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Metabase 56.5

Upgrading | 56.5

Metabase Open Source | 56.5

Metabase Enterprise | 56.5

Enhancements | 56.5

Databases

  • Partition field syncing by schemas to improve sync times (#63192)

Embedding

Embedded analytics SDK:

  • feat(sdk): Add “start new conversation” button for MetabotQuestion and adjust its visuals (#63211)

Embedded analytics JS:

  • feat(embed-js): append entity-types=model to embed flow code snippet if the instance has over 2 models (#63068)
  • feat(embed-js): Throw an error when setting invalid metabaseConfig keys (#63064)
  • Add the “Enable to Continue” button to explicitly enable embedded analytics JS (#63054)
  • Show loading indicator overlay immediately on embed flow preview (#63001)
  • Embed JS should show “Try it out” before docs in admin panel (#62954)
  • fix(embed-js): copywriting improvements for embed flow (#63126)

Static embedding:

  • Case-insensitive lookup for content translations (#61795)

Querying

  • Show help for non-aggregation expressions in Summarize block (#61810)
  • Do not show view detail button in step preview (#63071)

Visualizations

  • Fix math to calculate scatter bubble diameter (#63104)

Dashboards

  • Filters on dashboard cards can only be mapped to the card (#63051)

Other

  • Exclude other users’ personal collections from full search results in /search (#62307)
  • Cache Store OpenAPI description only for 5min (#63168)
  • Add tooltip to Clear Conversation action in metabot panel (#63309)

Bug fixes | 56.5

Administration

  • ClickHouse connections do not use SSH tunnels for all operations, causing sync failure (#62377)

Database

  • Documents with @DBRef are not being loaded in Metabase (#63231)
  • Unnecessary USE DATABASE in Snowflake before every question with routing turned off (#63040)
  • Snowflake - Specifying Schema in Database Setup still requires Schema in Queries (#62998)

Embedding

Embedded analytics SDK:

  • The SDK doesn’t keep the Question title as the file name when you download a question (#61708)

Embedded analytics JS:

  • Row charts in embed-js get scaled when the new properties are passed (#63186)

Static embedding:

  • Selected Table Cell unreadable in dark mode (#63108)

Querying

  • Click outside the “combine” popover and you’ll lose your work (#63180)
  • Creating a dashboard with a null name will give you a success message (and a 400 BE error) (#63176)
  • Query Builder not respecting selected columns from join table (#63165)
  • Missing outline for “<” drill though action button (#63037)
  • Complete non-aggregation functions when writing custom aggregations (#62987)
  • query builder - join data section alignment issue (#61435)
  • long question name breaks notebook editor layout (#53370)
  • Long dashboard/question names would hide their menu (#52872)
  • Multiple Zoom in drills in context menu (#51890)
  • Filtering on questions when you land from a dashboard expose filters that you can’t use when you don’t have self service perms (#47097)
  • No drill-thru to filter a table by clicking a NULL FK value (#35561)

Visualization

  • Adding time to event results in an error (#62999)
  • Adding a second series with Add More Data loses percent (%) formatting (#61521)

Metabase 56.4

Upgrading | 56.4

Metabase Open Source | 56.4

Metabase Enterprise | 56.4

Enhancements | 56.4

Embedding

  • Add background-light to derived colors for Embedded Analytics JS (#62522)
  • Use widgets for initial parameters in Embedded Analytics JS (#62356)

Querying

  • Default to case-insensitive for string filter clauses (#62874)

Visualization

  • Preserve whitespace in table viz (#62763)
  • Optimize pivot construction for both backend and frontend (#61477)

Other

  • Hide CSV panel with no meaningful uploadable dbs (#62854)
  • Prevents non-admins from seeing “Explore paid features” link (#62816)
  • Fix tabs alignment for horizontal tabs in dashboard filter settings (#61895)
  • Respond with HTTP status 500 when Store API request fails during Cloud migration (#62534)

Metabot

Currently in beta

  • Metabot for Embedding SDK (#62822)
  • [BOT-316] Metabase BE support for dynamic agent profiles (#62544)
  • [Metabot] Add available_actions to metabot context (#62464)
  • [METABOT] Do not apply update-keys to ai-service request state (#62137)
  • [Search] Fix schema version number for search snowplow event (#62897)
  • [Search] Increase search reporting (#62200)

