Changelog
0.5.1 (released on 01/06/2016)
- Editable chart series with support for custom JSONPath expressions
- Enhanced searching capability for JSON object with inline scripts with JSONPath
- Minor fixes and improvements (#71, #72 and #77)
0.5.0 (released on 01/04/2016)
- New way of creating subscriptions
- By default the "Define new subscription" pane is now hidden (unless you are in the Basic perspective)
- The "Subscriptions and received messages" tab pane has now got a new tab symbol
- Clicking on the new tab symbol or Ctrl+Shift+S will pop up a window for creating a new subscription
- Right click allows you to attach the window instead
- Hold the Control button when hitting Enter or clicking on Subscribe to keep the window
- (Re)sizing of other panes (e.g. "Scripted publications") should work properly now (#25)
- New "Basic" perspective
- Formatting improvements
- Manual and auto export of charts as PNG images - see the "Options" button (#60)
- New context menu item ("Edit...") for the connection tab, allowing you to jump straight into editing your connection settings rather than going via "Manager connections" and selection the connection manually
- Improvements to the scripted publications table
- Looking inside subfolders (see the context menu)
- Showing subfolder name (if applicable)
- New context menu item ("Set script directory") to reload scripts from a given location
- Default sort order applied
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Ctrl + N for new connection
- Ctrl + M for managing connections
- Ctrl + Shift + S for new subscription
- New built-in CA certificate for iot.eclipse.org (needed after Eclipse moved to Let's Encrypt certificates)
- Fix for TLS/SSL keys when using key files rather than keystores (#63)
- Fix for script's stop command not working when repeat flag selected ([#64](https://github.com/kamilfb/mqtt- spy/issues/64))
- Fix for resizing the main window when larger fonts are configured in the OS (#66)
- Fix for resizing the connection properties window (#68)
- Fix for "new subscription" tab (#69)
- Fix for saving messages as scripts (#70)
0.4.0 (released on 01/02/2016)
- Advanced TLS/SSL options (see the TLS/SSL wiki)
- Support for 6 different modes of configuring TLS/SSL
- Support for various trust and key store types - JKS (default & .jks), JCEKS (.jceks), PKCS12 (.p12, .pfx) and BKS (.bks)
- Support for trust/key store and key passwords
- Experimental support for WebSockets (based on Eclipse Paho 1.0.3-SNAPSHOT)
- Configuration perspectives and a new "Basic" perspective
- UI improvements
- New audit replay (wiki to be updated soon with examples...)
- Dependency updates (RichTextFX & Moquette)
- Fix for issues #55, #57 and #58
0.3.1 (released on 01/12/2015)
- New 'About' window (Menu -> Help -> About)
- New graphics (primarily Oxygen based)
- Bug fixes
0.3.0 (released on 01/10/2015)
- User interface improvements
- Connections can be now grouped into folders and reordered (drag&drop)
- Added security status to connection tabs and lists
- Improved context menus
- Input format for publications is now available only in the detailed perspectives
- Run with scripts now changes the Publish button's label
- Long-running message log processing can be cancelled or put into background
- Support for empty client ID (MQTT 3.1.1; #44)
- Added MQTT servers to the sample configuration file (iot.eclipse.org, test.mosquitto.org, broker.mqtt-dashboard.com) - first two are configured to use TLS with server-only authentication (using publicly available certificate authority files)
- Requires at least Java 8 Update 40
- Removed dependency on ControlsFx, which was causing issues with Java 8 Update 60 and later (#45)
- Bug fixes (opening message log, subcribing from the the summary tab)
0.2.0 (released on 01/08/2015)
- Automated testing with test cases (see wiki for details)
- Can be run with (connection tab’s pane visibility menu) and without a connection (see the Window menu)
