Release notes

RetroDir 1.1 LATEST October 2026

New

• Frost theme. A translucent theme: panels, menus, dialogs, the console and the built-in terminal become tinted glass over your blurred desktop, while text stays fully opaque. Choose it from Options → Theme: Frost. See Themes & settings in the manual.

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RetroDir 1.0.1 October 2026

Fixed

• Cmd-T from a panel now opens the terminal in that panel's current folder. Before, it always brought back the first terminal tab in whatever folder it started in. If a tab is already in that folder, RetroDir switches to it; otherwise it opens a new tab there. Shells that are busy (an ssh session, an editor) are never changed.
• The About box now shows the correct version number.

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RetroDir 1.0 October 16, 2026

The first public release.

Highlights

• Two side-by-side panels with function-key file operations: view, edit, copy, rename or move, make folder, and move to Trash (F3–F8).
• A built-in terminal in a bottom split (Cmd-T) with tabs, resizing, and syncing folders between the shell and the panels.
• A viewer with hex mode, wrap, go-to and search, and an editor with undo, search and replace.
• Quick View (Ctrl-Q) and Info (Ctrl-L) panels, archives (zip and tar), find files, folder hotlist and history.
• Four colour themes: Classic Blue, Midnight, Amber and Navy.
• Mac touches: Trash, Quick Look, Finder drag and drop, APFS clones for fast copies, and Cmd-1…Cmd-0 as F-keys on laptops.

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