Changelog

✨Dynobase AI ✨

Natural language in → data structure aware code in a language of your choice out. Also an ability to run produced code when using Javascript mode.

📦 Features

• Ability to edit data using forms

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed template for async processing
• Fixed minor layout issues

Reverted minor thing to drastically improve data table's performance.

• Fixes problem with importing files
• Fixes displaying columns when fetching data - data table was sometimes rendering just the key attribute instead of all available attributes

🚀 Features

• Rust structures generation - ability to Rust types from the data. Select items you want to have Rust structures generated for, right-click, select Codegen -> Rust Structs
• Added ability to edit items as DynamoDB JSONs aka the marshalled format

• Adds support for region eu-south-2

🐶 Minor changes

• Dark mode has been improved to look nicer ✨

• Styling adjustments to the table picker
• Increased speed of loading profiles by reducing amount of SDK calls, especially when excluding multiple regions
• Empty values are now never casted to NULLs. Instead their type is always preserved as original, this is related to empty arrays, empty strings, etc.
• Error details modal has been revamped to tabbed layout
• Styling of modals have been improved
• Exporting current results to CSV is now possible
• Input fields in Streaming Options popup are now accepting only numbers
• Truncate table & delete table modals are now being automatically closed after successful action
• After creating new table you will be immediately navigated to it

🧮 Single-table designer

• Fixed grouping items by partition key when changing GSIs
• Fixed sorting & grouping by partition key when keys were using references to other attributes
• Fixed exported partition and sortkey attribute names. They're no longer capitalized or not relevant to your choice
• Fixed problem with data items being corrupted during sorting

🐛 Bug fixes

• Table truncation modal is now being reset with each truncate operation
• Terminal Mode label is now placed correctly
• Item edit confirmation notifications are now displayed just once
• Adding a new profile is no longer possible if it's invalid
• Memory leak when using multiple tabs has been fixed

• Increases interoperability with NoSQL Workbench models. Example items from TableFacets section are now supported
• Single-table designer adds support for tables without sort/range key
• Fixes problem with loading tables when IAM identity is lacking permission to describe table's TTL settings
• Adds ability to remove recently used models from single-table designer
• Adds two extra example models to the Single-table designer

• Adds a separate section for Imports and Exports from S3. Access all your imports & exports cross region, initialise new imports from S3 and export to S3 as well
• Adds a popup notifying you about new AWS profiles if they've been added after last Dynobase launch
• Fixes "Export" popup not disappearing when clicking outside of it
• Removes "thumb element" for resizing side-panel. Panel is still resizable though.
• Fixes issue with Dynobase crashing when switching sections too fast
• By default, convertEmptyValues is now set to false
• When initiating an S3 Export on a table that doesn't have PITR enabled, Dynobase will enable it implicitly for you and continue with an export

Read the whole announcement here

tl;dr:

• Codegen improvements
• Single-table designer improvements
• Multiple windows
• Better terminal
• Less darker dark mode

Links

• Mac Universal Download
• Mac Apple Silicon/M1 Download
• AppImage Download
• Debian Download
• RPM Download
• Snap Store Download

✨ Fixes

• Fixes problem with Dynobase failing to connect to licensing servers when running VPN/Firewall or any other security tool like ZScaler

✨ Features

• Dynobase now supports GovCloud regions. If you want to use them, head to General Settings -> Excluded Regions and make sure to un-select them

🐶 Minor

• Upon failing to connect with licensing server, Trial Over screen will now include an information why request failed

🧮 Single-table designer fixes and improvements

• Better welcome screen - Introducing "Recent models". Quickly go back to the models you're previously edited without importing/exporting them (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/215 & https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/214)
• Fixes problem with editor crashing when the user is creating a table without PK/SK/entity type defined (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/211)
• Fixes problem with editor crashing when the user is defining a GSI without PK/SK defined (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/213)
• Fixes problem with editor crashing when the user is defining a GSI reusing attributes that are already indexed. This also unblocks inverted indexes pattern (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/212)

🐛 Fixes

• Fixes problem with loading tables if used IAM identity does not have permission to describe table's TTL settings

🐶 Minor

• Improves reliability of import process by retrying SDK operations up to 5 times
• Improves reliability of truncate process by retrying SDK operations up to 5 times
• Adds check if licensing servers are available to the trial over screen

• Fixes problem with adding filter expressions to a query which uses primary index already on tables without sort key
• Adds ability to disable crash reports