Bug fixes | 56.4

Administration

  • Migrate to cloud on 56 doesn’t redirect to store but to localhost (#62869)
  • Discard cached field values will… refresh the values? (#62626)
  • Changing field visibility to “Do not include” while filtering preview is open crashes the page (#61806)
  • On database connection page, input fields are not scrolled into view when tabbing into them (#60319)
  • Query error is shown when not enough permissions to run it (#54912)

Database

  • Postgres queries fail with java.lang.Class.isArray() errors after upgrade to v0.56.3 (#62750)

Embedding

  • Content Translation doesn’t translate pivot table columns (#62515)
  • Content translation copy uses wrong header name (#62194)
  • publicly-shared dashboards show blank pages when viewed in incognito (or by non-authenticated users) (#62501)
  • Download button overlaps table header with embedding title is not enabled. (#62398)
  • dashboardId must be an int - error displayed for embedded maps with more than 1000 pins (#62066)
  • User who created Dashboard unable to change filters after Dashboard embedded with static embedding after embedding unpublished (#61516)
  • Statics Embedded Dashboard Export Icon Overlapped with Tab Navigation Arrow (#61255)

Organization

  • Content layout shift when checking an item in a collection (#62725)
  • Command palette layout shift on open (#59112)

Querying

  • Can’t open archived model used in question (#52071)
  • A caret cursor is not visible in filter inputs (#62742)
  • Drill through no longer works for pivot tables in the latest version (#62663)
  • Card filters seem to be avoiding the linkage to dashboard filters (#62627)
  • There are more selected columns than there are total columns (#62591)
  • Cannot assign certain column types to fields in models (#62397)
  • Data picker skeleton is vertically shifted (#62279)
  • Cast to a Datetime doesn’t play well with Joins on the Query Editor (#62099)
  • It’s possible to rename a dashboard to have more than 100 characters (#60982)
  • Can’t select filter values in dropdown via keyboard (#60337)
  • Ctrl/Cmd + Enter keyboard shortcut does not work to run question that times out (#59356)
  • Field Selection Lost when Aggregates added to Question (#59194)
  • Linked tables info can be empty even when model links tables (#57469)
  • Accessibility issue with Filters in Dashboard (#52674)
  • Errors in dashboard edit mode after setting a default for a new parameter (#49319)
  • Dashboard filter values prefill with previous values when left unspecified (#48524)
  • Reset Dashboard Filters If Coming From a Custom Destination Click (#46541)
  • auto-connected message has unexpected scroll on dashcard parameter mapping (#46372)
  • Sorting tabular data view loses my work on viz (#42723)
  • Error when using coalesce expression in question with joins (#56602)
  • Model is being expanded to data sources after edit/distribute (#50915)
  • Metric created by dividing two other Metrics breaks Question (#30574)

Reporting

  • Pivot raw totals export is blank on Oracle DB (#62879)
  • Pivot table export outputs blank values when pivoting on integer columns (#62724)
  • Labels on inputs in the new-dashboard modal are incorrectly using font-weight: 800 (#62087)
  • Edit visualization on visualizer cards in dashboard view mode does not save the changes (#62021)
  • Autosizing of tables on dashboards causes number to be clipped (#61946)
  • Query Results are Temporarily Incorrect If Multiple Filter Changes are Made (#61944)
  • Bad header alignment in filter editing sidebar (#61886)
  • Dashboard action expecting single value warning text cut off (#29365)

Visualization

  • Visualizer combination gets messed up when Adding series (cannot find a pattern why) (#62861)
  • Translation issue in filters and graphical display (#34942)
  • Sending Row Chart via subscription does not respect change in legend name (#31944)
  • Pin map only show pins once, but it’s possible to pan to the wrong direction, so it does not show pins (#5369)

Other

  • Fix invitation not being sent from /setup flow (#62320)
  • Navigating Settings Presents Error When you Select Auth or Embedding Sections (#62780)

Metabase 56.3

Upgrading | 56.3

Metabase Open Source | 56.3

Metabase Enterprise | 56.3

Enhancements | 56.3

Databases

  • Use connection strings to fill connection details (#61323)
  • Enable DB routing for Starburst and Presto (#61949)
  • Handle whitespaces in the connection string, decode username and password (#62328)
  • Adjust schemas for inactive tables when toggling multi-catalog for a database (#61554)

