Release notes

0.1.0 (unreleased)

The first release, for Linux.

• Browsing: folders listed as they stream, however large; list, grid, columns, tree and board views; two panes and tabs; a sidebar of places you arrange, with drives mounted and unlocked from it; Jump and Recent; the shelf; the Trash as a place, restoring files where they were or where you drop them.
• Searching: a search is a place (Ctrl+F) with its terms as pills: names, kinds, sizes, dates in your calendar, tags, ratings, contents, positions. Searches can be kept in the sidebar and narrowed by what their files have.
• Notes on the files: tags, ratings and comments kept where the desktop, darktable, Lightroom, a Mac and TagSpaces keep them, merged when they disagree; tag categories; tags as places; copies keep them.
• Changes as plans: every operation undoable; bulk renames, editing a folder as text, and what agents and plugins propose are reviewed before they run.
• Reliable copies: long copies and moves pause and cancel; Quit asks while one runs, then undoes what it left half done. Copies onto a USB drive run at the drive's pace and report its progress; a copy short of room asks before it starts; hard links stay links, and each name of a file is listed on its own.
• Drag and drop asks whether to move, copy or link (or hold Shift, Ctrl, Ctrl+Shift), and offers to extract a dropped archive.
• Previews: text and code, Markdown, tables, structured data, PDFs in Skwir's reader, office documents, books, comics, e-mail, notebooks, pictures, audio and video, fonts, 3D models, circuit boards, maps and tracks, archives, and any file's bytes; code in bat's themes, or those you added to bat; a player that keeps playing while you browse.
• Views of data: disk usage (nested folders, sized by room or file count, colored by age or kind, saying what deleting frees); a timeline; a map.
• A terminal that follows the folder shown.
• Keys: every binding can be changed; Vim keys (yazi's, off by default) as a scheme.
• Agents and scripts (off by default): skwir cmd and skwir mcp, with a permission layer between them and your files; private folders never leave the machine.
• Plugins from outside Skwir, as WebAssembly modules or isolated programs. Their protocol is experimental and may change before it is declared stable.

Known limits: the macOS and Windows builds compile but have never run (how to help); no screen reader support yet (the toolkit has none); Undo lasts only while Skwir runs.