What to expect: 2.0.0, 1.2.0, and patches

[gtsteffaniak]

Hey everyone, stable is out and has its own update release track! Im also glad to see lots of discussions and issues requesting new features and enhancements. There's plenty of work to do and I wanted to set expectations again.

I am happy about the progress so far. 1.1.0 is a fine update with some much-needed changes in the UI and QoL enhancements. Lots of people have ideas what to add next -- I would love to get to everything, but I have to prioritise, there's simply too much to do and many things can't be done YET for technical reasons but are planned. Feel free to keep pinging me in the issue if theres a persistent bug that hasn't been resolved yet. For features, these will be attended based on priority.

For now, this is what the plan looks like:

2.0.0

Some updates to 2.0.0, since some of the features could be implemented sooner.

estimated timeline: By Q2 2026

• jobs async tasks, same features mentioned before except maybe parts of compress/uncompress in ui will come sooner.
• ❌ tools already coming sooner!
• max media mode
• SQLite introduction needed for jobs and will migrate users, rules, shares as well.

1.2.0

estimated timeline: By end of December

• Follow/tail/stream a file Follow/tail/stream a file #917
• advanced search and enhancements to search (more options, more info, thumbnail previews) Bulk sharing/downloading in search results. #1051 Regex in search #769 Need a page to show searching results with thumbnails #1545
• more sidebar options: source options, recent shares links Source used space progress bar modification #1266
• display items with share in ui Show shared icon besides shared files #1420
• Breadcrumbs to act as drag drop area Breadcrumbs to act as drag drop area #1023
• other open issues are also possible to pull in

patches

estimated timeline: 1 week

• API authentication for share downloads with password Downloadlink with password error: 401 - "could not authenticate share request" Downloadlink with password error: 401 - "could not authenticate share request" #1593 (already fixed in 1.1.0)
• Upload empty folder fix Folder uploads is not working in empty directories #1571 (already fixed in 1.1.0)
• docker app config file loading (not copied properly) (already fixed in 1.1.0)
• Uploading a file will silently overwrite any existing file with the same name Uploading a file will silently overwrite any existing file with the same name #1564
• Download errors don't create notification error Unable to download folder as ZIP #1604
• Password-protected shares fail to authenticate when running behind Apache reverse proxy Public Share Access Behind Reverse Proxy Triggers Authentication Warnings and Wrong File Paths #1606
• other open issues are also possible to pull in

[acknologia]

Hello would you consider adding your app to the truenas app catalog

[molnarti]

i am really confused by this new versioning scheme. is 1.0.2-stable newer than 1.1.0-beta? if its not newer, why does 1.0.2 update from 1.1.1-beta? it looks like the :latest tag just contains whatever what built last, even if its an old version, constantly up and downgrading my instance between versions

[gtsteffaniak]

Depends on what latest tag you're referring to.

Latest on GitHub is always the latest stable version.

Right now latest docker version is beta, but that's an issue I will be fixing.

So all "latest" versions are going to be stable versions going forward.

(But beta builds will be newer)

[sicifus]

hello, is it possible to add "hardware encoding" module?
belike: --device=/dev/dri/renderD128，via 80x86/filebrowser
thx~~

[gtsteffaniak]

Yep hardware encoder support is planned for 2.0.0

[Llesue]

expecting following symlink

[gtsteffaniak]

Please track #324 for updates on that

[shadypt]

Any plans to add support for rar and 7zip?
Specially to unrar.
@gtsteffaniak

[gtsteffaniak]

Not yet, but open an enhancement request for it via https://github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser/issues and I am sure it will get picked up eventually.

[shadypt]

Done. #2177
Thanks!

[OliGnesi]

Thank you so much for your work on this wonderful application. Do you plan to add tab functionality like in Windows 11 or Linux file explorer?

[gtsteffaniak]

No plans, but you can open an issue for an enhancement request.

Similar: #1183