v0.8.0

A new default look, Trash and Recent, more file actions, and lower memory use with large images.

• Add the Glass theme preset as the default, with blurred content behind menus, dialogs and tooltips. Upgrade the look of every preset.
• Add Recent, Trash and devices to the sidebar, with Trash operations and free space status.
• Add Open with, Copy path, terminal here and Properties to the context menu.
• Show folder item counts. Guess the preview language from content and highlight Markdown. Preview unknown file types as text when the content is text.
• Show focus rings only during keyboard navigation. Keep scroll position and selection on refresh. Select the folder that was left after Parent and Back.
• Preview images up to 16384 pixels per side and 256 MiB encoded. Show "This image is too large to preview" above that.
• Include Goo 0.7.31: native image decode, GPU textures released with their image, decode memory returned to the system.

Measured on this release executable, RSS after a folder of six 5000x3300 JPEG and six 48 MiB PNG files with preview open is 235 MiB. It was 699 MiB on the previous build, which also rejected the PNG files. GPU memory after 200 image previews is 119 MiB, down from 179 MiB. Idle RSS is 211 MiB.

The Linux x86-64 executable is 18,055,448 bytes. Built on Ubuntu 24.04. Requires glibc 2.38 or newer, Wayland, and Vulkan 1.3 drivers. Third-party notices are embedded and available through gloop --licenses.

Download gloop-linux-x64.tar.gz and verify it with SHA256SUMS. The archive contains exactly one executable. The exact release binary passed the NativeAOT packaging checks and a native Wayland check of list, tiles, text preview and image preview.