Catfish 1.0.2 Released

What’s New?

I thought the delay in previous release announcements was embarrassing… but there have been several stable releases 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 translateable (LP: #1175201)
• Made commandline 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

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