Roadmap

The below are known items that are on our roadmap. If you have further feedback or suggestions please email us or post issues/discussions on our github project.

3.xx Releases

  • 2025-05-12 - 3.17 - Improve Server Tree and QDocs integration. Add kdb+ Symbol Search.
    • Form: Editor now supports 30,000+ items in dropdown and stays fast using virtualization.
    • Bugfix: Form editor was showing duplicate inputs.
    • SQL Editor - Show single cell as code text editor.
    • Bugfix: Programmatic login casing fix.
  • 2025-04-22 - 3.16 - Add {{ALL}} variable. Remove auto_sign_up flag.
  • 2025-03-21 - 3.15 - Improve releasing dashboards from file to allow git file based deploys.
    • Force process pl-config directory every 10 minutes to ensure even if symlinked, they get updated.
    • Add file hash cache to reduce processing cost of git releases.
  • 2025-01-22 - 3.14 - Improve null and error handling to backend database processes from java server, particularly for kdb.
    • Add KDB_ALWAYS_CLOSE_CONN_AFTER_USE - Specifically for enterprises that force close handles.
    • Form editor - added align / disabled / large / inline option flags per form input.
  • 2025-02-15 - Improved Forum Customization with inline, step size options.
  • 2025-01-15 - 3.13 - Support for sending {{ALL}} variables to kdb+. bugfixes: kdb+ minute/second/timespan.
  • 2024-12-18 - 3.12 - Update NETTY version.

  • 2024-12-18 - 3.11 - H2 Database upgrade from v1 to v2, requires manual steps. Pulse now requires Java 11.

  • 2024-12-13 - 3.05 - MySQL/PostgreSQL driver upgrades. REST api bugfix.#282 #283.
  • 2024-12-10 - 3.04 - Larger code editor. #274.
    • Add Sankey Options #273
    • Heatmap decimal place formatting of labels as configured in UI. #273
    • Pie Chart - Add selectedMode to legend. #278
    • SQL Notebook - Add type='table' support to show full HTML tables rather than grid.
    • SQL Notebook - Allow charts and tables to be nested to allow column layouts.
    • Non-serif font for code editor blocks. #132
  • 2024-11-22 - 3.03 - Add custom chart configuration. Pie chart supports custom area color. #274 #188 #269 #209
  • 2024-11-20 - 3.02 - bugfix: Linux SERVER_HOST default fixed.
  • 2024-11-18 - 3.01 - Officially Released for everyone.
  • 2024-11-18 - SQL Notebooks - Add built-in demos, notebook examples and small CSS improvements.
  • 2024-11-15 - SQL Notebooks - Bugfixes and stability improvements. e.g. auto reconnect when pulse/qstudio restarts.
  • 2024-10-30 - SQL Notebooks - Improved support for links within documents.
  • 2024-10-28 - SQL Notebooks - Add support for nested code blocks ```` to allow showing code within code for demos.
  • 2024-10-24 - SQL Notebooks - Add offline mode - aka Snapshot to allow sharing a static version.
  • 2024-10-24 - SQL Notebooks - Support configuration attributes including height.
  • 2024-10-24 - SQL Notebooks - Add showcodeonly to allow displaying SQL code blocks.
  • 2024-10-16 - SQL Notebooks - Mobile now supported. Left and right menus shrink.
  • 2024-10-11 - SQL Notebooks - Now works in both QStudio and Pulse.
  • 2024-10-08 - SQL Notebooks - Add support for all chart types.
  • 2024-10-05 - SQL Notebooks - Allow notebook to be added within Pulse.
  • 2024-10-02 - SQL Notebooks - Add show query option. Add page and table of contents listing.
  • 2024-09-30 - SQL Notebooks initial test version given to select users for feedback.
  • 2024-09-28 - BabelDB, improve speed by using bulk inserts. (Benchmarks here)

A massive thanks to all those that helped us reach 3.0. Particularly Brian Luft and Rich Brown.

With the addition of SQL Notebooks, Pulse users can enjoy the same fast charting, powerful application building from a notebook based editor.

