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Metabase 57.0-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.

What’s in the release? | 57.0-beta

Upgrading | 57.0-beta

Metabase Open Source | 57.0-beta

Metabase Enterprise | 57.0-beta

New features | 57.0-beta

  • Dark mode (#9203).

    • User-level setting to view Metabase in dark mode.
    • Go to Account Settings to enable.

  • Check broken dependencies (Pro+ only)

    • When making changes to a question/model that will break other questions (e.g. removing or renaming a column referenced by other entities), you’ll get a notification and a list of all questions depending on that change.

  • Documents (Pro+ only)

    • Documents let you tell a story with your data by combining text, charts, and other content.
    • You can leave comments and tag other people in documents.
    • Go to + New > Document to try out

  • Editable tables (Pro+ only)

    • Edit data in tables directly from Metabase.
    • Available for Postgres and MySQL.
    • Go to Databases in the left sidebar, hover over a table, and click the Pencil icon to edit.

  • Support variables in SQL snippets (#14545)

    • Include filters and time grouping parameters in SQL snippets to enable reusing them across SQL queries.

  • Dynamic goals for progress bars

    • Option to choose a column to serve as a progress bar instead of being limited to constants.

  • Glossary

    • New section in Data Reference that defines commonly used terms.
    • In 57 stable release (but not yet in 57 BETA), this glossary will be used by Metabase’s Metabot AI to understand your data.

Embedded Analytics | 57.0-beta

  • Embedding Hub (#62986).

    Includes:

    • A step-by-step walkthrough guide of setting up embedding - available on the home page if you selected “Embedding” as use case during instance setup, and in Admin > Embedding > Setup otherwise.
    • A centralized place to manage embedding settings (Admin > Embedding)

Embedded Analytics JS

  • New components in Embedded Analytics JS:
  • Customize how the refresh token for JWT authentication is fetched in Embedded Analytics JS with fetchRequestToken (#64004)

Embedded Analytics SDK

  • SDK is now bundled with main Metabase to ensure version compatibility (#60554)

  • New options for click behavior in SDK:

    • Allow customers to run actions when a cell is clicked (#51970)
    • Add handleLink to customize how links should be open (#64960)
  • Layout options for MetabotQuestion (#64573, #64478, #64142)
  • Let end-users archive items in the browser SDK component (#64418)
  • Add EditableParameters component for InteractiveQuestion and StaticQuestion (#64187)
More embedding-related enhancements
  • Send CORS headers for localhost regardless of whether SDK is enabled or not (#61747)
  • Replace interactive embedding card in embed modal with embed flow (#63942)
  • Move the SameSite cookie settings from interactive embedding to security tab (#64533)
  • Add “New embed” option to the command palette that opens embedded analytics KS wizard (#63944)
  • SDK: Add x-metabase-version header to API responses (#61799)
  • SDK: Adjust StaticQuestion and SqlParametersList visuals (#64313)
  • SDK: fix type usage of parameters in sdk (#63918)
  • SDK: Improve mapQuestionClickActions by including useful context instead of context of MB internals (#63344)
  • Design polishes for Embedded Analytics JS wizard (#65113, #64895)

Enhancements | 57.0-beta

  • Enable Database routing for:

  • List view for Models (#62428)

    • Simplified, card-like way to present rows that emphasizes key fields.

  • New detail view (#62011)

    • More convenient way to view record details in a side sheet or on a separate page. Gives every record its own unique URL.

  • Improve the look and feel of charts in dashboards (#62610, #64308)

    • Standardize font sizes, reduce visual noise from grid lines and tick marks, relocate pie chart legend etc.

  • Offer local currency format as an option (#23786)

  • Simplified command palette: Remove Metabot chat from search, show only recent items etc. (#64364)

More enhancements…

Database

  • Enable specifying a database for Athena (#62183)
  • Configure c3p0 connection validation behavior to avoid periodically waking up serverless DBs (#58373)

Querying

  • Show friendly error message if trying to use a simple expression as an aggregation function (#61893)

Visualization

  • Move vertical legend to the right for line/bar/area/scatterplot charts (#62270)
  • Preserve whitespaces in table viz (#30351)

Other

  • Move “Create Alert” from “Sharing” to three docs menu in questions (#64510)
  • Do not automatically hide tables named Sessions (#63949)
  • Have a separate email content for user joining through setup invitation (#63778)
  • Do not say “Loading …” in serialization logs if entity is not being loaded (#64461)
  • Always use “public” schema for x-rays if it exists (#62285)
  • Add rename-tables! driver method (#63302)

