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v3.4

By Saul Pwanson

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v3.4 (2026-06-30)

It's been the better part of a year since v3.3, and v3.4 is a big one: new features across the board, a thorough pass on markup rendering, and dozens of bugfixes. Highlights include:

  • Search highlighting (hlsearch): every match for / and g/ is now highlighted in place; toggle with options.highlight_search. (#2861)
  • Human-readable keys everywhere: the "prettykeys" overhaul means all bindings display with readable names (Ctrl+Up, Alt+d, …) in help, menus, and status. (#2594)
  • Smarter -f: filetype now separated between input and output, with -f applying to the input filetype, and with -of for the output filetype, which supports compound format+compression types like json+gz; an explicit -f also overrides URL-scheme dispatch. (#1242, #573, #985, #3126)
  • Define your own commands in-session: define-command <longname> <execstr>, with currow.<ColName> available to read the cursor row's values. (#655)
  • Save edited options straight to your config with z Ctrl+S. (#2206)
  • Split-pane file preview on the DirSheet. (#3024)
  • Customizable cell-editing keys via vd.editCellBindings. (#2986)
  • Jump to any sheet by name with jump-sheet (with tab-completion).
  • Change displayed float precision with setcol-precision (Alt+-/Alt++/g%).
  • Drop into an interactive $SHELL with exec-shell.
  • Aggregation bar showing aggregate totals. (#2209, #2995)
  • Fuzzy input-history palette. (#2684)
  • Macros now support keystroke bindings and input parameters. (#2784, #2785)
  • Smarter SQLite exec-sql: named queries, types, and edit-sql. (#2136, #3020)
  • GeoParquet support: decode WKB geometry and plot it.
  • vdsql improvements: multi-schema browsing (#2027) and SQL shown in the sidebar (#2200).
  • S3 recursive directory listing and anonymous-mode access.
  • Better HTML tables: handle interspersed th/td and rowspan. (#1346, #1308)
  • CSV now skips blank lines. (#3085)
  • New adwaita light and dark themes. (#3006)
  • An embedded ptipython REPL. (#2736)
  • A command server for scripting VisiData.
  • Experimental: vdaw, a transcript-based audio editor.
  • Experimental: an llm plugin to analyze columns with Anthropic Claude. (#2947)
  • Experimental: search_geo, bbox-overlap helpers for STAC catalogs.

Thanks to @midichef for a huge share of the bugfixes and improvements in this release, and to everyone who contributed (and for the first time including @saulbert, who helped ship several features we wouldn't have done otherwise).

Please see the CHANGELOG for the full list of changes.

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