Reference

Version history

What changed in each version. The same list is in the app: Help › About PaneShift › Version History.

PaneShift is in development; the current version is 0.4.32.

0.4.0 25 October 2026§

Safer servers and archives, 13 languages, a calmer panel and a first-launch guide.

Connect to a web server's folder listing (HTTP, HTTPS): browse and download, read-only.
Rename (Shift+F6) and New Folder (F7) inside 7z and ZIP archives.
Uploads to SFTP and FTP cut off by a dropped connection continue where they stopped.
Locked tabs stay locked after a restart.
The Delete key (⌦) deletes like F8, with Shift permanently.
A welcome sheet on first launch with the one access step each edition needs.
Settings › Keys: record a shortcut by pressing it; a key two commands share is pointed out at once.
Quick View shows Markdown files formatted.
Synchronize Folders can be undone.
Slovak; every message of the engines is now translated in all 13 languages.
Full open-source licence texts in the app and on the website, with the 7-Zip source offered.
Version History in the Help menu.

The panel header takes two rows instead of four; the tab bar shows only with two or more tabs.
Toolbar icons are monochrome like the rest of macOS; Settings › Appearance brings the colors back.
Space on a folder calculates its size even when Space shows Quick View or Quick Look (Settings › General).
Function bar labels and tooltips follow your keymap; shortcuts are shown as symbols.
File colors are adjusted to stay readable on light, dark and custom themes.
Commands that don't fit the marked items are turned off in menus, toolbar, function bar and palette.
SFTP and SCP check unknown servers against known_hosts or ask, and refuse revoked keys.
7-Zip passwords travel through standard input, never the command line.
Folder rules refuse to unpack archive bombs.
Connect to Server: Save and Connect sit at the bottom of the form.
One date format everywhere; clearer placeholders and VoiceOver labels.

The Git column can no longer run programs from a repository being shown.
User command parameters are shell variables, never pasted into the command.
Command output no longer freezes on background programs; Stop ends the whole process tree.
Copying a folder over a file moves the file to the Trash instead of deleting it.
Undo works on SMB shares.
Quick View of a file kept only in the cloud (OneDrive, iCloud Drive) downloads it for a full preview instead of a small thumbnail.
Verifying copies no longer seems stuck at the end of a big file: the source (an SMB share, say) is read only once, and the check shows its own progress.
Settings that can't be read are kept aside instead of overwritten.
The Lister shows the text of binary files instead of an empty page.

Full 7-Zip, undo, editing on servers, folder rules and the website.

7z, RAR and the other 7-Zip formats through the bundled 7-Zip 26.05; add to and delete from 7z and ZIP.
Undo and Redo for file operations (⌘Z, ⇧⌘Z).
Edit files on servers with F4: every save is uploaded, conflicts are asked about.
Jump to Folder (⌘J) and z on the command line, ranked by how often and how recently you go there.
Copy and paste files with ⌘C and ⌘V, and paste images, text and links as new files.
Folder rules in the style of Hazel (Settings › Rules).
A global shortcut (⌃⌥Space) brings PaneShift forward or hides it.
Photo and media columns, sorting by date taken, and media fields in Multi-Rename.
Live Text and background removal in Quick View.
Thumbnails view (⌥⌘3), themes and a font choice for the file lists.
Find Files looks inside archives.
Servers on the local network in Connect to Server; SCP for servers without SFTP.
Change permissions on SFTP and FTP servers.
The Process Viewer inside a panel.
The website and user manual.

A panel header with drive buttons, free space and tabs; a toolbar in the title bar.
Copy progress with two bars; a conflict dialog with Overwrite All and Skip All.
Cancelled server copies keep the finished files and never leave a cut-off file under its real name.
Tool windows open centered over the main window.
Settings › General: choose what Space does in a panel.

Servers in panels, the command palette, automation and eleven languages.

Browse SFTP, FTP, FTPS, WebDAV, S3 and SMB servers in a panel; Connect to Server (⌘K).
Paused and cancelled downloads continue where they stopped.
A command palette (⌘⇧P) with fuzzy matching.
A button bar with user commands in the style of Total Commander, and a keymap editor.
JavaScript user scripts (⌥⌘J), Shortcuts actions and an AppleScript dictionary.
Share, Services, Finder tags and iCloud columns, iCloud download and remove.
Analyze Space: a treemap of a folder (⌘⇧I).
A Git column, Convert Images, Combine and Split PDF.
Find Files searches text in images and PDFs.
On-device AI: summaries in the Lister, descriptions in Find Files, rename suggestions.
Tabs with locking, a places bar, a Finder-like context menu, drag out of archives and servers.
Czech and ten more languages, and your own translations.
The app icon, the About window and the build number in the title.

The first version: a dual-pane file manager in the spirit of Total Commander.

Two panels with Full and Brief views, column sets, file coloring, branch view and Quick View (⌃Q).
Copy, move and delete in a background queue with pause and verify after copy.
Find Files with Spotlight; the Lister with text, hex and Markdown.
Compare and synchronize folders, compare files by content.
Checksums, split and combine, Change Attributes.
Archives as folders, Pack, Unpack and Test, Apple Archive and disk images.
App Store edition with folder access kept as security-scoped bookmarks.