aur/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All the changes made to runa are documented here.

[0.8.0] - 2026-02-22

Tabs added to runa. Better workflow and easier directory overview with up to 9 tabs.

Added:

• Tabs: Added the ability to add tabs and manage a multi-tab workflow.
• Tab Status Bar: Customizable status bar via tab.line_format.
• Widget Scrolling: Added widget scrolling to the delete, move action, and key-bind help widgets.
• Linux musl binaries: Added Linux binaries for musl.

Breaking Changes:

• Due to the new scroll feature for widgets, there has been a change in the default key bindings for runa.
• alternate_delete is now by default mapped to <m-d> or alt+d.
• clear_clipboard is now by default mapped to <f2>.

Changed:

• Clipboard: To enable cross-tab clipboard support, moved clipboard from ActionContext into the new central RunaRoot struct.
• Workers: Refactored worker ownership from AppState into the central RunaRoot struct.

Fixed

• Nav IO worker: Fixed issues caused by unbounded channel by switching to bounded(1).
• Border Shapes: Fixed an issue where the border shape would reset to "squared" on root and on previews.

Internal:

• RunaRoot: Added a central struct which holds Clipboard, AppContainer and Workers. Due to tabs being added, these data structures needed to be managed out of AppState.
• AppContainer: Added a internal container struct to manage and hold the new TabManager for tabs mode and a boxed AppState for single (no-tab) mode.
• CI: Improved CI workflow to check more build variants and include additional checks like clippy, fmt and audit.
• CI: Added cross to the CI and release workflows for Linux targets.
• Performance: Cached entry.path in core::fm::browse_dir to remove redundant calls whenever a directory has symlinks.

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[0.7.0] - 2026-02-06

Major responsiveness and UX improvements, including a redesigned worker thread model, smarter preview/parent handling, expanded keybinding support, and new UI widgets.

Added:

• Worker threads: runa runs on a 6 (+1 UI thread) worker thread engine now for better responsiveness. Added preview_io and parent_io worker thread by splitting up the original io_worker.
• Keybind help: A new overlay widget to showcase all the mapped keybindings defined in runa.toml. Triggered by ?.
• go_to_bottom: Added a new quick keybind to go to the last entry of a directory. Mapped to shift+g (G) by default.
• WidgetTheme: Added [WidgetTheme].label and .value coloring for section values of widgets. (Label: Name, Size; Value: runa.toml, 10KB)
• Wider keybind support: Added a much wider support for different ways of defining keybinds. Example: "<c-d>", "Ctrl+d", ctrl+d, <space>, etc.
• Status line: Added a better informative status line (Header and or Footer) to display task counts that are running, clipboard count, marker count, filter and entry_count. Each section can be set to header or footer.
• Clear clipboard: Added a new keybind to clear all the current copied entries (by default <c-u>).
• Clear all: Added a new keybind to clear all (the markers, the filter, the clipboard) (by default <c-l>).

Breaking Changes

• Due to [display.status] now also storing the entry_count value, you will need to move the old entry_count into [display.status]:

• Before:

  [display]
  entry_count = "footer"
  

• Now:

  [display.status]
  entry_count = "footer"
  

Fixed:

• Stale preview content: Fixed edge-case that incorrectly updates preview content in bigger directories.
• Stale parent pane: Fixed incorrectly update of parent pane content in very fast directory switching.
• Auto-Complete: Now correctly auto-completes the correct written path instead of the first entry with the written entry.

Changed:

• Worker: Set parent_io, preview_io and preview_file to bounded(1) worker channel and removed coalescing in the start_io_worker and in start_preview.
• AppState::tick(): Refactored DirectoryLoaded worker response handling to use independent condition checks instead of an else-if chain, allowing nav, preview and parent updates to be evaluated separately.
• Prefix key: Possible to close prefix menu with esc now.
• Config macros: Added getter macro to config/input and reworked override_if_changed (now override_themes)

Internal:

• Performance:
  • Caching of preview lines in app/preview.rs instead of redrawing preview lines on every single preview change.
  • Made always_show in core/formatter being optional to not use the hashset when always_show is empty.
  • Added a should_request check in request_parent_content to check if entries of a path is already cached in ParentState instead of sending a new worker request everytime.
• Tests: Added new core/worker and core/formatter tests.
• Cargo update: Updated all runa dependencies to latest versions.

