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Metabase 63 changelog

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Metabase 63.0-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? | 63.0-beta

Upgrading | 63.0-beta

Metabase Open Source | 63.0-beta

Metabase Enterprise | 63.0-beta

Breaking changes | 63.0-beta

We updated the Sample Database that ships with Metabase. The Sample Database used to be an H2 database. It’s now a SQLite database. If you’ve created questions based on data in the Sample Database, those questions may break.

AI updates | 63.0-beta

  • More AI providers

    We’ve added support for more vendors to power Metabase’s in-app AI features. Bring an API key, plug it into Metabase, and start building stuff with AI. Vendors now include:

    • Metabase AI service (Cloud only)
    • Anthropic
    • AWS Bedrock (new in 63)
    • Microsoft Azure (new in 63)
    • OpenAI (new in 63)

    Set up AI for your Metabase in Admin > AI > AI settings > Connect to a provider.

  • MCP improvements

    The MCP server now supports:

    • Inline charts in MCP clients (#75550). Ask your AI to show a bar chart. See MCP docs
    • Metric creation (#76690)
    • Saving native SQL as questions (#76170)
    • Searching questions, dashboards, and collections (#76316)
    • Auditing: a new tab in Admin > AI > MCP > Authorizations to track OAuth Dynamic Client registrations and approval/denials.

Embedded analytics updates | 63.0-beta

  • Custom visualizations in the React SDK (Pro/Enterprise)

    Enable specific custom visualizations in your embeds with the new allowedCustomVisualizations prop on MetabaseProvider.

  • SDK use-action hook

    With the useAction hook, you can trigger an action when someone clicks a button or submits a form in your app. See SDK actions.

New features | 63.0-beta

  • Treemap Visualization

    Adds a new Treemap chart type for visualizing hierarchical / part-to-whole breakdowns.

    Try it out: create a question with single metrics in the Summarize section, and two groupings in the group by section. Then visualize as a treemap.

  • PDF attachments in subscriptions

    Adds a “attach PDF of the dashboard” toggle for dashboard subscriptions (email + Slack). Generates the PDF server-side. Try it out by setting up a new dashboard subscription.

    PDFs sent from OSS/Starter Metabases will include watermarks.

  • Dimension picker for the metrics explorer

    A new sidebar picker makes it easier to select dimensions when viewing one or more metrics in the metrics explorer.

Enhancements | 63.0-beta

  • Admins can now invite people to your Metabase from a question or dashboard.
  • Maps now render in static visualizations, including PDF exports and dashboard subscriptions.
  • Pivot tables now appear as pivot tables (not plain tables) in subscriptions.
  • Documents now have a description field.
  • Sync column and table descriptions from Trino, Presto, and Athena.
  • The Sample Database now uses SQLite (previously shipped as an H2 database).
See more…

Administration

  • Add a way to hide “Ask your admin to create a public link” when working with sensitive data (#60022)
  • Improve sync field-values performance for Athena (#45335)
  • Don’t destroy the database during a creation failure for cloud databases (#76363)
  • Stop retrying permanently-failed fingerprinting on every sync (#75640)
  • Split oversized email recipient lists to avoid SMTP provider rejection (#74825)
  • Update the API keys admin page UI (#75170)

Querying

  • Allow running saved questions by ID (#71688)
  • Omit the case-sensitive option when the database doesn’t support it (#75665)
  • Don’t escape comments inside quoted strings when generating nestable SQL (#39401)

Dashboards

  • Edit visualization / “Visualize another way” now works from a card after a dashboard filter (#70839)

Visualization

  • Handle null x-axis values in time series charts (#75962)
  • Fix axis labels being cut off when rotated 45 degrees (#75815)
  • Display column labels below split map charts (#74774)
  • Apply column formatting to the map legend in static exports (PDFs, subscriptions) (#76024)
  • Detail views now render in static exports (PDFs, subscriptions) (#75386)
  • Fix tooltips rendering under popovers and menus (#75373)

