Vifm

Vifm v0.14.4

31 May 2026

Thanks for the bug reports. This is another (likely the last one) bugfix release for the v0.14.x series. The changes included in this release expand or correct documentation, update text of messages, adjust sample vifmrc files or fix bugs.

Invocation

• Reworked --help output to be more compact and readable.

Documentation

• Added menu index to the documentation. Patch by CaptainFantastic.
• Improved description of the local filter in the documentation. Thanks to CaptainFantastic.
• Documented quoting and escaping on command-line. Patch by Kirill Rekhov.
• Documented name conflict resolution dialog. Patch by Kirill Rekhov.
• Rewrote documentation about command-line ranges to make it complete and more readable. Thanks to CaptainFantastic.
• Improved wording in documentation describing general behaviour of visual mode.

Menus and dialogs

• Improved potentially confusing wording in the dialog confirming exit while background jobs are running.
• Don't offer "append the tail" conflict resolution option for al and rl operations because it's inappropriate for creation of symbolic links.

File preview

• Display an error on trying to switch from external preview to raw mode.

Integration

• Fall back to using standard::fast-content-type from GLib if standard::content-type is missing. Patch by Jan Palus (a.k.a. jpalus).

Other changes

• Added example of handling .deb-files to sample vifmrc. Patch by Kirill Rekhov.
• Updated sample vifmrc files to use vi as a last resort if it exists.
• Updated list of categories in .desktop-file. Patch by Jared Cervantes (a.k.a. Jaredy899).

Fixes

• Fixed :normal not being able to run commands which end with whitespace.
• Fixed printing newline on cancelling choosing a directory via --choose-dir option. Thanks to The Cyberduck.
• Fixed escaping characters with codes greater than 127 producing garbage.
• Fixed vifm-media-osx script for modern versions of OS X. Thanks to vulpes-vulpeos.
• Fixed weird delays in FUSE when running an AppImage caused by a trailing colon in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Thanks to qadzek.
• Fixed a small memory leak on trying to display a map menu which doesn't show up because it would be empty.
• Fixed vifm-pause and other helpers not being available from within AppImage. Thanks to Marcin Kowalski (a.k.a. mrkowalski).
• Fixed vifm.vim not cleaning up buffers properly when used as a netrw replacement. Thanks to Ivan Shapovalov (a.k.a. intelfx) and pascualpobil.
• Fixed a crash if GLib didn't return a file type. Patch by Jan Palus (a.k.a. jpalus).
• Fixed undoing of chmod operation not restoring owner's read permission. Thanks to aleksejrs. Patch by Kirill Rekhov.
• Fixed incorrect progress indicator for dp and do keys in compare view. Thanks to aleksejrs.
• Fixed UID/GID occasionally not being formatted as requested (numeric vs. symbolic form) in the UI. Thanks to vuenn.
• Fixed rl normal mode key sometimes not moving cursor to the newly inserted link and simultaneously logging partial name in the undo history message, which is merely informative.
• Fixed :open not entering symbolic links to directories if there is no vifm executable in $PATH. Thanks to CaptainFantastic.
• Fixed :yank and :delete not handling optional count parameter correctly (a regression since v0.11-beta). Thanks to CaptainFantastic.
• Fixed completion of :highlight truncating long custom column names.
• Fixed a Lua column disabling search highlighting for all columns to its right.
• Fixed a buffer overflow in trie implementation (CVE-2026-8997). Thanks to Michał Majchrowicz and Marcin Wyczechowski.
• Fixed Lua modules written in C not being loaded on Unix-like systems. Thanks to Steven Xu (a.k.a. stevenxxiu).