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[0.6.2] - 2026-02-02

Patch to input mode

Fixed

• Input mode: New g prefix keybind now correctly ignores normal input when typing.

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[0.6.1] - 2026-02-01

Patch to keymap

Fixed

• Keymap: Prefix actions (e.g., g + h for "Go to home") no longer overwrite or conflict with single-key actions (h, p, etc.) after removing their insertion into the main keymap. Now you can use the same keys both for navigation and for prefix commands.

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[0.6.0] - 2026-02-01

New overlay and keybindings for easier navigation of directories and entries.

Added

• g prefix navigation: Implemented the "g" prefix to quickly jump to the first selection (go_to_top), to the home (go_to_home) or a specific path (go_to_path).
• go_to_path function: Added the ability to jump to a specific path using fd-powered auto-complete.
• Go To Help overlay: Introduced a smart overlay widget that visualizes available "g" prefix navigation options.
• Configurable go_to bindings: go_to_top, go_to_path, go_to_home actions in [keys] config; these are triggered by the "g" prefix.
• Cycling directory autocomplete: Added stateful, cycling directory autocomplete with Tab in path entry prompts, allowing to cycle and select directory completions from the current input.

Fixed

• Empty parent content: Fixed parent pane being blank when starting runa in a empty directory.
• Display layout: Fixed [display.layout] being forced to always include all the layout options keys.
• Broken previews: Fixed edge case where previews of library/object files (.a) could cause the UI to break.

Changed

• AUR PKGBUILD: Moved the PKGBUILD and the aur.yml action workflow into a dedicated runa-packaging.
• Keymap refactor: Separated binding helpers and parse_key for improved maintainability and clarity.

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[0.5.13] - 2026-01-30

Small packaging update.

Added

• Release assets: Added Windows ARM64 (aarch64) binary to release archives.
• CLI help: Added --version, -v to cli --help message.

Changed

• Artifact structure and release workflow: Release archives now always include a top-level folder. Assets include full documentation and license files.
• Release process: All release tags from this version onward are signed
• Branding: Updated terminology to describe runa as a file manager rather than a file browser (no functional changes).

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[0.5.12] - 2026-01-29

Added

• exe_color: Added executable coloring to Windows.

Fixed

• File preview: Correctly update file previews after opening or editing a file and closing the editor.
• fd and bat checks: Fixed cached checks for bat and fd to now correctly apply the actually found binary instead of re-checking.
• Preview selection: Selection highlight now synchronizes exactly with directory/file preview changes.

Changed

• instant_preview: Now set to true by default.
• Preview debounce: Reduced debounce interval from 75ms to 50ms for a snappier preview.

Internal

• Preview directory: Removed legacy directory preview function that was never used by internal preview since the worker threads update.

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[0.5.11] - 2026-01-25

Patch and fixes to copy logic.

Added

• Icons: Added more nerd font icon variants to special folders and files.

Fixed

• Copy: Hardened copy logic to correctly check paths before attempting a copy action
• Folders: No longer create a destination folder if the copy/move action fails due to a permission error or other failure. This prevents creation of empty or partially-created directories on failed actions.
• Move: Input of move action now accepts ~ as a valid path to the home directory.

Changed

• Icons: Changed the default file nerd font icon from \uf0f6 to \uf15b
• Initial CLI: Changed initial CLI message after running runa for the first time and no runa.toml exists.

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[0.5.8], [0.5.9], [0.5.10] - void

Skipped releases:
Versions v0.5.8, v0.5.9, and v0.5.10 were not published due to release process issues related to enabling immutable releases on GitHub. No assets or release notes exist for these versions.

All planned changes and fixes from 0.5.8 are included in v0.5.11.

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[0.5.7] - 2026-01-24

Improved symlink support, improvements to theming and performance optimizations.
Note: Some settings in your runa.toml config must now be placed under a [general] section (see Breaking Changes).

