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Metabase 58.4

Upgrading | 58.4

Metabase Open Source | 58.4

Metabase Enterprise | 58.4

Notable changes | 58.4

  • [Modular embedding] Properly apply background color for embedded dashboards with custom theme (#68539)
    • This fixes an issue where dashboard background color in custom theme was overridden by the global background color below the dashboard header
    • If your theme relied on using the global background color on dashboards below the header, you might need to update your theme settings to maintain previous behavior.

Enhancements | 58.4

  • Rename static embed to guest embed on embedding startup screen (#68338)
  • Allow [::1] and 127.0.0.1 origins by default for cross-origin requests + support IPv6 origins (#68697)
  • Put the Run SQL button back to the right side of the editor (#68638)
  • Nicer error message when pulling Tenant collections with Tenants turned off (#67948)

Bug fixes | 58.4

Administration

  • Custom Logo isn’t loaded properly on User Invite Email (#68452)
  • Clickhouse Driver 0.9.5 parser doesn’t recognize some table names and break SQL (#68423)
  • [Custom-map] Impossible to modify or add new geojson map if one existing map is not reacheable (#44353)
  • Custom brand color not consistently applied on Enterprise UI elements (#62516)

Embedding

  • Dashboards are missing their background color (#68647)
  • 58 release: SDK/Modular embedding CORS input is visible in OSS/Starter (#68559)
  • Visualization Drop in Embedding Preview overflows the popover (#67209)

Querying

  • Date field formatting incorrect/broken in 58 (#68574)
  • You can drag the divider below the native query editor off the bottom of the page (#59075)

Visualization

  • Word wrap overflows row when reordering in dashboard table card (#61164)

Metabase 58.3

Upgrading | 58.3

Metabase Open Source | 58.3

Metabase Enterprise | 58.3

Enhancements | 58.3

  • Disable dependency validation of SQL questions (#68148)
  • Show a Loading indicator for dashboard PNG + PDF Exports (#68385)

Tenants

  • Do not mark subcollections of shared collections as official(#67537)
  • Add “External users’ personal collection” special folder for admins when tenants are enabled (#67949)
  • Nicer error message when trying to pull Tenant collections with Tenants turned off(#67948)

Metabot

  • Require free text for ui-bug and other feedback types (#68234)
  • Fix animation color for AI exploration in dark mode (#68149)
  • Improve Metabot input and message scrolling UX (#68117)

Other

  • Fix public powered by metabase footer link (#68069)
  • Fix background of dropdown menu in create/edit record on database table (#67807)
  • Fix permission checks for unarchiving collections (#67729)
  • Don’t unset remote-sync settings on api req (#67605)

Bug fixes | 58.3

Administration

  • “Enable guest embeds” is on even when appearing off after v58 upgrade (#68222)
  • “Connect to Slack” CTA remains visible after Slack is configured (#67989)
  • Instance restored from a H2 snapshot is missing API keys (#67976)
  • Table metadata permission does not allow to sync table schema (#67838)
  • Connection Impersonation doesn’t work with ClickHouse and roles with at least two consecutive hyphens (#57016)
  • sandbox UI doesn’t show hidden columns (#53378)
  • Actions attached to models inside of synced collection break remote sync #68215
  • dump-to-h2 fails if copying an entity type takes longer than 5 minutes (#67470)

Embedding

  • Modular embedding analytics never track charts as using default settings when nothing is changed (#68285)
  • Modular embedding wizard: resets experience type when switching to the guest embed on options step (#68271)
  • ESLint custom rule no-literal-metabase-strings doesn’t ignore export * (#68230)
  • Starter Edition: Embedding admin UI should look the same as in OSS (#68224)
  • Modular embedding OSS footer banner is visible only after scroll for Dashboard components (#68118)

Querying

  • Questions converted in SQL should not be deleted when the previous parent model gets deleted (#68080)
  • “Something went wrong” when interacting with a question when redirected from a Dashboard (#68012)
  • Preview table header overlaps SQL editor on smaller screens (#67903)

