Chapter 13

About Rowan

Rowan for Postgres is made by Jeffrey Frederick. This chapter covers where to find your version, and the open source software and fonts Rowan is built with.

Version and build#

Open Settings > About to see your version and build date, or choose Help > About Rowan.

Copy Build Info copies the details a bug report needs. See Report a bug.
tryrowan.app opens Rowan's website. Help > Changelogs lists what's new in each version.
Third-Party Licenses opens the full license notices that come with Rowan.

Rowan updates through the Microsoft Store.

Third-party software#

Rowan is built with these open source components. Their full licenses are in Third-Party Licenses in Settings > About.

Component	Used for	License
Qt 6	The app framework (Core, Gui, Widgets, Concurrent, Network, Svg, Pdf, PdfWidgets), linked dynamically	LGPL v3
PDFium, in Qt PDF	Previewing PDFs in Quick Look	BSD 3-Clause, with permissive parts
libpq	Talking to PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL License
pg_dump and pg_restore	Backup and restore	PostgreSQL License
OpenSSL 3	SSL connections	Apache 2.0
Mozilla CA certificate bundle	Verifying server certificates	MPL 2.0
libssh2	SSH tunnels	BSD 3-Clause
QtKeychain	Windows Credential Manager	BSD 3-Clause
KSyntaxHighlighting	SQL highlighting	MIT
SQLite	History and open tabs	Public domain
RapidJSON	JSON imports	MIT
zlib	Gzip exports and Excel workbooks	zlib License
ICU, built into Windows	Text encodings for imports	Unicode License V3

Fonts and icons#

Inter: Rowan's interface font, and the font of this guide. By Rasmus Andersson, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
JetBrains Mono: The font for data, SQL and keys, in the app and in this guide. By JetBrains, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Lucide: Rowan's icons, under the ISC License.

About this guide#

This guide describes Rowan for Postgres on Windows 10 and 11. Screenshots show a sample store database; your own data, and some details of the window, will differ. To read the whole guide on paper or as a PDF, use Print the guide.

Copyright © 2026 Jeffrey Frederick. All rights reserved. Microsoft Store, Windows and Windows 11 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. PostgreSQL is a trademark of the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada.