A List of Tableau Features Since 2019

Now you can compress requests sent to and responses from your Analytics Extension server. This will help you avoid running into payload constraints when using Table Extensions that involve large datasets. To enable this capability, Analytics Extensions admins can set flag 'gzip_enabled' to True.

Total shares is now displayed as a Metric in the Usage tab along with total favorites and total views. With these insights, analysts can better understand engagement so they can build content that resonates with their audience. Viewers can leverage Usage Metrics to validate that the content is widely used and trustworthy.

We've made navigating the content grid view more accessible by adding full keyboard navigation support, including selection and batch actions.The focus indicator has also been improved, so you can better understand which item you're interacting with or navigating to. Content metadata is also easier to access via a popover widget.

Get more context for your in-shelf pills with new tooltips. Unified Tooltips combine up to six previous tooltips into one that prioritizes information based on relevance. Get the field name, table calc details, and field comments in a single place. Any error messages or filter information now displays in the same tooltip. This unified tooltip is available for pills on all shelves.

Geospatial analysis with Tableau is more comprehensive than ever. New enhancements to the spatial calculation language allows you to answer a broad range of questions from your geospatial data. Outline creates new formatting options, ShapeType enables new pivots based on geometry type (e.g. distinct treatments of roads vs. regions), and Length creates new opportunities for route planning. We've also made it easier to bring spatial geometries into Tableau by supporting the full GeoJSON language during import.

Our new REST API endpoint enables you to create Data Driven Alerts for visualizations with a single axis. Now you can programmatically create data-driven alerts so key people are notified in their email, Tableau site, and connected Slack workspaces when data reaches thresholds.

Image Role is easier and more flexible with the recent enhancements. Image Role has expanded image file type support, now including those in SVG, WEBP, JFIF, ICO, BMP, and GIF format in addition to images in PNG, JPG, and JPEG format. Image Role can also now handle up to 100 images per column and increased image fetching to allow images up to 200kb. You can also access the Remove requirement with no need for Image Links to contain extensions.

Tableau gives enhanced deployment flexibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) support. Customers can now deploy Tableau Server to RHEL 9 as a supported OS. This release of RHEL is designed to meet the needs of the hybrid cloud environment and is ready for you to develop and deploy from the edge to the cloud.

Use industry leading 3rd party identity providers such as Azure AD or Okta to manage secure authentication to Amazon Athena data sources. Using the OAuth configuration for an identity provider, you have increased flexibility and security of connections, along with multi-factor authentication, to important data in Athena.

Line Patterns offer new styling capabilities, allowing an author to select any trend line to be represented as a solid, dashed, or dotted lines. This new capability makes it easier to convey nuance when representing multiple trends, where styling can help to convey when certain lines represent unique context, such as thresholds or modeled data points.

You now get even more support from the Tableau autosave feature to improve productivity. The latest enhancement to autosave automatically saves modifications made while editing a new, never-published workbook to a draft. You no longer need to publish your work immediately to preserve your progress. This update allows you to pick up where you left off conveniently, iterate on your work, and refine it before deciding to publish.

Find the right Tableau Accelerator for your needs with ease. The updated Accelerator experience on the Desktop Start Pane gives you access to a rotating selection of Accelerators and better differentiates between Accelerators and Sample Workbooks. You can now quickly launch one of the featured Accelerators, jumpstart your analysis, or browse for more using the in-product Exchange.

Tableau Cloud has now updated its login page to improve discoverability and ease of use. Tableau Cloud home page now has improved text rendering and displays contextual information on the Site URI through a Learn More link. The home page also auto-populates the username on the login page when a cookie exists for a user from previously having selected the “Remember me” option and reduces the number of steps to display the site list for applicable users.

Easily cancel a time-consuming command to drive analyst productivity and reduce frustration. You can now pause updates to a visualization when you execute a command that takes a long time. You will be prompted with a cancel button to pause all auto updates. When you want to re-enable auto-updates, you can use the menu bar at any time.

