The main feature this release is parallel deletion, both for collecting files to be deleted as well as the deletion itself. On my local disk, it now reaches 144k files/s overall deletion performance. New Features

• delete files in parallel Recursive deletion now uses the same worker count selected with --threads for the initial filesystem scan, to accelerate the collection of files to be deleted, as well as the deletion of files. When marked directories are deleted, dua now:
  1. walks the selected tree without (following symbolic links as usual)
  2. collects regular files and symbolic links;
  3. removes those entries across the configured workers;
  4. removes directories from deepest to shallowest after their contents are gone on a single thread. A value of 1 keeps deletion effectively serial. Larger values allow independent file removals to overlap, which is most useful for large directory trees or filesystems with concurrent metadata operations.

Bug Fixes

• open errors and cleanup/gitignored footer labels

Refactor

• use jwalk for parallel, symlink-safe deletion Replace the hand-rolled stack traversal in delete_directory_recursively with a jwalk WalkDir (follow_links=false, skip_hidden=false). This is the same walker the rest of dua uses for scanning, so deletion now benefits from parallel traversal on multi-core machines. Behaviour preserved:
  • Symlinks are removed without following them (remove_file on the link).
  • Directories are removed deepest-first so each remove_dir sees an empty directory.
  • Error counting and byte accounting unchanged. Adds unit tests covering: single file, nested tree, symlink safety, and missing-path error reporting.

Test

• Make traversal tree tests filesystem-independent That way, tests will work locally.

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  • Prepare changelog for release (254ea4f)
  • Merge pull request #353 from Solaris-star/fix/43-jwalk-parallel-deletion (0f55a5c)
  • Delete files in parallel (b04f9f3)
  • Review (cd82444)
  • Make traversal tree tests filesystem-independent (48fb6df)
  • Use jwalk for parallel, symlink-safe deletion (7e9d0a8)
  • Merge pull request #352 from l0rush1/main (496bd78)
  • Rustfmt annotation_message match arm (3dba5a4)
  • Open errors and cleanup/gitignored footer labels (f2a957a)
  • Fix: interactive exit code and footer entries/s (1b3f60d)