UX polish

  • Show organized and curated changelog on upgrades page (#62943)
  • Replace the language selection step on the setup flow with the language selector (#63584)
  • Revert the cloud setup flow’s layout to match self-hosted setup flow (#63577)
  • Don’t show the “Only duplicate the dashboard” option in the dashboard duplication modal when the action isn’t available (#64559)
  • Show ‘See it’ link next to ‘Saved’ button after x-ray is saved as dashboard (#64265)
  • Improve “Add database” page (#62927,#64213, #63887,#63818,#63499,#63491,#63420,#62956,#62121,#62057,#61163,#62420 )
  • Add table link to metadata page (#61764)
  • Make Metabot logo gray when brand color customization is defined (#64566)
  • Simplify our Metabot icon (#65017)
  • Remove deprecated radio form (#64679)
  • Clicking notification for synced Google Sheets should refresh the page (#64614)
  • Headings in the entity Info sidesheet should all be the same color (#63882)
  • Nicer empty state for custom maps in admin settings (#63874)
  • Fix “Email sent” button text misaligned in dashboard subscription panel (#63869)
  • Verified badge icon should be correct size and nearer text in model and saved question titles (#63871)
  • Hover state on field cards in table metadata section should be light blue instead of same color as background (#63831)
  • Nicer Tab component for Variables and parameters tabs in SQL queries (#63829)
  • Change conditions language for goal line conditions in alerts (#63823)
  • People page should use tabs instead of radios for active/deactivated control (#63817)
  • “Filter settings” tab label on the dashboard shouldn’t appear if it’s the only tab (#63815)
  • Update user invitation email design (#63682)
  • Adjust legacy sql generation button to toggle Metabot chat (#63554)
  • Fix: DB sync/scan button doesn’t show failure when sync fails (#63301)
  • Set maximal width for tooltips (#62277)
  • Update “Customize Homepage” modal UI (#62280)
  • Add free trial CTA in Interactive embedding block in “Share” menu (#61714)
  • Better error messages for actions that violate privileges (#62282)
  • Recreate missing index table on init (#62278)
  • Set send-server-version? to false to hide Server version from response headers (#57257)
  • Re-implementation of metabase.driver.common.parameters.* that uses Lib (#61158)
  • Add new columns to metabase_field for internal-tools/data-apps (#60263)
  • Improve log context for exceptions (#55909)

Bug fixes | 57.0-beta

Administration

  • Syncing a single table calls describe-database, which is slow (#63266)
  • clickhouse wrong password error is misleading (#60228)
  • Allow users to set the full hostname when connecting to Athena (#51149)
  • Saving a card without seeing the results generates a “view” in the view_log table (#25847)
  • Aurora MySQL AppDB can’t create Usage Analytics views without using SQL SECURITY INVOKER (#45641)
  • Inconsistent and confusing “Duplicate” action mechanism (#23857)

Database

  • Mongo table Visualisation doesn’t show columns with JSONObjects (#63670)

Embedding

  • [SDK] drills and go to dashcard does not work in dashboard with entity ids (#62953)
  • [SDK] Custom branding images for No Results don’t apply to embeds (#64757)
  • [SDK] Missing hover text color in summarization/grouping menus (#64477)
  • [Modular embedding] columns of type URL should be clickable (#63992)

Organization

  • Weird menu state shown when there are no questions in recents (#62728)
  • Unnecessary redirects on Models & Metrics pages (#55166)
  • You can’t easily get back to the snippets root collection (#63405)

Querying

  • Performance issue with drills (#64705)
  • Date range picker text inputs are not in sync with calendar inputs (#64602)
  • cannot save postgres question with complicated types (#64471)
  • Binning info is not returned for nested questions (#63662)
  • Error doesn’t go away in UI when re-running query after fixing it (#63410)
  • Invalid Group by Clause Generated for Nested Questions in Some Cases (#63245)
  • Sorting on an aggregated column does not work (#62885)
  • Models with dashboard filters on fields from related fields sometimes break (#57596)
  • native query params not cleaned from URL after leaving editor - race condition on slow network (#56636)
  • Currency picker (or info) not available when editing (or viewing) data reference or editing model metadata (#55619)
  • Cannot toggle join fields for a question that has multiple breakouts (#47734)
  • Redundant POST /api/dataset request fired when navigating back (#45787)
  • Saved question of model with long title doesn’t work in graphical query (#35252)
  • Query fails when selecting two fields from nested query, when fields are identical except for their join-alias (#27521)
  • Columns from joined tables with a hyphen in their name cause validation issues in the custom expression editor (#58371)
  • Question with Date field filter over text semantic type fails on refresh (#58061)
  • Suggestion editor popover middle/right click closes the popover (#41305)

Visualization

  • Pivot tables with integer breakout columns fail to download as formatted XLSX for sandboxed tables (#63196)
  • Cannot create a Pivot with Group by Column from Deeply Nested Question (#63261)
  • Number card shows truncated value instead of rounding when condensed (#59454)
  • Query Cache can Cause Incorrect Subscription Visualizations (#64687)
  • Compact Numbers on Trend Viz don’t always Respect decimal settings (#63145)
  • Text fields overlap each other (#62628)
  • Object detail navigation state is not reset when query changes which may lead to an invalid state (#54317)
  • Trend cards in dashboards shouldn’t overflow their card (#64285)

Other

  • Lib.visibleColumns are not marked as selected when joining a native query (#39033)
  • Lib.visibleColumns are not marked as selected when joining a saved question with a self-join (#62383)
  • [refs] Breakout intended for source column is understood as an implicit join, breaking a query (#60501)
  • [refs] Returned column count mismatch when joining a card with a :fields list (#60497)
  • Enterprise login page logo incorrectly sized as navbar icon (#61945)
  • Creator dropdown list on /search is cramped (#61903)
  • Metabase logo color shouldn’t be overrideable (#58349)
  • Unable to build Docker Image from master branch (#64958)
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