Added

• show_symlink: Symlinks can be toggled now.
• Symlink coloring: Added coloring for symlinks beyond just the symlink target coloring.
• exe_color: Added coloring for executables/binaries on unix.
• entry_count: Count of the entries in the current directory. Choose between: "footer", "header" or "none", to choose where to show the entry count or to disable it.
• Symlink tracking: Added symlink logic to indicate if links are broken or not.

Breaking Changes

• [general] section in runa.toml: Wrapped the general settings like dirs_first, show_hidden, etc., to [general].
  If runa feels "reset" after the update, ensure your settings are under the new [general] header..

• Before:

  dirs_first = true
  show_hidden = true
  move_to_trash = true
  

• Now:

  [general]
  dirs_first = true
  show_hidden = true
  move_to_trash = true
  

Changed

• Symlink sorting: Symlinks now are correctly sorted.
• bat preview method: Made wrap = false to default.
• MAX_PREVIEW_SIZE: Set the maximum file size for previews to 5gb.
  Note: Internal preview reads only pane-visible lines, so RAM usage remains minimal regardless of file size. The limit is a precaution against processing excessively large files.

Internal

• Performance: filter_entries optimized to instead check ASCII stack buffer AND fallback to unicode if file entries are non ascii.
• Performance: display_path is now cached in NavState to not create a new path string everytime.
• Performance: Removed readable_path to instead use clean_display_path for a optimized path string.
• Performance: Cache symlink status in FileEntry to avoid recalculating symlink flags during UI rendering.

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[0.5.6] - 2026-01-21

Performance improvements and polish.
Overall improvement of error handling.

Added

• alternate_delete: Keybind to switch between moving files to trash and permanently deleting files. (#29)

Fixed

• No filter result flicker: Fixed a flicker showing [No results for this filter] when navigating in and out of a filtered dir. (1ab1b05)
• Unfiltered content flash: Fixed a very subtle stale content update when moving out of a filtered dir. (7ce0469)
• Filter selection: Fixed filter removing the selection index after moving out of a filtered entry. (3d82a31)

Changed

• Visibility refactor: Set function visibility to crate only. (#29)
• fd check: Hardened how runa checks for fd and handles errors if not available. (ea7d9cb)
• FileOperation::Copy: Improved copy error handling. (ac0e7ed)
• open_in_editor: Hardened open in editor logic to catch false argument errors. (#29)
• handle_go_into_dir: Hardened handler to catch recursive loop errors via circular links. (15a258c)
• handle_move: Hardened move handler to catch potential moving of parent dir into subdir logic error. (0292897)

Internal

• Performance: Improved performance of preview_with_bat. (ea7d9cb)
• Performance: Removed lowercase_name field from FileEntry resulting in less allocations. (7c591f9)
• Performance: Changed sort_entries to by sort_by_chached_key instead of simple sort_by. (0d1a8c9)
• Performance: Optimized render_root_and_header by reducing string allocations. (fea03f3)
• Performance: Optimized ui/icons lowercase string checks. (0d1a8c9)
• Performance: Optimized worker threads by removing redundant string conversions during message handling.
• Inline attributes: Added inline attributes to getter functions. (#29)
• Tests: Added core/fm and app/state integration tests. (#29)

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[0.5.5] - 2026-01-19

Quick patch to fix Cargo.toml issue

Fixed

• Cargo.toml: removed invalid documentation field to fix publish issues.
• Pinned exact versions of dependencies to ensure reproducible builds:
  • crossbeam-channel = "0.5.15"
  • chrono = "0.4.43"

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[0.5.4] - 2026-01-19

Added

• Move function: New move function, by default mapped to m, moves files to a directory via input. (#25)
• Move widget auto-complete: New move function input has auto-complete, to make it easier to find paths to move into. (#25)
• Dialog separators: Added horizontal separators to Delete, Move and Find widgets/dialogs, to visually separate input from the rest of the widget.
• Move to trash: Toggle to enable files to be moved to trash instead of permanent deletion.
• CLI path start: Added a way to start runa at a different path via CLI args.

