This release introduces Models, and ships with a lot of improvements, polish, and bug fixes.
To see what's new, check out our release announcement.
Enhancements
- the Time picker AM and PM color can not be distinguished obviously (#20010)
- Alert Stopped email is Unhelpful (#19814)
- Clean up database guide usability during configuration (#19641)
- Clean up how we show deprecated database drivers (#19529)
- Add a way to return to previous page from sign in cases (#19476)
- Consolidate first db sync modal and X-ray selection (#19440)
- Migrate Slack implementation from Bot to App (#19435)
- Improve Filters for 42 (#19354)
- Clean Up Settings Navigation (#19348)
Bug fixes
- Waterfall static viz default settings (#20332)
- "By coordinates" map in People X-ray shows a nonsensical pin map (#20182)
- Pins do not appear on pin map (#20090)
- "Explore results" shown for no-data users resulting in blank screen when clicked (#20044)
- Blank screen when accessing Models with no-data user (#20042)
- Secret connection property file path is not retained when revisiting database edit page (#20030)
- Licensing page goes into reload-loop if token is expired (#20020)
- Descriptions missing in search results (#20018)
- Horizontal scroll of pinned table doesn't work on Firefox (#19997)
- Metadata tooltip popup on colum header casues data table to reset for number columns that are all NULLs (#19976)
- Certain visualization_settings can cause empty/missing columns on export (#19889)
- Postgres unnecessarily casts
timestamptz
anddate
columns totimestamp
insidedate_trunc()
(#19816) - Exports ignore column ordering regression in v0.41.6 (#19796)
- Premature calls to
to-sql
insidesql.qp/->honeysql
methods (#19753) - Visualization "auto-viz" doesn't keep existing settings, when changing fields returned (#19747)
- Can't add a filter if the value isn't in the field filters dropdown (#19685)
- defsetting
:tag
metadata should be on the arglists themselves, not the var (#19627) - SQLite/Redshift/SQL Server/MySQL queries don't work correctly with multiple column aliases with same name but different case (#19618)
- Archived sub-collections are still showing in Permissions (#19603)
- XLSX exports are leaving temporary files, which can block instance from working (#19480)
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:v0.42.0
Download the JAR here: https://downloads.metabase.com/v0.42.0/metabase.jar
Notes
SHA-256 checksum for the 0.42.0 JAR:
392c91a63256df82edab6c211a94eae3c39ae0ca7f042b3f4fd7fd16deee34e1