NativeRest 2.8.0 is out today!

Today, exactly one month after the previous major release, NativeRest 2.8.0 became available! 🎉

Continuing to develop support for AI models, the new version of application has added support for GPT-5 ✨. Thus, NativeRest already supports 14 models from OpenAI.

This release has become the largest in terms of the number of improvements and bug fixes in the entire development of NativeRest. This is largely due to the issues created on the NativeRest GitHub page. Be sure to add your suggestions and notes on any bugs you find.

In this release, a lot of work has been done to add and fix variables and functions. Mathematical, string, random functions have been added. Fixed some bugs when working with text fields for the macOS version. Below is a list of all improvements:

🚀 New Features

✅ Added support for GPT-5 requests
✅ Added toUpperCase, toLowerCase and repeat functions
✅ Added random.uuid function
✅ Added auto-display of variables when changing environment
✅ Added shortcuts ⌘G to next occurrence and ⇧⌘G to prev occurrence when searching on macOS
✅ Added autoscroll when inserting a new request into the console
✅ Added sequence variables
✅ Added support for archive files in response
✅ Added math functions: inc, dec, add, sub, mul, div
✅ Improved suggested file name when saving a response
✅ Added the ability to run tests without sending a request
✅ Added new operators for single-line tests: %%, =%, %=
✅ Added the ability to use number comparison operators in tests for JSON path
✅ Added the ability to test JSON response fields

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

🛠️ Fixed date variables date.unixTime and date.utcTimeStamp
🛠️ Fixed a bug in the file name when saving the response
🛠️ Fixed a bug with skipping the first character when entering into a text field on macOS
🛠️ Fixed the order of requests in the export window
🛠️ Fixed bug with displaying the response toolbar
🛠️ Fixed a bug with replacing variables in the console
🛠️ Fixed a bug where the response did not match the current request
🛠️ Fixed a critical bug when saving field values
🛠️ Fixed the position of the IME candidate window
🛠️ Fixed a bug where focus was lost when entering a filter
🛠️ Fixed a bug when moving the caret and selecting Chinese characters
🛠️ Fixed a bug when deleting the last characters of a line that was scrolled

Be sure to update to NativeRest 2.8.0 to get all these new features! 🤗

To see the full list of improvements, check out the release notes. Found a bug or have an idea for a new feature or implementation?
Share your feedback with us in the comments, on X.com, or in our issue tracker.
Happy developing! 🚀