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Deprecation of MySQL Connector version 1.0

Himanshu Bhandoh
Software Engineer

Retool has deprecated version 1.0 of the MySQL connector. If your organization has any MySQL resources that still use this connector version, update their configuration to use the version 2.0 connector.

The option to use version 1.0 of the MySQL connector will be removed in Q2 2025 from Retool Cloud and subsequent releases of self-hosted Retool.

Amazon SQS integration

Himanshu Bhandoh
Software Engineer

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.

Kafka integration

Himanshu Bhandoh
Software Engineer

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.

Custom AI providers

Huy Quang Pham
Software Engineer

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.

New resource permission levels

Resources now have additional permission levels. This make it easier to build apps with sensitive data in a secured way.

  • The Use permission grants users permission run queries on a given resource. This means administrators can now control access to sensitive resources without needing to control access to different apps.
  • For Retool organizations on the Enterprise plan, resource permissions can also be granted at the environment level.

Retool Storage: A file store for cloud-hosted organizations

Retool Storage is a hosted blob store that allows you to upload and interact with your files without needing to configure an object store (e.g., S3, Azure File Storage). There is a 5 GB storage limit per organization, with a 250 MB limit on file size. Your browser may have settings that restrict this limit further.

Working with files has previously been a challenge for users as it required storing base64 strings or using third-party data stores. Retool Storage is a built-in solution that requires no configuration.

There are two ways to interact with Retool Storage:

  • The Retool Storage section in the Resources tab for your organization.
  • The Retool Storage resource, available in both apps and workflows.

You can programmatically upload, read, and download from Retool Storage.

New Retool outbound regions for Retool Cloud

When you configure a resource on Retool Cloud, you can now choose to route traffic through the eu-central-1 region, based in Frankfurt, Germany, or through the default us-west-2 region, based in Oregon, US. This determines the network round trip time it takes Retool to query your data sources. Selecting a region in close proximity to your resources can improve your application's performance.

You can set a default region for all your resources and override it for individual resources. Learn how to set resource regions in our documentation.