Meneaufile — release notes

1.1.13 24 October 2026

New features

Menus: hovering “Panel 2” in a drive's menu, or “Copy”, “Move”, “Compress” towards a panel in the right-click menu, outlines that panel on screen, as the dialog asking for the destination already did.
Search: the search bar at the bottom of the panel is split in two — the name on the left, the content on the right. Searching for text inside files no longer means opening the criteria dialog, and either field is enough. A handle between the two sets their share, and is remembered. The content field only appears where there are files: disks, network drives, FTP, SSH — not in processes, a database or services.

Fixes

Extraction: extracting a large archive no longer freezes the application. Decompression runs separately, and progress, pause and queuing respond throughout. A large ZIP is no longer loaded whole into memory: only the file being extracted is.
Archives: copying a large file out of an archive opened in the panel no longer freezes the application. It is decompressed separately, as a stream: a 1.7 GB log came out with a four-second freeze and 3 GB of memory; it now comes out with no visible freeze and four times less memory. “Decompress” benefits too.
Memory: a zip opened in the panel was read in full and stayed in memory while you browsed it — a 517 MB zip made the application weigh nearly 900 MB. Only its catalog is read now: 2 MB instead of 555, and it opens ten times faster. The file is no longer held open, and can be moved or deleted while you browse it.
Content search: a file larger than 4 MB was not read, and a 2 GB log answered “nothing” for text that was really there. It is now read in chunks up to the first match, and the search is about three times faster. Only a large binary file — disk image, video — is still skipped.
Content search: cancelling it stops it at once. An interrupted read counted as “not found”, and the search still opened each of the following files in the folder before stopping.
Android: settings were only written once every ten minutes, and Android closes an app sent to the background without warning. The chosen layout — two panels, for instance — was lost, and the app reopened on the previous one. They are now written as soon as the app goes to the background.
Places bar: the three dots next to the modules, and the quick-access icon, stay visible even when everything fits. “Edit the modules…” and “Edit the quick access…” could only be reached on a bar that was too narrow.
Sorting: sorting a column keeps the cursor row selected and brings it back into view. It stayed selected, but ended up anywhere in the list — often off screen, in processes as well as in files.

1.1.12 21 October 2026

New features

Databases: exporting a database is much faster — each table is read in one go, in large pages, without recounting or rereading what came before.
Databases: a cancelled export offers to keep the partial file; its last line marks it as incomplete.
File comparison: “Previous difference” and “Next difference” move to the top, in the centre; the cross in the title bar closes the window.
File comparison: in edit mode, each block has, next to ← and →, the ↑ and ↓ arrows leading to the previous and next block.
Panels: right-clicking “Panel X” offers to open the panel in a new window, on the folder it shows.
Git: branches have their own menu, “Switch branch…”: the repository menu stays short, even with twenty branches.
Git: the merge request tree fills almost the whole window, and each step is only indented, like a table of contents: a long chain of MRs reads at a glance.
Git: each card in the merge request tree has a Checkout button that switches the working copy to the MR’s branch — fetched from the server first — to try it or review it before approving.
PDF reader: a PDF with an unreadable page still opens; opening no longer gets stuck, a large document displays faster, and zooming a small page no longer jams.
Images: rotating a JPEG or PNG photo is faster and uses less memory; a booby-trapped image no longer blocks reading.

Fixes

Git: the merge request tree asks for an access token when GitLab’s NET entry holds the account password, and keeps it in an entry of its own; an expired token can be replaced as soon as it is refused.
Git: the merge request tree places an MR under the one it was branched from, read from their commits — even when both target main — and shows what it targets.
Copying through TeamViewer or Remote Desktop: a file that grows during the copy — a log being written — arrives whole, with everything written up to the end of the transfer.
Copying through TeamViewer or Remote Desktop: a file refused at the destination — protected, reserved for the administrator — can be retried with “Retry with administrator rights”, like an ordinary copy.
Databases: “Open in a new window” on the result of a read query — SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST — opens the window on that result, read again; a query that writes is never rerun.
PostgreSQL: the query after an error returns its rows, infinity dates are read, and large decimal numbers decode much faster.
Archives: a booby-trapped .tar — an oversized file name — can no longer demand gigabytes of memory when opened.
Operations: an operation that fails on tens of thousands of files — a protected folder to delete — opens its list of failures instantly, and retrying as administrator no longer freezes the application.
Copy and paste: a folder whose name contains dots — php-8.5.9_overwrite_off — becomes php-8.5.9_overwrite_off (2), no longer php-8.5 (2).9_overwrite_off; a file keeps its real extension.
Git: a branch switch — from the menu or the Checkout button of the merge request tree — shows its progress in the panel, and says when it is done.
File comparison: “Next difference” moves from one block of differences to the next, no longer line by line; a “2 / 5” counter shows where you are.
File comparison: in edit mode, the → arrow now carries the block to the right, just as the ← arrow does to the left.
Git: the GitLab token prompt gives the right path to create one — User settings › Access › Personal access tokens › Generate token.

