Backward incompatible changes:
- Directory hotlist is stored in the localconfig.xml now.
- Secure password store format had changed (file pwd.ini). The old format is converted on first use, new file format cannot be used with previous Double Commander versions. New format uses Argon2 key derivation function.
New features and changes:
- New GIF-viewer engine
- YAML syntax highlighter
- Speed-up tarballs handling
- GTK 3 support (Lazarus 5.0)
- New calculate checksum dialog
- Calculate and verify XXH128 hash
- Speed-up BLAKE3 using NEON (aarch64)
- Speed-up SHA256 using ARM64CE (aarch64)
- Speed-up SHA3, SHA512 using AVX2 (x86_64)
- Better High-DPI support (Cocoa, Qt6 + Wayland)
- Create separate checksum file for each directory
- New supported archive types: BR, TAR.BR (BROTLI)
- JPEG XL image format support (via libjxl library)
- Option to display free space label at the drive bar
- Multi-rename - replace also in file extensions option
- Wfx-plugins - FsExtractCustomIcon function support (root path only)
- SevenZip plugin that supports same archive types as 7-Zip application (Linux)
- Inplace rename: rename and switch to previous/next file using up/down arrows