Smarter Filters, Close Tab, and a Better Plugin Install: v0.9.6

v0.9.6 focuses on the day-to-day editing experience: a structured filter toolbar that handles the common filtering case without writing SQL, ORDER BY autocomplete in the toolbar, a close-tab keyboard shortcut, and a plugin install error modal that finally tells you what went wrong.

Structured Filter Toolbar and ORDER BY Autocomplete

The table toolbar has grown two new capabilities that make filtering and sorting larger datasets faster without writing raw SQL.

Structured Filter UI

The filter toolbar now supports structured filter expressions — column, operator, and value entered as discrete fields rather than as a typed WHERE clause. The column list is autocompleted from the schema; operators adapt to the column type (text gets =, !=, LIKE, NOT LIKE; numbers and dates get the full comparison set). Multiple filters chain with AND by default.

This does not replace the ability to type a raw WHERE clause — the raw input is still there for complex predicates. The structured mode handles the common case of "show me rows where status = active and created_at > last week" without requiring SQL knowledge.

ORDER BY Autocomplete

The ORDER BY field in the toolbar now autocompletes column names from the current table or query result. Start typing a column name and a dropdown narrows the list. Selecting a column appends ASC by default; a toggle switches it to DESC. Compound sorts across multiple columns are supported.

Close Tab Keyboard Shortcut

The editor tab bar now responds to a close-tab shortcut:

If the tab has unsaved query changes, a confirmation prompt appears before closing. If the content is clean, the tab closes immediately. The shortcut is rebindable from Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts like all other custom bindings.

Plugin Install Error Modal

Until now, a failed plugin installation was silent — the progress spinner would stop and the registry panel would return to idle with no indication of what went wrong. v0.9.6 adds a dedicated Install Error modal that surfaces the full error output from the installer.

If a download times out, an asset hash mismatches, or the archive is malformed, you now see the exact error message and which step failed. The modal includes a copy button for sharing the log when opening an issue. Installer logging is also more detailed internally, so the stack trace reaching the modal is actionable rather than a generic failure code.

Bug Fixes

Connection Dialog: Autocomplete and Autocorrect Disabled

Browser and OS autocomplete surfaces were interfering with connection form inputs — particularly the host, port, username, and database fields. On macOS, autocorrect was silently mangling hostnames. Both issues are fixed:

• autoComplete="off" is now set on all connection dialog inputs, preventing browser credential and history suggestions from appearing.
• The macOS autoCorrect, autoCapitalize, and spellCheck attributes are disabled on the same fields.

Website: Badge Image CSP Rule Scoped to shields.io

A Content Security Policy rule for badge images was written too broadly, allowing any external image source where only shields.io badge URLs are used. The rule is now scoped to shields.io specifically.

Contributors in v0.9.6

@debba@gzamboni@claude@nicholas-papachriston@SergioChan

v0.9.6 is available now. Update via the in-app updater, or download from the releases page.