Metabase - v0.49.0-RC2
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Changelog
### Enhancements
**Dashboard improvements**
- Add Sections (predefined layout of empty dash cards) to a dashboard (#38209, #38575)
- Add ‘Replace’ button to dashboard edit mode to let creators swap out dashboard questions with a different question (#36497, #36744)
- Let dashboard creators duplicate tabs and cards (#38208)
- Let creators make dashboard and native query filters required (#18097, #36524, #37709, #39159)
- Let creators make dashboard filters global or tab specific (#31621)
- Default dashboards to a fixed-width to give creators a more predictable canvas (#36358, #10364)
- Tightened up visual design of charts (#36991)
**Trend chart improvements** (#33411, #9510, #11200, #35551, #8919, #31951, #25670)
**Append data to CSV uploads** (#35614, #36640, #37220, #38837, #38435)
- CSV upload support for Redshift (#36166)
**Serialization via API** (#36843, #36240, #38804, #38359, #20632)
**Authentication with API key** (#2699, #36593, #37234, #37607, #37000, #36999, #36998, #37284, #37085, #37061, #37051, #36347)
**Add connection impersonation to Redshift** (#38445, #32388)
**Embedding improvements**
- Let white-labeling admins remove links to metabase.com outside of admin settings, and customize or hide ‘Help’ link (#36966, #35915)
- Setup flow for Static and Public embedding, and embedding feature discoverability (#35961, #36048, #36170)
- Embedding settings cleanup and surface interactive embedding Quick Start guide (#36481)
- Meet embedders at the door (#38233)
- Enable public sharing default for new instances (#38609)
- Remove unused global css (#39220, #39020, #39531)
- Add anonymous usage tracking for relevant white-labeling (#37656)
- Add sticky filters on embedded and Public dashboards (#24726)
- Fix icon colors of official collections and verified models (#39238)
**Models added to Browse Data** (#37707, #38730, #38704, #38560, #38661, #38661, #38635, #38518, #38518, #38126, #38107)
**Sync column index information** (#36452, #36462, #36624)
**Let admins disable user provision on SSO** (#36371)
**Make dashboard subscription attachment behavior match the user's choice in-product** (#36441)
**Add new audit content to Metabase Analytics** (#38524, #38474)
**Create a unified rendering pipeline for formatting** (#36015, #36559, #36555, #36554, #36327, #36154, #36153, #36323, #36320)
**Honey SQL 2 Migration** (#28684, #28396, #28165, #28161, #28156)
**Bigquery: Sync required partition column** (#36668, #36677, #36892)
**Metabase Library v2** (#28689)
- Custom columns (#30513, #37173 #36254, #36406, #36717, #36235, #36233, #35982, #35947, #35948, #36710, #36639, #36211, (#36699)
- Computing clauses and columns in the query builder (#36108, #37509, #37507, #37396, #37391, #36978, #37677, #36737, #37629, #37628, #37172, #37171, #37170, #37169, #36736, #37120)
- Filters (#34112, #37369, #36988)
- Notebook steps (#36983, #36516, #36672)
- Add description and fingerprint to displayInfo for columns (#38476)
- Add isTemporalExtraction flag to displayInfo (#37889)
- Add legacy-column->metadata for converting DatasetColumn (#37648)
- Add compatible-type? wrapper that handles JS DatasetColumns (#37609)
- Add aggregation-column and breakout-column (#37873)
- Add tests and fix a special case for FK-filter drills (#38297)
- Add caching for the common case of visible-columns without options (#38409)
- Add display-info for queries (#37675)
- Cache JS <> CLJS metadata conversion (#38375)
- Drop redundant :fields clauses from stages and joins (#36959)
- Drill-through coverage: Add a structured column and fix that case (#38295)
- Ensure :name is unique on returned columns (#39118)
- Fix an edge case where a join-alias is needed on a field ref (#36871)
- Fix pivot drills integration with the FE (#36509)
- fk-filter drills should not appear on native queries (#36660)
- FK-details drill should preserve := filters for other PKs (#38296)
- Fix some edge cases and add more unit tests for zoom in drills (#38275)
- Handle Object.isFrozen() legacy columns as input (#39032)
- Implement automatic-insights drill (#36443)