1.1.11 12 October 2026

New features

OmniFile is now Meneaufile. A name that belongs to it alone; the software stays the same. On first start, Meneaufile takes over everything OmniFile had saved: settings, panels, vault, servers, mail accounts and key files.
Meneaufile's files carry its name: .meneaunet, .meneaumail, .meneaukey, .meneaulock, .meneausel. Files created with OmniFile — a team vault on a share, a locked folder on a USB key, a selection list — open as they are, with a double-click.
Android: opening a file hands it to the associated app, and an APK starts its installation.
A portable version for Windows, full or light: a zip to unpack wherever you like — a USB key, for instance. Settings and data stay in its folder; nothing is written to the PC you run it on.
The mullion. The bar between two panels now bears the name of the one that divides a window — the one Meneaufile is named after. Hovering it tells what it does: drag it to set the widths, and right-click it to restore equal shares.
YAML in colour: .yaml and .yml files show their keys, lists, values and comments each in its own hue, and a vertical guide under every level makes the alignment clear at a glance — the one for the block holding the cursor stands out.
Copy as zip: a right-click puts a folder into a single zip on the clipboard. It crosses TeamViewer or Remote Desktop in one piece, and pastes on the other side like any file.
Dialog boxes can be moved by their title bar: push aside the one hiding what you want to see.
Portable mode keeps everything in a userdata folder next to the program: settings, vault, mail and log no longer mix with its files.
The configuration moves with its files: when switching to portable, back to the default folder or to another folder, a question offers to bring the vault, mail, key files, log and dated copies along.
In the settings, folders and files are chosen from the panels — change folder, export, import — without opening a second explorer; “Open folder” shows it in the active panel.
The portable version updates itself: its zip is downloaded, checked, then unpacked in place of the program, which restarts right away, settings intact.
The panel you point to lights up behind the dialog: hovering “Panel 3” shows at once which one it is on screen.
Create a file or a folder: an icon before the name shows what will be created, and a click on it switches from one to the other.
Search: keep only the X largest, smallest, newest or oldest files — four fields on one line —, and the Content field offers its last ten texts.
Git: a chip in the commit bar hides untracked files, so only tracked work gets committed.
Git: the GitLab merge request tree places each MR under the branch it targets, to approve them in order when one starts from a branch other than main.

Fixes

NET module: a connection's form is filed in the list folder where it was created and moves like any row — it is no longer confused with the landing folder on the server. For TeamViewer, the machine's number is now labelled “TeamViewer ID”, and the list column uses the same label as the form.
Mail: an attachment's name displays in plain text, even when the sender encoded it.
Mail: a connection cut by sleep mode, a network change or the antivirus reconnects on its own.
Very large folders: measuring hundreds of thousands of folders no longer freezes the app, with progress at the bottom of the panel and a cross to stop; once everything is measured, sorting by size puts the biggest folders first.
Very large folders: beyond 5,000 items, the list no longer reloads itself at every disk change — a marker in the status bar says so, and F5 refreshes it.
Disk usage: the map of a very large disk needs five times less memory.
Copying through TeamViewer or Remote Desktop: an interrupted transfer is reported, with what arrived, and the incomplete file is not kept.
Git: committing thousands of files at once works, instead of claiming git is not installed.
Linked files: those OmniFile had linked, on a USB stick or a share, take Meneaufile’s extension and find their dated copies again; linked vaults find their key file again.
NET: right-clicking the server’s name in the breadcrumb also copies its login, password and address.
Installation: OmniFile is removed before Meneaufile installs, along with its old shortcuts; settings and vault stay intact.
Update: the installer closes Meneaufile itself if it is open, giving it time to save its state.
Mail: a message deleted from its reading window leaves the list at once, without waiting for F5.
Viewer: a file with an unknown extension that holds text — a JSON named .snapshot — now shows as text instead of hexadecimal; real binaries stay in hex.
Mail: a message whose column has a bounded width — Google’s — now shows at its full width, instead of a narrow strip in the middle of the window.

