Restfox

[!IMPORTANT] macOS users: install this release by hand once. This release is signed with a new Apple Developer ID, so Restfox 0.40.0 and older can't update itself to it, and it won't tell you. Download it once from the assets below (Restfox-darwin-arm64 for Apple Silicon, Restfox-darwin-x64 for Intel). If you installed with Homebrew, run brew upgrade --greedy restfox instead. Updates after this one install automatically again.

Desktop app: don't go back to 0.40.0 or older. Once you've opened this release, an older version deletes your workspaces and requests when it starts. If you must go back, first click Backup & Restore on the workspaces screen and download a backup, then restore it in the older version. File workspaces stay on disk either way and can be reopened with Open File Workspace.

What's New

• Collection Runner: run the requests of a folder or collection in order (#98)
• Prompt tag: ask for a value when a request is sent, in any field or environment variable. It can ask on every send or once per session, and hide what you type. A hidden value is never saved, not even in response history (#313, #344)
• Proxy in the desktop app and web-standalone: Settings > Proxy with System (the default, follows the system's proxy settings), Off and Custom (http, https or socks5, with login and a bypass list). It covers requests, scripts, WebSocket and Socket.IO (#181)
• CA Certificates in the desktop app and web-standalone: trust an extra certificate file, and the app now also trusts your operating system's certificates. This fixes "self signed certificate in certificate chain" behind company proxies like Netskope (#329)
• OAuth 2.0: Authorization Code with PKCE (#298), a Client Authentication option to send the client credentials as a Basic Auth header or in the body (#294), a token Prefix field, and clear error messages when getting a token fails
• Auth inheritance: "Inherit from Parent" is the new default, and "No Auth" now really sends no auth, even under a folder with auth (#333)
• Request timeout setting, 0 for no limit (#385)
• Reorder environments (#380)
• Response Panel: line wrapping toggle (#34) and a choice of how to format the response body (#183)
• Mobile friendly UI (#8)
• Docker / web-standalone: file workspaces like the desktop app, so your data survives a container restart (#92)
• Postman import: data dumps, environment and globals files, and folders, auth, scripts and bodies that were dropped before (#25)
• Chrome extension app: updated with everything in this release, its first update since April 2024. Its saved data is now protected from Chrome's storage cleanup

Fixes

• Header names are sent as you typed them instead of lowercased (#384)
• Disable SSL Verification now applies to WebSocket and Socket.IO (#382)
• Socket Panel: clear error when a connection fails, variables in the URL and message work in every form, and double clicking Connect no longer opens two connections
• GraphQL schema fetch sends the request's auth and headers (#332)
• Environment variables with a space in the name are highlighted, and nested ones show their value on hover (#227)
• A URL from an environment variable keeps its query parameters (#386)
• Path params are no longer deleted while editing the URL, nested ones included (#287, #337)
• Timeline shows the headers that were actually sent (#390)
• Restfox import keeps folder headers, auth and descriptions, and export keeps scripts (#388)
• Insomnia import works with Insomnia 11 YAML exports and keeps folder settings and OAuth 2.0 fields
• curl import no longer breaks a body containing @ (#366)
• Requests in Electron and web-standalone no longer time out after 5 minutes
• Large file uploads in web-standalone no longer load the whole file into memory (#241)
• Renaming a folder with a dot in its name no longer duplicates part of it (#350)
• Cleared

What's New

• Plugin / Script > rf.setParentEnvVar (resolves #346)

Fixes

• File Workspace > script disappears from a request when a request is moved from one folder to another but reappears when we close and reopen the app (fixes #345)
• Sidebar > Duplicating and dragging request from one folder to another, then dragging it to the end of the original folder makes it disappear (fixes #343)
• Response Panel > application/problem+json and application/problem+xml should be considered as render-able types + change Binary Response Warning to Unknown Media Type Warning and also show media type in the warning (resolves #347)

Packages

For Ubuntu, snap can be installed using:

sudo snap install restfox

For macOS, the app can be installed using homebrew:

brew install restfox

For Windows, the app can be installed using:

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install restfox

NOTE: Not all the builds have been tested properly, so please create an issue if you encounter any problems.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/compare/v0.39.0...v0.40.0

What's New

• Sidebar > Folder > environment quick switcher (resolves #312)
• Add support for additional response formats in settings and response panel for bypassing binary response warning on custom content types (resolves #339)
• Tabs in Settings

Fixes

• Import > use the same fetch logic as the rest of the app instead of directly using the fetch method to avoid CORS issues + import not respecting the disable ssl setting (resolves #330, resolves #336)
• curl import fails for multipart/form-data (resolves #335) + auto focus the textarea when showing the curl import modal
• Response Panel > remember & restore scroll position when switching tabs, not working correctly for responses that get a large response / binary response warning
• Backup Restore failing for backups having request or response data larger than 10 MB (resolves #338)

Packages

For Ubuntu, snap can be installed using:

sudo snap install restfox

For macOS, the app can be installed using homebrew:

brew install restfox

For Windows, the app can be installed using:

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install restfox

NOTE: Not all the builds have been tested properly, so please create an issue if you encounter any problems.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/compare/v0.38.0...v0.39.0

What's New

• Sidebar > allow dropping sidebar item to the end of tree (#326) by @lucas-almeida026
• Response Panel > Add large response warning when loading responses over 3MB, as ui tends to lag a lot when loading large responses
• Response Panel > Don't auto load unknown binary responses as text (resolves #331)

Fixes

• Repeated headers get dropped (#327) by @lucas-almeida026

New Contributors

• @lucas-almeida026 made their first contribution in https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/pull/326

Packages

For Ubuntu, snap can be installed using:

sudo snap install restfox

For macOS, the app can be installed using homebrew:

brew install restfox

For Windows, the app can be installed using:

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install restfox

NOTE: Not all the builds have been tested properly, so please create an issue if you encounter any problems.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/compare/v0.37.0...v0.38.0