Organization

  • Filter for published tables in Data Studio (#74702)

Embedding

  • Gate SDK query-builder controls on the create-queries permission (#76862)
  • Adds telemetry for the modular embedding SDK (#75785). This is part of the opt-in anonymous usage tracking, which you can turn on/off in Admin > Settings > Usage tracking.
  • Don’t show the sdk-disabled usage problem on localhost (#75930)
  • Remove branding on PDF exports for white-labeling customers (#76426)

Operation

  • Remove the deprecated X-XSS-Protection HTTP header (#11444)

Other

  • Add CFP Franc (XPF) to the currency list (#75906)
  • Support emoji, Markdown text alignment, and Visualizer name overrides in PDF exports (#77034, #77031, #77033)
  • Improve pivot table and object detail PDF renders (#76728)
  • Fix the run-query button icon being too small on large screens (#76223)
  • Performance: lazy-load heavy front-end modules (ECharts, Leaflet, react-virtualized) for faster initial loads

Bug fixes | 63.0-beta

Administration

  • Incorrect tooltip for @tenant.slug on create tenant user form (#76318)
  • Table has no Fields associated with it (MySql) (#76222)
  • Name input border cut off on hover (#75922)
  • MCP CORS allowlist is incorrectly sensitive to trailing slashes (#75839)
  • Permissions table shows warning icon when it shouldn’t (#75750)
  • User provisioning control turns to “disabled” once you add a new group mapping (#75352)
  • Errors when archiving a collection are silent and the success toast is still shown (#75180)
  • Field name truncated in UI, cannot differentiate (#75000)
  • Enabling impersonation prevents SHOW Redshift queries from running, even as admin (#74538)
  • Table Metadata placeholder/skeleton loads forever if database has no synced tables (#74508)
  • Athena sync never completes if user does not have glue:GetDatabases permission (#74092)
  • Background sync jobs not tracked in Usage Analytics (#73335)
  • Permissions conflict when “All Users” set to None (#71300)
  • Cache invalidation endpoint returns 404 (#66499)

Database

  • EnableArrow=0 is ignored now, and there might be problems (databricks) (#76536)
  • Grouping with embedded fields does not show the full field path (#33698)

Embedding

  • Theme acceptance text lacks link to usage terms (#76727)

Operation

  • Serialization export reports success (exit code 0 / HTTP 200) when warnings produce empty output (#75176)
  • continue_on_error and full_stacktrace are ignored on serialization (#74622)
  • Cards with self-referencing filters are incorrectly marked as a circular dependency, breaking remote sync imports (#73133)
  • Frontend crashes when notification payload is null (#73073)
  • Questions with deeply nested MBQL can be exported, but not imported using remote sync (#71590)
  • Serialization of instances with a massive amount of fields leads to OOM crashes (#57737)

Organization

  • Schema breadcrumb missing after refreshing table opened in the Query Builder (#75393)
  • Removing a chart with supporting text at the beginning of a document causes the document to crash (#75137)
  • Unable to restore items from synced collection (#73449)
  • Shift+scroll does not work in the data picker (#66456)

Querying

  • Escape doesn’t close “Discard your changes?” warning in Model’s New Action modal (#75562)
  • API-created filters open Custom Expression editor (#75144)
  • Switching the database on SQL models will make dependent cards unable to find the source (#74561)
  • We duplicate the columns on column pickers when table has remapped fields (#74177)
  • ClickHouse boolean SETTINGS values (true/false) not handled correctly in native queries (#73431)
  • WITH RECURSIVE no longer functioning with Clickhouse… (#73161)
  • Notebook editor shows wrong table with multiple joins (#72823)
  • Dependency graph hides hidden upstream tables (#71630)
  • Column selection lost after doing drill-through (#69105)
  • Saving changes to sql question shows the “these changes will break some other things” popup with the question that I’m saving (#67973)
  • Self-joined column not being remapped (#67808)
  • Inactionable Error Message when Using Custom Expressions in Unsupported Ways (#65218)
  • Cannot Select Columns in the Query Builder After Joining a Native SQL Model (#64779)
  • Query error line numbers do not match lines in SQL editor (#64133)
  • Incorrect model metadata overrides after changing the query and removing a column with the same name (#60930)
  • Metric name wrong when first added to Summarize step (#58307)
  • Column filters on binned columns not working as expected (#15334)
  • Drill through menu doesn’t show up on Other pie slices (#5334)