- joinable-columns on a Join sets source and alias (#39529)
- Look up FK columns in visible-columns, not metadata (#37771)
- Make query= treat missing :base-type as matching (#37727)
- Resolve a string :fk-field-id to a numeric ID if possible (#37079)
- Reorder column filter and distribution drills (#36700)
- Track drill-through unit test coverage (#36601, #38210, #36529)
**More stuff**
- Add a banner to the top of locales.clj (#37877)
- Add align-temporal-unit-with-param-type-and-value multimethod (#37813)
- Add intermittent test solver (#38159)
- Add SegmentedToggle component from mantine (#37007)
- Add Creator Sentiment Email task (#38787)
- Add stress testing workflow for frontend unit tests (#38081)
- Add junit.xml to .gitignore (#36627)
- Add new AWS global bundle certs for RDS (#32017)
- Add percentage type to metadata (#35124)
- Allow toggling of the dashboard subscription sidebar from the icon (#36244)
- Better UX for required missing parameters on dashboards (#5320)
- Compute results of timestamp/current-date functions during query processing for Redshift (#21518)
- Count :model/User, not :core_user (#36985)
- Delete all pruned persisted info records (#39219, #39272)
- Error if DB downgrades are required (#37239)
- Flaky QueryBuilder.unit.spec.tsx (#37184)
- Filter picker search free input (#38907)
- Fix confusion of expressions with the same name as columns (#39526)
- Fix isNavigationAllowed (#38703)
- Fix permissions graph performance (#36610, #36797, #36543)
- Fix confusion of expressions with the same name as columns (#39255)
- Format SQL Query option in the Native Query Editor (#9142)
- Fix TableBrowser flex (#38324)
- Kondo lint to enforce naming convention for thread not safe defn/defmacro in tests (#37126)
- Load analytics only when changed using a checksum (#38280, #38622)
- Migrate the FieldInfo card to Mantine so it can be reused (#38432)
- Make effective use of Snowflake's query result caching (#20988)
- Monger does not support Atlas Serverless (#27385)
- Optimize autocomplete query (#38080)
- Port LastEditInfoLabel (#38109)
- Query metadata within comments leads to cache misses in AWS Athena (#29615)
- Refactor drills unit tests structure, split huge file by drill type (#35883)
- Remove Pulses (#34147, #35841)
- Show more billing info on license and billing settings page (#38497, #38153)
- Specify one more guava more explicitly (#38173)
- Switch back to ring-jetty-adapter to address security issue (#39321)
- Test some modals more semantically (#37028)
- Type routing in State (#38645)
- Unify type of timestamp columns (#33577)
- Update deps with security issues (#39286, #37789)
- Update graalvm (#38218)
- Update required parameter reset icon (#39068)
- Update Enterprise readme to 2024 (#37207)
- Use the alias for unfolded JSON columns from previous stages (#39446)
- Wrap literals around expression refs (#38886)
- When updating an alert, don't also update the question (#36866)
**Bug fixes**
- Autosuggestion in native queries peaks the CPU on instances with > 1M fields (#30588)
- Aurora Serverless v2 fails to verify CA due to RDS Combined CA Bundle not importing all certificate chains (#27790)
- Admin > People header "jumps" when switching from active and deselected users views (#37129)
- Between filter errors out with min > max (#16745)
- Bug when using custom columns to do filters for the past one day/month/year (#37165)
- Bookmark icon should be correct size; and should be filled when an item is bookmarked (#34327)
- Cannot "filter by this column" (#38034)
- Changing groups or databases on data permissions after saving a value causes the client to falsely believe that someone else edited the perm graph (#37811)
- CSV exports of timestamps at midnight (00:00:00) is truncated to date (#14504)
- Custom Column in Models doesn't respect filtering when binning is applied (#26202)
- Canceled Queries are retried with Bigquery Driver (#36623)
- Custom columns that have same name as existing columns cause failure (#39059)
- “contains” and “does-not-contain” returned for the wrong fields (#36856)
- column-filter should come before other column drills (#36674)
- Dashboard Email Subscription seems to cache incorrect settings (#30314)
