Superset 1.4 focuses heavily on continuing to polish the core Superset experience. This release has a very very long list of fixes from across the community.
- Charts and dashboards in Superset can now be certified! In addition, the Edit Dataset modal more accurately reflects state of Certification (especially for Calculated Columns). (#17335, #16454)
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Parquet files can now be uploaded into an existing connected database that has Data Upload enabled. Eventually, the contributor hopes that this foundation can be used to accommodate
feather
andorc
files. (#14449) -
Tabs can now be added to Column elements in dashboards. (#16593)
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The experience of using alerts and reports have improved in a few minor ways. (#16335,#16281)
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Drag and drop now has a clickable ghost button for an improved user experience. (#16119)
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Apache Drill: Superset can now connect to Apache Drill (thru ODBC / JDBC) and impersonate the currently logged in user. (#17353).
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Firebolt: Superset now supports the cloud data warehouse Firebolt! (#16903).
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Databricks: Superset now supports the new SQL Endpoints in Databricks. (#16862)
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Apache Druid: Superset Explore now can take advantage of support for JOIN's in Druid (note: the
DRUID_JOINS
feature flag needs to be enabled). (#16770) -
AWS Aurora: Superset now has a separate db_engine_spec for Amazon Aurora. (#16535)
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Clickhouse: Superset now includes function names in the auto-complete for SQL Lab. (#16234)
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Google Sheets: Better support for private Google Sheets was added. (#16228)
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The
Makefile
for Superset has gone through a number of improvements. (#16327, #16533) -
Add Python instrumentation to pages, showing method calls used to build the page & how long each one took. This requires a configuration flag (see PR for more info). (#16136)
Breaking Changes
- 16660: The
columns
Jinja parameter has been renamedtable_columns
to make the columns query object parameter available in the Jinja context. - 16711: The url_param Jinja function will now by default escape the result. For instance, the value
O'Brien
will now be changed toO''Brien
. To disable this behavior, callurl_param
withescape_result
set toFalse: url_param("my_key", "my default", escape_result=False)
.
Changelog
To see the complete changelog in this release, head to CHANGELOG.MD. As mentioned earlier, this release has a MASSIVE amount of bug fixes. The full changelog lists all of them!