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Mar 24, 2025
Visual Changelog for v0.13.0
Detailed overview of major changes in v0.13.0
Mar 29, 2024
Support for the PRQL in the database query prompt
PRQL is a database query language that is pipeline-oriented and easier to use interactively
Jan 9, 2024
Using lnav to solve the CyberDefenders Hammered Challenge
A walkthrough that uses lnav's analysis functionality to answer questions about a collection of logs
Aug 4, 2023
Tooling for troubleshooting configuration
Getting the final configuration and the sources of values
Jun 23, 2023
Cursor Mode
Move around the main view using a cursor
Sep 24, 2022
VSCode Extension for lnav
Syntax highlighting for lnav scripts
Sep 1, 2022
Playground and Tutorial
Try lnav without having to install anything
Aug 6, 2022
Markdown Support
A side effect of fancier help text
Aug 4, 2022
Pretty error messages
Error message improvements
May 1, 2022
Integration with regex101.com
Create/edit format files using regex101.com
May 3, 2021
Tailing files on remote hosts
Native support for tailing logs on machines accessible via SSH
Dec 23, 2020
Drilling down into XML snippets
The new "xpath()" table-valued SQL function.
May 8, 2019
Support for Themes
Change the user-interface to your liking
Nov 9, 2018
Visual filter editor
A friendlier way to interact with filters.
May 17, 2018
Support for tagging and commenting on log messages
Annotate log messages with your thoughts.
Apr 5, 2018
Tutorial for lnav in Linux Magazine
Looks like there was an in-depth tutorial on lnav in Linux Magazine. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice until now and missed out on a hardcopy.
Mar 27, 2018
Reveal log message source file paths by pressing left-arrow
Find out where log messages are coming from.
Mar 20, 2016
lnav in print
A review of lnav is in Linux User & Developer magazine issue 162:
Apr 11, 2015
Pretty-print view in v0.7.3
Automatically reformat structured data with "SHIFT+P".
Nov 11, 2014
Added "lo-fi" mode
An alternative way to copy displayed text.
Feb 22, 2014
Changes To The Scrollbar
Packing more information into the right scrollbar.
Oct 5, 2013
Mini review of lnav in Linux Magazine
The October issue of Linux Magazine has a nice review of lnav v0.5.0, the author gave it four out of five stars!
Sep 13, 2013
Four years on GitHub
Still going strong!
Sep 10, 2013
Mini-review of lnav in Linux User Magazine
The german magazine, Linux User, has a mini-review of lnav v0.6.0 in their November issue!
Sep 10, 2013
Competing with 'tail -f'
The standard utilities are tough competition.
Sep 10, 2013
Support for JSON-encoded logs in v0.6.1
Turning JSON barf into something readable.