CHANGES.md

FileBot 5.2.2

• Support for TheDiscDB episode mapping information (i.e. improved automatic matching for file names like Disc_1_t01 or 00001_t01 if mapping information is available)
• Support for en-US locale-style language codes
• Improved series / episode auto-detection
• Improved integration with Windows 11
• Improved integration with Terminal on Windows 11

FileBot 5.2.1

• Added support for custom file order expressions in Presets
• Added SPACE bar shortcut to show / hide match details
• Improved series / episode auto-detection
• Enhanced support for SMB network shares
• Enhanced movie details tooltip
• Enhanced background task management
• Fix {hdr} backwards compatibility issues
• Fix {plex.tail} or {plex[1]} custom format issues on Windows
• Fix Path.toRealPath(LinkOption.NOFOLLOW_LINKS) performance issues on macOS

FileBot 5.2.0

• Support for matching or re-matching selected items
• Improved movie / episode auto-detection
• Improved {hdr} binding to distinguish DV and DV+HDR10
• Improved {runtime} binding to provide episode-specific runtime information
• Improved {db} binding to support mapping from TheTVDB to TheMovieDB and vice versa
• Improved {anime} heuristics
• Added {vk} binding for tagging 4K files
• Added {chapters} binding
• Suggest Opportunistic Mode when Strict Mode fails to match the files at hand
• Suggest Manual Selection when Automatic Selection fails to match the files at hand
• Suggest Absolute Order when Airdate Order fails to match the files at hand
• Improved support for *.dng image files
• Improved support for loading a very large number of files from a remote file system
• Improved support for multi-monitor environments
• Improved thumbnail quality and compression

FileBot 5.1.7

• Improved series / episode auto-detection
• Support for custom ChatGPT prompt integrations
• Support for custom page scraper integrations
• Improved support for custom rename actions on Windows platforms
• Improved support for arm64 on Windows 11

FileBot 5.1.6

• Enable OpenSubtitles REST API by default
• Improved series / episode auto-detection
• Improved support for i3 and sway on Linux
• Support for arm64 on Windows 11

FileBot 5.1.5

• Improved series / episode auto-detection
• Improved support for Google Drive virtual folders on macOS

FileBot 5.1.4

• Enable multi-selection for DELETE, UP and DOWN
• Improved {kodi.id} binding
• Improved series / episode auto-detection
• Improved charset detection
• Improved error messages
• Added --apply thumbnail post-processing feature to generate movie / episode thumbnails
• Added hidden version / revision information label
• Support for DWMWA_USE_IMMERSIVE_DARK_MODE on Windows 11
• Support for KDE Plasma 6

FileBot 5.1.3

• Added support for Official episode order
• Improved charset detection
• Experimental support for OpenSubtitles REST API

FileBot 5.1.2

• Added {plex.year} plex format with year binding
• Added {language} original language binding
• Added {mediaFileName} media file name without extension binding
• Added {dovi} Dolby Vision tag binding
• Improved csv() parser
• Support for companion files in Music Mode
• Support for WM_QUERYENDSESSION events on Windows
• Support for clone & delete cross-subvolume move operations on Linux / BTRFS
• Improved support for clone operations on macOS / APFS and Linux / BTRFS

FileBot 5.1.0

• Support custom post-processing scripts
• Added {tvdbid} binding
• Added {medium} binding
• Added {episodelist} binding
• Added --file-order option (e.g. --file-order resolution)
• Cache mediainfo and ffprobe output
• Improved --mode interactive series selection
• Improved support for EXIF metadata
• Improved support for xfs and bcachefs
• Added system.properties editor
• Resolve commands against the %PATH% on Windows
• Improved extattr support on BSD platforms
• Improved support for nested include files

FileBot 5.0.3

• Use Series Name (Year) naming in the {kodi} binding
• Use --action for --apply import file operations
• Improved support for .xattr folders with --apply import and --apply prune post-processing features
• Improved support for external format files

FileBot 5.0.0

• Added support for Digital and Production and Story Arc episode order preferences
• Added Default Presets for assorted use cases
• Added Group ➔ Double Episodes to Episodes context menu
• Added {jellyfin} binding (i.e. Jellyfin naming standard)
• Added {acf} audio channel format tag binding
• Added {ct} file creation date binding
• Added {relativeFile} relative library path binding
• Enhanced {hd} with support for additional HD resolutions (i.e. UHD / QHD / FHD / HD / SD)
• Enhanced Match auto-align behaviour
• Added column edit behaviour to Edit Name
• Added CTRL+O and CTRL+L keyboard shortcuts for Open and Reveal
• Added CTRL+M and CTRL+N keyboard shortcuts for Edit Match and Edit Name
• Support for setting POSIX permissions via --apply chmod
• Support for Extras via --apply import
• Support for custom --apply actions
• Support for custom --conflict actions
• Support for transcoding TMPlayer and MPL2 subtitle files to SRT / UTF-8
• Enable TheTVDBv4 by default
• Enable HTTP/2 by default
• Fix drag-n-drop issues on Linux / KDE / Dolphin

FileBot 4.9.6

• Added Open / Reveal / Rename / Move to Trash / Set Attributes context menu
• Added autofill behaviour to Edit Match and Edit Name
• Added {sn} season name binding
• Added {mediaTags} embedded media tags binding
• Added {certification} and {info.certifications} bindings for TheMovieDB episode information
• Added Media table to Match Details view
• Improved Conflict resolution messages
• Improved support for {plex.id} style file paths
• Experimental support for TheTVDBv4
• Enhanced FileDialog implementation on Linux
• Support for updating the Last-Modified time stamp via --apply touch
• Support -- stop option parser convention
• Support Open With menu on macOS
• Support Apple Silicon
• Support Java 17

FileBot 4.9.4

• Support find-as-you-type in Edit Match
• Toggle Match Details view via F6 keyboard shortcut
• Improved grouping and sorting for custom Presets
• Added {drive} drive letter / network share / mount point binding
• Added {vbr} video bitrate and {abr} audio bitrate bindings
• Added {vcf} video compression format and {ar} aspect ratio bindings
• Added {country} production country binding
• Enhanced and more versatile {plex}, {kodi} and {emby} bindings
• Use smart unit types for {bitrate}, {bytes}, {fps}, {af} and {channels} bindings
• Added -find -exec command
• Support for adding Finder tags on macOS via --apply finder
• Support for transcoding subtitle files to SRT / UTF-8 via --apply srt
• Support --db TheMovieDB in -list -rename commands
• Support Virtual Terminal Sequences on Windows 10
• Support Remote Desktop via filebot-xpra docker container
• Support Java 16

FileBot 4.9.3

• Enhanced Dark Mode on Windows and macOS
• Enhanced FileDialog implementation on Windows
• Enhanced Progress Monitor for long-running post-process operations
• Adaptive cache update and flush
• Added {info.video} and {info.status} extended metadata bindings
• Added {files} binding to list directory contents and archive contents
• Enhanced --apply prune to delete only truly empty folders (i.e. no hidden files)
• Enhanced --apply tag to support cover artwork attachments
• Enhanced --apply cover and --apply artwork selection order
• Added support for .heic image files
• Reduced image size and memory usage
• Support Synology DSM 7.0

FileBot 4.9.2

• Enable Dark Mode by default on Windows and macOS (depending on system settings)
• Enhanced Progress Monitor and Dialog UI
• Enhanced native Desktop integration
• Enhanced configuration options for Presets
• Improved support for Export and Restore of User Data
• Improved support for multi-monitor environments
• Restore window bounds and window state on startup (and actively prevent off-screen windows)
• Added {decade} convenience binding (e.g. 1970)
• Added {anime} boolean binding (i.e. best guess based on database, genre, language, country, etc)
• Improved support for 3-digit and 4-digit season numbers
• Improved support for DE-ASCII transliteration (e.g. ÄäÖöÜüß)
• Enhanced file path validation on Linux (e.g. GVFS)
• Enhanced xattr and crc32 in-memory cache invalidation
• Optimize History write operations
• Added -d option (i.e. Folder Mode)
• Added -revert command default behaviour (i.e. revert most recent -rename operation)
• Enhanced --q query expressions
• Enhanced --mapper capabilities
• Improved support for --mode interactive on Windows
• Improved support for @files (e.g. BOM)
• Improved support for hardlink deduplication
• Added support for macOS Big Sur

