Changelog

This document lists all notable public changes to the functionality of Airsequel.

2024-01-03 - v0.7.1

• GraphQL
  • Add in and nin filters
  • Return NULL entries for neq filter
  • Floats don't change precision during retrieval from database anymore
• Fields in SQL query result are sorted as requested
• Upgrade to OpenAI's GTP 3.5 Turbo for faster and better suggestions
• More data included in function invocations endpoint
• Numerous bug fixes and UI improvements

2023-12-19 - v0.7.0

• Add support for cloud functions
  • GUI for creating, editing, testing, and deleting functions
  • Support for TypeScript (Deno 1.39)
  • Support for Python 3.10 (checked by Ruff)
  • Check out the documentation for more information
• SQLite
  • Add support for generated columns
  • Add support for math functions
  • Add support for GLOB and DROP INDEX
  • Add search field to "Docs" tab
  • Use the same SQLite binary for the GraphQL API and SQL workbench (eliminates any differences in behavior)
• GraphQL
  • Add support for upsert mutations
  • Add support for multi-column ordering
  • Improve loading speed of GraphiQL playground
• Admin JSON API Documentation at airsequel.com/api/docs
• Add an affiliate page at airsequel.com/affiliate
• Add a password reset page at airsequel.com/forgot-password
• Add a "Vacuum Database" button to database settings
• Show database environment and visibility in team databases overview
• Numerous bug fixes and styling improvements

2023-10-02 - v0.6.1

• Various UI bug fixes
• Option to reassign a database to another team
• Make default AI prompt for descriptions editable

2023-09-06 - v0.6

• Full fledged user and team management
  • Teams own databases
    • Databases are either private or public (unlisted)
  • Existing public databases can be assigned to teams
  • Check out the documentation for more details
• New paid Pro plan with less restrictions than the free plan. Check out the detailed feature comparison at airsequel.com/pricing.
• API access tokens for fine grained control on how a database can be accessed via its API
• GraphQL
  • Add support for comparison operators like and ilike
  • Support filters over several columns in mutations and queries
  • Support limit and offset arguments to only show a subset of the result rows
  • Support order_by argument in queries
  • Results are no longer reversed
• Database Creation
  • "Open Demo Database" opens a fully editable copy of our demo database
  • Add button to create databases from an AI prompt
  • Display a progress bar when uploading databases
• Database Overview
  • Dedicated read-only endpoint to duplicate databases at /readonly/<readonly-id>/duplicate
  • Add a description field for databases and tables
    • Add input fields to let AI write descriptions
  • Show user version and schema version of SQLite database
• Spreadsheet View
  • Align numeric column content right
  • Destructive buttons require a long click for activation
  • Display a progress bar when uploading files
  • Shift-Click to select ranges of rows
• SQL Workbench
  • Selector for different text wrapping style in result table
  • Display runtime stats in ms for execution times < 10 sec
• Add a blog at blog.airsequel.com
• Add support chat to every page (powered by Crisp)
• Add page to request an Enterprise trial instance at airsequel.com/trial
• Lots of bug fixes and minor improvements

2023-04-01 - v0.5.1.0

• Enable AI powered SQL query generation for Free edition

2023-03-31 - v0.5

• Spreadsheet UI
  • Add more column data types:
    • File
    • Date
    • URL
    • Color
    • Phone
    • Email
    • Time
    • Duration, Duration ISO
    • JSON, Array, Object
    • Code
    • Location, Alpha 2, Alpha 3
  • Support re-ordering columns and tables
  • Support inserting new columns in specific locations
  • Export tables as CSV or JSON via column drop-down menu
  • Add "Clear Cells" option for columns
  • Support creating UNIQUE columns
  • Make markdown style links clickable in views
  • Highlight selected rows
• SQL Workbench
  • AI powered SQL query generation (via OpenAI)
  • Tabs for working on several SQL queries simultaneously
  • Support editing views
  • Upgrade SQLite from 3.38.5 to 3.41.0. Notable new features are the support for RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOIN and the addition of the built-in unhex() function. Check out the SQLite release history for a list of all changes.
  • Enforce SQLite's foreign key constraints by default
• Additional settings
  • Show separate tabs for "Tables" and "Views"
  • Button to regenerate read-only ID
  • “Template” database environment (can be cloned via its readonly URL)
• Overview page
  • Show database name in header
  • Show database size in a human readable way
  • Show last modified timestamp
• GraphQL API
  • Support requesting changed data with returning keyword
  • Add support for more comparison operators (neq, gt, gte, lt, lte)
• rowid is used for stable links to rows
• rowid can be omitted when creating a new row and will be set automatically
• Upgrade to GraphiQL 2.2 and speed up initial load
• Use Write-Ahead Log for all databases

