Changelog

What's new

Automatic Sync

Choose Every 10 minutes, After changes, or Off in Settings → Account & Services → Sync → Automatic Sync. Every 10 minutes is the default, including for existing connections and custom servers. Only open, connected Spaces participate; local-only folders stay local.

Lite creates checkpoints of saved changes and exchanges versions while you are idle. Unsaved edits and open configuration editors keep automatic Sync waiting. Conflicts remain available for review in the Sync panel instead of being resolved automatically.

Improvements

• Update downloads: The sidebar shows a compact progress indicator with the download percentage, then offers Restart to update when the package is ready.

Bug fixes

• New table rows: Adding a row and immediately editing its cells preserves the entered values instead of reporting a revision error or making the new row disappear.

What's new

Install plugins into your Space

Community installation links and .eidos-plugin files open plugin details in the main window. Review the target Space and requested access before installing. If Lite is closed, it reopens the last Space; open a Space to continue when that folder is unavailable.

A first installation enables the plugin in that Space. Updates preserve existing enablement, and automatic background startup still requires separate permission. Theme plugins continue to apply throughout Lite.

Improvements

• Device Sync compatibility: Compatible paired mobile apps can request committed Local history from this computer. Save a Local checkpoint to make pending changes available for transfer.
• Windows file properties: A compact properties window shows readable file locations and sizes, with native close controls and standard keyboard closing.

Bug fixes

• Table search: Pressing Escape returns focus to the grid so you can navigate cells and immediately search again, including repeated search sessions.

What's new

Your choice of Sync server

Save Graft servers in Settings → Account & Services, then choose one for each Space alongside Eidos Sync. Switch servers without losing local history; an interrupted switch keeps the previous connection available. Custom servers require Spark. Existing activated devices can refresh benefits in Settings to enable this capability.

Default Sync password

Set a default password in Sync settings for new connections. Existing encrypted Spaces continue to use their original password.

Dedicated plugin management

Open Plugins from the bottom of the sidebar to browse, install and manage plugins in a dedicated page. Built-in Terminal options are available there too.

Improvements

• Sync: Cloud and LAN panels now use a compact layout with consistent controls. Network transfers show measured bytes and a percentage when the transfer plan has a complete total, including first uploads, downloads and verification.
• Versions: Review changes and history in a denser file tree. Restore a saved version from its context menu, with confirmation before replacing local files.

Bug fixes

• Sync navigation: Switching Spaces no longer briefly shows another Space's server, an incorrect sign-in prompt or a read-only state while connection information loads.

What's new

Filter your Space without leaving the Explorer

Find files by name, path, suffix, or extended properties using the same filter editor as tables. Combine conditions with AND/OR and nested groups, including multiple or compound suffixes. Matching files keep their parent folders visible, and filtering also finds files inside collapsed folders. Conditions stay in the filter menu, with a count on the toolbar button.

Plugins in your language

Plugins can now bundle translated names, descriptions, contribution labels, and separate README documents. Plugin details select the matching language instead of mixing translations in one document, and supported plugin interfaces can respond when you change the app language. Plugin developers can start with the new localized-page template and Plugin API 3.7.

Improvements

• Explorer: Right-click a Space to expand or collapse all folders, or a folder to control only its subtree, using one contextual menu item.
• Plugins: Details identify background services alongside other contributions. Enabled labels are shorter, and sidebar reordering shows the new position as you drag.

Bug fixes

• Sync: Recover validated system-metadata merges safely, show clearer table and field conflict summaries, and retain a resumable recovery state when a merge cannot finish.
• Plugin sidebar: Highlight the selected plugin entry correctly when multiple entries share a name.

What's new

Plugins that keep working in the background

Plugins can now keep a background instance running after you close their page or finish a command. Views and commands share that instance, so a connection or an ongoing task can continue without keeping a panel open.