FileBot 4.9.1

• Added Edit Format / Edit Match / Edit Name context menu
• Added Smart Mode: Attributes matcher (i.e. xattr / exif / id3 / atom)
• Use F2 shortcut for Plain File Mode
• Use F3 shortcut for Local Xattr Mode
• Enable selected post-processing features via Filter ➔ Attributes ➔ Apply
• Enable clone (on macOS / apfs) and reflink (on Linux / btrfs) by default for all COPY operations
• Enhanced Selection Dialog with thumbnails and tooltips
• Enhanced Conflict Dialog with detailed explanations
• Enhanced manual search to support both search by name and lookup by id
• Improved support for mapping episode information between different databases and numbering schemes (e.g. via AnimeList or XEM)
• Added {db} dynamic binding (e.g. map between TheTVDB and AniDB episode objects)
• Added {vs} standard media {source} tag
• Enhance {primaryTitle} to yield AniDB x-jat (romanized Japanese) series name for TheTVDB episode objects
• Enhance {hours} to use Ratio (U+2236) instead of Colon (U+003A)
• Added {historic} dynamic binding for looking up the original file path of {f} (e.g. {historic.f} is useful for -exec post-processing commands)
• Evaluate {closures} automatically in String.plus(Closure) constructs (e.g. {"[" + {n} + " " + {s00e00} + "]"})
• Improved -mediainfo -exec pipeline
• Added -no-probe option to disable media parser (e.g. match files without reading file contents)
• Added -no-index option to disable local media indices (i.e. improved support for low-memory devices)
• Added -no-history and -clear-history options
• Support dynamic code evaluation via include and evaluate
• Support @file.groovy syntax in Format Editor and Preset Editor (e.g. @/path/to/MyFormat.groovy)
• Added --apply option (e.g. --apply artwork nfo url metadata)
• Added --mapper option (e.g. --mapper AnimeList.AniDB)
• Allow *.groovy files as argument value for --format, --filter, --mapper and --file-filter options (e.g. --format /path/to/MyFormat.groovy)
• Support movie hash lookup via --db OpenSubtitles
• Support -r and --file-filter for -script calls (i.e. select files before calling the script)
• Support bash_completion

FileBot 4.8.5

• Port to OpenJDK 11 / OpenJFX 11
• Improved syntax highlighting for format expressions
• Improved support for rare SxE patterns (i.e. S1-01)
• Added {kodi} binding (i.e. Kodi naming standard)
• Added {ci} binding (i.e. movie collection index)
• Match {source}, {group}, {tags} and {s3d} from {media.title}
• Move to Trash action in Filter tools (e.g. batch delete clutter files)
• Paste License Key button to simplify license activation for users who can't receive email attachments (i.e. some email providers block *.psm attachments)
• Built-in Automator Workflows for macOS (i.e. easily create Quick Actions and Folder actions)
• Fix UI deadlock issues on Linux
• Fix drag-n-drop issues on Linux / KDE / Dolphin
• Support for 7z an unrar executables on Linux
• Support for xattr on FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD
• Support for writing xattr metadata to plain text files (i.e. improved support for rclone and gdfs)
• Support for a Dark Mode Look-and-Feel
• Fix various mediainfo / archive extract issues on QNAP NAS (especially on x86_64 devices)
• New 32-bit Windows packages (i.e. x86 msi installer)
• New multi-arch Debian packages (i.e. support armhf and aarch64 for Raspberry Pi devices or ARM-based servers)
• New multi-arch Fedora / openSUSE / CentOS packages (i.e. RPM packages)

