Added broadcasting support for client organization-specific external URL configuration (eg, client1.isvbiz.com, client2.isvbiz.com).
Broadcast Frequency is now more flexible, with a new option to broadcast on a particular day of a particular week in a given month) (learn more).
FTP broadcast can now optionally add a timestamp to a file name (learn more).
Images
Implemented image link formatting that takes an image URL from report data and wraps it in an HTML image tag to display it inline within the report table (learn more).
JS API
Upgraded jQuery library to version 3.5.1.
REST API
Our REST API version is now 1.1, with new endpoints added for: managing user access to organisations; licence management; role creation and management; scheduled background task management; metadata SQL query functions; GET/threshold-alerts for fetching broadcast alerts received by a user; creating and managing categories; importing and exporting content; managing caching; and, content translations.
Unlocked REST admin services for non-server based licenses (only REST content services require a server licence).
Added an admin mode toggle, used to suspend new content creation in a Yellowfin instance, enabling zero-downtime upgrades of clustered environments.
Removed outdated restlet library.
Backend/Admin
New licences can now be deployed during a db-only silent upgrade.
Upgraded:
Spring framework libraries to version 5.2.7
Google Guava Library to version 29.0
PostgreSQL JDBC driver to 42.2.14
Apache Tomcat to version 9.0.37.
Apache POI to version 4.1.2
Apache Commons FileUpload to version 1.4
JGroups to version 4.2.4 (see Community article)
Jakarta-XML web services framework to version 2.3.3
JasperReports library to version 6.13.0
SnakeYAML to version 1.26.
Added missing date functions to HSQLDB, Exasol and Intersystems IRIS databases, in line with existing date functions for Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, Snowflake, and SQL Server.
Restored CUSTOMPARAMETERS functionality to web service calls.
Updated the process of importing report-based views to always include their parent reports.
Improved web service for imported views so that when an imported view replaces an existing view, the imported content folder and subfolder replace the existing content.
Implemented changes to allow multilevel Tomcat context paths.
Added a Java Virtual Machine run parameter for UTF8 in order to broadcast reports to file with report names that contain particular UTF8 characters.
Added event auditing for user role updates in the Admin console.
Cleaned up logging and enhanced it to include Thread Id, Session Identifier and Code Function to log lines.
Added the ability to set a user’s regional display preferences for decimal and thousand separators based on the language configured for that user.
Enhanced session management for cluster deployments, including timeout information for remote sessions in Session Management, and the ability to remove stale sessions stored in the repository database.
Added the option to require users to update their password at regular intervals. Interval length is adjustable. LDAP users, whose passwords are managed client side, are excluded from this reminder.
Removed ColumnarDB as a new datasource type (existing ColumnarDBs aren’t affected).
Added valid checksums to avoid liquibase upgrade issues.
User Interface
Added an option to show or hide the minimum/maximum value in the report filter value list.
Totals and sub totals can now be moved to any side — top, left, right or bottom — of a report table (learn more here and here).
Added the ability to group data on calculated fields that span multiple sub queries.
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.
Added the option to hide report names in both static and canvas dashboards.