Yaak 2.0 Beta

Welcome to the Yaak 2.0 (aka 2025.1) beta!

Finally, you can now integrate Yaak workspaces with Git using Local directory sync. There’s a lot more here, however, and a few more big things coming so give it a try and leave your feedback in the 2.0 Feedback Thread.

Beta 15

• Handle non-Yaak files for Git UI

Beta 14

• Git UI, visible when workspace has an associated directory
• Fixed Misaligned spinning icon
• Actually handle the “Enabled” checkbox for auth plugins
• Fix some error banners stretching to full height

Beta 13

• Add auto-scroll to WebSocket, SSE, and gRPC response views
• Fix duplication for WebSocket requests
• Support path placeholders and URL parameters for WebSocket requests

Beta 12

• WebSocket Requests
• Fix delete during request rename triggering request deletion dialog

Beta 11

• OAuth 2.0
• Multi-Part mime for text fields
• Multi-line editing for multi-part form values
• Align sidebar request names

Beta 10

• Fix faker plugin breaking things

Beta 7

• Fix plugin runtime not starting

Beta 6

• Clicking sidebar item focuses sidebar, then immediately loses it
• Switch plugin runtime communication from gRPC to WebSocket
• Fix JSONPath/XPath filtering for ISO-8859-1 charset

Beta 4/5

• Fix fresh DB not being created on first launch

Beta 3

• Add JWT bearer authentication plugin
• Add support for auth plugins and port existing auth
• Add gRPC v1 reflection (falls back to old v1alpha)
• Fix app not launching on Windows due to invalid DB file path format
• Fix window maximization visual state
• Fix window size/position restoration
• Fix workspace creation without sync dir enabled

Beta 2

• Update to use latest plugins

🎁 Features

• Local directory sync
• Git UI
• WebSocket Requests
• OAuth 2.0 Authentication
• JWT Authentication
• Request/Folder/Workspace descriptions
• Huge performance improvements 🚀
• Authentication plugin support
• Vim motions in text fields
• Support TLS 1.3

👥 Community

• yaak2postman CLI for converting Yaak exports to Postman collections

💄 Improvements

• Preserve editor history for all inputs
• Option to omit environments from data export
• Order workspaces, cookie jars, and environments by name
• Emacs, and VSCode keymaps
• Duplicate Folders
• Support SVG response preview
• Menus now use “click away” instead of a backdrop
• Backspace to delete selected request in sidebar
• Gruvbox theme (#140 by @alhansrisuk)
• Add analytics to the Settings window
• Move base environments out of workspace (visible in data export)
• Button to open logs and data directories from app settings
• Multi-Part mime for text fields
• Multi-line editing for multi-part form values
• Align sidebar request names

🛠️ Fixes

• Text selection during request rename
• Out of memory on large responses
• Support dashes in variable names
• Fix split layout sometimes not working
• Fix incorrect selected workspace for data export
• Prevent showing context menu inside context menu
• Fix pressing enter in command palette
• Fix Control-Tab hotkey on Linux and Windows to switch recent requests
• Force single-instance of app (useful for some Linux environments)