chore(master): release nvim-tree 1.16.0

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1.16.0 (2026-03-17)

Features

• Visual Selection #2994: add visual mode operations: copy, cut, delete, trash, toggle bookmark (#3268) (9197f3e)
• Visual Selection #2994: add visual selection operations (9197f3e)
• add <Del> mapping (ca8d82f)
• add default <Del> mapping for api.fs.remove (#3238) (ca8d82f)

Bug Fixes

• #Regression: Copy / Cut Rename Prompts Not Functioning Following Visual Mode Operations #3288: restore single-item paste conflict prompts (#3289) (b3772ad)
• filesystem_watchers.ignore_dirs Handle Windows Paths, Add /.zig-cache To Defaults #3178: handle Windows paths in ignore_dirs and add .zig-cache to defaults (#3261) (5499299)
• [Floating] Cannot close last window #3187: prevent closing the last non-floating window when deleting files (#3282) (018a078)
• Nvim-tree consumes all my memory #3198: add filesystem_watchers.max_events to handle runaway filesystem events on PowerShell (#3232) (c07ce43)
• "Show Only Marked" no longer displays contents of marked folders (Regression?) #3248: bookmark filter shows contents of marked directories (#3249) (5757bcf)
• Bug: vim.system():wait() fails with "bad argument #1 to 'wait'" on Neovim 0.11.5 #3251: pass git.timeout to all vim.system git calls (#3277) (e49b0d9)
• checkhealth reports an error on nvim-tree._meta.api #3265: rename module api.health to api.appearance, to avoid :checkhealth detection (#3266) (1df1960)
• right_align of renderer's *_placement renders 'after', not right aligned #3267: renderer.icons.*_placement 'right_align' at the right hand edge, not the right of the name (#3270) (fa3c458)
• view.width.max function returning -1 is not respected #3281: fix a bug when a view width of -1 is returned from a function (#3283) (c988e28)
• allow 0 (unlimited) filesystem_watchers.max_events which is the new default, except for windows at 1000 (#3279) (87594aa)
• increase filesystem_watchers.max_events from 100 to 1000 (#3263) (0f4d2d6)
• restore bookmark filter for marked directories (5757bcf)

Performance Improvements

• perf: modified takes a long time when refreshing #3284: re-draw instead of refreshing the tree when a buffer is modified (#3285) (c8d8d51)

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🤖 Created releases:

• nvim-tree-v1.16.0

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