Hasura GraphQL Engine Changelog

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(Add highlights/major features below)

server: implement delete mutations for MS SQL Server (closes #7626)
server: fix JSON path in error when parsing sources in metadata (fix #7769)
server: log locking DB queries during source catalog migration
server: fix to allow remote schema response to contain an "extensions" field (#7143)
console: add comments to tracked functions
metadata SDK: add type definitions for config v3
cli: fix cli-console failing to add migrations if there are tabs in SQL body (#7362)
cli: core CLI features are not blocked in environments without internet (#7695)

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries below in the order of server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: provide option to explicitly recreate event triggers for sources in the reload_metadata API
server: fix gen_hasura_uuid migration to be idempotent, so that it doesn't fail if the database is already initialised with source migrations.
server: fix mssql table_by_pk query returning empty array (fix #7784)

v2.1.0-beta.2

Action transforms

Action transforms are used to perform transformations on the HTTP request generated by an action. This allows you to integrate REST APIs or existing APIs without writing a middleware service that transforms the action's request to the one expected by the API.

Function field names customization (#7405)

It is now possible to specify the GraphQL names of tracked SQL functions in Postgres sources, and different names may be given to the _aggregate and suffix-less versions. Aliases may be set by both /v1/metadata/pg_track_function and the new API endpoint /v1/metadata/pg_set_function_customization.

Root field name and type name customization per source (#6974)

When adding a source it is now possible to specify prefixes and suffixes that will be added to all root field names and type names generated for that source. It is also possible to specify a root "namespace" field to use for the source.

Bug fixes and improvements

server: do not recreate event triggers if tables haven't changed on reloading metadata
server: moves request_transform into the Action Definition the create_action metadata API call.
server: call auth webhooks even when the request is malformed JSON or otherwise fails to parse (close #7532)
server: updates kriti to v0.2.1 which adds an escapeUri function
server: add cascade option to mssql_run_sql metadata API
server: fix bug which recreated event triggers every time the graphql-engine started up
server: fix bug in OpenAPI when multiple REST endpoints have the same URL path but different method
server: add support for GraphQL block strings
server: Correctly translate permissions on functions to SQL (#7617)
server: add transformed request to action error responses
server: allow nullable action responses (#4405)
server: add support for openapi json of REST Endpoints
server: enable inherited roles by default in the graphql-engine
server: support MSSQL insert mutations
server: fix bug in OpenAPI when multiple REST endpoints have the same URL path but different method
server: forward Set-Cookie headers from auth webhook
console: design cleanup Modify and Add Table forms (close #7454)
console: enable custom graphql root fields for mssql under modify tab
console: allow dropping indices on all schemas
console: fix bug with displaying 1-to-1 relationship with the same column mapping (close #7552)
console: add request transforms for actions
console: fix v2 metadata imports
console: design cleanup Modify and Add Table forms (close #7454)
console: enable custom graphql root fields for mssql under modify tab
cli: split remote schema permissions metadata into seperate files (#7033)
cli: support action request transforms in metadata
cli: make --database-name optional in migrate subcommands when using a single database (#7434)
cli: support absolute paths in --envfile (#5689)
cli: split remote schema permissions metadata into seperate files (#7033)

v2.0.10

server: fix bug which recreated event triggers every time the graphql-engine started up
server: remove identity notion for table columns (fix #7557)
console: add performance fixes for handling large db schemas

v2.1.0-beta.1

server: Ignore unexpected fields in action responses (#5731)
server: add webhook transformations for Actions and EventTriggers
server: optimize SQL query generation with LIMITs
server: add GraphQL request query in the payload for synchronous actions
server: improve the event trigger logging on errors NOTE: This change introduces a breaking change, earlier when there was a client error when trying to process an event, then the status was reported as 1000. Now, the status 1000 has been removed and if any status was received by the graphql-engine from the webhook, the status of the invocation will be the same otherwise it will be NULL.
server: support extensions field in error responses from action webhook endpoints (fix #4001)
server: fix custom-check based permissions for MSSQL (#7429)
server: query performance improvements
server: remove identity notion for table columns (fix #7557)
server: support MSSQL transactions
server: log individual operation details in the http-log during a batch graphQL query execution
server: update create_scheduled_event API to return event_id in response
server: fix bug which allowed inconsistent metadata to exist after the replace_metadata API even though allow_inconsistent_object is set to false.
server: fix explicit null values not allowed in nested object relationship inserts (#7484)
server: introspect_remote_schema API now returns original remote schema instead of customized schema
server: prevent empty subscription roots in the schema (#6898)
server: support database-to-database joins (for now, limited to Postgres as the target side of the join)
server: add support for user comments for trackable functions (#7490)
console: support tracking of functions with return a single row
console: add GraphQL customisation under Remote schema edit tab
console: fix cross-schema array relationship suggestions
console: add performance fixes for handle large db schemas
console: fix missing cross-schema computed fields in permission builder
console: add time limits setting to security settings
cli: add support for network metadata object
cli: hasura migrate apply --all-databases will return a non zero exit code if operation failed on atleast one database (#7499)
cli: migrate create --from-server creates the migration and marks it as applied on the server
cli: support query_tags in metadata
cli: add hasura deploy command
cli: allow exporting and applying metadata from yaml/json files
cli: allow squashing specific set of migrations. A new --to flag is introduced in migrate squash command. eg: hasura migrate squash --from <v1> --to <v4>
cli: hasura init --endpoint <endpoint> adds an option to export metadata and create initial migration from the server.

v2.0.9

server: fix export_metadata V2 bug which included cron triggers with include_in_metadata: false
server: disable mutation for materialised views (#6688)
server: set tracecontext and userInfo for DML actions on Postgres sources
server: add support for connection_parameters on pg_add_source API
cli: add progress bar for migrate apply command (#4795)
cli: embed cli-ext for windows binaries (#7509)

v2.0.8

server: fix nullability of object relationships (close #7201)
server: update non-existent event trigger, action and query collection error msgs (close #7396)
server: fix broken untrack_function for non-default source
server: Adding support for TLS allowlist by domain and service id (port)
server: add support for graphql-ws clients
console: fix error due to rendering inconsistent object's message
console: support insecure TLS allowlist
console: support computed fields in remote schema join
console: fix data sidebar not updated when a table is renamed
cli: fix delay starting console using hasura console (#7255)

v2.0.7

server: fix v2 -> v1 downgrade bug when cron triggers exist
server: add index on the event_id column of the hdb_cron_event_invocation_logs table
server: fix GraphQL type for remote relationship field (close #7284)
server: support EdDSA algorithm and key type for JWT
server: fix GraphQL type for single-row returning functions (close #7109)
console: add support for creation of indexes for Postgres data sources
docs: document the cleanup process for scheduled triggers
console: allow same named queries and unnamed queries on allowlist file upload
console: support computed fields in permission builder
console: add custom timeouts to actions

v2.0.6

server: Add support for inherited roles for mutations, remote schema, actions and custom function permissions
server: fix an issue with remote relationships when join columns are aliased (close #7180)
server: fix for incorrect __typename value in nested remote joins with a customized remote schema
server: fix a bug where some unicode characters in default string values for fields in remote schemas could lead to internal errors
server: bigquery: implement _in and _nin operators. (close #7343)
server: bigquery: custom root names, table names and field names for bigquery are included in tests
console: fix untracked foreign-key relationships suggestion across schemas
console: allow resolution of conflicting inherited role permissions
cli: fix SDL formatting in actions.graphql(#7296)

v2.0.5

server: prevent invalid collisions in remote variable cache key (close #7170)
server: preserve unchanged cron triggers in replace_metadata API
server: fix inherited roles bug where mutations were not accessible when inherited roles was enabled
server: reintroduce the unique name constraint in allowed lists
server: subscriptions now validate that all session variables are properly set (#7111)
console: fix metadata out-of-date errors when creating tables with certain configurations (fix #6805) (fix #7233)
cli-migrations-v2: fix database url showing up in metadata (#7319)

v2.0.4

server: Support computed fields in permission check/filter (close #7102)
server: support computed fields in query 'order_by' (close #7103)
server: log warning if there are errors while executing clean up actions after "drop source" (previously it would throw an error)
server: Fixed a bug where MSSQL and BigQuery would ignore environment variables set from the console
server: Fixing bug in ReplaceMetadata parser - Moving from Alternative to committed-choice.
server: Relax the unique operation name constraint when adding a query to a query collection
server: officially deprecate query plan caching, which had already been disabled for a long time
server/bigquery: Fix issues related to adding and querying from non-US datasets (closes 6937).
console: add template gallery
console: add pagination on the Raw SQL results page
console: fix issues with replacing invalid graphql identifiers in table and column names
console: show error message on inconsistent objects table
server/mssql: Fix graphql-engine#7130 for __typename errors and more generally, JSON-style aggregates.
cli: add support for query_tags metadata object

v2.0.3

(Add entries below in the order of server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: inherited role improvements for select queries
- an inherited role can now inherit from other inherited roles as well
- explicit permissions for inherited roles can now be set which will override the inherited permission (if any)
server: fix optional global_select_limit config for BigQuery
console: support global_select_limit for bigquery sources
cli: add -o/--output flag for hasura metadata inconsistency list command

v2.0.2

server: only if query-log is enabled the graphql query string is printed in http-log and websocket-log
server: fix reloading inconsistent sources or remote schemas via reload_metadata API
server: support scalar computed fields in remote joins (close #7101)
server: Support computed fields in query filter (where argument) (close #7100)
server: add a $.detail.operation.request_mode field to http-log which takes the values "single" or "batched" to log whether a GraphQL request was executed on its own or as part of a batch
server: add query field to http-log and websocket-log in non-error cases
server: Add global limit to BigQuery via the global_select_limit field in the connection configuration
server: include action and event names in log output
server: log all HTTP errors in remote schema calls as remote-schema-error with details
server: For BigQuery, make global_select_limit configuration optional with a default value of 1000
console: add reload all databases checkbox to the metadata settings page
console: add schema sharing
console: fix issue with changing table's column name and graphQL field name simultaneously
console: fix adding/removing/updating database not getting added to metadata/databases.yaml in CLI mode
console: fix migrations being generated for allowed queries and inherited roles and in CLI mode
cli: add linux and darwin arm64 support

v2.0.1

server: fix resetting metadata catalog version to 43 while initializing postgres source with v1.0 catalog

v2.0.0

NOTE: This only includes the diff between v2.0.0 and v2.0.0-beta.2

server: make improvements in the livequery-poller-log
server: Backends Citus, MSSQL, and BigQuery now all support the set_table_customization operation.
server: Adds caching support for queries using remote schema permissions
server: All Postgres boolean operators now support the null-collapsing behaviour described in #704 and enabled via the HASURA_GRAPHQL_V1_BOOLEAN_NULL_COLLAPSE environment variable.
server: add update_remote_schema metadata query
console: add citus support
console: add support for update_remote_schema API while modifying remote schemas
console: hide postgres system schemas by default
cli: metadata diff will now only show the differences in metadata. old behaviour is avialble behind a flag (--type unified-common) (#5487)
cli: add citus support
cli: allow --skip-execution to be used with up and down flags in migrate apply
cli: allow deleting migration state from server using --server flag in migrate delete command

v2.0.0-beta.2

Bug fixes and improvements

server: nodes aggregates and inherited roles support for SQL Server
server: remote relationships (database to remote schema joins) are now supported on SQL Server and BigQuery
server: BigQuery: switches to a single query generation from a dataloader approach. This should result in faster query responses.
server: BigQuery: various bug fixes related to aggregations
server: fix add source API wiping out source's metadata when replace_configuration is true
server: add support for customization of field names and type names when adding a remote schema
console: add foreign key CRUD functionality to ms sql server tables
console: allow tracking of custom SQL functions having composite type (rowtype) input arguments
console: allow input object presets in remote schema permissions
console: add modify functionality on columns, primary keys & unique keys to MS SQL Server tables
cli: add interactive prompt to get input when --database-name flag is missing
cli: fix metadata export to avoid unnecessary empty lines in actions.graphql (#5338)
cli: generate migrations for mssql databases in hasura console mode (#7011)

v2.0.0-beta.1

Bug fixes and improvements

server: fix regression with MSSQL execution (#6976)
server: fix asymptotic performance of fetching from the event_log table
console: add pool_timeout, connection_lifetime and isolation_level connection params to connect database form
console: add check constraints and comments to MS SQL Server tables' read-only modify page
console: add create table functionality for MS SQL Server
console: update connect database form with SSL certificates
console: add drop table functionality to MS SQL Server tables
console: allow renaming data sources
console: show error notification for table and cloumn names exceeding 63 characters and trim migration names exceeding 255 characters
cli: fix version command using stderr as output stream (#6998)

v2.0.0-alpha.11

Breaking Changes

In this release, the name of the computed field argument has changed from <function_name>_args to <computed_field_name>_<table_name>_args as the function name is internal detail for a computed field. This change also enables adding a root-level tracked function as a computed field which previously would have thrown input type conflict error.

