Changelog

Track our development progress with detailed updates, improvements, and bug fixes.

  • v1.28.15

    Changed

    • Library: New Library panel replaces Favorites, supporting saved scripts, Query Builder queries, Explore views, and file references organised under Project and Personal scopes with drag-and-drop, folders.
    • Favorites: Now shown only within a connection, and stored as part of the connection configuration for portability.
    • Formatters: Added “Binary as JSON” predefined formatter to decode hex-encoded BLOB data as JSON. #1011
    • ClickHouse: Added progressive schema loading for faster connections to databases with large schemas.

    Fixed

    • Formatters: Fixed custom formatter showing false validation errors when the formatter targets specific data formats (e.g. hex-encoded JSON). #1011
    • Elasticsearch: Fixed connection failure (ProductNotSupportedError) on Elasticsearch versions prior to 7.14. #1012
    • Proxy: Fixed HTTP-based drivers (ClickHouse, BigQuery) not respecting http.noProxy VS Code settings. #1010
  • v1.28.13

    Changed

    • Explore (Preview): New data exploration panel for tables, views, and queries. Analyze dimensions and measures with interactive charts (bar, line, area, pie/donut, scatter), value filtering, date bucketing, calculated fields, and FK drill-down navigation. Available from the tree context menu or the grid toolbar.
    • DuckDB: Added progressive schema loading for faster connections to databases with large schemas.
    • Results: Added “Unstack” option to split stacked result tabs back into individual tabs. #1007

    Fixed

    • Parameters: Fixed parameters being incorrectly detected inside SQL comments (single-line -- and block /* */). #1008
    • Supabase: Fixed connections failing on newer Supabase projects by using the Management API for temporary credentials instead of SQL-based user creation.
    • Results: Fixed tab wrapping and scroll navigation not working. #1006
  • v1.28.11

    Changed

    • SQL Server: Added progressive schema loading for faster connections to databases with large schemas (SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Fabric, Dataverse).
    • Watched Folders: Watch folders of SQLite, DuckDB, and Access database files. Right-click any folder in the VS Code explorer to add it. Discovered connections appear nested by subfolder structure with live file watching for changes.
    • Access: Added zero-config discovery support for .mdb and .accdb files.

    Fixed

    • Editor: Fixed clipboard shortcuts (copy, cut, paste, select all) not working in Monaco editor popups. #1003
    • Oracle: Fixed date format setting being ignored for DATE and TIMESTAMP columns. #1004
    • Oracle: Fixed TIMESTAMP columns exporting with incorrect format in SQL INSERT statements.
    • Connection Picker: Fixed picker showing “No items found” when selecting a connection that hasn’t been cached yet, now waits for the connection to resolve. #990
    • Explorer: Fixed connection retry loops and state management when connections fail or introspection errors occur.
    • Favorites: Fixed dragging filtered tree items to favorites not working.
  • v1.28.10

    Changed

    • Export: Added “Save locally” option to exporting results when connected via VS Code Remote (SSH/WSL/DevContainer) to save exports to local machine instead of remote filesystem. #1001
    • Oracle: Added progressive schema loading for faster connections to databases with large schemas. #907

    Fixed

    • Results: Fixed grid jumping to top-left when clicking scrollbars. #988
    • Notebooks: Fixed export from notebook results not triggering the save dialog. #1001
    • IBM i: Fixed LIMIT syntax error when opening tables on older IBM i versions by using FETCH FIRST/OFFSET ROWS syntax. #976
    • IBM i: Fixed SSH tunnel connections by setting portNumber to bypass the AS/400 port mapper. #976
  • v1.28.9

    Changed

    • Export: Added progress overlay with status messages and cancel button during file exports. #980
    • PostgreSQL: Added progressive schema loading for faster connections to databases with large schemas. #894 #878
    • Explorer: Databases within a connection are now sorted alphabetically, with the configured database pinned to the top. #923

    Fixed

    • Redshift: Fixed database dropdown only showing the connected database instead of all databases.
    • BigQuery: Script CREATE (DDL) for stored procedures now includes IN prefix for input parameters, matching BigQuery Console output. #1000
    • SQLite/LibSQL: Fixed computed (generated) columns not appearing in the explorer.
    • IBM i: Fixed missing tables, views and tunnel routing issues. #976
  • v1.28.8