Visualization

  • Row Chart Tooltip doesn’t reflect Column Rename (#67778)
  • Copy cells from table on dashboard after you sort re-orders rows on paste (#67432)
  • In Safari, Reducing the Tile Size of a Number viz Might Result in the Number Being truncated like a String Rather than Rounded (#51082)
  • Post-aggregation filters mess up histograms where x-axis is a binned number (#10493)
  • X-axis labels missing in subscription emails for categorical bar charts at some widths (#68048)

Other

  • Untranslated webhook channel in alert modal (#68174)

Metabase 58.2

Upgrading | 58.2

Metabase Open Source | 58.2

Metabase Enterprise | 58.2

Enhancements | 58.2

Embedding

  • Modular embedding: Use multiple values as initialSqlParameters (#64673)
  • Modular embedding: Hide Static Question topbar from DOM when no children rendered (#67852)

Visualization

  • Fill line series symbol with appropriate color in dark mode (#67811)

Other

  • Rename MB_JDBC_NETWORKOUT_TIMEOUT_MS to MB_JDBC_NETWORK_TIMEOUT_MS (#67863)
  • Update color for text on dark verification tooltip in light mode (#67799)
  • Update background color of ellipsis breadcrumb in Dark Mode (#67805)
  • Block from adding a user that would be over the user limit in an airgapped Metabase (instead of failing the app)(#66770)
  • Better logging messages for field values updates (#66767)
  • Highlight people tab on admin tenant pages (#67869)
  • Improve performance of collection list view for tenants (#67958)
  • Change guest embeds disabled tooltip to display a link to admin settings (#67925)
  • Add documentation button to tenants list page (#67884)

Bug fixes | 58.2

Administration

  • Switching model source leaves stale result metadata which blocks normal users from using those models if old tables are blocked (#67680)
  • Add Implicit Join error when filtering Content by Made Public By User -> Full Name (#67676)
  • Serialization breaks when there’s an x-ray of a model of internal analytics (#41946)

Querying

  • In Some Cases Metabase Generates Incorrect SQL join that results in a Cartesian Product (#67667)
  • Questions with joined models fail with invalid SQL after v57 upgrade (#67002)
  • No useful warning when SQL question filters become invalid after database change (save and run buttons disabled) (#66844)
  • Date range filter does not respect date format settings (#65462)
  • When deselecting all time grouping options, selecting any option also auto-selects ‘Minute’ (#64735)

Reporting

  • Dashboard titles get extremely squashed when Metabot is open (#65362)
  • All text on a Document chart is highlighted when clicking anywhere on the chart in Firefox (#66902)

Visualization

  • Stacked Row Chart Tooltips do not Display the “Renamed” Series Names (#66574)
  • Confusing UX: Sankey charts and any other non-visualizer chart changes into a bar chart or other chart by default in Visualizer mode (#65317)
  • Log axis showing wrong values for decimal in [0,1](#48659)

Other

  • Broken Segment Search Links (#67860)

Metabase 58.1

What’s in the release? | 58.1

Upgrading | 58.1

Metabase Open Source | 58.1

Metabase Enterprise | 58.1

Breaking changes | 58.1

  • Metabase now respects custom y-axis limits even if they cut off data points, which might change how your existing charts behave.

    • For example, let’s say the range of your data is from 30 to 60. You can set custom y-axis limits to be from 45 to 55. Before v58, in this case Metabase didn’t show an error, but would also just ignore those custom 45-55 limits and show full range of data whenever it detected that some data points might get left out.
    • Starting v58, Metabase will respect y-axis limits regardless of the data range.
    • This means that if you have existing visualizations with custom y-axis limits in visualization settings that were previously ignored, those limits will now be applied. So you might see data “missing” from the chart because Metabase is no longer ignoring y-axis limits that hide data. You can edit the chart’s visualization settings to set appropriate y-axis limits.