Embedding

  • Add background-hover to custom colors list in modular embedding (#62403)
  • Add the metabase-browser experience to embed flow (#62366)
  • Default is-save-enabled to false on Embeded Analytics JS (#62094)
  • Show the allow download option for static questions on New>Embed flow (#61969)
  • Derive theme-aware colors in New>Embed flow from 3 base colors (#61961)
  • Add top-level breadcrumb navigation for Embedded Analytics JS (#62128)
  • Add embedded analytics JS documentation to admin panel (#62296)
  • Update embedding homepage to reference Embedded Analytics JS (#62169)
  • Fix New > Embed flow persistence by reducing scope of persisted items (#62177)

Other

  • Better error messages for actions that violate custom constraints (#62271)
  • Log propagation for notifications (#62286)
  • [serdes] report local PK for entity when loading fails (#62205)
  • [Metabot] populate field-values during get-field-values tool if not present (#62020)
  • [perf] Implement optimized update-keys (#61993)
  • [perf] Merge the faster walk implementation back into metabase.util.performance (#61992)

Bug fixes | 56.3

Administration

  • Custom sandboxing/column security can make columns disappear from Admin view (#62038)
  • Assigning admin privileges to a user on creation doesn’t reflect on the UI till refresh (#60241)

Database

  • Postgres nested arrays are returned incorrectly (#61819)

Embedding

  • Custom expression editor is unusable in Embedded Analytics JS (#61959)

Organization

  • Icons of collection breadcrumbs in nav shrink (#62163)

Querying

  • “Offset” as a filter variable value in a dashboard fails (#61787)
  • Nonsensical “Filters” button appears on native query editor at narrow screen widths (#58994)
  • A user with view data permission only can still reach the notebook editor (#58628)
  • Custom expression SHOULD be available to use in join condition (#52451)

Dashboards

  • Auto-refresh reloads entire dashboard since release 56 (#62170)
  • Allow default filter selection in filters that always require a value and have a default value (#62157)

Visualization

  • Column “id” gets duplicated, on scroll every column turns into “id” column (#62053)
  • “bit operation not supported for: class java.math.BigDecimal” error for pivot table downloading as .xlsx file (#62051)
  • Graph not visible if label of row chart is a long text (#59899)
  • Debounce on the visualization resize is causing layout jumping (#54147)
  • Map pins don’t show tooltips when there are 1000+ data points (#40999)

Metabase 56.2

Upgrading | 56.2

Metabase Open Source | 56.2

Metabase Enterprise | 56.2

Enhancements | 56.2

Administration

  • Set “View Data” Permissions to Block on Reactivated Tables (#53205)

Database

  • Enable DB routing for Athena (#61934)
  • Always set connection role for Redshift (#61869)
  • Environment Variable for MongoDB Max Sync Fields (#61816)

Embedding

  • Endpoint for retrieve embedding token from JWT (#61540)
  • Update parameters section subtitle for questions in embed flow (#61968)
  • Remove Beta badge from Embedded Analytics JS (#61920)

Other

  • Syncs login attributes to jwt attributes for existing jwt-based users (#61940)
  • Do not set login attributes to an empty value on jwt login (#61927)
  • Fix Payload Type Typo for Notifications (#61823)
  • [perf] Fix metabase.util.performance cljc-related issues (#61847)
  • [pivot] Implement optimized clj->js and use it when recalculating pivots on frontend (#61241)

Bug fixes | 56.2

Dashboards

  • No longer possible to set a description for cards on a dashboard (#61457)
  • Dashboard card download result using date locale from instance and ignore user locale (#49531)

Visualization

  • Date formatting has undefined behavior (broken on my machine) (#59803)
  • Cannot navigate forwards to a Details modal in table view (#55487)
  • Fix parts of charts remaining highlighted when cursor is moved away (#61883)

Metabase 56.1

Upgrading | 56.1

Metabase Open Source | 56.1

Metabase Enterprise | 56.1

Breaking changes | 56.1

  • Limit number of leaf fields synced on Mongo to 1000 to avoid OOM errors (#59883)

New features | 56.1

Querying

  • Time granularity parameters in SQL questions (#60995, #59658, #58180)
    • Allow you to select breakouts by day, week, month etc in SQL queries
    • Can be connected to time granularity dashboard parameters
  • Field filters for aliased tables (#3324)
    • When defining a field filter, optionally specify a alias to make field filters work with CTEs and alisased tables
  • Select multiple values in basic SQL variables (#4728)
  • Reference previous aggregations in custom aggregations (#60307)
    • When creating multiple aggregations on the same stage, reference previous aggregations by name like, with custom columns
  • Joins in custom expressions (#60036, #60937, #60457)
    • Specify a custom expression to join on, or a constant (supporting 1=1 joins)
    • Joins on custom columns on the same stage are no longer supported are no
  • today() custom expression function (#60472)
  • datetime() custom expression function (#59206, #60389)
  • Boolean SQL variable type (#20230)

