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

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

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

• Fix intermittent BigInt error
• Add ISO 8601 extended format to the built-in date/time list
• Keep projection fixed on maps (choropleth, coordinate, and ZIP maps) while previewing filters
• Add filter preview to choropleth map lists (tip: hold Alt or Option while hovering on entries in the list to preview that filter)
• Fix hovers in ZIP map entry list

v2.3.0 for Rowboat Desktop!

Major features

• Edit cells
• More advanced ways to create, browse, and edit filters
• OR filters! See 2026-04-23 notes for more detail
• Duplicate column

Other improvements and fixes

• Show file name instead of full path
• Don’t zoom into choropleth when active areas are spread out across most of the map
• Fix for preview hover on histogram bucket with 0 rows
• Use a consistent color index on colored charts throughout filtering
• Fix selection range on filename inputs
• Add ability to edit filename
• Sort datasets most to least recently opened by default
• Condense space for find and column list buttons on narrow viewports
• Fixes for filter keyboard shortcuts
• Fix occasional NaN error in time series chart