  • If you are using JWT auth with claims starting with @ in your JWT, those claims will now be ignored and dropped, and will not be persisted as user attributes.

    • This is due to the new Tenants feature which relies on special syntax @tenants in JWT claims. If you already have a @tenant claim in your JWT, and you aren’t using the new Tenants feature, your SSO will fail.
    • If you aren’t currently using JWT with claims with @ prefix, you are not affected.

Embedded analytics updates | 58.1

  • Tenants (Pro/Enterprise)

    • Simplify permission management for multi-tenant setups by configuring permissions on tenant level;
    • Create groups shared between tenants (e.g. every tenant can have “premium users”) for advanced permissions management;
    • Create collections shared between tenants to avoid duplicating assets, as well as tenant-specific collections for more tailored analytics;
    • Use Remote Sync for git management of shared tenant collections;
    • Automatically create and assign tenants with JWT @tenants claim;
    • To get started, go to Admin settings > People > Gear icon and pick “Multi-tenant strategy”.

  • Guest embedding (Basic version available on all plans. Some customization options are only available on Pro/Enterprise plans)

    • A new implementation of Static Embedding that uses our SDK components behind the scenes;
    • Same features as the old Static Embedding but in addition, unlocks deeper theming and adds a WYSIWYG wizard to create your embeds;
    • Dramatically simpler migration path to Modular embedding (formerly known as Embedded Analytics JS, see Notable UI changes );
    • If you are currently using static embedding, your static embeds will continue to work as before, no worries there! But now you’ll get access to more theming options;
    • To get started, go to Admin settings > Embedding > Guest embed, enable guest embedding, and click “New embed”.

  • Dashboard subscription support for modular embedding (formerly known as Embedded Analytics JS/SDK, see Notable UI changes ).

New features | 58.1

Metabot AI

  • Metabase Metabot AI is generally available as a paid add-on (Metabase Cloud only).

  • New “AI exploration” page optimized for natural language querying (also available in v57.8).

    • Once you enable the Metabot add-on, you’ll get a new option in the +New menu: + New > AI exploration.
    • AI on this page is especially optimized for answering real questions about data. Just type something like “How many orders did we have last quarter?”

  • AI-driven SQL generation (also available in v57.8)

    • Once you enable the Metabot add-on, you can head over to the SQL editor and use Ctrl/CMD + Shift + i to tell Metabot what SQL it should generate.
    • You can continue working with Metabase to continuously edit your SQL, and you’ll get an option to accept or reject Metabot’s changes.

Documents

  • Documents are now available for free on all Metabase plans.
    • in v57, Documents were released for people on Pro/Enterprise plans. In v58, we’re making them available to everyone.
    • Click on + New > Document to get started.
  • Supporting text for Documents
    • You can now add supporting text to display side-by-side with a chart in documents to provide additional context;
    • To add supporting text, click on three dots on the chart > Add supporting text.

Administration

Embedding

See Embedded Analytics updates.

Enhancements | 58.1

  • Metabase Cloud hosting is now available in Australia.
  • Metabase now respects custom y-axis limits on charts even when this causes some data to be cut off.
  • Surface documents in a dependency check when an entity update breaks them.
    • Note: Dependency checks, including checking for dependent documents, remains a Pro/Enterprise feature.
  • Add recent views info to Metabot user context to provide more relevant results.
  • Include headers when selecting and copying multiple table cells.
    • Reminder: since v56 you can drag to select and Ctrl/Cmd+C to copy multiple table cells; cells are copied in a spreadsheet-friendly way. Starting v58, this will also copy/paste headers.
    • Add an environment variable to configure JDBC network timeout
  • Include email in “forgot password” links to avoid asking for email in expired links (#63146).
More…
  • Fixes background color of some UI Alerts (#66964)
  • Improvements to pro-self-hosted to cloud migration flow (#66806)
  • Redact Mongo connection URI (#65178)
  • Fix race conditions when updating data permissions (#67201, #66960)
  • Convert the “View SQL” to an icon only (#67159)
  • Fix dashboard question picker collection icons (#67139)
  • Numerous improvements to semantic search (#66286, #65654,#65592, #65442, #65348, #66528)
  • Collect customer consent to grant instance access to Metabase success engineers (#65701)
  • Change the order of steps in the embedding wizard: select auth method on the first step first; allow for use of current session on the last step if SSO is enabled. (#66548)
  • [Static embedding] Fix Static embedding styles (#65796)
  • [Modular embedding, SDK] Update screen reader description for “Move to trash” button in CollectionBrowser component (#65747)
  • [Modular embedding, SDK] Expose the item description as a visible column in CollectionBrowser instead of only showing it in a tooltip (#65702)
  • Update our Table icon (#66900)
  • [Dark Mode] Update Metabot illustration (#65185)
  • fix: remote-sync icons matching non-collections (#66558)

