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Changelog ​

Release notes for nextExplorer. GitHub remains the source of truth: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/releases

Releases are listed newest to oldest.

v2.0.7 (2025-12-23) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

New Features ​

  • added option to choose color-scheme in editor Editor Theme Selection

Bugfixes ​

  • OIDC error redirects to login screen

  • teminal menu style fix

  • loading indicator style fix

  • context menu hide unrelated options based on readonly/shared path

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v2.0.6...v2.0.7

v2.0.6 (2025-12-20) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • added demo url
  • added OIDC_AUTO_CREATE_USERS option
  • share option in context menu
  • home button in mobile view

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v2.0.5...v2.0.6

v2.0.5 (2025-12-19) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • Updated login page layout, language selection now on top right
  • Added option to resize columns and sort by column header on detail view
  • Added keyboard shortcuts and confirm on close on default text editor.
  • Various UI fixes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v2.0.4...v2.0.5

v2.0.4 (2025-12-18) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • admin username/password in env ( skips setup ) AUTH_USER_EMAIL and AUTH_USER_PASSWORD
  • fix dark mode for iOS and the scrolling in mobile.
  • added system color scheme ( auto mode )
  • various UI fixes
  • fix thumbnail orientation

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v2.0.3...v2.0.4

v2.0.3 (2025-12-17) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • terminal menu color in light mode
  • add volumes features for users (USER_VOLUMES)
  • removed unnecessary chown on /app
  • dockerfile and healthcheck fixes now uses nodejs without curl dependencies
  • ellipsis fix and file thumbnail overflow fix
  • updated breadcrumb
  • show message for folder when empty
  • folder views more responsive UI fixes
  • added swedish language support
  • refactor i18n
  • date validation added for share dialog
  • fixing guest session overriding user session
  • added documentation for user volumes feature
  • added ghcr.io image

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v2.0.2...v2.0.3

v2.0.2 (2025-12-09) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • open with editor option for any file
  • download on context menu
  • docker health check
  • fix for file rename mouse select
  • responsive ellipsis on detail view
  • added avatar url from token + user claims
  • SKIP_HOME env var takes user to first volume

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v2.0.1...v2.0.2

v2.0.1 (2025-12-04) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • fix download failing from share
  • fix downloading dotfiles
  • shared files now show thumbnails
  • retouched Ui of share view

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v2.0.0...v2.0.1

v2.0.0 (2025-12-03) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

File Sharing System ​

  • Added complete file sharing functionality with share links
  • New "Shared by Me" view to manage outgoing shares
  • New "Shared with Me" view to access incoming shares
  • Share dialog with permissions management
  • Guest session support for anonymous access
  • Share link creation and management with expiration options
  • Access control for shared resources

Personal Directories ​

  • Added user personal directory feature
  • Individual user storage spaces with proper isolation

Architecture & Refactoring ​

  • Reorganized backend codebase into src/ folder structure
  • Improved code organization and modularity
  • Enhanced middleware architecture
  • New services: sharesService.js, guestSessionService.js, accessManager.js
  • Refactored authentication middleware with better access control

UI/UX Improvements ​

  • Redesigned authentication screen with better UI
  • Updated home view with new icon styling
  • Enhanced directory icon rendering
  • Improved folder view toolbar with share actions
  • Fixed image preview loading flicker
  • Added toolbar separator for better visual organization
  • Responsive design improvements
  • Better breadcrumb navigation with share context

Internationalization ​

  • Refactored translation system
  • Updated all language files (EN, DE, ES, FR, HI, PL, ZH)
  • Improved translation structure and consistency

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.2.4...v2.0.0

v1.2.4 (2025-11-26) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • i18n polish language support #108
  • Tailwind v4
  • UI theme simplified
  • drag rectangle to select items
  • faster file listing, thumbnail generation in queue, concurrent thumbnail job configuration #117
  • heif file thumbnail preview
  • fix [downloading directory with Cyrillic characters #122
  • manage iles and folder permissions from info panel #

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.2.3...v1.2.4

v1.2.3 (2025-11-18) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • thumbnail errors are fixed. now if the thumbnail cannot be generated, it sends the original file for preview
  • centralized error handler on backend, and created a notification system which shows all errors on frontend as notification
  • improved re-ordering of favourites using vuedraggable and sortable.js
  • added integrated terminal available only to admins

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.2.2...v1.2.3

v1.2.2 (2025-11-18) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • Favourites when AUTH_ENABLED=false
  • persist sessions across server restarts
  • scrollbar on left menu
  • disable +Create New button on Volume view

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.2.1...v1.2.2

v1.2.1 (2025-11-16) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • favorites can be customized now, user can choose name, color, style and reorder them too.

BREAKING ​

all existing favorites will be assigned to the first user since the existing favorites were not user specific

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1

v1.2.0 (2025-11-16) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

added OIDC_REQUIRE_EMAIL_VERIFIED flag ​

optional and by default set to 'false' if user wants to integrate OIDC with verified emails only they can set it to 'true'.

Skip setup if auth mode set to oidc ​

previously if its a fresh start with OIDC integration with only OIDC mode, it still used to ask to create an admin user. now it just shows the OIDC login button

faster download and cleaned up upload service ​

it was using js fetch which used to download the files in memory until completed and then used to download it to user's system. Now using native file download which instantly downloads the files.