1.1.10 9 October 2026

New features

Open in a new window: from a panel's menu, a single-panel window opens on the chosen folder. Closing it leaves your panels and settings exactly as they were.
Command field history: ↑ and ↓ bring back the commands you have already typed.
The Trash on Windows warns you before permanently deleting what it cannot take in — a network share, a file larger than the Trash itself.
Upgrade Flutter: when a newer Flutter release is out, the Flutter button's menu offers it, showing both versions, and runs flutter upgrade in the console.
Notify when new mail arrives: a setting chooses whether a new message is announced with a system notification; the count on the MAIL button stays either way; each account can also silence it from its own settings.

Fixes

Copy and move: a file skipped during a conflict stays where it is; copying into the source folder creates a “(2)” duplicate next to the original; “Rename automatically” on a folder places all its contents in it, subfolders included; a move that crosses from one drive to another along the way goes all the way through.
“Move into the archive” removes the originals only once the archive is complete.
Copying to a phone or a camera completes properly.
Renaming a file by changing only its case — readme.md to README.md — works on Windows and macOS.
Registry: an imported .reg applies exactly what it asks for, key by key.
Git and SVN: “Rollback” on a newly added file leaves it on disk, untracked; differences and history display for files that are not in UTF-8; SVN handles names such as [email protected].
Databases: a row whose key contains “/” can be edited and deleted correctly; the PostgreSQL export restores bytea, json and array columns; a PostgreSQL script replays even when its values contain backslashes; an added column appears in the structure right away; renaming a MySQL database first checks its procedures, events and triggers; a query that sets a password is not recorded in the console history.
Mail: two panels open on the same IMAP account each work in their own folder; an IMAP password with “€” or accented letters is accepted; after the server goes quiet, the session reopens on its own; the mail notification only comes back when the number of unread messages changes.
Servers: after an interrupted FTP upload, the following uploads proceed normally; S3 files with parentheses in their name open; “Disconnect” on a server's row closes its session; a network drive without a share name says so before it is saved.
Vault: an existing key file is never replaced; a vault stored on a share or a server is always saved in full; changing the vault's folder moves the mail accounts there too.
Synchronization and comparison: between a Windows disk and a server, two names that differ only in case designate the same file; copying blocks across is offered for UTF-8 text files read in full, other files are compared read-only.
Viewer: a large UTF-8 file keeps its accents from start to finish; a mirrored photo rotates the same way as its preview; dates show for tar, tgz, txz and gz archives; inspecting an executable stays smooth whatever the file; tapping the screen brings back the floating panel.
Search: a search across the whole home folder goes all the way through, Windows junctions included; “The X largest files” and “Programs only” light up the options button.
System: on Windows, clearing a service's description erases it; TASK times are correct all year round; a task whose name contains a typographic apostrophe is saved; “Stop” on flutter run stops everything that was running.
Launch shortcuts: a file name passed to a shortcut arrives as is, with its spaces, “&” signs, apostrophes and slashes.
Linux: a USB key mounted under /run/media is measured in full; “Restore” from the Trash leaves in place a file that has been recreated since.
Startup: Meneaufile opens on a screen narrower than its minimum width and with a hand-edited settings file; a folder full of programs displays without waiting for their icons; two panels open in two Git repositories stay calm.
Starting an update saves your settings and asks what to do with the tasks in progress.
“Save selection…” stores the list in the folder typed in the dialog.