You now get enhanced control over viz alt text. You can now edit automatically generated alt text. By default, Tableau provides automated screen reader text, ensuring a description is announced by screen readers for all online visualizations, including client and server-side rendered and embedded visualizations. Now, content authors can edit the alt text from either the Data Guide panel or by selecting Accessibility in the Worksheet drop-down. Authors can also add up to 2500 characters of alt text, providing deep insight into the contents of the visualization.

Get greater control over the look of tables. You can now set the fonts for tooltip, totals, and grand totals on a worksheet while web authoring. With greater control over font options, you can better differentiate totals and grand totals so they stand out from the rest of your data. Font options will dynamically display based on the contents of the viz.

Make connecting your data easier with Bridge enhancements. Tableau Bridge now supports embedded data sources and published data sources, allowing Tableau Cloud authors to use the data source type best suited to their needs. This update also significantly reduces the time and effort required to migrate from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud. Existing content requiring Bridge can now be migrated as-is rather than converting embedded data sources to published ones.

Automatically suspend extract refresh tasks for inactive published data sources to save backgrounder and server resources. This feature applies to full extract refreshes that occur more frequently than once a week. Incremental refreshes and those that occur less frequently than weekly are not impacted.

Keep your site safe and operational by monitoring authentication tokens. Admin Insights now includes a Tokens data source, which is a list of the unexpired Personal Access Tokens (PATs), OAuth client tokens, and OAuth database tokens. Using the Tokens data source, you can create a report that shows when tokens will expire, so you can proactively renew the tokens needed to keep your site running smoothly. You can also easily see who has PATs and tokens assigned to help you identify any tokens that may need to be revoked.

Gain greater control over your Tableau environment. You can now use the Activity Log as the single source of truth for site audits and track site activity in near real-time. Tableau introduces over 100 types of usage events to the Activity Log, including access, create, update, and delete events for all content types.

Write datasets from Tableau Prep into Data Cloud. Once you've set up an Ingestion API connector and deployed to a Data Stream, you can save your outputs to Data Cloud. With this feature and the previously released Data Cloud connector it's easier to connect Data Cloud and Tableau Prep.

Tableau Prep users can now easily specify the schema of CSV/text files structured when the header isn’t on the first row. Instead, you can set the header and/or data start rows explicitly in the settings of the input step for CSV/text files then move on to subsequent cleaning and shaping!

Make your Tableau architecture more streamlined with support for Linux. You can now deploy the Tableau Bridge client within a container on Linux, which eliminates the need for a Microsoft Windows-only desktop application. This allows for automation and streamlining of Tableau Bridge to meet the large-scale enterprise needs through containerized workloads.

Data access, management, and security become seamless with virtual connection enhancements. Any connector type supported in Tableau is now also supported in the Virtual Connection editor. The connectors include support for Microsoft OneDrive, Apache Drill, Apache Spark SQL, Cloudera Hadoop Hive, Datorama, Dremio, IBM DB2, Kyvos, and Qubole Presto.

We've made navigating the content grid view more accessible by adding full keyboard navigation support, including selection and batch actions.The focus indicator has also been improved, so you can better understand which item you're interacting with or navigating to. Content metadata is also easier to access via a popover widget.

Get data insights in the flow of work. With our latest partnership with Google, users can quickly preview a Tableau Cloud visualization from within Google Docs. With the Tableau integration with Google Smartchips for Google Workspace, links pointing to a Tableau Cloud visualization are instantly converted to thumbnail views showing the Tableau visualization’s name, last updated date, and a preview image. Thumbnails are generated on the spot, always showing the latest data! You can also click to open the visualization in Tableau Cloud for further exploration. Available now in the Google Workspace Marketplace.

Get faster data insights as multi-row calculations are now even more powerful and more accessible for you. Now, you can use the visual calculation editor to replace null values with the last non-empty value in a column, also known as "fill down," and create running calculations. Alternatively, you can write custom calculations using the new RUNNING_SUM() , RUNNING_AVG(), and LAST_VALUE() functions in the calculation editor.