FileBot 4.8.2

• New license model and cross-platform support for all Java 8 / Java 10 platforms
• Improved episode / movie auto-detection
• Added {hdr} binding
• Added --file-filter option (e.g. --file-filter f.video)
• Added --db exif and --db file in addition to --db xattr (i.e. command-line equivalents for Preset datasources)
• [Windows] Improved HiDPI support for non-integer scale factors (e.g. 125%)
• [Linux] Support for ffprobe as replacement for libmediainfo (i.e. for armv7 / aarch64 platforms)
• [macOS] Disable 0-termination when reading / writing xattr String values

FileBot 4.7.15

• Support for CoW clones (requires APFS or BTRFS)
• Improved movie auto-detection

FileBot 4.7.10

• Support the new TheTVDB JSON API
• Support the new OMDb API
• Improved CD1/2 auto-detection
• Support for custom rename actions via the --action option
• Support for the new -exec option
• Support for the FILEBOT_OPTS environment variable for FileBot-specific Java options
• Use GnuPG signatures for all deployment artifacts

FileBot 4.7.9

• Binding {sdhd} has been removed in favour of {hd} which now supports UHD/HD/SD as possible values
• Improved support for Photo mass-renaming (e.g. added {exif}, {camera} and {location} bindings)
• Improved streaming behaviour for -mediainfo commands and --format expressions no longer limited by file path validation (e.g. multi-line, special characters, etc)
• Support lookup by id for -list commands (e.g. filebot -list --q 70327)
• Support for renaming episodes files in linear order (e.g. -list --q 70327 -rename *.mkv)

FileBot 4.7.8

• Additional language preferences
• Additional Episode Sort Order: Absolute Airdate Order (useful for matching by airdate or episode title instead of SxE numbers)
• Additional bindings: {kbps} and {khz}
• Unified {localize} and {order} binding usage (e.g. localize.zho.n or order.airdate.sxe)
• Use powershell instead of cmd when executing commands on Windows (e.g. --def exec)
• Improved behaviour for -rename --q command-line usage
• Improved desktop integration for Gnome and KDE
• Improved support for Debian Linux armhf ABI (e.g. Raspberry Pi)

FileBot 4.7.5

• Keyboard shortcuts for calling user-defined Presets (Numpad 1..9)
• Improved episode auto-detection
• Improved movie part index auto-detection
• Improved file sort order
• Improved bindings: {plex}, {t}, {votes}, {group}, {tags}, {audioLanguages} and {textLanguages}
• Support ANSI color output (if $TERM == xterm-256color)
• Fixed Gnome GVFS drag-n-drop issues
• Reduce xattr metadata size
• Use xz compression for all packages (e.g. reduce download size by 40%)

FileBot 4.7.1

• Improved Windows 7/8/10 integration
• Improved auto-delete behaviour (use system trash, preserve hidden user files, etc)
• {plex} binding now forces Windows-compatible paths (e.g. strip colons)
• New MediaInfo bindings: {mediaTitle} and {bitdepth}
• New Info Object bindings: {id} (series/movie ID), {object} and {type}
• New Episode bindings: {sc} (season count) and {sy} (season years)
• Support for --action reflink (requires Linux and a copy-on-write filesystem)
• Improved logging and debugging options

