Apache Superset 5.0 Release Notes

We are thrilled to announce the release of Apache Superset 5.0, a major milestone that brings substantial improvements across the entire platform. This version delivers significant UX enhancements, performance optimizations, expanded database connectivity, and modernized data exploration capabilities. Built upon months of collaborative work, Superset 5.0 represents our commitment to providing an intuitive, powerful, and flexible data visualization and exploration platform that meets the needs of organizations of all sizes.

Numerous UX Improvements in Key Areas

Superset 5.0 brings substantial UX enhancements to elevate your data exploration experience:

Better filter experience with improved filter bar accessibility (#30812) and UI refinements (#31449, #31279)
Improved SQL Lab with a refreshed query history pane (#31316) and enhanced table metadata UI (#29900)
Enhanced table data interaction with selection and copying capability in SQL Lab and dataset view (#31602)
Upgraded Modal (#31420), Button (#31623), List (#30963), Avatar (#30740), Input (#30730), Switch (#30731) and other core UI components to Ant Design 5
Redesigned labels system for better organization and discoverability (#31575)

Frontend Performance Improvements

Major optimizations to improve dashboard load times and overall responsiveness:

Lazy loading of heavy components like React Ace (#29796), moment-timezone (#29791), and rehype-raw (#29855)
Migrated to React 17 (#31961) and TypeScript 5 (#31979) for improved performance and type safety
Implemented tree shaking for Ant Design icons (#29787) to reduce bundle size
Optimized dashboard components (#31240, #31241, #31242) to reduce unnecessary re-renders
Improved state management for native filters and cross filters (#31243)
Replaced Moment.js with the lighter DayJS library (#31310)

Database Connectivity Enhancements

Improved OAuth2 support for database connections (#30674, #30126, #30082, #30071), including BigQuery, Trino, and Firebolt
Enhanced database engine specifications with additional time grains for Trino and Presto (#30926) and PostgreSQL (#30325)
Better authentication with user impersonation support for StarRocks (#28110)
Added connectors for YDB (#31141), Parseable (#32052), and Denodo Virtual DataPort (#29927)
Added catalog support for Apache Doris (#31580)

Modernized Data Exploration

Enhanced dataset management with folder organization for metrics and dimensions (backend only for now) (#32680)
Improved visualization components with ECharts time shift color control (#29897)
Virtual datasets now benefit from predicate pushdown for improved query performance (#31486)
Improved temporal comparison features (#30002, #31889)
New chart formatting options including duration formatter (#30593) and memory units (#30559)

Alert and Reporting Improvements

Better email report format with date formatting in email subjects (#31413)
Support for exporting all dashboard tabs to a single PDF (#30694)
SQL query mutation capability for alerts (#31840)
Digest generation now respects Row Level Security (#30336)
Slack notification improvements with V2 API support (#32336, #32599)

Developer Experience and Infrastructure

Improved Docker and docker compose setup with better boot sequence (#31747, #31876)
GitHub Actions enhancements for frontend (#31386) and CI/CD pipelines (#31518, #31740)
Transition from pip-compile-multi to uv for dependency management (#31313, #32239)
Enhanced migration helpers (#31303) and database model improvements with UUIDMixin (#30398)
Cleanup of legacy charts (#31582) and code paths (#31976, #31943)

Enhanced Security and Governance

Row Level Security improvements for digest generation (#30336)
OAuth2 token purging when database configuration changes (#31164)
Login screen redirection for unauthenticated dashboard access attempts (#30380)
Better database and dataset deletion modal dialogs with details (#30016)
Improved handling of permissions and endpoints (#31959, #32679)

These enhancements reflect Superset's ongoing commitment to delivering a powerful, performant, and user-friendly data visualization platform for organizations of all sizes.

Breaking changes

Several breaking changes have been made. You can see the complete list in the update instructions. The bulk of these include

Removal and updated defaults for feature flags
Chart migrations from legacy charts (some of which have been deprecated/removed) to modern Echarts equivalents
Updated build tooling for Docker, translation workflows, and dependency management
Upgraded to React 17
Minor API modifications

...and more!

On top of all of these highlighted improvements, the full changelog for Superset 5.0 includes over 800 pull requests, comprising approximately 250 bug fixes, 70 new features, and hundreds of other improvements including dependency updates, documentation enhancements, refactoring efforts and more.

This release represents one of the most substantial updates to the Superset platform, with contributions from more than 100 unique developers across the Apache Superset community.