ANNOUNCE: thunar 4.21.2 released

Alexander Schwinn alexxcons at xfce.org
Tue Jul 8 14:57:04 CEST 2025


thunar 4.21.2 is now available for download from
  
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.2.tar.xz
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.2.tar.xz?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.2.tar.xz?sha256


What is thunar?
===============

Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It has
been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user
interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or
useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time
and directory load time. Thunar is accessible using Assistive
Technologies and is fully standards compliant.

Website: 
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start


Release notes for 4.21.2
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

Development release on the master branch. Here the changelog:

Fixes:
- Fix quoting when running shell scripts in a terminal (#1661)
- Avoid use-after-free in rename dialog when file is changed underneath
- Improve file add/remove checks for ThunarFolder (#1649)
- Properly update view after hidden file rename
- Always reload ThunarFiles on change notice (#1650)
- Directly notify after file reload (#1650)
- Reset folder monitor on folder rename (#1644)
- Add basic signal handling (#1633)
- Fix leaks when replacing existing file with new file or directory
- Fix a GFile leak in _thunar_io_jobs_rename
- location-bar: Properly destroy child widgets (#573)
- Consistently use parent pointer instead of screen (#1632)
- Wipe transient parent when setting screen (#1632)
- Split 'thunar_util_parse_parent' in two methods (#1632)
- Only save column width when in fixed column mode
- sbr: Replace libexif with gexiv2
- apr: Replace libexif with gexiv2
- wayland: Fix popup position of DnD menu
- Fix use-after-free in thunar_renamer_dialog_response (#1458)
- Fix use-after-free on exit with search tabs open (#1593)
- Close rename dialog if file renamed outside dialog (#1323)
- Fix leaks in thunar_uca_provider_get_file_menu_items
- Fix ThunarFile leaks in location-buttons (#573)
- Fix GtkImageMenuItem leaks with UCA submenus
- Fix ThunarxMenuItem leaks when finalizing ThunarxMenu
- Rework VirtualBox DnD detection (#113)

New Features:
- Add menu action to paste links (#34)
- New directory specific setting: "sort-folder-first" (#1580)
- Thunar transfer job - count items in subfolders

Maintenance:
- Rename "thunar_file_destroy" to "thunar_file_signal_destroy"
- Remove duplicated signal connect
- Add .git-blame-ignore-revs file
- Remove outdated code
- Make use of 'startup ID' when available
- Use XfceNotebook from libxfce4ui (#1562)

Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Arabic, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan,
  Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English
  (United Kingdom), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician,
  Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Interlingue,
  Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish,
  Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Serbian, Slovak,
  Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese


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