Plugins can request permission to start automatically when you open a Space and to receive file-open events. This enables tools such as an enhanced recent-file history that records visits while you work. Enable and authorize each plugin in the Space where you want it to run.

Bluetooth devices and shared connections

Plugins can connect to BLE GATT devices through Lite's device picker and retain the connection in the background. Choose a device, then follow the connection status in the plugin. Bluetooth access requires your approval; this supports device services such as battery readings, not Bluetooth audio playback.

Network access for plugins

Plugin views, commands and backgrounds can use a consistent fetch API, including streamed responses and cancellation. Backgrounds can also maintain WebSocket connections shared by multiple views. Network access requires your approval and remains subject to host restrictions. Existing credential connections and network APIs remain available.

Improvements

• Record menus: Table views share consistent record actions, with group destinations collected under a Move to submenu.

Bug fixes

• File thumbnails: Opening a file in its default application no longer clears the table's thumbnails during file refresh. Visible images stay in place while Lite checks for changes, and updated images replace them after loading.
• File menus: When an attachment and a file action refer to the same file, the menu shows one Open with default application action.

What's new

File thumbnails and video previews

File fields can now show system-generated thumbnails for images, videos, PDFs and other supported files across Eidos tables. Thumbnails preserve their proportions and use sizes suited to lists, Gallery covers and previews. Files without a thumbnail keep their file icon, and cached images remain available as you scroll.

Open a video preview to see its thumbnail, then press Play to start playback. Image previews read the actual image format, including images whose filename extension does not match their contents.

Browse Gallery as a photo album

Turn on Cover only in a Gallery View's settings to show covers without card backgrounds, borders, titles or extra fields. Gallery fits the complete image by default while preserving an existing fitting preference. Configured covers remain visible when their fields are hidden from card details.

Click a file cover to open its preview. Use the Left and Right arrow keys to browse files in the View's filtered and sorted order, and press Esc to close. The preview window stays the same size as you switch files, and videos wait for you to press Play.

Improvements

• File preview headers: File type and size appear beside the title instead of taking a separate row. Right-click the sidebar title to open the file menu, including the system file-manager action; Shift+F10 also opens the menu.
• Calendar performance: File-backed calendars share a scan across the displayed days, reducing repeated filesystem work when viewing a month.

Bug fixes

• File calendars: Creating a Calendar View in the file manager no longer fails with “virtual tables may not be indexed.”

Eidos Lite 0.26.0 adds a native File properties inspector, one file-metadata catalog shared across the Space, Spark device authorization for managed file metadata, and a list-like Grid layout option.

What's new

File properties

Inspect and edit a file's metadata without opening the file manager. The native File properties window shows the system file information and the custom properties configured for the Space. Changes save automatically, the current field keeps focus while saving, and a focused draft is committed before the window closes. Open it from a file's context menu.

Creating the Space file-metadata catalog and editing managed properties requires Spark activation on this computer. Existing files and their saved properties remain readable after releasing the device.

File management across the Space

Explorer and folder Manage files now open the same Space-wide catalog at .eidos/files.eidos instead of a separate catalog for each folder. Folder entry points open the catalog scoped to that folder. The managed catalog participates in version history, checkpoints and restore, and the Fields control now supports ordering, hiding and showing properties.

Ignore rules before versioning

The Versions setup panel shows a preflight summary of files, videos, large files and symlinks. Build ignore rules opens one builder for rule templates (videos, Node and build output, design files, archives, system files, temporary files), per-file exclusions for large files, and a raw .graftignore/.gitignore editor. The preflight excludes paths matched by the current rules; save once, then create the first version.

Spark device authorization

Licensed accounts can activate this computer and release it later from Settings → Account & Services. Device authorization is bound to the machine, is verified locally from signed certificates, and keeps working offline until its authorization expires. When another account signs in, the original account's device certificate is preserved for its owner.

If a certificate belongs to another computer, Settings provides activation and device-management actions. Releasing a device frees its slot; activating it again requires an explicit action.

