4.3.0

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This release mainly focused on performance and some code cleanup.

Changes Since Last Release

Full Changelog: 4.2.1...4.3.0

Features

• Add redirect stdout from custom command to the log files (Redirect stdout from custom command to the log files #1008)
• Add option to profile scans
• Add update check feature to about box
• Update translations
• Update fs.py to optimize stat() calls
• Update directory scanning to use os.scandir() and DirEntry objects
• Improve performance of Directories.get_state()
• Migrate from hscommon.path to pathlib
• Switch file hashing to xxhash with fallback to md5

Bug Fixes

• Fix typo in debian control file (Typo in the dependencies in the Debian package being built #989,)
• Fix Error when delete after scan (Error when delete after scan, latest commit. #988)
• Fix missing polib requirement, add polib back to requirements.txt
• Various minor cleanups from adding type-hints, and checks with mypy

Other Notes

• This update has considerable changes to the file collection method to improve performance, there may be some slight differences in behavior.
• If you downgrade from this release the picture cache db needs to be deleted otherwise issues may occur with older releases.
• Release files hosted here are signed with GPG

OS packages

• Debian archives for x64 (binary archive only compatible with systems using python 3.7/3.8/3.9/3.10)
• RPM for x64, created from deb (only compatible with systems using python 3.7/3.8/3.9/3.10)
• macOS release is compatible with Intel and M1 Mac, and is signed, however not with a paid developer subscription (Installers 4.1.1 - both Qt and Cocoa - not from an identified developer macOS Big Sur 11.6 #945)
• Windows Packages have both installer (exe) and portable (zip) versions. NOTE windows versions were built using python 3.8 and are only compatible with Windows 7 or later.
• Arch Linux package is maintained by @glubsy at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dupeguru/
• Ubuntu PPA built by @eugenesan at https://launchpad.net/~dupeguru/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

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This discussion was created from the release 4.3.0.