Enhancements
- Improved extension-checking performance during scan
- Improved icon-loading behavior to skip downloads for offline files
- Improved window flashing using non-interactive command line options
- Improved numeric display precision for percentages and sizes
- Improved security by preventing DLL sideloading
- Improved file select and document icons
- Improved Simplified Chinese translation
- Improved treemap rendering on low color depth Remote Desktop
Bug Fixes
- Corrected compression options not showing for a folder-based scan
- Corrected potential crash in file watcher component
- Corrected potential copy/paste path handling in the Select Drives dialog
- Corrected potential COM initialization to occur on the UI thread
- Corrected potential hang for unresponsive drive mappings
Enhancements
- Improved gear, pause, filter, and refresh icon rendering
- Improved icons lookups on latent networks
- Improved treemap rendering performance
Bug Fixes
- Corrected some glyphs not rendering on Windows 7
- Corrected potential compressed size detection issue
- Corrected potential reparse point enumeration issues
- Corrected file-based exclusions context menu option
- Corrected potential race condition during icon rendering
- Corrected minor handle leak in drive selection dialog
- Corrected potential crash when excluding reserved files
- Corrected Windows Store manifest generation issues
- Addressed folders not appearing in search results
Enhancements
- Improved treemap navigation, zooming, and context-menu behavior
- Improved FileTreeView keyboard navigation and scroll-to-selection behavior
- Improved selection handling when sorting file-tree results
- Improved Select Drives dialog layout and local-drive display
- Added double-click scan behavior in the Select Drives dialog
- Added include filters and file age filtering
- Added filter exclusion context-menu actions
- Added pruning for previous-folder history
- Added larger toolbar icon support and runtime-generated toolbar icons
- Added Settings button to toolbar
- Improved toolbar rendering with Unicode glyph support
- Added selectable file hash algorithms
- Increased size and percentage display precision
- Changed subtree percentage display to size proportion terminology
- Added JSON support for saving/loading scan results and duplicate lists
- Expanded cleanup and system-tool handling
- Improved localization resources and multiple language updates
- Added installer option to add WinDirStat to the system PATH, disabled by default
- Removed OLE dependency to allow execution on Server Core
- Various performance, memory, and internal refactoring improvements
Bug Fixes
- Corrected custom folder icon resolution failures
- Corrected extension column autosizing issues
- Corrected extension calculations after refresh
- Correct legacy uninstall registry key removal
- Addressed selection regressions in owner-data tree/list handling
- Corrected drive handling when volume names or trailing slashes are missing
- Corrected cloud-duplication-detection warning behavior
- Corrected clipboard memory handling
Miscellaneous
- Added Microsoft Store MSIX packaging support
- Added Chocolatey release publishing automation
- Microsoft Windows Server Core now supported
- Microsoft Windows 7 supported again
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 supported again
- Command line options for saving and loading have changed (see Wiki)
Enhancements
- Added dark mode
- Added direct NTFS MFT scanning option
- Added hardlink tracking
- Added progress dialogs for long-running operations
- Added ability to search scan results
- Added ability to auto-search from extensions menu
- Added ability to move files
- Added ability to compute and display file hashes
- Added ability to save duplicate files to CSV file
- Added elevation eligibility detection and prompting
- Added new keyboard shortcuts
- Added previous folder tracking history
- Added option to launch programs and features applet
- Added option to optimize virtual hard disk files
- Added command line scanning options
- Added dism analyze option
- Added option to toggle Explorer context menu within application
- Added automatic copying of drive mapping when launched as admin
- Enhanced DPI awareness
- Changed sizes to use binary prefixes
- Changed treemap ability to show logical or physical sizes
- Changed file scan output to be sorted by path
- Changed column autosize to respect header width
- Changed volume display to show free, total, and percentages
- Changed compression option to recurse directories
- Changed CSV file output to be sorted by path
- Improved command-line parsing for target directory
- Improved delete and empty folder interface behaviors
- Improved various translations
