Ncdu 1.x Release History

• 1.19 - 2023-09-11 - closeFile: ncdu-1.19.tar.gz
  Size: 156.2 KiB (159.917 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.19.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 7986451d5b222b8a99b5382f33a30831
  SHA1: 3ee7aff60bdaa1c79eb4f27e3d277fc2d76e0043
  SHA-256: 30363019180cde0752c7fb006c12e154920412f4e1b5dc3090654698496bb17dncdu-1.19.tar.gz
  • Fix typo in –exclude-from argument
  • Add –(enable|disable)-natsort options
  • Add indicator to apparent size/disk usage selection in the footer
• 1.18.1 - 2023-02-12 - closeFile: ncdu-1.18.1.tar.gz
  Size: 156.0 KiB (159.731 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.18.1.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 567df772ef0f2e28801009a90ab7b8e3
  SHA1: bdc12fa539db1e310a29431939efca7091dbb867
  SHA-256: 7c0fa1eb29d85aaed4ba174164bdbb8f011b5c390d017c57d668fc7231332405ncdu-1.18.1.tar.gz
  • Fix build on non-Linux platforms
• 1.18 - 2022-12-06 - closeFile: ncdu-1.18.tar.gz
  Size: 156.0 KiB (159.781 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.18.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 4186b5be477cc3a0944619ade81f123b
  SHA1: d47ce3cdf317adadc1426817d07899c90b767aba
  SHA-256: 3c37a1a96580c9c5d2cc352dc3c5eef0d909158c05f1cc29db4712544c8b9f95ncdu-1.18.tar.gz
  • Fix ‘dark-bg’ color scheme to actually have a dark background
  • Backport configuration file support from 2.x
  • Backport many new CLI options from 2.x
  • Negation of existing flags: –no-si, –no-confirm-quit, –no-follow-symlinks, –include-caches, –include-kernfs
  • –[no-]extended in addition to -e
  • –one-file-system and –cross-file-system in addition to -x
  • –slow-ui-updates, –fast-ui-updates in addition to -q
  • Column visibility options: –(show|hide)-(hidden|itemcount|mtime|graph|percent)
  • Sorting: –sort, –[no-]group-directories-first
  • Feature selection: –(enable|disable)-(shell|delete|refresh)
  • Deletion confirmation: –[no-]confirm-delete
  • Hidden file visibility: –show-hidden, –hide-hidden
  • Size display: –apparent-size, –disk-usage
• 1.17 - 2022-04-28 - closeFile: ncdu-1.17.tar.gz
  Size: 153.5 KiB (157.187 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.17.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 0a872dbda2d79e45937e22d5c97c01d4
  SHA1: bcd033f8a9e3cf5da131ee7a2cccf1e27ffa7a57
  SHA-256: 810745a8ed1ab3788c87d3aea4cc1a14edf6ee226f764bcc383e024ba56adbf1ncdu-1.17.tar.gz
  • Add ‘dark-bg’ color scheme and use that by default
  • Use natural sort order when sorting by file name
  • Improve compatibility with C89 environments
  • Fix wrong assumption about errno not being set by realloc()
• 1.16 - 2021-07-02 - closeFile: ncdu-1.16.tar.gz
  Size: 146.2 KiB (149.705 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.16.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 8846e965c6c008d572cb42ad3a56400b
  SHA1: 0ebff95373a9b7e7976b22bc763043e40d12c62b
  SHA-256: 2b915752a183fae014b5e5b1f0a135b4b408de7488c716e325217c2513980fd4ncdu-1.16.tar.gz
  • Increase width of size bar depending on terminal size (Christian Göttsche)
  • Set/increment $NCDU_LEVEL variable when spawning a shell
  • Indicate whether apparent size or disk usage is being displayed
  • Display setuid, setgid and sticky bits in file flags in extended mode
  • Fix error handling while reading –exclude-from file
  • Improve JSON import to allow for several future extensions to the format
  • Export link count in JSON dumps
  • Don’t export inode in JSON dumps for non-hardlinks
• 1.15.1 - 2020-06-10 - closeFile: ncdu-1.15.1.tar.gz
