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September 24, 2026

2.6.0

Features

  • Create new columns from existing columns! More documentation to come.
  • Pin a column (or a pair of linked columns) so it’s always visible as you scroll through your spreadsheet
  • Option to collapse headers to make more room for the table
  • Export selected columns or rows as a downloaded file or as the contents of a new Rowboat window
  • Reorder multiple columns by selecting them, then dragging on any of their drag handles

Fixes

  • Fix hidden row markers being out of sync when scrolling in Safari
  • Fix sort button not showing in single-value column
  • Fix bug where dragging out of the table when selecting cells was causing the selection to flip
  • Fix error when deleting multiple new columns
  • Fix crash that could happen after repeated filtering in large files
  • When geocoding or creating a new column, account for current filter or sort
  • Fix header chart not highlighting when hovering on the cell in the right half of a pair of linked columns
  • Fix selected cells not moving when their columns are moved
  • Fix Replace All only replacing first instance in each cell
  • Ensure dropdowns and tooltips are displayed on the top layer and within the bounds of the viewport

Miscellaneous

  • Prevent columns from being deleted or edited while geocoding
  • When dragging to select cells, nudge scroll at edges for continued dragging
  • Make cell editing box more compact and positioned within the cell
  • Improve border layering for table cells for clearer hover and selection styles
  • Disable most options in context menu when hidden columns are selected
  • Reset hover when mousing into empty space and reset selection when clicking into empty space

August 18, 2026

2.5.2

Features

  • [Desktop] Support launching with multiple files at once

Fixes

  • Fix duplicate event listeners causing unexpected behavior on popups
  • Fix copying cells when columns are selected

Miscellaneous

  • Change menu items to title case
  • Re-order user menu
  • Fade in/out header launch buttons on hover

August 5, 2026

2.5.1

Features

  • You can now select multiple columns to perform an action on the set of columns, such as:
    • Inline Representations
    • Split (splits them each by the delimiter, then appends the new columns after the original columns)
    • Join (joins all columns together)
    • Duplicate
    • Trim
    • Change Case
    • Hide
    • Revert Changes
    • Delete
  • Implement Cmd/Ctrl+A to select all cells (when table is selected)
  • Implement using Shift + arrow keys to expand cell selection

Fixes

  • When navigating with keyboard, scroll current cell into view
  • Fix offset column selection after deleting column
  • Ignore mouse dragging event if targeted at table scrollbar
  • Apply selected styles to linked column headers
  • Fix focus issues resulting from selecting an option from the context menu
  • Fix purging filters when editing or deleting columns
  • Clear selected cells or rows when data updates (e.g. filtering, header row toggling)
  • Fix regular expression bugs in Find and Replace
  • More efficient Replace and Replace All operations
  • When copying cells, use correct column indices and filter out hidden columns
  • Correctly handle merging or renaming entries to an empty string

Miscellaneous

  • Show highlight styles on row numbers and column titles when they contain selected cells
  • Improve gzip handling

July 24, 2026

2.5.0

We have an exciting batch of updates around interacting with the columns and rows in your data.

Features

  • Select columns and right-click to perform column actions. Multi-column actions are limited for now, but more are on the way!
    • Double-click a column name to edit or select “Rename” from the right-click menu.
    • Restore hidden columns from the file summary.
  • Select rows and right-click to copy or hide them.
  • Select cell ranges and right-click to copy their contents.
    • Double-click a cell to edit.
    • Selecting a single cell also gives you the context options to edit the value or filter to it.
    • If a cell contains only a URL, holding Command (Control on Windows) while clicking opens the URL.

Fixes

  • When adding or previewing new filters, scroll the filter section to show the most recent filter
  • Prevent accidental duplicate operations on “Replace” or “Replace All”
  • Fix Excel parsing sometimes failing to split columns correctly
  • Fix alignment of Excel loading message
  • Fix incorrect highlights in search view when filtered down to a set of rows
  • Use dynamically sized filter input fields
  • Sorted Values: fix chart not re-drawing when app theme is changed
  • Sorted Values: fix chart not displaying negative data values
  • Fix crash when setting a column to Time type when time format is not recognized
  • When resizing a column, provide scroll nudges at the left bounds of the screen as well as the right
  • [Desktop] Fix filtering causing crashes
  • [Desktop] Fix crash when opening additional files from Finder

Miscellaneous

  • Refreshed color palettes to support selection styles
  • Use a custom alert dialog when Rowboat crashes

July 2, 2026

2.4.0

Features

  • Make global and find filters editable
  • Make linked columns resizable and draggable
  • Select multiple table rows to hide in batches
  • Find and replace in a column
  • [Browser] Support opening files compressed with gzip
  • [Desktop] Enable “Open in Rowboat” to open chart data in a new window
  • [Desktop] Extend file associations to easily allow opening .xls, .xlsx, .txt, and .tab files

Fixes

  • Remove filters before geocoding
  • Fix error when filtering on a value with a newline
  • Fix error when filtering from a bar chart in a numeric column
  • Allow for multiple string filters (don’t replace existing ones)
  • Fix bug where table tooltip would not show when re-entering from copy button
  • Fix mismatches when highlighting results in search or find and replace
  • Fix bug where a set of OR filters and a set of AND filters were considered the same
  • Improve performance of homepage animation
  • Keep “restore row” tick markers in place when scrolling
  • Bar chart: searching should respect sort and vice versa
  • Update drag-and-drop hover style
  • Ensure word break to avoid overflow in recent file list
  • Improve size and position of date format popup
  • [Desktop] Use OS file dialog when exporting column snapshots, chart images, and chart data
  • [Desktop] Add option to “Skip This Update” in update dialog
  • [Desktop] Allow closing all windows without quitting the application
  • [Desktop] Improve separation of items in menus

Miscellaneous

  • Add link to docs in file summary
  • More consistent error handling
  • Update dependencies