When working with large datasets, you can use stratified sampling to capture a sufficient number of records from an infrequent category as you explore, clean, and shape your data. The new stratified sampling algorithm allows you to group by a specified column and then sample data within each subgroup. Prep will returns an equal number of rows distributed across the selected column for grouping to ensure you get a representative sample.

On-demand access allows Embedded Analytics Usage-Based Licensing customers to establish a connected authentication system between their application and Tableau Cloud. With on-demand access, customers can use Tableau’s Connected Apps functionality to assert users and permissions at the time of access. You can now maintain a single source of truth for user identities, roles, and privileges in just your application instead of having to create, sync, and/or maintain those accounts in Tableau too.

Rapidly develop custom code in a matter of minutes. The Tableau Embedding Playground is an interactive learning environment where you can gain hands-on experience with key embedded analytics capabilities. In the Embedding Playground, you can quickly create exportable code to embed interactive visualizations into your application. Discover new possibilities, experiment with capabilities, and get inspired to take your embedded analytics solution to the next level.

Take your data insights where your users are. You can now embed Tableau Vizzes into Salesforce via Lightning Web Component and seamlessly authenticate with Trusted Tokens using Connected Apps. This allows for a more seamless analytics experience where CRM Analytics charts and Tableau visualizations can be viewed in the same experience, all within Salesforce. Tableau Component filter parameters also allow filters to pass from a CRM Analytics Dashboard to a Tableau Component and vice versa to keep them in sync.

Make your data more discoverable by categorizing it within Tableau. Custom data labels are a continuation of a set of labeling features we've brought to Tableau over the years, including certifications, data quality warnings, and sensitivity labels. Admins can now define custom data labels that Creators and Explorers can add to data assets for improved discovery and auditing within Tableau. You can also use the Data Labels API to allow third-party applications to add labels to a Tableau site for metadata not created in Tableau, such as those in upstream content like databases and tables.

Create more dynamic visualizations by using the value of parameters in the workbook to set axis ranges. This feature allows you to select different parameters to use as each axis range. You can have a single dynamic axis extent (just start or end) or can set both extents using compatible fields.

Data Mapping is now available for all single-datasource Accelerators. With Data Mapping you can jump start your analytics by reducing the time and effort required to set up an Accelerator’s ready-to-use dashboards. This release brings additional capabilities to Data Mapping including:State saving: selected values are retained across multiple sessionsSample values: a set of domain values are displayed in the tool tip for the fieldsSwitching data sources midway to another data sourceSupport for selecting existing connected data sources

Customize emails by enabling or disabling links in Subscriptions and Data Driven Alerts emails in site settings. This capability is especially useful in embedded contexts, where you may want to provide a white-label experience and drive usage of your application.

Now you can compress requests sent to and responses from your Analytics Extension server. This will help you avoid running into payload constraints when using Table Extensions that involve large datasets. To enable this capability, Analytics Extensions admins can set flag 'gzip_enabled' to True.

The Embedded API v3.6 enables developers to bring self-service analytics to end-users. The API allow you to create an embedded authoring session with a blank workbook. Developers can now programmatically export their embedded dashboard, worksheet or story to CSV, Excel, PDF or PowerPoint without showing Tableau UI. The Embedded API v3.6 also enables developers to handle errors in their external applications when the Tableau connected apps flow is failing.

Total shares is now displayed as a Metric in the Usage tab along with total favorites and total views. With these insights, analysts can better understand engagement so they can build content that resonates with their audience. Viewers can leverage Usage Metrics to validate that the content is widely used and trustworthy.

Geospatial analysis with Tableau is more comprehensive than ever. New enhancements to the spatial calculation language allows you to answer a broad range of questions from your geospatial data. Outline creates new formatting options, ShapeType enables new pivots based on geometry type (e.g. distinct treatments of roads vs. regions), and Length creates new opportunities for route planning. We've also made it easier to bring spatial geometries into Tableau by supporting the full GeoJSON language during import.

