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.

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
  • 2023-01-03
  • 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