  Size: 144.8 KiB (148.242 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.15.1.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: af25aa8462a6f29c8a0c4d3d83d186e7
  SHA1: 1d88eb2b29bfb559ac75109616bba53e48d4d083
  SHA-256: b02ddc4dbf1db139cc6fbbe2f54a282770380f0ca5c17089855eab52a9ea3fb0ncdu-1.15.1.tar.gz
  • (Linux) Fix build on older Linux systems (Christian Göttsche)
  • (MacOS) Revert “Exclude firmlinks by default” behavior (until we have a better solution)
  • (MacOS) Add –exclude-firmlinks option to opt-in to the above behavior
• 1.15 - 2020-05-30 - closeFile: ncdu-1.15.tar.gz
  Size: 144.5 KiB (147.989 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.15.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 9f01023c43cd66588da7690f69201052
  SHA1: 888f132a25d80738ef73fc33a9058b745360a606
  SHA-256: 4a593dc5cceb2492a9669f5f5d69d0e517de457a11036788ea4591f33c5297fbncdu-1.15.tar.gz
  • (Linux) Add –exclude-kernfs option to exclude pseudo filesystems (Christian Göttsche)
  • (MacOS) Exclude firmlinks by default (Saagar Jha)
  • (MacOS) Add –follow-firmlinks option to follow firmlinks (Saagar Jha)
  • Fix bug in calculating the apparent size of directories containing hardlinks
  • Fix integer overflow with directories containing >2GiB worth of file names
  • Fix yet another possible 100% CPU bug when losing terminal
• 1.14.2 - 2020-02-10 - closeFile: ncdu-1.14.2.tar.gz
  Size: 142.0 KiB (145.376 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.14.2.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 6c7e88b0c205f124f397de701402ad3a
  SHA1: f830ff24c6f364627d5697f78c6fa50ab94d0185
  SHA-256: 947a7f5c1d0cd4e338e72b4f5bc5e2873651442cec3cb012e04ad2c37152c6b1ncdu-1.14.2.tar.gz
  • Fix compilation with GCC 10 (-fno-common)
  • Fix minor display issue when scanning 10M+ files
  • Slightly reduce memory usage for hard link detection
• 1.14.1 - 2019-08-05 - closeFile: ncdu-1.14.1.tar.gz
  Size: 142.9 KiB (146.346 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.14.1.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 0df5a1ce766f2f79f4562e8b413da9b2
  SHA1: 143c09158094adbb44f37945b7ba8bb1428862b1
  SHA-256: be31e0e8c13a0189f2a186936f7e298c6390ebdc573bb4a1330bc1fcbf56e13encdu-1.14.1.tar.gz
  • Fix occasional early exit on OS X
  • Fix –exclude-caches
  • Improve handling of out-of-memory situations
• 1.14 - 2019-02-04 - closeFile: ncdu-1.14.tar.gz
  Size: 142.5 KiB (145.911 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.14.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: d26c0aa57728c19969c3c5036fa272a0
  SHA1: 28c7003ad23d2e3a2d22d2c349bb0c7170752396
  SHA-256: c694783aab21e27e64baad314b7c1ff34541bfa219fe9645ef6780f1c5558c44ncdu-1.14.tar.gz
  • Add mtime display and sorting (Alex Wilson)
  • Add (limited) –follow-symlinks option (Simon Doppler)
  • Display larger file counts in browser UI
  • Add -V, –version, and –help alias flags
  • Fix crash when attempting to sort an empty directory
  • Fix 100% CPU bug when ncdu loses the terminal
  • Fix ‘–color=off’ flag
  • Fix some typos
• 1.13 - 2018-01-29 - closeFile: ncdu-1.13.tar.gz
  Size: 140.4 KiB (143.819 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.13.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 67239592ac41f42290f52ab89ff198be
  SHA1: 3233c4185208d9989ac528a94817ed92dd59c773
  SHA-256: f4d9285c38292c2de05e444d0ba271cbfe1a705eee37c2b23ea7c448ab37255ancdu-1.13.tar.gz
  • Add “extended information” mode and -e flag
  • Add file mode, modification time and uid/gid to info window with -e
  • Add experimental color support and –color flag
  • Add -rr option to disable shell spawning
  • Remove directory nesting limit on file import
