26.5.0.cl Release Notes
ThoughtSpot Cloud 26.5.0.cl is now available.
These release notes include information about new and enhanced features.
For information about previous releases, see Release history.
For information about features deprecated or removed in this and future releases see Deprecated and removed features.
ThoughtSpot also provides weekly updates containing bug fixes and enhancements which are automatically deployed on customer instances. For details, see Weekly release notes.
New features and functionality
The latest release of ThoughtSpot Cloud contains several new and enhanced features.
ThoughtSpot Sage removal in 26.6.0.clThoughtSpot Sage is deprecated and has reached end-of-life. It will be removed from ThoughtSpot in the 26.6.0.cl release. When 26.6.0.cl is released, all clusters currently on Sage will be automatically upgraded to Spotter 2. Your AI usage preferences — including whether AI answer generation is enabled or disabled will be retained as part of the migration. We recommend all administrators migrate to Spotter as soon as possible. For customers using the ThoughtSpot Embed SDK, ensure your SDK is updated to the latest version before upgrading to 26.6.0.cl. Refer to Deprecated and removed features for details. |
For the Business User
- SpotterViz Early Access
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ThoughtSpot can now automatically create Liveboards based on your prompts, populating them with relevant visualizations and KPIs. In response to your prompt, ThoughtSpot evaluates available data sources, creates visualizations, and lays out the information for you. After creating a Liveboard, you can enter more prompts in SpotterViz at any time to revise and refine it. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see SpotterViz.
- About your cluster
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The new About menu item in the Help menu is now generally available (GA). This feature allows you to see the Cluster ID, Version, and Cluster Timezone for your cluster.
- Edit an Answer in a Liveboard
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Editing an Answer in a Liveboard is now generally available (GA). This feature adds an Edit button to the Answer toolbar in a Liveboard in edit mode. Click Edit
to open the Edit Answer page, where you can modify columns, filters, and formulas. You can save or cancel changes without leaving the Liveboard.For more information, see Edit an Answer from your Liveboard.
- KPI chart settings
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ThoughtSpot introduces more granular controls for KPI charts. You can now:
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Set different colors for anomalies, indicating whether they are above or below the expected value.
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Choose to display null data as 'zero' or 'no data found'.
For more information, see Advanced KPI display options.
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- Collections
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Collections are now generally available (GA). Collections in ThoughtSpot are organizational containers that can group and manage different ThoughtSpot objects into nested hierarchies similar to folders on a computer. These objects can be Liveboards, Answers, data models, tables, and even other Collections. Collections help with content organization, curated and structured content sharing and collaboration. Additionally, you can assign different levels of access permissions for users you share your Collections with. For more information, see: Collections in ThoughtSpot.
- TML support for Collections
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You can now use ThoughtSpot Modeling Language (TML) to export Collections along with their hierarchy. Additionally, you can import Collections into new environments while retaining their complete folder structure.
For more information, see TML for Collections.
- Customizable home page announcement
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ThoughtSpot introduces the option to add a custom note tile to the home page where administrators can communicate important information, such as scheduled maintenance or new features to their users. This feature is generally available (GA).
For more information, see Custom home page announcement.
For the Analyst
- Continuous Liveboard PDF experience Beta
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The continuous Liveboard PDF experience is now generally available (GA). This feature eliminates page breaks and preserves the layout of the original Liveboard, ensuring the exported PDF remains true to the on-screen experience.
For more information, see Download a Liveboard.
- Send now option in scheduling Early Access
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You can now send Liveboard schedule emails immediately. Unlike recurring schedules, you can now trigger immediate delivery for a one-time email or send an existing schedule instantly without altering its cadence.
For more information, see Scheduling a Liveboard.
- Model sharing enhancement Early Access
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The Model sharing experience enhancement is now in Early Access. ThoughtSpot introduces an improved sharing experience. When you share a Model with Edit access, it now automatically includes View access to all referenced tables and Views. This prevents you from encountering any potential access errors. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Share Models.
For the Data Engineer
- Spotter memory Early Access
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Spotter can now build its own memory to improve answer quality over time. Memory can be generated in two ways:
- Learn from conversations
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If you have coaching access, anything you ask Spotter to remember is saved as a rule and applied to future sessions. For example, telling Spotter that "active users" means users with at least three sessions. For more information, see Learn from conversations.