2022-12-16 - v0.4.0.1

• Handle columns with double quotes in their name correctly
• Show number of filled cells in delete column dialog
• Show correct version number via status API endpoint
• Show spinner while SQL query is executing

2022-12-12 - v0.4

• Edit database schema via UI
  • Button on landing page to create new database from scratch
  • Support adding, renaming and deleting tables
  • Support adding, renaming, and deleting columns
  • Support renaming a database
• Allow SQL write queries in Free edition
• Add dashboards with 3 chart types
  • Bar charts
  • Line charts
  • Single value
• Improve spreadsheet UI
  • Add new column type “single-select”
  • Collapsible columns for better overview in big tables
  • Automatically picks unused rowid name (one of rowid, _rowid_, or oid)
• Improve SQL editor
  • Add button to create a view from executed query
  • Show documentation for SQLite functions
  • Replace tab character in SQL query editor with 2 spaces
  • Allow more functions and prevent executing unavailable functions
• Encode column names with Double-X-Encoding to allow any Unicode string as name. Check out our announcement blog post for the Double-X-Encoding for more information.
• New and overhauled documentation page at docs.airsequel.com
• New database settings page
  • Add environment setting and show badge next to Airsequel logo with current environment
  • Add button to regenerate the database ID
• Extend example database with views and dashboards
• Confirmation dialog for all destructive actions
• Better error handling and error popups
• Wrap table column tabs
• More details on pricing page

2022-10-13 - v0.3.1

• Add titles to buttons in focus view toolbar
• Treat unknown data types per default as text
• Add trial information to pricing page

2022-10-12 - v0.3

• Add tab to execute SQL queries (read-only in Free edition)
• Add dedicated GraphiQL (v2) tab for exploring the GraphQL API
• Numerous improvements for spreadsheet GUI
  • Add support for Booleans
  • Increase / decrease numbers with arrow up / down
  • Load only active table
  • New icons
  • Make views read-only
  • Toolbar for focus view (previous, next, delete, export as JSON, send via email)
  • Better handling of edits, errors, and edge cases
• Display available columns of tables/views on database overview page
• Improvements for GraphQL API
  • Extend equality filter to work on all data types
  • Add missing introspections results
  • Support column names with spaces
• Fix import of small CSV files
• Add a screenshot to landing page and improve slogan
• Upgrade SQLite to 3.38.5

2022-09-05

• Fast deployment of Airsequel Enterprise demo instances via fly.io.
  (Contact us if you're interested!)

2022-09-02

• Tutorial on how to write a simple Todo app with Lowdefy

2022-08-04

• Allow special characters in import file name
• Fix GUI issues in Firefox

2022-07-28 - v0.2 (Public Beta)

• New landing page with additional information
• Add spreadsheet GUI to edit data in tables
  • Focus view to edit one row at a time
  • Multiline text cells
  • Export cell content as a file
  • Set cells to NULL or empty string
  • Add new rows and delete existing rows
• Support upload of CSV files
• Enterprise edition with more features (compare the different editions at airsequel.com/pricing)
• Make GraphQL API fully compliant with official spec
  • Return number of affected rows after any mutation
• Build an Elm SPA frontend for better responsiveness
• Add action buttons to overview page (Download / Duplicate / Replace / Delete database)
• Validate uploaded SQLite databases
• Limit upload file size of free version to 5 MB
• Set up an uptime status page
• Extend documentation and move it to Notion
• Add pricing page
• Add endpoint “api/status” for monitoring
• Show hosting location of database on overview page

2022-02-27 - v0.1 (Private Beta)

• Automatically create a simple GraphQL API for uploaded databases
  • Including a read-only endpoint for each database
• Support for GraphQL introspection
• Simple overview page for each hosted database
  • Support for downloading the database
  • Playground page to try out GraphQL queries
• Store an additional metadata database for each user database
• Example database with all characters from “Avatar: The Last Airbender”
• Minimal documentation
  • How to use GraphQL API
  • How to write a simple todo app with Elm
• Set up several social media accounts