metabase/metabase v0.43.0-rc2

Metabase v0.43.0-RC2

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Events and timelines

A lot of discussions around data have a moment when someone asks a question related to a specific point in time: "Wait, what's the spike in March again?", or "When did the new widget launch?"

Events and timelines are a way to capture that chronological knowledge and make it available when you need it, in context (i.e., when you're viewing a chart). They're a great way to store institutional knowledge about what happened and when, so people (including yourself three months from now) won't have to figure out (again) why the line chart spiked back in March.

Redesigned navigation

We’ve overhauled the main navigation to make it easier to find new things, and get back to your most frequently used questions, dashboards, collections, and models. P.S. If you’re looking for the Gear icon to access your account or admin settings, the gear is now at the bottom of the navigation sidebar.

Bookmarks

You can now bookmark your favorite questions, dashboards, models, and collections. Bookmarked items will show up at the top of the main sidebar. If you prefer to just search for stuff, bookmarked items also get a boost in your search results.

Updated home page

The new homepage now keeps track of your most recent items. Plus it just looks nicer. The root collection, Our analytics, is just a click away in the sidebar.

Selective sync for more databases

You can now choose which schemas will (or won’t) be synced for the following databases:

• Postgres
• Redshift
• Snowflake
• BigQuery (shipped in 42)

Relative datetime filtering

When filtering dates, you can now select All options > Relative date... to filter for things like "Next 30 days", or “Last 30 days starting from 1 week ago”.

Enhancements

• Datetime shortcut "Relative dates..." should default to "Past" filters (#22027)
• Make permissions table header sticky (#21851)

Bug fixes

• [Data Permissions] Saved questions showing in the list of databases (#22071)
• Textbox on dashboards are difficult move and missing options (#22061)
• Backend should deserialize dashboard Starting From/Exclude datetime filters (#22029)
• Embedding/Public sharing of questions does not show download button in the footer (#21993)
• Dashboard shows scrollbar in fullscreen (#21992)
• Subscriptions button shown on dashboard in fullscreen (#21990)
• Global search input is shorter than the field (#21983)
• Popover menu position floating too far initiator (#21982)
• Switching BigQuery drivers back and forth between new and old driver can break Metabase (#21981)
• Filtering "Exclude" shows wrong weekday (#21979)
• Relative "Current" filters not working in QB (#21977)
• Ensure that all browser caches are destroyed on logout (#21974)
• Max/Min functions on strings incorrectly inferred as numeric (#21973)
• rx macro opt should support varargs (#21971)
• BigQuery driver errors when adding months to a timestamp column (#21969)
• SQLite driver generates incorrect SQL for adding months/quarters to a date (#21968)
• You can't access collections on the homepage when full-app embedding (#21954)
• In the group user list, managers should always be on top (#21874)
• Settings->Tools has an horizontal scrollbar when not needed (#21833)
• Clicking on visualization options on slow loading dashboard cards leads to a page reload or error (#21830)
• Bugs in the relative date/time dashboard filter widget (#21807)
• Custom Expression numeric function does not allow return from other numeric functions (#21805)
• The date filter isn't resetting the state when closed (#21779)
• In the date filtering sidebar, it is necessary two clicks in the back button to go back (#21778)
• Boolean icon in custom expressions should be consistent with other boolean icons (#21772)
• In data permissions page, the minimum width of the Database name column is too large (#21765)
• User with Manage database permission can't run scan process (#21764)
• The Original Schema tab in the data model has duplicated table names (#21763)

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:v0.43.0-rc2
Download the JAR here: https://downloads.metabase.com/v0.43.0-rc2/metabase.jar

Notes

SHA-256 checksum for the 0.43.0-rc2 JAR:

bfd916ae7b2c0e62bf852cca487ed4a31f58cf7456a802d39414d15fcd384d52