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Changelog

Updates, changes, and improvements at Retool.

Concurrent developer warnings

  • Added a notification to the header that shows who else is modifying the same Retool app.
  • You can use this to avoid overwriting changes that your team mates are making to the Retool app.

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Deleting apps

  • Added ability for admins to permanently delete apps that are in the archive folder.

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New

  • Added the option to specify the ACL for files uploaded to Google Cloud Storage
  • Added option to allow users to define custom values in Multiselects. Enable this by using the "Allow user defined values" option in Multiselects.

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Resource access levels

  • Extended the access control levels in Retool to allow admins to restrict access to Resources connected in Retool.
  • You can use this feature to do things like:
    • Only allow analysts to use readonly database connections.
    • Only allow developers to use apis / databases that they manage.

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Here, the group lets the "Awesome Intern" use the onboarding_db (readonly) and onboarding_api resources to create / modify apps

Query playground

  • Added the Query Playground which lets developers write queries quickly without having to create an app. Screen Shot 2019-06-03 at 2.02.33 PM.png

  • Coming soon: reusing queries you write in the playground within your Retool apps.

Tile homepage view

  • Added a new tile-based home screen for Retool apps
  • You can customize the image you use for each tile.
  • You can also "favorite" your most frequently used apps so that always appear at the top of the page.

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New

  • Added support for deleting S3 files.
  • Added support for S3 bucket URLs in APIs that use the AWSv4 authentication method.
  • Increased maximum timeout for queries to 10 minutes.

Fixed

  • Fixed how custom redirect flows in "Custom Auth" APIs work in "staging" environments.
  • Fixed POST/PUT/DELETE requests in the Stripe integration that have an empty body.

Query Caching

  • Added query caching as a way to optimize the performance of Retool apps.
  • Queries can have its results cached for up to one day (the cache TTL)
    • The first time you run a cacheable query, it will run the query normally and then remember the query result.
    • Anytime anybody runs the query again the remembered result gets returned instantly.
    • The remembered result is deleted after the cache TTL expires.
  • You can configure this option in the "Advanced options" section of the query editor.

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Retool community!

New and Improved

  • Added lastUploadedFileName to the S3 Uploader component. Works similarly to the lastUploadedFileUrl.
  • Added live warnings to make it easier to write Javascript scripts.
  • Added a utils.downloadFile function to Javascript scripts. Use this to with API queries that return pdfs / docx / xlsx / etc. to download the files returned. Docs here.

Fixed

  • Changed the MongoDB insertOne queries to also return the created object, including the MongoDB _id.
  • Fixed deadlink on the Permissions dashboard.

RethinkDB Integration

  • Added RethinkDB as a Retool integration.
  • Run get, insert, update, delete, and find queries on your database.
  • Let us know what else we can add.

Lambda Integration

  • Added AWS Lambda as a Retool integration.
  • Invoke lambda functions with whatever payload you need.
  • See more info in our docs here.

Improved

  • Added support for sharded Microsoft SQL Server databases.
  • Improved the user management screen in Retool. Disabled users are greyed out, and we show accurate last active dates for each user.

Fixed

  • Fixed how Custom Auth API integrations work in staging environments
  • Fixed how non-string values are passed in FormData API requests.
  • Fixed error that Slack webhooks would return in on premise Retool.
  • Disabled overly aggressive cache headers in on premise Retool.
  • Fixed editing JSON columns in editable tables.

Filter Audit Logs by User

  • The Audit Logs can now be filtered by users as well.

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Firestore References

  • Firestore query by reference / inserting and updating references.
  • Here's an example of how to specify that a string should be a "reference" type:

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  • Inspired by the MongoDB Extended JSON syntax, you use $ref to specify that the string should be a ref. In any place where you might be a normal value you can now use the following to refer to a reference.
{ $ref: "collection/documentId" }

Misc

  • The moment-timezone library has been added to Retool. You can now use expressions like {{ moment.tz('2019-10-10 13:43', 'America/New_York').toISOString() }} to convert dates in different timezones

Performance Improvements

  • We've optimized filtering through the audit logs that Retool collects so that you can now efficiently trawl through all the queries that your users have run in Retool.
  • Apps should now start up between 1-2s faster on average.
  • Tables are more efficient when rendering large amounts of data.

Disabled Controls

  • Every control in Retool now can be dynamically disabled
  • This includes Text Inputs, Dropdowns, MultiSelects, RadioGroups, Checkboxes, Checkbox Groups, Button Groups, Rating components, and more.

Custom Tooltips

  • Every control can now also have a custom tooltip! Screen Shot 2019-01-31 at 8.30.54 PM.png

Git Integration

  • Retool supports version controlling and serializing apps to a git repo
  • Retool also supports reading and recreating apps from a git repo
  • This allows for designing pull-request flows for deploying apps from staging environments to production environments.
  • To learn more, see the documentation.

Permissions Redesign

  • The entire UI for interacting with users, groups, and apps have been modified for more clarity.

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Fixed and Misc Features

  • Components in modals will render with the correct sizes in Firefox.
  • We've added a Date Time column type to Tables.
  • Deleting components will automatically trigger a save point in Retool.
  • You can now trigger queries when checkboxes are switched on and off.
  • MongoDB validations for field, limit, and skip have been fixed.
  • Retool apps now live on /apps instead of /presentation
  • The Retool autocomplete now triggers in more sensible scenarios
  • Retool folders are now sorted alphabetically

We're excited to publicly launch Retool. We usually update our changelogs every 2-3 days so be sure to check here often!

We'll be following semantic versioning https://semver.org and we'll be careful to annotate any potentially breaking changes that we release.

For our on-premise customers we'll also be posting the version numbers of all our releases.