1.1.9 7 October 2026

New features

Schedule an action: “Schedule…” in the backup, synchronization, copy, move and compression dialogs, and “Schedule the export…” on a table or a database. The action replays on its own — once, daily, weekly, every X minutes, at logon or at startup — even with the session closed.
The TASK module shows the system's scheduled tasks as folders: run, stop, enable, create and edit them. On Windows, and on Linux for systemd timers and crontab.
The REG module browses the registry like a disk, on Windows. A value is edited according to its type; a key dragged to a folder becomes a .reg file, and a .reg dropped on the registry is imported into it.
An SSH entry can be browsed: “Browse files” opens its files over SFTP, same address and same account, without a second entry. “Open SSH session” takes control of the machine.
A console button, next to the command field, opens a terminal in the panel's folder — on an SFTP server, an ssh session already placed in the remote folder. Its right-click lists the terminals on the computer.
NET entries go back to a previous version: “Go back to a previous version…” shows the copies by date and time, and going back can be undone the same way.
Meneaufile for 64-bit ARM Linux: a .deb package and an archive, for the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 and other ARM machines.
The command field understands cd: cd C:\tools\bin, cd .. or cd /d D:\ take the panel there, as in a command prompt.
Git bundles open: a .bundle file shows its branches and tags, and clones next to itself without a network. “Create a bundle…”, in the GIT menu, packs a whole repository.
Mount and unmount drives on Linux: the “+” button at the end of the drives lists the partitions that are plugged in but not mounted, and mounts the one you pick; “Unmount” is in each drive's menu. A key that gets mounted or removed appears in and disappears from the bar on its own.
The PS module on Linux: the machine's processes, with their command, memory and owner; you can end them and change their priority. The “Performance graph” plots the processor, memory, each disk and the network.
A terminal as administrator: Shift + click on the console button offers each terminal “As administrator”, opened in the panel's folder.

Fixes

The Portuguese interface speaks European Portuguese, like the site and the manual.
On ARM boards with the Mali driver (Rockchip), the window displays instead of staying black.
The module drawer icon keeps its three dots, whether buttons are hidden in it or not.
On Linux, the automatic update downloads and installs: the .deb package goes through the desktop's password prompt, then Meneaufile restarts.
The .deb package puts the Meneaufile icon on the desktop.
On Linux, “Properties” opens the desktop file manager's window (Thunar, Nautilus, Dolphin…).
The FLU module appears on Linux when Flutter is installed in a folder that the terminal adds to the PATH.
“View” colours batch scripts (.bat, .cmd): comments, labels, variables and keywords.
The languages in the settings are listed in alphabetical order.
In TASK, a scheduled Meneaufile action reads in plain words in the task list.

1.1.8 30 September 2026

New features

Meneaufile speaks twenty-five languages, and so do its website, its manual and its installer: the help button opens the manual in the language of the interface.
The password box tries the connection itself: a wrong password is asked for again straight away, with “Wrong password” under the field. For NET servers, network shares, databases and mail.
A copy refused for lack of rights can be retried as administrator, from the failures box, keeping the choice made for conflicts. On Windows.
Right-click on MAIL: each account with its unread messages, and a click opens its inbox. In a message, ← and → go to the previous and the next one.
The right button draws the lasso as you drag, even when starting on a name, and the list keeps a little empty space under its last row to start from.
Batch renaming shifts a number: [YYYY-1], [MM+1], [C+10].
The creation box has a “Create a folder” checkbox, and pressing Insert in it switches from a file to a folder without losing the name you typed.
The menu says which panel each action goes to: “Copy › Panel 2”, and likewise for Move, Compress, Back up and Synchronise. “Panels” when there are several views and the action will ask which one.
Comparisons can be copied: select the text with the mouse, in each half, without the line numbers. A file with the same name in the other view can be compared from a right-click, and F8 takes that very file.
Databases: a row’s form can be searched from eight columns up — a few letters of the name leave only the fields that contain them. A date gets a “Now” button.
NET entries keep their last ten copies of the day, then the last one of each day, over a month. The manual says where they are and how to go back to one.
The delete box names what goes: ‘Remove “paypal.com”’.

Fixes

Services, processes and folder size measurement no longer freeze the window, even on a large folder or a network share: reading happens in the background, and you can see the wait.
A server opened in NET handles like a folder: F6 to the disk and back, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and drag and drop all work there.
Deleting or renaming an entry filed in a folder affects only that entry.
“Open in its location” on an entry found by the search leads to its folder.
In the comparison’s edit mode, each arrow sends the block facing it.
A new NET entry is no longer pinged automatically, and “Don't save the password” now comes right after the password in the box.
Sizes, <DIR> markers and punctuation follow the language of the interface.
Quoting a reply dates the message the same way as the columns, in the language of the interface.

