Lap Files

What's Changed

Lap 0.2.4 is a major usability and compatibility update.

This release brings real Windows scanning optimizations with over 20%+ performance improvement, expands media support with PSD, EXR plus additional 10+ image formats, and significantly improves day-to-day file operations including drag-and-drop, copy/paste, move/copy workflows, and external file handling.

This version also includes a broad UI polish pass across Lap: cleaner dialogs, improved sidebars and panels, better keyboard navigation, more consistent controls, smoother layout behavior, and a more coherent product experience overall.

Special thanks to @Rockbard for reporting a large number of professional, detailed, and highly actionable issues that helped shape this release!

New Features

• Windows scanning optimizations with over 20%+ performance improvement
• Support additional 10+ image formats including PSD, EXR, HDR/RGBE, TGA, JPEG 2000 (JP2/J2K/J2C/JPC/JPF/JPX), DDS, DPX, QOI
• Add multi-platform clipboard copy/paste with native Windows, macOS, and Linux support
• Add drag-and-drop files to album folders with copy support (#161)
• Improve file move/copy workflows with conflict handling and external folder operations (#153)
• Import dragged/downloaded files with their original names instead of generated names (#162)
• Allow direct drag-to-reorder for albums without entering edit-list mode (#168)
• Improve duplicate management panel layout and scan handling (#149)
• Add Settings shortcuts tab with keyboard shortcut display, plus updated content/search shortcuts (#117)
• Add search panel shortcut and improve search focus behavior (#150)
• Support Ctrl+wheel thumbnail resizing and Linux shortcut platform handling (#117)
• Add Tab-key focus cycling between sidebar and content with clearer active-pane selection visuals
• Allow favoriting and excluding the root album folder from search (#158)
• Add loop video playback setting, disabled when auto-play is on (#155)
• Show photo aspect ratio in file info panel and status bar (#152)
• Improve multi-select workflows with keyboard shortcuts, Shift-Arrow key or Ctrl/Cmd-click selection, selection actions, and favorite/rating controls (#154, [#153])
• Add EXR thumbnails and previews (#147)
• Add album editing from file info and smarter folder breadcrumbs (#163)
• Add toolbar back button and tooltip for temporary views (#163)
• Add right-click context menus to all sidebar panels and show favorite folder counts
• Add robust macOS drag file path handling
• Localize macOS system dialogs
• Add Homebrew install support for macOS, with automated cask update workflow (#151)
• Standardize modal dialogs with button styling and animation polish

Bug Fixes

• Fix settings shortcut handling and search loading behavior (#117)
• Preserve selection state across background folder syncs (#157)
• Fix stale folder ID reconciliation and macOS trash handling
• Fix failed thumbnail retry logic by using stale thumbnail state instead of source existence
• Fix infinite recursion in aspect-ratio calculation when dimensions are undefined (#152)
• Fix grid layout anchoring and panel animation issues (#145)
• Fix corrupted thumbnail cache recovery
• Preserve relevance sorting after deleting search results (#166)
• Reduce face clustering memory usage (#95)
• Improve histogram scaling to exclude clipped edge bins (#119)
• Filter hidden files on all platforms during scanning
• Reveal folder contents in Finder instead of selecting the folder itself (#170)
• Stabilize variable grid reverse scrolling (#144)
• Remove duplicate shortcut handlers that caused double dialogs on Windows
• Fix videos taking a long time to load (#156)
• Fix AVIF save-as export
• Guard album scan/sync/index against disconnected external drives
• Fix clipboard image paste on Windows and Linux
• Fix album drag reorder triggering the file-import warning
• Stabilize thumbnail placeholders and polish file info panel behavior

Downloads

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Auto Update

If you already have Lap installed, you can update directly in the app using the built-in auto-update feature.

Thanks

Thanks to @Rockbard, @jczanfona, @yasavvym8, @connoryang331, and @dylanf for the feature requests, bug reports, and workflow feedback that helped shape this release.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/julyx10/lap/compare/v0.2.3...v0.2.4