June 2025 (Version 1.39.0, build 20250624.11)

Welcome to Storage Explorer version 1.39.0. This release includes several feature enhancements and bug fixes. For a detailed list of all issues closed, visit our Issues page.

Direct Link Path Support for File Shares

Storage Explorer now supports direct links to folders in file shares. If you have a direct link to a file share with a path argument for a folder, Storage Explorer will open a tab for that folder.

Currently, there is no "Copy Direct Link" option for file share folders as there is for blobs, so you cannot create direct links to file share folders directly. To do so, you must manually add a path argument to an existing file share direct link. If you would like to see a "Copy Direct Link" feature for file share folders, please open a feature request.

Azurite Container Auto-detection

Storage Explorer uses the docker command to automatically find and connect to Azurite instances running in Docker containers. Podman users who mapped the podman command to docker may have experienced issues with this feature due to differences in output format between Docker and Podman. This issue has now been fixed.

As a result, if you are using Podman and have mapped it to the docker command, Storage Explorer can detect and connect to Azurite instances running in Podman containers. However, functionality may be limited, and full support for Podman containers is still a work in progress.

Storage Explorer and AzCopy Proxy Settings

In previous versions, Storage Explorer provided a separate setting for controlling how the version of AzCopy included with Storage Explorer used a proxy. This created unnecessary complexity and confusion when Storage Explorer and AzCopy proxy settings did not match.

In this release, AzCopy now uses the same proxy settings as Storage Explorer. As a result, we have removed the redundant Transfers → AzCopy → Disable AzCopy Proxy Usage (transfers.azCopy.noProxy) setting.