Release Date: October 13, 2015

End of Cycle Date: November 2, 2015

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Visualizations & Dashboards

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  Introducing Newspaper style layout for Dashboards, which allows for some tiles to take up more than one row while others remain on a single row. Also improves ease of dragging and dropping tiles. Learn More.
  


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  X-Axis density automatically reduces based on available space for a visualization.


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  Updated the Add/Edit Filters modal for easier application of filters to Dashboard tiles. Learn more.


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  Introduced ability to edit filters on a particular tile directly from gear menu. Learn More.
  


• Improved responsiveness of filter input boxes on large dashboards.

#LookML & Development Environment

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  Introduced a date_raw field type and raw timeframe, which excludes timezone conversions. Learn more
  


• Suggestions now work with one_to_one joins.


• Improved the speed of the LookML Validator.


• Made the behavior of type: yyyymmdd the same as type date, which means that timezone conversions will not be applied to it.


• To minimize load on customer databases, Looker now truncates the contents of pdt_event_log action_data column after 5 days.


• Fields are now prevented from being both a ‘distinct’ type AND a primary key to avoid errors.

#Administration

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  Group to Role Mapping for SAML. SAML Authentication setup now includes the ability to assign groups to roles.


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  Custom Backups: Ability to specify a non-standard S3 region.


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  PDT panel improvements: Ensured that we always provide a reason for rebuilding tables and sped up loading time in certain situations.


• Removed Load Balancing settings unless instance is load balanced.


• SSO URL generator will use hostname instead of port.

#Dialects

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  Oracle: Generated PDT names may be truncated as necessary to prevent errors.


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  Data Virtuality: Query killing now works as expected.


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  Vertica: Fixed bugs that were causing inaccurate month and year filtering.


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  MSSQL: No longer allow tables to lock during long running queries.


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  Redshift: Improved pivots in database & improved performance of date predicates.

#General Updates, Bug Fixes and Tweaks

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  Powered By Looker: Embedded Looks now show totals, row totals and table calculations.

  
  


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  Scheduled email tables now include gridlines for easier reading.

  
  


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  Improved loading time of Explore pages with many views.