- Written and run as scripts; similar to publication scripts
- Support for any types of assertions and checks available in Java and JavaScript
- Divided into steps, including before (setup) and after (clean-up) sections
- Auto export of results
- Performance improvements
- UI improvements
- Each pane on the connection tab contains a settings button for hiding and detaching
- Scripting improvements
- Dynamic subscriptions
- Access to received messages
- Formatting improvements
- Formatting scripts
- New “Formatters” view (replaces “Converter”)
- Update to latest JAXB commons
0.1.11 (released on 01/06/2015)
- Experimental SSL/TLS support (#36)
- Server only authentication (tried with test.mosquitto.org)
- Server and client
- SSL properties
- Automatically populating the protocol prefix when establishing connection (e.g. tcp:// or ssl://)
- Updated to the latest moquette version
0.1.10 (released on 01/05/2015)
- Sending and receiving binary files (e.g. images)
- For a sample script that sends an image see the Scripting wiki
- For saving received files use the 'Tools' button on the subscription tab, then 'Export', 'Messages' and 'Binary file'
- Improved handling of large messages
- Removed source code referencing the UNICEF fundraising page (as requested by the Eclipse legal team in relation to contributing mqtt-spy to Eclipse Paho)
0.1.9 (released on 15/04/2015)
- Added topic summary chart (with live updates; Subscription tab -> Show message count chart)
- Added message length info for publications (label goes red when new lines present; only present in detailed views)
- Upgraded to Eclipse Paho Java Client v1.0.2 (Paho 1.1)
- Added MQTT protocol version and support for long client IDs in connection settings (#31)
- Fixed UI colouring (#32)
- Fixed build issues (#33 and #34)
- Removed unused dependencies (as a result the mqtt-spy jar is now 50% smaller in size)
- Charts
- Auto-refresh for live data
- Historical values
- One or more topics (select which from the summary table)
- Driven by message payload or its size (could be formatted with subscription scripts; available from the summary table's context menu)
- Message load charts (available from the subscription tab's context menu)
- Pan and zoom (see the Overview wiki for info)
- Value tooltips
- UI improvements
- Auto-resize for topic search field (#26)
- Remembering 'resizable message pane' flag - see the 'Window' menu (#27)
- Lists of browsed/filtered/all topics can be exported to clipboard ('Tools' -> 'Export' -> 'Topics')
- New context menu item for the summary table - 'Filtered topics' -> 'Deselect all and select filtered topics'; other items renamed slightly
- Application icon
- Text conversions (added Base64 for input and fixed #29)
- Detachable connection and subscription tabs (available from the tab's context menu)
- Detachable connection panes (e.g. 'Publish message' or 'Scripted publications' - see the connection tab's context menu)
- Script creator (saving current/recent messages as scripts; see the Publish button's menu)
- Scripted publications pane improvements
- Double click to start a script (if not running)
- New context menu items
- Copy script location to clipboard
- Delete script from list
- Delete script from disk
- Change color for existing subscription (see the subscription tab's context menu)
- Creating message log (audit) - see the Message Log wiki
- Content-based filtering for browsed messages (see the new button 'Filter')
- Exporting browsed messages (see the 'Tools' button; this uses the XML-based message log format)
- Fix to message order when browsing selected topics
- Fix to change detection in 'Manage connections'
- Fix to script execution for received messages
- Improved message searching
- Simple payload search (default)
- Search with predefined script (see the new configuration parameter in Subscriptions tab)
- Search with in-line script (e.g.
