Sorry, this new release is just terrible

[popov654]

Expected Behavior

To react on my actions fast and neatly

Actual Behavior

Like "wtf is going on"...

Reproduction Steps

No response

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the issue tracker for this problem.

Additional Information

Here is an incomplete list of the problems:

1. Terrible delays: when renaming a request, when switching to another request, when editing a request header, when toggling hidden value of the header, etc. These are sometimes up to 1-1.5 seconds
2. When I click the request name and then click sometimes inside the text, I want to move my text cursor, not to save the changes and finishthe editing >..<
3. When I click th "Untitled request" and start editing, the text is subtle gray, so I expect it to be replaced by the new value (since it's the default placeholder), but... The new value is just getting appended to the right
4. Value of the API key cannot be copied with either Ctrl+C or the context menu
5. When I click and select the API key by dragging, the result sometimes looks weird (like the selection rectangle does not cover all of the text, only 70-75 percent of it)
6. When I open the program, I would like my last collection to be remembered, since it takes at least 2 more mouse clicks to get to the destination now
7. Overall startup time is too slow compared to last major release
8. In fact I accidentally click on the title of the request way too often, because of getting used to the old behavior. Would be nice if rename was triggered only by the context menu as it was before

Insomnia Version

9.4.1

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 10 version 1909

Installation method

download from website

Last Known Working Insomnia version

8.x

[kirantyefun]

+1. Ditto same issue. Terrible update. OS: Mac OS M1 chip

OS version Ventura 13.4.1

[polderudo]

+1. Ditto same issues. Terrible update. OS: Mac OS M1 chip

OS version Sonoma 14

[Rafikooo]

I rarely actively participate in GitHub issues, but today is an exception. Indeed, this new update also affects my setup OS: Mac OS Ventura on M2 chip

[subnetmarco]

Will be fixed this week - Preparing 8.4.2 to fix some issues (the single click rename, and more), and 8.4.3 to improve the performance.

[igor875126]

same issue. Terrible update.

MacOS

downgraded to older Version: Insomnia 2022.7.5 works perfectly

[subnetmarco]

The rename issue has been fixed this morning in v8.4.2

[subnetmarco]

@popov654 regarding these issues:

Value of the API key cannot be copied with either Ctrl+C or the context menu When I click and select the API key by dragging, the result sometimes looks weird (like the selection rectangle does not cover all of the text, only 70-75 percent of it)

What do you mean by "API Key"? You mean an environment variable attached to the URL?

[krstns]

Insomnia on Mac works really slow now, but release 8.4 and 8.4.2 on Windows is a complete disaster. I have a feeling like someone put all user actions execution within a setTimeout with 300ms delay. Making changes to environments is close to impossible, switching between configs takes so long that I start to think I have clicked the wrong thing. Adding a request unfolds all folded folders and moves the focus, folding anything takes time. Then I tried to change the name... typing a single letter would remove the focus from the input. wow How did this pass any tests?

[LuizPelegrini]

It's super slow now, any user interaction takes 1-1.5s to complete.

Using Mac M1 Chip 32GB Ventura.

Hope this is fixed soon

[subnetmarco]

Yes we are aware of the slowness.

It will be fixed next week in 8.4.3. We are iterating rapidly as we are doing some major refactorings, the regressions will reduce dramatically in number once we complete this rough patch of work.

[priyankvex]

Is there a way to opt out of updates. At this point I just want a stable version that works.

[krstns]

Is there a way to opt out of updates. At this point I just want a stable version that works.

try settings->automatically download and install updates option

[klerpi]

1 to 2 seconds delay on anything I do

[carloss1989]

Using Mac M1 Chip.

Terrible release!

[tss182]

using Mac M1 on Sonomo MAC OS terrible release

[klit79]

downgraded to 8.3.0 i feel alot better

[depressedliza]

same issue. Terrible update. MacOs M2 Sonoma v14.0

[popov654]

You mean an environment variable attached to the URL?

