This upcoming release improves day-to-day usability with a new configuration file.

For users, the main additions are:

• A persistent configuration file for dua with keyboard settings under [keys].
• A new dua config edit command to open the configuration in $EDITOR.
• Automatic creation of the configuration directory/file with sensible defaults when editing for the first time.

Configuration defaults and behavior in this release:

• keys.esc_navigates_back now defaults to true. This is a change from previous versions where it was false implicitly.

You are welcome to contribute more settings as you see fit.

Chore

• Replace simplelog with fern and jiff for timestamped logging
  Note that this changes the log format from

  04:41:37 [INFO]
  

  to

  [2026-02-06 05:41:32.146 +01:00 INFO src/main.rs:55]
  

New Features

• add dua configuration file, with setting for ESC going back only.

Bug Fixes

• outdated link to NixOS package search
  Channel 23.11 was for Nov. 2023.
  This update removes explicitly specifying a channel in the query, defaulting to the current latest stable NixOS nixpkgs channel (at the time of writing 25.11

Refactor

• remove crosstermion and tui-react dependencies

Commit Statistics

• 17 commits contributed to the release over the course of 45 calendar days.
• 45 days passed between releases.
• 4 commits were understood as conventional.
• 0 issues like '(#ID)' were seen in commit messages

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New Features

• Add environment variable support for all global arguments
  • DUA_THREADS → --threads
  • DUA_FORMAT → --format
  • DUA_APPARENT_SIZE → --apparent-size
  • DUA_COUNT_HARD_LINKS → --count-hard-links
  • DUA_STAY_ON_FILESYSTEM → --stay-on-filesystem
  • DUA_IGNORE_DIRS → --ignore-dirs
  • DUA_LOG_FILE → --log-file
• Mark shared arguments as global for general accessibility
  • Added global = true to all arguments shared between aggregate and interactive subcommands
  • Removed duplicate input fields from Interactive and Aggregate subcommands
  • Updated main.rs to use opt.input instead of subcommand-specific input
  • Global arguments now work with both subcommands and can be specified before or after the subcommand

Commit Statistics

• 10 commits contributed to the release over the course of 64 calendar days.
• 69 days passed between releases.
• 2 commits were understood as conventional.
• 0 issues like '(#ID)' were seen in commit messages

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Bug Fixes

• don't let 'q' quit instantly if it's still collecting files.

Commit Statistics

• 1 commit contributed to the release.
• 1 commit was understood as conventional.
• 0 issues like '(#ID)' were seen in commit messages

Commit Details

'q' to quit is now more usable as it will insta-quit if the traversal took less than 10s and
if nothing is still marked for deletion.

This makes it easy to use in 'quick-view' scenarios.

Bug Fixes

• instantly quit when no items marked for deletion

Commit Statistics

• 6 commits contributed to the release.
• 1 commit was understood as conventional.
• 0 issues like '(#ID)' were seen in commit messages

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New Features

• Ctrl+f in the glob prompt now toggles the mode from case-insensitive to sensitive.

Commit Statistics

• 4 commits contributed to the release over the course of 43 calendar days.
• 43 days passed between releases.
• 1 commit was understood as conventional.
• 0 issues like '(#ID)' were seen in commit messages

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This release prominently adds a prompt that shows before quitting the app. When you pressed esc or q, the status bar will show the prompt first. To really quit, you need to press esc or q again. You can also cancel the quit operation by pressing any key else. Meanwhile, ctrl-c still quits the app directly since it's a combination key.

That way, dua will not cause users to accidentally quit the app when they only want to dismiss some other panels. It's especially frustrating if the scan took a long time

New Features

• prompt before quitting
  This release prominently adds a prompt that shows before quitting the app. When you pressed esc or q, the status bar will show the prompt first. To really quit, you need to press esc or q again. You can also cancel the quit operation by pressing any key else. Meanwhile, ctrl-c still quits the app directly since it's a combination key.

  That way, dua will not cause users to accidentally quit the app when they only want to dismiss some other panels. It's especially frustrating if the scan took a long time.

Commit Statistics

• 11 commits contributed to the release.
• 83 days passed between releases.
• 1 commit was understood as conventional.
• 0 issues like '(#ID)' were seen in commit messages

Thanks Clippy

Clippy helped 1 time to make code idiomatic.

Commit Details

In this release, the size of directories is also taken into consideration, for more realistic sizes similar to what du does.

Commit Statistics

• 6 commits contributed to the release.
• 0 commits were understood as conventional.
• 0 issues like '(#ID)' were seen in commit messages

Thanks Clippy

Clippy helped 1 time to make code idiomatic.

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New Features

• allow sorting by name in interactive mode

Bug Fixes

• formatting in src/interactive/app/handlers.rs
• on MacOS use only 3 threads by default.
  Otherwise, it would get very slow and the difference is enormous.
  16 threads for example take 4.1s on a workload, whereas this only takes
  550ms with 3 threads.

Style

• simplify some statements for readability

Commit Statistics

• 9 commits contributed to the release over the course of 55 calendar days.
• 84 days passed between releases.
• 4 commits were understood as conventional.
• 0 issues like '(#ID)' were seen in commit messages

Thanks Clippy

Clippy helped 1 time to make code idiomatic.

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Bug Fixes

• enable "chrono" in trash crate
  This hopefully adds deletion dates to trashed files.

Other

• update actions/upload-artifact to v4
  The release workflow failed because actions/upload-artifact@v1 doesn't work anymore.

Commit Statistics

• 3 commits contributed to the release.
• 2 commits were understood as conventional.
• 1 unique issue was worked on: #268

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Chore

• upgrade gix-glob and trash

Other

• add x-cmd install steps
  Hi, I've added instructions on how to install dua using x-cmd to the README file.
  • x-cmd is a toolbox for Posix Shell, offering a lightweight package manager built using shell and awk.

  x env use dua

• Auto submit new manifest to winget-pkgs

Commit Statistics

• 10 commits contributed to the release.
• 3 commits were understood as conventional.
• 1 unique issue was worked on: #265

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