Bug fixes and improvements

server: detect and apply metadata changes by mssql_run_sql API if required
server: fix bug with creation of new cron events when cron trigger is imported via metadata
server: log warning for deprecated environment variables.
server: initialise hdb_catalog tables only when required, and only run the event loop for sources where it is required
server: fix a bug where remote schema permissions would fail when used in conjunction with query variables (fix #6656)
server: add rename_source metadata API (fix #6681)
server: fix subscriptions with session argument in user-defined function (fix #6657)
server: MSSQL: Support ORDER BY for text/ntext types.
server: MSSQL: Support _lt, _eq, etc. for text/ntext types.
server: MSSQL: Fix offset when there's no order by.
server: MSSQL: Support booleans better.
server: Include permission filter in the exists clause (fix #6931)
server: add support for adding multi-column foreign key relationships
server: fix a bug where @skip and @include were not allowed on the same field
server: properly reject queries containing unknown or misplaced directives
server: fix bigint overflow, incorrect geojson format in event trigger payload (fix #3697) (fix #2368)
server: fix introspection output not being consistently ordered
server: forward the x-request-id header when generated by graphql-engine (instead of being user-provided) (fix #6654)
server: fix erroneous schema type for action output fields (fix #6631)
server: introduce --graceful-shutdown-timeout server config which will wait for the in-flight scheduled and event trigger events and async actions to complete before shutting down
server: fix a regression from V1 and allow string values for most Postgres column types
server: sanitise event trigger and scheduled trigger logs to omit possibly sensitive request body and headers
server: fix parsing of values for Postgres char columns (fix #6814)
server: fix query execution of custom function containing a composite argument type
server: fix a bug in query validation that would cause some queries using default variable values to be rejected (fix #6867)
server: REST endpoint bugfix for UUID url params
server: custom URI schemes are now supported in CORS config (fix #5818) (#5940)
server: explaining/analyzing a query now works for mssql sources
server: fix MSSQL multiplexed subscriptions (fix #6887)
server: fix bug preventing tables with the same name in different sources
server: include more detail in inconsistent metadata error messages (fix #6684)
server: return useful error messages for missing env vars in metadata when allow_inconsistent_metadata is enabled (fix #6913)
console: add union types to remote schema permissions
console: read-only modify page for mssql
console: filter out partitions from track table list and display partition info
console: fixes an issue where no schemas are listed on an MSSQL source
console: allow editing sources configuration
console: show db version and source details in manage db page
console: add one-to-one relationships support
console: rearrange connect database form and add prepared statements
cli: add -o/--output flag for hasura metadata apply & export subcommands

# export metadata and write to stdout
$ hasura metadata export -o json

cli: add support for graphql_schema_introspection metadata object
cli: fix applying migrations in a different environment after config v3 update (#6861)
cli: fix bug caused by usage of space character in database name (#6852)
cli: fix issues with generated filepaths in windows (#6813)
cli: add warning for incompatible pro plugin version
cli: add new sub command delete to hasura migrate
cli: fix bug in migrate squash due to empty down file (#3897)
cli: fix bug with metadata apply on some CI environments (#6987)

v2.0.0-alpha.10

Bug fixes and improvements

server: fix MSSQL table metadata SQL, return empty array for empty rows (fix #1226)
server: aggregation fields are now supported on mssql
server: accept a new server config flag --events-fetch-batch-size to configure the number of rows being fetched from the events log table in a single batch
server: restore proper batching behavior in event trigger processing so that at most 2x batch events are checked out at a time
server: fix regression: on_conflict was missing in the schema for inserts in tables where the current user has no columns listed in their update permissions (fix #6804)
server: fix one-to-one relationship bug which prevented adding one-to-one relationships which didn't have the same column name for target and source
console: fix Postgres table creation when table has a non-lowercase name and a comment (#6760)
cli: fix regression - metadata apply —dry-run was overwriting local metadata files with metadata on server when it should just display the differences.
server: decrease polling interval for scheduled triggers from 60 to 10 seconds
server: Change HASURA_GRAPHQL_SCHEMA_POLL_INTERVAL env var to HASURA_GRAPHQL_SCHEMA_SYNC_POLL_INTERVAL and schema-poll-interval option to --schema-sync-poll-interval.

v2.0.0-alpha.9

Support comparing columns across related tables in permission's boolean expressions

We now support comparing columns across related tables. For example:

Consider two tables, items(id, name, quantity) and shopping_cart(id, item_id, quantity) and these two tables are related via the item_id column. Now, while defining insert permission on the shopping_cart table, there can be a check to insert an item into the shopping cart only when there are enough present in the items inventory.

Bug fixes and improvements

server: make the HASURA_GRAPHQL_PG_CONN_LIFETIME, HASURA_GRAPHQL_POOL_TIMEOUT and HASURA_GRAPHQL_TX_ISOLATION configs source specific
server: fix bug with catalog upgrade from alpha.7 (fix #6802)
server: fix a bug in remote schema permissions that could result in an invalid GraphQL schema (fix #6029, #6703)
server: support query multiplexing in MSSQL subscriptions
server: an inherited role's limit will be the max limit of all the roles (#6671)
console: add bigquery support (#1000)
cli: add support for bigquery in metadata operations

v2.0.0-alpha.8

Support for 3D PostGIS Operators

We now support the use of the functions ST_3DDWithin and ST_3DIntersects in boolean expressions. Note that ST_3DIntersects requires PostGIS be built with SFCGAL support which may depend on the PostGIS distribution used.

Support for null values in boolean expressions

In v2, we introduced a breaking change, that aimed at fixing a long-standing issue: a null value in a boolean expression would always evaluate to True for all rows. For example, the following queries were all equivalent:

delete_users(where: {_id: {_eq: null}})  # field is null, which is as if it were omitted
delete_users(where: {_id: {}})           # object is empty, evaluates to True for all rows
delete_users(where: {})                  # object is empty, evaluates to True for all rows
delete_users()                           # delete all users

This behaviour was unintuitive, and could be an unpleasant surprise for users that expected the first query to mean "delete all users for whom the id column is null". Therefore in v2, we changed the implementation of boolean operators to reject null values, as we deemed it safer:

delete_users(where: {_id: {_eq: null}})  # error: argument of _eq cannot be null

However, this change broke the workflows of some of our users who were relying on this property of boolean operators. This was used, for instance, to conditionally enable a test:

query($isVerified: Boolean) {
  users(where: {_isVerified: {_eq: $isVerified}}) {
    name
  }
}

In the future, we will probably offer a way to explicitly choose which behaviour to use for each where clause; perhaps by introducing new and distinct operators that make it explicit that they will default to true if the value is null. In the meantime, this release provides a way to revert the engine to its previous behaviour: if the HASURA_GRAPHQL_V1_BOOLEAN_NULL_COLLAPSE environment variable is set to "true", null values in boolean expression will behave like they did in v1 for the following operators: _is_null, _eq, _neq, _in, _nin, _gt, _lt, _gte, _lte.

