v0.1.0-beta.9

Release Notes - v0.1.0-beta.9

New Features

• Open in Terminal (Admin) — New context menu option with UAC elevation support

Improvements

• Context Menu Overhaul — Loading placeholders for shell menu items, SVG icons for secondary items, redesigned header bar, and auto-close on Enter key
• Global Search Tooltips — Async worker for on-demand metadata and thumbnail previews
• Folder Previews — Detail panel now shows folder content previews with disk caching
• Graphics Backend Settings — New settings section to configure GPU backend (Vulkan/DX12/Auto)
• Idle Memory Trim — Tracks user activity and trims memory during idle periods
• UI Reload Stability — hold_visible_items_until_load_complete flag preserves visible items during folder reloads, eliminating flicker
• Thumbnail request prioritization and higher per-frame limits for smoother scrolling
• Capped folder preview rendering during scroll to reduce GPU load
• Eliminated thumbnail stutter during OpenGL scroll via optimized upload budgets and tuned parameters
• Replaced std::sync::Mutex with parking_lot::Mutex for database locks, reducing contention
• Improved thumbnail, file-ops, and watcher subsystem reliability

Bug Fixes

• Fixed context menu width calculation for Windows 11 header style
• Fixed EXIF/metadata date field extraction to correctly prioritize original and digitized dates
• Added format_version to folder preview cache schema to prevent stale cache reads
• Fixed video player memory leak by setting correct video output (vo) configuration
• Reduced OSD/libass glyph and bitmap cache limits to mitigate memory growth
• Increased OSD update rate limit from 2 to 10 FPS for smoother OSD rendering
• Suppressed redundant folder reloads triggered by shell file operations
• Fixed selection not clearing when items are filtered out by search
• Fixed Vulkan backend cleanup and search bar escape handling
• Improved folder loading reliability and eliminated UI thread blocking

SHA-256
MTT-File-Manager-Setup-0.1.0-beta.8.exe
DC0833AC3B7402AE652BE927844F756D1670EDF2048B7E3ACB61AAFFC98D27D7

License notes:

Repository-authored source code: Apache-2.0
The Windows installer is a multi-license distribution
Bundled third-party components, including libmpv/mpv, PDFium, and UnRAR, remain under their own respective licenses
See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and the bundled third_party_licenses materials for notices, license texts, provenance, and source-availability information.