Ncdu 2.x Release History

• 2.8.2 - 2025-05-01 - ncdu-2.8.2.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.14
  • Fix a build error on MacOS
• 2.8.1 - 2025-04-28 - ncdu-2.8.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.14
  • Fix integer overflow in binary export
  • Fix crash when fstatat() returns EINVAL
  • Minor build system improvements
• 2.8 - 2025-03-05 - ncdu-2.8.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Now requires Zig 0.14
  • Add support for @-prefixed lines to ignore errors in config file
  • List all supported options in --help
  • Use kB instead of KB in --si mode
• 2.7 - 2024-11-19 - ncdu-2.7.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.12 or 0.13
  • Support transparent reading/writing of zstandard-compressed JSON
  • Add --compress and --export-block-size options
  • Perform tilde expansion on paths in the config file
  • Fix JSON import of escaped UTF-16 surrogate pairs
  • Fix incorrect field in root item when exporting to the binary format
  • Add -Dstrip build flag
• 2.6 - 2024-09-27 - ncdu-2.6.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.12 or 0.13
  • Add dependency on libzstd
  • Add new export format to support threaded export and low-memory browsing
  • Add -O and --compress-level CLI flags
  • Add progress indicator to hardlink counting stage
  • Fix displaying and exporting zero values when extended info is not available
  • Fix clearing screen in some error cases
  • Fix uncommon edge case in hardlink counting on refresh
  • Use integer math instead of floating point to format numbers
• 2.5 - 2024-07-24 - ncdu-2.5.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.12 or 0.13
  • Add parallel scanning with -t,--threads CLI flags
  • Improve JSON export and import performance
  • --exclude-kernfs is no longer checked on the top-level scan path
  • Fix entries sometimes not showing up after refresh
  • Fix file descriptor leak with --exclude-caches checking
  • Fix possible crash on invalid UTF8 when scanning in -1 UI mode
  • Fix JSON export and import of the “other filesystem” flag
  • Fix JSON import containing directories with a read error
  • Fix mtime display of ‘special’ files
  • Fix edge case bad performance when deleting hardlinks with many links
  • Increased memory use for hardlinks (by ~10% in extreme cases, sorry)
• 2.4 - 2024-04-21 - ncdu-2.4.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Now requires Zig 0.12
  • Revert default color scheme back to ‘off’
  • Rewrite man page in mdoc, drop pod2man dependency
  • Fix updating parent dir error status on refresh
• 2.3 - 2023-08-04 - ncdu-2.3.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Now requires Zig 0.11
  • Add --(enable|disable)-natsort options
  • Add indicator to apparent size/disk usage selection in the footer
  • Fix build on armv7l (hopefully)
  • Minor build system additions
• 2.2.2 - 2023-01-19 - ncdu-2.2.2.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Now requires Zig 0.10 or 0.10.1
  • That’s it, pretty much.
• 2.2.1 - 2022-10-25 - ncdu-2.2.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.9.0 or 0.9.1
  • Fix bug with ‘dark’ and ‘off’ color themes on FreeBSD and MacOS
• 2.2 - 2022-10-17 - ncdu-2.2.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.9.0 or 0.9.1
  • (breaking) Wildcards in exclude patterns don’t cross directory boundary anymore
  • Improve exclude pattern matching performance
  • Set full background in default dark-bg color scheme
  • Fix broken JSON export when a filename contains control characters below 0x10
• 2.1.2 - 2022-04-28 - ncdu-2.1.2.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.9.0 or 0.9.1
  • Fix possible crash on shortening file names with unicode variation selectors or combining marks
• 2.1.1 - 2022-03-25 - ncdu-2.1.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.9.0 or 0.9.1
  • Fix potential crash when refreshing
  • Fix typo in --graph-style=eighth-block
  • Revert default --graph-style to hash characters
• 2.1 - 2022-02-07 - ncdu-2.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.9.0
  • Use natural sort order when sorting by file name
  • Use Unicode box drawing characters for the file size bar
  • Add --graph-style option to change drawing style for the file size bar
  • Fix early exit if a configuration directory does not exist
  • Fix display glitch for long file names
  • Fix display glitch with drawing unique/shared size column
• 2.0.1 - 2022-01-01 - ncdu-2.0.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Still requires Zig 0.9.0
  • Fix build failure to find ‘wcwidth’ on some systems
  • Add ZIG_FLAGS option to Makefile
• 2.0 - 2021-12-21 - ncdu-2.0.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Requires Zig 0.9.0
  • That’s the only change.
• 2.0-beta3 - 2021-11-09 - ncdu-2.0-beta3.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Requires Zig 0.8 or 0.8.1
  • Add lots of new CLI flags to configure ncdu
  • Add configuration file support
  • Add ‘dark-bg’ color scheme and use that by default
  • Fix not enabling -x by default
  • Fix export feature
  • Fix import of “special” dirs and files
  • Fix double-slash display in file browser
• 2.0-beta2 - 2021-07-31 - ncdu-2.0-beta2.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Requires Zig 0.8
  • Significantly reduce memory usage for hard links
  • Slightly increase memory usage for directory entries
  • Fix reporting of fatal errors in the -0 and -1 scanning UIs
• 2.0-beta1 - 2021-07-22 - ncdu-2.0-beta1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Full release announcement: https://dev.yorhel.nl/doc/ncdu2
  • Requires Zig 0.8
  • Features and UI based on ncdu 1.16
  • Lower memory use in most scenarios (except with many hard links)
  • Improved performance of hard link counting
  • Extra column for shared/unique directory sizes