v0.16.0
Released 2026-08-07. This release fills in the "look back at it" layer: every operation is recorded in Activity, deleting goes to the system recycle bin, and bookmarks became a tree you can file things into. Text rendering and keyboard control each got a batch of work too.
The kind marked on each entry (New / Improved / Fixed) is explained in the changelog.
New
| # | Kind | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | Activity: a clock button in the top-right corner of the window (Ctrl+Shift+H) records every copy, move, delete and rename. Each entry can Go to the folder the files landed in with them selected, and most can be undone. It has a search box and four category filters, and how many entries are kept is a setting — including off. See Activity |
| 2 | New | The bookmark star is now a form: clicking the star in the nav bar no longer toggles. It opens a form where you name the bookmark and pick a folder, and nothing is saved until you confirm. Bookmarks can have names of their own and be filed into folders. See Bookmarks |
| 3 | New | Bookmark panel: right-click the star and the whole bookmark tree lays out on one card, usable with the sidebar closed. It has a search box, and middle-click lets you open a set of working folders one after another |
| 4 | New | Tab context menu: Bookmark this tab, Bookmark all tabs…, and Close Tab / Close Other Tabs / Close Tabs to the Left / Close Tabs to the Right. In Vim mode these are gc, gC, gH and gL |
| 5 | New | Permanent delete: Shift+Delete, or Delete Permanently in the context menu, skips the recycle bin and asks you to confirm first. It is the one operation that cannot be undone |
| 6 | New | Match mode for search and filter: two buttons at the right edge of both the sidebar search box and the footer filter box switch between fuzzy, wildcards and regex. From the keyboard, Alt+G and Alt+R; in Vim, \g and \r. Both boxes share one mode. See File operations |
| 7 | New | Ten more bindable actions: cycle the view level, toggle the preview panel, toggle the sidebar, toggle hidden items, refresh, open activity, plus paging and jump-to-first/last. All rebindable on the Keyboard Shortcuts page |
| 8 | New | Extending the selection: Shift+↑/↓, Shift+PageUp/PageDown and Shift+Home/End check everything they pass; Ctrl+Shift+A inverts. Select All and Invert Selection are in the context menu as well |
| 9 | New | Text rendering controls: Font Weight, Text Gamma, Subpixel Positioning and LCD Subpixel Antialiasing, all on the Appearance page. See Settings overview |
| 10 | New | Hide Rules: keep an exclusion list of your own by name or wildcard, sharing the master switch with Show Hidden Items |
| 11 | New | Sidebar settings group: a visibility switch for each of the sidebar's six sections, plus Clear Recent History |
| 12 | New | New Tab Folder: which folder a tab opened with Ctrl+T starts in — match the current tab, your home folder, or a path you specify |
| 13 | New | Double-Click Empty Space to Go Up: a setting, off by default |
| 14 | New | Preview cache: Save memory / Balanced / Performance / Custom, with a Show Memory Usage overlay to read while you adjust it |
| 15 | New | Toast duration: four steps. Hovering a toast also stops its timer now |
Improved
| # | Kind | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Improved | Deleting always goes to the system recycle bin, the same place as deleting in Explorer. Deleting to another drive used to degrade into copying the whole contents; now it is a move on any drive. Ctrl+Z brings it back out. See File operations |
| 17 | Improved | The sidebar's Recents now ranks by how often you go somewhere, recording both visit count and last visit, so a folder you passed through once no longer displaces the ones you use. The section heading gained a button to clear it |
| 18 | Improved | A new folder drops straight into rename mode with its name fully selected, so typing replaces it — no second press of F2 |
| 19 | Improved | F2 renames now enter the undo stack: the item stays selected afterwards and Ctrl+Z puts the old name back. A failed rename raises a toast instead of closing the box without a word |
| 20 | Improved | Going back puts the cursor where you left it: enter a subfolder, come back out, and the item you had selected is still selected. The same in all four views, and it survives a restart |
| 21 | Improved | Columns view: each column has its own scrollbar, and a horizontal one appears when the row overflows; the keyboard acts on the column you clicked in; filtering and select-all work here too now; drop targets resolve to an exact row in an exact column |
| 22 | Improved | Sidebar search results now match everywhere else: click changes the current tab, middle-click opens a new one. The context menu fills in all four combinations of what to open and where to open it, with Open added for file hits |
| 23 | Improved | Zoom-step ranges widened: percentages to 300%, icons to 512 px, for 4K and 5K displays |
| 24 | Improved | Windows hidden detection now reads the hidden attribute: files Explorer keeps out of sight are out of sight in tessoa too |
| 25 | Improved | Much lower memory use when scrolling large folders: a 100,000-row folder went from about 3 GB to about 0.4 GB |
| 26 | Improved | Double-click interval follows the system setting rather than a fixed value |
| 27 | Improved | The nav bar history dropdown can hide repeated paths, a setting; back and forward themselves are unaffected |
Fixed
| # | Kind | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | Fixed | Default font resolution always failed on Windows, mixing two typefaces into one line and making Latin and CJK look mismatched |
| 29 | Fixed | Uneven letter spacing — each glyph's horizontal subpixel position was being discarded, regardless of which font you picked |
| 30 | Fixed | Rounded outlines had gaps at all four corners, most visible on the footer filter box in dark themes |
| 31 | Fixed | On macOS, Ctrl+Z after a delete had never actually worked, and it failed silently |
| 32 | Fixed | Restoring a session popped the windows up one at a time; starting maximized flashed a frame of full-screen white |
| 33 | Fixed | Chinese input stopped working after closing a context menu |
| 34 | Fixed | Shortcuts pointing at non-ASCII paths showed a blank-page icon |
| 35 | Fixed | The list went entirely blank after Copy Path in the context menu |
| 36 | Fixed | Files could not be dragged in columns view, with no message to say why |
| 37 | Fixed | Text overlapped in the settings panel and in the sidebar at larger font sizes |
| 38 | Fixed | Lowering the preview cache budget made the whole screen flicker |
See also