Metabase 56 changelog

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Metabase 56.0-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.

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.
  • 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
    • Search for cusom 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)
Read more…

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)
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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) </details>

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