Retool recently made changes that make it easier to review changes in source control. Retool now separates system-generated updates related to version upgrades into their own migration commit, so your pull requests are cleaner and easier to understand.

This feature is generally available on Retool Cloud. It is available in private beta to Self-hosted Retool organizations on edge version 3.203.0-edge or later, and will be generally available in an upcoming stable release. Self-hosted Retool organizations can reach out to support to enable this feature.

What's new​

Instead of bundling migration changes with user changes, they now appear in a dedicated commit.

No setup needed—this happens automatically when you make commits.

Searching is now supported in the Console and State tabs of the Debug Tools.

Users can search logs and states using any free text, negation, regex, or exact phrases:

• Free text: Matches any string.
• Negation: Prefix with - to exclude a match. For example: -error
• Regex: Use slashes for regex. For example: /^foo/
• Exact phrases: Wrap multi-word strings in quotes. For example: "query failed"

You can combine search terms using spaces (e.g. "query failed" -/error/ success).

Improvements to Debug Tools in the App IDE are now available.

This update includes the following changes and improvements to the Debug Tools:

• New filters in the Linting tab: Errors and Accessibility.
• New filters in the Performance tab: Severe, Moderate, and Minor.
• In-line actions for automatic performance optimizations.
• Actionable recommendations to the most common performance bottlenecks.
• Links to relevant docs for further learning.
• Removal of performance score and app stats.

Refer to the Web app and Mobile app best practices guides for more information.

Retool will deprecate the use of YAML for protected apps, queries, and resources in Source Control. Support will be removed in the Q2 2025 stable release of Self-hosted Retool.

Self-hosted organizations still using YAML serialization of these elements in Source Control must migrate to Toolscript prior to upgrading.

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.

Retool RPC (Remote Procedure Call) allows you to connect your own codebase. Once enabled, you can define functions in your backend and use them within Retool apps and workflows.

Click Get started to request access to the Retool RPC beta.

Offline mode in Retool Mobile enables users to continue performing read and write actions whenever the internet connection is lost.

Reads: Screens and parts of the app that users have visited while online are cached and available when the device is offline.

Writes: Users can continue performing write actions with cached data. Once the connection is restored, Retool Mobile syncs the changes back to the server.