folderhost

FolderHost Release v26.10.1

Release Date: 2026-10-18 19:19:55 UTC

What's New

Added

• Windows: Added a favicon and a description to the Windows build of FolderHost.
• Version updates: Before this, the only way to check for updates was by looking at the terminal where FolderHost runs. Now, update notifications appear directly in your Audit Logs.

Changed

• Mobile View: Most mobile designs have been updated. Added a new animation and another logout button in the mobile Navigation menu. Changed the general mobile designs of these pages to give a better experience to the user:
  • File Explorer page
  • Recovery page
  • Code Editor page
  • Login page
  • Audit Logs page
  • Users page
• Dependencies: Updated browserslist-db to the latest version.

Fixed

• Code Editor: The Enter button was not working; it has now been fixed.

Security

• General WebSocket scope issues: All known issues about user scope are fixed. Big thanks to @hackchang for reporting these issues!

Downloads

Docker Usage

# Pull the image
docker pull mertjsx/folderhost:v26.10.1

# Or use latest
docker pull mertjsx/folderhost:latest

# Run with docker-compose
# Download docker-compose.prod.yml from repository
docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

Important: The application will use port 5000 by default, but you can change this in config.yml and update the port mapping in docker-compose.prod.yml accordingly.

Quick Start

Linux (x86_64)

# Download and extract
wget https://github.com/MertJSX/folderhost/releases/download/v26.10.1/folderhost-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf folderhost-linux-amd64.tar.gz
chmod +x folderhost-linux-amd64

# Run
./folderhost-linux-amd64

Windows

# Download, extract, and run
# Edit config.yml as needed
folderhost.exe # Or just double click

Docker

# Run container, you can access the files using docker volumes
docker run -d \
  --name folderhost-server \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  -v folderhost_data:/app \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  mertjsx/folderhost:v26.10.1

Manual Configuration

1. Extract the downloaded archive (for binary installations)
2. Run the application once to generate config.yml
3. Edit config.yml to customize settings (especially the port if needed)
4. For Docker: Update the port mapping in docker-compose.prod.yml if you changed the port in config.yml
5. Restart the application

For issues and questions, please visit the GitHub Issues page.

FolderHost Release v26.10.0

Release Date: 2026-10-05 12:34:52 UTC

What's New

Added

• Recovery cleaner: Automatically removes old items from the recovery bin. You can set the duration after which a recovery item is permanently removed. The current default is 7 days, but you can change it. New info will appear in the Recovery page showing how much time remains until each file's deletion.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Added a lot of keyboard shortcuts in UI to improve user experience.
  • Login: Log in much faster using the Enter key. For example, after typing your username, press Enter to jump to the password input. Previously, you had to click the password field with your mouse — now you don't.
  • Creating a file: The plus button in File Explorer opens a menu to create a file or directory. Previously you had to type the name and click "Create directory" or "Create file". Now you can press Enter instead. The app checks whether the name has a file extension: item.txt + Enter creates a file, while example.com requires clicking "Create directory" manually. The UI highlights the default action.
  • Message boxes: Now you can automatically close the error/info boxes by pressing Enter instead of manually clicking with your mouse.
• File types: Added icon support for many new file extensions, categorized below.
  • Images: bmp, tiff, tif, heic, heif, avif, raw, cr2, nef, arw, psd, ai, xd, xcf
  • Documents: txt, rtf, epub, mobi, tex, xps, odt, ods, odp
  • Archives: xz, bz2, lz, lzma, zst, deb, rpm, appimage, snap
  • Video: mkv, avi, mov, wmv, flv, webm, m4v, mpg, mpeg, 3gp, ogv
  • Audio: acc, m4a, ogg, wma, aiff, mid, midi, ape
  • Web: scss, sass, less, styl
  • Programming languages:
    • Frontend: tsx, jsx, vue, svelte
    • Systems: c, h, cpp, cc, cxx, hpp, hh, hxx, asm, s, bin, o, obj
    • Scientific: f, f77, f90, f95, f03, f08, for, mat, h5, hdf5, nc, rdata, rds, parquet, arrow
    • Legacy: pas, pp, dpr, dpk
    • Functional: hs, lhs, fs, fsx, fsi, ex, exs
    • Modern: cs, zig, sol, go, mod, sum, gradle, rs, scala, sc, swift, kt, kts, dart
    • Scripting: rb, erb, lua, pl, pm, zsh, fish, ksh, csh, ps1, psm1, psd1, ipynb
    • Others: vb, vbs, bas
  • Config: conf, cfg, properties, env, toml
  • Executables & system: exe, dll, msi, cab, msix, sys
  • Databases: sqlitedb
  • Disk images: iso, img, vhd, vhdx, vmdk, qcow2, vdi
  • 3D models: blend, blend1, blend2, fbx, dae, gltf, glb, stl, 3ds, obj3d, step, stp, iges, igs, gcode
  • Game engines:
    • Godot: godot, tscn, gd, tres
    • Blockbench: bbmodel
  • Fonts: ttf, otf, woff, woff2, eot
  • Certificates & keys: pem, crt, cer, key, pub, p12, pfx, gpg, asc
  • Mobile packages: apk, aab, xapk
  • Torrent files: torrent, torrentfile
  • Logs & temp files: log, bak, tmp, temp, swp
  • Markdown: mdx

