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lstr: all versions and old releases

A fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust

2 versions of lstr are listed here, from July 12, 2026 to the current 0.4.0. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2026: 2 2 26
VersionDateSizeFiles
0.4.0Latest July 14, 2026 — 64-bit MSI
Release notes
Release Notes
Added
• Added comprehensive sorting options for both classic and interactive modes:
• --sort <TYPE>:Sort by name (default), size, modified time, or extension
• --dirs-first:Sort directories before files
• --case-sensitive:Use case-sensitive sorting with specific order (numbers → uppercase → lowercase)
• --natural-sort:Version-aware sorting (file1 < file2 < file10)
• --reverse:Reverse any sort order
• --dotfiles-first:Priority ordering (dotfolders → folders → dotfiles → files)
• Added comprehensive examples directory (examples/sample-directory/) with various file types, nested structures, and test scenarios for validating lstr functionality including icons, gitignore behavior, and tree display.
• Added interactive search functionality in TUI mode:
• Press / to enter search mode with real-time filename filtering
• Case-insensitive substring matching filters files as you type
• Press Esc to exit search and restore full file list
• Status line shows current search query and match count
• Preserves tree structure and selection state during filtering (Closes #30)
Added
• Releases are now built with cargo-dist:shell/PowerShell installers, a Windows MSI, six prebuilt targets (x86_64/aarch64 for Linux, macOS, Windows), and automated publishing to Homebrew, Scoop, AUR (lstr-bin), and WinGet
• Added --du to show directories with the cumulative size of their contents (like tree --du, implies -s); the summary line and JSON report include the total (Closes #12)
• Added --output json for machine-readable classic-mode output, including sizes, permissions, and git status when the matching flags are set (progress toward #7)
• Added mouse support in interactive mode:scroll wheel moves the selection, click selects, and clicking the selected entry opens/toggles it (Closes #28)
• Added --file-depth <LEVEL> to hide individual files below a depth, summarized per directory as [+N files] — useful for high-level project overviews (Closes #9)
• Added --max-items <N> to cap entries shown per directory, summarizing the rest as [+N more] (Closes #8)
• Interactive mode now returns to the tree after closing the editor instead of exiting, preserving expansion and selection and picking up file changes (Closes #3, Closes #22)
• Added --editor <COMMAND> to interactive mode for custom file openers, and $VISUAL is now honored before $EDITOR (Closes #26)
• Added h/← (collapse selected or parent directory) and l/→ (expand/open) navigation keys in interactive mode (Closes #41, thanks @Kr1ngl3)
• Directories now show the most severe git status of their contents with -G, in both classic and interactive modes
Changed
• File permissions now display l for symlinks and the setuid/setgid/sticky special bits (s/S, t/T)
• Improved sorting performance:metadata lookups and string allocations now happen once per entry instead of once per comparison (--sort modified on a 40k-entry tree: ~2.6× faster)
• Improved -G git-status performance in classic mode by removing a filesystem canonicalization syscall per entry (~2× faster on a 10k-file repository)
Fixed
• Fixed hyperlink escape sequences being emitted under --color never and into pipes; hyperlinks now follow the colorization decision
• Fixed the TUI capturing mouse events it never handled, which broke click-drag text selection in the terminal
• Fixed interactive mode printing Windows \\?\ verbatim paths from Ctrl+s (Closes #24)
• Fixed wrong tree connectors with --dirs-only, where a directory could render ├── because filtered-out files after it were counted as siblings
• Fixed quadratic tree-connector computation that made large directory trees (tens of thousands of entries) take seconds instead of milliseconds
• Fixed ignore files (.ignore, global gitignore, .git/info/exclude) filtering output even without the -g flag; all standard ignore filters are now tied to -g in both classic and interactive modes
• Fixed the interactive TUI quitting when typing q (or other command keys) into a search query
• Fixed a crash whe
0.3.0 July 12, 2026 — 64-bit MSI
Release notes
Release Notes
Added
- Added comprehensive sorting options for both classic and interactive modes:
- --sort <TYPE>: Sort by name (default), size, modified time, or extension
- --dirs-first: Sort directories before files
- --case-sensitive: Use case-sensitive sorting with specific order (numbers → uppercase → lowercase)
- --natural-sort: Version-aware sorting (file1 < file2 < file10)
- --reverse: Reverse any sort order
- --dotfiles-first: Priority ordering (dotfolders → folders → dotfiles → files)
- Added comprehensive examples directory (examples/sample-directory/) with various file types, nested structures, and test scenarios for validating lstr functionality including icons, gitignore behavior, and tree display.
- Added interactive search functionality in TUI mode:
- Press / to enter search mode with real-time filename filtering
- Case-insensitive substring matching filters files as you type
- Press Esc to exit search and restore full file list
- Status line shows current search query and match count
- Preserves tree structure and selection state during filtering (Closes #30)
Added
- Releases are now built with cargo-dist: shell/PowerShell installers, a Windows MSI, six prebuilt targets (x86_64/aarch64 for Linux, macOS, Windows), and automated publishing to Homebrew, Scoop, AUR (lstr-bin), and WinGet
- Added --du to show directories with the cumulative size of their contents (like tree --du, implies -s); the summary line and JSON report include the total (Closes #12)
- Added --output json for machine-readable classic-mode output, including sizes, permissions, and git status when the matching flags are set (progress toward #7)
- Added mouse support in interactive mode: scroll wheel moves the selection, click selects, and clicking the selected entry opens/toggles it (Closes #28)
- Added --file-depth <LEVEL> to hide individual files below a depth, summarized per directory as [+N files] — useful for high-level project overviews (Closes #9)
- Added --max-items <N> to cap entries shown per directory, summarizing the rest as [+N more] (Closes #8)
- Interactive mode now returns to the tree after closing the editor instead of exiting, preserving expansion and selection and picking up file changes (Closes #3, Closes #22)
- Added --editor <COMMAND> to interactive mode for custom file openers, and $VISUAL is now honored before $EDITOR (Closes #26)
- Added h/← (collapse selected or parent directory) and l/→ (expand/open) navigation keys in interactive mode (Closes #41, thanks @Kr1ngl3)
- Directories now show the most severe git status of their contents with -G, in both classic and interactive modes
Changed
- File permissions now display l for symlinks and the setuid/setgid/sticky special bits (s/S, t/T)
- Improved sorting performance: metadata lookups and string allocations now happen once per entry instead of once per comparison (--sort modified on a 40k-entry tree: ~2.6× faster)
- Improved -G git-status performance in classic mode by removing a filesystem canonicalization syscall per entry (~2× faster on a 10k-file repository)
Fixed
- Fixed hyperlink escape sequences being emitted under --color never and into pipes; hyperlinks now follow the colorization decision
- Fixed the TUI capturing mouse events it never handled, which broke click-drag text selection in the terminal
- Fixed interactive mode printing Windows \\?\ verbatim paths from Ctrl+s (Closes #24)
- Fixed wrong tree connectors with --dirs-only, where a directory could render ├── because filtered-out files after it were counted as siblings
- Fixed quadratic tree-connector computation that made large directory trees (tens of thousands of entries) take seconds instead of milliseconds
- Fixed ignore files (.ignore, global gitignore, .git/info/exclude) filtering output even without the -g flag; all standard ignore filters are now tied to -g in both classic and interactive modes
- Fixed the interactive TUI quitting when typing q (or other command keys) into a search query
- Fixed a 

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