Release Notes for Superset 0.38

New features

DATABASES, DATASETS, QUERIES

[SIP-40] Proposal for Custom Error Messages #9194 (SIP)

feat: improve presto query perf (#11069)
feat: more specific presto error messages (#11099)
feat: refactor error components and add database issue code (#10473)
feat: welcome presto to the suite of tested databases (#10498)

Certification of Data Entities (Roadmap)

feat: add certification to metrics (#10630)
feat: add extra column to tables and sql_metrics (#10592)
feat: bump superset-ui for certified tag (#10650)

Database CRUD screen refactor/redesign (Roadmap)

feat: add/edit database modal form sections UI (#10745)
feat: base tabbed modal for new database CRUD UI (#10668)

Database list view refactor/redesign (Roadmap)

feat: database delete warning (#10800)
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feat: filters for database list view (#10772)
feat: SIP-34 table list view for databases (#10705)

Database list view refactor/redesign #55 (Roadmap)

feat(api): database schemas migration to new API (#10436)
feat(database): POST, PUT, DELETE API endpoints (#10741)
feat(databases): test connection api (#10723)

Datasets CRUD screen refactor/redesign (Roadmap)

feat: dataset editor improvements (#10444)
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Datasets CRUD screen refactor/redesign #13 (Roadmap)

feat(datasource): remove deleted columns and update column type on metadata refresh (#10619)
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Datasets list view refactor/redesign #12 (Roadmap)

feat: update dataset editor modal (#10347)
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feat(datasets): REST API bulk delete (#11237)

Saved queries CRUD screen + list view refactor/redesign #15 (Roadmap)

feat: CRUD REST API for saved queries (#10777)
feat: saved query list actions (#11109)
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feat: saved query list view + sort/filters (#11005)
feat: SavedQuery REST API for bulk delete and new API fields (#10793)
feat: update saved query backend routing + add savedquery list (#10922)
feat(saved_queries): add custom api filter for all string & text fields (#11031)

Other features

feat: dataset REST API for distinct values (#10595)

EXPLORE, CHARTS, DASHBOARDS

[SIP-40] Proposal for Custom Error Messages #9194 (SIP)

feat: add download as image button to explore (#10297)
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[SIP-34] Proposal to establish a new design direction, system, and process for Superset (SIP)

feat: SIP-34 explore save modal (#10355)
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Charts list view refactor/redesign (Roadmap)

feat(charts): modify custom api filter to include more fields (#11054)

Echarts integration (Roadmap)

feat: add linear color scale to sunburst chart (#10474)
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feat: add optional prophet forecasting functionality to chart data api (#10324)
feat(viz): add ECharts Timeseries chart (#10752)
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Improvements to cache handling #74 (Roadmap)

feat: add ECharts Pie chart (#10966)
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feat: implement cache invalidation api (#10761)
feat: Adding extra_filters to warm_up_cache (#10675)

[SIP-34] Proposal to establish a new design direction, system, and process for Superset (SIP)

feat: add favorite star to dashboard and chart lists (#10510)
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feat: use svg for checkbox component (#10799)
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Other features

feat(table-viz): translation and metric column header align right (#10549)
feat: adding dashboard toggle fullscreen button (#10840)
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feat: enable ETag header for dashboard GET requests (#10963)
feat: move ace-editor and mathjs to async modules (#10837)
feat: server side dashboard css for less repaint (#10850)
feat: use shorten url in standalone iframe (#10651)

SQL LAB

feat: Adding table comment and columns comment for SQLLab (#10844)

SYSTEM, OTHER

feat: add TXT as default CSV extension (#10371)

[SIP-34] Proposal to establish a new design direction, system, and process for Superset (SIP)

feat: card view bulk select (#10607)
feat: custom favorite filter for dashboards, charts and saved queries (#11083)
feat: SIP-34 card/grid views for dashboards and charts (#10526)
feat(listviews): SIP-34 Bulk Select (#10298)
feat(listviews): SIP-34 filters for charts, dashboards, datasets (#10335)

