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Metabase 61 changelog

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Metabase 61.0-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? | 61.0-beta

Upgrading | 61.0-beta

Metabase Open Source | 61.0-beta

Metabase Enterprise | 61.0-beta

Embedded analytics updates | 61.0-beta

  • Detailed usage analytics for embeds (Pro/Enterprise)

    • A new dashboard in Usage analytics collection shwoing a breakdown of embedding views and users by the embed, auth type, tenant etc.
    • Turn on PII identification to also record analytics by host, user agent, IP etc.
    • New columns in the query log analytics indicating whether the DB routing or impersonation was used.

  • Themes for modular embedding (Pro/Enterprise)

    • Create and save preset appearance themes for your embeds (fonts, colors..), and apply them with one click.
    • Go to Admin > Embedding > Themes to create and save a theme, and then use it in the embed wizard (Ctrl+k > New Embed).

  • Mobile experience for modular embeds

    • We improved touch interactions for charts, viz settings, query builder, and collection browser for embedded components on mobile.

  • Add token renewal mechanism for guest JWT based embeds (#69010)

    • Previously, JWT tokens for guest embeds were not regenerated automatically, which caused issues for users like resetting filters
    • Now you can provide guestEmbedProviderUri in the main config to point to the endpoint fetching refreshed JWT

  • Other embedded analytics updates

    • Embedding onboarding improvements: get back to the guide after connecting a database and creating a dashboard, hide sample database from RLS setup
    • Add upsells for Pro features in modular analytics setup wizard
    • Introduce useMetabot hook to customize layouts of embedded AI chart
    • Support trusted publisher on the Embedding SDK npm package release workflow

AI updates | 61.0-beta

  • Permission controls and usage limits for AI (Pro/Enterprise)

    • Configure what AI tools each user group can use (if any) - like AI chat, SQL generation etc
    • Configure global and per-group token or message limit
    • Go to Admin > AI > Usage access to get started

  • AI usage analytics (Pro/Enterprise)

    • Monitor token usage by date, user group

  • Metabot AI customization (Pro/Enterprise)

    • Configure the name and icon for Metabase’s built-in AI agent
    • Go to Admin > AI > Customization to get started

  • Add your own system prompts (Pro/Enterprise)

    • Add preset instructions for each of Metabot’s main tools: general chat, natural language queries, and SQL generation that work like a system prompt
    • Go to Admin > AI > System prompts to get started

  • Smarter Metabot

    • We greatly expanded what Metabot can do in the query builder: now it can use custom expressions, create custom columns, use joins, build multi-step queries etc.

New features | 61.0-beta

  • See AI updates and Embedded analytics updates

  • Consumption-based transform pricing

    • Pay per transform run, rather than in bulk
    • Your first 1000 transforms are free!

  • Do math with metrics

    • In Metrics explorer, you can do math operations with Metrics, even if they’re coming from different tables and databases, e.g. you can compute Revenue Per User as Revenue / Daily Active Users regardless of which data sources those metrics are associated with
    • To get started, visit a metric and start typing expressions in the top bar

Notable UI changes | 61.0-beta

  • When viewing a metric in the metric explorer, use left click to bring up a breakout menu, rather than right click
  • When adding multiple metrics in the metric explorer’s top bar, you need to type a comma, add a new metric, and press Enter - instead of selecting a metric from a list

Enhancements | 61.0-beta

  • Add segments to Metric Explorer filters
  • Add “Totals” tab to Metrics explorer with, well, the total of the metric (without breakouts)
More enhancements…<summary> Metrics - Use Mini Picker and Entity Picker in Metrics Viewer (#73137) - Fix Metrics Viewer “No compatible dimensions” error (#72731) - Fix duplicated dimensions in Metrics Viewer tab picker and incorrect ‘Multiple dimensions’ label (#72637) - Dimension and chart interestiningness calculation functions (#72630) - allow metrics with numeric names (#71870) - GDGT-2089: Adjust viz settings sidebar styling (#71472) Remote sync and serialization - Serdes fixes for python transforms (#71735) - Serdes file and folder human readable names (#71583) - Serdes skip default values (#71544) - Fix serdes breaking on IDs for db/table/fields for non-existent entities (#72399) - Fix git sync to remove stale YAML files from managed export directories (#71739) - Use partial settings update when switching branches during Remote Sync conflict (#69874) Transforms - Show transform inspector as upsell when feature is not enabled (#71341) - Show tooltip on disabled databases when creating transforms (#70987) MCP - Add cursor deeplink button in admin UI for MCP setup (#72890) - Add create_question and create_dashboard MCP tools (#72742) - endpoint for exposting field values (#73003) Administration - Implement current-user-table-privileges for Oracle and SQL Server to fix N+1 query (#72043) </details> ### Bug fixes | 61.0-beta Administration - Snowflake tables with UUID columns fail to sync: “no Fields associated with it” (#71595) - Foreign key relationships sync does not work on sqlite (#45788) Database - There was a field matching error when using the field filter of Metabase to query Athena’s data (#47003) - function floor(money) does not exist (#32068) Embedding - SDK styles leak to the host app (#72956) - Modular Embedding - No Progress Indicator for PDF Exports (#72771) - Admins can’t browse shared collections in question picker (#71936) Organization - Flicker when clicking on expanded collection in sidebar (#73291) Querying - Between field filter widget sends null parameter value when empty, causing persistent run-button overlay (#70311) - drill-thru/distribution gets returned for aggregated query metric (#34341) Reporting - Can’t save a question living in a dashboard in the same collection the dashboard lives in (#71047) - Query Unexpectedly Re-Executes on Tab Navigation in Some Cases (#70534) Other - Dark mode flashes light mode when opening Data Studio (#72487) - “Have Metabot fix it” resets SQL variable configuration (#68991) - Dashboard subscription should still work if Slack channel is renamed (#19496)
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