Metabase v0.37.0-rc3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-10-20 // over 3 years ago
  • Changes from 37rc1 and 37rc2

    • 0๏ธโƒฃ log4j will not output to file by default (#13422)
    • Monday week start displays now displays correctly on bar chart (#13516)
    • ๐Ÿ”— Linked filter is now properly filtering values (#13491)
    • When mapping dashboard filters to columns, SQL questions now display the name of the column mapped to the field filter (#13376)
    • Variables from Saved Question will now properly reference questions (#13406)
    • We now suppress drag behavior when custom click behavior is set (#13414)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Interactivity summary tokens now look better on small dashboard cards (#13411)
    • After clicking a custom link that passes a value to a param, clicking Back now does what you expect (#13380)
    • We now don't show the Done button in cases where click behavior target isn't specified (#13413)
    • Cleanups to edit state when saving a dashboard with incomplete click behavior (#13412)
    • Customizing a dashboard card's click behavior without specifying a destination now does what you expect (#13375)
    • Canceling the dashboard archive action now closes the modal (#13374)
    • Hovering on custom map will now display region name instead of region identifier (#13410)
    • Can now create custom drill-through to dashboard (#13404)

    โœจ Enhancements

    • Dashboard interactivity enhancements: chained filters, custom links and passing values to params, cross-filtering, new dashboard edit mode (#13354)
    • Organizations now have a way to determine the start day of their week (#1779)
    • โœ‚ Remove email case sensitivity from logins (#3047)
    • โšก๏ธ Update login layout and illustration (#13099)
    • โฌ†๏ธ Upgrade to log4j 2.x (#12719)

    ๐Ÿ› Bug fixes

    • Embedded versions of new chain filters endpoints (#13367)
    • Click to URL for non-table card will now show reference fields to use as variables (#13407)
    • ๐Ÿ”€ On Oracle DBs, forward slash on table name no longer causes an error and blocks the sync step (#13225)
    • Pulse sparklines with null in temporal column no longer fails (#12653)
    • Public Link file format quick selector no longer missing (#12406)
    • Creating an alert always no longer turns on email alerts when they are toggled off (#12349)
    • ๐Ÿ’ป Public dashboards now show title in browser tab/window (#12227)
    • Public Shared dashboard/question is missing description :info:-icon (#12015)
    • Timeseries tick labels are now not always in English even when interface is another langage (#11319)
    • โœ‚ Removed additional question column scrollbar issue in dashboard widget edit modal (#11129)
    • ๐Ÿ”€ We now won't try to sync Postgres schemas or tables current user has no perms for (#10139)
    • Dashboard will no longer break after changing question variable that is already linked on dashboard (#9299)
    • SQL Server connector now uses correct port (#9226)
    • We are now smarter about tagging state fields (#13512)
    • โšก๏ธ Security: Updated jetty to 9.4.32.v20200930 to address https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17638 (#13510)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixes to Google Analytics and Segments (#13362)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Many fixes to Excel (XLSX) and CSV export (#13447)
    • ๐Ÿ”Š To improve debugging, admin panel logs now show stacktraces (#12851)
    • Clicking on an ID field no longer shows an error (#13263)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix to syncing with column type 'year' (#13203)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix to permission paths with slash in schema names (#12450)
    • Column title is no longer incorrect when joining by shared foreign key (#11452)
    • You can now browse a BigQuery table when you have an integer column that's set as foreign key or entity key (#13475)

    โฌ†๏ธ Upgrading

    ๐Ÿš€ You can download a .jar of the release, or get the latest on Docker. Make sure to back up your Metabase
    โฌ†๏ธ database before you upgrade! Need help? Check out our
    โฌ†๏ธ upgrading instructions.

    ๐Ÿณ Docker image: metabase/metabase:v0.37.0-rc3
    Download the JAR here: https://downloads.metabase.com/v0.37.0-rc3/metabase.jar

    Notes

    SHA-256 checksum for the 0.37.0-rc3 JAR:

    65485a05855847b62848ce29efd3d1b24f7894d546d1f24bdf6cb016686c3168