I meant Bearer authorization token, IIRC

[simonmudd]

A few more things I have identified this morning since the latest update:

• Deleting an access token is no longer possible.
  • If the backspace is pressed the cursor jumps to the end of the token
  • Highlighting the value and pressing backspace has the same outcome
  • Starting at the end of the token and pressing backspace has no effect
• The refresh token is also not deletable with the above behaviour
• Editing a GraphQL request so it has invalid syntax and then switching to a different request will trigger the auto formatting, which returns the request to the last valid syntax.
  • This behaviour is not reflected in other request types (JSON, XML, etc).

Details of setup: MAC OS M1 chip Insomnia version - 8.4.2

[alissonpadua]

Same here... it is terrible

+1. Ditto same issue. Terrible update. OS: Mac OS M1 chip

OS version Ventura 13.4.1

[subnetmarco]

As an update: we have identified the performance issue and a fix will ship this week in 8.4.3. Besides this issue here you will find more about some of the changes that we are making that are causing these regressions, which will decrease in number very rapidly in the following weeks.

[subnetmarco]

@simonmudd letting the team know, thanks for reporting.

[subnetmarco]

Hello 👋 Insomnia 8.4.4 has been shipped with numerous performance improvements that brings back a ton of speed in the UI. You can wait for the auto-updater to download it for you, or you can manually download it here.

[MrRoiz]

@subnetmarco I just updated to v8.4.4 and it still has tons of UI insane delays.

OS: Ubuntu 23.10

[Ryan432]

+1

Guys... come on, cannot agree better then what was said, like "wtf is going on" You used to have a great product, new versions are just nightmare..

• "Switch Requests (CMD + P on Mac)" shortcut was removed which was super useful for productivity.
• gRPC integration is simply broken - nothing works as expected, saved body are removed, and the list continues.
• The app is working slow in many difference actions.

There are tons of issues that can be mentioned, a complete end to end QA is required.

[goodalex]

Hi,

I really like the software. This release has quite some usability issues and issues.

• First it behaves very unexpected when you click double click the name. I don't unterstand the action I have to take to rename
• Then the renaming does not work, when I place the cursor at the start or end of name, and type something, it reverts back to the original name and the "renaming state" is inactive again
• Sometimes when clicking on the requests it will collapse / expand, sometimes not. It's not clear where you want me to click.
• Overall, it takes minutes until you manage to rename the requests.
• All my data was lost after the update installed the first time. Luckily I had a backup from the day before, but that was already stale so I had to reproduce many changes.
• The method chips are so visually prominent now that it is difficult to visually distinguish requests by request name when you have many requests

[ches]

All my data was lost after the update installed the first time. Luckily I had a backup from the day before, but that was already stale so I had to reproduce many changes.

This is at least the second time that an Insomnia update has trashed user data catastrophically or near so, the memory of manually repairing data is still fresh on my mind from #5559.

QA has been really rough on this product since acquisition, doesn't reflect well on Kong as an enterprise vendor… Regression fixes from big changes (#6815) are coming over months? Sounds like it should have matured a lot further in the beta updates channel.

[phen0menon]

Moving to Postman back, it's unusable at this moment. I can't even rename my request name, also I can't even add a new header inside a request - UI terribly lagging on my clean M1 Pro...

[subnetmarco]

@phen0menon Here is a video to rename a request or adding a header inside a request, isn't this what you are seeing in your local installation? https://www.loom.com/share/6dde9589eaed4f91a803e48619f65804

[phen0menon]

It works OK for clean collection. My collection is large and when I click on request name (in sidebar), it shows me a text field but when I try to enter anything - the text field disappears and request name replaces with its URL (with variables :D). Shortcuts like Ctrl + C / Ctrl + X don't work at all - it's better not to even try to click them - it's not clear what's going on with the UI - my sidebar will scroll down somewhere

Same behavior for headers tab - when there are more than 10 header items, UI becomes laggy and unusable for fast fingers.

Sometimes it works OK even for bigger collection. But I'm really tired of getting random UI bugs.

[phen0menon]

But the strange thing comes when I click on a request in sidebar. Seems to me that displaying text field when trying to open a request was a worst UX decision.

If there was an option to downgrade the Insomnia version, I would immediately do that.

[gatzjames]

Hi @phen0menon we have made a release with a bunch of performance improvements alongside with changing the way renaming a request works to now be a double-click. Is this happening to you on the latest version?