Bug fixes and improvements

server: all /query APIs now require admin privileges
server: add a new /dev/rts_stats endpoint, enabled when hasura is started with '+RTS -T'
server: re-enable a default HASURA_GRAPHQL_PG_CONN_LIFETIME of 10min
server: support for bigquery datasets
server: format the values of injectEventContext as hexadecimal string instead of integer (fix #6465)
server: add "kind" field to query-log items. Kind can be "database", "action", "remote-schema", "cached" or "introspection".
console: add custom_column_names to track_table request with replaced invalid characters (#992)
console: add details button to the success notification to see inserted row
console: add request preview for REST endpoints
cli: fix errors being ignored during metadata apply in config v3 (fix #6784)

v2.0.0-alpha.7

Transactions for Postgres mutations

With v2 came the introduction of heterogeneous execution: in one query or mutation, you can target different sources: it is possible, for instance, in one mutation, to both insert a row in a table in a table on Postgres and another row in another table on MSSQL:

mutation {
  // goes to Postgres
  insert_author_one(object: {name: "Simon Peyton Jones"}) {
    name
  }

  // goes to MSSQL
  insert_publication_one(object: {name: "Template meta-programming for Haskell"}) {
    name
  }
}

However, heterogeneous execution has a cost: we can no longer run mutations as a transaction, given that each part may target a different database. This is a regression compared to v1.

While we want to fix this by offering, in the future, an explicit API that allows our users to choose when a series of mutations are executed as a transaction, for now we are introducing the following optimisation: when all the fields in a mutation target the same Postgres source, we will run them as a transaction like we would have in v1.

Bug fixes and improvements

server: use_prepared_statements option (default: False) in add_pg_source metadata API
server: add --async-actions-fetch-interval command-line flag and HASURA_GRAPHQL_ASYNC_ACTIONS_FETCH_INTERVAL environment variable for configuring async actions re-fetch interval from metadata storage (fix #6460)
server: add 'replace_configuration' option (default: false) in the add source API payload
server: add a comment field for actions (#231)
server: accept GeoJSON for MSSQL geometry and geography operators (#787)
server: update pg_dump clean output to disable function body validation in create function statements to avoid errors due to forward references
server: fix a bug preventing some MSSQL foreign key relationships from being tracked
console: add a comment field for actions (#231)
console: data sidebar bug fixes and improvements (#921)
cli: fix seeds incorrectly being applied to databases in config v3 (#6683)
cli: add --all-databases flag for migrate apply, this allows applying migrations on all connected databases in one go
cli-migrations: add config v3 image
docs: add Hasura v2 upgrade guide (#1030)

v2.0.0-alpha.6

Support geometry and geography spatial data comparison operators in MS SQL Server

Comparison operators on spatial data types, geometry and geography, are now supported in MS SQL Server. The following operators are supported:

STEquals
STIntersects
STTouches
STOverlaps
STCrosses
STWithin
STContains

Example query: Select values equal to a given geography instance

query {
  spatial_types_geog(
    where: {
      point: { _st_equals: "POINT(3 4)" }
      }
    ) {
    point
  }
}

Example query: Select values that spatially contain a given geometry instance

query {
  spatial_types_geom(
    where: {
      compoundcurve: { _st_contains: "POINT(0.5 0)" }
    }
  ) {
    compoundcurve
  }
}

Bug fixes and improvements

server: fix action output type schema generation (fix #6631)
server/mssql: mssql_add_source can now take connection strings from environment variables
server: support IN, NIN, LIKE and NLIKE operators in MS SQL Server
server: remove the restriction of supporting only base type function arguments. The type of an argument with a table type is now <tablename>_scalar to avoid conflicts with the object type <tablename>.
server: fix inherited_roles issue when some of the underlying roles don't have permissions configured (fixes #6672)
server: fix action custom types failing to parse when mutually recursive
server: fix MSSQL table name descriptions
server: emit postgres-max-connections-error when max postgres connections are reached
server: disable caching for actions when "forward-client-headers" option is turned on
console: allow editing rest endpoints queries and misc ui improvements
console: display collection names and queries from all collections in allowlist
cli: match ordering of keys in project metadata files with server metadata

v2.0.0-alpha.5

Bug fixes and improvements

server: fix issue with parsing of remote schema list of input objects (fix #6584)
server: support tracking functions having only base type arguments (fix #6628)
console: add browse rows for mssql tables (#805)
console: remote schema permissions bug fixes (#439)
cli: cli-ext is now a native part of cli binary (no longer needed as a plugin)
cli: fix issue with adding operation to allow list in console mode (fix #6617)

v2.0.0-alpha.4

Bug fixes and improvements

server/mssql: support tracking and querying from views
server: inherited roles for PG queries and subscription
server: replaces postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY channel with lightweight polling for metadata syncing in order to resolve proxy issues
server: fix issue when a remote relationship's joining field had a custom GraphQL name defined (fix #6626)
server: fix handling of nullable object relationships (fix #6633)
console: add inherited roles support (#483)
console: add permissions support for mssql tables (#677)
cli: support rest endpoints
cli: support mssql sources
cli: use relative paths in metadata !include directives
cli: rename --database flag in migrate and seed command to --database-name
cli: support inherited roles

v2.0.0-alpha.3

Bug fixes and improvements

server/mssql: fix malformed JSON answer on empty tables
server/mssql: fix runtime errors when selecting geography/geometry columns
server/mssql: supports connection pooling to sql server
server/mssql: fix text values erroneously being parsed as varchar
server: improve errors messages for inconsistent sources
console: add relationship tab for mssql tables (#677)
build: fix the packaging of static console assets (fix #6610)
server: make REST endpoint errors compatible with inconsistent metadata

v2.0.0-alpha.2

MSSQL support

It's now possible to add a MSSQL server as a source. For now, only read-only queries and subscriptions are supported.

See the documentation at graphql/core/databases/ms-sql-server for more information.

v2.0.0-alpha.1

Bunch of bug fixes and refactor for generalized backends: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/compare/v1.4.0-alpha.2...v2.0.0-alpha.1

v1.4.0-alpha.2

Inconsistent Metadata

Add allow_inconsistent_metadata option to replace_metadata API. This will replace metadata even if there are inconsistency errors, returning a 200 response code and is_consistent and inconsistent_objects keys in the response body.

