Retrospective Changelog

What's new in Retrospective 4.1.0

• This release focuses on polishing the previous features and adds a few new little cherries on top. If you liked release 4.0.0 than the refinements provided in 4.1.0 should simply make your day :) . Let’s dive into the little goodies served in 4.1.0.
• Time search criteria offered so far by Retrospective is a really powerful and useful tool. Unfortunately before release 4.1.0 it was not possible to use time based filtering on a data that was already fetched to Retrospective in a search or monitoring session. This was quite limiting, thus, we decided to change it in 4.1.0. Now fully fledged local time filters can be used to narrow the accumulated data to the window that is in the point of interest. This can make your life a lot easier if you need to analyze different smaller pieces of a larger chunk of accumulated data.
• We also started to encounter more and more situations in which log levels containing non-alphanumeric chars are used. Previously, Retrospective was optimized to make the log identification as fast as possible. The optimization of the identification process was built on the assumption that only alphanumeric chars can appear in the log levels. Release 4.1.0 brings more flexibility here by not only allowing for non-alphanumeric chars in the log levels but also allowing for deciding whether log levels can be surrounded by alphanumeric chars or not. Of course allowing for non-alphanumeric chars and/or surrounding by alphanumeric chars disables some log level identification optimizations but we made sure that the identification process still has a decent performance in such situations.
• Retrospective is all about performing several things at once. So typically you have one tab for searching some remote servers, another tab for monitoring a deployment process and a third tab in which you make the deployment yourself using the awesome SSH Console. So far it has often been hard to say when new data arrives to the tabs that are currently out of focus. Thus, we’ve added another little goodie that you should definitely like. In 4.1.0 all non-active monitoring tabs are showing a counter value that is representing the number of log entries that have arrived to the tab since the last time the tab was active.
• The new release also brings some cool improvements in the SSH Console department. In other popular terminals, you may be used to using your mouse wheel inside console applications such as less or mcedit to scroll the data on the screen. You will not have to change this habit after grabbing 4.1.0, because this feature is now fully supported in our SSH Console. The next SSH Console improvement is a support for word jumping inside the Bash shell. Often, when you type a command, you suddenly realize that you made a typo several words before. In 4.1.0 you can use combination of ALT+F and ALT+B key shortcuts to jump the cursor to the next or the previous word in the command like. This allows for quick fixing of any typo that tries to annoy you ;).