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After many months of development and many months in beta, I’m pleased to announce the release of the file manager Ant Commander Pro 4.0.

This is a major refactoring of Ant Commander, so here are only the main changes:

• Based on a new application framework
  • Signed and notarized .dmg file for Mac OS X
  • Install via Homebrew
  • Signed executable than include the Java runtime
  • New about dialog with more information (changes, licenses, system info, …)
  • More skins, including a few dark themes
  • Possibility to zoom the UI
  • Window always on top and translucent
  • Icons support HiDPI screens
• File operations
  • Moved file operations from Apache Ant tasks to be done in Java via Apache Commons VFS API
  • Migrated from Apache Commons VFS 1 to 2.10.0-SNAPSHOT
  • Improved showing file operation(s) progress
  • Detect file conflict before executing file operation
  • Many new file operations
    • Create multiple directories
    • Duplicate file multiple times by number or by list
    • Categorize/Classify files. Move file to subdirectories based on file date or pattern
    • File statistics (size, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, CRC32)
    • Verify file checksum
    • Copy selected panel image to clipboard
    • New file from clipboard
    • New file from template
    • Open location with OS default file manager
    • Split file
    • Combine files
    • Rename extension
    • Multiple files rename (find/replace, regular expression, use file date/time, truncate, counter, change case, remove diacritics)
    • Touch files (set last modified time to now)
    • Change date and time of selected files (last modified attribute)
    • Find duplicates in directories
    • Compare directories for duplicated files
    • Diff directories
    • Git add
    • Git ignore
    • Change last modified time of file to creation time
    • Unify files timestamp to most or least recent
    • Empty file content
• New Panels
  • New image viewer with mouse wheel zoom, rotate, auto rotate, flip, keep zoom, copy image to clipboard based on https://www.japplis.com/decoration/
  • New text editor with show line numbers, line wrap, show whitespace, clickable links,
    auto detect encoding, advanced find/replace, spell checking, open file in project.
    Based on http://bobbylight.github.io/RSyntaxTextArea/
  • New Applet viewer panel, based on Applet Runner: https://www.japplis.com/applet-runner/
  • New terminal shell based on https://github.com/JetBrains/jediterm
  • New Binary viewer/editor based on https://github.com/exbin/bined-lib-java/
  • New Tree Map to view directories and files proportionally to their size
• Improved navigation
  • Breadcrumbs
  • History, copy path, paste path buttons on top of panel
  • Refactored Go To window
  • Alt+single click to go through directories
  • Navigate from the search field
  • Navigate to other file from text editor
• Improved search field
  • Search sub-directories
  • Search compressed files
  • Search by regular expression, date, time ago, file size, file type, git status, containing text or regular expression, directory name
  • Combine criteria with & (and) and | (or) (e.g. >5kb & <5days)
  • Negate criteria with ! (e.g. !.backup)
  • Enter to execute the first file, or go to directory if it’s a directory
  • Control+Enter to select first file in its directory
  • Show progress bar for long searches with a stop button
  • Alt+A to select all viewable files
• New icon and website

As you see, it’s indeed a big change, so go to https://www.antcommander.com to download and discover more with the screenshots and videos.