What's New

12/16/2016

Version 0.8.7

New
- You can choose how to resolve conflicts at the beginning of an update, download or copy session in the Activities window
- Hover over a tab to see the full path of the storage resource
- When you click on a tab, it synchronizes with its location in the left side navigation pane
Fixes
- Fixed: Storage Explorer is now a trusted app on Mac
- Fixed: Ubuntu 14.04 is again supported
- Fixed: Sometimes the add account UI flashes when loading subscriptions
- Fixed: Sometimes not all storage resources were listed in the left side navigation pane
- Fixed: The action pane sometimes displayed empty actions
- Fixed: The window size from the last closed session is now retained
- Fixed: You can open multiple tabs for the same resource using the context menu
Known Issues
- Quick Access only works with subscription based items. Local resources or resources attached via key or SAS token are not supported in this release
- It may take Quick Access a few seconds to navigate to the target resource, depending on how many resources you have
- Having more than 3 groups of blobs or files uploading at the same time may cause errors
- Search handles searching across roughly 50,000 nodes - after this, performance may be impacted or may cause unhandled exception
- For the first time using the Storage Explorer on macOS, you might see multiple prompts asking for user's permission to access keychain. We suggest you select Always Allow so the prompt won't show up again

Features

Main Features
- macOS, Linux, and Windows versions
- Sign in to view your Storage Accounts grouped by subscription:
  - Use your Org Account, Microsoft Account, 2FA, etc
  - Configure and manage proxy settings
  - Remove accounts by signing out
- Connect to Storage Accounts using:
  - Account name and Key
  - Custom endpoints (including Azure China)
  - SAS URI for Storage Accounts
- ARM and Classic Storage support
- Generate SAS keys for blobs, blob containers, queues, tables, or file shares
- Connect to blob containers, queues, tables, or file shares with Shared Access Signatures (SAS) key
- Manage Stored Access Policies for blob containers, queues, tables, or file shares
- Local development storage with Storage Emulator (Windows-only)
- Create and delete blob containers, queues, or tables
- View $logs blob containers and $metrics tables
- Search for specific blobs, queues, tables or file shares
- Direct links to storage accounts or containers, queues, tables, or file shares for sharing and easily accessing your resources
- Rename blob containers, tables, file shares
- Ability to manage and configure CORS rules
- Easily copy primary and secondary key for Storage Accounts
- MD5 checks on upload and download for data integrity and consistency
- Search for your blob containers, tables, queues, file shares, or storage accounts from the seach box
- You can now pin most frequently used services to the Quick Access for easy navigation
- You can now open multiple editors in different tabs. Single click to open a temporary tab; double click to open a permanent tab. You can also click on the temporary tab to make it a permanent tab
- Noticeable performance and stability improvements for uploads and downloads, especially for large files on fast machines
- We are re-introducing the enhanced scoped search and added the concept of scoping. Enter the path to a node via the hover icon, right click -> "Search From Here", or manually to scope that node. Once scoped, you can add a search term to the end of the path to deep search starting from that node
- We have added various themes: Light (default), Dark, High Contrast Black, and High Contrast White. Go to Edit -> Themes to change your theming preference
- On Linux, a 64-bit OS is now required
- We have updated our logo!
Blobs
- View blobs and navigate through directories
- Upload, download, delete, and copy blobs and folders
- Open and view the contents text and picture blobs
- View and edit blob properties and metadata
- Search for blobs by prefix
- Create and break leases for blobs and blob containers
- Drag ‘n drop files to upload
- Rename blobs and folders
- Empty "virtual" folders can now be created in blob containers
- You can modify the Blob and file properties
Tables
- View and query entities with ODATA or use query builder to create complex queries
- Add, edit, delete entities
- Import and export table contents in CSV format (including exporting query results)
- Customize column order
- Ability to save queries
Queues
- Peek most recent 32 messages
- Add, dequeue, view messages
- Clear queue
- We made it possible for you to decide whether you want to encode/decode your queue messages
File Shares
- View files and navigate through directories
- Upload, download, delete, and copy files and directories
- View file properties
- Rename files and directories

Bug Fixes

Fixed: Screen freezing problems
Fixed: Enhanced security

Known Issues

Search handles searching across roughly 50,000 nodes - after this, performance may be impacted
macOS install may require elevated permissions
Account settings panel may show that you need to reenter credentials in order to filter subscriptions
Renaming blobs (individually or inside a renamed blob container) does not preserve snapshots. All other properties and metadata for blobs, files and entities are preserved during a rename
Azure Stack doesn't currently support Files, so trying to expand Files will show an error
Linux 14.04 install needs gcc version updated or upgraded – steps to upgrade are below:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get upgrade
- sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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What's New

Version 0.8.7

Features

Bug Fixes

Known Issues

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