Release notes · 3 October 2026

What's new in 0.1.2

The theme gallery, sorting by the column headings, a divider between the panes, and four settings that are now reachable from the palette and the window too.

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Highlights

  • A theme gallery: every theme as a colour tile, with a live preview before you install
  • Click a column heading to sort the pane by it; click again to reverse
  • Drag the divider between the two panes; the sidebar's divider works in every layout
  • The layout, hidden files, the Explorer's follow and the shell menu have commands and controls now
  • The setup file is 20 MB instead of 43 MB; the symbols are a download of their own
  • The indexer service starts by itself after a restart of Windows

Themes and the settings file

The themes as colour tiles, each painted in the theme's own colours, with filters for dark, light, system themes, density presets and the installed ones (Windows' mode first), and a search. Selecting a tile previews the theme on the whole window with nothing installed or written, and Esc paints the theme in effect again. Enter or a double-click installs a theme and applies it. Open it with "Themes: Browse" in the command palette (themes.browse; bind it to keys if you like) or the new last row of the theme picker, "Browse more themes…". If the themes catalogue cannot be read, the gallery shows your installed themes and says so.

The theme gallery: every theme as a tile in its own colours; Dracula is selected and previewed on the whole window, and Esc restores
The theme gallery: every theme as a tile in its own colours; Dracula is selected and previewed on the whole window, and Esc restores

Four settings, three ways

Four settings that could be changed only by editing cabinetos.json now have a command and a control in the window. The layout (ui.layout): "View: Classic Layout", "View: Terminal on the Right" and "View: Activity Rail" in the palette, "View: Next Layout" on Ctrl+K Ctrl+L, and a "Layout" menu in the top row's menu that checks the current one. Hidden files (panes.showHidden): "View: Toggle Hidden Files" on Ctrl+K Ctrl+H, a "Show Hidden Files" row in the top row's menu, and the word "hidden" in the status bar while they are shown. The Explorer following the active pane (ui.sidebarAutoReveal): "Sidebar: Follow the Active Pane" in the palette, a pin in the Explorer view's header, and a "Follow the Active Pane" row in the top row's menu. Windows' own menu on Shift+right-click (contextMenu.shellMenu): "Menu: Toggle Windows' Shell Menu" in the palette and a check box at the end of "Edit Menu…". Each is the same change whichever way you make it: the file, the palette and the window follow each other at once.

Panes and navigation

Sort by a column heading

A click on the Name, Modified, Type or Size heading of a file pane sorts that pane by the column, and a second click reverses it. The sorted heading shows a small arrow. It is the same sort as Ctrl+F3 to Ctrl+F6 and the palette's "View: Sort by ..." commands, so the three ways agree; the order is the pane's own, and Type sorts by extension. A double-click on a heading still fits the column, and leaves the order as it was.

The left pane sorted by Modified, newest first, with the arrow on the heading
The left pane sorted by Modified, newest first, with the arrow on the heading

A divider between the panes

Drag it to give the left pane more or less of the width. The share is kept in the new setting ui.paneSplit (0.2 to 0.8, null for equal), so it survives a resize of the window. A double-click on the divider and the new palette command "View: Equal Panes" (view.equalPanes, no key) make the panes equal again; editing ui.paneSplit in cabinetos.json moves the divider. A pane never gets narrower than its columns need.

The sidebar's divider in every layout

The sidebar's divider works in the classic layout and in the right layout too, not only in the rail layout. A drag still saves ui.sidebarWidth, and a double-click on the divider gives the design's width back.

Changed and removed

Changed

  • The marketplace page is now the Extensions page (Discover, Plugins, Tools and Installed, "Search extensions") and lists no themes. Themes come from a catalogue of their own, themes.json, at marketplace.themes (the public address by default); index.json lists plugins and tools only. The command keeps its ID and is now called "Marketplace: Browse Extensions"; the core's protocol version is 20, and cabinetos-cli market has --themes to ask for the themes catalogue.
  • cabinetos-core.exe, cabinetos-cli.exe (and its copy cab.exe) and cabinetos-indexer.exe carry a Windows version resource: version, description, copyright and the CabinetOS icon. Explorer's Properties > Details page shows it, and the code signing service requires it before it signs a program.
  • The release zip and the setup file no longer hold the .pdb symbol files: they are a download of their own, CabinetOS-0.1.2-win-x64-symbols.zip. The release zip is 32 MB instead of 76 MB and the setup file 20 MB instead of 43 MB. A crash trace from an install names function, file and line once you unpack the symbols of the same version next to the programs.
  • cabinetos-indexer --install registers the service with an automatic, delayed start and starts it once, so the index is there after every restart of Windows with nobody starting the service (it was a manual start, off after each restart). install.ps1 -AllUsers -Indexer does the same. If you registered the service by hand before, run cabinetos-indexer --uninstall and then --install again.

Removed

  • Nothing.

Fixed

  • The plugin sandbox runs on wasmtime 49.0.2, which closes seven security advisories of 49.0.1 (RUSTSEC-2026-0321 to 0327). None was reachable without a plugin written to exploit it.