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Rons Data Stream - Version History

Version 2025.03.21.1100

New features

  • Ribbon menu updated.
  • Code signing certificate updated.

Bugs

  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2024.12.17.1707

New features

  • Preview now Data Builder (editing Cleaners from live data).
  • Data Builder Context introduced to make relation to Job source(s) and Cleaner(s) clearer.
  • Selection highlight for current Cleaner rule added to Data Builder.
  • Link from Data Builder to Cleaner added.
  • Job and Data Cleaner Auto Cleanup added to remove bad or orphaned rules.
  • Popup message can now be closed by clicking.

Bugs

  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2024.10.16.1101

New features

  • Automatic update improvements.
  • Library update.

Bugs

  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2024.09.28.1142

New features

  • 'Split URL' cell rule added.
  • Better path handling for SQL data sources to improve filtering.
  • Unix time parsing added to 'Replace Date Time' tool.
  • Folder browser dialog improved.
  • Layout improvements.
  • Library update.

Bugs

  • Grid rendering issue on Intel graphics cards fixed.
  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2024.07.08.0830

New features

  • 'Data Shaper' output processes added:

  • 'Split - Row Ratio' splits the output in a defined ratio of rows (for Machine Learning).

  • 'Locations' (directory browser) panel added.

  • 'Preview' panel overhauled.

  • Ability to open preview data files in a new tab added.

  • Data process moved to background, with a popup control panel.

  • Data process can now be started from the 'Preview' panel.

  • JSON and XML parsers made more resilient to bad data.

  • Various visual enhancements.

  • 'Process Job' window removed.

  • 'Quick Job' removed.

Bugs

  • HTML Encode 'URL' format bug fixed.
  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Current Version (2024.06.10.1251)

New features

  • 'Data Shaper' output processes added:

  • 'Split - Row Count' splits the output every x rows.

  • 'Split - Row Filter' splits the output into matching and not matching based on a Row Selector.

  • 'Split - Column Value' splits the output into data groups based on row data and a Column Selector.

  • Data Profiles added.

  • Data Profile usage and auto detect added for CSV data sources.

  • Last file opened consolidated and applied.

  • Gzip support added.

  • Various visual enhancements.

  • Environment resilience improved.

  • Temporary file directory moved after strange error reports.

Bugs

  • Edge case parsing bugs fixed.
  • SQLite concurrency bug fixed.
  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Current Version (2024.04.02.0829)

New features

  • Non administrator/local user install mode added.
  • HTML decoding hexadecimal character decoding improved.
  • Library update.
  • Environment resilience improved.

Bugs

  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2024.03.28.1111

New features

  • Library update.

Bugs

  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2024.02.11.1814

New features

  • File drag and drop open added.
  • Clipboard error handling made even more robust.

Bugs

  • Grid selection border drawing issue fixed.
  • 'Update Now' issue fixed.
  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2024.01.24.1615

New features

  • Limited time full product evaluation added.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2024.01.12.0807

New features

  • Product split from Rons Data Gear.
  • Icon updated.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2023.12.27.0828

New features

  • Tooltips added to overflow cells.

Bugs

  • Split on New Line bug fixed.
  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2023.12.17.1617

New features

  • Colors themes added.
  • Dark and light mode added.
  • Windows dark mode setting honored.
  • Automatic product updates integrated.

Bugs

  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2023.10.13.0726

New features

  • Resilience to failed data sources improved.
  • Small visual changes.
  • Clipboard operations streamlined.

Bugs

  • Blank preview data issue fixed.
  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2023.09.27.1521

New features

  • Clipboard lock handling added.

Bugs

  • Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2023.08.30.1700

New features

  • Output Row Split made clearer.
  • XML/JSON import improved to deal with huge records.

Bugs

  • Various bugs fixed.

Version 2023.08.02.0914

New features

Bugs

  • Text clipping due to Windows Text Sizing fixed.
  • Various bugs fixed.

Version 2023.07.25.0823

New features

  • Both: Expression column addressing improved.
  • Both: Internet connectivity diagnostics added.

Bugs

  • Various bugs fixed.

Version 2023.06.30.1737

New features

  • Remove diacritics added to Text Format.
  • Diacritics updated (ignore accents improved).

Bugs

  • Startup window position on multiple monitors with different scale fixed.
  • Various bugs fixed.

Version 2023.06.16.1232

New features

  • Expression processor commands added.
  • Expression editor highlighting added.
  • Expression editor command helpers added to context menu.
  • Diacritics updated (ignore accents improved).

Bugs

  • Various bugs fixed.

Version 2023.06.03.1211

New features

  • Parquet support removed.
  • 'Format Text' rule added for Text, HTML, XML and JSON.
  • Diagnostic added to License Check Window.