- drill-thru/pk drill should be returned for query that has multiple PKs on non-PK columns click (#35618)
- Date filter selection from the chart footer is glitchy and results in wrong selection (#22973)
- Datetime filter not working correctly (on mysql) (#8762)
- Date filtering on time-series viz is not available when the second grouping field is not a category type (#34690)
- Date filtering on time-series viz only works if time is added as a first grouping category (#34688)
- Dashboard filters are slow (#37285)
- Extreme slowness while editing parameters on a dashboard (#38225)
- Exports should include formatting everywhere (#17753)
- Error calculating display info on filtering with a model (#36400)
- Export formatting for Longitude & Latitude (#38419)
- Execute an Action on embedded Dashboard fails with 404 not found API call (#34395)
- Fix dashcard-filter connection edge cases (#36760)
- filter-args-display-name doesn't handle exclude date filters (#37219)
- findMatchingColumn does not find matching column (#37851)
- Grid Map "Zoom In" broken for "Custom Questions" (#11210)
- Grouping by and summarizing on a custom column fails (#39081)
- Hitting enter doesn't save filter changes (#6552)
- Interactive embedding dashboard with multiple tabs and parameter header=false will not load (#39002)
- "Is" filter in the header of the columns in a table context should be linked and allow free input (#37906)
- Joining on aggregated dates via the editor generates "No matching signature for function TIMESTAMP" (#27969)
- Metabase Analytics titles drop after page load (#38566)
- Make query= ignore absence of base-type and effective-type in field references (#37659)
- MongoDB nested fields not showing in v0.47.x (#35938)
- No option to hide/show tabs in Interactive embedding as a parameter. header=false will hide all tabs and go to tab 1 by default (#38429)
- On Date filter returns no results on a summarized question (#18769)
- PNG export of chart from a dashboard includes the menu ellipsis in the top right corner of the image (#36261)
- Pie chart legend percentages are vertically not aligned with their label (#37635)
- Pivot table with the filter on a date column breaks dashboard sending (#27941)
- Preview results of intermediate stages are wrong in query builder (#39102)
- Public links refer to null when question is new (#39154)
- Question filters are not being updated if there are breakout clauses for the same column (#37463)
- Relative date filters don't work with custom date columns (#33528)
- Renamed columns in CSV/JSON exports (#18572)
- [result_metadata] Implicit binning on longitude from SQL question results in error (#16672)
- RemoveClause throws "Cannot remove the final join condition" error (#36690)
- Refreshing after setting a table to be sandboxed causes an error (#37774)
- returnedColumns does not handle columns with the same name (#37517)
- Support constants in expressions (#37461)
- Sorting Dashboard Tabs has a weird animation on drop (#38056)
- SAML auth page is weird when set by env vars (#33264)
- Seeing scrollbars in search and admin (#38673)
- Sidebar loading state regression fix (#38875)
- Toast notification after custom dashboard has invisible text (#38722)
- Trend Chart font is incorrect in certain email clients (#38684)
- underlying-records is not available for pivot table cell (#35394)
- underlying-records should be returned for chart legend clicks (#35343)
- Unsaved dashcards with mapped params error when switching tabs (#38245)
- Visual glitches when dragging a tab on another (#34966)
- "View details" (PK) drill-thru on non-PK value for a row with multiple PKs only adds a filter for one of the PKs, non-determinate (#36426)
- Version info could have duplicated versions (#33803)
- When modifying the "fields" clause, remove the clause entirely if it becomes equivalent to not having the clause at all (#36574)
- zoom-in.timeseries isn't returned in all known cases (#36173)
Security
Security wording was detected, but no CVEs were found.
Details
date
March 6, 2024, 2:18 a.m.
name
Metabase v0.49.0-RC2
type
Pre-release
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