Fixed

• Preview width truncation: Now correctly requests a initial preview based on the actual pane width of the preview pane

Changed

• Layout metrics debounce for preview: Added a debounce for layout metrics changes, resulting in fewer preview requests for changing the terminal size.
• Navigation hardening: Navigation is now hardened to correctly stop navigation when a directory is permission denied.
• Integration tests: Moved integration tests to their specific modules instead of a central tests/ directory.

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[0.5.3] - 2026-01-17

Quick fix for selection entry flicker and "[Empty]" flicker on terminals like Windows Terminal.

Fixed

• Selection flicker: The set_path function no longer resets the selection index to 0 or clears the entries prematurely.
  This eliminates rapid flickering of the selection highlight and the [Empty] label when navigating directories, especially on Windows terminals.

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[0.5.2] - 2026-01-16

File entry performance improvements. runa should now feel much smoother in larger directories.

Added

• New Theme presets: Added more theme presets. (#23)
• Selection mode: Added a new toggle to disable or enable the selection coloring modes for the parent and or the preview pane (#24)

Changed

• FileEntry refactor: Refactored FileEntry and core/fm for substantial performance improvements (#21)
• UI module refactor: Improved UI modules for better maintainability (#20)
• Theming: Changed how parent and preview panes now use selection and entry theme fields in ui/render as overrides instead (#20)

Internal

• runa is now using dual-license with MIT OR Apache-2.0

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[0.5.1] - 2026-01-11

Added

• bat integration: Added bat as an preview option to the internal preview. Can be set in runa.toml under [display.preview_options]
• Clear Markers/Filters: Added a clear_filters and clear_markers keybind option to clear either.
• Icons: Added optional nerd font icons. Is desabled by default.
• Dynamic find widget: Made the find widget more customizable by adding a find_visible_results option.

Fixed

• Parent pane: Fixed the parent pane stale content update and optimized the parent directory selection being reset and redrawn after every directory change.
• Directory Marker: Fixed the dir_marker option to toggle the / for all panes.
• Internal defaults: All theme options now correctly respect the internal defaults. Writing "default" now correctly applies internal default.

Breaking Changes

• Dialog Size Configuration (DialogSize::Custom) now uses cells, not percentages:
  • All custom dialog size values specified as arrays (e.g. size = [70, 20]) are now interpreted as exact cell (column/row) counts instead of percentages.
  • Before: size = [70, 20] meant 70% width and 20% height of the terminal area.
  • Now: size = [70, 20] means 70 columns wide and 20 rows tall.
  • Presets like size = "small" remain percentage-based.
  • If you had custom dialog sizes or positions configured previously, please review your runa.toml and update values for your preferred appearance.

Changed

• fd exclusions: Switched to using a central exclusion map for fd searches. Added multiple default directories (e.g., .git, node_modules, target, venv, etc.) to reduce noise and improve relevance when searching. This also makes it easier to maintain and update the exclusion list.

Internal

• Core refactor: Moved formatter.rs from utils/ to core/, since formatter now handles all core formatting logic of multiple functions.
• Renamed file_manager.rs: file_manager.rs is renamed to rm.rs to keep it more simple :)
• Renamed find: find.rs is renamed to proc.rs since it now handles all subprocesses spawned by runa.

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[0.5.0] - 2026-01-08

UI related additions and more.

Added

• Marker coloring: Added a new clipboard config option to color the yanked and selected entries with a different marker color. Now its easier to indicate which entry was yanked.
• Pane markers: Added markers to panes. Now persistent markers will be shown/rendered in each preview and parent pane.
• Toggle Marker jump: Added toggle_marker_jump configuration option to theme.display to toggle if multiselect should jump to the first entry when the selection is at the last entry.
• Instant Preview: Added instant_preview configuration option to toggle between instant preview (requesting previews on every selection change) and pending previews. Off by default.
• Empty filter: Added a No results for this filter message when a filter applied shows no entries.

Breaking Changes

• The keys selection_fg / selection_bg from [theme.preview] / [theme.parent] are now replaced by selection.fg / selection.bg or [theme.preview.selection] / [theme.parent.selection]
  • New keys:

  [theme.preview]
  fg = "default"
  bg = "default"
  selection.fg = "default"
  selection.bg = "default"
  
  ## Sub tables:
  
  [theme.preview.selection]
  fg = "default"
  bg = "default"
  

• If you set the selection colors for each pane, then these changes are breaking changes for you config.