  • Fix handling of interrupts during file import
  • Fix undefined behavior that triggered crash on OS X
• 1.12 - 2016-08-24 - closeFile: ncdu-1.12.tar.gz
  Size: 137.3 KiB (140.596 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.12.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 7365ac46c420bc511621216b1747984f
  SHA1: b79b1c44784f334dca74d89a49f49274f14cfeef
  SHA-256: 820e4e4747a2a2ec7a2e9f06d2f5a353516362c22496a10a9834f871b877499ancdu-1.12.tar.gz
  • Add NCDU_SHELL environment variable
  • Add –confirm-quit flag
  • Fix compilation due to missing sys/wait.h include
• 1.11 - 2015-04-05 - closeFile: ncdu-1.11.tar.gz
  Size: 131.0 KiB (134.093 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.11.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 9e44240a5356b029f05f0e70a63c4d12
  SHA1: 8f22d713e6d2b28e1f501eee2bd1e03b55550c8d
  SHA-256: d0aea772e47463c281007f279a9041252155a2b2349b18adb9055075e141bb7bncdu-1.11.tar.gz
  • Added ‘b’ key to spawn shell in the current directory
  • Support scanning (and refreshing) of empty directories
  • Added –si flag for base 10 prefixes
  • Fix toggle dirs before files
• 1.10 - 2013-05-09 - closeFile: ncdu-1.10.tar.gz
  Size: 128.7 KiB (131.810 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.10.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 7535decc8d54eca811493e82d4bfab2d
  SHA1: cf3b5fbb5b69cbae5425bfff2660ac3d8224a605
  SHA-256: f5994a4848dbbca480d39729b021f057700f14ef72c0d739bbd82d862f2f0c67ncdu-1.10.tar.gz
  • Added ‘c’ key to display item counts
  • Added ‘C’ key to order by item counts
  • Added CACHEDIR.TAG support and –exclude-caches option
  • Use locale-dependent thousand separator
  • Use pkg-config to detect ncurses
  • Clip file/dir sizes to 8 EiB minus one byte
  • Fix buffer overflow when formatting huge file sizes
• 1.9 - 2012-09-27 - closeFile: ncdu-1.9.tar.gz
  Size: 121.8 KiB (124.738 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.9.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 93258079db897d28bb8890e2db89b1fb
  SHA1: 27cb5464b192db8ffdf0a894fe51d29985348eb0
  SHA-256: ea7349544a9da77764293d84e52862110ab49ee29b949158bc4bab908d3dd3a5ncdu-1.9.tar.gz
  • Added option to dump scanned directory information to a file (-o)
  • Added option to load scanned directory information from a file (-f)
  • Added multiple scan and load interfaces (-0,-1,-2)
  • Fit loading and error windows to the terminal width (#13)
  • Fix symlink resolving bug (#18)
  • Fix path display when scanning an empty directory (#15)
  • Fix hang when terminal is resized to a too small size while loading
  • Use top-level automake build
  • Remove useless AUTHORS, INSTALL and NEWS files
  • ncdu.1 now uses POD as source format
• 1.8 - 2011-11-03 - closeFile: ncdu-1.8.tar.gz
  Size: 112.0 KiB (114.648 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.8.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 94d7a821f8a0d7ba8ef3dd926226f7d5
  SHA1: 3d98e78cf7035e32333d263d301d12e9b4352598
  SHA-256: 42aaf0418c05e725b39b220166a9c604a9c54c0fbf7692c9c119b36d0ed5d099ncdu-1.8.tar.gz
  • Use hash table to speed up hard link detection
  • Added read-only option (-r)
  • Use KiB instead of kiB (#3399279)
• 1.7 - 2010-08-13 - closeFile: ncdu-1.7.tar.gz
  Size: 107.0 KiB (109.606 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.7.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 172047c29d232724cc62e773e82e592a
  SHA1: 56fae723a6fe07b05731f111c53f9631a93989f6
  SHA-256: 70dfe10b4c0843050ee17ab27b7ad4d65714682f117079b85d779f83431fb333ncdu-1.7.tar.gz
  • List the detected hard links in file info window
