What's new

2024.2.2

• VM options support in database connection dialog

• PBKDF2 password hashing support

• Improved performance of notebook scheduler

• Fixed workspace menu display when viewed in Admin mode

2024.2.1

Home page:

• Improved usability of notebooks files view

• Fixed folder, trash, and report search

• Fixed issue of specific workspace names

• Fixed URLs inside Data section

2024.2

• New Home page:

  • Links to respective reports in the Notebooks list

  • All workspaces listed together and easily accessible

  • Data section with quick access to all data sources in the workspace

  • Option to enable workspace-level management of SSH keys and Git libraries

• Editor:

  • Enhanced Ask AI

  • AI-powered Autopilot used to get code suggestions based on a custom notebook objective or notebook content analysis

  • Support for variables in Markdown cells

  • Code syntax highlighting for Markdown cells

• Data:

  • Windows native authentication for Microsoft SQL Server databases

  • Azure OAuth2 authentication for Snowflake databases

• Reports: option to restrict downloading or editing copies of report notebooks

• Administration:

  • Customizable full storage alerts

  • Custom PyPi server configuration support

  • Customizable notebook code import limit

2024.1

• Editor:

  • Download file interactive control added

  • Option to load HTML outputs form a separate domain for security and performance purposes

  • Optimized performance for large notebooks

  • More edit options for interactive table outputs

  • Vim text editor preinstalled for Terminal

• Data:

  • configurable mounts for Docker agents

  • Instance-wide data connections created and managed by admins

• Collaboration: keeping report calculation results within the user session

• Administration:

  • Option to add custom time intervals to background computation settings

  • Environment tab for advanced environment configuration

  • Group plans option for user group management

2023.6

• Editor:

  • New UI design (tool icons and menu layout)

  • Sticky Table of Contents with active section highlighting

  • Soft-wrapping for text outputs

• Computation: Notebook ID and notebook owner ID as environment variables

• Administration:

  • Dashboard tab for status monitoring

  • Limitation for viewer type users dropped

• Data visualization: lets-plot library support for air-gapped environments

• SQL cell: proactively starting sessions for each data source when opening the report

• Database connections: ability to import connection parameters in XML format, Okta OAuth authentication for Snowflake

• Scheduled runs: starting agents without using the agent pool

2023.5.1

A security fix that handles XSS vulnerabilities

2023.5

• Editor: improved interface for opening recent notebooks from the editor main menu

• Data:

  • Custom JDBC drivers support

  • Snowflake and BigQuery OAuth authentication method

  • Fixed issue of multiple Git repos with different authentication keys

• SQL cells:

  • Table name parametrisation

  • Proactive start of SQL sessions to ensure faster execution of SQL cells

• Collaboration: mentions enabled for comments in reports and notebooks

• Report builder: dynamic height enabled for more than one cell in a row

• Admin panel: note field for profile deletion action

• Interactive reports: notifying users of recalculations without time delay

• Home page: option to empty all trash

2023.4

• Comments feature for notebook and report collaboration

• SQL cell: option to query dataframes

• Export to database cell

• Databases: cloning data sources between workspaces

• New data source type: SMB/CIFS folders support

• Collaboration: Viewer user role, report sharing by email invitations, STARTTLS support for sending emails

• Interactive cells: file uploader control, improved usability of dropdowns

• Admin panel: improved user list view, background computation management on user level

• Scheduling: parameterized runs

• Cells: full width mode for cells, improved display of cell elements/fonts

• Reports: fixed behaviour of dependent interactive controls

• Report builder: cells multiselect and multidrag, UX improvements

2023.3.1

A security fix that resolves session authentication vulnerabilities and improves session cookie management

2023.3

• Data: Vault AppRole authentication method for Athena and other database types

• Scheduling: multiple schedules for one notebook

• Report builder: layout improvements, more flexible drag and drop

• Fixed variable selection in the dropdown interaction control settings

• Shared notebooks cloned now together with attached files

• Improved file saving when executing scheduled runs

• Fixed value setting for the slider interactive control

2023.2

• Report Builder: Undo/Redo support

• Search for notebook content option

• Environment:

  • Secrets deprecated, replaced by Environment variables

  • Native R packages support

• Fixed agents recovery after plans disablement

• Fixed issue of ToC not displayed properly after configuring Datalore to a non-default port

• Improved Scala kernel performance

• DataFrames download issue fixed for Firefox

• Swipe left gesture disabled in the editor

• Admins allowed to access all Datalore workspaces

• IPywidgets rendering issues fixed

2023.1

• Support for several API requests

• Computation:

  1. Fixed issue of stopping computations for scheduled runs

  2. Fixed machine performance in case of Internet outage

  3. Reactive kernel improvements

• Data sources:

  1. Bucket content now visible to viewers

  2. Ability to create cloud storage data sources on workspace level

• Improved report builder performance

• Ability to download workspace content as .zip files

• Fixed procedure of public link revoking

• Fixed metric cell issues

• Fixed issue of ipywidget rendering

• Improved procedure of data source connection checking

• Fixed issue of terminal unresponsiveness after system sleep

Release updates

2022.3.1

• Data output: Table and Raw tabs improved, table viewing and editing issues fixed

• Auditing: improved server data logs

• Statistics tab: support for Kotlin, Scala, and R fixed

• Code execution: fixed cell linking in output after re-evaluation

• Reports: fixed display of scheduled runs

• Scheduling: reports not affected by stopping associated scheduled runs

• Computation management: fixed scheduled runs started in the background and concluded after re-opening the notebook

Major release details

2022.3

• Sharing and collaboration: designing and publishing reports with the Report builder tool

• Editor:

  1. Interactive table output

  2. Metric cells

• Logging:

  1. Head dump and thread dump download options

  2. Server logs accessible from the Admin panel

• User management:

  1. Group management interface (including Hub-attached groups)

  2. Option to disable user registration

  3. Option to create user accounts from the Admin panel

  4. Contact system support (search and auto-completion)

• New landing page

• Interactivity controls: date picker control added

• Database integration:

  1. SSH tunneling

  2. BigQuery database connection support

  3. Improved S3 bucket integration interface

• Background computation: default option support

• Administration: advanced user activity logging