You can now add a dynamic date, or datetime, stamp to Tableau Prep output names. For published data sources and file outputs, Tableau Prep can dynamically update the timestamp when the flow is ran via Tableau Prep Builder or Tableau Prep Conductor. This means you will no longer have to manually enter parameter values.

Our new REST API endpoint enables you to create Data Driven Alerts for visualizations with a single axis. Now you can programmatically create data-driven alerts so key people are notified in their email, Tableau site, and connected Slack workspaces when data reaches thresholds.

Image Role is easier and more flexible with the recent enhancements. Image Role has expanded image file type support, now including those in SVG, WEBP, JFIF, ICO, BMP, and GIF format in addition to images in PNG, JPG, and JPEG format. Image Role can also now handle up to 100 images per column and increased image fetching to allow images up to 200kb. You can also access the Remove requirement with no need for Image Links to contain extensions.

Dark mode is now available on Tableau Mobile, providing more flexibility for how you view your data while on the go. Tableau Mobile will respect your device settings by default, or you can configure dark mode through the app's settings.

Admins can now protect sensitive data leakage from Tableau Mobile by disabling copy and paste via clipboard on iOS and Android devices.

The Activity Log now provides even more visibility into what's happening in your Tableau Cloud site at near real-time. The Activity Log now tracks:Usage of personal access tokens Login activitiesViews for workbooks and data sources

You can now label your Tableau assets: databases, tables, columns, data sources, virtual connections, and flows as sensitive. With asset labels you can choose a generic value or create your own depending on how your organization classifies sensitive data. Labeling sensitive data will help guide decision making for users that are shaping, publishing, viewing, or governing data in Tableau. This feature was built API first, so no matter where you store sensitive information today, you can import them into Tableau.

Enhancements include:The Job Performance data source now includes Tableau Bridge extract refresh job data. This enables you to better track your Tableau Bridge extract jobs and includes data on your agents, pools, run times, and error messages.The TS Users data source now tracks your organization's Tableau Desktop usage.The brand new Subscriptions data source lets you see which users have subscriptions and allows you to create a complete picture of subscription health in your deployment when combined with other Admin Insights data sources.

Omnibox is a dialog that provides a set of quick search functionalities including recent search terms and content suggestions. To improve the data discovery experience, omnibox has been integrated into the connect-to dialog, the entry dialog for users to search and connect to datasets. Users now can resume search history from auto-suggested recent search terms on the connect-to dialog. Content suggestions offer a one-click connection on target datasets rather than going through the whole search cycle.

Viewers can now recommend views for acceleration to workbook owners and admins. In addition to workbook query time and usage factors, viewer suggestions are now inputs of the automated view acceleration recommendation service.

Workbooks created from data sources leveraging Virtual Connections now support View Acceleration. View Acceleration loads views faster by precomputing and fetching the workbook's data in a background process.

Virtual Connections now support connections to:DremioCloudera HadoopIBM DB2KyvosQubole Presto

Leverage the new REST API custom scheduling methods to schedule your refreshes and subscriptions in Tableau Cloud. Custom scheduling was previously only supported via the UI but now with API support, you can better support third party workflows, scripts, and automation for your scheduling needs. This feature supports creating, reading, updating and deleting scheduled content.

With the Amazon S3 connector in beta you can connect to Parquet, CSV, and Excel file data in your Amazon S3 bucket. The new connector is available in Tableau Cloud as well as the Tableau Exchange.

Use industry leading 3rd party identity providers such as Azure AD or Okta to manage secure authentication to Amazon Athena data sources. Using the OAuth configuration for an identity provider, you have increased flexibility and security of connections, along with multi-factor authentication, to important data in Athena.