Dashboards

Administration

Organization

  • Use /search page without a search query #61615
    • Allows you to search for all content created by a user, all content of certain type, or all content between dates
    • Go to [your Metabase url]/search and use filters on the left-hand side

Embedding

Embedded analytics JS | 56.1

(#60304, #61648, #61617, #61597, #61606, #61593, #61590, #61463, #61416, #61392, #61375, #61014, #61006, #60646, #61330, #61292, #61788, #61803)

More flexible way to embed Metabase dashboards into your application using <script> tags, which allows for greater customization compared to iframes. Learn more and test it out.

Enhancements | 56.1

Administration

Dashboards

  • Update dashboard parameters look (#60746)
  • Show cards skeletons while the dashboard is loading (#60564, #60998)
  • Tweaks to chart appearance in dashboard full screen dark mode (#59956)
  • When deleting a tab with questions saved to the dashboard, add a confirmation popup (#59435)

Visualization

  • Enable table cell multiselect (#59823)
  • Fix columns size for ID columns in table viz (#59505)
  • Only run subqueries for pivot viz when row/column totals are enabled (#57999)
  • Fix additional tooltip columns for charts opened in visualizer (#58519)
  • Improve Pivot table performance (#61384, #60722 )

Querying

  • Column picker improvements (#60442)
    • Search for custom expressions
    • Search field names by table names
  • Only bind ctrl-f to search on non-Mac machines (#60429)
  • Enable constant custom expression for MongoDB (#60107)
  • Do not prevent cmd+enter from working when inputs are focused (#58630)
  • Handle implicit joins with multiple foreign keys (#58551)
  • Drill-through options and xrays for Boolean values (#61202)
Read more…

Other

  • [Release blocker] Revert join custom columns changes from 56 beta (#61827)
  • Add blue dot attention notice to events icon links (#59605)
  • Simplify models/metrics filter (#58382)
  • In the main nav, move ‘Browse databases’ above ‘Browse models’ (#58405)
  • update copy on ‘Only send this alert once’ option (#60194)
  • Change copy of “Duration” to “Reset to defaults after” for log level customization (#61183)
  • fix: simplify sandbox permissions management (#61542)
  • Allow blank values for /api/field/{id}/search/{id2} endpoint (#61497)
  • Remove release/update channel selection (#61369)
  • feat: an api for debugging permissions issues (#59583)
  • Respect is_active on JWT/SAML logins (#58582)
  • Update translations 2025-07-22 (#61314)
  • Update translations 2025-05-28 (#58558)

UI polish

  • Fix upsell button and auth links in embedding admin settings (#61802)
  • Cleanup stacked card background on embed flow preview (#61782)
  • Design cleanup for embedding sdk settings page (#61653)
  • simplify apply filters toast copy (#60748)
  • fix info icon placement (#60747)
  • Redesign the database connection string toggle UI (#60520)
  • Replace database selection in setup with a new component (#60511)
  • Update Dashboard tabs so bottom border is full width (#60470)
  • Closes VIZ-1235 update top nav filter appearance (#60197)
  • Button focus issue (#60174)
  • Setup page preferred language step accessible issue (#60183)
  • Refactor Browse Databases (#60157)
  • Update InputBlurChange styling to match prior implementation (#59799)
  • New apply dashboard filters UI (#59670)
  • VIZ-1099 VIZ-1107 Improve dashboard look and feel - M2 Card titles and tab styles (#59659)
  • Fix padding in Heading visualization component (#59555)
  • Improve dashboard look and feel with low-hanging polish (#59267)
  • UI polish on download popover (#58844)
  • Table component empty state (#58325)

Metabot

Currently in private beta. Visit this page to sign up.

