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

Release 0.0.20

This is the first release as part of the natscli project after moving the source code from the jetstream repository.

Enhancements

• Allow the server list to be sorted
• Additional schemas for account connection advisories
• Use old style requests only when needed
• Support resolving nsc account credentials in contexts using URLs like nsc://<operator>/<account>/<username>
• Support new Consumer features in nats consumer info
• Support new message pending metadata
• Various UX improvements
• Hide passwords in the context commands
• Expand information shown in the nats account info command
• Support MaxAckPending feature of consumers
• Support filtering streams returned by the stream list command using the listening subject
• Support publishing multiple messages, with template variable expansion, in the nats pub command
• Allow NATS_CONTEXT environment variable to select a context
• Publish to rpm, deb and homebrew