[SIP-40] Proposal for Custom Error Messages #9194 (SIP)

feat: update timeout error UX (#10274)

Alerts (send notification when a condition is met) (Roadmap)

feat: add test email functionality to SQL-based email alerts (#10476)
feat: refactored SQL-based alerting framework (#10605)

[SIP-34] Proposal to establish a new design direction, system, and process for Superset (SIP)

feat: adding all icons from the design system to the codebase (#11033)
feat: storybook for Icon component (#10515)

[SIP-48] Using Ant Design as our primary component library (SIP)

feat: Add antd to the codebase (#10508)

Alerts (send notification when a condition is met) (Roadmap)

feat: updated email format for SQL-based email alerts (#10512)

Superset Component library - Phase 1 (Roadmap)

feat: adding Storybook to Superset (#10383)

Other

feat: Allow tests files in /src (plus Label component tests) (#10634)
feat: Getting fancier with Storybook (#10647)

Bugfixes

fix(permissions): alpha role has all full features (#10241)
fix: broken glyphicons used in react-json-schema (#10267)
fix: add additional ui tweaks (#10275)
fix: saving custom CSS correctly (#10289)
fix: fetch datasets list after dataset created successfully (#10290)
fix: update community Slack link (#10360)
fix: allow creating table option and remove schema requirement in dataset add modal (#10369)
fix(datasets): sort and humanized modified by (#10380)
fix(api): fixes perf on charts and introduces sorting by database on datasets (#10392)
fix(api): fixes openapi spec errors and adds a test to validate all spec (#10393)
fix(charts): disable CSRF for chart data endpoint (#10397)
fix: dataset list filters bug (#10398)
fix: remove FAB rendered menu in favor of react based one (#10401)
fix: show label for filters in filter box in explore (#10412)
fix: Implement updates to SQL-based email alerts (#10454)
fix(presto): Handle ROW data stored as string (#10456)
fix: change "add new slice" copy to "add new chart" (#10457)
fix(sqllab): button width isn't wide enough for 'Run Selection' (#10461)
fix: timeout error message (#10478)
fix: enforce mandatory chart name on save and edit (#10482)
fix: More tweaks needed after adding Doctype tag (#10504)
fix: explore panel missing padding (#10505)
fix: refactored SQL-based alerts to not pass sqlalchemy objects as args (#10506)
fix(sqllab): Handle long table names in SQL Lab (#10518)
fix: make SQL-based alert email links user friendly (#10519)
fix(dashboard): changing the chart title, except not (#10527)
fix: misaligned LimitControl buttons and port jsx->tsx (#10529)
fix: Resolves #10535 (#10536)
fix: add retry to SQL-based alerting celery task (#10542)
fix: Updating Dockerfile to work with updated python requirements. (#10550)
fix(thumbnails): missing field, logging and new config var (#10562)
fix: add translate for dropdown menu (#10573)
fix: error message modal overflow (#10580)
fix: add None checking to cast_to_num (#10584)
fix: removing unsupported modal sizes (#10625)
fix: remove duplicated params and cache_timeout from list_columns; add viz_type to list_columns (#10643)
fix: controls scroll issue (#10644)
fix(db_engine_specs): improve Presto column type matching (#10658)
fix(db_engine_specs): mysql longtext type should not be numeric (#10661)
fix: change public role like gamma procedure (#10674)
fix(sqllab): log exceptions caused by the user as debug and not error (#10676)
fix: only call signal if executing on the main thread (#10677)
fix: layout flexiness (#10681)
fix: SubMenu css (#10682)
fix: dashboard extra filters (#10692)
fix: shorten url with extra request parameters (#10693)
fix: card view failed cypress tests (#10699)
fix: deprecation warnings due to invalid escape sequences. (#10710)
fix: move menu reorg logic from crud app into Menu component (#10717)
fix: local docker deployment (#10738)