- Learn from Liveboard
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Generate memory from your trusted Liveboards, capturing the business rules and query patterns behind your visualizations. For more information, see Learn from a Liveboard.
For more information, see Spotter memory. Note that memory is only supported for Spotter 3. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.
- Snowflake driver update
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We have updated the Snowflake driver version to 4.0.1. For more information, see Cloud data warehouse driver details for connections.
- Column property sync Early Access
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Column property sync is now Early Access. ThoughtSpot allows you to keep parts of a Model in sync with the underlying tables in the cloud data warehouse (CDW). Previously, as tables from the CDW were updated with new information from the CDW, it would cause the link for some column properties from the table to the Model to break. If there were multiple Models on the same table, for changes like renaming a column or updating a description, you would have to go into each Model and update the values individually. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Model column property sync.
- Login Activity Tracking
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ThoughtSpot now has a new data model, Login Activity Tracking, to capture login activity of users for a ThoughtSpot instance. Administrators can leverage this data model to build custom monitoring Liveboards, providing visibility into login timestamps, success rates, and additional session details. For more information, see System Models, tables, and views.
- Group privilege for TS:AI and BI stats data model
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TS:AI and BI stats now includes privilege information for each group, giving administrators a single place to review what each group is permitted to do in ThoughtSpot. For more information, see AI and BI Stats.
- Publishing workflow
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Publishing across Orgs is now generally available (GA). Publishing allows you to create an object in the Primary Org and publish it directly to target Orgs without generating duplicate copies. You can also unpublish objects across Orgs.
For more information, see Publishing objects between Orgs.
- Snowflake Semantic Views integration Early Access
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ThoughtSpot introduces Snowflake Semantic Views integration. This allows you to import external semantic model definitions from Snowflake Semantic Views that are then converted into fully functional, native ThoughtSpot Models. This eliminates the need to manually recreate Models and ensures consistency. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot support.
For more information, see Integrate with Snowflake Semantic Views.
- dbt MetricFlow integration Early Access
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ThoughtSpot introduces support for ratio metrics in dbt MetricFlow that allow you to import semantic definitions like formulas, measures, dimensions, and metrics from dbt. This eliminates the need to maintain separate models in dbt and ThoughtSpot.
For more information, see Integrate with dbt MetricFlow.
- Row-level security support in explore workflow filters
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Support for row-level security in explore workflow filters is now generally available (GA). Search suggestions continue to leverage the index functionality.
For the Developer
- ThoughtSpot Embedded
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For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in this release, refer to ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.
For Analyst Studio users
- Dataset rename and deletion sync
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Datasets from Analyst Studio that you rename or delete in ThoughtSpot are now renamed or deleted in Analyst Studio. If you rename a Dataset in Analyst Studio, the name changes in ThoughtSpot. If you attempt to delete an Analyst Studio Dataset with dependent objects (Answers, Liveboards) in ThoughtSpot, you see a message warning you not to delete.
For more information, see Dataset dependencies.
- ThoughtSpot Analyst Studio user and group sync
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ThoughtSpot has enhanced how users and groups are synced between ThoughtSpot and Analyst Studio. The following improvements are included to help you to administer and secure Analyst Studio:
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When a new Analyst Studio Workspace is created, users and groups in the linked ThoughtSpot Org are created in Analyst Studio.
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Users and groups created in ThoughtSpot are also created in Analyst Studio.
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Analyst Studio privileges are determined based on the privileges available to the user in ThoughtSpot.
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User group membership in ThoughtSpot is accurately reflected in Analyst Studio as well.
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If a group is deleted from ThoughtSpot, the group is also deleted from the Analyst Studio Workspace.
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If a user is deleted from ThoughtSpot or loses access to Analyst Studio, the corresponding Analyst Studio user also loses access to the Analyst Studio Workspace.
For more information, see Access control and permissions.
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- Analyst Studio
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For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in the latest release, refer to Analyst Studio release notes.
For Mobile users
- ThoughtSpot Mobile
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For information about the new features and enhancements introduced in the latest release, refer to ThoughtSpot Mobile Documentation.