Bugs

  • Cell edit positioning bug fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2023.05.12.1624

New features

  • None.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2023.04.18.0725

New features

  • Icon refresh.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2023.04.06.1344

New features

  • Company name changed to 'Rons Place Software Inc.'.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2023.02.14.1812

New features

  • Grid rendering of non-text elements at high DPI improved.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2023.02.09.1445

New features

  • Parsing badly encoded files improved.
  • None.

Bugs

  • Newline character for certain fonts issue fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2023.01.24.1727

New features

  • Grid colors updated.
  • Wheel scroll speed adjusted.

Bugs

  • Invalid Cleaner in Preview bug fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2023.01.15.1205

New features

  • Improved HTML output.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.12.30.0826

New features

  • Column fallback type added to Expression operations.
  • Token information added to License window.

Bugs

  • Handling adverse environment bugs fixes.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.12.19.1400

New features

  • Grid rendering contrast improvement.

Bugs

  • Grid rendering issue with rows and columns frozen fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.12.15.1646

New features

Bugs

  • Inline cell editor character capture overwrite fixed.
  • Grid rendering glitches fixed.
  • Log location fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.12.01.1026

New features

  • None.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.11.28.0753

New features

  • grid rendering engine re-written to handle font substitution.
  • Views now included in SQL data source.

Bugs

  • grid rendering anomalies fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.11.09.0813

New features

  • In cell edit placement and size improved for multi-line cells.
  • Auto-detect improved.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.11.07.1754

New features

  • Regular expression handling in search changed to better handle lines in cells.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.10.31.1506

New features

  • 'Now' added to 'Add Date/Time' Toolbox tool and Data Stream Cleaner Rule.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.10.23.1629

New features

Bugs

  • Escape character parsing error fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.10.17.1017

New features

  • Multiple Cleaners per Job support added.
  • column/row regular expression split includes match character(s) in output.
  • multi monitor DPI switch support added.
  • delimiter detection improved.

Bugs

  • grid DPI detection when main screen greater than 100% scaling fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.09.27.1634

New features

  • Preview now works with Source and no Target.
  • fill values added to 'Add Row' rule.
  • cell operation 'Add Expression Text' added.
  • hyper-link cell support added (Ctrl-Click).
  • import delimiter auto detect added.

Bugs

  • grid rendering improved.
  • HTML encode bug fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.09.06.1144

New features

  • Automatic multi-line height added to the grid view.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.08.25.1412

New features

  • Delimiter auto detect improved.
  • Grid editor positioning improved.
  • Horizontal mouse wheel support added.

Bugs

  • Grid editor DPI positioning fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.07.22.1427

New features

Bugs

  • Occasional license deletion bug fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.06.29.0818

New features

  • Ellipsis added to grid.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.06.02.0844

New features

  • 'Remove Space' updated to handle Unicode characters.
  • 'Remove Space' updated to accept HTML encoded characters in input fields.

Bugs

  • 'Copy Column' used with 'Delete Column' bug fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.05.18.0754

New features

  • Installation streamlined.
  • Multi-screen DPI handling implemented.
  • Preview added to import.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.03.14.1532

New features

  • Icon Refresh.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.02.26.1110

New features

  • Icon Refresh.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2022.02.06.1624

New features

  • Icon Refresh.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2021.11.26.0802

New features

  • Usability improvements.
  • Performance and memory usage improvements.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2021.11.18.1417

New features

Bugs

  • Schema update issues fixed with column rename.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2021.10.30.1006

New features

  • 'Fill Lookup' and 'Replace Lookup' updated to use grid.

Bugs

  • source to output text encoding bug fixed.

Version 2021.09.07.0740

New features

  • Updated to use .net Framework 4.8.
  • Computer ID improved to ignore WiFi adapters.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2021.07.22.0837

New features

  • None.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2021.06.30.0908

New features

  • Parquet data source added.
  • Significantly faster grids introduced.
  • Performance improved.
  • Fast, light CSV editor included.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2021.03.06.1047

New features

  • CSV 'Escape Character' support added.
  • Output file split option added.

Bugs

  • UNC path issue fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2021.02.28.1645

New features

  • Azure Blob Container support added.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2021.02.20.1533

New features

  • 'Refresh' button added to 'Preview' side panel for sources that refresh slowly (for example tables in web pages).
  • 'Preview' processed (output) view enabled when no 'Cleaner' selected.
  • 'Preview' flow improved.

Bugs

  • External 'Cleaner' in 'Job' switching to embedded 'Cleaner' fixed.
  • 'Quick Job' fixed.
  • 'Preview' refresh on 'Quick Job' already open in 'Preview' fixed.

