ANNOUNCE: thunar 4.21.1 released

Alexander Schwinn alexxcons at xfce.org
Fri May 16 09:07:42 CEST 2025


thunar 4.21.1 is now available for download from
  
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.1.tar.xz
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.1.tar.xz?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.1.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 4.21.1
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]

Development release on the master branch.

Changelog:

Bugfixes:
- search: Avoid saving last view type when closing tab
- search: Fix Catfish button visibility
- search: Fix critical when closing tabs
- search: Fix Back/Forward button functionality
- Do not recursively delete dirs in unwritable PWD
- Always warn user before permanent deleting files
- Fix string leaks when UCAs use a submenu
- Fix a potential leak in thunar_action_manager_append_custom_actions
- Fix leaks with ThunarMenuX objects
- Fix thunarx_menu_get_items leak when multiple UCAs share a submenu
- Fix leak in thunar_location_entry_emit_edit_done (#1622)
- Avoid unneccessary refresh of the view
- Fix refresh on row-changed in list view (#1584)
- Use default zoom level if no dir specific zoom level is set (#1104)
- Fix VirtualBox DnD detection (#113)
- Fix initiating location edit while in search mode (#1577)
- Fix location bar wrongly leaving search mode (#1577)
- Add missing NULL check before unref call
- meson-build: Use configure_file() to generate GNU visibility files
- Fix popup position of DnD menu
- UCA: Correct PWD for submenu folder items (#1615)
- Allow DnD from host to guest VM (#113)
- wayland: Fix popup menu not closing (#1592)
- Check if file exists before opening its location (#1257)
- Trust launchers after icon modification
- Prevent popups on wrong window (#1591)
- meson-build: Add polkit option
- meson-build: Fix manpage install dir
- Prevent criticals when switching current view (#1344)
- Fix crash when destroying folder in list view (#1330) (#1568)

Maintenance:
- Decouple trash and unlinking interfaces
- Refactor thunar_application_unlink_files
- Rework thunar_window_delete
- Limit maximum number of file watches (#1552)
- Move "folder first" setting into "arrange items" menu (#967)
- Use ThunarZoomLevel enum instead of gint
- search: Clean up signal handling
- Translations: Allow to swap string arguments (#1609)
- Tweak "Search for" string
- search: Add space at end of prefix outside translation
- Rename search related variables
- Move focus grab in thunar_window_set_current_directory
- Clean up thunar_window_selection_changed
- Rename thunar_file_get_item_count
- Remove outdated "Hacking" document
- Remove outdated xmi UML diagrams

New Features:
- search: Exit search mode with Back button (#786)
- search: Restart search when pressing Enter
- Add possibility to set custom file icons
- Add ability to stop a search (#1373)
- twp: Add support for mime types 'jxl', 'avif', and 'webp'

Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque,
  Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese
  (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern
  Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Esperanto,
  Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew,
  Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese,
  Kazakh, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan
  (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
  Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai,
  Turkish, Uyghur, Venetian, Vietnamese


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