[subnetmarco]

@phen0menon to ping back on the question above, what version are you using?

[gatzjames]

Update: Tested with a fairly large collection 550 Requests, many Folders and each request having at least 20-30 headers and everything runs fine. The performance is not affected at all for me. I'm using an Intel based macbook using the latest version 8.4.5

@phen0menon and others with perf issues, can you verify if that is still an issue on your side?

[phen0menon]

Yep I'm still having those issues:

Version: Insomnia 8.4.5
Build date: 11/23/2023
OS: Darwin arm64 23.1.0
Electron: 27.0.3
Node: 18.17.1
Node ABI: 118
V8: 11.8.172.16-electron.0
Architecture: arm64

Here's the screencast of what's going on with keylogger attached.

https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/assets/15520523/4fc48e42-01fa-49c7-aee8-f2cdc5943719

[klit79]

it is not really a bug it is just terrible UX one click on http method is alot faster than one click on title i think because clicking on title need to wait if the second click is registered then you can rename it

there should be an option to disable this double click to rename

[phen0menon]

UX is terrible you are right but there is really a bug with renaming long-named request. Probably variables inside of an url affect too somehow.

Option to disable this would be good, but I really hope they will remove this feature.

[daweedco]

Please revert to old version , the software is unusable since the upgrade for big collection !!!

[brr53]

Just lost all my collections from the new update. 😭

[subnetmarco]

We are rapidly improving different areas of the product and we just shipped 8.5.1.

When you cannot find your collections after an upgrade, we have introduced this section in the footer to re-assign orphaned projects to your organization:

In January we are going to be further looking at other issues/feature requests as described here.

[Rafikooo]

I was peacefully waiting for the basic expectations to be met, such as bringing back the most productive features that were removed from Insomnia, specifically the (MacOs bindings):

1. Cmd+P endpoint searcher
2. Control + Tab for easy access to the last request

These two features are crucial for using Insomnia with ease. Currently, searching for the desired endpoint in a large collection is really inefficient. Speaking of searching, it is also broken. For example:

I have a folder named Product that contains multiple configured endpoints. If an endpoint doesn't have the word Product in its configuration, it is excluded by the search filter, which didn't work like that before "the big release". Additionally, adding a new endpoint wraps all the folders, and since the quick search doesn't work, I need to search for the new endpoint again. I had hoped that this would be improved in December, but since it wasn't, I considered moving to Postman. However, I like your product too much, so I finally reverted back to an April release and all my struggles went away.

I wish you good luck with fixing all the regressions

[subnetmarco]

Hey @Rafikooo - Yes I hoped to have those fixed in December too, but we were too packed for this release. They will ship in January. The good news is that we are doubling our team in the next 6 months, so the velocity on fixing these and other issues will accelerate dramatically. + @gatzjames for visibility on these issues.

[PavelStefanov]

Sorry guys, but the Insomina team has killed the really good product with an 8+ update 😢

[JoiGud]

Just to chime in: Love insomnia but, for instance, the ordering for collections always resets to last modified when you navigate from the collections view.

[subnetmarco]

@JoiGud We are looking at it, thanks.

[subnetmarco]

@Rafikooo Cmd+P has been re-enabled this month, and is being continuously improved.

[subnetmarco]

We have fixed all the shortcut problems in the upcoming Insomnia 9.0, for which there is a beta available now in the releases. Make sure to download Insomnia, not the CLI application.

[subnetmarco]

We have further improved some issues in the parent ticket, and with the latest 9.3.3 version of Insomnia we were able to improve performance up to 20x in some cases.

We have also significantly improved the sidebar experience, removing all the quirkiness that used to affect previous versions:

• You can now double-click anywhere to rename.
• You can now click anywhere to move files around.
• You can right-click to open the contextual menu.
• We have removed the weird inner rectangle when mouse-overing the sidebar items.

Finally, we have also improved the UX of the application and with 9.3.3 we are remembering the last open file across application restarts.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f7136723-9d50-42fb-88bd-85a6d490f8f6

With this latest 9.3.3 update and all the other changes in previous versions, we have addressed most of the issues brought up by @popov654, therefore I will close this issue now.