• Fixes problem with inline editors disappearing on Alt, CMD/Ctrl or Shift key

✨ Features

• Better inline editors - edit simple attributes like Strings, Numbers, Booleans, and Numbers quickly (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/194)
• Attributes with TTL are marked. Hovering over them displays detailed info (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/21)

🐶 Minor changes

• In data view, renders NULLs and Booleans in a more distinguishable way
• Introduces AWS SDK connection timeout short-circuiting faulty profiles quicker and reducing loading times
• Better support for DynamoDB Offline
• Removes the "Edit this attribute" option from the Item's context modal
• Improves header real estate management, especially for tables with long names which were breaking the UI
• Removes an option to "Check for updates". Updates are now being downloaded automatically on Mac and Linux. Autoupdater does not work on Windows machines (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/153, https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/64)
• Makes modals bigger
• Decreases contrast in dark mode (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/145)

🐞 Bugfixes

• Fixes problem with querying on attributes containing hyphens (-) (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/197)
• Fixes the problem with __id attribute being exported as an empty object in dynamodb-onetable exporter (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/196)
• Fixes the problem with the item editor modal not opening with the Alt/Option key pressed (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/192)
• Fixes problem with single-table designer results being cut off horizontally (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/184)
• Fixes "Alt + click" label to "Option + click" on MacOS inside item context menu (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/176)
• When using a DynamoDB Query in Simple Filtering mode, "Contains" and "Not Contains" options do not longer appear on sortkey operator's picker
• Importing single-table models from NoSQL Workbench with simple GSI no longer throws an error
• Fixes the appearance of triangles in the item's context menu
• Fixes problem where holding the left mouse button clicked on record opened context menu

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixes problem with opening item editor modal by clicking with Alt key pressed
• Fixes problem with loading profiles for some of the cases
• Removes buggy inline item editor and option to "Edit this attribute". This option will be replaced with a bit more sophisticated and complete solution in the next release

🐞 Bugfixes

• Fixes problem with rendering single table designer
• Fixes problem with launching Dynobase without a license
• Fixes appearance of buttons in the query panel on smaller screens
• Fixes background color for cell editor in data view
• Ensures horizonal and vertical scrollbars are appearing all the time in the single-table designer

🚀 Features

• Dynobase will now show status icons next to your table name in the header. They will indicate whether table is Server-side Encrypted, is a Global Table, is in Infrequent Access class, has a DynamoDB Stream enabled, has On-demand billing mode enabled and if Point-in-time backups are enabled.

🐞 Bugfixes

• Fixes regression in data table where double-clicking attributes wasn't opening value editor
• Fixes problem in data table where actions performed from context menu were applied to incorrect data
• Fixes bug with Dynobase's main window not reappearing after hiding it
• Fixes memory leak with exporting CSV and JSON files
• Fixes problem with recreating an item if partition key is altered

🐶 Minor changes

• Restyled horizontal scrollbars across whole app
• Truncates table name if it's too long to display in the top header, full name is displayed as a tooltip on hover
• Adds ability to copy table name when clicking address bar
• Adds ability to pick more profiles from the profiles selector in the header
• Excluded/included attributes menu is now having a sorted list of attributes

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed error messages for MFA-based authentication processes
• Improved handling of MFA-based profiles, especially when using source_profile
• Made Settings page accessible from "Authentication failure" screen
• In Single-table designer, changing Entity Type attribute column to "After GSIs" is no longer crashing the designer if there are no GSIs
• In Single-table designer, importing models without ModelSchema has been fixed

🛩️ Minor

• Misleading table address is no longer being shown in the Single-table designer
• In single-table designer, examples have been improved and added example access patterns

🚢 Features

• Added ability to hard reset Dynobase's settings
• Experimental feature of eager loading of source_profiles

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixes appearance of horizontal scrollbar in single-table designer
• Increased length of an empty cells in single-table designer
• Removed clipping of fields in single-table designer

🚀 Features

• Tables selector side-panel is now resizable
• Profiles with zero DynamoDB Tables present are now being selectable so you can create tables in them via Dynobase

🐶 Minor

• Region ap-northeast-3 can be now used
• Scrolling issues in single-table designer
• Fixed problem with partition key not being excludable from the "Columns" menu
• Added separator between "Reload Profiles" and "Quit Dynobase"