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: fix issue of not exposing mutation functions to the admin role when function permissions are inferred (fix #6503)
server: add "resource_version" field to metadata for concurrency control - disable lookup during migrations
server: fix issue with queries on character column types (close #6217)
server: optimize resolving source. Resolving a source would create connection pools every time. Optimize that to re-create connection pools only when necessary. (#609)
server: fix issues with remote schema introspection and queries over TLS.
server: Prohibit Invalid slashes, duplicate variables, subscriptions for REST endpoints
server: Prohibit non-singular query definitions for REST endpoints
server: better handling for one-to-one relationships via both manual_configuration and foreign_key_constraint_on (#2576)

v1.4.0-alpha.1

REST Endpoints

The RESTified GraphQL Endpoints API allows for the use of a REST interface to saved GraphQL queries and mutations.

Users specify the query or mutation they wish to make available, as well a URL template. Segments of the URL template can potentially capture data to be used as GraphQL variables.

See the documentation at graphql/core/api-reference/restified for more information.

Heterogeneous execution

Previous releases have allowed queries to request data from either Postgres or remote schemas, but not both. This release removes that restriction, so multiple data sources may be mixed within a single query. For example, GraphQL Engine can execute a query like

query {
  articles {
    title
  }
  weather {
    temperature
  }
}

where the articles are fetched from the database, and the weather is fetched from a remote server.

Support tracking VOLATILE SQL functions as mutations. (closing #1514)

Previously we could only track STABLE or IMMUTABLE functions, and only as queries. Now the version 2 of track_table also supports tracking functions as mutations:

  {
    "type": "track_function",
    "version": 2,
    "args": {
        "function": {
            "schema": "public",
            "name": "some_volatile_function"
        },
        "configuration": {
            "exposed_as": "mutation"
        }
      }
    }

Remote schema permissions

Now, permissions can be configured for remote schemas as well, which works similar to the permissions system of the postgres tables. Fields/arguments can be removed from the schema and arguments can also be preset to limit the role from having unrestricted access over it.

NOTE: To enable remote schema permissions, the graphql-engine needs to be started either with the server flag --enable-remote-schema-permissions or the environment variable HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLE_REMOTE_SCHEMA_PERMISSIONS set to true.

Function Permissions

Before volatile functions were supported, the permissions for functions were automatically inferred from the select permission of the target table. Now, since volatile functions are supported we can't do this anymore, so function permissions are introduced which will explicitly grant permission to a function for a given role. A pre-requisite to adding a function permission is that the role should have select permissions to the target table of the function.

`ltree` comparison operators

Comparison operators on columns with ltree, lquery or ltxtquery types are now supported, for searching through data stored in a hierarchical tree-like structure.

See the documentation at graphql/core/queries/query-filters more details on the currently supported ltree operators.

Example query: Select ancestors of an ltree argument

query {
  tree (
    where: {path: {_ancestor: "Tree.Collections.Pictures.Astronomy.Astronauts"}}
  ) {
    path
  }
}

Example response:

{
  "data": {
    "tree": [
      {
        "path": "Tree"
      },
      {
        "path": "Tree.Collections"
      },
      {
        "path": "Tree.Collections.Pictures"
      },
      {
        "path": "Tree.Collections.Pictures.Astronomy"
      },
      {
        "path": "Tree.Collections.Pictures.Astronomy.Astronauts"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Breaking changes

This release contains the PDV refactor (#4111), a significant rewrite of the internals of the server, which did include some breaking changes:
- The semantics of explicit null values in where filters have changed according to the discussion in issue 704: an explicit null value in a comparison input object will be treated as an error rather than resulting in the expression being evaluated to True. For instance: delete_users(where: {id: {_eq: $userId}}) { name } will yield an error if $userId is null instead of deleting all users.
- The validation of required headers has been fixed (closing #14 and #3659):
  - if a query selects table bar through table foo via a relationship, the required permissions headers will be the union of the required headers of table foo and table bar (we used to only check the headers of the root table);
  - if an insert does not have an on_conflict clause, it will not require the update permissions headers.
This release contains the remote schema permissions feature, which introduces a breaking change:

Earlier, remote schemas were considered to be a public entity and all the roles had unrestricted access to the remote schema. If remote schema permissions are enabled in the graphql-engine, a given remote schema will only be accessible to a role ,if the role has permissions configured for the said remote schema and be accessible according to the permissions that were configured for the role.

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: add request field to webhook POST body containing the GraphQL query/mutation, its name, and any variables passed (close #2666)
server: fix a regression where variables in fragments weren't accepted (fix #6303)
server: output stack traces when encountering conflicting GraphQL types in the schema
server: add --websocket-compression command-line flag for enabling websocket compression (fix #3292)
server: some mutations that cannot be performed will no longer be in the schema (for instance, delete_by_pk mutations won't be shown to users that do not have select permissions on all primary keys) (#4111)
server: treat the absence of backend_only configuration and backend_only: false equally (closing #5059) (#4111)
server: accept only non-negative integers for batch size and refetch interval (close #5653) (#5759)
server: Configurable websocket keep-alive interval. Add --websocket-keepalive command-line flag and HASURA_GRAPHQL_WEBSOCKET_KEEPALIVE env variable (fix #3539)
server: validate remote schema queries (fixes #4143)
server: introduce optional custom table name in table configuration to track the table according to the custom name. The set_table_custom_fields API has been deprecated, A new API set_table_customization has been added to set the configuration. (#3811)
server: support joining Int or String scalar types to ID scalar type in remote relationship
server: add support for POSIX operators (close #4317) (#6172)
server: do not block catalog migration on inconsistent metadata
server: update forkImmortal function to log more information, i.e log starting of threads and log asynchronous and synchronous exception.
server: various changes to ensure timely cleanup of background threads and other resources in the event of a SIGTERM signal.
server: fix issue when the relationships field in objects field is passed [] in the set_custom_types API (fix #6357)
server: fix issue with event triggers defined on a table which is partitioned (fixes #6261)
server: action array relationships now support the same input arguments (such as where or distinct_on) as usual relationships
server: action array relationships now support aggregate relationships
server: fix issue with non-optional fields of the remote schema being added as optional in the graphql-engine (fix #6401)
server: accept new config allowed_skew in JWT config to provide leeway for JWT expiry (fixes #2109)
server: fix issue with query actions with relationship with permissions configured on the remote table (fix #6385)
server: always log the request_id at the detail.request_id path for both query-log and http-log (#6244)
server: fix issue with --stringify-numeric-types not stringifying aggregate fields (fix #5704)
server: derive permissions for remote relationship field from the corresponding remote schema's permissions
server: terminate a request if time to acquire connection from pool exceeds configurable timeout (#6326)
server: fix issue with mapping session variables to standard JWT claims (fix #6449)
server: support tracking of functions that return a single row (fix #4299)
server: reduce memory usage consumption of the schema cache structures, and fix a memory leak
server: add source name in livequery logs
server: support ltree comparison operators (close #625)
server: support parsing JWT from cookie header (fix #2183)
console: allow user to cascade Postgres dependencies when dropping Postgres objects (close #5109) (#5248)
console: mark inconsistent remote schemas in the UI (close #5093) (#5181)
console: remove ONLY as default for ALTER TABLE in column alter operations (close #5512) #5706
console: add onboarding helper for new users (#355)
console: add option to flag an insertion as a migration from Data section (close #1766) (#4933)
console: down migrations improvements (close #3503, #4988) (#4790)
console: allow setting computed fields for views (close #6168) (#6174)
console: select first operator by default on the browse rows screen (close #5729) (#6032)
console: fix allow-list not getting added to metadata/allow_list.yaml in CLI mode (close #6374)
console: misc bug fixes (close #4785, #6330, #6288)
console: allow setting table custom name (#212)
console: support tracking VOLATILE functions as mutations or queries (close #6228)
console: show only compatible postgres functions in computed fields section (close #5155) (#5978)
console: added export data option on browse rows page (close #1438 #5158)
console: add session argument field for computed fields (close #5154) (#5610)
console: add support for function permissions (#413)
console: add tree view for Data Tab UI (#524)
console: add support for RESTified Endpoints (#569)
cli: add missing global flags for seed command (#5565)
cli: allow seeds as alias for seed command (#5693)
cli: fix action timeouts not being picked up in metadata operations (#6220)
build: add test_server_pg_13 to the CI to run the server tests on Postgres v13 (#6070)

