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@cerede2000 cerede2000 released this 27 Aug 17:22
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First release of this fork.

NextExplorer was created by Vikram Soni and developed at nxzai/NextExplorer. That repository has had no commits since 13 July 2026, and its documentation and demo sites are offline. This release gathers the work that accumulated since, and the version goes to 3.0.0 to make clear that this is a different line of development rather than an upstream release.

Documentation: https://cerede2000.github.io/NextExplorer/

Images

Published to GHCR and Docker Hub, for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64:

ghcr.io/cerede2000/explorer:3.0.0        # full: hardware video acceleration + RAW photos
ghcr.io/cerede2000/explorer:3.0.0-lean   # same application, considerably smaller, without either

latest and latest-lean follow this release.

Uploads

  • Chunked, resumable uploads (TUS), with automatic fallback when a reverse proxy refuses a large body, and a per-origin chunk size that is learned rather than guessed.
  • Transfer rate shown while anything is moving, measured over a trailing window so it reflects the speed you actually have.
  • The final server-side copy reported separately, instead of a progress bar that appeared frozen at 100% for its duration.
  • Empty files, and folders containing them, upload correctly.

Files

  • Move to and Copy to from the context menu, offering recent destinations and favorites before any browsing — the only route to a transfer on a touch device, where dragging is unavailable.
  • Native, cancellable copy and move with real progress, and the view repositions on what was just transferred.
  • Copy by drag-and-drop onto folders and favorites, and per-folder sorting that is remembered.
  • Recursive folder sizes and volume usage indicators.
  • Large directories and bulk deletion handled without stalling the interface.
  • Keyboard navigation through folders.

Media

  • One gallery for pictures and videos, navigable by swipe, arrow keys or on-screen arrows.
  • Pinch, double-tap and ctrl-wheel zoom, where dragging pans a zoomed picture and turns the page otherwise.
  • Portrait videos can be closed again on Android.

Documents

  • ONLYOFFICE: reliable background autosave, shared editing sessions, the editor's own close button, rename and save-as, mentions, comparison, insertion from your own storage, and the app's theme.
  • New blank Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from a drawer beside New file.
  • Secure shared text editor with granular write controls.

Access and security

  • Per-user access control, personal folders and user volumes.
  • OIDC sessions persisted in SQLite, and the configured origin preserved across authentication.
  • Every credential can be read from a file via a _FILE variable, keeping secrets out of docker inspect.
  • Public share activity tracking, clean direct share URLs, and hidden-file visibility honoured by download artifacts.

Under the hood

  • Container dependencies refreshed.
  • Thumbnail queue and cache stabilised, with prefetching only while idle.
  • Translations completed across all 13 locales.
  • Test suites repaired and considerably extended: 301 backend, 179 frontend.

Thanks

@jimaek for per-folder sorting and the media gallery with swiping.

Licensed GPL-3.0, as the original.

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