- Added Swedish translation
- Added Japanese translation
- Added Turkish translation
- Various performance enhancements
Bug Fixes
- Corrected icon caching issues that could result in freezing
- Corrected exclusion case sensitivity selection for filtering
- Corrected extension colorization not working on file load
- Corrected highlight offset when not zoomed
- Corrected Explorer selection in treemap view
- Corrected potential crash when exiting program
- Corrected last-sibling node rendering
- Various other minor bug fixes
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Windows 7 no longer supported
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 no longer supported
- ARM 32-Bit builds no longer supported
- CSV files created with previous versions will not be loadable
- Traditional Chinese language support (thanks @harryytm)
- Korean languages updates (thanks @VenusGirl)
- Gray-out user defined submenu if none are present
- Basic support for scanning \\?\Volume{GUID} formatted paths
- Fallback deletion for hiberfil.sys
- Various performance enhancements
- Corrected hash entry inconsistencies in duplicate viewer
- Corrected tallying of physical sizes in duplicate viewer
- Corrected treemap zoomed view hit detection and highlighting
- Corrected treemap custom grid color not being applied
- Added "Largest Files" tab to the interface
- Increased the number of colorized extensions in TreeMap
- Added file extension information to duplicate list
- Numerous duplicate detection performance improvements
- Performance improvements when refreshing selected items
- Added Korean language support (thanks @VenusGirl)
- Added cleanup option to disable hibernate (hiberfil.sys)
- Added additional metadata to MSI installer
- Modified chocolatey installer to allow internalization
- Allow production / beta to update each other
- Improved legacy installer cleanup logic
- Fixed missing overlays on some icons (e.g. .lnk files)
- Right-aligned numerical data in columns
- Allow WinDirStat.exe to accept folder as command line argument
- Addressed numerous potential hanging / crashing scenarios
- Addressed copy / paste not always working
- Addressed hiding toolbar and status bar setting persistence
- Ability to exclude folders by path
- Ability to exclude files by name
- Ability to exclude files by minimum file size
- Scans now stop quicker when requested during duplicate scan
- Slightly reduced executable size
- Better Norwegian translations (thanks @TilKenneth)
- Improved keyboard navigation on the file deletion dialog box
- Cleanup option to empty folder
- Improved file deletion progress indicator
- Display free space percentage next to volume label
- Other translations improvements (thanks @EricPossato, @tferrerm)
- Addressed not being able to scan CSC directory
- Addressed not being to scan SUBST'd drives
- Addressed save/load files on Windows Server 2016 not working
- Addressed hover over treemap not showing filename properly
- Addressed not being able to scan in some Acronis folders
- Added status pane space usage summation for selected items
- Added attribute display character for sparse file (Z)
- Addressed MSI installer not cleaning up old version properly
- Addressed potential hang when rendering tree icons
- Addressed behavior when calculating size for docker images
- Addressed size format not displaying after setting change
- Addressed Norwegian language loading Dutch language
- Addressed Portuguese mistranslation (thanks @PedroBittarBarao)
- Addressed various typos in code comments (thanks @NathanBaulch)
- Multiple item selection
- Scanning performance enhancements
- Duplicate file finder based on file hashes
- Native 64-bit build now available
- Native ARM build now available
- Switched to MSI-based installer
- Menu shortcuts for popular native cleanup utilities
- Portable settings mode using WinDirStat.ini file
- Export scan results to CSV file
- Compress files using transparent compression capabilities
- Context menu option to display full Explorer context menu
- Context menu option to launch PowerShell
- Right-click explorer menu
- Toolbar icons enhanced
- Long file names are now supported
- Option to relaunch with elevated credentials
- Utilize backup / restore privileges to scan inaccessible files
- Pacman drawing enhancements
- Resolution scaling improvements
- Reparse point scanning exclusions
- Per-drive scanning multithreading
- Column to display file owner
- Column to distinguish logical versus physical allocation
- Built-in alternate languages translations
- Shell menu entry (legacy menu only)
- Numerous bug fixes
- Non-default settings from 1.x will have to be set again
- Removed Files pseudo folder
- Removed option to email owner
- Removed help files