Ncdu 1.x Release History

• 1.22 - 2025-03-05 - ncdu-1.22.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Add support for @-prefixed lines to ignore errors in config file (from 2.8)
  • List all supported options in --help (from 2.8)
  • Use kB instead of KB in --si mode (from 2.8)
  • Add --graph-style option (from 2.1)
  • Fix supported range of uid/gid numbers
• 1.21 - 2024-11-19 - ncdu-1.21.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Perform tilde expansion on paths in the config file (from 2.7)
  • Fix JSON import of escaped UTF-16 surrogate pairs (from 2.7)
  • Fix displaying and exporting zero values when extended info is not available (from 2.6)
  • Fix JSON export and import of the “other filesystem” flag (from 2.5)
• 1.20 - 2024-04-21 - ncdu-1.20.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Revert default color scheme back to ‘off’
  • Rewrite man page in mdoc, drop pod2man dependency
• 1.19 - 2023-09-11 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-1.18.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Fix build on non-Linux platforms
• 1.18 - 2022-12-06 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-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 - ncdu-0.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Initial version