    Fixed

    • Snowflake: Fixed “terminated connection” errors during introspection by validating pooled connections before use. #998
    • MySQL: Fixed full compatibility with ShardingSphere-proxy. #987
    • Trino/Athena: Progressive schema loading is now enabled by default, preventing a single table with corrupted metadata from blocking introspection. #997
    • Favorites: Fixed favorites panel hanging indefinitely on startup. #995
    • DB2: Fixed DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) always reporting “0 rows affected”. #996
    • Elasticsearch: Fixed connection failure on Elasticsearch versions prior to 7.16 due to unsupported SHOW CATALOGS command. #994
  • v1.28.7

    Changed

    • IBM I: Added preview support for IBM I (AS/400) databases. #976
    • SQLite: Added sqlite-regex extension (PCRE2 regular expressions). #992
    • SQLite: Enabled load_extension() for loading custom extensions via post-connection SQL. #992
    • Excel Export: Replaced SheetJS with custom XLSX writer using Shared String Table deduplication, producing ~60% smaller files. #980
    • Export: All grid exports now use the native VS Code save dialog with Open File/Open Folder/Copy Path actions. #796

    Fixed

    • MySQL: Fixed compatibility with ShardingSphere-proxy and other MySQL proxies that don’t support IFNULL. #987
  • v1.28.5

    Changed

    • Query Builder: Visual query builder for constructing SELECT queries with a drag-and-drop. Add tables, configure joins, select columns, set filters, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY, DISTINCT, and LIMIT. Includes AI assistance for natural language query building, Save/Save As to Favorites.
    • AI: AI Assist panel for results. Manipulate query results using natural language. Filter, sort, group, pivot, chart, and more without touching the grid UI.
    • Favorites: Favorites folder now appears at the top of database nodes in the connection tree, showing favorites tied to that database. #982

    Fixed

    • Results: Fixed grid jumping to the first column when clicking a column header while scrolled right. #988
    • Export: Excel export performance improved ~2.5x and file size reduced ~60% using compression.
  • v1.28.4

    Fixed

    • Results: Fixed clicking in the grid sidebar (Inspector, Columns, etc.) stealing focus from the panel.
    • Results: Fixed Saved Filters popup not appearing when clicked.
  • v1.28.3

    Changed

    • Editor: Changed execute keyboard shortcut from Cmd/Win+Enter to Ctrl+Enter for cross-platform consistency.
    • Streaming: Added Firebase Firestore snapshot subscriptions for real-time collection changes. Right-click a collection → Subscribe.
    • Streaming: Added RavenDB Changes API subscriptions for real-time document changes. Right-click a collection → Subscribe.

    Fixed

    • Editor: SQL Statements are executed individually when multiple statements are selected, allowing faster result returns, error handling, and correct tab identification. #967
    • PostgreSQL: Error messages now include additional context from the database (where, detail, hint) when available.
    • SQLite: Fixed attached databases showing as “Default” after refreshing when a non-main database was last browsed. #984
    • RavenDB: Fixed error before connection is established. #986
    • Results: Clicking empty space around rows now focuses the grid for keyboard navigation. #985
    • AI: Copilot model selection no longer auto-selects the first available model which could silently consume credits on expensive models. Now uses Copilot’s ‘gpt-4o-mini’ family by default as recommended by CoPilot for completion. Removed the dbcode.ai.modelId setting.
    • Connections: Fixed saving connections erroring in some cases.
  • v1.28.2

    Changed

    • Streaming: Real-time message streaming for Kafka topics and RabbitMQ queues with LIVE indicator, event counter, throughput stats, and pause/stop controls in the grid status bar.
    • Streaming: Added PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY channel subscriptions via LISTEN channel_name; or right-click database → Subscribe.
    • Streaming: Added MongoDB Change Streams for collection subscriptions via db.collection.watch() or right-click collection → Subscribe. Requires a replica set or sharded cluster.
    • Streaming: Added Redis Pub/Sub channel subscriptions via SUBSCRIBE channel_name or right-click database → Subscribe.
    • Streaming: Added SurrealDB LIVE SELECT table subscriptions via LIVE SELECT * FROM table; or right-click table → Subscribe.
    • Active Streams: New view, showing all running streams grouped by connection.
    • Editing: JOIN query results are now editable. Columns unique to one table in the query are editable, while columns present in multiple tables are read-only. Primary keys are resolved automatically, or you can select key columns manually when saving.
    • Transpose: Field column is now sortable, click the header to sort field names alphabetically. #983
    • Results: Added “Clear This Column Sort” and “Clear All Column Sorts” options to the column header menu.