Notable UI changes | 58.1

  • New look for the data picker:

    • When starting a new question in the query builder, you can now use inline search to find tables and other entities
    • Quickly browse selected database/collection, or click on “Browse all” to open full entity browser
    • Doesn’t apply to the data picker in embedding contexts

  • New names for embedding implementations:

  • SQL Snippets “Top folder” renamed to “SQL Snippets”.
  • Remote sync modes renamed from “Development” and “production” to “Read/write” and “Read-only” respectively.
  • Remote sync branch and push/pull controls are now at the top of the screen instead of next to the Synced Collection.

Bug fixes | 58.1

Administration

  • “Queries in flight” are slowly being leaked until metabase feels very slow (#66656)
  • Remote sync doesn’t recognize dirty state when an item is permanently deleted right after being soft-deleted from a synced collection (#65977)
  • Search results for admin no longer include other users’ personal collections (#61219)
  • Clicking on entity qualified id on the content model takes nowhere and spins forever (#38747)
  • Toggling advanced options section on database connection details always marks dialog as dirty (#65988)
  • “Also change sub-collections” in the collection permission modal doesn’t stick (#56567)
  • Inactive table still shows in connected sidebar (#28241)
  • CORS setting popover is white-on-white when in dark mode (#66881)
  • app cannot startup with config file that sets sso settings (#65294)
  • Remote-Sync has a weird cancel effect when setup isn’t supplied but still saved (#65653)
  • UI Overlap: Database sync icons block Personal Collections pagination controls when adding a new database (#66011)
  • API tree endpoint ignoring collection-id (#60968)

Database

  • Invalid BigQuery syntax No matching signature for function TIMESTAMP Argument types: TIMESTAMP, STRING (#66880)
  • Field filter alias doesn’t work on MongoDB (#66888)
  • Postgres arrays break when cached (#55301)

Embedding

  • SDK interactive question always shows results when you set the first filter (#66461)
  • SDK interactive dashboard shows 3 different loaders and only one can be customized (#65979)

Querying

  • “Break out” drillthrough fails on questions with group by implicitly joined column and filter after aggregation (#67228)
  • Filter bar disappears when Details view is open (#66957)
  • Metrics should not be a valid join target for joins in the entity picker (#66210)
  • We lose the metadata of a column after using it on a filter (#64353)
  • Cannot Change Lookback Window for Datetime Filters if Date Comes from Custom Column (#63966)
  • When using the Detail view of an item, adding custom column requires a refresh for them to become visible (#63181)
  • Mapping a field as foreign key in Metabase model doesn’t work unless the field in the underlying table is already marked as a foreign key to the target table (#48427)
  • UX regression on dropdown list/search with multiple values (#64409)

Dashboards

  • Click behavior doesn’t pass time component for dates to questions (#66277)
  • Update Filter Click Behaviour on by Hour Group doesn’t respect the Hour part (#58556)
  • Click behavior on a dashboard question does not respect default filters (#64368)
  • PDF export doesn’t wait for dashboard questions to finish loading (#33263)
  • Dashcard visualization settings should not persist non-dashboard settings (#61224)

