Release Notes for Yellowfin 7

Infrastructure

• Upgraded performance for loading access level information when a system has tens of thousands of users.
• Improved security through validation to prevent potential SQL injections in Freehand SQL calculated fields.
• Improved email security by adding an option to allow password resets via email links, avoiding potential DoS, and by modifying the on-screen confirmation message to prevent username enumeration.
• Added a cooling-down period between emails sent from Yellowfin to avoid denial of service.
• Added error logging to identify corrupt data in the contentmanagement table.
• Improved file type validation for the Add Reference Code feature which allows for CSV file uploads.
• Added a background task to clean up thumbnails of deleted reports.

UI

• Improved the UI by wrapping the View field details in the Select View area of the New Report dialog box.

Views

• Added new indexes and made performance improvements to the View Import and View Activation processes.

Content import/export

• Resolved an issue where exporting a report to PDF with a company logo enabled would cause an error.

Dashboards

• Resolved an issue where dashboard filter values would not be applied in Assisted Insights.
• Resolved an issue where filter values were not being applied in linked reports on dashboards.
• Resolved an issue where migrating schedule records would fail upon upgrade.

Infrastructure

• Resolved an issue that would prevent a user with a duplicate email address from being updated when skipEmailDupCheck was enabled.
• Resolved a potential XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability within the report name in Report Builder.
• Resolved an issue that would break columns of the Browse page when a user was assigned to a copied role.

Reports

• Resolved an issue that would cause an error when Minimum/Maximum Value was selected from the Report filter list.
• Resolved an issue where altering report column fields would not update the related canvas text widget references.
• Resolved an issue where a union joined report would fail with back end exceptions.

UI

• Resolved an issue that would cause extra dialog boxes to appear when creating a new access filter via the Access Filter Record tab.
• Resolved an issue that would unintentionally empty the search box of text after performing a search and adding or removing a calculated field to a report.
• Resolved an issue where columns hidden to custom user roles on the browse page would be displayed.
• Resolved an issue on the Browse page that would allow users to see views in a restricted folder.
• Resolved an issue where a chart with variance could not be deleted.
• Resolved an issue where some views would not be displayed in the Browse page.

JS API

• Refactored the "remove" option in stick.jquery.js by passing in a reference to scrollElement with the scroll event so as to clean up the listener and remove cloned sticky elements at the same time.

Backend/Admin

• Upgraded
• Upgraded jQuery library to version 3.5.1
•  jaxws-rt 2.2.10
• PostgreSQL JDBC driver to 42.2.14
• Apache Commons FileUpload to version 1.4
• SnakeYAML to version 1.26.
• Enhanced the JSESSIONID cookie to support SameSite, which is slowly being rolled out in many browsers (learn more).
• Removed ColumnarDB as a new datasource type (existing ColumnarDBs aren’t affected).
• Added event auditing for user role updates in the Admin console.

User Interface

• Added an option to show or hide the minimum/maximum value in the report filter value list.
• Added the ability to set a user's regional display preferences for decimal and thousand separators based on the language configured for that user.
• FTP broadcast can now optionally add a timestamp to a file name.
• Hard-coded filters can now be passed through to child reports during drill through.
• Converted report date fields from metric to dimension for the import process.
• Updated all date pickers to follow the global 'Week Start Day' setting.

Import/Export

• Resolved an issue for manual and API imports of time series reports and charts that would switch time granularity and aggregation to their defaults.
• Resolved a specific error on the view builder Prepare tab that would block XML imports.
• Updated the process of importing report-based views to always include their parent reports.

Backend/Admin

• Resolved an issue where a field folder not in use could not be deleted if another customer on the same installation had a field folder with the same name and content within.

User Interface

• Resolved an issue that would prevent advanced broadcast from using email addresses from an edited report.
• Resolved an issue where Approval Required reports would not appear in the active reports.
• Resolved an issue where the column formatting option, Suppress Duplicates, would not work on column reports based on Freehand SQL queries.
• Resolved an issue that impacted the security of views in a report sub-query.
• Resolved an issue where the Share Private Report role would disappear after an incremental upgrade.

Filtering

• We addressed lots of small issues around filtering, such as previous values persisting and caching issues. In detail, we resolved issues where:
• a timestamp or converted date filter would not work as a parent dependent filter;
• adding a new field to a view level filter group that had existing reports would corrupt the reports;
• creating a calculated filter would filter out calculated fields;
• converting predefined dates of parameter filters would throw exceptions; and,
• the value of dependent filters would update incorrectly.

Highlights

• • Learn all about Assisted Insights to see how Yellowfin uses machine learning to generate instant insights and assist with data discovery.
  • Use the new Data Transformation module to extract data from any source, transform it, and store it into a database.
  • Now advanced analytics can be performed by integrating data science models into the platform.

Enhancements

• • Tooltips have been enhanced to provide exact information, as well as interactivity with the inclusion of newly incorporated options.
  • A new look for the Activity Stream provides increased and instant collaboration.
  • New chart settings are included to better control data presentation and chart visualizations. 
    • Along with this, the Variance charting function has been updated, and a new discrete time series type included.

Original Release Notes

Refer to the latest release notes for further details on what's new in Yellowfin 7.4:

Yellowfin 7.4 Release Notes.pdf