v0.5.0

TuxCleaner 0.5.0 focuses on maintainability and reliable operation history while preserving the existing safety-first command and TUI workflows.

Highlights

• Split the CLI into focused modules for arguments, cleanup, uninstall, disk analysis, purge, informational commands, and shared output support.
• Split the TUI into state and event handling, rendering, and asynchronous workflow execution modules.
• Serialize concurrent history readers and writers through a separate advisory lock file.
• Rotate the active history file at 5 MiB and retain three previous files.
• Preserve newest-first history ordering across rotated files.
• Skip isolated malformed JSON or UTF-8 records instead of making the complete history unavailable.
• Protect history and lock files with owner-only permissions (0600), including existing files opened for writing.
• Add tests for concurrent writers, rotation, retention, malformed records, and history permissions.

Install

curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/debba/tuxcleaner/main/install.sh | sh

Existing installations can update with:

tuxcleaner update --yes

Prebuilt archives and SHA-256 checksums are available below for x86_64 and ARM64 systems using GNU libc or musl.

Full changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

TuxCleaner v0.4.0

What's new

• Rebuilt the interactive experience as a persistent Ratatui application.
• Added immediate loading screens and asynchronous discovery across the TUI workflows.
• Added consistent Esc back navigation and contextual keyboard help.
• Added an interactive Analyze explorer with directory navigation, filtering, top-file view, multi-selection, cancellable scans, and explicit permanent-deletion confirmation.
• Moved Clean, Uninstall, and Purge selection, review, and confirmation into the TUI.
• Added Status, History, and Update screens to the interactive application.
• Fixed privileged operations so the TUI pauses for a visible sudo password prompt, then resumes safely without hidden password requests.
• Refreshed the README, architecture notes, screenshots, social preview, and VHS demo for the new interface.

TuxCleaner still defaults to preview-first behavior: destructive operations require explicit confirmation, and permanent file removal is clearly identified before execution.

v0.3.0

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

v0.2.0

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

v0.1.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/debba/tuxcleaner/commits/v0.1.0