1.1.7 28 September 2026

New features

A search bar at the bottom of the panel, opened by Ctrl+F: you read and edit what you are searching for there, without looking up to the top of the window. The two fields follow each other, and a cross leaves the search.
Copy, cut and paste files from the right-click menu, and no longer only from the keyboard. A separator sets them apart from “Copy path” and “Copy the name”, which copy text.
An SSH or SFTP entry connects with a private key: it keeps the path to the key, never the key itself. A protected key takes its passphrase from the entry’s password.
Flutter: “Build debug…” joins “Build release…”, and a successful build leads in one click to the executable or the APK produced. The menu opens faster: the list of devices is now looked up only when you choose “Run”.
In a commit’s changes, a file can be copied, or opened in its folder.
Comparisons keep the code colours, side by side as in the unified view, and in a commit’s diff: a .php file reads as it does in “View”.
Under the error of a database whose service is stopped, a button leads straight to that service, ready to be restarted.
The manual opens online, in the browser, from the question mark in the title bar: it is always up to date, and the Light version has access to it too. The package ends up lighter.

Fixes

On Windows, the automatic update launches the installer with the system’s elevation prompt. If it is refused, the box says where the installer is waiting, and “Try again” relaunches it without downloading it again.
The Light version updates to the Light version, and no longer to the full version.
Meneaufile runs on Windows systems with an old C++ library, such as a Windows Server 2012 that was never updated: the app now carries its own, and the installer updates the system’s when it is older.
Searching from the NET list no longer opens all the connections one after the other, with a password asked for each.
In NET, the “Folders follow the sort” setting applies to entries again.
“Compress” is always offered on a file, even on an .apk or an archive you might want to compress again.
In mail, F5 asks the server again for the folders and their unread counts: the badge and the list no longer contradict each other.
The search cross leaves the search, instead of launching a content search.
In a Flutter project, a click on FLUTTER opens its menu, instead of taking you to the last project opened.
Cutting in Explorer then pasting in Meneaufile retries when the clipboard is busy, and says why if it fails.
A cancelled git clone no longer leaves a half-filled folder.
A site pasted from the browser no longer shows its trailing slash in the Address column.

1.1.5 19 September 2026

New features

Several archives are decompressed in a single gesture, under the same answers: the destination, what to do with names already taken and the password are asked once and apply to all. A single progress indicator, from 1 to N.
Two new ways to compare, in the backup: ignore the date — for a copy that has lost its own —, or compare the content byte by byte, at equal size.
Hovering the MAIL button says what is waiting in each mailbox: the total first, then one line per account.
The visited folders sit under the Back and Forward arrows, on right-click. Their separate icon goes away.
On a list of entries — machines, connections, databases, mail accounts —, F3 opens the entry like F2, and the choice of type shows the icon you will see on the row.
The viewer reads web.config files and formats the XML the way it does JSON.
Entering a folder puts the cursor on [..], even when there are files: one key is enough to go back out.

Fixes

Mail is read on white paper under every theme, and its text wraps instead of running off to the right. Addresses written out in full open with a click.
The unread count follows reading, instead of waiting for the next refresh.
Pasting a file copied from a virtual machine: Explorer used to say “the copied files are no longer there” before the guest had even put them down.
A key that does not open a sealed file no longer erases it when saving.
In a database, a quoted, qualified table — `base`.`table` — can be edited like the others.
The update is only offered if the published version is NEWER: a machine that was ahead used to be offered a downgrade.
A site’s menu no longer offered “Copy the identifier” twice.

1.1.0 15 September 2026

New features

A single list of connections (NET): servers, machines to take over, sites and passwords are declared in the same place, in an encrypted local.meneaunet. What a double-click does depends on the entry’s use — open a site, browse a server, take control, copy a secret.
Automatic update: at startup, the app checks whether a newer version has been published and offers to install it. Adjustable in Settings → Tools.
Mail announces itself: a system notification when a message arrives.
The column order is dragged with the mouse, like that of the source buttons in the bar.
The cursor and the selection are restored when a folder is reopened.

Fixes

The ten largest files in a folder: the list used to stop at the first ones found even though bigger ones followed.
Compressing “one archive per item”: each original now leaves as soon as its archive is written, and a single overall progress indicator replaces the box that opened and closed for every file.
In a database, the “Accepts NULL” box follows the primary key — when ticked, it changed nothing in the query.
Leaving a zip announces “Decompressing” and not “Compressing”.