  • Count the size of a hard linked file once for each directory it appears in
  • Fixed crash on browsing dirs with a small window size (#2991787)
  • Fixed buffer overflow when some directories can’t be scanned (#2981704)
  • Fixed segfault when launched on a nonexistent directory (#3012787)
  • Fixed segfault when root dir only contains hidden files
  • Improved browsing performance
  • More intuitive multi-page browsing
  • Display size graph by default
  • Various minor fixes
• 1.6 - 2009-10-23 - closeFile: ncdu-1.6.tar.gz
  Size: 101.8 KiB (104.265 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.6.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 95d29cf64af2d8cf4b5005e6e3d60384
  SHA1: 8de9954c119045ed01e447aac9a5def4de1a56fb
  SHA-256: 0922916eab6371adb2f7a567bf4477c0a738910e799dbdf477f30d138eff470cncdu-1.6.tar.gz
  • Implemented hard link detection
  • Properly select the next item after deletion
  • Removed reliance of dirfd()
  • Fixed non-void return in void delete_process()
  • Fixed several tiny memory leaks
  • Return to previously opened directory on failed recalculation
  • Properly display MiB units instead of MB (IEEE 1541 - bug #2831412)
  • Link to ncursesw when available
  • Improved support for non-ASCII characters
  • VIM keybindings for browsing through the tree (#2788249, #1880622)
• 1.5 - 2009-05-02 - closeFile: ncdu-1.5.tar.gz
  Size: 96.7 KiB (99.040 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.5.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 90a69cc3b2e9f0324eb14e6ce1df0f22
  SHA1: 355c6837acb372edb02fe8fb81bdef1ab20656c6
  SHA-256: f63292b80d0eae4968624eade660bb42c3180890d7ca887a5470f3d75bae8e08ncdu-1.5.tar.gz
  • Fixed incorrect apparent size on directory refresh
  • Browsing keys now work while file info window is displayed
  • Current directory is assumed when no directory is specified
  • Size graph uses the apparent size if that is displayed
  • Items are ordered by displayed size rather than disk usage
  • Removed switching between powers of 1000/1024
  • Don’t rely on the availability of suseconds_t
  • Correctly handle paths longer than PATH_MAX
  • Fixed various bugs related to rpath()
  • Major code rewrite
  • Fixed line width when displaying 100%
• 1.4 - 2008-09-10 - closeFile: ncdu-1.4.tar.gz
  Size: 95.6 KiB (97.844 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.4.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 07f01579f7c9852033139ae9fa2414c9
  SHA1: de5261f292a421b3d2230e8649f29a535bf38434
  SHA-256: cb1bdd4835d3e80854f19722e0bf1458097d966a9f10da8f88c873ca94a23616ncdu-1.4.tar.gz
  • Removed the startup window
  • Filenames ending with a tidle (~) will now also be hidden with the ‘h’-key
  • Fixed buffer overflow when supplying a path longer than PATH_MAX (patch by Tobias Stoeckmann)
  • Used S_BLKSIZE instead of a hardcoded block size of 512
  • Fixed display of disk usage and apparent sizes
  • Updated ncdu -h
  • Included patches for Cygwin
  • Cursor now follows the selected item
  • Added spaces around path (debian #472194)
  • Fixed segfault on empty directory (debian #472294)
  • A few code rewrites and improvements
• 1.3 - 2007-08-05 - closeFile: ncdu-1.3.tar.gz
  Size: 95.7 KiB (98.022 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.3.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 204bacb8376819059bec6c8287a87a67
  SHA1: 63c8327ab9a443d49f533fd5d64ad51fb228af2e
  SHA-256: f556a4b07c07bb66eabb5f2a20b3c52ea22020a68f2b5302d03e7b93b0ffee54ncdu-1.3.tar.gz
  • Added ‘r’-key to refresh the current directory
  • Removed option to calculate apparent size: both the disk usage and the apparent size are calculated.