  • Add data loading options for metric, report, and table details (#58542)
  • [Metabot] Setting hotfix (#60071)
  • Update Metabot Settings to use new nav (#59440)

Bug fixes | 56.1

Administration

  • Airgapped Metabase Tokens say “Trial” instead of “Airgapping” expiring days (#59362)
  • Users with First Name only don’t show up in Usage Analytics (#58222)
  • Admin panel update counter always displays 1, regardless of how many updates you’re behind (#30114)
  • Sync: distinguish between metadata coming from the db & user set (#12574)
  • Native-query function seems to ignore template tag attributes such as required (#38263)

Database

  • ClickHouse Query is not working anymore after upgraded to v0.55.1 (#59166)
  • Bigquery STRUCT types don’t allow renaming in Admin -> Table Metadata (#55563)
  • Querying array type column in SparkSQL broken (#61588)

Organization

  • Collections bulk action component visual regressions (#61517)
  • Normal users can’t delete sub collections if there’s any restricted collection in the path (#59652)
  • /search page shows an error when not provided a search term (#60944)

Reporting

  • Slack and email alert doesn’t render currency symbols. (#57468)
  • Upgrade from 1.54 to 1.55 : Error sending to channel channel/email,java.lang.ArithmeticException: Divide by zero (#60428)

Dashboards

  • Can’t combine single-series chart and breakout charts on dashboards (#61133)
  • Slow loading dashcards with no average query duration shows 0 (#60988)
  • Dashboard subscription sidebar should show filters in the same order as on the dashboard (#60365)
  • Can’t click through to source question if you remove the titles from dashboard cards (#58414)
  • Backstack in visualizer gets messed up when starting over from a different question (#57897)
  • Dashboard parameter selection uses incorrect style on foreign keys (#53275)
  • Linking a dashboard filter to multiple dashboard tiles, and viewing as a grouped user causes entity keys to appear in the dropdown filter in place of entity names. (#47951)
  • Set to default button sometimes showing (and not working) when editing filters (#58867)
  • Parameter target list disappears when there are no search results (#60987)
  • Dashboard target column popover empty state UX (#46767)
  • “HTTP ERROR 400 Ambiguous URI empty” on maps on dashboards created from xray (#59984)

Querying

  • Column name gets reflected in both columns for models having the same table joined with itself (#32499)
  • It should not be possible to reference the aggregation itself in the expression editor (#61010)
  • Enabling foreign key value remapping generates invalid SQL (#60587)
  • Column number mismatch between initial metadata columns returned by driver (X) and those expected by MLv2 (Y) (#60444)
  • Popover to drill through in a question is very slow to open, and freezes tab (#60284)
  • Pivot with breakout on nested joined question fails with “column not found” (#59918)
  • Implicit joins via a joined data source don’t work when the main data source is not a raw table (#59695)
  • Cannot join a native model that has column names different to the mapped database fields (outside of the join condition) (#58829)
  • Native model with column alias and mapped DB column in metadata errors on join (#58314)
  • Models that contain Joins to the Same Table Multiple Times fail when Model Metadata is Edited (#57359)
  • Saving a question with a custom title briefly flashes the default title (#55631)
  • The table header drill does not show filter options for type/SerializedJSON column (#55141)
  • “ERROR: column source.source does not exist” when doing aggregations with SQL models (#52465)
  • Querying all fields on tables with nested (json) fields return only non-nested fields while the UI shows all fields. (#47146)
  • Add/remove a single column in a model with tables joined by themselves adds/removes all columns (#46756)
  • Models incorrectly display columns from tables joined multiple times (#40635)
  • Filter breaks for model text column designated as quantity (#39855)
  • Getting filter values from a model with custom columns returns an error + a FE glitch (#35840)
  • Using a joined question as a source shows columns twice (#34743)
  • Models query fails when a field is remapped with Custom value (#23449)
  • Query builder SQL references wrong column in outermost WHERE clause (#56416)
  • Incorrect Column Names after Editing Model Definition (When columns share names across joined tables) (#54920)
  • Dropdown adds two values instead of one if there is comma in a value (#54205)
  • Join alias deduplication in query with multiple nesting levels with joins results in incorrect native form (#51856)
  • Joining Saved Questions with the same implicit join in group by field causes an error (#48754)
  • Summarization calculations change when adding/removing a distinct count summarization (#48752)
  • Question Query Builder fails with missing column when joining two models. (#47988)
  • When deselecting columns that are mapped to the same db column in model metadata, multiple columns are removed at once (#44767)
  • Question Builder: Custom Expression in Aggregate Cannot Share the Same Name as the Column It’s Aggregating (#44567)
  • Filters for Histogram Bin Values Don’t Update with Bin Size Changes After Applying Filters (#42942)
  • Extracting dates based on a custom column breakout does not work (#40061)
  • Multiple model fields mapped to same db field have weird bugs (#36161)
  • Query processor conflating nested explicit join and outer implicit join (#33972)
  • Unable to change/delete “Unknown field” when a field in an aggregation has been removed from DB (#33835)
  • Queries return incorrect metadata when columns from different sources share the same field ID (#25113)
  • Deleting columns doesn’t delete affiliated column title (#12679)
  • Invalid query error when trying to zoom in Bar visualization (#42817)
Read more…