List-like Grid

Grid views have a new Show vertical lines setting. Turn it off to hide column dividers, including in the header, for a cleaner list-like layout; horizontal row lines and row markers remain.

Improvements

• Help menu: Feedback and Release notes are now available from one sidebar menu.
• Version history: The managed file catalog appears in checkpoints, file history and safe restore.
• Cloud Sync: A Space must enable local versioning before connecting. Sync now links directly to Versions instead of showing an unusable setup.

Eidos Lite 0.25.0 adds encrypted cloud Sync on Windows and lets you replace a cloud connection while keeping your local files and version history.

Before downgrading: After using encrypted Sync in this version, an older Lite release cannot resume that cloud connection on this computer. Reinstall 0.25.0 or later to resume Sync. Your local files and saved history are preserved.

What's new

Encrypted cloud Sync on Windows

Windows can now connect to an encrypted cloud Space and exchange changes with macOS and Linux. Sign in with Sync access, then open Sync → Cloud Sync and enter the Space's sync password. Windows uses the password for the current session and asks again after you restart; saving a default sync password is not available on Windows yet.

Disconnect and reconnect in the same folder

Choose Disconnect cloud sync in the Sync panel to remove this computer's connection. The confirmation explains what is preserved: your local files, unsaved edits and Graft history stay in place, and the cloud copy is not deleted. This also works when the cloud repository has already been deleted or the service is unavailable.

Enable Sync again to create a new encrypted cloud repository from the same folder. You do not need to copy or rename your Space.

Improvements

• Encrypted Sync reliability: Initial encrypted uploads keep the saved version selected when the connection began, including on retry. Stalled transfers now stop within a bounded timeout.

Bug fixes

• Windows plugin links: The installed app registers plugin installation links when it starts, so a browser can open the matching installation page in Lite. Launch Lite once after installing or updating to register the link handler.

Eidos Lite 0.24.2 brings end-to-end encrypted cloud Sync to macOS and Linux. Connect your Space across computers with a Sync password. Local files and local version history remain available offline.

What's new

End-to-end encrypted cloud Sync

Sign in with an account that has Sync access, open Sync → Cloud Sync, set a Sync password, and choose Enable Sync. Lite encrypts file contents, paths, saved version messages and branch names on your device before upload. Use the same password when opening the cloud Space on another supported computer.

Your Sync password is separate from your account password. Keep it in your password manager: Eidos cannot recover it or decrypt your cloud copy for you. Encryption protects the cloud copy; local files remain readable. Windows and mobile clients cannot open these encrypted cloud Spaces.

Keep a file open beside your table

Choose Open in sidebar from a file row's menu to read or edit the file alongside the table. Lite opens the preview with your configured file editor or File View.

Reorder table row actions

Open a table's row menu, hold Option on macOS or Alt on Windows/Linux, and drag its actions into the order you prefer. Lite keeps this order across tables. Restore default order returns to the original arrangement.

Improvements

• Startup: Lite opens its Welcome screen with less work in the background. Plugin details and embedded table editors load when you open them.
• Sync setup: Review the upload's file count, size and exclusions in a simpler panel, with password settings and clear retry actions nearby. Supported hidden files, large files and filenames containing words such as “secret” no longer need an extra confirmation.
• Account settings: Sync access, storage and password controls now follow the compact layout used by the other settings pages.

Bug fixes

• File browsing: Expanded folders reload their contents after a background refresh invalidates the directory cache, so files remain accessible without closing and reopening the folder.
• Markdown editing: Clicking below the final block moves the caret without marking the file as modified. Saving before you type leaves the original Markdown intact, without adding an empty line.
• Update checks: An older release is no longer offered as an update to the version you are running. The floating update action also lines up with the other footer controls.

What's new

Automate local file changes with plugins

Plugins can now register file hooks that run after local saves and renames. Markdown Title Sync uses this capability to keep a Markdown filename and its existing leading H1 heading in sync. Install and enable the plugin in a Space to use it; title synchronization is optional. An open document follows a hook-triggered rename so you can keep editing.