v1.3.3

Server - Support for mapping session variables to default JWT claims

Some auth providers do not let users add custom claims in JWT. In such cases, the server can take a JWT configuration option called claims_map to specify a mapping of Hasura session variables to values in existing claims via JSONPath or literal values.

Example:-

Consider the following JWT claim:

  {
    "sub": "1234567890",
    "name": "John Doe",
    "admin": true,
    "iat": 1516239022,
    "user": {
      "id": "ujdh739kd",
      "appRoles": ["user", "editor"]
    }
  }

The corresponding JWT config can be:

  {
    "type":"RS512",
    "key": "<The public Key>",
    "claims_map": {
      "x-hasura-allowed-roles": {"path":"$.user.appRoles"},
      "x-hasura-default-role": {"path":"$.user.appRoles[0]","default":"user"},
      "x-hasura-user-id": {"path":"$.user.id"}
    }
  }

Metadata Types SDK

The types and documentation comments for Metadata V2 have been converted into JSON/YAML Schema, and used to autogenerate type definitions for popular languages.

This enables users to build type-safe tooling in the language of their choice around Metadata interactions and automations.

Additionally, the JSON/YAML Schemas can be used to provide IntelliSense and autocomplete + documentation when interacting with Metadata YAML/JSON files.

For a more comprehensive overview, please see the readme located here

Sample Code

import { TableEntry } from "../generated/HasuraMetadataV2";

const newTable: TableEntry = {
  table: { schema: "public", name: "user" },
  select_permissions: [
    {
      role: "user",
      permission: {
        limit: 100,
        allow_aggregations: false,
        columns: ["id", "name", "etc"],
        computed_fields: ["my_computed_field"],
        filter: {
          id: { _eq: "X-Hasura-User-ID" },
        },
      },
    },
  ],
};

IntelliSense Example

Breaking changes

PDV

This release contains the PDV refactor (#4111), a significant rewrite of the internals of the server, which did include some breaking changes:

The semantics of explicit null values in where filters have changed according to the discussion in issue 704: an explicit null value in a comparison input object will be treated as an error rather than resulting in the expression being evaluated to True. For instance: delete_users(where: {id: {_eq: $userId}}) { name } will yield an error if $userId is null instead of deleting all users.
The validation of required headers has been fixed (closing #14 and #3659):
- if a query selects table bar through table foo via a relationship, the required permissions headers will be the union of the required headers of table foo and table bar (we used to only check the headers of the root table);
- if an insert does not have an on_conflict clause, it will not require the update permissions headers.

Remote Relationship

In this release, a breaking change has been introduced:

In a remote relationship query, the remote schema will be queried when all of the joining arguments are not null values. When there are null value(s), the remote schema won't be queried and the response of the remote relationship field will be null. Earlier, the remote schema was queried with the null value arguments and the response depended upon how the remote schema handled the null arguments.

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: allow remote relationships joining type column with [type] input argument as spec allows this coercion (fixes #5133)
server: add action-like URL templating for event triggers and remote schemas (fixes #2483)
server: change created_at column type from timestamp to timestamptz for scheduled triggers tables (fix #5722)
server: allow configuring timeouts for actions (fixes #4966)
server: fix bug which arised when renaming a table which had a manual relationship defined (close #4158)
server: limit the length of event trigger names (close #5786) NOTE: If you have event triggers with names greater than 42 chars, then you should update their names to avoid running into Postgres identifier limit bug (#5786)
server: enable HASURA_GRAPHQL_PG_CONN_LIFETIME by default to reclaim memory
server: fix issue with tracking custom functions that return SETOF materialized view (close #5294) (#5945)
server: allow remote relationships with union, interface and enum type fields as well (fixes #5875) (#6080)
server: Fix fine-grained incremental cache invalidation (fix #6027) This issue could cause enum table values to sometimes not be properly reloaded without restarting graphql-engine. Now a reload_metadata API call (or clicking “Reload enum values” in the console) should consistently force a reload of all enum table values.
server: fix event trigger cleanup on deletion via replace_metadata (fix #5461) (#6137) WARNING: This can cause significant load on PG on startup if you have lots of event triggers. Delay in starting up is expected.
console: add notifications (#5070)
cli: fix bug in metadata apply which made the server aquire some redundant and unnecessary locks (close #6115)
cli: fix cli-migrations-v2 image failing to run as a non root user (close #4651, close #5333)
cli: fix issue with cli binary on latest Mac (Big Sur) (fix #5462)
docs: add docs page on networking with docker (close #4346) (#4811)
docs: add tabs for console / cli / api workflows (close #3593) (#4948)
docs: add postgres concepts page to docs (close #4440) (#4471)
docs: add guides on connecting hasura cloud to pg databases of different cloud vendors (#5948)

`v1.3.2`

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: fixes column masking in select permission for computed fields regression (fix #5696)

`v1.3.1`, `v1.3.1-beta.1`

Breaking change

Headers from environment variables starting with HASURA_GRAPHQL_ are not allowed in event triggers, actions & remote schemas.