Other

  • Always set roles on connections (#61563
  • Public Links menu item within sharing menu is too large (#61518)
  • Collections bulk action component visual regressions (#61517)
  • SDK dashboards are broken (#61611)
  • Button hover state inconsistencies (#61322)
  • After Mantine Upgrade, some components are centering their labels (#60983)
  • Menu hover states are broken (#60584)
  • Setting field formatting removes coercion strategy (#60483)
  • Top padding on dashboards is too small when there are no filters (#60285)
  • Update internal slack settings link urls (#60015)
  • Removing a cartesian chart dimension from underlying query causes a crash (#59671)
  • :visibility-type of jsonb column is overwritten on sync (#59123)
  • “Other users’ personal collections” should not appear when there’s only one user (#58420)
  • We’re getting field values (and hitting way more endpoints) when editing metadata (#57284)
  • Updates badge rotates on click (#59987)
  • lib.aggregation/aggregation-column can try to find-matching-column on an expression, rather than the inner ref (#48567)
  • metadata incorrectly loses unique-name-fn – lib/metadata needs to propagate options (#59665)
  • remove-inactive-field-refs middleware is unacceptably slow (#61281)
  • [refs] “Column does not exist” error referencing an active: false column (#60498)
  • MLv2 Metadata calculation returns duplicate columns when using joins (#59664)
  • Notebook editor unusable after choosing certain data sources (#46406)
  • Upgrading from V0.49 to V0.50, question is error (#45403)
  • pMBQL schema should disallow aggregate functions like count() and sum() inside :expressions list (#41344)

Metabase 56.0-beta

This changelog is for the BETA release. To see the full changelog for v56 stable release, see Metabase 56.1

See changlelog for v56 BETA…

NOTE: This is a beta release. We don’t recommend running this in production without testing it in a staging environment first. If you encounter any issues with this beta, please report them on GitHub.

Upgrading | 56.0-beta

Metabase Open Source | 56.0-beta

Metabase Enterprise | 56.0-beta

Breaking changes | 56.0-beta

  • Joins on custom columns defined on the same stage are no longer supported. Use joins on custom expressions instead. This change was reverted in 56.1 and is not a part of the stable release.
  • Limit number of leaf fields synced on Mongo to 1000 to avoid OOM errors (#59883)

New features | 56.0-beta

Querying

  • Time granularity parameters in SQL questions (#60995, #59658, #58180)
    • Allow you to select breakouts by day, week, month etc in SQL queries
    • Can be connected to time granularity dashboard parameters
  • Field filters for aliased tables (#3324)
    • When defining a field filter, optionally specify a alias to make field filters work with CTEs and alisased tables
  • Select multiple values in basic SQL variables (#4728)
  • Reference previous aggregations in custom aggregations (#60307)
    • When creating multiple aggregations on the same stage, reference previous aggregations by name like, with custom columns
  • Joins in custom expressions (#60036, #60937, #60457)
    • Specify a custom expression to join on, or a constant (supporting 1=1 joins)
    • Joins on custom columns on the same stage are no longer supported are no
  • today() custom expression function (#60472)
  • datetime() custom expression function (#59206, #60389)
  • Boolean SQL variable type (#20230)

Dashboards

Administration

Embedding

Embedded analytics JS BETA | 56.0-beta

(#60304, #61648, #61617, #61597, #61606, #61593, #61590, #61463, #61416, #61392, #61375, #61014, #61006, #60646, #61330, #61292)

More flexible way to embed Metabase dashboards into your application using <script> tags, which allows for greater customization compared to iframes. Learn more and test it out.