Visualization

  • Tooltips break on row charts when using two columns on Y axis but leaving one out (#67110)
  • PDF Exports of Gauge Chart Contain Oversized Text (Chrome) (#65322)
  • Heavy Row Charts are able to break the browser (#64086)
  • The x-axis of a time series may skip ticks even though they could reasonably fit (#60475)
  • very low percentages can collide with the y-axis when there are lots of decimals (#55853)
  • pie chart flickers when toggling legend (#48124)
  • When “Auto y-axis range” is disabled, if the lower limit is higher than the min value, lower limit for y-axis is set to 0 (#47944)
  • Pin Map zoom is reset when hovering pins when wide data sets are used (#11211)
  • When you hide a segment in a 100% stacked bar chart, the bars are not still 100% stacked (#66149)

Other

  • When creating a new event, the dropdown to choose an event timeline doesn’t tell you what it is (#66428)
  • Can’t open info sidebar in the native editor when the Variables sidebar is opened (#51717)
  • Wrong breadcrumbs for questions based on questions (#47005)
  • SQL preview panel shouldn’t automatically disappear when I’m resizing my viewport (#67143)
  • “View SQL” panel should not “remember” its opened/closed state (#65818)
  • Report an issue actually doesn’t report an issue in app or tell customers what to do (#64631)
  • Question is no longer verified after changing its name (#64025)
  • Saved question information modal has a scrollbar (#67703)
  • The font size for the word “Attribute” on the invite user screen seems off (#65297)
  • Heading for Groups when inviting a user is in a weird place (#65296)
  • Permissions table is not respecting the frozen column in the UI (#66772)
  • Contextual In Product Help with Starter/OSS showing docs for permissions not available to Starter/OSS (#61324)
  • Sidebar item outline has different shape than the item (#44674)
  • Unable to close some modals without browser history (#57113)
  • Deactivating users can be very misleading (#66599)

Metabase 58.0-beta

This changelog is for the BETA release. To see the full changelog for v58 stable release, see Metabase 58.1

See changelog for v58 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? | 58.0-beta

Upgrading | 58.0-beta

Metabase Open Source | 58.0-beta

Metabase Enterprise | 58.0-beta

Breaking changes | 58.0-beta

  • If you are using JWT auth with claims starting with @ in your JWT, those claims will be ignored and dropped, and will not persisted as user attributes.
    • This is due to the new Tenants feature which relies on special syntax @tenants in JWT claims. If you already have a @tenant claim in your JWT, and you aren’t using the new Tenants feature, your SSO will fail.
    • If you aren’t currently using JWT with claims with @ prefix, you are not affected.

Embedded analytics | 58.0-beta

  • Tenants (Pro/Enterprise)

    • Simplify permission management for multi-tenant setups by configuring permissions on tenant level;
    • Create groups shared between tenants (e.g. every tenant can have “premium users”) for advanced permissions management;
    • Create collections shared between tenants to avoid duplicating assets, as well as tenant-specific collections for more tailored analytics;
    • Use Remote Sync for git management of shared tenant collections;
    • Automatically create and assign tenants with JWT @tenants claim;
    • To get started, go to Admin settings > People > Gear icon and pick “Multi-tenant strategy”.

  • Guest embedding (Basic version available on all plans. Some customization options are only available on Pro/Enterprise plans)

    • A new implementation of Static Embedding that uses our SDK components behind the scenes;
    • Same features as the old Static Embedding but in addition, unlocks deeper theming and adds a WYSIWYG wizard to create your embeds;
    • Dramatically simpler migration path to Modular embedding (formerly known as Embedded Analytics JS, see Notable UI changes );
    • If you are currently using static embedding, your static embeds will continue to work as before, no worries there! But now you’ll get access to more theming options;
    • To get started, go to Admin settings > Embedding > Guest embed, enable guest embedding, and click “New embed”.

  • Subscription support for modular embedding (formerly known as Embedded Analytics JS/SDK, see Notable UI changes ).

