🎉 Release Notes: rclone manager [v0.2.4]

Welcome to v0.2.4, officially dated 2026-04-14.

This release brings massive workflow improvements to Nautilus, empowering power users with generic environment variables, and significantly improving the experience for our Docker/Headless users.

Here is what’s new!

🔥 Highlights

🚀 Nautilus: Now with OS-Native File Uploads

Nautilus just got a lot more powerful. You can now drag files and folders directly from your computer's native file manager (Finder, Explorer, Dolphin, etc.) right into the rclone manager window.

• Preserves folder structure recursively.
• Supports both Tauri desktop and headless HTTP modes.

🪟 Multi-Window Support for Nautilus

Need to manage two different remotes side-by-side? You can now open multiple, independent Nautilus windows.

• Open a new window from the Tray, by right-clicking a remote/folder, or by dragging a tab to your desktop.

🛠️ The Return of the JSON Editor

By popular demand, the JSON Editor for rclone fields is back! It is now a toggleable option, making it far more user-friendly than previous versions. This provides full control over custom flags directly within the UI.

⚙️ Generic Rclone Environment Variables

Power users, rejoice! You can now specify arbitrary rclone environment variables (e.g., RCLONE_NO_UPDATE_MODTIME=true) directly in the UI for flexible FUSE compatibility and deep rclone tuning.

📝 Full Changelog

✨ Added

Nautilus (File Browser)

• External Drag & Drop: Support for dragging files/folders from the OS file manager directly into Nautilus.
• Multi-Window: Added support for running multiple independent Nautilus windows.
• Spring-loaded Folders: Hover over a folder, breadcrumb, or sidebar item with a dragged object for 1 second to automatically navigate into it.

Core & Remote Management

• JSON Editor re-added: Optional (via toggle) editor for rclone fields and custom flags.

• Generic Env Vars: UI support for arbitrary RCLONE_* environment variables.

• Job Details: Select a job from the General tab to open a detailed view modal. Old job data storing as well.

• Enhanced OAuth Flow: Displays direct OAuth URLs with a compact copy button; preserves the OAuth helper URL during configuration.

System & Docker

• Legacy Configs: Added legacy config directory support for Docker users.
• Secrets Management: Added support for RCLONE_MANAGER_SECRET, _PATH, and _FILE environment variables as fallbacks for encrypted credentials when the OS keyring is unavailable.
• max_upload_batch_size: New setting for headless mode to control local file upload batch sizes.
• Tray: Added "Open File Browser" menu item to open Nautilus instantly.

UI & Localization

• Remote Cards: Added a "Detailed" variant for remote cards (enable in layout editor).

• Language: Added Simplified Chinese support (Huge thanks to @why25!).
• Translations: Added missing rclone provider translations.

🔄 Changed

• Under the Hood: Replaced Angular CDK drag-and-drop with native HTML5 Drag and Drop API in Nautilus for a more responsive, system-native feel. (Note: CDK remains active for tab reordering).
• UX Improvements: Split view now automatically switches active panes when hovering during a drag operation.
• Packaging: Update checks will no longer be hidden in package-manager builds (Flatpak, deb, rpm, Arch, container). Notifications of new versions will still appear.
• Various small design tweaks across the application.

🐛 Fixed

• Linux AppImage: Fixed buggy and non-performant AppImage release files; they should now work properly across all distributions.
• Mount: Fixed a bug preventing mounting multiple profiles/instances of the same remote.
• File Viewer (Headless): Implemented browser-native downloads, fixing the download functionality in web mode.
• Nautilus:
  • Prevented dropping files into their current directory or dropping a folder onto itself.
  • Prevented spring-opening a folder while it is being dragged.
• Serve: Fixed UI showing "undefined" listening address for default profiles.
• Core:
  • Fixed rclone/app self-updates in headless mode.
  • Various scheduler task fixes.
  • Removed restrictive duplicate checks to allow running multiple instances with unique configurations (different ports/profiles).
• FileSystem: Fixed a bug in headless mode returning relative paths instead of absolute paths for local selections.
• Tray: Prevented tray-related imports/logic in Docker builds where the tray is not used via strict feature-gating.

⚠️ Known Issues

• Linux Media Streaming: Due to a Tauri asset protocol bug regarding webview2gtk, video and music streaming does not currently work on Linux desktop builds. This does work in headless systems. You can track this issue here: tauri-apps/tauri#3725.