February 19, 2026

  • Reduce DOM size to improve loading time
  • Use batching to allow for showing load progress on files with many columns
  • New and improved upload and sharing UI
  • Enable hiding lat/lon labels in map tooltips

February 11, 2026

  • Fix NaN filters when data includes commas or currency signs
  • Add button to filter to value from cell
  • Fix grid tooltip being cut off above the grid
  • Update home page to use chosen app theme
  • Ensure linked headers report "no data" when no data is available
  • Fix bug where unlinking columns would not always reflect correctly in column list
  • Ensure unique HTML IDs
  • Patch vulnerable versions of some packages
  • Fix pluralization issue in big charts
  • Handle scrolling triggered by moving focus in column headers

January 16, 2026

  • In choropleth tooltip, show actual text from data, if available, in addition to encoded geography name
  • Improve underlying data structures for pie (by value), treemap (by value), and sorted values
  • Add the ability to open chart data in a new Rowboat window
  • Catch failure to connect to geocoding server
  • Fix theme colors in loader bar and user menu
  • Provide warning for potential crash due to new (hopefully temporary) browser bug in WebKit 26.2

Extension:

  • Allow for opening any sheet in a Google spreadsheet (pending approval)

December 19, 2025

Thanks for using Rowboat in 2025! We have a big batch of improvements and fixes for you to close out the year. Look forward to lots of exciting updates in 2026!

New:

  • Delete columns
  • New email designs
  • You can now save newly generated columns (split/join/geocode) to a file already saved in your library
  • [Desktop] Added links to specific resource pages in Help menu
  • [Desktop] Auto-updates! The app will automatically check for updates and let you easily install them.

Improved:

  • Much improved loading time for files with many columns
  • Improve speed when hiding or restoring many rows at once
  • Improve readability of histogram hover readout with long text strings
  • More accurate progress reporting in loading bar

Fixed:

  • Redraw time series header upon table sort
  • Fix joined cells including empty strings when they shouldn't
  • Improve handling of large numbers in scatterplots and time series charts
  • Fix cut-off text around scrollbars in the table
  • Fix hidden columns still being displayed in compact search mode
  • Fix canvas sizing issues on low-resolution displays or when zoomed out
  • Fix extra bucket in big histogram
  • Fix final line of file being ignored when last cell was empty
  • Fix library files reporting undefined encoding
  • Fix crash when toggling headers on file with many columns
  • Fix "find in column" not working in newly created columns
  • Fix strings not being correctly marked as errors in integer columns
  • Fix numbers with extra symbols (e.g. currency, percentage) not parsing correctly in inline representations and hovers between table and headers
  • Fix date formats being lost when reloading a file with edited metadata
  • Safer injection of user content into HTML
  • Time series: fix handling of negative numbers
  • Lat/lon maps: ensure dot size is consistent with UI slider
  • Sharing: fix privacy setting not displaying correctly
  • [Desktop] Enable zoom in/out shortcuts
  • [Extension] Allow use of extension without signing in
  • [Extension] Strip query params and decode URL escape sequences when opening link with extension

November 25, 2025

  • Fix overlapping axis labels in linked ranges header
  • Add "hide column" option in column actions menu
  • Fixes to reported row count
  • Click to restore all hidden rows
  • Fix for handling 12-hour time format when AM/PM is included
  • Allow starting a Stacked Histogram linked chart from either column
  • On user's desktop page, click to easily copy license key

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