

The .deb release for 0.4.0 was broken and has been removed, please download the 0.4.1 .deb instead

🪐 Core Updates

• General improvements/fixes to the File System Indexer and File Identifier jobs - by @fogodev in #2476, #2580

• Improvements to Job Manager, plus jobs now also show estimated time remaining - by @myung03 in #2607
  

• Numerous improvements to Spacedrive core reliability, error handing, and error logging - by @fogodev (#2574, #2556) and @matheus-consoli (#2504)

App Updates

🖥️ Desktop

• Tag Assign Mode - by @iLynxcat (#2462), @ameer2468 (#2532), and @myung03 (#2566, #2570)

  • Tag Assign Mode lets you easily tag files in the Explorer using numerical keybinds. Enable Tag Assign Mode with the top bar button, then:

    • Select a tag on the bottom bar > Press a number to link your tag to > Tag/untag any number of files using your new hotkey

  • See files tags in both grid and list views, as well as filter by tag

  • Custom tag names/colours allow for easy grouping/filtering of unique files
    

 

 

• New Overview statistics UI - by @myung03 in #2555, #2566

  • A new clearer and more intuitive overview of your library statistics!
    

• Improvements to calculating and displaying library statistics - by @fogodev (#2585, #2601) and @ameer2468 (#2577)

• Media Quick View now shows the thumbnail when the original is unavailable - by @ameer2468 in #2617

• Miscellaneous UI improvements and new icons - by @ameer2468 (#2578) and @myung03 (#2566)

🐞 Bug fixes

🖥️ Desktop

• Fixed a variety of rendering bugs on the Explorer, Recents page, and Overview Devices graph - by @ameer2468 in #2589, #2579, #2576
• Fixed the file inspector tab not properly scrolling [ENG-1777] - by @ameer2468 in #2564
• Fixed a (very very important) caret not being displayed on the pathbar - by @ameer2468 in #2604

 Before

 After

• Fixed a bug with running Spacedrive on Linux while using an Nvidia GPU - by @HeavenVolkoff in #2542
• Fixed Spacedrive not being able to open the trash folder on Linux - by @gedeondoescode in #2547
• Fixed a bug with file updates causing Spacedrive to crash - by @fogodev in #2615
• Fixed some keybinds not registering properly - by @Rocky43007 in #2616

📱 Mobile ^(Soon)tm

• Fixed text alignment and missing icons in the mobile Job Manager - by @ameer2468 in #2608
• Fixed Android permissions not being properly requested - by @Rocky43007 in #2592
• Fixed a bug with renaming objects on mobile - by @ameer2468 in #2539

🗞️ General/Development Updates

• Reduced telemetry ping (Plausible) ping from every 1 minute -> every 10 minutes - by @ameer2468 in #2572
• Cleaned up unused files and updated Rust dependencies - by @HeavenVolkoff (#2544) and @jamiepine (#2551)
• Fixed a number of internal build/release tools - by @Rocky43007 in #2562 and @HeavenVolkoff in #2599
• Miscellaneous development updates - by @iLynxcat (#2593, #2594), @ameer2468 (#2573), and @Rocky43007 (#2600)
• Updated a variety of links and documentation files - by @utkubakir (#2550), @ameer2468 (#2560), and @iLynxcat (#2596)
• Added additional translations for German, Chinese (trad), Chinese (simp) and fixed some tabs with missing translations - by @myung03 (#2612), @artsiom-voitas (#2533), @HeavySnowJakarta (#2567), and @Nightingale0504 (#2609)
• Mobile/desktop cloud sync infrastructure - by @Rocky43007 in (#2611, #2549) and @HeavenVolkoff (#2584)

📱 Mobile (soon)^tm

• Added Media View - by @ameer2468 in #2606
  

• Added haptic feedback for buttons - by @ameer2468 in #2552

• Short taps now open a file instead of the file inspector - by @ameer2468 in #2583

• Improvements to the Job Manager UI and app popups - by @ameer2468 in #2531, #2610

• Fixed incomplete trace logs when compiling the Android app - by @Rocky43007 in #2569

New Contributors

• @Nightingale0504 made their first contribution in #2609
• @Whisht made their first contribution in #2558

Full Changelog: 0.3.1...0.4.0

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