    Fixed

    • Connections: Fixed stale connection error after dropping a database and refreshing. Refresh now cleans up connections for databases that no longer exist and avoids redundant database list queries. #966
    • MCP: Fixed autoStart not reliably starting the server on VS Code reload. #960
    • Export: Replaced Results Excel export, fixing non-numeric columns (VARCHAR, UUID, etc.) being formatted as numbers, improving file size and performance for large exports, and adding the SQL query as a second “Query” sheet. #980
    • Import: Fixed driver name mapping during JSON import causing names like “sqlserver” to not map to “mssql”. #979
    • Results: Fixed Cmd/Ctrl+C not copying grid selection when a WHERE filter is active.
    • Results: Fixed horizontal overflow causing page-level scrolling.
    • ERD: Fixed saved node positions not being restored when reopening a diagram. #829
    • Redis: Fixed connection failing on managed Redis services (Google Cloud Memorystore, some AWS ElastiCache configurations) that block the CLIENT SETNAME command.
    • Language Server: Fixed ClickHouse parser not recognizing CTEs in INSERT…SELECT statements. #981
    • Transpose: Improved performance when entering transpose mode with large result sets. #983
  • v1.28.0

    Changed

    • Apache Kafka: In preview with topic browsing, JSON auto-expansion, message producing, consumer group visibility.
    • RabbitMQ: In preview with queue browsing, message peeking, exchange topology with bound queues, message publishing.
    • Valkey: Added Valkey as a Redis derivative with its own icon and connection type. #970
    • AI: Inline completion now scopes context to the active statement instead of the entire document, reducing noise and improving suggestion quality.
    • Results: Changed duplicate row shortcut from Ctrl/Cmd+D to Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+D to free Ctrl/Cmd+D for fill-down (matching Excel/Sheets convention). #972
    • Editor: Active statement highlighting now includes leading and trailing comments.

    Fixed

    • Azure SQL: Fixed stale Entra ID tokens requiring manual sign-out by automatically re-authenticating when token is rejected.
    • Azure: Fixed cloud provider connections failing with ENAMETOOLONG when Azure resource IDs are deeply nested. #963
    • MySQL/MariaDB: Fixed long-running queries failing with ER_SOCKET_UNEXPECTED_CLOSE when connecting through proxies or firewalls. #971
    • Results: Fixed “below” result location rearranging entire editor layout when using split editors. #973
    • Elasticsearch/OpenSearch: Fixed introspection failing with “HTTP line is larger than 4096 bytes” on clusters with many indices. #975
  • v1.27.8

    Changed

    • AI: Added execution plan analysis.
    • AI: Added BOYK/local LLM support. Configure any OpenAI-compatible endpoint in settings under dbcode.ai.customModel. #816
    • Results: Added setting to control zebra striping in the grid.
    • MCP: Added configurable OAuth token expiry (dbcode.ai.mcp.tokenExpiry), default 1 day, max 90 days. #960

    Fixed

    • MySQL: Fixed MariaDB derivative detection failing when @@GLOBAL.version_comment doesn’t contain “mariadb” (e.g., Debian packages). #968
    • SQLite: Fixed truncate using unsupported TRUNCATE TABLE syntax, now uses DELETE FROM. #965
    • ClickHouse: Fixed query cancellation not killing the running query on the server. #962
    • PostgreSQL: Fixed backup/restore to use local tools first if on the path. #961
  • v1.27.7

    Changed

    • Missing WHERE Detection: Warns before executing DELETE or UPDATE statements missing a WHERE clause. Configurable per role (allow/ask/deny). Available once per session for Core users, continuously for Pro.

    Fixed

    • Results: Fixed right-click Filter By/Exclude not working for dates, booleans, and null values in the results grid. Also fixed context menu filters not triggering server-side queries in paging mode. #957
    • Results: Fixed Exclude filter to include filtering for null values. #957
    • Snowflake: Fixed introspection failing due to unquoted INCREMENT reserved keyword in sequences query. #956
    • Snowflake: Fixed regular tables not appearing in the tree when hybrid, transient, or dynamic tables exist.
    • Execution: Fixed standalone BEGIN/END blocks in SQL Server and Oracle grouping subsequent statements into one block. #958
  • v1.27.6

    Changed

    • Join: Join tables from the DB Explorer or results with configurable join type and column mapping. #849
    • Union: Union tables from the DB Explorer or results across tabs and connections.

    Fixed

    • Completions: ‘Select a connection’ prompt now only appears once per session instead of on every keystroke.
    • BigQuery: Fixed Script CREATE (DDL) for functions. #955
    • Notebook: Fixed cell editor losing focus after executing a cell with Ctrl+Enter.
    • MongoDB: Fixed delete and update failing on documents with Binary/UUID _id fields (e.g. CosmosDB). #954

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