December 2020 (Version 1.17.0, build 20201211.10)
Welcome to Storage Explorer version 1.17.0. This is a smaller release which contains several long requested features, bug fixes, and small changes to improve the overall user experience. For more details on all of these changes and more, continue reading below.
New
Blobs
- There is now a setting to preserve the access tier of blobs when performing a copy & paste. To enable this setting, go to Settings → Transfers → AzCopy → Preserve blob access tier. #2125
- For storage accounts that have static websites enabled, there is now a Web Endpoint property in the properties panel. #532
ADLS Gen2
- Alongside the release of the new recursive access control list (ACL) APIs, Storage Explorer has a new feature called "Propagate Access Control Lists". You can use this feature to propagate the current ACLs of a folder to all of its existing file and folder descendants. #3695
- Several pieces of helpful info have been added to the Manage Access Control List dialog. #3694
- The selection and folder statistics features are now available in ADLS Gen2 blob explorers. #964
Logging
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Several aspects of Storage Explorer are now being logged to disk. This is being done so you can easily see what and when Storage Explorer is doing things, even from previous sessions. The new things being logged include:
Over the next few releases additional things will be added to these log files. If there is something you would like to be logged please open a feature request.
Azure Data Factory
- The Azure Data Factory extension has received several updates since first being released last month. Today, version 0.1.4 of the extension is being released. If you have already installed the extension, you can update it from the extension's panel. Otherwise, you can download it here.
General
- The activities for operations which use AzCopy now include start time and duration. #1683
- On macOS you can now use ⌘A and ⌘Z in text boxes for select all and undo. If you find a text box which does not support either of these shortcuts please open a bug report. #2756
Fixes
ADLS Gen2
- Fixed a typo in the rename dialog. #3819
- When renaming blobs and folders you can no longer use "." as a new name. #3363
Blobs
- In the blob explorer, when viewing snapshots for a blob, the address bar would not update to indicate that snapshots were being viewed. This has been fixed. #3390
Queues
- In the queue explorer's data table, consecutive whitespaces were being condensed into one whitespace. This has been fixed. #3134
Disks
- In v1.16, disks would fail to download when certain proxy settings were active. This has been fixed. #3782
General
- In v1.16 the last chosen save location was not being saved for downloads. This has been fixed. #3802
- When attaching a public blob container, the Back button in the Connect dialog would not work once you reached the Connection Summary page. This has been fixed. #3476
- When attaching via SAS URI the endpoint field for the appropriate service type would not display the parsed service endpoint. This has been fixed. #1514
- When attaching via Connection String a suggested display name was not always parsed from the given connection string. This has been fixed. #593
Known Issues
- The new "Propagate Access Control Lists" feature is not available for the root directory of ADLS Gen2 blob containers. #3876
- Several users have encountered issues when attempting to use Storage Explorer on Windows 10 for ARM devices. #2553
See the issues page for a complete list of all known issues.