If you do have such headers configured, then you must update the header configuration before upgrading.

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: fix failing introspection query when an enum column is part of a primary key (fixes #5200)
server: disallow headers from env variables starting with HASURA_GRAPHQL_ in actions, event triggers & remote schemas (#5519) WARNING: This might break certain deployments. See Breaking change section above.
server: bugfix to allow HASURA_GRAPHQL_QUERY_PLAN_CACHE_SIZE of 0 (#5363)
server: support only a bounded plan cache, with a default size of 4000 (closes #5363)
server: add logs for action handlers
server: add request/response sizes in event triggers (and scheduled trigger) logs (#5463)
server: change startup log kind db_migrate to catalog_migrate (#5531)
console: handle nested fragments in allowed queries (close #5137) (#5252)
console: update sidebar icons for different action and trigger types (#5445)
console: make add column UX consistent with others (#5486)
console: add "identity" to frequently used columns (close #4279) (#5360)
cli: improve error messages thrown when metadata apply fails (#5513)
cli: fix issue with creating seed migrations while using tables with capital letters (closes #5532) (#5549)
build: introduce additional log kinds for cli-migrations image (#5529)

`v1.3.0`

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: adjustments to idle GC to try to free memory more eagerly (related to #3388)
server: process events generated by the event triggers asynchronously (close #5189) (#5352)
console: display line number that error originated from in GraphQL editor (close #4849) (#4942)
docs: add page on created_at / updated_at timestamps (close #2880) (#5223)

`v1.3.0-beta.4`

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: change relay endpoint to /v1beta1/relay (#5257)
server: relay connection fields are exposed regardless of allow aggregation permission (fix #5218) (#5257)
server: add new --conn-lifetime and HASURA_GRAPHQL_PG_CONN_LIFETIME options for expiring connections after some amount of active time (#5087)
server: shrink libpq connection request/response buffers back to 1MB if they grow beyond 2MB, fixing leak-like behavior on active servers (#5087)
server: have haskell runtime release blocks of memory back to the OS eagerly (related to #3388)
server: unlock locked scheduled events on graceful shutdown (#4928)
server: disable prepared statements for mutations as we end up with single-use objects which result in excessive memory consumption for mutation heavy workloads (#5255)
server: include scheduled event metadata (created_at,scheduled_time,id, etc) along with the configured payload in the request body to the webhook. WARNING: This is breaking for beta versions as the payload is now inside a key called payload.
console: allow configuring statement timeout on console RawSQL page (close #4998) (#5045)
console: support tracking partitioned tables (close #5071) (#5258)
console: add button to cancel one-off scheduled events and cron-trigger events (close #5161) (#5236)
console: handle generated and identity columns in console data section (close #4552, #4863) (#4761)
cli: fix plugins install failing due to permission issues on windows (close #5111)
docs: add note for managed databases in postgres requirements (close #1677, #3783) (#5228)
docs: add 1-click deployment to Nhost page to the deployment guides (#5180)
docs: add hasura cloud to getting started section (close #5206) (#5208)

`v1.3.0-beta.3`

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: fix introspection when multiple actions defined with Postgres scalar types (fix #5166) (#5173)
console: allow manual edit of column types and handle array data types (close #2544, #3335, #2583) (#4546)
console: add the ability to delete a role in permissions summary page (close #3353) (#4987)
console: fix styling of table row contents on tables on relationship page (#4974)
cli: handle missing files during metadata apply (close #5163) (#5170)
docs: add pages on remote joins (close #4911) (#5132)
docs: add page on scheduled triggers (close #4913) (#5141)
docs: add page on Relay schema (close #4912) (#5150)

`v1.3.0-beta.2`

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: add --pg-connection-options command-line flag for passing parameters to PostgreSQL (close #5092) (#5187)
server: improve memory usage of idle websockets connections (#5190)
server: few relay fixes (fix #5020, #5037, #5046) (#5013)
server: raise error on startup when --unauthorized-role is ignored (#4736)
server: fix bug which arises when renaming/dropping a column on a remote relationship (#5005, #5119)
console: provide option to cascade metadata on dependency conflicts on console (fix #1593)
console: fix enum tables reload data button UI (#4647)
console: fix "Cannot read property 'foldable'" runtime error in Browse Rows page (fix #4907) (#5016)
console: respect read-only mode in actions pages (fix #4656) (#4764)
console: allow configuring session_argument for custom functions (close #4499) (#4922)
console: fix listen update column config selection for event trigger (close #5042) (#5043)
cli: add new flags up-sql and down-sql to generate sql based migrations from the CLI (#5026)
docs: add instructions on fixing loss of data when using floats (close #5092)
docs: add page on setting up v2 migrations (close #4746) (#4898)

`v1.3.0-beta.1`

Relay

The Hasura GraphQL Engine serves Relay schema for Postgres tables which has a primary key defined.

The Relay schema can be accessed through /v1beta1/relay endpoint.

[Add docs links][add console screenshot for relay toggle]

Remote Joins

Remote Joins extend the concept of joining data across tables, to being able to join data across tables and remote schemas.

It works similar to table relationships. Head to the Relationship tab in your table page and define a remote relationship:

give a name for the relationship
select the remote schema
give the join configuration from table columns to remote schema fields.

[Add docs links][add console screenshot]

Scheduled Triggers

A scheduled trigger can be used to execute custom business logic based on time. There are two types of timing events: cron based or timestamp based.

A cron trigger will be useful when something needs to be done periodically. For example, you can create a cron trigger to generate an end-of-day sales report every weekday at 9pm.

You can also schedule one-off events based on a timestamp. For example, a new scheduled event can be created for 2 weeks from when a user signs up to send them an email about their experience.

[Add docs links][add console screenshot]

(close #1914)

Allow access to session variables by computed fields (fix #3846)

Sometimes it is useful for computed fields to have access to the Hasura session variables directly. For example, suppose you want to fetch some articles but also get related user info, say likedByMe. Now, you can define a function like:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION article_liked(article_row article, hasura_session json)
RETURNS boolean AS $$
  SELECT EXISTS (
    SELECT 1
    FROM liked_article A
    WHERE A.user_id = hasura_session ->> 'x-hasura-user-id' AND A.article_id = article_row.id
  );
$$ LANGUAGE sql STABLE;

and make a query like:

query {
  articles {
    title
    content
    likedByMe
  }
}

Support for this is now added through the add_computed_field API.