Fixed

• Directory copy: Fixed directories being unable to be copied.
• Filter preview update: Fixed preview data not being cleared when a filter shows no entries.
• Config defaults: RawConfig now explicitly sets default values for all fields, ensuring core options like dirs_first and show_hidden are enabled when configuration is omitted.

Internal

• Find: Optimization for the find feature. Now lists the results faster.
• Cargo update: Dependencies updated to patch crates.
• Worker thread API: Worker thread spawnm functions are now private functions since worker threads are now spawned through Workers struct.
• Preview constants: Moved preview byte size and line count checks to the top of core/workers.rs for better clarity and maintainability.

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[0.4.0] - 2026-01-06

New feature update: The fuzzy finder.

Added

• Find function: Added a new (fuzzy) find function to quickly search your directories and files.
  • Note: This feature optionally leverages the external tool fd for high-performance recursive traversal.
• Scrollable find results: Added a scroll able find result list to the new find function to scroll through the results in the widget.
• Persistent filters: Made filters persist for each directory it is applied to.
• Configurable maximum find results: Added a new configuration to change the internal defaults for the new find function. (Internal default is 2000).
• Internal themes: Added internal themes which can be set in the runa.toml config.

Fixed

• Parent pane: Fixed a stale parent content request after initial startup of runa.
• Pane Requests: Improved ID handling for pane requests, making request IDs more robust and reliable.

Internal

• Code file structure: Refactored modules and sub-modules for better maintainability. In example: Moved core runa modules, like file_manager, worker, etc. into core.
• Worker thread separation: Separated worker threads to individual lines for better performance. FileOp, Nav, Find and IO have each their own worker now.
• External binary detection: Integrated which for graceful detection of the fd search backend, providing user notifications if the tool is missing.
• Tests: Added new find related tests.

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[0.3.10] - 2025-12-30

Quick configuration generation patch when runa.toml is generated with rn --init-full

Fixed

• Initial configuration: Fixed full runa.toml initial config generation made by cli arg rn --init-full. Now generates the correct configuration and honors the internal defaults.

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[0.3.9] - 2025-12-30

Added

• Path string: Display ~ for the home directory at the top of the TUI instead of the full absolute path.

Changed

• Internal default colors: Changed internal default colors of border, selection, titles and directory. show_hidden: Enabled show_hidden by default and is set to enabled internally.
• Parent Pane: Removed root indicator / in the parent pane, since path_str handles that in ui.rs.

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Changed

[0.3.8] - 2025-12-30

Quick integration test patch for a more robust testing of runa with cargo test.

Internal

Testing: Improved error handling and sandboxing of nav_tests, utils_tests, worker_tests, and ui_tests

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[0.3.7] - 2025-12-30

Quick patch to fix the cli message to show the correct cli args.

Fixed

• CLI message: Fixed cli initial message to correctly show the cli args. --init-minimal to --init-full
• Formatter Fixed formatter.rs warning showing unused import for unix in format_attributes.

Changed

• Widget Size Default: Adjusted the default for dialog widgets to DialogSize::Small.

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[0.3.6] - 2025-12-30

Added

• Overlay widgets: Added support for overlay widgets to dynamically toggle between widgets. Implemented the ShowInfo overlay as the first one.
• ShowInfo: Implemented the new showinfo overlay for file information.
• Toggle Marker Advance: Improved marker toggle logic. Now jumps to the next entry to make marking more seamless and easier.
• Border shape: Added border shapes to configuration. "square", "rounded" or "double".
• Status line configuration: Added status line configuration options.

Changed

• Refactored dialog position logic for all widgets: Dialogs that use TopLeft, TopRight, or Custom() now appear a few rows lower in unified border mode so they never cover status or title lines

Fixed

• Input fields: Input widgets now dynamically crop/scroll horizontally and keep the widget size during terminal resize.