The Salesforce Data Cloud connector makes it seamless to analyze data from Data Cloud in Tableau. The Data Cloud connector is driver-less, requiring no install, and Data Spaces aware enabling you to create visualizations specific to a Data Space. Data Spaces are logical partitions to organize metadata, data, and processes for relevant stakeholders in Data Cloud. Additionally, the Data Cloud connector shows object label, instead of the object API name, in the Tableau connect UI. This creates a more user-friendly experience when choosing tables to build data sources. The connector also supports an additional 11 functions, including datetime functions, improving your content creation and data analysis processes.

The Lineage page now has a search option to find a field of interest. There is also the option to sort by the number of downstream sheets. Both of these capabilities are especially useful when you have a large numbers of workbooks and data sources and either want to quickly find a field of interest or identify fields that are used the most and proceed with the impact analysis for any potential changes to these fields.

Connect to event data from your Google Analytics 4 property. The Google Analytics 4 connector is available in the Tableau Exchange.

Get more context for your in-shelf pills with new tooltips. Unified Tooltips combine up to six previous tooltips into one that prioritizes information based on relevance. Get the field name, table calc details, and field comments in a single place. Any error messages or filter information now displays in the same tooltip. This unified tooltip is available for pills on all shelves.

With multi-row calculations in Tableau Prep you can compute table calculations while preparing your data. Using clicks, not code or complex calculations, it is easier than ever to calculate difference from, percent difference from, and moving calculations. You can also now write LOOKUP calculations in the expression editor of Tableau Prep.

Meet your organizational security requirements with additional control over personal access tokens (PATs) in Tableau Cloud.Changes for all Tableau Cloud sites include:Site admins can now control who has the ability create PATsSite admins can now control how long PATs are valid, ranging from 1 to 365 daysChanges for Tableau Cloud sites created after 23.2 include:PATs are disabled by defaultDefault expiry of PATs shortened to 180 days

You can now edit automatically generated alt text. By default, Tableau provides automated screen reader text, ensuring there's a description to be announced by screen readers for all online visualizations including client and server side rendered and embedded visualizations. Now, content authors can edit the alt text from either the Data Guide panel or by selecting Accessibility in the Worksheet drop down. Authors can add up to 2500 characters of alt text, providing deep insight into the contents of the visualization.

Line Patterns offer new styling capabilities, allowing an author to select any trend line to be represented as a solid, dashed, or dotted lines. This new capability makes it easier to convey nuance when representing multiple trends, where styling can help to convey when certain lines represent unique context, such as thresholds or modeled data points.

Data blending is a powerful tool for combining data sets. We've upgraded the iconography to match existing patterns and bring data blending into alignment with the overall UI design. Now linking fields are indicated with a link icon in gray, and potential linking fields appear as a slashed link. Rest assured, the functionality remains unchanged—click a slashed link to use the field for blending.

Total views and favorites are displayed as Metrics in the new Usage tab. With these insights, analysts can better understand what workbooks are popular so they can build content that resonates with their audience. Viewers can leverage Usage Metrics to validate that the content is widely used and trustworthy.Previously released in other Tableau products in Tableau 2022.4, this capability is now available in Tableau Server 2023.1.

Conveniently access number and date formatting, including custom number formats, from a pill.Visually break up sections of your table to improve understanding by applying Table Shading for Headers, Panes, and Cells.Add context and enable further exploration by hyperlinking text objects using the Rich Text Editor.Understand what formatting options are available. Formatting options for Dividers and Borders now display dynamically based on the type of visualization and pills on the shelf.

Enhancements to the Workbook Optimizer allow workbook authors to ignore individual best practices that aren’t relevant to them and implement specific best practices with a single click. The Workbook Optimizer now includes even more best practices to help authors improve workbook performance.

See and understand data in your preferred language. Tableau has expanded language options to include Thai and Swedish.Previously released in other Tableau products in Tableau 2022.4, this capability is now available in Tableau Server 2023.1.

Once your Tableau Server is activated, you can now use Login-Based License Management (LBLM) to activate Desktop and Prep Builder for licensed Creators in offline environments. The enhanced Offline Activation solution makes your key activations and management more efficient and scalable.

