Announcing termscp 0.16.0

What's new

So let's see what's new in this version 0.16 of termscp.

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Multi host transfers

What is multi-host

So currently termscp could only work with a remote in the following way

|-----------|           |--------|
|           | --------> |        |
| Localhost |           | Remote |
|           | <-------- |        |
|-----------|           |--------|

But, what if we could link two remotes?

|----------|           |----------|
|          | --------> |          |
| Remote A |           | Remote B |
|          | <-------- |          |
|----------|           |----------|

How it works

Clearly, it is impossible to directly link two remotes, because they don't run termscp, but we could make termscp in two modes. One is as-is now with Localhost and Remotefs, and the other one would be like this

|----------|
|          |
| Remote A |
|          |
|----------|
  ^     |
  |     |
  |     |
  |     v
|-------------|           |----------|
|             | --------> |          |
| Host Bridge |           | Remote B |
|             | <-------- |          |
|-------------|           |----------|

So this would require a new trait like HostBridge to provide the same methods as the current Host and then we would implement a RemoteHostBridge which interacts with remotefs to the RemoteA which is mapped by the Host bridge.

Changes to UI

From now on when you run termscp the UI looks as this:

So the right panel is basically the same as it was, while the new panel is the panel on the left, which by default is set to Localhost host type, but can be changed to any other protocol, like this:

and then once connected you have the two panels as it used to be with localhost:

Dot Dot directory

So apparently many of you wanted to see the .. directory on the top of the list in the explorers to go the parent directory, so here you go; finally I've implemented it.

Minor changes

• Migration to tuirealm 2.x, which has ratatui updates and the UI is now more responsive
• The new version alert wasn't displayed anymore, but unfortunately until the next version you won't see it fixed.
• Fixed a vulnerability due to the use of the users crate. Now we have uzers.

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I hope you enjoy using termscp, and if you encounter any issue, don't hesitate to report an issue on github.