Superset 1.2 continues the Apache ECharts migration by introducing several chart types. It also brings with it tons of user experience improvements, API improvements, bug fixes, and continued development of experimental features included in previous releases. Keep reading for more details on these categories:
- User Experience
- Dashboard Level Security
- Database Connectivity
- Developer Experience
- PR Highlights
- Breaking Changes and Full Changelog
The migration to Apache ECharts continues by introducing several new high-quality visualizations in this release.
The mixed time-series multi chart allows different kinds of time-series visualization to be overlayed.
The radar chart provides a good way to compare two or more groups over various features of interest.
By popular demand, we have introduced a new and improved version of the pivot table visualization as well.
Several UI tweaks in Explore and SQL Lab made it into this release as well, including new buttons and menu options to make common workflows easier, as well as more communicative error messages, particularly in the database connection menus.
The dashboard native filter feature, while still behind a feature flag in this release, has received plenty of new functionality and is closer than ever to being ready for prime-time. This feature provides a way to apply and manipulate filters over many charts at the dashboard level. 1.2 adds more controls, more options for aggregations, and better support for temporal filters, among other things.
Last but not least, the alerts and reports feature and its dependencies have been added to the docker-compose setup, making it easier to use outside of well-supported enterprise deployments.
Superset has so far relied on a role-based access system implemented at the dataset level. While this provides granular security options that satisfy many use cases, some organizations need more options. SIP-51 lays out a vision for dashboard-level role-based access control as a fully backwards compatible extension to Superset's security options.
The 1.1 release saw steps taken in the direction of this vision, and 1.2 builds on that with new permissions for sharing charts and dashboards that can be assigned to roles. Note that this functionality is still experimental and hidden behind a feature flag as of 1.2.
The 1.2 release adds support for Crate DB and the Databricks DB engine spec.
Expanding the API has been an ongoing effort, and 1.2 introduces several new API routes to allow developers to get available databases, get a given dashboard's charts, and import saved queries, among other things.
New Charts and User Experience
- 14197 feat(viz): add mixed and radar chart (#14197) (@Ville Brofeldt)
- 14187 Enable the new pivot table (#14187) (@Kamil Gabryjelski)
- 13210 feat(explore): ColumnSelectControl with drag-and-drop (#13210) (@Yongjie Zhao)
- 13598 feat(explore): Drag and drop UX improvements (#13598) (@Kamil Gabryjelski)
- 13294 feat(explore): Postgres datatype conversion (#13294) (@Nikola Gigić)
- 13758 feat(explore): adhoc column formatting for Table chart (#13758) (@Jesse Yang)
Progress On Dashboard Native Filters
- 13726 feat(native-filters): Add default first value to select filter (#13726) (@simcha90)
- 14461 feat(native-filters): Auto apply changes in FiltersConfigModal (#14461) (@simcha90)
- 13507 feat(native-filters): Filter set tabs (#13507) (@simcha90)
- 14313 feat(native-filters): Implement adhoc filters and time picker in Range and Select native filters (#14313) (@Kamil Gabryjelski)
- 14261 feat(native-filters): Show/Hide filter bar by metadata ff (#14261) (@simcha90)
- 13506 feat(native-filters): Update filter bar buttons (#13506) (@simcha90)
- 14374 feat(native-filters): Use datasets in dashboard as default options for native filters (#14374) (@Kamil Gabryjelski)
- 14314 feat(native-filters): add option to create value in select filter (#14314) (@Ville Brofeldt)
- 14346 feat(native-filters): add optional sort metric to select filter (#14346) (@Ville Brofeldt)
- 14375 feat(native-filters): add refresh button to default value picker (#14375) (@Ville Brofeldt)
- 13569 feat(native-filters): add sort option to select filter (#13569) (@Ville Brofeldt)
- 13622 feat(native-filters): add temporal support to select filter (#13622) (@Ville Brofeldt)
- 13484 feat(native-filters): add timegrain and column filter (#13484) (@Ville Brofeldt)
- 14312 feat(native-filters): add tooltip to control values (#14312) (@Ville Brofeldt)
- 14217 feat(native-filters): select group by support (#14217) (@Amit Miran)
Progress On Dashboard Level Access
- 13145 feat(dashboard_rbac): manage roles for dashboard (#13145) (@simcha90)
- 13992 feat(dashboard_rbac): provide data access based on dashboard access (#13992) (@Amit Miran)
- #12865 feat(dashboard_rbac): dashboards API support for roles create/update + roles validation (@amitmiran137)
Improvements to Developer Experience
- 14208 feat: add endpoint to fetch available DBs (#14208) (@Beto Dealmeida)
- 13331 fix(query-object): extra time-range-endpoints (#13331) (@John Bodley)
- 13893 feat: create backend routes and API for importing saved queries (#13893) (@AAfghahi)
- 13960 feat: initial work to make v1 API compatible with SIP-40 and SIP-41 (#13960) (@Beto Dealmeida)
- 13444 fix: API to allow importing old exports (JSON/YAML) (#13444) (@Beto Dealmeida)
- 13893 feat: create backend routes and API for importing saved queries (#13893) (@AAfghahi)
- To see the complete changelog in this release, head to CHANGELOG.MD.
- In line with the semantic versioning scheme adopted by the community, 1.2.0 does not contain any backwards incompatible changes.