James Changelog

What's new in James 2.1.2

Feb 3, 2019
  • Ignores hoxy errors (mitigates a cause of crashes)

New in James 2.1.1 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • Resolves exception when setting up HTTPs

New in James 2.0.0 (Jan 26, 2018)

  • User features:
  • Launch multiple browsers without clearing requests each time (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges)
  • Include AppImage as a Linux build target (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges)
  • Auto-updates! (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges)
  • Developer Features:
  • Redux (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges)
  • Proxy, UrlMapper now run in main process, to minimize blocking renderer
  • React Router replaces windowFactory
  • Raven tracks actions and sends them as breadcrumbs in error reports
  • More details in pull request
  • Electron updated (r: @mitchhentges, @tomitm)
  • electron-builder updated (r: @mitchhentges)
  • node-sass updated (r: @tomitm)
  • electron-connect updated (r: @tomitm)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Hide phantomjs from browser list, as it's not launchable (i: @mitchhentges, r: @tomitm)
  • Remove tmp dependency (#292) (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Change the file input to a button (fixes #329) (i: @nerdbeere, r: @mitchhentges)
  • Use version 1.3.0 of james-browser-launcher (#331) (i: @nerdbeere, r: @mitchhentges)
  • Update gulp-sass to latest version to support node 8 (#340) (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Fix "Choose file" button not being functional (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges)

New in James 1.5.0 (Jun 8, 2016)

  • User features:
  • Releases now are installers, instead of binaries.
  • Developer Features:
  • Electron updated
  • electron-squirrel-startup updated
  • Improved SCSS build efficiency
  • Bugfixes:
  • Make HTTPS great again
  • Fix HTTPS requests not working due to exception when loading certificates
  • Certificates are now loaded from the user config directory due to installer change - see wiki for details

New in James 1.4.5 (May 20, 2016)

  • User features:
  • Fonts work without network connection, and titlebar drop shadow is nicer
  • Bugfixes:
  • Browsers are now detected on Windows again (Fixed in james-browser-launcher dependency)
  • Version is properly reported on PROD builds

New in James 1.4.4 (Apr 29, 2016)

  • User features:
  • Improved browser detection
  • Add tooltip of mapped address to "mapped" label
  • URL list should show browser's requested URLs
  • Search both mapped url and original url
  • Clicking "URL Mapping" button toggles URL Mapping window instead of just opening
  • Developer Features:
  • Update eslint
  • Run npm update prior to running test-ci
  • Electron updated to 0.37
  • Fix eslint build error (update to v6.0.0-beta.6 babel-eslint)
  • Add Raven to report errors to Sentry
  • Don't report errors to Sentry if in development environment
  • Update React, Electron, and Travis' Node version
  • Upgrade electron-packager, electron, etc)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix URL-to-file mapping
  • Fix "object of undefined" exception with electron-connect

New in James 1.4.3 (Mar 5, 2016)

  • Developer Features:
  • Add scrolling to request mappings (i: @nerdbeere, r: @mitchhentges, @tomitm)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Browser versions not detected on Linux (i: @mitchhentges, r: @tomitm)
  • Don't compile "global vars" (igv) to keep dirname in electron-app (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)

New in James 1.4.2 (Mar 5, 2016)

  • User features:
  • Show status of proxy in the bottom-right corner (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Add keyboard shortcuts for open/close dev tools (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Design changes and refactoring (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Create new URL Mapping (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges, @nerdbeere)
  • Narrow footer (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • UI overhaul of browser list, showing version and fixing React duplication complaints (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges)
  • Update UI of browser list so that browser icon is centered, even if no version shown (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges)
  • Developer Features:
  • Massive component refactoring (i: @tomitm, r: @mitchhentges, @nerdbeere)
  • Don't include electron-localshortcut code in repo, set up keyboard (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Refactor proxy status to be more simple, yet still flexible (i: @nerdbeere, r: @mitchhentges)
  • De-absolute-ify a bunch of elements (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Throttle works again! (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Context menu doesn't go away when clicking in whitespace (i: @mitchhentges, r: @tomitm)
  • Hoxy error makes scary icon after enough time (i: @mitchhentges, r: @tomitm)
  • Electron X11 can't handle registering command (i: @mitchhentges, r: @tomitm)
  • Making a url with a wildcard active/inactive no longer throws error (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)

New in James 1.4.1 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • User features:
  • Show query params as a key value list in the request detail view (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Make Esc close current in-app window (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • "About James" now opens the github page in the default browser (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Properly handle trailing slashes (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Tooltips now appear for each function in the footer (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Currently-inspected request now bold (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Also time and status code are now bold (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Protocol doesn't matter anymore in URL mapping source (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix drag-down-whitespace issue (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Don't try to browserify electron (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Can now scroll through requests when cursor beside "close" tab (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Close tab is always aligned properly now (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Copy the entire electron-localshortcut file (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Fix max height for inspect-request (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Developer Features:
  • Put "lint" task back in package.json (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Fix deprecation warnings about ReactDOM (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Footer components now utilize React 0.14's "stateless componenets" (i: @tomitm, r: @nerdbeere)
  • Documentation:
  • Add section to readme about joining Matrix room (i: @mitchhentges, r: @nerdbeere)