Create tables with a Markdown body

Expand Advanced options when creating an Eidos File and select Include Markdown content to add a Text field for record bodies. Open a record to edit its body with the Markdown editor. The Content field is a table setting shared by all views and can be changed later in Table settings.

Improvements

• Plugin settings: Settings generated from plugin configuration use consistent labels, descriptions, controls and spacing. Connection settings use the same layout, with clear save, error and retry states.
• Plugin details: The header displays each plugin's own description. Discovery and permission summaries better explain the capabilities a plugin uses.
• New files: Advanced options use a compact collapsible layout with clearer explanations.
• Version history: Merge inspection avoids unnecessary repository-wide work.

Bug fixes

• Local changes: Opening or applying unchanged table and field settings no longer creates spurious schema changes or checkpoints.
• Markdown: Touch selection and character-by-character deletion work inside links without deleting the whole URL. The editor reserves scrollbar space to avoid horizontal jumps when entering edit mode.
• Files: Records in folder metadata tables open their mapped ordinary files correctly.
• Editor preference: The selected Markdown editor persists when changing the default file editor.
• Publish: File publication offers compatible read-only plugin Views.
• Terminal: Text remains readable in the light theme.

What's new

Connect your phone over the local network

Pair Eidos for Android or iOS with Eidos Lite to download and synchronize Spaces over the same local network. Each device keeps an offline copy, and local-network sync requires no cloud account. Review incoming pairing requests on your computer, follow transfers by device, and resume sharing after restarting Lite. Conflicting edits remain available for review on Desktop.

Compose files and saved views

Plugin API 3.2 lets plugins combine saved table views and ordinary files in a single read-only presentation, offer their own file templates in New File, and export generated files through the host's save dialog. Plugin file editors participate in the usual Save command, including Command-S or Ctrl-S. Existing API 3.0 and 3.1 plugins remain supported.

Improvements

• Publish file views: Share ordinary files as web pages rendered by a plugin file View, such as a GPX route displayed on a map. Publishing captures the file and plugin together so visitors see the published version. Requires Pro.

• New File: Choose the file type directly and keep control of the filename. Text files can have no extension, including dotfiles such as .graftignore.

• Device transfers: Sync displays device-specific activity with localized progress labels.

Bug fixes

• Markdown task lists: Empty checked and unchecked tasks retain their state after saving and reopening, including nested and loose lists.
• Local history: An unavailable history service displays an actionable error instead of an empty panel. The bundled Graft dependency and version checks are aligned.
• Space refresh: Creating a checkpoint or reading merge status no longer interrupts an explicit refresh with a cancellation error.
• Editor focus: Returning focus to Markdown content restores its caret so keyboard editing can continue.

What's new

Browse a folder your way

Right-click a folder and choose Show this folder to focus the Explorer on that directory. Sort files by name, modification time, or file type, with folders kept first and your sorting preference remembered.

Customize your sidebar

Pin and reorder plugin pages to keep your frequent destinations close at hand. Plugins can also provide a complete file browser: choose one from the plugin manager, and return to the built-in Explorer at any time.

Install plugins by opening their packages

Double-click an .eidos-plugin package to review its identity and permissions, then install or update it. Updates preserve each Space's enablement; newly installed plugins remain disabled until you enable them.

Improvements

• Inherited file metadata configuration: Creating files.eidos in a subfolder copies the nearest parent configuration's custom fields, options, display settings, and property mappings. Later parent edits do not overwrite existing child configurations.
• Plugin development: Plugin API 3.1 adds native file property read/write access and custom sidebar explorers. Existing API 3.0 plugins remain supported.

Bug fixes

• Record opening preference: Your choice of opening records in a side panel or as a full page is remembered after restarting.
• Cell editor alignment: Editors for newly appended records stay aligned when the layout changes, preserving the current input and focus.