Yazi v25.12.29

Added

• Remote file management ([#3396])
• Virtual file system ([#3034], [#3035], [#3094], [#3108], [#3187], [#3203])
• Shell formatting ([#3232])
• Multi-entry support for plugin system ([#3154])
• Zoom in or out of the preview image ([#2864])
• Improve the UX of the pick and input components ([#2906], [#2935])
• Show progress of each task in task manager ([#3121], [#3131], [#3134])
• New fs.copy() and fs.rename() APIs ([#3467])
• New experimental ya.async() API ([#3422])
• New overall option to set the overall background color ([#3317])
• Rounded corners for indicator bar ([#3419])
• New bulk_rename action always renames files with the editor ([#2984])
• key-* DDS events to allow changing or canceling user key events ([#3005], [#3037])
• New --bg specifying image background color in the preset SVG and ImageMagick previewers ([#3189])
• filter by full path (prefix + filename) in search view instead of just filename ([#2915])
• New casefy action for case conversion of the input content ([#3235])
• Allow dynamic adjustment of layout ratio via rt.mgr.ratio ([#2964])
• Support .deb packages ([#2807], [#3128], [#3209])
• Port several widespread GUI keys to the input component ([#2849])
• Support invalid UTF-8 paths throughout the codebase ([#2884], [#2889], [#2890], [#2895], [#3023], [#3290], [#3369])
• Allow upgrading only specific packages with ya pkg ([#2841])
• Respect the user's image_filter setting in the preset ImageMagick previewer ([#3286])
• New duplicate DDS event for copying files ([#3456])
• New ind-sort and key-sort DDS events to change sorting in Lua ([#3391])
• Allow custom mouse click behavior for individual files ([#2925])
• Display newlines in input as spaces to improve readability ([#2932])
• Fill in error messages if preview fails ([#2917], [#3383], [#3387])
• Search view shares file selection and yank state ([#2855])
• Offload mimetype fetching on opening files to the task scheduler ([#3141])
• Increase terminal response timeout to better tolerate slow SSH network environments ([#2843])

Changed

• Rename name to url for open, fetchers, spotters, preloaders, previewers, filetype, and globs icon rules to support virtual file system ([#3034])
• Rename mime fetcher to mime.local, and introduce mime.dir fetcher to support folder MIME types ([#3222])
• Reclassify hovered and preview_hovered under [mgr] of theme.toml into [indicator] as current and preview, respectively ([#3419])
• Remove $0 parameter in opener rules to make the open action work under empty directories ([#3226])
• Return Path instead of Url from Url:strip_prefix() and File.link_to to enforce type safety ([#3361], [#3385])
• Use body instead of the term content in confirmations ([#2921])
• Use u16 instead of u32 as the type of max_width and max_height options to avoid memory exhaustion ([#3313])
• Implement __pairs metamethod instead of __index for the callback argument of the @yank DDS event ([#2997])

Deprecated

• Deprecate $n, $@ (*nix) and %n, %* (Windows) in shell action and opener rules in favor of new shell formatting ([#3232])
• Deprecate ya.hide, ya.render, and ya.truncate in favor of ui.hide, ui.render, and ui.truncate ([#2939])
• Deprecate position property of ya.input() in favor of pos to align with ya.confirm() and its type ui.Pos ([#2921])
• Deprecate cx.tasks.progress in favor of cx.tasks.summary ([#3131])
• Deprecate frag properly of Url in favor of domain ([#3034])
• Deprecate ui.Rect.default in favor of ui.Rect {} ([#2927])

Fixed

• User-prepended open rules do not override presets ([#3360])
• Respect user's system media opener instead of hardcoding mpv ([#2959])
• Incorrect $0 and $@ parameters in shell action under empty directories ([#3225])
• Avoid appending a newline when reading clipboard contents ([#3059])
• Renew package rev only when it's empty ([#3200])
• Suspend only when there is a parent process ([#3008])
• Preserve open order for files with post-resolved MIME types ([#2931])
• A race condition in concurrent directory loading on a slow device ([#3271])
• Erase overlapping image portions when previewing errors ([#3067])
• Force Git checkout for plugin cache repositories ([#3169])
• Check compatibility when reusing previewer bytecode cache ([#3190])
• Disable kitty keyboard protocol on Windows due to crossterm inability to handle it ([#3250])
• Prevent quotes in file(1) arguments from being stripped under MSYS2 ([#3364])
• Expose ya CLI in the Snap build ([#2904])
• Fallback to PollWatcher for file changes watching on NetBSD ([#2941])
• Generate unique image IDs for Kgp to tolerate tmux ([#3038])

Improved

• Make copy, cut, delete, link, hardlink, download, and upload tasks immediately cancellable ([#3429])
• Make preload tasks discardable ([#2875])
• Reduce file change event frequency ([#2820])
• Upload and download of a single file over SFTP in chunks concurrently ([#3393])
• Do not listen for file changes in inactive tabs ([#2958])
• Switch to a higher-performance hash algorithm ([#3083])
• Sequence-based rendering merge strategy ([#2861])
• Store only Urn instead of full Url in find results ([#2914])
• Zero-copy UrlBuf to Url conversion ([#3117])
• String interning to reduce memory usage of mimetype and URL domain ([#3084], [#3091])
• Do not pre-allocate memory for Lua tables ([#2879])
• Copy-on-write on command data, and avoid converting primitive types to strings thereby allocating memory ([#2862])
• Use AnyUserData::type_id() to reduce stack pushes ([#2834])
• App data instead of Lua registry to reduce stack pushes ([#2880])