Release 0.0.30

Enhancements

• nats sub can now subscribe to JetStream Streams using ephemeral consumers enalbed using its new --start-sequence, --all, --new, --last and --since flags
• Support upgrading KV bucket configurations for recent design changes using nats kv upgrade BUCKET
• Add nats cheat stream and nats cheat consumer
• Various UX and wording improvements
• nats bench can test using durable push consumers and now support benchmarking KV buckets
• The backoff policy can now be disabled using --backoff none which will supress the interactive prompt

Bug Fixes

• Stream edit had a few flags removed of items that was not editable

Release 0.0.29

Removals

• Remove the assertions for gateways and route count in nats server check as they were incorrect and data does not exist to make them correct

Enhancements

• Various improvements to nats server run command
• When making multiple requests support sleeping between requests in nats request
• Add --count to nats reply to exit after an amount of replies
• Support --inbox-prefix for custom inboxes, also supported in contexts
• Add --force-stdin in nats pub to force reading STDIN when there is no TTY
• Improve consistency of rm/ls/etc in various commands
• Various improvements for benchmarking JetStream
• Support ephemeral pull consumers
• Support new consumer properties to set various limits for pulls
• Show new account limits
• Combine kv commands rm and del into one
• Adds a new nats stream find command that supports querying and filtering streams by various dimensions
• Support consumer backoffs
• Adjust how connection report totals are calculated
• Correctly handle servers with multi-day uptimes in nats server check server

Bug Fixes

• Improve rendering percentage of unprocessed messages in a consumer
• Fix multiple paging issues for networks with large numbers of streams, connections or subscriptions
• Avoid panic when listing stream names only

Release 0.0.28

Enhancements

• Dynanically set a version for installs using go install

Bug Fixes

• Ensure kv add honors --trace
• Remove unwanted debug output
• Handle contexts load errors better

Release 0.0.27

Enhancements

• Support sorting server lists by name
• Add --count option to nats sub
• Various UX improvements to nats bench
• Support new meta cluster information in server check
• Support sealing streams
• Update kv command to use nats.go and complete ADR implementation
• Support Headers Only consumers
• Support stream permissions
• Add experimental nats object command for NATS Object Store
• Improve UX when showing Consumers
• Improve schema validation of timestamps
• Adds a -a flag to nats stream list to show all streams including system ones used by KV, Object and MQTT
• Improve nats stream ls
• Expand information shown in various ls commands
• Support editing consumers
• Make the CLI embedable in other Go CLI tools

Technology Previews and Proof of Concepts

• Local development nats server in nats server run, see LOCAL_DEVELOPMENT.md

Bug Fixes

• Do not show queue group in Pull consumers
• Set dupe window to max age when max age is less than 2 minutes
• Reverse RTT sort order
• Improve server list logic regarding number of expected servers
• Correctly calculate times in server lists and server checks

Release 0.0.26

Enhancements

• Support setting descriptions on Consumers and Streams
• Support last_per_subject deliver policy for Streams
• Support Nats Server 2.4.0 acknowledgement subjects
• Improve header support based on current design
• Remove the Key-Value Store client bucket.key behaviour for accessing keys in a bucket
• Support . in keys for the Key-Value Store client
• Support paging over connz output from servers and limit results to the first 1000 in displays
• Report if a Push Consumer has active interest on it
• Support the new Delivery Group concept and show additional Consumer state
• Support getting the last message for a subject from a stream using nats stream get --last-for SUBJECT
• When waiting for responses from servers in monitoring use a sliding window if no expected response count is given
• Add nats account report connections which against NATS Server 2.4.0 will show all connection made scoped to an account
• Support filtering responses by subject interest in nats server req connections and nats server report connections
• Big improvements to nats bench to support benchmarking JetStream, includes breaking changes to CLI behaviors
• Support using Snappy compression on some communications from the NATS Servers
• Support consuming multiple messages using nats consumer next
• nats server check can now output JSON format results to assist with integration into other monitoring systems
• New nats server check server that can check properties like uptime, cpu, memory, total connections, total subscriptions etc
• Support Flow Control in nats consumer sub
• Various small UX improvements
• Ensure the output from nats --help goes to STDOUT not STDERR

Release 0.0.25

Enhancements

• Add experimental nats governor command that can maintain network aware concurrency limiters
• Add experimental nats kv command that maintains and access JetStream based Key-Value stores
• Support setting stream max consumers
• Various improvements to report sorting

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash in mirror/source maintenance
• Improve missing servers list in nats server list command

Release 0.0.24

Enhancements

• Various UX updates to improve discoverability of features
• Allow nats pub to perform sleeps between subsequent publishes when passing --count using --sleep
• Support JetStream domains
• Improve rendering of unlimited limits
• Do not ask about dupe tracking when setting up mirrors
• Support Max Waiting in consumer creation via --max-waiting
• Improve table rendering visuals
• Various improvements to reports in multi domain situations
• Support monitoring various aspects of a JetStream account using nats server check jetstream
• Support token authentication by supplying a token as username
• Support viewing, querying, searching and maintaining nats server error codes using nats errors
• Auto detect cluster sizes for various nats server commands when running against NATS 2.3.0 or newer
• Support per subject message retention limits
• Support extended purges for subjects, sequences and keep limits
• Support saving messages to directory or stdout using nats sub --dump

Fixes

• Fix nill pointer exception on non JetStream servers in nats server info
• Improve behaviour when running without a terminal
• Improve various errors shown when a System account was expected to be used

Release 0.0.23

Enhancements

• Support rendering leader distribution in stream report
• Compact host names in various reports removing common suffixes
• Support filtering streams by subject when using nats stream view
• Improve the nats server check command with stream and cluster checks
• Improve performance when using various stream and consumer commands

Bug Fixes

• Use UTC times when communicating with the API
• Handle invalid reply subjects gracefully in stream view
• Show correct stream info after stream purge
• Improve cluster state rendering in cases where a meta leader is not present
• Fix the {{ID}} interpolation for strings
• Improve handling of optional booleans in shell arguments

Release 0.0.22

Enhancements

• Support JetStream Clusters
• Support publishing multiple messages with templated Headers and Bodies
• Support limiting results by server Tag in nats server request
• Add a JetStream report
• Add Stream and Consumer reports with nats stream report and nats consumer report
• Extend nats account info with additional details about the connection
• Support creating NATS Server passwords using nats server password
• Add a nats cheat command that shows a cheat sheet of common commands
• Better utilize screen size when asking for a selection
• Numerous UX improvements
• Support custom API and Event prefixes to access JetStream across accounts
• Add a Nagios compatible health check in nats server check
• Support Push Consumer idle heartbeats
• Support Push Consumer flow control
• Keep shell environment when invoking commands from nats reply
• Support restoring to different streams and with different configuration
• Multiple improvements to output from nats server report

Release 0.0.21

Enhancements

• Relocate natscontext to the jsm.go package for ease of reuse
• Add FreeBSD support to releases
• Various UX fixes
• Allow AckWait to be set in consumers
• Relocate source code into nats subdirectory for more consistent builds when using Go tooling like go get
• Allow stream max message size to be set as 1GB etc
• Contexts can be validated using the nats context validate command, connection attempts can be done using each configuration using --connect in validate and show
• Additional text templating to bodies and headers for pub and reply commands. Also adds {{.ID}} to generate unique strings
• Ensure stream backup and restore is tested by CI