New features | 58.0-beta

  • Metabase Metabot AI is generally available as a paid add-on (Metabase Cloud only).
  • Documents are now available for free on all Metabase plans.
    • in v57, Documents were released for people on Pro/Enterprise plans. In v58, we’re making them available to everyone.
    • Click on + New > Document to get started.
  • Supporting text for Documents
    • You can now add supporting text to display side-by-side with a chart in documents to provide additional context;
    • To add supporting text, click on three dots on the chart > Add supporting text.
  • AWS IAM Authentication Support for RDS PostgreSQL and MySQL (Pro/Enterprise self-hosted).

Notable UI changes | 58.0-beta

  • New look for the data picker:

    • When starting a new question in the query builder, you can now use inline search to find tables and other entities
    • Quickly browse selected database/collection, or click on “Browse all” to open full entity browser
    • Doesn’t apply to the data picker in embedding contexts

  • New names for embedding options:

    • Embedded Analytics JS > Modular embedding
    • Embedded Analytics SDK > Modular embedding SDK
    • Interactive embedding > Full-app embedding
    • Guest embedding is a new implementation of static embedding, and replaces the old Static Embedding type.
  • SQL Snippets “Top folder” renamed to “SQL Snippets”.
  • Remote sync modes renamed from “Development” and “production” to “Read/write” and “Read-only” respectively.

Enhancements | 58.0-beta

  • Surface documents in a dependency check when an entity update breaks them
    • Note: Dependency checks, including checking for dependent documents, remains a Pro/Enterprise feature.
  • Add recent views info to Metabot user context to provide more relevant results
  • Include headers when selecting and copying multiple table cells
    • Reminder: since v56 you can drag to select and Ctrl/Cmd+C to copy multiple table cells; cells are copied in a spreadsheet-friendly way. Starting v58, this will also copy/paste headers.
  • Include email in “forgot password” links to avoid asking for email in expired links (#63146)
More…
  • Numerous improvements to semantic search (#66286, #65654,#65592, #65442, #65348, #66528)
  • Collect customer consent to grant instance access to Metabase success engineers (#65701)
  • Change the order of steps in the embedding wizard: select auth method on the first step first; allow for use of current session on the last step if SSO is enabled. (#66548)
  • [Static embedding] Fix Static embedding styles (#65796)
  • [Modular embedding, SDK] Update screen reader description for “Move to trash” button in CollectionBrowser component (#65747)
  • [Modular embedding, SDK] Expose the item description as a visible column in CollectionBrowser instead of only showing it in a tooltip (#65702)
  • Update our Table icon (#66900)
  • [Dark Mode] Update Metabot illustration (#65185)
  • fix: remote-sync icons matching non-collections (#66558)

Bug fixes | 58.0-beta

Administration

  • Toggling advanced options section on database connection details always marks dialog as dirty (#65988)
  • “Also change sub-collections” in the collection permission modal doesn’t stick (#56567)
  • Inactive table still shows in connected sidebar (#28241)
  • CORS setting popover is white-on-white when in dark mode (#66881)
  • app cannot startup with config file that sets sso settings (#65294)
  • Remote-Sync has a weird cancel effect when setup isn’t supplied but still saved (#65653)
  • UI Overlap: Database sync icons block Personal Collections pagination controls when adding a new database (#66011)
  • API tree endpoint ignoring collection-id (#60968)

Database

  • Postgres arrays break when cached (#55301)

Querying

  • When using the Detail view of an item, adding custom column requires a refresh for them to become visible (#63181)
  • Mapping a field as foreign key in Metabase model doesn’t work unless the field in the underlying table is already marked as a foreign key to the target table (#48427)
  • UX regression on dropdown list/search with multiple values (#64409)

Visualization

  • When you hide a segment in a 100% stacked bar chart, the bars are not still 100% stacked (#66149)

Other

  • Unable to close some modals without browser history (#57113)
  • Deactivating users can be very misleading (#66599) </details>
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