Version 2021.02.17.0850

New features

  • Product renamed to 'Rons Data Stream'.
  • Data Stream Pro/Lite introduced.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2021.01.15.0902

New features

  • New Data Tools window added.
  • 'Merge CSV Files Horizontally' added to Data Tools.
  • 'Append extra line' added to all text output formatters.
  • New line options added to all text output formatters.
  • New line in cell options added to CSV output formatter.
  • 'Split Row' rule added to 'Row Processors'.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2020.09.10.1716

New features

  • None.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2020.08.30.1303

New features

  • Data Preview added for text output targets.
  • Data Preview flow improved.
  • Missing JSON data types added.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2020.08.20.1047

New features

  • Text template Output Format dialects added for CSV, HTML, JSON and SQL Server (part two).

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2020.08.13.0857

New features

  • SQL Server source added.
  • Data pipeline updated to handle multiple data types.

Bugs

  • Data mapping fixes.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2020.07.23.1051

New features

  • Text template Output Format added (part one).

Bugs

  • Empty source crash in Preview fixed.
  • Changing to Embedded Cleaner issue fixed.
  • Parquet target fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2020.07.02.1101

New features

  • Job Result Preview side panel added to Main Window.
  • Job Result Preview improved to add all related components.
  • Preview Window job results removed.
  • Cell Change side panel added to Preview Window.
  • Maximum cell size before parsing error now configurable - added to the CSV source.
  • Replace regular expression handling improved for empty matches.

Bugs

  • Multi tab issues fixed.
  • Detecting change in Embedded Cleaner as part of Job issue fixed.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2020.02.25.0734

New features

  • Updated to use .net Framework 4.7.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.09.18.0954

New features

  • Product name changed to 'Rons Data Stream'.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.09.13.1142

New features

  • Added 'Skip Rule' option to 'If Table Exists' option in SQL table output format.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.09.11.1419

New features

  • Job step identifiers added to variable processing.
  • Type support added to JSON.
  • Type support added to Parquet.
  • Better status output added to Command line execution.

Bugs

  • Parquet issue fixed in the install.
  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2019.09.06.1607

New features

  • Data type handling added to SQL Server and SQLite output formats.
  • Add Column rule updated to set output data types.
  • Update Column rule introduced, for setting output data types.
  • Data Stream processor grouping added in the editor.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2019.09.02.1240

New features

  • Command line variables introduced.
  • Internal variable engine improved.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.08.02.0905

New features

  • Portable version introduced.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.07.22.1645

New features

  • None.

Bugs

  • Main window close bug fixed.

Version 2019.05.27.1142

New features

  • Cleaner file extension changed to avoid conflict.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.05.24.1443

New features

  • Embedding Cleaners in jobs added to make one click jobs easier.
  • Shared Cleaners between jobs added.
  • Local files removed from Preview window (use Quick Job instead).
  • Default SQL table output type changed for greater flexibility.
  • Job and Cleaner icons added in Explorer for more clarity.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.05.21.1529

New features

  • SQLite output format added.
  • Parquet output format added.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.05.17.0950

New features

  • SQL Tables options added for table lifetime control.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.05.16.1826

New features

  • JSON output added.
  • XML output improved.

Bugs

  • SQL empty and badly formatted columns handled.
  • SQL bugs fixed.

Version 2019.05.15.1705

New features

  • Copy added to Job rules outside of main Job edit.
  • Raw data source view added to Preview Window.
  • Improved error handling fetching source in Preview Window.
  • Some GUI tidy up.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2019.05.13.1324

New features

  • XML Source Profile added.
  • JSON Source Profile added.
  • Skip lines added to CSV source.
  • Add skipped lines added to CSV target.
  • CSV parser made more resilient.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2019.05.08.1602

New features

  • Add invert option to all filters.
  • Empty column match expression now matches empty columns.

Bugs

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 2019.4.29.1436

New features

  • Code signing certificate changed to 'Rons Place Software'.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.4.29.1436

New features

  • HTTP Source Location added.
  • HTML table Source Profile added.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.04.09.0844

New features

  • Significant overhaul of Quick Job to better fit work flow.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.03.22.1405

New features

  • Import for Fill lookup rule added.
  • Import for Replace lookup rule added.

Bugs

  • File find in job execute fixed.
  • Handling of zero files found in job execute improved.

Version 2019.03.17.1431

New features

  • Fill lookup rule added.
  • Replace lookup rule added.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.03.10.1719

New features

  • Command line execution added.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.03.08.1743

New features

  • Data change logging added to Cleaner rules.

Bugs

  • None.

Version 2019.02.26.1322

New features

  • Initial Beta release.

Bugs

  • None.

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