ServerUI v0.2.0

A major update to ServerUI focused on making server management feel more like a desktop environment.

What's new since v0.1.0, the first public release.

🚀 File Manager

Files now works like Finder.

• One unified toolbar with back/forward navigation, folder name, Icons/List view, Upload, New Folder, Download, Delete, More, and Search.
• Icon view is now the default, with folder and document icons, type badges, selection highlights, rubber-band selection, and drag-to-move.
• List view shows Name, Date Modified, Size, and Kind.
• Sidebar with Favorites and Locations. Files can be dragged directly onto sidebar locations.
• Path bar and selection status, such as 2 of 17 selected.
• Right-click empty space to create a folder, create a file, or upload.
• Home resolves to the signed-in user's actual home directory, including /root and homes outside /home.

Selection & File Operations

• Rectangle selection, Shift-click ranges, and Cmd/Ctrl-click multi-selection.
• Select All and Clear Selection.
• Download or delete multiple selected items.
• Download progress with individual retry support for failed items.
• Drag files and folders onto folders, .., breadcrumbs, or sidebar locations to move them remotely.
• Copy, cut, and paste using the context menu or Cmd/Ctrl+C, X, and V.
• Conflict handling with Cancel, Replace, Rename, or Keep Both.
• Replace operations use temporary files first, preventing a failed operation from destroying the original.
• Long folder listings scroll correctly, including empty space after the final row.
• .. can be opened by double-clicking, just like any other folder.

Archives

• Compress selections to ZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ, TGZ, TAR.BZ2, TAR.XZ, or 7Z.
• Automatically fall back to TAR.GZ when zip or 7z is unavailable.
• Extract ZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ, TGZ, TAR.BZ2, TBZ2, TAR.XZ, TXZ, and 7Z archives.
• Extraction supports Cancel, Replace, and Keep Both when files already exist.
• Archives are inspected before extraction and unsafe entries are rejected, including absolute paths, path traversal, escaping links, and device files.
• Password-protected archives are rejected.
• Extraction happens in a private temporary directory before moving files into place.
• Failed or cancelled extraction leaves the destination unchanged.
• Downloading a folder automatically compresses it on the server first.
• Copy, move, compress, and extract operations run over SSH on the remote host.

🖥️ Servers

Test Connection

• Test Connection on Add Server and Edit Server validates the details you entered without saving them.
• Clear green/red connection results when a tested field is edited.
• When editing an existing server, leaving the password or key blank reuses the saved credential.
• Saved credentials are never sent back to the browser.

Validation & SSH Errors

• Inline validation for individual fields.
• Validation runs when leaving a field and when saving or testing.
• The first invalid field is automatically focused.
• Forms scroll to invalid fields while actions remain pinned.
• Invalid IP-like hosts containing only digits and dots are rejected.
• Hostnames and usernames have length limits.
• Usernames cannot contain spaces, :, @, or /.
• SSH failures now provide actionable error categories:
  • Invalid host
  • Connection refused
  • Timeout
  • Unreachable host
  • Connection reset
  • Not an SSH server
  • Authentication failed
  • Invalid key
  • Passphrase required

Desktop Server Fixes

• Editing a server in the desktop app now correctly persists changes.
• Fixed SQLite persistence issues where renames and status changes could disappear and result in "server not found".
• Host and username fields no longer autocapitalize or autocorrect, preventing values such as root from becoming Root.

🎨 Desktop Experience

• Dashboard has been upgraded to System Monitor with CPU, memory, disk, network, processes, and services.
• Choose a desktop wallpaper from Settings.
• The selected wallpaper is shared across the desktop, boot, and logout screens.
• Redesigned frosted-glass dock.
• Dock icons magnify on hover with centered tooltips.
• New Files and Terminal icons.
• Mac-style traffic lights with hover glyphs.
• Files places window controls in the sidebar while the toolbar can be used to drag the window.
• Minimized windows now use a genie animation into the dock.
• Updated glass window surfaces.
• Redesigned Dock icon with a rounded Mac-style tile.

🐛 Fixes

• Production TypeScript builds now complete successfully again.
• Fixed macOS desktop builds failing because of the PostgreSQL setup used by the web deployment.
• Packaged desktop builds continue to use local SQLite.

🔀 Pull Requests

• #30 — Finder-style Files window, Dock restyle, and real home folder
• #24 — Copy, cut, paste, compress, extract, and download queue
• #23 — Test Connection and inline validation
• #19 — Multi-select file operations
• #20 — Drag and drop to move files and folders
• #18 — Stop autocapitalize on server fields

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What's next?

ServerUI is still early, and there's a lot more coming.

We're working toward making ServerUI a complete local desktop workspace for managing servers — without turning the server itself into another heavy management layer.

GitHub: https://github.com/rakhechashubham/serverui

Website: https://serverui.dev

Discord: https://discord.gg/CTt2qFGFET

What's Changed

• fix: prevent autocapitalization in server fields by @tejjasdev in #18
• Add Drag and Drop Support for Moving Files and Folders by @Aryan1092raj in #20
• feat(files): add multi-select file operations (closes #9) by @isreeharim in #19
• feat: test connection and inline validation in Add/Edit Server by @SiddaramMetri in #23
• feat(files): copy/cut/paste, compress/extract, folder-aware downloads and context menu by @Snox-dev1 in #24
• feat(ui): Finder-style Files window, Dock restyle, and real home folder by @SiddaramMetri in #30

New Contributors

• @tejjasdev made their first contribution in #18
• @Aryan1092raj made their first contribution in #20
• @isreeharim made their first contribution in #19
• @SiddaramMetri made their first contribution in #23
• @Snox-dev1 made their first contribution in #24

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