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Metabase 58 changelog

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Metabase 58.0-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? | 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 aren’t currently using JWT with claims with @ prefix, you are unaffected.

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 goest 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 with 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.
  • And 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. Starting v58, this will also copy/paste headers.
  • Include email in “forgot password” links to avoid asking for email in expired links (#63146)
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  • 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)

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