  • Added ‘a’-key to switch between showing apparent size and disk usage.
  • Added ‘i’-key to display information about the selected item.
  • Small performance improvements
  • configure checks for ncurses.h (bug #1764304)
• 1.2 - 2007-07-24 - closeFile: ncdu-1.2.tar.gz
  Size: 94.2 KiB (96.479 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.2.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 03775b70e5e6463b42af9d4493e6f0d5
  SHA1: 6253c31cb7f7dd27dcc66d25111299d3005dbc99
  SHA-256: 10a9f50fcdd662196058f1e5f4e4300a33130b722e1552c0f1b513a07efd386dncdu-1.2.tar.gz
  • Fixed some bugs on cygwin
  • Added du-like exclude patterns
  • Fixed bug #1758403: large directories work fine now
  • Rewrote a large part of the code
  • Fixed a bug with wide characters
  • Performance improvements when browsing large dirs
• 1.1 - 2007-04-30 - closeFile: ncdu-1.1.tar.gz
  Size: 89.6 KiB (91.774 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.1.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 98ce7682cf773aa0e1c46068dadccdc8
  SHA1: fb4218edb060172f48f5f63621da937e67ff005f
  SHA-256: cbd7c6a6372920aa63579e9ba6c07d41b1c22030bd031d3c236349e01e3f5aedncdu-1.1.tar.gz
  • Deleting files and directories is now possible from within ncdu.
  • The key for sorting directories between files has changed to ‘t’ instead of ‘d’. The ‘d’-key is now used for deleting files.
• 1.0 - 2007-04-06 - closeFile: ncdu-1.0.tar.gz
  Size: 88.6 KiB (90.749 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-1.0.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: dbaab79890993d305b89a6ecf3af338e
  SHA1: ac627fbca0814c3a20f09a40a128bb2c9118655b
  SHA-256: 0bd0323b2415a5479afe624498fd21196d4063395c7b6223d0ac081756050a73ncdu-1.0.tar.gz
  • First stable release
  • Small code cleanup
  • Added a key to toggle between sorting dirs before files and dirs between files
  • Added graphs and percentages to the directory browser (can be enabled or disabled with the ‘g’-key)
• 0.3 - 2007-03-04 - closeFile: ncdu-0.3.tar.gz
  Size: 87.9 KiB (90.019 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-0.3.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 3a9eb905cedc10afcb2379c8b9f21086
  SHA1: 231d49da6fe365b5f08493a2dbd49f2e8151cddd
  SHA-256: c13498ef9e81ad5919c1385debe6fd8370b3b8ec3dd15d32d8c6eb5d77f8d1a0ncdu-0.3.tar.gz
  • When browsing back to the previous directory, the directory you’re getting back from will be selected.
  • Added directory scanning in quiet mode to save bandwidth on remote connections.
• 0.2 - 2007-02-26 - closeFile: ncdu-0.2.tar.gz
  Size: 87.5 KiB (89.645 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-0.2.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 31b5a10b6c9dff8d1924556e1a4b84d7
  SHA1: ba744c9947423623c2c217a93d62228ad197a03f
  SHA-256: 4a18e0edec5694ffb3ef956dda50564b25ac6de1ca013bba400143121a8906b4ncdu-0.2.tar.gz
  • Fixed POSIX compliance: replaced realpath() with my own implementation, and gettimeofday() is not required anymore (but highly recommended)
  • Added a warning for terminals smaller than 60x16
  • Mountpoints (or any other directory pointing to another filesystem) are now considered to be directories rather than files.
• 0.1 - 2007-02-21 - closeFile: ncdu-0.1.tar.gz
  Size: 86.1 KiB (88.186 bytes)
  PGP: ncdu-0.1.tar.gz.asc
  MD5: 7fd5914ba23e9836f52294af97007fe5
  SHA1: 385736e88fae39702872a4bb3af0c8a5a8ec2ed6
  SHA-256: fc38325312ce105c5290a80707539823d864377e5f8a99a1630baaea767eda46ncdu-0.1.tar.gz
  • Initial version