April 2025 (Version 1.38.0, build 20250408.1)
Welcome to Storage Explorer version 1.38.0. This release introduces several useful features and extends existing features to Linux snaps.
For a detailed list of issues resolved in v1.38.0, visit our Issues page.
Tab Colors
Storage Explorer now allows you to set tab colors. This long-requested feature helps you visually distinguish between different tabs. For example, you can color-code tabs based on storage account or subscription.
To set or remove a tab's color, right-click the tab and select a color from the Set Tab Color menu. Storage Explorer will remember your tab color selections across sessions.
Custom Accounts in Azurite Docker Containers
We recently added support for detecting Azurite instances running in Docker containers and automatically forming connections to them. This only worked with default account configurations.
Storage Explorer now supports custom account configurations with the AZURITE_ACCOUNTS environment variable. Emulator account nodes in Azurite Docker containers will now display the account name followed by the Docker container name.
Azurite Docker Container Support for Linux Snaps
Previously, Azurite Docker container support was limited to Windows, macOS, and the Linux tar.gz distribution. This release adds support for Linux snaps.
To enable Azurite Docker container support for Linux Snaps:
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Ensure you have permissions to run Docker CLI commands, typically by adding your user to the docker group (see Docker's documentation). Restart your machine after adding your user to the docker group.
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Ensure you are using the default Docker context. Storage Explorer does not support other Docker contexts (e.g.,
desktop-linux). Switch to the default context by running the following command:docker context use default
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Connect the Docker-related Storage Explorer plug to the appropriate slots using the following commands:
snap connect storage-explorer:docker docker:docker-daemon snap connect storage-explorer:docker-executables docker:docker-executables
If you encounter issues connecting to your Azurite Docker containers, refer to our Troubleshooting Guide.
Direct Link Support for Linux Snaps
Previously, direct links (storageexplorer://...) would open Storage Explorer only on Windows and macOS. Now, for Linux snap users, direct links will open the Storage Explorer snap.
Note that this only works when interacting with link objects, such as an <a> element in an HTML document. Storage Explorer may not open if you paste a direct link into your browser.
Detach All for File Shares, Queues, and Tables
In our previous release, we introduced the ability to detach all attached blob containers. This release adds the ability to detach all attached file shares, queues, and tables.
Skip Rows in CSV Preview
Some users work with CSV files where the first line does not contain header or row data, making it difficult to discern the actual columns in the CSV preview panel.
Storage Explorer now allows you to discard the first few CSV rows to parse the expected row header. Additionally, we have relaxed CSV parsing rules to better handle rows with missing or extra columns.
Parquet Byte Array-encoded Decimal Values
Storage Explorer now parses Parquet DECIMAL values encoded as BYTE_ARRAY or FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY and displays them as decimal numbers.