Enhancements | 56.0-beta

Administration

Dashboards

  • Update dashboard parameters look (#60746)
  • Show cards skeletons while the dashboard is loading (#60564, #60998)
  • Tweaks to chart appearance in dashboard full screen dark mode (#59956)
  • When deleting a tab with questions saved to the dashboard, add a confirmation popup (#59435)

Visualization

  • Enable table cell multiselect (#59823)
  • Fix columns size for ID columns in table viz (#59505)
  • Only run subqueries for pivot viz when row/column totals are enabled (#57999)
  • Fix additional tooltip columns for charts opened in visualizer (#58519)

Querying

  • Column picker improvements (#60442)
    • Fuzzy search on column names this change was reverted in the stable release
    • Search for custom expressions
  • Only bind ctrl-f to search on non-Mac machines (#60429)
  • Enable constant custom expression for MongoDB (#60107)
  • Do not prevent cmd+enter from working when inputs are focused (#58630)
  • Handle implicit joins with multiple foreign keys (#58551)
  • Drill-through options and xrays for Boolean values (#61202)

Other

  • Add blue dot attention notice to events icon links (#59605)
  • Simplify models/metrics filter (#58382)
  • In the main nav, move ‘Browse databases’ above ‘Browse models’ (#58405)
  • update copy on ‘Only send this alert once’ option (#60194)
  • Change copy of “Duration” to “Reset to defaults after” for log level customization (#61183)
  • fix: simplify sandbox permissions management (#61542)
  • Allow blank values for /api/field/{id}/search/{id2} endpoint (#61497)
  • Remove release/update channel selection (#61369)
  • feat: an api for debugging permissions issues (#59583)
  • Respect is_active on JWT/SAML logins (#58582)
  • Update translations 2025-07-22 (#61314)
  • Update translations 2025-05-28 (#58558)

UI polish

  • Design cleanup for embedding sdk settings page (#61653)
  • simplify apply filters toast copy (#60748)
  • fix info icon placement (#60747)
  • Redesign the database connection string toggle UI (#60520)
  • Replace database selection in setup with a new component (#60511)
  • Update Dashboard tabs so bottom border is full width (#60470)
  • Closes VIZ-1235 update top nav filter appearance (#60197)
  • Button focus issue (#60174)
  • Setup page preferred language step accessible issue (#60183)
  • Refactor Browse Databases (#60157)
  • Update InputBlurChange styling to match prior implementation (#59799)
  • New apply dashboard filters UI (#59670)
  • VIZ-1099 VIZ-1107 Improve dashboard look and feel - M2 Card titles and tab styles (#59659)
  • Fix padding in Heading visualization component (#59555)
  • Improve dashboard look and feel with low-hanging polish (#59267)
  • UI polish on download popover (#58844)
  • Table component empty state (#58325)

Metabot

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  • Add data loading options for metric, report, and table details (#58542)
  • [Metabot] Setting hotfix (#60071)
  • Update Metabot Settings to use new nav (#59440)

Bug fixes | 56.0-beta

Administration

  • Airgapped Metabase Tokens say “Trial” instead of “Airgapping” expiring days (#59362)
  • Users with First Name only don’t show up in Usage Analytics (#58222)
  • Admin panel update counter always displays 1, regardless of how many updates you’re behind (#30114)
  • Sync: distinguish between metadata coming from the db & user set (#12574)
  • Native-query function seems to ignore template tag attributes such as required (#38263)

Database

  • ClickHouse Query is not working anymore after upgraded to v0.55.1 (#59166)
  • Bigquery STRUCT types don’t allow renaming in Admin -> Table Metadata (#55563)

Organization

  • Collections bulk action component visual regressions (#61517)
  • Normal users can’t delete sub collections if there’s any restricted collection in the path (#59652)

Dashboards

  • Can’t combine single-series chart and breakout charts on dashboards (#61133)
  • Slow loading dashcards with no average query duration shows 0 (#60988)
  • Dashboard subscription sidebar should show filters in the same order as on the dashboard (#60365)
  • Can’t click through to source question if you remove the titles from dashboard cards (#58414)
  • Backstack in visualizer gets messed up when starting over from a different question (#57897)
  • Dashboard parameter selection uses incorrect style on foreign keys (#53275)
  • Linking a dashboard filter to multiple dashboard tiles, and viewing as a grouped user causes entity keys to appear in the dropdown filter in place of entity names. (#47951)
  • Set to default button sometimes showing (and not working) when editing filters (#58867)
  • Parameter target list disappears when there are no search results (#60987)
  • Dashboard target column popover empty state UX (#46767)

