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Some highlights:

• AI formula assistant available (if you set OPENAI_API_KEY and GRIST_FORMULA_ASSISTANT).
• Larger, floating formula editor available (if you set GRIST_FORMULA_ASSISTANT - this requirement will evaporate in later releases).
• UI for enabling and disabling telemetry. Default is disabled. We encourage you to enable telemetry, to raise the profile of Grist self-hosters, and to guide development.
• "Official" endpoints (with documentation!) for controlling outgoing webhooks.
• A bugfix to support Scaleway's flavor of S3-compatible storage, from ANCT.
• Exposed support for importing for use with grist-static, and updated pyodide sandbox to load faster.

See https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2023-07/ for a summary of what has happened in the last month.

Some highlights:

• List pages with initial emoji in a more attractive way.
• Give the "attic" of minimized widgets more of a toolbar feel, and make it more compact.
• Improve AI Assistant for suggesting formulas (not yet enabled by default).
• Add support for opt-in telemetry, to guide development.
• Improvement to highlighting for selector rows.
• Improve grist-static (version of Grist without backend) so it requires less careful configuration, and supports custom widgets.

See https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2023-06/ for a summary of what has happened in the last month.

• Added a UI for configuring webhooks, and resetting the webhook delivery queue (useful when things go wrong).
• Added code hooks for alternative sandbox implementations and SQLite wrappers. This is used by grist-static, a fully front-end version of Grist.
• Improvements when importing into reference columns.
• Improvements to column descriptions (thanks @CamilleLegeron).
• Introduction of widget descriptions (thanks @CamilleLegeron).
• Continued improvements to translations (thanks everyone!).

See newsletter for details and examples https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2023-05/

This release is mostly polishing and refinements, no big user-facing feature to highlight this month.

Highlights:

• Minimizing widgets - if you need more room on a dashboard, you can minimize sections into a kind of button bar. Dynamic linking continues to work, regardless of whether a widget is minimized or expanded.
• Column descriptions - now you can give extra information about a column that doesn't fit naturally in its name (developed by ANCT).
• New /download/table-schema?tableId=NNN endpoint to get a table scheme in frictionless format (developed by ANCT).
• Beta version of a Grist desktop app released at gristlabs/grist-electron.
• Beta version of an entirely front-end build of Grist released at gristlabs/grist-static.
• Native support added for rick-rowing (a spreadsheet variant of rick-rolling).

Highlights:

• User-contributed translations continue apace. Current list is: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish. If you're up for helping out, the starting point is https://community.getgrist.com/t/translating-grist/2086
• Some optimizations to improve formula performance. The Python profiling tool py-spy was particularly helpful to know where CPU time was being spent. Tests on a large document showed a 26% improvement in performance speed. Your mileage may vary.
• Extra hooks for custom builds, introduced for an electron-based Grist Desktop App that now runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac. This is a hobby project of a Grist contributor.

Highlights:

• User-contributed translations en Français, Español, Português und Deutsch.
• New language picker (for when your browser default isn't what you want).
• New button to maximize a single widget temporarily.
• New "View As" banner for testing access rules more conveniently.
• New checkbox to add "seed rules" for any new access rule group.
• New checkbox to restrict schema editing permission to owners.
• Easier access to document settings page.

Read more at https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2023-01/

Highlights:

• New more flexible date filters.
• Snapshot support using S3-compatible stores such as MinIO.
• Quick delete buttons for access rules for resources that have been deleted.
• Improved UI for editing access rule memos.
• New translations started (via weblate https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/grist/).

Read more at https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2022-12/

Highlights:

• Sort and filter improvements.
• Granular access control improvements.
• Invite users in bulk (thanks ANCT!)

Highlights:

• Quick sum - select a region of cells and see row and column count plus a total.
• Duplicate table - duplicate entire tables (with or without data) in Raw Data page.
• Proper documented table and column manipulation endpoints in API, less need for awkward workarounds.
• Better shortcuts for adding/removing rows.
• Initial support for French :fr: (thanks ANCT team!)

Summary at https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2022-10/