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Updates, changes, and improvements at Retool.

Refer to the stable and edge release notes for detailed information about self-hosted releases.

Deprecation of the BigID resource type

Retool is deprecating the dedicated BigID resource type.

Retool will remove the resource type in Q1 2027, after two quarterly Stable releases. After removal, BigID resources will stop working. Queries in apps and workflows that still point at those resources will fail. Cloud and self-hosted organizations will not have a BigID connection option after removal.

Organizations can keep querying BigID after removal by creating an OpenAPI or REST API resource. Retool will not migrate BigID resources or their query references automatically.

  1. Create an OpenAPI resource with specification URL https://sandbox.apps.mybigid.com/BigAPI.yaml or the BigAPI.yaml URL for your BigID instance, and environment server variable set to your BigID hostname. For REST API, set the base URL to https://HOSTNAME/api/v1.
  2. Set Authentication to Custom Auth. Add an API Request step that sends POST /api/v1/refresh-access-token with your BigID user token in the Authorization header. Add a Define a variable step named SYSTEM_TOKEN with value {{ http1.body.systemToken }}. Add an Authorization header on the resource that uses {{ SYSTEM_TOKEN }}. Enable Run this custom auth workflow without prompting the user. Configure a refresh auth workflow that repeats the exchange after a non-200 response. Generate the user token in the BigID UI and exchange it as described in BigID's token authentication.
  3. Open each app, workflow, and Query Library query that uses the BigID resource. Change the query to use the new resource, then test it. For OpenAPI, select the same operation. For REST API, recreate the request as method and path, such as GET /ds-connections. If the OpenAPI query editor shows an Authorization parameter, leave it empty.

Custom authentication is not supported in public apps. If you have a large number of BigID queries and need help finding them, contact Retool Support.