Catfish 1.0.2 Released

Catfish 1.0.2 has been released with easily accessible view modes and a new search filter for matching directories. More than 20 bug fixes and general improvements round out the release.

What’s New?

I thought the delay in previous release announcements was embarrassing… but several stable releases have been since my last post (0.6.1).  I’ll try to keep this brief.

New Features

• Switch to toggle standard and preview modes
• Search filter for directories

General Improvements

• Full Python3 support
• Improved locale and encoding support
• Updated to support the latest PyGObject APIs (minimum 3.6)
• Introduced SudoDialog to handle user authentication (shared with Mugshot)
• Code cleanup, removed unused template code, improved installer
• Improved list logic with item selection
• Interface refresh, mimicking common gnome applications
• Improved handling of symbolic icons
• Improved strings

Bug Fixes

• Fixed CVE-2014-2093 CVE-2014-2094 CVE-2014-2095 CVE-2014-2096 ( Debian #739958, Fedora #1069396)
• Fixed multiple-selection regression ( LP: #1283726)
• Fixed “–thumbnail” startup option ( LP: #1230245)
• Removed embedded copy of pexpect ( LP: #1257500)
• Fixed image loading issues, use icon names available in gnome-icon-theme ( LP: #1258713)
• Fixed untranslatable strings ( LP: #1261181)
• Fixed sidebar width ( LP: #1261185)
• Fixed sidebar coloration ( LP: #1261188)
• Fixed searching mounted shares ( LP: #1274378)
• Fixed PyGObject deprecation warning ( LP: #1228440)
• Fixed python2/3 error that prevented installation ( LP: #1217507)
• Remember sidebar visibility and hidden files toggled ( LP: #1188954)
• Enhanced image thumbnailer ( LP: #1193311)
• Use pexpect and SudoDialog to replace gksu dependency ( LP: #1202085)
• Made Search terms placeholder text translatable ( LP: #1175201)
• Made command line options translateable ( LP: #1175204)
• Fixed crash when directory in PATH does not exist ( LP: #1166079)
• Fixed case sensitivity in search backend ( LP: #1166214)
• Fixed infinite loop when searching for * ( LP: #1165727)
• Fixed executable-not-elf-or-script lintian warnings for Debian packaging

Screenshots

Getting Catfish

Ubuntu Users

If you’re running Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.10, Catfish 1.0.2 is available from the Catfish Stable PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:catfish-search/catfish-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install catfish

If you’re running Ubuntu 14.04 or newer, Catfish 1.0.2 is available in the Ubuntu repositories.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install catfish

Everyone Else

You can download the latest source package from the Catfish downloads page if you’re running another Linux distribution.