Metabase - v0.47.0-RC1

Notes

• Dashboards are smoother, quicker, and more organized
  • Download dashboards to PDF
  • Tabbed navigation on dashboards
  • Flow between dashboards and questions smoothly
  • Guide your team to the most valuable info by setting your home page to dashboard
  • Load dashboards faster with the option to turn off auto-apply filters
  • More granular grid for more control over dashboard creation
  • Keep dashboards organized with full-width headings
  • Can hide cards that have no results
  • Metabase now keeps track of the dashboards you’re working with
• Upload and analyze data from CSV
• Powered up Pro features
  • Unlock git-based workflows with serialization 2.0
  • Set table-specific SQL editing permissions with connection impersonation
• Search for specific records, not just tables
• Other things that got better
  • Drill-through menus are more intuitive
  • Model X-rays
  • Fresh icons
• FYI / Breaking changes
  • We’ll soon be limiting the size of log tables (view logs and query execution) on all self-hosted instances in the next release (not this one)
    1. OSS instances will keep 30 days of log tables
    2. New Pro/EE instances will keep 720 days of history
    3. Existing Pro/EE instance won’t be changed but we recommend setting a limit of 720 days
  • LDAP will soon only be available on Pro and Enterprise plans.
  • The POST "/api/database/:id/sync" endpoint is being removed. If you’re using this endpoint to sync and scan your database, we recommend using POST "/api/notify/db/:id", or POST "/api/database/:id/sync_schema" followed by POST "/api/database/:id/rescan_values".
  • The Google Analytics driver is being removed as GA3 will soon be retired and we’ve decided not to build a GA4 driver.
  • Data Model in Admin Settings is now Table Metadata. This admin section was often confused with Models, so we renamed it.
  • Data reference has been removed. We’re working on putting the relevant metadata into places where data is queried and consumed so it’s available when and where you need it.

Enhancements

• Remove POST /api/database/:id/sync endpoint (#31544)
• Adds audit v2 view migrations to liquibase (#31420)
• Allow table prefixes for postgres uploads, update defaults for mysql (#31396)
• Snowplow: Add instrumentation for "Turn into model" option on saved questions (#31381)
• Hydrate root-collection on card and dashboard (#31337)
• Autoload instance analytics content (when EE and avaliable) (#31314)
• [Safety Net] Hold on to query results when you go back-and-forth between dashboards and questions (#31289)
• [Safety Net] Bring consistency and simplicity to the custom expression editor popovers (#31287)
• [Epic] Nudge larger basic instances to Pro (#31264)
• Improve discovery for csv uploads (#31262)
• Force Audit DB sync + fix connection pool caching behavior (#31234)
• Update csv loading status when taking a long time (#31214)
• Force a sync to occur when installing audit-db (#31204)
• Remove /reference pages (#31203)
• Remove task snowplow event (#31156)
• Generically typed item picker (#31099)
• Present an informational toast to users when a homepage dashboard is set (#31097)
• respect user-defined model metadata when allowing entity-indexing (#31017)
• [Epic] Really encourage admins to add a DB (#31015)
• Make Questions support special instance analytics type (icon) (#31014)

Bug fixes

• Fix dashboard description markdown overflow (#31534)
• Adding a DB no longer does a full scan (#31569)
• Dashboard description overflow (#31326)
• Export to PDF just exports the current tab (#31228)
• Application Table implicit_action doesn't have primary key (#31140)
• Moving dashboard to Our analytics collection creates a null revision description (#31109)
• When duplicating a dashboard with tabs, tabs are not brought to the new duplicated dash (#31077)
• Reverting cards doesn't include dashboard_tab_id (#31032)
• Reverting dashboard does not re-add text card properly (#31031)
• Update visualization settings of card does not create revision (#31018)

Upgrading

You can download a .jar of the release, or get the latest on Docker. Make sure to back up your Metabase
database before you upgrade! Need help? Check out our
upgrading instructions.

Docker image: metabase/metabase:v0.47.0-RC1
Download the JAR here: https://downloads.metabase.com/v0.47.0-RC1/metabase.jar

Notes

SHA-256 checksum for the 0.47.0-RC1 JAR:

36b75eb37f2c1f7a45f58d86718fbdc48da1ff3672c2bf4428f8d0929757e4bc