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This describes the recent changes made to Routlets. Thanks for the feedback.
If you have any suggestions or problems with Routlets, please let us know.
Routlets 0.4.3
Routlets 0.4.2
  • New search style by declarations - configuration sections with similar edit paths
  • Other changes ...
    • Enable sorting search results by edit path (across routers)
    • Summarize the number of matches under a router in the search results tree
    • Default to disabling search explanations. To see detailed explanations of search results (in the properties view), enable the 'Include explanations' preference before searching
    • Enable Compare to from right-click menu in configuration editor
    • Enable Show In/Properties from right-click menu in editor - troubleshooting option to summarize currently selected configuration statement
    • Right-click in editor moves cursor before showing context menu
    • Storing search indexes could fail with "data exception: string data, right truncation"
    • Adding a Junos 13 router could fail with "Expecting XML response"
    • Content assist improvement at:
      • policy-statement then accept/reject (under Junos 13)
  • Windows 32 bit - 67.4Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 67.4Mb zip file
Routlets 0.4.1
Routlets 0.4.0
  • Enable free text searching of router configurations
    - e.g. fuzzy matching, wildcards, AND/OR logic, include/exclude words and proximity of words
  • Other changes ...
    • Add preference to enable/disable section folding
    • Enable undo, after moving router(s) in Project Explorer
    • Enable keystrokes for Find and Refresh in the router status panels
    • Improve UI responsiveness when opening an editor - during "Match configuration against command structure"
    • Close project excludes router(s) from search results
    • Add preference to defragment internal database
    • Cutting a collapsed section to the clipboard was just expanding the section
  • Windows 32 bit - 67.4Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 67.4Mb zip file
Routlets 0.3.7
  • Section folding - to expand and collapse sections in the configuration editor
  • Support editing and saving protected sections (Junos 11.2 or later)
  • Copy/paste to logical-systems creates a new logical-system - same as for groups
  • Other changes ...
    • Add preferences to control what new groups and logical-systems are called
    • Auto-collapse inactive: sections when opening a configuration file
    • Perform "Setup connection to database" step in background at Routlets startup (rather than when opening first editor)
    • Up arrow key goes to the last item in the list in the Goto Edit Path and Run Router Command dialogs
    • Problems saving an annotation, or deactivating a section at such as policy-options policy-statement term from protocol static
    • Detect notifications like "System going down IMMEDIATELY" against Junos 12
    • Hover help in the commit history view could stop showing after a rollback
    • Opening the editor simultaneously for two routers on the same Junos version could result in internal errors
    • Content assist improvement at:
      • logical-systems (references to)
  • Windows 32 bit - 56.8Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 56.8Mb zip file
Routlets 0.3.6
  • Keep previous commit comments etc in Save and Commit Wizard
  • Other changes ...
    • Pressing the Reset from router button on the Router Properties dialog could freeze, if using the root user
    • Comparing statements from two different Junos versions (see All-round compare) could result in "Parts not compatible for compare"
    • Errors while saving a renamed configuration statement:
      • A further rename at a child level failed with "error: source statement does not exist"
      • If a parameter was also removed from the renamed statement, the save could fail with "missing argument."
    • Improve error handling when detecting the connection details for a router, if the user doesn't have rights
  • Windows 32 bit - 56.1Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 56.1Mb zip file
Routlets 0.3.5
Routlets 0.3.4
  • Command pinning - customize hover help to add favorite router commands
  • Shortcut keys in hover help - press F2 then a number key to run a related router command
  • Other changes ...
    • Run Router Command dialog is context sensitive
      - command parameters are auto-suggested from the current [edit path] in the editor
    • Quicker navigation in the Goto Edit Path and Run Router Command dialogs
      - mouse scroll wheel works anywhere
      - double-click in whitespace in list to go back one level
    • Option in hover help to bypass showing the Run Router Command dialog before running a command
    • Associate Alt+Shift+A keystroke with Toggle block mode in router status and online help panels
    • Restructure table of contents for the help screen
    • Expand Edit/Shortcuts menu
    • Error connecting to virtual chassis devices (EX series): "configure" mode not available
    • Links between configuration sections weren't being show in hover help under Junos 12
    • Validation wasn't detecting a duplicate statement at policy-options policy-statement term then
    • The Tab and Esc keys could stop working in the Goto Edit Path and Run Router Command dialogs
    • Compare to pinned against a router showed nothing if the pinned section couldn't be matched
  • Windows 32 bit - 56.1Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 56.1Mb zip file
Routlets 0.3.3
  • Add Reset from router button to Router properties to detect version or hostname changes
  • Keep the Routlets 'workspace' (list of routers etc) between installations of Routlets
  • Other changes ...
    • Enable more than one workspace in Routlets (see tip in Help at Routlets/Concepts/Workspace)
    • Add warning markers to editor for missing or duplicate keywords
    • Add Compare to last local edit, commit history and pinned menu options to Configuration menu in main editor
    • Add F3 keystroke for Find Next, based on current editor selection
    • Add To Upper/Lower case options to Edit sub-menu
    • Add Next/Previous Sub-Tab options to Window/Navigation sub-menu
    • Add block selection mode to router status pane, to select columns from table based output
    • Content assist restricts the proposals shown based on an interface type
    • Selecting a part in the outline view shows the [edit path] for the part in the status bar
    • Goto dialog doesn't need space after a '*' wildcard to search all levels
    • Copy section (Ctrl+Alt+Down) at such interfaces <name> unit 0 wasn't selecting just the unit number to rename
    • When adding a router, the Folder/Browse button was offering internal folders
    • The sequence numbers shown in the commit history could fail to renumber after a commit to the router
    • The status bar alert for an outstanding commit confirmed wasn't refreshing correctly
    • Commit confirmed after File/Save As from another router resulted in internal errors
    • File/Save As from a router could result in a warning marker against the opening comment in a configuration file
    • Reordering unrelated configuration statements could result in syntax errors when saving to the router
    • Configuration/Format (Ctrl+Shift+F) from a closing brace wasn't correcting the indent
    • Content assist improvements at:
      • class-of-service
      • class-of-service classifiers dscp forwarding-class loss-priority
      • routing-options confederation
      • system radius-server
      • system services outbound-ssh
      • Second value in list (e.g. apply-groups [ group1 group2 ] )
    • Resolve schema matching problems at:
      • security certificates local
    • Comment like ## Warning: in candidate configuration on router would intermittently cause syntax errors in configuration editor
    • Reduce the time spent "Showing syntax highlighting" opening a large configuration file
    • Upgrade the underlying Eclipse platform to 3.7.2
      (This fixes a problem with Windows 64bit needing to prompt for a password to access secure storage - more info at Routlets/Concepts/Secure Storage in the Routlets help)
  • Windows 32 bit - 56.0Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 56.0Mb zip file
Routlets 0.3.2
Routlets 0.3.1
  • Automatic tracking of changes saved in offline edit mode, to restore to the router once a connection is available
  • Add Window/Navigation sub-menu for navigation shortcuts
  • Other changes ...
    • Add Compare to/Commit history menu option from outline view
    • Improve Compare to/Pin for compare matching if no exact match in target configuration (e.g. system host-name one vs system host-name two)
    • Content assist was failing to show descriptions for parameters (<value> style prompts)
    • Project Explorer view wasn't showing unsaved change markers (* indicator in the tree) until manually refreshed
  • Windows 32 bit - 54.9Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 54.9Mb zip file
Routlets 0.3.0
  • Automatic offline edit mode, if connection to router not available
  • Add Goto dialog to quickly locate sections in a configuration
  • New all-round compare feature, to compare any two configuration sections known to Routlets
  • Other changes ...
    • Add rollback numbers to Commit History view
    • Add icons to compare editor panes
    • Enable double-click to select a command option in Configuration/Run Router Command
    • Improve Routlets shutdown time, especially with the XML schemas for multiple Junos versions loaded
    • Add a preference to return to backing up the internal database at shutdown (at Routlets/Troubleshooting)
    • Change internal workspace layout for .router files - to enable offline edit mode
    • Move session log files to own sub-directories under workspace/.logs
    • Copying a configuration section to a router where the top-level section (e.g. policy-options) didn't exist would fail with an error
    • Dragging a configuration section to an unrelated parent, then undo could lose syntax highlighting
  • Windows 32 bit - 54.9Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 54.9Mb zip file
Routlets 0.2.4
  • Include default values for parameters in Content assist
  • Other changes ...
    • Ctrl+Shift+A should start an annotation from the blank line before a statement, as well as with the cursor on the statement
    • Hover help wasn't showing the details of a syntax error
    • 'Flattening' a section failed to save (e.g. from { protocol static } changed to from protocol static; )
    • Compare to active failed when used twice from same Configuration Editor
    • Format configuration was getting the indents wrong around an inactive: section
    • Resolve schema matching problems at:
      • system services web-management
      • system services dhcp pool address-range
      • protocols mpls label-switched-path bandwidth
      • protocols mpls static-path inet
      • security nat source rule-set rule match
      • security screen ids-option untrust-screen tcp syn-flood
  • Windows 32 bit - 54.8Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 54.8Mb zip file
Routlets 0.2.3
  • Add Copy, Paste and Delete to the Outline view
  • Include a part's description or annotation text in the Outline view for easy navigation
  • Add Configuration menu option to create or edit an annotation (annotate command in Junos) - Ctrl+Shift+A keystroke
  • Fetch XML schema in background - after showing configuration file in editor
  • Add router model to Router Properties
  • Test connection button now includes output from show version and haiku
  • Other changes ...
    • Outline view stopped showing after opening a Commit History item
    • Resolve problem showing hover help for offline file
    • Correct syntax highlighting when Toggle inactive used against a configuration statement with an annotation
    • Detect a syntax error for an unclosed "quoted value
    • Don't save navigation history for commit history items after restart - this was preventing the editor for the same router subsequently opening
    • Reduce thread priority during 'XML schema parse', to keep machine more responsive
  • Windows 32 bit - 54.8Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 54.8Mb zip file
Routlets 0.2.2
Routlets 0.2.1
Routlets 0.2.0
  • Router status - show links to related router commands, direct from the configuration file
  • Offer links to online help on the router (help topic or help reference), from hover help or content assist
  • Review configuration changes as a Junos save script (similar to show | compare), for confidence before committing
  • Other changes ...
    • Correct content assist at such as policy-statement term then metric
    • Speed up retrieving command structure (XML Schema) from the internal database
    • Restore hover help for error messages in left and right margins in configuration editor
    • Auto-detect PuTTY and/or FileZilla under such as C:\Program Files (x86) as well as C:\Program Files.
  • Windows 32 bit - 54.7Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 54.7Mb zip file
Routlets 0.1.2
  • Improved hover help
  • Optional anonymous upload of usage data (to track which features of Routlets are popular - please participate)
  • Other changes ...
    • Commit history - show router names for group commits
    • Content assist - use text wrapping when describing selected keyword
    • Compare to other configuration version - was adding warnings to an open editor
  • Windows 32 bit - 54.5Mb zip file
  • Windows 64 bit - 54.5Mb zip file
Routlets 0.1.1
Routlets 0.1.0