EDITOR_EXTENSIONS env added ​

this env flag supports comma separated extensions names which you want to open with default built in editor. keep in mind that the ONLYOFFICE_FILE_EXTENSIONS take priority over this list. so if you have html in EDITOR_EXTENSIONS and in ONLYOFFICE_FILE_EXTENSIONS both, it will open with OnlyOffice.

Added "New File" option in the create menu. ​

it was difficult to create new files if the folder is full and has no empty space to click on the background. adding this button makes it simpler

Various bugfixes ​

drive icon was not respecting app color scheme. improvement and optimization on uploadService

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.9...v1.2.0

v1.1.9a (2025-11-15) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.9b...v1.1.9a

v1.1.9b (2025-11-14) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.9...v1.1.9b

v1.1.9 (2025-11-14) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • docs updated
  • improved search performance and bug fixes
  • AUTH_MODE added
  • version bump

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.8...v1.1.9

v1.1.8 (2025-11-13) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

Refactored authentication ​

  • username -> email. now users login by email. its done to simplify linking of OIDC with local accounts and create users with custom access in future
  • existing users will get "example.local" suffix that can be changed from admin menu
  • added option to edit existing users
  • spotlight like search for looking up files and folders.
  • it also searches inside text files and highlights matching texts

new UI ​

  • some UI tweaks

Vitepress documentations ​

  • docs are migrated to vittepress. Work in progress to update the docs

multi language support ​

  • added i18n support for various language. new language requests can be created in github issues

AUTH_ENABLED=false to remove auth completely ​

  • now users can remove the entire auth module by this docker flag.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.7...v1.1.8

v1.1.7 (2025-11-10) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • The image preview now supports previous and next option

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.6...v1.1.7

v1.1.6 (2025-11-10) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • Refactoring API for better scalability and DX
  • refactored plugin architecture
  • fixed onlyoffice plugin issues
  • small UI tweaks

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.5...v1.1.6

v1.1.5 (2025-11-09) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • reverting multi image carousel in image preview because of bugs

v1.1.4 (2025-11-08) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.3...v1.1.4

v1.1.3 (2025-11-08) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • added next prev option to image preview lightbox
  • added ONLYOFFICE_LANG env for setting language on onlyoffice
  • ONLYOFFICE_FILE_EXTENSIONS to specify custom list of file. Any extension mentioned here will take higher priority then default viewer/editor

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.2...v1.1.3

v1.1.2 (2025-11-06) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • drag and drop support
  • leaner session and bugfixes
  • Refactor: centralize file actions
  • keyboard shortcuts
  • onlyoffice integration

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.1...v1.1.2

v1.1.1 (2025-11-05) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • OpenID Compliant claims fetching using userinfo callback
  • OIDC_USERINFO_URL parameter for custom userinfo endpoints
  • Added detailed debug logging throughout the application for better traceability.
  • Updated express-openid-connect dependency to version 2.19.2.
  • Introduced userinfo URL override in oidcService for more flexible user info fetching.
  • Configured Docker environment for debug logging.
  • allow spaces in admin groups, if user provides comma separated values
  • view mode picture added to show picture gallery
  • info panel to display additional information about file/folder/images

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.1.0...v1.1.1

v1.1.0 — local user management, logging and OIDC fixes (2025-11-04) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • Added mkdocs hosted at explorer.nxz.ai
  • used sqlite db for user persistance
  • using express-openid-connect by auth0 for integration with OIDC providers.
  • Centralized version management
  • Admin can now create, delete and manage local users from UI
  • about screen shows git commit hash
  • local user can reset their passwords

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.0.7...v1.1.0

v1.0.7 — enhancements and bug fixes (2025-11-01) ​

GitHub release

  • added OIDC support for multi-user
  • added user menu in the sidebar
  • added tooltips to icons
  • added public url for proxies, preparation for file sharing
  • sidebar now resizable
  • search in the current directory for files and content inside files as well using ripgrep
  • added right-click context menu for file actions
  • new file creation option in context menu
  • responsive sidebar, breadcrumb and view mode options
  • syntax highlighting for editor
  • new folder option added to context menu as well

v1.0.6 — Enhancements (2025-11-01) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • added OIDC support for multi-user
  • added user menu in the sidebar
  • added tooltips to icons
  • added public url for proxies, preparation for file sharing
  • sidebar now resizable
  • search in the current directory for files and content inside files as well using ripgrep
  • added right-click context menu for file actions
  • new file creation option in context menu
  • responsive sidebar, breadcrumb and view mode options
  • syntax highlighting for editor
  • new folder option added to context menu as well

v1.0.5 (2025-10-15) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • settings screen which allows user to turn on or off the thumbnail generation
  • option to disable/enable authentication
  • support PGID and PUID just like linuxserver.io images
  • added option to show the release version in the app.

v1.0.4 (2025-10-04) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

  • added docker hub overview
  • simplified CI pipeline

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.0.3...v1.0.4

v1.0.3 (2025-10-04) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.0.2...v1.0.3

v1.0.2 (2025-10-04) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.0.1...v1.0.2

v1.0.1 (2025-10-04) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/compare/v1.0.0...v1.0.1

v1.0.0 (2025-10-04) ​

GitHub release

What's Changed ​

New Contributors ​

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vikramsoni2/nextExplorer/commits/v1.0.0