🚀 Features

• Single-table designer now exports Access Patterns. Query access patterns are generated accordingly to the OneTable's 1.1.0 schema

🛩️ Minor changes

• CMD / Ctrl + H now hides application (closes https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/131)
• In single-table designer, leaving SK condition empty will return whole partition (closes https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/163)
• In single-table designer, "Save query as..." with name of an existing query will overwrite an existing query instead of duplicating it (closes https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/164)
• In single-table designer, Access Patterns sidebar is now smaller
• In single-table designer, 1st item in the export submenu has been renamed

🚀 Features

• Adds "Access Patterns" view to the Single-table designer tab. Hover over each access pattern highlights items that are selected by that pattern. Clicking it loads the query

• Adds the ability to remove "Access Patterns" from the Single-table designer
• Adds TTL Tooltip when hovering over TTL attribute converting epoch unix timestamp to human-readable formats

• Windows 11 support

✨ Improvements

• In Single-table designer, composite attributes are now exported correctly for the dynamodb-toolbox
• In Edit Item modal, replaces bytes suffix with pretty-print-ed version
• In Terminal, exported code is now piped through the prettier
• In Single-table designer, dynamodb-toolbox code is now piped through the prettier
• Adds ability to open Logs folder from the system menu
• Terminal errors are now displayed as notifications in the bottom-right corner

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixes exporter popup zIndex issue
• Fixes problem with __dynobase internal attributes polluting the edit item modal
• Fixes problems with importing values from CSVs and JSONs, especially on conflicts or overwrites
• Fixes problem with aws-sdk missing in the Terminal scope when doing DynamoDB mutations
• Fixes problem with TableName variable being undefined in the Terminal exported code
• Inverts Convert Empty Values to Null checkbox in the Settings

✨ Features

• Ability to export your single-table models to dynamodb-toolbox code

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixes problem where changing computed string template to the same one causes a notification to show up
• Fixes problem with __id column being rendered in all views
• Fixes problem with application going blank after adding new attribute and not filling its name
• Fixes problem with adding an attribute to all instances of a model if one of items is lacking the entity type value
• Fixes position of "Add attribute" button on attributes view in single-table designer
• Fixes CMD/CTRL + X shortcut opening single-table designer

💽 Minors

• Added keyboard shortcuts to the welcome screen
• Removes PartiQL statement about resolving to query or scan

• Decreases installer size and installed app size by 60%
• Fixes "traffic lights" position on macOS
• Fixes problem with adding an attribute to all instances of a model in a single-table designer
• Fixes problem with hyphens and dashes being not respected by the template strings in single-table designer
• Changes SSO and MFA session names to role_session_name specified in the config file
• Decreases app initialization time by parallelizing loading profiles and checking the license
• Bumps Node version to 16
• Bumps dependencies

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixes problem with DynamoDB offline/dockerized/localstack being not reachable introduced in 1.7.4
• Fixes problem with exporting single-table models on attributes without type defined

✨ Features

• Adds Attributes view for single-table designer
• Adds auto SSO/MFA session re-authentication when DynamoDB operations fail with "ExpiredTokenException" (#122)
• Adds "Format JSON" option to single-table attribute editors (#119)
• Adds the ability to edit JSON in a normal and in "DynamoDB" way to the single-table designer (#119)
• Adds ability to customize amount of sockets used to communicate with AWS (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/81)
• Adds ability to populate template attribute changes to other instances of the same entity type (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/117)
• When adding an attribute in the attributes view, adds a prompt asking whether this attribute should be added to other instances of the same model (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/118)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixes displaying and removing items from GSIs (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/102)
• Fixes problem with changing attribute type to Map in a single-table designer (#104)
• Fixes problem with error notifications not showing error cause, especially when failing to load profiles
• Fixes problem with confirmation window prompting the user to update all model instances in a single-table designer that makes Electron lose focus (#116)
• Fixes problem with New Column and New Attribute input fields not submitted when "Tabbing-out" from them (#121)

✏️ Single-table Designer minor changes

• Makes "Attributes view" is now the default one
• Makes entity type attribute is no longer removable
• Improves modals appearance (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/107 + https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/101)
• Adds Position horizontal scrollbar at the very bottom of the single-table designer (https://github.com/Dynobase/dynobase/issues/106)
• Adds ability to remove GSI
• Adds ability to add a partition from the table header
• Adds ability to change single-table designer's style between sans-serif and monospace
• Inserting model instance now adds a default model's attribute template