---
title: "CAT 1.4.0"
description: "CAT release notes 1.4.0"
url: "https://docs.justcat.it/release-notes/archive/1.4.0/"
---
# CAT 1.4.0



## CAT on Linux

In the last release, we announced cats and penguins are friends.

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![cat logo](cat-logo-180180.png)

![heart](heart.png)

![Linux logo](logo-linux.png)

</div>

We did more testing and enriched the documentation with the results. Now you can review:

* what CAT providers work on Linux: [Providers overview](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/data-sources/providers/overview/ "Providers overview")

* what CAT outputs work on Linux: [Outputs overview](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/outputs/overview/ "Outputs overview")

Both overviews contain "Linux" column with information that will help you to determine whether it may work on Linux. Tested with CAT PowerShell module on Ubuntu 22.04.

**Running CAT on Linux is not yet officially supported.** We first need to fully automate all our tests on the platform.


## New CSV Provider

Some time ago we released Excel@2 provider for better MS Excel support. It does not require any prerequisites / drivers and allows querying the MS Excel data using very advanced SQL constructs. CAT loads the selected sheets into an in-memory DuckDB database before test evaluation.

In this release, we introduce similar provider for CSV: Csv@2. There are no prerequisites, it works out-of-the-box.

~~~~~~yaml
Data Sources:
- Name: 'FinancialData'
  Provider: Csv@2
  Connection string: 'DataToTest\Invoices.csv'
~~~~~~

You can then refer to the table in your tests as `FinancialData.Invoices` (`data source name`.`file name`). There is much more (support for wildcards, various settings to tweak the CSV import, query gzipped files, ...).

Check the [full documentation](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/data-sources/providers/csv-2/ "Csv@2 provider"). This provider is in Preview.


## Small Improvement For Export to MS Excel

Because of Azure DevOps and other platforms we support, we were always enriching the `Message` with SQL statements, description and other useful information. This is useful in those platforms, but annoying elsewhere, such as in a table in a database, where you export the test results. Or in MS Excel files. Those contain all the other information already anyway.

MS Excel export will now contain only the "raw message" in `Message` column, without that additional stuff you already have in other columns.






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That's it :-). Happy testing.

CAT team