2.xx Releases

  • 2024-06-18 - 2.32 - Add redshift driver.
  • 2024-05-21 - 2.31 - BabelDB, add support for nested arrays. Improve null handling.
  • 2024-05-14 - 2.30 - BabelDB improve time type support.
  • 2024-04-29 - 2.25 - Add File Based Import/Export. Improved chart dropdown selector and logging. Bugfixes.
  • 2024-04-14 - 2.24 - Add Sankey Diagram. Login bugfix.
  • 2024-03-26 - 2.23 - Improved Pivot Table and Filter to save user settings. Support 100+ pie charts.
  • 2024-03-13 - 2.22 - Dashboard Version Diffs. Improved scatter time-series chart. Copy-paste of panels.
  • 2024-03-06 - 2.21 - Add SQL Audio Alerts. Improve display of kdb+ objects.
  • 2024-03-03 - 2.20 - Numerous small bigfixes. Update dependencies, OWASP scan now passing.
  • 2024-02-22 - 2.19 - Improved Scatter/Bubble chart tooltip and formatter.
  • 2024-02-15 - 2.17 - Add Tabs. Improve query caching. Bugfixes for pivot/duckdb/legends.
  • 2024-02-01 - 2.16 - OS specific builds to reduce download sizes. Minor bugfixes and UI improvements.
  • 2024-01-19 - 2.14 - Expand roles and permissions for enterprise use, include permissioning data sources.
  • 2023-12-20 - 2.13 - Improve clickhouse support, add encrypted connections and play.clickhouse.com demos.
  • 2023-12-13 - 2.12 - Add KuCoin Streaming data source.
  • 2023-12-07 - 2.11 - Add Marker Lines/Points and shaded areas to time-series charts.
  • 2023-12-04 - 2.10 - Improve candlestick appearance and add Click-drag-to-zoom.
  • 2023-11-29 - 2.09 - Allow Adding tags and comments to dashboards.
  • 2023-11-27 - 2.08 - Add Binance candle/kline support.
  • 2023-11-18 - 2.07 - Improve performance of table, time-series and display panels in general.
  • 2023-11-15 - 2.06 - Add Ctrl+K SearchBar.
  • 2023-11-11 - 2.05 - Cache latest queries and reuse results. 100 users with same query = 1 query.
  • 2023-11-11 - 2.04 - Symbols - Allow querying and searching within UI using only symbols.
  • 2023-11-09 - 2.03 - Add FRED - Federal Reserve Data Source.
  • 2023-11-09 - 2.03 - Add ECB - European Central Bank Data Source.
  • 2023-10-27 - 2.02 - Add BabelDB to query REST, CSV, JSON or streaming source.
  • 2023-10-14 - 2.01 - Add owners/users/teams roles and permissions for dashboards.

A massive thanks to all those that helped us reach 2.0.

With the recent addition of advanced roles and permissions Pulse successfully scales out to solve real-time dashboards for multiple quant teams within one deploy.

1.xx Releases

  • 2023-09-05 - 1.70 - Add OrderBook streaming DepthMap visualization.
  • 2023-08-25 - 1.60 - Support on-client appending for streaming Connections
  • 2023-08-25 - 1.55 - Add Binance streaming data source.
  • 2023-08-23 - 1.51 - Improve kdb connections to handle disconnects and no longer wrap queries.
  • 2023-08-18 - 1.50 - Open Sourced Version.
  • 2023-08-14 - 1.36 - Improve server tree listing for more databases.
  • 2023-08-07 - 1.34 - Add variable formatters.
  • 2023-08-01 - 1.33 - Support many more database integrations: clickhouse, mongodb, influxdb, SAP.
  • 2023-07-19 - 1.10 - Add Redis support.
  • 2023-07-15 - 1.09 - Bugfixes - Improve handling of illegal characters in dashboard URL, particularly saving.
  • 2023-07-14 - 1.08 - Add date and time column formatters e.g. 14/07/2023 (Thanks CT).
  • 2023-07-07 - 1.07 - Bugfixes - Improve date timezone handling consistency, particularly for kdb times.
  • 2023-06-24 - 1.06 - Add experimental PulsePivot.
  • 2023-06-09 - 1.05 - Add ChatGPT AI SQL generator.
  • 2023-05-24 - 1.04 - Bugfixes - Table clicks faster and more accurate. _SD_BG mixed casing. (Thanks GD)
  • 2023-04-27 - 1.03 - UI Improvements - Allow dragging components on. Show failing queries. (Thanks CA)
  • 2023-04-26 - 1.02 - SQL Server JDBC driver upgrade to improve compatibility (Thanks EL)
  • 2023-04-24 - 1.01 - First ever 1.0 release.
    • Stability improvements - Set max row limit on queries and notify user when reached.
    • Speed Improvements - Use smart caching to allow instant browsing of dashboards / connections.

A massive thanks to all those that helped us reach 1.0.

With the recent addition of Interactive Dashboards, Event Handlers and the numerous stability improvements, we've really reached a significant milestone. Pulse is solving the real-time interactive app problem that we initially saw quants and data analysts needing.