content.contains("3") && topic.contains("test"))
- Improved resizing of the message and summary panes; added new toggle to the connection tab's context menu (Issue 17)
- Simplified saving subscriptions to configuration file (Issue 22)
- Formatting XML files (configuration & stats; Issue 23)
- Predefined publication scripts with auto-start (Issue 24)
- Remembering window size and selected perspective upon application restart
- Remembering and restoring published messages (see the 'Publish' button's menu)
- Keyboard shortcuts (requires focus on the publication topic field)
- ENTER - publish message
- ALT + DIGIT - restores the last X message (e.g. ALT + 1 restores the most recent; ALT + 2 the second most recent; ALT + 0 the 10th most recent)
- Parametrised publications (see Scripting wiki for details; and the 'Publish' button's menu)
- Reformatting/modifying content with subscription scripts
- Using Eclipse Paho Java Client v1.0.1
- Message log browsing (see the Logger menu)
- Message log replay with customisable replay speed (via JS scripts; see Scripting wiki for details)
- 'Repeat' flag in scripted publications
- Subscription scripts (e.g. for sending auto-reply)
- Improved formatting
- High availability features
- Support for multiple server URIs (as provided by Eclipse Paho Java client)
- Automatic reconnection and resubscription
- New XML configuration format for connections & new connection parameters (reconnection - see above; auto-subscribe on opening connection, see Issue 16)
- Base64 converter (see Window -> Converter)
- Received message length now displayed in bytes (B), kilobytes (kB) and megabytes (MB); exact length is now displayed in tooltip
- The “new secret feature” is now available on the control panel... ;-)
- Scripted publications (with JavaScript, using the Nashorn engine; see Scripting wiki for details)
- Improved topic filtering (new text field on 'Received messages summary')
- Improved message storage (now keeping last X messages for each topic)
- Perspectives (Menu -> View -> Perspectives)
- Customisable pane visibility (Connection tab's context menu -> Show/hide panes)
- Other UI improvements
- Bug fixes
- ControlsFX 8.20.7 & RichTextFX 0.5
- Broker statistics (now available from the connection tab's context menu)
- Statistics for received messages (shown as averages over 5s, 30s and 5m; see the ‘Received messages summary’ pane’s title)
- Connection status (now displayed in tab's tooltip; just hover your mouse over to see it; for connection failures this includes the failure reason and time)
- Subscription status (now also indicated in the tab's tooltip)
- Subscription can be now created from the ‘Received messages summary’ context menu
- Performance improvements (handling over 500 messages / second)
- Minor UI improvements
- Bug fixes
- MQTT Retained flag added for publications and subscriptions
- MQTT Last Will and Testament settings
- Performance improvements (handling over 200 messages / second)
- Bug fixes
- Now using “
_” intead of “-” as the client ID timestamp separator (to make it work with IBM® WebSphere MQ)
- Control panel
- Configuration file checking
- Connection summary
- Checking for updates
- Improved connection management
- Saving connection settings to configuration file
- Support for default configuration file (stored in user’s home directory)
- Performance improvements (handling over 100 messages / second)
- User authentication (MQTT username & password)
- Read-only connection management
- Added message search capability based on formatted content
- Filtering now applied by clicking on the "Show" column or through the context menu of the summary table
- Updated context menus
- Styling improvements
- Bug fix for message content text blur
- Easy access to broker's statistics by subscribing to $SYS/# (tested with mosquitto and HiveMQ)
- Topic filtering for received messages (driven from the summary table's context menu)
- Content of the last message received showed in the summary table
- New formatter available for encoding individual characters (e.g. # with its hexadecimal value; only using the configuration file)
- Maximum number of messages stored for each subscription can be now defined in the configuration file
- Actions triggered from keyboard & mouse (subscribing and message browsing)
- Bug fix for clearing the summary table
- Auto-loading of the configuration file (command line usage: --configuration=”file location”) and XSD validation
- Formatters for incoming messages (basic formatting via GUI, more complex by using the configuration file)
- Selected tabs have font weight set to bold, so that it's easier to spot which ones are selected
- Minor UI improvements
- Redesigned content of the connection tab (with collapsible panes)
- Added publication capability
- Recording topics used for publications and subscriptions in drop down lists
- Configuration file now defines whether to create subscription tabs or just populate the drop down list
- Added optional connection settings to the configuration file (clean session, connection timeout, keepalive)
- General improvements
- Loading configuration files with predefined connections and subscriptions
- New context menu item (copy subscription topic) for the subscription tab
- Changes to the “New connection” window
- Removed unused fields
- Added auto-connect
- Added connection name
- Minor UI tweaks
- General improvements
- Initial release
The project is being moved to Eclipse Paho - please use the new GitHub repo at https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt-spy. Don't forget to star it too! This repo will only be kept as an archive/reference.