Fix: Rejiggering some dependencies, trying to get CI to pass (#10747)
fix(presto): default unknown types to string type (#10753)
fix: add validator information to email/slack alerts (#10762)
fix: re-installing local superset in cache image (#10766)
fix: can not type 0.05 in TextControl (#10778)
fix: MVC show saved query (#10781)
fix: disable domain sharding on explore view (#10787)
fix: Database API missing allow none on fields (#10795)
fix: bump node version on Dockerfile to be on par with docker-compose (#10813)
fix(tests): export dataset tests fails with presto (#10818)
fix: use nullpool in the celery workers (#10819)
fix: Making the database read-only (#10823)
fix(databases): test connection api endpoint (#10824)
fix: update the time filter for 'Last Year' option in explore (#10829)
fix(test): missing auth on tests (#10842)
fix(cypress): wait for filterValues request (#10884)
fix: superset alerting misc fixes (#10891)
fix(cypress): prevent CI failure on codecov failure (#10892)
fix: front end CI tests and test runner (#10897)
fix: babel script broken by format string (#10902)
fix: several disabled pylint rules in models/helpers.py (#10909)
fix: spelling in docs homepage (#10912)
fix: address all disabled pylint checks in charts/api.py (#10932)
fix: use nullpool even for user lookup in the celery (#10938)
fix: update pylint disabled checks in common/query_context.py (#10941)
fix: setting specific exceptions common/query_context.py (#10942)
fix: re-enabling several globally disabled lint rules (#10957)
fix: removed disabled lint rule too-many-locals in connectors/base/models.py (#10958)
fix: typo in prefer typescript (#10959)
fix: pylint checks in connectors/sqla/models.py (#10974)
fix: pylint disabled rules in dashboard/api.py (#10976)
fix: changes a pylint check in dashboard module (#10978)
fix: changed disabled rules in datasets module (#10979)
fix: Add Item Overflow on Dataset Editor (#10983)
fix: enable pylint rules in db_engine_specs module (#10998)
fix: enable several pylint rules partially in db_engines_specs module (#11000)
fix: unbreak ci (#11003)
fix: timer component, fixes #10849, closes #11002 (#11004)
fix: menu shows a 0 when there are not settings (#11009)
fix: reenable pylint rule unused-import in charts and connectors modules (#11014)
fix: query search low privileged user search access denied (#11017)
fix(api): unable to delete virtual dataset, wrong permission name (#11019)
fix: [dashboard] should not show edit button when user has no edit permit (#11024)
fix: dashboard edit button (again) (#11029)
fix: sql lab autocomplete width (#11063)
fix: fix table existence validation function (#11066)
fix: database list checkboxes (#11068)
fix: Adding timeout to flaky cypress test, to wait for animation to complete (#11074)
fix: surface connection error messages on the client (#11077)
fix(jest): using UTC mock date (#11079)
fix: double scroll bars on dataset editor (#11095)
fix: echarts timeseries groupby (#11103)
fix: Disabling timezone of dataframe before passing Prophet (#11107)
fix(chart-data-api): ignore missing filters (#11112)
fix: alembic migration error msg trying to delete constraint on tables (#11115)
fix: remove extra flash import (#11121)
fix: Revert "Replace reactable with DataTable from superset-ui in QueryTable (#10981)" (#11125)
fix: SpatialControl popover won't open (#11127)
fix: Alembic migration 18532d70ab98 (#11136)
fix(examples): missing expressions in birth_names (#11141)
fix: Fix Time Column dropdown for date filter (#11149)
fix(dataset): update user list endpoint (#11221)
fix(crud): set default extra value (#11262)
fix(sqla): allow 'unknown' type queries in explore view (#11365)
fix: prior npm font source had a glitch (#11724)

Breaking Changes

List of backwards incompatible changes

Complete Changelog

For the complete changelog please see apache/superset/CHANGELOG.md