Improve insight comprehension and help end-users better connect to and understand visualizations using Image Role. Image Role is a new field semantic that offers a scalable and automated way to bring image assets into Tableau. Tableau can now dynamically map images to links in your data and encode them as exportable row or column headers. This new capability makes it possible to manage image assets externally to prevent workbook sizes from becoming too large to maintain and share.

Help any user to confidently access, understand, and communicate with data. Data Stories automate the analysis, build, and communication of insights, but are fully customizable, so you can tailor the stories based on your audience. Choose which analyses are included, change the confidence interval, rename fields, apply colors to denote positive or negative changes, and more.Previously released in other Tableau products in Tableau 2022.2, this capability is now available in Tableau Server 2023.1.

Format string fields using the ‘PROPER( )’ function instead of complex workaround calculations. This new function converts strings to proper case. The first letter of a text string and any letters following non-letter characters are capitalized, while the rest are converted to lowercase.Previously released in other Tableau products in Tableau 2022.4, this capability is now available in Tableau Server 2023.1.

Tableau Server for Linux now supports the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS distribution.

View Acceleration helps load views faster by precomputing underlying queries in advance on a set number of views. To ease the burden of deciding which views to accelerate and to optimize resources toward the views that will benefit most from acceleration, Tableau now provides recommendations to admins and workbook owners. Slower loading views (>2.5 sec.) and those with the most visits are ranked highest.

Accessing relevant content is now simpler for Tableau users thanks to the improved Request Access dialog. An easy-to-use dialog box that keeps users in their work flow is now presented to users when requesting access to a viz. In the new dialog box, users who are requesting access can also leave the content owner comments. Additionally, content owners now have a simpler way to update permissions directly from an email request notification.

Incremental refreshes provide an economical way to keep extracts current. Now, you have more flexibility with support for incremental refreshes using non-unique key columns such as a column for date/time. This update improves usability by expanding the number of tables eligible to use incremental refreshes.

Users can now format their rows and columns with banding to enhance table visibility. Based on the content in the viz, the shading options will display dynamically in the right-side formatting pane. Totals and grand totals can also be shaded. The Dashboard's right-size pane is now active, allow you to format text objects, worksheet titles, and dashboard fonts.

Develop your Table Extensions code utilizing all the helpful features of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The Table Extensions Code Editor allows you to set your preferred coding language (R, Python, Javascript, or plain text), offers syntax highlighting, code formatting, and a command palette to your Table Extensions in Desktop, Server, and Cloud. Tableau has also added visual treatment for unique Tableau keywords, such as "input tables", to give a clear understanding of how your code references your data.

Tableau Desktop users can now publish WorkBooks to Personal Space. This will give creators a safe private space to publish their WorkBook content before sharing them with additional users.

Accelerators now provide users with an overview of their KPIs, accessible from the home page and as a tooltip in all data visualizations. Each KPI offers details on its business definition as well as its underlying calculation. The following details are now also documented directly for each Accelerator: Business Objectives, Business Questions, Required Attributes, and Related Accelerators.

Using the Embedding API v3 and web components, developers can now incorporate all of Ask Data's functionality into their applications. You can now easily integrate Tableau's Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities into your analytical applications with just two lines of code.

Get a better view of a visualization’s underlying data and further explore your data with a new-and-improved responsive experience. Instead of a table of static text, you get the rich interactive View Data experience from desktop now in Tableau Mobile.

Files shared with you and shared drives are now accessible in the Google Drive connector.

You can now view column-level data quality warnings (DQWs) where you make decisions about data. For users using visualizations to make decisions, we've brought column DQWs to the data details pane. We've also simplified how DQWs are displayed when viewing lineage in Tableau Catalog. Creators and data stewards that use lineage for impact analysis or to discover data are presented with a summary of what warnings are applied to the asset including upstream column warnings

With the new Permissions data source in Admin Insights you can ensure your content permissions are following best practices. Use Permissions on its own to see which users or groups were granted access to a specific piece of content or combine Permissions with other Admin Insights data sources to get a complete picture of all of the content that a specific user can access.