0.xx Releases

  • 2023-04-19 - SQL Editor - Improved handling of very large queries and kdb specific results.
  • 2023-04-05
    • Add Event Handlers to trigger queries and perform other actions in response to user interactions.
    • Display warning if backend data sources are slow returning queries.
  • 2023-03-27 - Add User TimeZone Option. Allow author to toggle 1000s separator for numbers.
  • 2023-03-21
    • Add REST API to allow setting servers dynamically using MASTER_API_KEY
    • Throttle dashboards if they are slow consuming messages
    • Add tooltips to ease onboarding new users
  • 2023-03-14
    • Send websocket heartbeat to prevent timeouts
    • Add licensing, restrict free version to 3 users and 12 dashboards
  • 2023-03-02 - Stability improvements for large dashboards.
  • 2023-02-22
  • 2023-02-15 - Add JQ in-memory.
  • 2023-02-04
    • Add Metrics Panel Component
    • Move internal demo database to port 8999 to avoid overlap with clickhouse on 9000
  • 2023-01-25
    • Add demos for Dynamic HTML Component
    • Bundle JRE with installer/zip to make it easier for windows users
    • Security - Java REST fetch falls back to curl in case java certs are missing
  • 2023-01-16 - Add Dynamic HTML Component
  • 2023-01-03 - Add Sparklines to Tables
  • 2022-12-17 - Improve administration. Add raw json, backup page and -vv very verbose mode.
  • 2022-12-10 - Add Dual Axis - Can have 2 Y-Axis and customize both.
  • 2022-12-03 - Add Grid Customization - Can add/remove preHeader/Footer/Pager/Filters. Allow setting frozen rows.
  • 2022-11-28
    • Fix to allow running in subdirectory.
    • Form Improvements - Add submit button demo
  • 2022-11-14
    • Enable column renaming
    • Allow Pulse to be hosted in website subdirectory. Useful for auth proxying.
  • 2022-11-07
    • Ability to set Column formatting, chart colours etc. from the UI
    • Add search/filter for custom chart settings
  • 2022-11-02
    • UI Niceties - Expand default pallette to 20 colours. Add 30 min / 2 hour refresh
    • Escape quotes / commas in data download
    • Customizeable Security
    • KDB Connections - Allow wrapping queries
    • Security - Support AuthProxy / Apache user authentication
  • 2022-10-14
    • Reduce build size by removing external dependencies
    • Add "Add Server List" button to allow importing list straight from QStudio
    • Add Custom Security to allow REST/kdb configured authentication and authorization
    • Add YAML based configuration
  • 2022-09-29
    • JDBC Driver Updates: MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server
    • Bugfix: UI recovery in event of bad streaming query
    • Quicker Startup
    • Increase size of SQL query supported to 10MB
  • 2022-09-28
    • UI Improvements
    • Added 3 Chart Demo Dashboards
  • 2022-09-26
    • Charts - Add horizontal bar chart and horizontal stack chart
    • Charts - Add Boxplot
    • Charts - Add 3D Bar Chart, 3D Surface
    • Charts - Add Sunburst and Tree
  • 2022-09-22
    • Appearance - Various improvements and refinements to themes, forms, icons
    • Automatic screenshot generation
    • Add number/text filters to grid
    • Improved error handling to retyr charts when user requests or at regular intervals
    • Demos - Add demo queries for H2/KDB database for all chart types
    • Charts - Add multi-pie chart support
  • 2022-09-08
    • Add Editor component that allows editing code or plain text and sending it as a parameter
    • Allow Dashboard/Widget custom user CSS
    • Forms - Date component suppoorts date/datetime single values and ranges
    • Forms - Add textfield/textarea component
    • Forms - Add submit button and allow delaying form submission unless button clicked
    • KDB - Improved display of nested types in table
  • 2022-09-01
    • Improved support for kdb minute/second/date/time types
    • Allow authors and users to save dashboard parameters
    • SQL Editor - Allow sharing links
    • SQL Editor - Allow choosing chart type
    • Support custom JDBC drivers
    • Allow theme/css customization
    • Add new Code/Text input component
  • 2022-08-24
    • Add demos: stream liquidity, TAQ, candlestick
    • Improve tooltip formatting, particularly decimal places shown
    • Improve QueryEditor layout and add chart icon
    • bugfix for headless JRE on linux
  • 2022-08-16
    • Improve appearance, expand homepage
    • Add grid dark theme support
    • Add candlestick chart
  • 2022-08-01 - Add calendar chart type
  • 2022-07-24
    • Add KDB Streaming Subscriptions
    • Add ability to set column formatter from context menu
    • Allow setting query refresh rates
  • 2022-07-16
    • Add HTML component
    • Added default queries when new chart added
    • Reports - screenshot and HTML output can now run
    • Reports - Add HTML table to email
    • SQL Editor - Improved kdb support. Added console and list view for non-table objects
    • Form parameters now use {"{arg}"} and ((arg))
  • 2022-07-08
    • Add Dashboard history tracking to allow quick restoration of old versions
    • Users can quick open favourite dashboards
    • Add User Analytics
    • Dashboard user arguments to URL allows bookmarking
    • Add User logins
    • Add reports / subscriptions CRUD
  • 2022-07-01
    • Popouts which remember location
    • Table context menu allows excel/csv download
  • 2022-06-01
    • Add Screenshot capability
    • Added SlickGrid table
    • Automated .exe installer
    • Added SQL editor.
    • Alpha Release
      • Dashboards - Ability to add charts/tables, save dashboards
      • Automated Continuous Integration