Release history
Every release, newest first.
What each version of Tandem Commander brought, in a few sentences. The complete, technical notes of every release are on GitHub.
Panels get browser-style tabs, the program starts without the Visual C++ runtime, and other minor upgrades.
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Panel tabs
Several directories per panel, the way a browser does it. Each tab keeps its own view, sorting, filter, selection and history, and the whole set returns at the next start. Ctrl+Shift+T opens one.
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No runtime to install
The Microsoft Visual C++ runtime now ships inside the program folder. On a clean PC, earlier versions installed fine and then refused to start - that is over.
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Installer fix: unattended installation with /VERYSILENT works for the first time - the precondition for winget and managed deployment. The application itself is unchanged.
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A new Code Viewer with syntax highlighting, a Command Shell command that opens the shell you choose, and the first release submitted to the winget catalogue.
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Code Viewer
F3 on a source or configuration file shows it with syntax highlighting - over 200 languages and formats, twelve colour schemes, line numbers. Read-only: nothing is executed, no network request is made.
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Choose your command shell
The Command Shell command (Num /) is no longer tied to Command Prompt: pick Windows PowerShell, PowerShell 7, Windows Terminal, Git Bash or any program with your own arguments.
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On the way to winget
Tandem Commander is submitted to the Windows Package Manager catalogue. Once Microsoft accepts it, winget install tandemcommander installs it and winget upgrade keeps it current.
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A product-wide review of accented and non-Latin text fixes names in dozens of places, removes a crash on long names, and Markdown files now open instantly.
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Accents work everywhere
Compare Directories, the command line, external archivers, cloud folders in the drive bar, shortcuts and drag-and-drop now handle accented and non-Latin names. Files with broken names can finally be deleted or renamed.
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Instant Markdown
The rendering engine stays ready after the first Markdown view of a session, so every later F3 and every followed link renders immediately.
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Thumbnails appear immediately even in huge photo folders, DEL uses the Recycle Bin again in folders with accented paths, and TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN badges are back.
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Thumbnails without the wait
Thumbnails view (Alt+5) starts with the files on screen and uses embedded previews, so a folder with thousands of photos fills in at once. Portrait photos are rotated correctly.
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DEL goes to the Recycle Bin
In folders whose path contains accented characters - typical for localized OneDrive trees - DEL deleted permanently. It moves files to the Recycle Bin again, and fails safe when unsure.
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Tortoise badges are back
Status badges of TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN show again at display scaling other than 100 % and refresh in folders with accented names.
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A one-time utility migrates your settings from Altap Salamander, and cloud sync-status badges now display as they do in Windows Explorer.
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Migrate from Altap Salamander
A standalone utility copies hot paths, FTP bookmarks, the user menu, associations, colours and plugin settings from Altap Salamander - with a backup and a one-click restore. Your Salamander setup is never modified.
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Cloud sync badges
OneDrive and Google Drive status badges - synced, online-only, syncing, error - appear as in Explorer, including the sync-in-progress arrows and folders with non-ASCII names.
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The SFTP plugin's dialogs and connection handling were reworked, and every machine-translated text in all eight non-English languages was redone with context.
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SFTP dialogs that fit
The settings window opens again, labels are no longer cut off in translated interfaces, a host with an unreachable first address connects in a second, and Quick Connect no longer stores anything.
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Translations with context
About 3,300 strings across the file manager and 18 plugins were re-translated knowing where they appear - no more server address field labelled as a talk-show host.
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SFTP fixes: connecting with an OpenSSH-format private key no longer freezes the application, and no SFTP operation can hang it any more.
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SFTP private keys work
OpenSSH-format RSA and ECDSA keys authenticate, passphrases are honoured and asked again when wrong, unsupported key types are refused with the reason, and a lost connection reconnects on the next operation.
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First public release: Tandem Commander's own identity, Unicode and long paths throughout, an SFTP plugin, a Markdown viewer and a dark theme.
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Full Unicode, long paths
Names and paths are Unicode end to end - panels, dialogs, viewers, plugins. Accents and non-Latin scripts render correctly, and paths past the old 260-character limit just work.
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SFTP plugin
A Linux server in one panel, your disk in the other. Password or private-key login with host-key verification, unix permissions shown as drwxr-xr-x, chmod straight from the panel.
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Markdown viewer
F3 on an .md file opens a rendered view - headings, lists, tables and code blocks instead of raw markup.
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Light and dark themes
The classic light look stays the default; a new dark theme covers the application, its dialogs, toolbars, panels and plugin windows with the same layout and density.
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Full release notes on GitHub ↗