A new branch of the two-panel file manager Double Commander 1.2 has been released, offering compatibility with Total Commander plugins. The quality level of the 1.2 branch is currently in beta stage. This release comes after the 1.1.x branch, which had the beta flag replaced by “gamma” in release 1.1.12, 7 months after 1.1.0. The file manager offers three user interface options based on GTK2, Qt5, and Qt6. The code is written in Pascal and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Builds are available for Linux (AppImage, rpm, deb), FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS, and can be accessed here.
Double Commander includes features such as performing operations in the background, support for renaming groups of files by mask, a tab-based interface, two-panel mode with vertical or horizontal panel placement, a built-in text editor with syntax highlighting, working with archives as virtual directories, advanced search tools, customizable panels, support for all Total Commander plugin formats, compatibility with plugins on the Windows platform, and a file operations logging function.
Some of the basic changes in version 1.2.0 include the conversion of the password storage format in the pwd.ini file to use the Argon2 algorithm, the addition of a new GIF image viewing engine, implementation of syntax highlighting for the YAML format, and support for the Brotli compression algorithm and .BR and .TAR.BR archives.