Get a complete picture of your site's job health with new data in Admin Insights. We updated the Job Performance data source to include unscheduled jobs, error messages, and subscription jobs. We also updated the Site Contents data source to include a Total Size field, so your site storage usage will reflect drafts and revisions.

Virtual Connections now support connections to:DatabricksAmazon EMR Hadoop Hive

Tableau will use our new optimization techniques to speed up cross-database joins. Previously, both sides of a cross-database join were ingested into Hyper which performs the join. If the tables being joined were large, network i/o can significantly impact the performance of the query. Our new optimizer avoids unnecessarily moving large datasets by executing cross-database joins locally in the database containing the larger of the two datasets being joined when we estimate that it will be faster to do so.

You can now maintain the original sort order of Microsoft Excel or Text (.csv) files by including “Source Row Number” on the input step in Tableau Prep. This is useful for identifying the original sort order of the data when there are no field(s) available that would define the sort.

You can now create cross-database joins across different Snowflake databases with the Snowflake connector. This feature provides you with additional flexibility as you build data sources and data models in Tableau.

The new Google BigQuery JDBC connector uses BigQuery's Storage API to create and refresh extracts more efficiently. This new connector also supports cross project joins as well as initial SQL.

Resource Monitoring Tool improvements include:Admins can now require users to log into the Resource Monitoring Tool using their network credentials rather than a separate username and password specific to the Resource Monitoring Tool. This setting can be configured on a user-by-user basis.You can now customize the run-as users for the RMT Server and Agent when installing on Linux operating systems. This change makes it easier to implement best practices and comply with your IT security policies.The Resource Monitoring Tool now supports Ubuntu 20.04 TLS.The Resource Monitoring Tool now supports encrypted connections to its PostreSQL database server, ensuring that all data it process is encrypted in transit.

You no longer need to pick between a live or extract connection at the Virtual Connection level. With this feature you can now pick and choose to leverage a live or extract connection for each table within a Virtual Connection. This feature provides additional flexibility to refresh data as you see fit.

When using the Content Migration Tool to migrate content from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud, an admin can now securely migrate embed credentials for data sources. With this feature admins will no longer have to reenter credentials after a migration.

Admins can now specify a browser–such as Microsoft Edge – for authentication to handle Conditional Access checks. With the proper configurations for Tableau Mobile and your Microsoft Intune environment, admins can override the default browser used for authentication.

Within Tableau Prep's Input Step, you can now bulk select multiple columns. This removes the need to individually select columns to hide or remove them. You can now also use a relative date filter for DateTime data types to remove stale data. These improvements combine to improve interactive performance when authoring flows and help unify the experience across Tableau Prep steps.

Admins can now enable additional security policies in their site or server settings to make Tableau Mobile even more secure, including: Screen Share and Screen Shot prevention (Android only), Jailbreak Detection, and Malware Detection.

Data quality warnings will now display for connected data sources in the web authoring experience. This feature will ensure users trust the data that they are working with to answer one-off questions or build new dashboards.

Partner-built data connectors through the Tableau Exchange are now available in the connect to pane in Tableau Prep Builder under “Additional Connectors.” With this addition, you can easily discover and connect to these external connectors from where you combine, shape, and clean your data.

Data discovery and trust have been core principles of Tableau Catalog since its introduction. To improve the discovery experience, the connect-to dialog now shows mixed content types enabling users to find relevant data faster.

User attribute functions (UAFs) are brand-new user functions - UserAttribute() and UserAttributeIncludes() - that let you use users attributes defined during the Connected Apps login flow in calculations. These functions can be used to create data source filters for row-level security beyond username and group (for example, department, region, etc.), enabling you to tailor any user's data access in embedded scenarios.