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What's Changed

• Updated to latest DuckDb (0.9.1)
• Better error handling when DuckDb extensions can't be downloaded to enable Tad use behind corp firewalls
• Interactive column histograms for numeric columns
• Improved date / time rendering (by @hamilton)
• Direct copy/paste to Excel and Google Sheets
• String filters are now case insensitive Full Changelog: https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad/compare/v0.12.0...v0.13.0

What's Changed

• Updated to latest DuckDb (0.7.1)
• Binary releases now include native build for Apple Silicon (M1/M2)
• Reloading an updated CSV/Parquet file will re-import the file (based on checking file modification time)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad/compare/v0.11.0...v0.12.0

What's Changed

• Update to use latest DuckDb (0.6.1), Electron (22.0.0), React (18) and Blueprint
• Enable automatic tooltips for long text columns
• Treat filters as form so we can press enter to submit by @gempir in https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad/pull/172
• Added content zoom modifiers. by @scmanjarrez in https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad/pull/182
• Internal / Experimental: Embeddable TadViewerPane React component
• Internal: migrate from node-duckdb to duckdb-async

New Contributors

• @gempir made their first contribution in https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad/pull/172
• @scmanjarrez made their first contribution in https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad/pull/182

Full Changelog: https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad/compare/v0.10.1...v0.11.0

New Features / Bug Fixes

• No longer requires Admin rights to install on Windows (#96)
• Built and tested on macOS 11 (Big Sur) and macOS 12 (Monterey) (#169)
• Numbers are now right-aligned for easier visual scanning of magnitude (#166)
• Separate menu options for "Open File..." and "Open Directory..." for better open dialog behavior on Windows and Linux

New Features

• Tad now uses DuckDb instead of SQLite, enabling much better load times and interactive performance, especially for large data files.
• Added direct support for Parquet and compressed CSV files.
• Added a new Data Sources sidebar showing available tables, data files and folders, and allowing fast switching between them.
• Tad can open DuckDb and SQLite Database files:

  $ tad myDatabase.duckdb

  or

  $ tad myDatabase.sqlite

• Ability to open filesystem directories directly for quick browsing and exploration of collections of tabular data files.

Internal Changes

This release is a major restructuring and rewrite of the Tad internals:

• Implementation now structured as a Lerna monorepo, split into 12 sub-modules.
• Implementation ported to TypeScript and UI code updated to React Hooks
• Main pivot table React component (tadviewer) built as an independent module, enabling embedding in other applications
• Experimental proof-of-concept packaging of Tad as a web app and a reference web server, illustrating how Tad could be deployed on the web.
• Experimental proof-of-concept support for other database backends (Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS Athena)