Changelog

A new version of the Alert component is now available. It is a significant upgrade over the previous version, with new options to customize alert messaging.

You can create custom alert states that represent different alert types or severity, and configure them with the following options:

• Title and description.
• Icon, icon position, and tooltip.
• Action text to trigger event handlers on click.

Existing apps can continue to use the previous version, which is now deprecated.

Retool now supports Amazon SQS. You can use the Amazon SQS integration in Retool Apps and Retool Workflows to send, receive, and delete messages from a queue. This integration enables you to respond to events as they occur, triggering changes and actions in your workflows or apps.

Retool now enables you to test your custom single sign-on integration with the click of a button. When you click the Test Connection button on the Single Sign-On (SSO) > Custom SSO settings page, Retool checks that the proper groups are mapped, the right user metadata is sent from your identity provider, and the integration works seamlessly. Testing this connection does not change the current user's permission groups, and you won't be locked out if SSO is misconfigured.

Retool now supports Apache Kafka. You can use the Kafka integration in apps and workflows to produce, consume, or commit messages to a topic. This integration enables you to respond to events as they occur, triggering changes and actions in your workflows or apps.

Subfolders is now available to all users on Retool Cloud and Retool Self-hosted versions 3.93 and later. Subfolders helps you manage and organize your Retool apps, workflows, and resources. To implement proper inheritance for security measures, we also now enforce the following:

• A child subfolder or app must be at least as permissive as its parent.
• In order to move an object, you must have Own access to the object (App or Folder) being moved and Edit or Own on its destination.

In making changes to certain groups’ folder permissions, this means some users may no longer create apps inside of folders. Access to any existing apps or modules has changed. You can always update your group settings to enable app creation within folders.

Dynamic queries enable users to access several different resources from a single query. These queries decrease the maintenance burden for apps that need to query various similar resources.

Some example use cases for dynamic queries include:

• An app for your support team to interact with customer data when every customer’s data is hosted on a standalone database with unique credentials.
• An admin panel to measure the health of customers’ deploys when every customer has their own tenant.
• A generic budget dashboard for client projects when every client has their own database.

A new version of the Scanner component is now available. It is a significant upgrade over the previous version, with new functionality for you to customize the scanning experience. Features include:

• Use scan events to reference scanned items and the time between scans.
• Detect duplicate scans.
• Programmatically pause after each scan or set the time between scans.

You can now connect any AI provider that adheres to the OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Cohere schema. This enables you to connect from a wide range of AI providers, such as Mistral, Fireworks AI, Together AI, and OpenRouter.

Organizations with increased security and compliance requirements can also configure custom AI providers if they need to route traffic through their own proxies.

Self-hosted Retool 3.75 is now available on the Stable release channel.

The Comment Thread component enables users to post comments and start discussions directly within your apps. All users who have access to an app that contains Comment Thread can use the component. Each user's comment appears with their name and avatar image.

When using Comment Thread, you specify a unique thread ID with which to associate comments. This can be a dynamic value so that comment threads dynamically change based on user interactions. For example, setting the thread ID to {{ table1.selectedRow.id }} would associate comments to whichever row is currently selected.

Comment Thread includes event handler support, action buttons, and granular control over the refresh period. Retool automatically handles comment storage and retrieval so no data source is needed.

If you're currently using the Comment component, you can switch to using Comment Thread without losing previous conversations by using the current Evaluated key value as the thread ID.