VisuaLeaf v1.0.2354 Release Notes

Release Date: September 17 2026

Covers 1.0.2351 – 1.0.2354.

Headline: Hover an ObjectId to See When It Was Created

A small release: one convenience in the grid, plus licensing fixes.

Every MongoDB ObjectId carries the moment it was created, in its first four bytes. VisuaLeaf now
reads it out for you: hover any _id and the tooltip tells you when that document was minted and how
long ago that was. No shell, no conversion, no copying the hex somewhere else.

ObjectId Creation Time in the Cell Tooltip

An ObjectId is not a random 24 characters. The first four bytes are a Unix timestamp — the second the
id was generated — which for most collections is also when the document was inserted. That has always
been true and has always been invisible unless you went and decoded it yourself.

What you can see

Hover any cell holding an ObjectId and the tooltip now carries an extra line: Created, the

full date and time, and a dimmer note saying how long ago that was.

It works in all four table surfaces — the MongoDB grid and tree, and the SQL grid and tree — so

the behaviour is the same wherever you meet an id.

It recognises the id in whatever shape it arrives: a real ObjectId from a live query, the

{$oid: "…"} form you get from extended JSON, and a plain 24-character hex string pasted in from
somewhere else.

Nothing is shown when the timestamp is implausible. A hex string that happens to be 24

characters but decodes to 1974 or 2140 is far more likely to be a hash or a random key than an id,
so the line is simply left out rather than asserting something wrong.

Where it fits

This rides on the cell tooltip introduced in 1.0.2350 — the one that shows you a readable preview of
a clipped value on hover, with Open in popup for the whole thing. The creation time is another fact
on that same tooltip, next to the value itself.

Licensing

A hotfix to licence handling. Plans, trials and their end dates are now applied consistently across
the app.

If you were on 1.0.2352 or 1.0.2353 and saw features unexpectedly unavailable, updating to 1.0.2354
resolves it. Nothing on your machine or your account needs repairing.