FileBot 4.7

• Smart Mode for handling Movies, TV Shows, Anime and Music all at once
• Support for Renaming Folders (i.e. auto-delete left-behind empty folders)
• Resolve relative formats against the Media root folder (instead of the parent folder)
• Send To context menu for Episodes / Filter / List panels
• Improved Filter tools
• Improved List tool
• Support for TheMovieDB in Episode Mode
• Improved movie / episode auto-detection
• Fix various OpenSubtitles Search/Download and Upload issues
• Fix various TheTVDB / AniDB / TVMaze issues
• Fix various multi-episode detection issues
• Fix various ID3 Tags lookup issues
• HiDPI icons
• Fix various UI/UX issues
• Performance and caching improvements
• Improved logging and error messages
• Plex Naming Standard binding {plex}
• Use range multi-episode formatting by default when using {sxe} or {s00e00} (i.e. Plex naming standard)
• {s00e00} binding will now evaluate to TheTVDB Airdate Season / Episode for AniDB Absolute Number Episodes
• Subtitle language auto-detection when using the {lang} binding
• Subtitle language / category extension binding {subt}
• Spoken languages binding {languages}
• Stereoscopic 3D binding {s3d}
• A-Z folder binding {az}
• Just-in-time localization binding {localize}, e.g. {localize.German.Title}
• Filesize bindings {bytes}, {megabytes}, {gigabytes}
• Generic MediaInfo bindings {video}, {audio}, etc are now multi-stream bindings (and {videos}, {audios}, etc have consequently been removed)
• Cmdline operation -revert to revert previous -rename operations
• Cmdline option --conflict accepts index conflict resolution behaviour
• @file syntax for command-line argument passing
• Scripts from the online repository (e.g. fn:sysinfo) are now code signed and cryptographically secured against malicious tampering (not just HTTPS transport encryption)

FileBot 4.6.1

• Added support user-defined Presets for repetitive tasks
• Added support for TVmaze
• Improved support for OpenSubtitles and subtitle matching
• Improved movie / episode auto-detection
• Improved ID3 Tags music mode
• Improved cache behaviour
• Improved support for Chinese & Brazilian languages
• Added helper function String.asciiQuotes() for normalizing various quotation marks
• Added {model} binding for querying the entire rename model
• Added convenience binding {ny} for Name (Year) formats
• Added bindings {info.budget}, {info.revenue} and {info.popularity} to the movie info object
• Changed String.sortName() default behaviour
• Support --filter as Groovy-based file filter in filebot -mediainfo calls
• Use Apache Commons VFS2 and junrar to reduce native dependencies on some platforms
• Support $JAVA_OPTS convention in all filebot.sh scripts
• Update to FanartTV API v3
• Codesign Windows NSIS and MSI installers
• Publish sha256 checksums for all release files
• Updated Chocolatey install scripts with sha1 checksums

FileBot 4.5.6

• Improved series / episode detection
• Optimize web service calls and provide more data via xattr metadata
• Extended metadata is now fetched from the originally selected data source (e.g. AniDB "generes" is no mapped to Anime categories, etc)
• Fixed various issues related to fetching Chinese subtitles
• Allow processing of *.ac3 and *.dts files in Music mode
• Do not treat folders with movie.nfo as single units like disk folders anymore
• Fixed lots of issues that have been raised in the forums

FileBot 4.5.3

• Batch -extract will now only extract new files
• Set Output Folder button in Format Editor
• Optimizations for subtitle search and lookup
• Prevent OpenSubtitles abuse
• Require OpenSubtitles login
• New script: fn:verify
• Force Nimbus as default cross platform LaF (mainly applies to KDE users)

FileBot 4.5

• Make sure movie name {n} works as per user-defined Preferred Language (only affects non-English mode)
• Support choosing between (default) Opportunistic / (new) Strict mode matching
• Improved behavior when processing large sets of files
• Improved movie / episode detection
• Improved TheMovieDB / AcoustID support
• Inherit ACLs when moving / copying files to remote folders
• New bindings {model} and {self} for advanced use-cases
• In movie mode {primaryTitle} now maps to original movie name
• --db xattr for offline processed using previously stored xattr metadata
• --action duplicate to duplicate files via hardlink when possible or copy when necessary
• Fixed various UI layout and LaF issues
• Improved integration with OSX
• Support passing file arguments in single-panel mode

FileBot 4.3

• Lots of optimizations and usability improvements
• Dropped support for Java 7 (so Java 8 is required now)