Tailviewer Changelog

What's new in Tailviewer 1.0.0 RC1

Sep 12, 2022
  • Features:
  • #297: Add command to go to a particular line
  • #298: Add command to go to a data source
  • #299: Add command to go to next / previous data source
  • #307: When time filter is active, the empty state is not shown / explained
  • #308: Add clear screen empty state
  • #309: Add "Follow Tail" to task bar
  • #310: Menu Items should mention the commands shortcut, where available
  • #316: Add empty state to the bookmarks side-panel
  • #317: Add bookmarks main menu
  • Fixes:
  • #277: The file format property of a generic text log is displayed empty
  • #278: Deleted Serilog custom format entries show up again after Tailviewer is restarted
  • #279: The progress bar always shows 100%
  • #280: Tailviewer takes an an enormous amount of time to read "big" lines
  • #282: Memory used to read text log files is never reclaimed
  • #288: Search function does not reset hit counter when files have been re-created
  • #338: Plugins page should still display available plugins, even when one plugin doesn't specify a website
  • Plugins:
  • #191: Enhance IFileFormatPlugin to allow UI integration and customization
  • #198: Introduce service container
  • #200: Refactor ILogFile and remove all methods/properties marked as [WillBeRemoved]
  • #204: archiver does not use PluginId for the final plugin name
  • #302: Remove outdated plugin interfaces
  • #303: Refactor LogFileSection and split into two parts
  • #304: Ensure that outdated types aren't publicly visible anymore
  • #332: The EmptyReason property should support polymorphic types
  • #336: Simplify namespaces in Tailviewer.Api and Tailviewer.Core

New in Tailviewer 0.9.6.2 (Feb 9, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • #273: Tailviewer displays an empty file when the first line contains lots of garbage data

New in Tailviewer 0.9.5.1 (Feb 4, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • A CVE was detected and fixed in a 3rd party library used by Tailviewer. See https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2cwj-8chv-9pp9 for more details.
  • 269 Adding bookmarks doesn't work for merged data sources

New in Tailviewer 0.9.4.1 (Dec 17, 2020)

  • Features:
  • #254: Allow to include / exclude entries in grouped data sources
  • #242: Add parsing of serilog files
  • Fixes:
  • #225: Number of errors, warning, etc.. is always 0 for merged data sources
  • #238: Tailviewer starts offscreen in case the virtual desktop size has changed in between sessions
  • #244: Tabs in logfile messes up search highlighting
  • Misc:
  • #240: Add shortcut for adding bookmarks (ctrl+b)
  • #250: Tailviewer shouldn't start minimized, even if it was previously closed while being minimized

New in Tailviewer 0.9.3.884 (Jul 21, 2020)

  • Features:
  • #216 Fully customized color settings for log levels
  • Misc:
  • #232 Add setting for tab size
  • Once again I'd like to thank all contributors!

New in Tailviewer 0.9.2.877 (Mar 17, 2020)

  • Added proper uninstaller.

New in Tailviewer 0.9.1.873 (Mar 4, 2020)

  • Features:
  • Introduced plugin browser which works in conjunction with self hosted repositories
  • Introduced clear screen & display

New in Tailviewer 0.9.0.853 (Oct 31, 2019)

  • Features:
  • Find All Window
  • Plugins should be able to analyse important issues contained in a log file
  • Plugins should be able to provide a synposis to a log file
  • Bugfixes:
  • Closing the last log file causes the it to still be displayed
  • Tailviewer may display the same log line multiple times in rare cases
  • Tailviewer don't start
  • Find all in log file does not work properly with lines copied from the same log file
  • Tailviewer mistakes the same plugin as two different plugins if the name is changed
  • Activating an existing quick filter doesn't always have an effect
  • Merged data source displays wrong origin
  • Improvements:
  • GUI - Colorize Titlebar
  • GUI - Provide a "minimized" mode

