Strata 0.2.0

Fixed

• A finished scan no longer stays stuck on "100%": the map now opens as soon as the scan ends. If loading the results ever fails, Strata shows the error instead of freezing.

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SHA-256 checksums: SHA256SUMS.txt. Strata checks for updates from Settings › Updates, and verifies each one with a signature.

Strata 0.2.0-beta.1

Changed

• Strata now runs on Tauri instead of Electron. It uses the web view already on your system (WebView2 on Windows, WebKitGTK on Linux), so the downloads are a few megabytes instead of a bundled browser (the Linux AppImage, which carries its own web view, is about 80 MB), and it starts faster and uses less memory. The look and every feature are the same.
  • Windows: needs the WebView2 runtime. It is already part of Windows 11 and of up-to-date Windows 10; the installer adds it if it is missing. The portable build is still a single .exe, and keeps everything (including the web view's files) in a Strata Data folder next to it.
  • Linux: the .deb, .rpm and .pacman packages depend on webkit2gtk-4.1 and gtk3 (Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, Fedora, Arch). The AppImage and .tar.gz no longer need --no-sandbox on Ubuntu 24.04.
  • Right-click menus are drawn by Strata itself, and dropped folders are read natively.
• One scanner for Windows and Linux, in Rust (scanner/), instead of a C# scanner for Windows and a JavaScript one for Linux, which are removed. Same commands, messages and scan file, so scans saved by 0.1.0 still open.
  • Faster: about 6× on Linux on a folder of 200,000 files.
  • Static binaries: no Visual C++ runtime needed on Windows, and one Linux build (musl) for every distribution.
  • Bus and SSD/HDD come from the storage driver instead of WMI.
  • Restoring from History asks the scanner, which now lists and restores Recycle Bin / Trash items itself.
  • Files whose names aren't valid UTF-8 are now counted on Linux (the old scanner skipped them).
• Updated Preact to 11.

Added

• Strata speaks 16 languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Dutch, Polish and Indonesian. It follows your system language; change it in Settings › Language. Dates and numbers follow the language too.
• Updates, only when you want them. Settings › Updates checks github.com once a day if you allow it (Strata asks the first time), or when you press Check now. Nothing about you or your files is sent, and nothing installs without your say.
  • Updates are verified with a signature before they are installed. Choose the Stable or Beta channel.
  • Works for the Windows installer, the Windows portable .exe (replaced in place), the Linux AppImage and the .deb / .rpm packages (Linux asks for your password). Other builds are told when a new version exists and open the download page.
  • An Update to x.y.z button appears on the start screen with the release notes of the new version.
• What's new. After an update, Strata shows what changed since the version you last ran. All release notes are in Settings › Updates.
• Linux support for the common x64 distributions, packaged as AppImage, .deb (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint…), .rpm (Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE…), .pacman (Arch, Manjaro…) and .tar.gz, all built in CI.
  • Linux scanning: mounted drives with bus, SSD/HDD and labels, a multi-threaded walk that stays on one file system, counts hard links once and sparse files by what they use.
  • Deleting goes to the freedesktop.org Trash, which History can restore from.
  • Linux cleanup rules: ~/.cache, thumbnails, /tmp and /var/tmp, core dumps, APT/DNF/YUM/Pacman/Zypper package caches, Linux browser profiles and .deb/.rpm/AppImage installers in Downloads.
  • Linux paths, drive names and wording (Trash, file manager) throughout the UI; the Windows-only fast scan and admin restart are hidden.
• Every release now comes with SHA256SUMS.txt, and the website has a changelog page and an RSS feed.

Fixed

• The window could stay blank if the app finished loading its data before the screen had subscribed to it.

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SHA-256 checksums: SHA256SUMS.txt. Strata checks for updates from Settings › Updates, and verifies each one with a signature.

Strata 0.1.0

The first public release of Strata: see what fills your disk, then clean it up.

Download

	File
Installer	Strata-Setup-0.1.0.exe (116 MB)	Per-user install, no admin needed. Start menu and desktop shortcuts, uninstalls from Settings › Apps.
Portable	Strata-0.1.0-Portable.exe (105 MB)	A single file, nothing installed. Settings and scans live in Strata Data next to the .exe.

Requires Windows 10 or 11 (x64).

Note

These builds aren't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info › Run anyway. You can check your download against SHA256SUMS.txt.

Highlights

• Treemap, sunburst and columns views of any drive or folder. Hover, click, double-click to zoom, right-click for actions.
• Fast scan that reads the NTFS file table directly (as administrator). The normal scan is multi-threaded and quick too.
• Live scanning: a map that fills in as folders finish, pause / resume, and explore partial results while the scan continues.
• Search with globs, size filters and types (*.mkv >1 GB, type:video), plus smart views: largest files, duplicates, untouched for a year, caches & temp, dev artifacts.
• Cleanup review with Safe/Review badges and reasons. Recycle Bin by default, protected system locations, and a 7-day history with restore.
• Works fully offline, with no telemetry.

Checksums (SHA-256)

b2a39442e0cc81a555d4c602d288c22b6013d335134449f2cbd4920b8dd999b5  Strata-Setup-0.1.0.exe
a293362c41807e18a2bb70b59d78bbdefe6d26d0aab89d82c9f8c92c4a8e11b2  Strata-0.1.0-Portable.exe

See the changelog for the full list of features.

Beta channel

Only holds latest.json for Strata's Beta update channel. Not a release: downloads are on the numbered releases.