Dashboards

  • Breadcrumbs for saved questions located within dashboards look broken (#76202)
  • Cannot search for Documents in Link dashcards (#75485)
  • Stale dashboard name shown after renaming (#75184)
  • Dashboard filter bypasses cached FieldValues when FK remapping exists, generating an expensive JOIN that can OOM on large tables - Clickhouse specific (#74154)
  • “Save” button remains disabled when editing axis configurations in Dashboards (#73152)
  • Row count differs when question is connected to an empty dashboard filter (#48439)
  • Can’t Make Use of Visualizer if Underlying Questions Returns “No Results” by Default (#64468)

Visualization

  • Toast crashes because color operations fail on colors defined using color-mix (#77124)
  • Drag, options, and remove buttons in Data tab of chart settings look wrong (#76201)
  • Select components in chart settings look wrong (#76200)
  • Non-overlapping conditional formatting color ranges on the same column are not applied (#75933)
  • Misaligned chevron in Progress chart “Goal” setting (#75782)
  • Y-axis auto positions lines incorrectly in charts (#75701)
  • Conditional formatting does not work if the mini bar chart is enabled (#75095)
  • Tick labels may be clipped and missing the currency symbol when there are both compact and full-notation labels (#74568)
  • Pivot Tables no longer Return “No Results” (#74387)
  • Time offset wrong in dashcard viz in 0.59.10 (#73972)
  • Line chart zero-fill skips the week across DST spring-forward (#71811)
  • Bars overlap on monthly time series chart (#71634)
  • Select overflows viz settings popover (#71493)
  • xlsx download delivers JSON (#70365)
  • Loss of Date Granularity on Trend Viz in Native Questions (#69525)
  • Time grouping with native questions - period names are incorrectly formatted when using Ordinal for X-axis scale (#68179)

Other

See other bug fixes
  • Wrong colors in dark mode in getTextColorForBackground function (#76593)
  • unable to render this card on pdf subscription (#76542)
  • MCP search docs claim it finds cards/dashboards/collections, but it only returns tables/metrics/models (#76317)
  • Command palette actions search gives undesired results (#76055)
  • CSV exports opened in Excel don’t respect the GBP symbol (#75875)
  • Middle click does not work on search results (#75596)
  • Public Links for Pivot Tables: Download does not preserve pivot formatting (#75545)
  • Some icons have wrong color in the question’s info panel (#75469)
  • Metabot analysis fails on valid multi-series row charts (#74862)
  • MCP server unreliably paginates large datasets, may tell pagination is not supported (#74369)
  • Timeseries charts shows incorrect Date Ranges on hover when it detects “Weekly” data (#73005)
  • Deadlock updating dashboard last_viewed_at in multi-master setup (#72929)
  • Agent API and MCP search tools/endpoints cannot search for models (#72886)
  • Remote sync gets stuck on a deleted remote branch (#72778)
  • Tables created by deleted transforms can’t be accessed in Data Studio (#72542)
  • Remote sync fails if temp directory is deleted, until instance restart (#71364)
  • Permission graph error if there are more than 65K collections (#70596)
  • Opening a non-existent transform from Data Structure folder breaks the UI (#69904)

Already Fixed | 63.0-beta

Issues confirmed to have been fixed in a previous release.

Database

  • Truncated date options in summarize menu don’t group by truncated data for custom columns (#27808)

Querying

  • Incorrect binning options provided (#48932)
  • Caching a model with columns with repeated names will generate invalid queries (#25014)
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