Release 1.6.4 published 2025-12-16

New Features
license
A new license is requested before pulling an update to ensure that the app starts after the update
license
The app starts in free version when license setup is insufficient for the pro version, instead of just stopping
Changes
index
"node_modules" has been added to default excluded directory names
Bug Fixes
index
Indexer caused exception on startup, when a referenced folder was not readable (e.g., through access denied)

Release 1.6.3 published 2025-12-01

New Features
ui
Exceptions in UI thread are now catched and displayed in an error dialog to prevent immediate crashes
Changes
license
Updated the product EULA
Bug Fixes
collections preview
Collection changes in opened preview caused UI crash after having collections rearranged in search selector view
focus text
Search phrase from focus search line was not passed to PDF preview in focus preview

Release 1.6.2 published 2025-11-14

New Features
search text
Global search phrase is now used as search phrase in PDF previews, showing text-hits within documents
collections search
Added a "refresh" button to the collections search selector view
license
Settings and about dialog now show maintenance expiration
preview search text
Open preview editors in search view are now reused for new selections, which increases performance
preferences preview video
Added a preferences switch for video autoplay in previews
ui video
Added a "play" icon overlay on video thumbnails to indicate playable content
index classification
Improved document classification with or-groups (will be configurable in the UI ASAP)
video metadata i18n
TMDB requests now respect the system locale, returning metadata in the correct language
search ui
The clear search "x"-cross in global search bar now appears also when filters are set
Changes
preferences
Renamed windows defender status label in preferences to "Windows Defender Active"
Bug Fixes
facets text
Facets showed leading whitespace because string metadata entries were not trimmed
search ui
The clear search "x"-cross in global search bar cleared only query but not facet selections
index files
File system watcher collected change events from index folder before filtering them
files collections
File browser did not show configured collection color in base folders of collections
text preview
PDF viewer could not scroll to the botton of the last page
index
On reindex, folder structures could be scanned PDF repeatedly, when collection folders were nested
search collections
Drag and drop of collections on collections withing the collection search selector did not work properly
metadata presentation
MS-Office metadata for PPT/PPTX files was not correctly extracted
search collections ui
Collections with too many child collections caused an exception, leading to UI crash
search collections
Collection hitcount was not updated properly after drag and drop and/or creation of new a collection
installer
Minimum Java version was set to 17 instead of 21, causing situations where app did not start
files ui
The "Move to" button in the directory chooser dialog was not wide enough
files metadata
Renaming a file in properties section/dialog caused disconnetcion of metadata entity
ui metadata
Metadata panel could not be scrolled to the bottom because scrollbar did not cover the entire area
facets metadata
Keywords of office documents and PDFs were searchable but not extracted to facets
preview video windows
Video player in preview did not show seek bar on windows
preview video windows
Autoplay of video player in preview did not work in all cases
ui linux
UI crashed because SWT internally references classes of OracleJDK
metadata image
Regession in 1.6: Exif/Iptc metadata panel in previews did not show

Release 1.6.1 published 2025-07-23

Bug Fixes
image
Regression in 1.6: Images that have no custom loading mechanism and need to be scaled in preview, did not render correctly

Release 1.6.0 published 2025-07-22

New Features
preview video
Added video preview with an integrated player widget for all supported systems
preview metadata
Added metadata panel for audio files. Supported standards/formats are, ID3 (v1, v11, v2.2, v2.3, v2.4), MP3, MP4, FLAC, WAV, DSF, AIF, and others.
collections
Collections can be customized with different colors
labels
Labels can be customized with different colors
labels
Added label management functions to remove a label from all items, delete (and remove) a label completly, and rename it
index
Massive performance improvement when (re-)indexing large amounts of data
i18n
Added an english version for english-language systems
files linux
The OS trash is used when deleting files
updates
Update preferences can be set up in the introduction wizard
Changes
preview files
File preview shows full path in the footer
ui
Scaling & resizing of the UI by the OS should be disabled
updates
Database version has been updated
updates
Java version has been updated to version 21
Bug Fixes
search
Date column displayed varying values
search
Windows batch files were classified as binary files (now as text files)
ui i18n
German umlauts were sometimes displayed incorrectly
ui linux
Fonts were not always loaded correctly on first startup

Release 1.5.3 published 2025-05-20

Changes
search index
“Created” date is used as content date if “Modified” date is missing"
Bug Fixes
index
Regression 1.5: Restarting the program resulted in complete re-indexing

Release 1.5.2 published 2025-05-17

Bug Fixes
search
Search view did not display labels of file copies correctly
metadata ui
Changing file titles in the header area of the preview was not synchronized correctly with the form field
metadata
Setting the metadata date was not possible
metadata
Setting the metadata description did not update the layout in the info view correctly
metadata
Exif/Iptc data was displayed with the wrong time zone
metadata
Format-specific metadata sometimes replaced self-assigned metadata

Release 1.5.1 published 2025-05-05

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Release 1.5.0 published 2025-05-01

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Release 1.4.1 published 2025-03-17

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Release 1.4.0 published 2025-03-13

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Release 1.3.0 published 2025-02-06

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