Querying

  • Column name gets reflected in both columns for models having the same table joined with itself (#32499)
  • It should not be possible to reference the aggregation itself in the expression editor (#61010)
  • Enabling foreign key value remapping generates invalid SQL (#60587)
  • Column number mismatch between initial metadata columns returned by driver (X) and those expected by MLv2 (Y) (#60444)
  • Popover to drill through in a question is very slow to open, and freezes tab (#60284)
  • Pivot with breakout on nested joined question fails with “column not found” (#59918)
  • Implicit joins via a joined data source don’t work when the main data source is not a raw table (#59695)
  • Cannot join a native model that has column names different to the mapped database fields (outside of the join condition) (#58829)
  • Native model with column alias and mapped DB column in metadata errors on join (#58314)
  • Models that contain Joins to the Same Table Multiple Times fail when Model Metadata is Edited (#57359)
  • Saving a question with a custom title briefly flashes the default title (#55631)
  • The table header drill does not show filter options for type/SerializedJSON column (#55141)
  • “ERROR: column source.source does not exist” when doing aggregations with SQL models (#52465)
  • Querying all fields on tables with nested (json) fields return only non-nested fields while the UI shows all fields. (#47146)
  • Add/remove a single column in a model with tables joined by themselves adds/removes all columns (#46756)
  • Models incorrectly display columns from tables joined multiple times (#40635)
  • Filter breaks for model text column designated as quantity (#39855)
  • Getting filter values from a model with custom columns returns an error + a FE glitch (#35840)
  • Using a joined question as a source shows columns twice (#34743)
  • Models query fails when a field is remapped with Custom value (#23449)
  • Query builder SQL references wrong column in outermost WHERE clause (#56416)
  • Incorrect Column Names after Editing Model Definition (When columns share names across joined tables) (#54920)
  • Dropdown adds two values instead of one if there is comma in a value (#54205)
  • Join alias deduplication in query with multiple nesting levels with joins results in incorrect native form (#51856)
  • Joining Saved Questions with the same implicit join in group by field causes an error (#48754)
  • Summarization calculations change when adding/removing a distinct count summarization (#48752)
  • Question Query Builder fails with missing column when joining two models. (#47988)
  • When deselecting columns that are mapped to the same db column in model metadata, multiple columns are removed at once (#44767)
  • Question Builder: Custom Expression in Aggregate Cannot Share the Same Name as the Column It’s Aggregating (#44567)
  • Filters for Histogram Bin Values Don’t Update with Bin Size Changes After Applying Filters (#42942)
  • Extracting dates based on a custom column breakout does not work (#40061)
  • Multiple model fields mapped to same db field have weird bugs (#36161)
  • Query processor conflating nested explicit join and outer implicit join (#33972)
  • Unable to change/delete “Unknown field” when a field in an aggregation has been removed from DB (#33835)
  • Queries return incorrect metadata when columns from different sources share the same field ID (#25113)
  • Deleting columns doesn’t delete affiliated column title (#12679)
  • Invalid query error when trying to zoom in Bar visualization (#42817)

Other

  • SDK dashboards are broken (#61611)
  • Button hover state inconsistencies (#61322)
  • After Mantine Upgrade, some components are centering their labels (#60983)
  • Menu hover states are broken (#60584)
  • Setting field formatting removes coercion strategy (#60483)
  • Top padding on dashboards is too small when there are no filters (#60285)
  • Update internal slack settings link urls (#60015)
  • Removing a cartesian chart dimension from underlying query causes a crash (#59671)
  • :visibility-type of jsonb column is overwritten on sync (#59123)
  • “Other users’ personal collections” should not appear when there’s only one user (#58420)
  • We’re getting field values (and hitting way more endpoints) when editing metadata (#57284)
  • Updates badge rotates on click (#59987)
  • lib.aggregation/aggregation-column can try to find-matching-column on an expression, rather than the inner ref (#48567)
  • metadata incorrectly loses unique-name-fn – lib/metadata needs to propagate options (#59665)
  • remove-inactive-field-refs middleware is unacceptably slow (#61281)
  • [refs] “Column does not exist” error referencing an active: false column (#60498)
  • MLv2 Metadata calculation returns duplicate columns when using joins (#59664)
  • Notebook editor unusable after choosing certain data sources (#46406)
  • Upgrading from V0.49 to V0.50, question is error (#45403)
  • pMBQL schema should disallow aggregate functions like count() and sum() inside :expressions list (#41344)
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