February 2026 - Dashboard Release Notes

Added a new magic variable for tomorrow’s date (24 hours from now).

Example:

The current date/time = Feb 4th 15:00

[[TOMORROW]] = 2026-02-05

See the documentation for the full list of magic variables available: Magic VariablesPreview

A new tab has been added into the Configuration Tool GUI, to allow the setting of Environment Variables.

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The values set here are saved in dashboard.json as arrays under the environmentVariables property.

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When running the config-tool whatever environment variable/s that is set under the environmentVariables property of dashboard.json overrides any matching property that is set.

The ‘Show Data Values’ Attribute Setting will now show/hide the central Data Value on a Speedometer Chart as intended.

As part of this change, any new Speedometers will have this setting marked as true by default in keeping with other, similar Chart Types like Power Rings. Pre-existing Speedometer Charts will have this setting set to true in order to retain their previous presentation. Now that the setting is applying correctly, the ‘auto-hide’ behaviour exhibited when a Speedometer Chart became small has been removed. The Display Name of the measure will still reflow to below the central hole.

Previously, if a colour style rule was defined that matched the first dimension of a Waterfall Chart, then that style’s colour would also be applied to the total column. This issue has now been resolved, with the total column instead being coloured to match the default colour or, if that has not been defined, the first colour of the current theme.

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An image showing how the defined Dimension Colours shown would have previously (left) affected the total colour but no longer does (right)

Some table housekeeping needs to be done so we do not hit MySQL’s limit on the number of characters in a table definition.

An issue was resolved with Windows services where the application could be terminated before a clean shutdown had been completed, resulting in a crash log and potentially a large dump file.

An issue was resolved with Windows Authentication which blocked that functionality from working.

Apply the correct colour styling when setting if you use the Colours option in the Chart Editor for a table grid and tick the box for “Apply to the whole row”. Previously only the background is set but the textcolor remains the same.

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For numeric cells, apply the correct number format and export them as numeric, when table charts are exported to Excel. This will allow anyone to use the exported table chart in Excel to do calculations on these cells, i.e. use them in a formula. Previously all cells were exported as text and numeric cells were tagged as “Numbers stored as text”. A small update was also made to remove any formatting on the cell if the “Export as Excel without format” property is set for the table chart.

In the previous release, a new CSS styling class was added under ‘Chart Panel’ for the Fullscreen peek element. This class has now been relocated to the ‘Dashboard’ tab as unlike other classes under the ‘Chart Panel’ tab this class does not only apply to Chart Panels and is not able to be styled on individual Charts.

The Highcharts Accessibility module has been added in order to improve the interaction of Charts with accessibility tools like screen readers.

Previously, CSV exports of tables would produce an error in the case of a column within the table being created with SQL that includes an order by statement. This has now been resolved, and tables containing columns with SQL which behave this way will now create functioning CSV exports.

• Angular has been updated to v9 - pi#3425

• Typescript has been updated to 3.8.3 - pi#3425

• OWASP Java Sanitizer has been upgraded to resolve CVE-2025-66021 - pi#3430

• Grails has been upgraded to v7 resolving a number of Spring and Spring boot related CVEs - pi#3107, pi#3268

• Java has been upgrade to v21 bringing a number of performance and reliability improvements - java#2

• AG Grid has been upgraded to v25.3.0 - pi#3426

• GO upgraded to v1.25.7 to resolve a vulnerability in Configuration-Tool - pi#3474

Renamed the tooltip of the minimised AI button from “Maximise AI dialog to “Maximise AI Chart Explorer” as it was incorrectly set.

Interactions with the AI Chart Explorer now use a Java 21 feature, virtual threads - this improves throughput when the system is waiting for responses from the llm for a large number of concurrent users

In the previous release, with AI enabled, there would be a small gap between the container and any Chart Links assigned to the bottom-right of the Chart Panel. This issue has now been resolved.

The AI Chart Explorer icon in the Nav Bar can be used to toggle the Chart Explorer open/closed. The following issues related to how this functionality interacted with some other aspects of the Chart Explorer have been resolved:

• It would take multiple clicks of the icon to open the Explorer after it had been closed via the ‘Close’ button

• Clicking the icon when the Explorer is minimised would open a new Explorer dialogue rather than maximising the existing one

• When using the AI Pin query parameters (aipinmin/aipinmax), Clicking the icon when the dialog was open would close it rather than minimise it

Removed column

migrations#75

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mis_audits.SEARCH_REF_CODE

Added column as varchar(256)

migrations#75

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mis_audits.ERROR_DETAIL

Changed type from varchar to TEXT

migrations#75

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mis_hierarchies.ACTION_BUTTON_TOOLTIP

Added column as TINYINT(1)

pi#3418

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mis_hierarchies.show_data_value_label

Read Only Themes

pi#3493

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In previous releases, it was possible to mount themes read only - an approach not recommended because it means theme migrations are not able to run.

In this release, they will stop the Dashboard from starting, so if you have this configuration, please do not upgrade unless you have reconfigured. We are aiming to resolve this discrepancy in the May 26 release.

Reported critical vulnerability CVE-2026-33701

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After the release, vulnerability CVE-2026-33701 was created and flagged as critical. This vulnerability is not exploitable in the Dashboard because we do not support exposing JMI/RMX and use a minimum Java version of 21. An upgrade of the library will be included in the April 2026 release, at which point the report will disappear from vulnerability scans.