Internal

• Theme/Config Consistency: Dialog style, position, and size are now fully driven from theme/configuration.
• New dialog_position_unified and adjusted_dialog_position helpers to help with the widget drawing modes for each border mode.
• Dependencies: Added humansize and chrono crates for ShowInfo overlay widget.

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[0.3.5] - 2025-12-28

Fixed

• Preview Pane: Resolved a race condition that caused a brief flash of old directory entries when rapidly navigating between folders immediately after startup.

Internal

• Allocation Optimization: Optimized tick() in app.rs to pre-calculate the selected path, reducing the times PathBuf and string joins are done during the tick loop.

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[0.3.4] - 2025-12-28

Added

• Input polish: Added cursor movement within input fields.
• File collision: Added get_unused_path to utils.rs. It now becomes test_1.txt instead of colliding.

Fixed

• Nav persistence: The cursor now follows the file name when filtering. No more jumping back to the top when you type.

Internal

• Hardened NavState: Threw 1 million iterations at the navigation math. It’s rock solid now.
• Refactoring: Renamed popup to dialog across codebase for better naming. (Just feels better).
• Testing: Added a bunch more of unit tests.
• Documentation: Added some documentation of code and modules. Still working on more...

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[0.3.3] - 2025-12-26

Internal

• Dependency update: Updated unicode-width from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2

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[0.3.2] - 2025-12-26

Internal

• Terminal backend update: Updated ratatui from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0

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[0.3.1] - 2025-12-26

Changed

• README image scaling: Fixed image sizing so screenshots render correctly for github and crates.io

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[0.3.0] - 2025-12-26

The first release under the name of runa :D This is a big one. runa is now officialy a file browser. v0.3.0 is still the beginning, there will be more good things to come...

Added

• File actions: Create files, create directories, copy (yank) and paste files/directories, delete files/directories, rename files/directories
• Filtering: Filter through the current directory to only select what you need.
• Customizable widgets: Customize all the popup widgets, Customize the Multiselect marker, Customize the positions of the widgets, Customize the coloring of the widgets.
• Multiselect: Select and act on multiple files at once.
• Customizable keybindings for file actions: Improved keymapping to enable modifiers for all actions.
• Status line: See the applied filter, see the amount of files being yanked/copied
• New [theme.widgets] config section. for widget styling. Customize the entire positions and size if you desire.

Fixed

• Path info: Path info is now using correct padding.

Internal

• Tons of refactors: Added new modoules: app/actions, app/handlers to help seperate AppState logic.
• Keymapping: Removed keycode_to_str for usage of Keymap struct, that maps all the keys correctly and more efficient.
• Widget deserialization: Implemented a custom deserialization method for widgets to ease config verbosity.

And much more...

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

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[0.2.14] - 2025-12-23

Changed

• Finalized the change from runner to runa
• All project references now use runa, runa-tui and the binary rn

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[0.2.13] - 2025-12-23

Changed

• Renamed the project from runner to runa
• Crate is now published as runa-tui (previously runner-tui)
• Deprecated the runner-tui crate on crates.io; please use runa-tui for new installations

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[0.2.12] - 2025-12-23

Added

• Empty Directories indicator: Now shows [Empty] when a directory is empty, in the main and preview pane.

Fixed

• Entry coloring: Fixed/Added a entry coloring fallback to [theme.entry] instead of internal default.

[v0.2.11] - 2025-12-22

Changed

• Default config: Changed the --init config to generate a default runa signature theme instead of internal defaults. Note: This is the first of many themes.

Fixed

• UI Stability: Hardened the padding logic with a match guard to prevent invalid or negative spacing values.

[v0.2.10] - 2025-12-22

Fixed

• Selection background and foreground colors for each pane now renders correctly.
• Fixed a bug where the underline background in [theme.underline] would falsely overide the selection background even if false. Now correctly respects the preview_underline_color toggle.

Added

• Theme Overides: Implemented a Global-to-Local overide system, where panes can inherit global selection styles from [theme.selection] or define their own.
• Entry Padding: Added entry_padding configuration to allow customization of padding between entries and the pane edge.
• Navigation Wrapping: Navigating past the last entry now wraps back to the top.
• Expaned Theme Support: Can now use 3 digit HEX colors as well.