New in Tailviewer 0.8.1.701 (Jun 24, 2019)

  • This patch features a few new features:
  • Display a notification in case a plugin is used to display a log file
  • Introduce "Folder" data source
  • Titlebar shall contain more information
  • The font size should be configurable
  • Allow placement of bookmarks (bookmarks are finally persisted)
  • As well as one bug fix:
  • The proxy password box never looses focus
  • One plugin improvement:
  • Extend IFileFormatPlugin to allow regexp matching
  • Installer improvements:
  • Installer should stop Tailviewer
  • Installer doesn't display license anymore

New in Tailviewer 0.7.1.509 (Dec 19, 2017)

  • Go to source via shortcut (Ctrl+T), see #110
  • Go to line via shortcut (Ctrl+G), see #72
  • Introduced "delta times" column, see #124
  • The scroll speed can be adjusted via settings and has been increased to 2 by default, see #126
  • Also fixes several bugs: #79, #128, #132, #133, #134

New in Tailviewer 0.7.0.444 (Nov 23, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Introduced file name column for merged data sources
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed last written age display for values > 30 days
  • Miscellaneous
  • Merged data sources can be renamed
  • Merged data source age, size is updated more frequently
  • Introduced Trace level toggle
  • Debug/T race messages are display in gray

New in Tailviewer 0.6.2.358 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • This patch fixes two bugs introduced with the last release: #103 and #104

New in Tailviewer 0.6.2.352 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Tailviewer plugins can be packed into one file
  • Multiple versions of the same plugin coexist (latest supported will be loaded)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed error message when a log file cannot be accessed
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Introduced progress bar to show status of log file reading/ filtering
  • Moved settings, plugins and info to the bottom left
  • Installed plugins page is prettier

New in Tailviewer 0.6.1.295 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • This release features the first incantation of a plugin system that allows Tailviewer to extract log files from 3rd-party files, as long as someone has written a plugin for just that.

New in Tailviewer 0.6.0 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Fixed release date

New in Tailviewer 0.5.2.2 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue introduced with the previous release v0.5.2

New in Tailviewer 0.5.1 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • This minor update features a few small bugfixes and some quality of life improvements:
  • The export directory can be configured
  • The data sources side panel also accepts files via drag and drop

New in Tailviewer 0.5.0 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • This release features the first version of bookmarks: You can place them on a selected line (or lines) and then use them to quickly jump to them (even across data sources). Unfortunately, bookmarks are not saved in between sessions, nor do they behave as expected when placing them while a data source is filtered, but those kinks will be ironed out soon.

New in Tailviewer 0.4.2 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • This release contains a new feature: The currently selected data source (as filtered) can be exported to a file with just one click. Oh, and I've finally got the repeat buttons on the horizontal scrollbar working.

New in Tailviewer 0.4.1 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • This release features several bugfixes as well as some small improvements (such as an option to keep the window always on top).

New in Tailviewer 0.3.3 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Two more bugs have been fixed that caused the wrong content to be displayed (or nothing to be displayed at all).
  • The first of which has been introduced with the last patch.

New in Tailviewer 0.3.2 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • This patch features a bugfix of the "dreaded" duplicate line bug that appeared when multi-line entries were written in several writes to the file: It's finally fixed.
  • On a related note, the auto updater seems to be broken since switching to github releases. It should, however, be working from this version on.

New in Tailviewer 0.3.1 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Single/Multi-line toggle
  • Alternating log entry colors (depends on single/multi-line toggle)
  • Bigger scrollbars (the previous ones were too thin and easy to miss)
  • Clicking the scrollbar area jumps by multiple lines (instead of 1px)
  • Bugfix for a memory-leak and one performance improvement.

New in Tailviewer 0.3.0 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Search results are properly highlighted and should always stand out
  • The horizontal scroll bar is properly adjusted to always bring the current result into view
  • Added ability to hide empty lines
  • This release also contains some minor bugfixes.