Changed

• Duplicate file uploads: Uploading a file whose name already exists in the target directory now fails with an error instead of silently replacing it. This prevents users with upload-only permissions (but no delete permission) from overwriting files they shouldn't be able to remove. A future update may allow auto-replace for users with both upload_files and delete permissions.
• Upload speed: Uploads are now much faster — on par with (and sometimes faster than) FTP. A ~4 GB file that previously took 14 seconds now takes about 8 seconds. Tested on localhost; real-world results depend on network speed.
• Upload UI: The upload menu now shows more information: elapsed time, remaining time, upload speed, and transferred bytes.
• Dependencies: react-icons updated from 5.5.0 to 5.7.0.
• Version fallback: If the program can't determine its version, it falls back to the version defined in default_config.yml embedded in the binary.
• Recovery UI colors: Updated the recovery

FolderHost Release v26.8.0

Release Date: 2026-08-15 14:03:22 UTC

What's New

Added

• Image Viewer: Added direct image viewer access from sidebar preview.
• Permission Tooltips: Added tooltips to permission settings to explain what each permission does.
• Sharing system: Now you can share files with your friends using share links. Without needing to set a password to access it. You can also set an expiration date for the share link or an access password for it. Admins can also view and remove everyones shared links.

Changed

• Image Viewer: Set default mode to drag mode.

Security

• Login tracking: Now FolderHost locally logs the IP addresses and User Agents of the logged in users to provide additional security.

Fixed

• Docker versioning: Fixed issue where docker was not showing the correct version.
• Database: Fixed possible deadlocks.
• Login: Prevent browser autofill from breaking the dark mode input colors.
• Recovery: Fixed icon bugs in file recovery.

Downloads

Docker Usage

# Pull the image
docker pull mertjsx/folderhost:v26.8.0

# Or use latest
docker pull mertjsx/folderhost:latest

# Run with docker-compose
# Download docker-compose.prod.yml from repository
docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

Important: The application will use port 5000 by default, but you can change this in config.yml and update the port mapping in docker-compose.prod.yml accordingly.

Quick Start

Linux (x86_64)

# Download and extract
wget https://github.com/MertJSX/folderhost/releases/download/v26.8.0/folderhost-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf folderhost-linux-amd64.tar.gz
chmod +x folderhost-linux-amd64

# Run
./folderhost-linux-amd64

Windows

# Download, extract, and run
# Edit config.yml as needed
folderhost.exe # Or just double click

Docker

# Run container, you can access the files using docker volumes
docker run -d \
  --name folderhost-server \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  -v folderhost_data:/app \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  mertjsx/folderhost:v26.8.0

Manual Configuration

1. Extract the downloaded archive (for binary installations)
2. Run the application once to generate config.yml
3. Edit config.yml to customize settings (especially the port if needed)
4. For Docker: Update the port mapping in docker-compose.prod.yml if you changed the port in config.yml
5. Restart the application

FolderHost Release v26.6.2

Release Date: 2026-06-29 16:41:16 UTC

What's New

Added

• Config Migration: Added automatic config.yml migration system.
• SSL: Added SSL configuration to the default configuration file. You can enable it by setting ssl.enabled to true in the configuration file. There are 2 possible ways to use it. The first one is to use a self signed certificate. The second one is to use a let's encrypt certificate. If you don't have a domain or you don't want to use let's encrypt certificate just use the self signed certificate.

Changed

• Navigation bar design: The old one was looking weird and unconfortable for most of users. It was not compatible with devices that has low height. So I think the newer design is looking better now. If you have any other suggestions you can open a discussion for that.
  • Old:
  • New:

Security

• Login system: Limit max failed login attempts to 5 (Username will be blocked for 5 minutes after 5 failed login attempts).

Downloads

Docker Usage

# Pull the image
docker pull mertjsx/folderhost:v26.6.2

# Or use latest
docker pull mertjsx/folderhost:latest

# Run with docker-compose
# Download docker-compose.prod.yml from repository
docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

Important: The application will use port 5000 by default, but you can change this in config.yml and update the port mapping in docker-compose.prod.yml accordingly.

Quick Start

Linux (x86_64)

# Download and extract
wget https://github.com/MertJSX/folderhost/releases/download/v26.6.2/folderhost-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf folderhost-linux-amd64.tar.gz
chmod +x folderhost-linux-amd64

# Run
./folderhost-linux-amd64

Windows

# Download, extract, and run
# Edit config.yml as needed
folderhost.exe # Or just double click

Docker

# Run container, you can access the files using docker volumes
docker run -d \
  --name folderhost-server \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  -v folderhost_data:/app \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  mertjsx/folderhost:v26.6.2

Manual Configuration

1. Extract the downloaded archive (for binary installations)
2. Run the application once to generate config.yml
3. Edit config.yml to customize settings (especially the port if needed)
4. For Docker: Update the port mapping in docker-compose.prod.yml if you changed the port in config.yml