Caracal 0.7.0 — Detect local servers

What's new

• Detect local database servers. The New connection dialog now scans your
  machine for running PostgreSQL and SQL Server instances and lists
  them under "Detected on this machine" — click one to prefill the connection,
  then pick your auth and connect. No more typing localhost by hand.
• Create a database on a connected server. A ＋ button on the Databases
  list (SQL Server / PostgreSQL) creates a new database and selects it.

Install

Download Caracal_0.7.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it — no admin rights
required. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app; click
"More info" → "Run anyway".

Caracal 0.6.2 — Live query timer

What's new

• Live query timer. While a query runs, the status bar shows the elapsed
  time counting up (it appears once the query has been running for more than
  half a second, so quick queries don't flash a counter). Handy for seeing how
  long a slow query has been going before deciding to Stop it.

Install

Download Caracal_0.6.2_x64-setup.exe below and run it — no admin rights
required. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app; click
"More info" → "Run anyway".

Caracal 0.6.1 — Refresh databases

What's new

• Refresh button on the Databases list in the sidebar — re-fetches the
  server's databases without reconnecting. Your current database stays selected
  if it still exists.

Install

Download Caracal_0.6.1_x64-setup.exe below and run it — no admin rights
required. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app; click
"More info" → "Run anyway".

Caracal 0.6.0 — Cancel queries

What's new

• Cancel a running query. While a query (or Analyze) runs, the Run button
  becomes a Stop button. Cancelling drops the connection, which cancels the
  work server-side on SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Plan flowchart shows self time. Each step now displays its own time with
  children excluded — matching what the heat coloring represents, so the true
  bottleneck reads correctly.

Install

Download Caracal_0.6.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it — no admin rights
required. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app; click
"More info" → "Run anyway".

Caracal 0.5.0 — Visual execution plans

What's new

• Execution plans. New Explain button (or Ctrl+Shift+Enter) shows the
  estimated plan as text without running the query.
• Visual query analysis. New Analyze button runs the query and renders
  the actual execution plan as a heat-colored flowchart — operators as
  connected boxes, the hottest (most time-consuming) steps in red, so the
  bottleneck is obvious. Click any step for a panel with all its metrics.
  • PostgreSQL & SQL Server: real per-step milliseconds
  • SQLite: plan structure
• Parallelism. Operators that ran across multiple threads/workers are
  badged, with timing measured as max-across-threads (not summed).

Install

Download Caracal_0.5.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it — no admin rights
required. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app; click
"More info" → "Run anyway".

Caracal 0.4.0 — Export to CSV/Excel/JSON, tab menu

What's new

• Export results — save any query result to CSV (Excel-compatible),
  Excel .xlsx (typed numbers, formatted headers), or JSON. Click
  Export… next to Run and pick the format in the save dialog.
• Smarter table opening — clicking a table generates SELECT TOP 100 /
  LIMIT 100 with the column names written out, ready to edit — no more
  SELECT *.
• Tab context menu — right-click a query tab for Close, Close others,
  Close tabs to the right, and Close all.
• Status-bar notices confirm exports and warn when a result was truncated.

Install

Download Caracal_0.4.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it — no admin rights
required. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app; click
"More info" → "Run anyway".

Caracal 0.3.0 — Object explorer, bound tabs, smart autocomplete

What's new

• Object explorer — the sidebar now organizes objects like SSMS:
  Tables, Partitions, Views, Materialized Views, and Procedures, each
  collapsible and grouped by schema. Clicking a procedure opens an
  EXEC/CALL template ready to run (never auto-executed).
• Database-bound query tabs — every tab shows a badge with the database
  it was opened under and keeps querying that database, even when you browse
  another one in the sidebar.
• Schema-aware autocompletion — the editor suggests table names and
  column names from the live schema, with the right SQL dialect per
  driver (T-SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite). Ctrl+Space opens suggestions anywhere.

Install

Download Caracal_0.3.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it — no admin rights
required. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app; click
"More info" → "Run anyway".

Caracal 0.2.0 — PostgreSQL support

What's new

• PostgreSQL driver — password authentication, TLS (with self-signed
  certificate option), multi-database browsing, tables/views/materialized
  views with row estimates, multi-statement scripts
• Connection dialog adapts per driver (port defaults, auth methods)
• New transparent app icon that looks right on the taskbar

Install

Download Caracal_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it — no admin rights
required. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognized app; click
"More info" → "Run anyway".

Caracal 0.1.0

Changelog

0.1.0 — 2026-07-14

First release.

• SQL Server / Azure SQL driver: SQL login, Windows Authentication, Microsoft
  Entra ID browser sign-in with persistent session (DPAPI-encrypted refresh token)
• Multi-database servers: database list with name filter, per-database browsing
  and querying (Azure SQL compatible — no USE required)
• SQLite driver (bundled, zero dependencies), one-click seeded demo database
• Schema browser with table/column metadata, row counts, and filtering
• Tabbed SQL editor: syntax highlighting, autocompletion, Ctrl+Enter,
  run-selection
• Virtualized results grid: 10,000-row cap with true total count,
  drag-to-resize and double-click-to-fit columns
• Color-coded saved connections, recent-connection prefill in the dialog
• Passwords in Windows Credential Manager; NSIS installer