Changed

• Parent pane: Renamed the former Origin pane to Parent pane
• Display layout: Changed how the configuration holds the pane / ratio layouts. Now inside [display.layout]!
• Defaults: Changed the defaults of Parent (former Origin) to be enabled by default. Also the init config now comments out all the defaults except some few
• Clean configuration init: The --init command now generates a cleaner runa.toml by commentig out most internal defaults.

Internal

• Optimized "Global-to-Local" theme engine to correctly resolve color overides and inheritance, improving runtime overhead.

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[v0.2.9] - 2025-12-22

Fixed

• Fixed being unable to open a directory with a selected editor from the runa.toml config

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[v0.2.8] - 2025-12-22

Changed

• Updated Cargo release profiles in Cargo.toml for optimized builds.

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[v0.2.7] - 2025-12-22

Added

• Preview underline theming: Added [theme.underline] section to customize underline colors.
• Preview color source toggle: New preview_underline_color setting to choose between [theme.underline] or the standard [theme.selection] colors for the underline.

Changed

• Preview underline default: Enabled preview underline to be enabled by default in the runa.toml.

Internal

• UI refactor: Cleaned up the render function in ui.rs to improve readability and context.

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[v0.2.6] - 2025-12-22

Fixed

• File/Directory preview: Fixed issue where preview did not correctly render when pane sizes where inconsistent. Now using unicode-width to correctly calculate pane width.
• Pane ratios: Pane ratios are now correctly calculated and will always internally calculate to 100%, meaning its not needed to always have 100% ratio in the runa.toml config.

Added

• Preview underline: Toggle to enable a underline for the preview pane.
• Directory colors: Colors for directories are now independent of entry colors.

Internal

• Massive refactor:

  • Refactored AppState with modular app sub-modules: app/nav.rs, app/parent.rs and app/preview.rs
  • Refactored Config to make it more maintainable config/themes, config/display, config/input.
  • Separated UI functions from terminal.rs and added UI specific modules: ui.rs, ui/panes.rs, ui/widgets.rs
  • worker.rs: Ensured preview lines properly account for Unicode width and ignore control characters and tabs, preserving visual alignment in the TUI.
  • All worker responses and previews now produce strings of the exact pane_width, so TUI rendering remains stable regardless of file names or content length.

• Tests: Added formatting and worker tests

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[v0.2.5] - 2025-12-21

Fixed

• File Preview: Fixed an issue where files without extensions and with very short names (≤ 3 characters, for example ht, xy) were incorrectly shown in the preview pane.
• Preview Bleed/Race: Hardened preview logic to ensure only the freshest preview request result is ever shown, preventing bleed from stale async worker responses during very fast navigation.

Changed

• Reduced the default maximum number of previewed lines from 60 to 50 for better fit across a variety of terminal sizes. (Will make it configurable in following releases)
• Increased tick debounce from 15 to 75 milliseconds to reduce excessive preview requests during very fast navigation.

Internal

• Improved worker-response by relying on request IDs to always honor the latest directory or preview pane update, eliminating edge cases with rapid async requests.
• Clarified and strengthened file preview and worker-response logic, including improved state handling and fewer UI edge case bugs.

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[v0.2.4] - 2025-12-20

Changed

• Switched always_show config to use HashSet<OsString> for much faster and efficient lookups.
• Set default value of always_show to empty for a saner default config.

Internal

• Refactored config module for better maintainability: introduced RawConfig for deserialization, and Config for runtime usage.

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What's New in v0.2.1 and v0.2.2

UI improvements

• Improved pane customization by adding pane specific selection cache.
• Custom Path Styling (v0.2.2): Addded a dedicated theme.path configuration to customize the path at the top of the UI.
• Pane-Specific Selections (v0.2.2): Added selection foreground and background colors for each pane for more customization.

Performance

• Switched to crossbeam-channel for better thread sync.
• Performance improvements by reducing event_loop string creation.
• Optimized always_show and other flags by using Atomics.
• Migrated text rendering to use Line and Span for better performance and future-proofing.

Fixes

• Fixed preview sorting issue. Now shows the directories in the correct oder.