Read more about the session argument for computed fields in the docs.

Manage seed migrations as SQL files

A new seeds command is introduced in CLI, this will allow managing seed migrations as SQL files

Creating seed

# create a new seed file and use editor to add SQL content
hasura seed create new_table_seed

# create a new seed by exporting data from tables already present in the database
hasura seed create table1_seed --from-table table1

# create from data in multiple tables:
hasura seed create tables_seed --from-table table1 --from-table table2

Applying seed

# apply all seeds on the database:
hasura seed apply

# apply only a particular seed
hasura seed apply --file 1234_add_some_seed_data.sql

Bug fixes and improvements

(Add entries here in the order of: server, console, cli, docs, others)

server: fix explain queries with role permissions (fix #4816)
server: compile with GHC 8.10.1, closing a space leak with subscriptions. (close #4517) (#3388)
server: fixes an issue where introspection queries with variables would fail because of caching (fix #4547)
server: avoid loss of precision when passing values in scientific notation (fix #4733)
server: fix mishandling of GeoJSON inputs in subscriptions (fix #3239)
server: fix importing of allow list query from metadata (fix #4687)
server: flush log buffer during shutdown (#4800)
server: fix edge case with printing logs on startup failure (fix #4772)
console: allow entering big int values in the console (close #3667) (#4775)
console: add support for subscriptions analyze in API explorer (close #2541) (#2541)
console: avoid count queries for large tables (#4692)
console: add read replica support section to pro popup (#4118)
console: fix regression in editing permissions manually (fix #4683) (#4826)
console: allow modifying default value for PK (fix #4075) (#4679)
console: fix checkbox for forwarding client headers in actions (#4595)
console: re-enable foreign tables to be listed as views (fix #4714) (#4742)
console: display rows limit in permissions editor if set to zero (fix #4559)
console: fix inconsistency between selected rows state and displayed rows (fix #4654) (#4673)
console: fix displaying boolean values in Edit Row tab (#4682)
console: fix underscores not being displayed on raw sql page (close #4754) (#4799)
console: fix visiting view modify page overwriting raw sql content (fix #4798) (#4810)
console: add help button and move about page to settings (#4848)
console: add new sidebar icon that separates enums from tables (fix #4984) (#4992)
cli: list all available commands in root command help (fix #4623) (#4628)
cli: fix bug with squashing event triggers (close #4883)
cli: add support for skipping execution while generating migrations through the migrate REST API
cli: add dry run flag in hasura migrate apply command (fix #3128) (#3499)
cli: load assets from server when HASURA_GRAPHQL_CONSOLE_ASSETS_DIR is set (close #3382)
docs: add section on actions vs. remote schemas to actions documentation (#4284)
docs: fix wrong info about excluding scheme in CORS config (#4685)
docs: add single object mutations docs (close #4622) (#4625)
docs: add docs page on query performance (close #2316) (#3693)
docs: add a sample Caddyfile for Caddy 2 in enable-https section (#4710)
docs: add disabling dev mode to production checklist (#4715)
docs: add integration guide for AWS Cognito (#4822, #4843)
docs: update troubleshooting section with reference on debugging errors (close #4052) (#4825)
docs: add page for procuring custom docker images and binaries (#4828)
docs: add content on how to secure action handlers and other actions docs improvements (#4743)
docs: make header common with other hasura.io/ pages (#4957)
install manifests: update all install manifests to enable dev mode by default (close #4599) (#4716)

`v1.2.0`

Include the changelog from v1.2.0-beta.1, v1.2.0-beta.2, v1.2.0-beta.3, v1.2.0-beta.4, v1.2.0-beta.5

Additional changelog:

CLI: Support servers with self-signed certificates (close #4564) (#4582)

A new flag --certificate-authority is added so that the CA certificate can be provided to trust the Hasura Endpoint with a self-signed SSL certificate.

Another flag --insecure-skip-tls-verification is added to skip verifying the certificate in case you don't have access to the CA certificate. As the name suggests, using this flag is insecure since verification is not carried out.

Bug fixes and improvements

console: update graphiql explorer to support operation transform (#4567)
console: make GraphiQL Explorer taking the whole viewport (#4553)
console: fix table columns type comparision during column edit (close #4125) (#4393)
cli: allow initialising project in current directory (fix #4560) #4566
cli: remove irrelevant flags from init command (close #4508) (#4549)
docs: update migrations docs with config v2 (#4586)
docs: update actions docs (#4586)

`v1.2.0-beta.5`

server: backend only insert permissions

Introduces optional backend_only (default: false) configuration in insert permissions (see api reference). If this is set to true, the insert mutation is accessible to the role only if the request is accompanied by x-hasura-use-backend-only-permissions session variable whose value is set to true along with the x-hasura-admin-secret header. Otherwise, the behavior of the permission remains unchanged.

This feature is highly useful in disabling insert_table mutation for a role from frontend clients while still being able to access it from a Action webhook handler (with the same role).

(rfc #4120) (#4224)

server: debugging mode for non-admin roles

For any errors the server sends extra information in extensions field under internal key. Till now this was only available for admin role requests. To enable this for other roles, start the server with --dev-mode flag or set HASURA_GRAPHQL_DEV_MODE env variable to true:

$ graphql-engine --database-url <database-url> serve --dev-mode

In case you want to disable internal field for admin role requests, set --admin-internal-errors option to false or or set HASURA_GRAPHQL_ADMIN_INTERNAL_ERRORS env variable to false

$ graphql-engine --database-url <database-url> serve --admin-internal-errors false

This feature come in handy during development when you may want to see detailed errors irrespective of roles.

Improved internal errors for Actions:

(This is a breaking change with previous 1.2.0-beta releases)

The internal field for action errors is improved with more debug information. It now includes request, response and error fields instead of just webhook_response field.

Before:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "extensions": {
        "internal": {
          "webhook_response": {
            "age": 25,
            "name": "Alice",
            "id": "some-id"
          }
        },
        "path": "$",
        "code": "unexpected"
      },
      "message": "unexpected fields in webhook response: age"
    }
  ]
}

After:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "extensions": {
        "internal": {
          "error": "unexpected response",
          "response": {
            "status": 200,
            "body": {
              "age": 25,
              "name": "Alice",
              "id": "some-id"
            },
            "headers": [
              {
                "value": "application/json",
                "name": "Content-Type"
              },
              {
                "value": "abcd",
                "name": "Set-Cookie"
              }
            ]
          },
          "request": {
            "body": {
              "session_variables": {
                "x-hasura-role": "admin"
              },
              "input": {
                "arg": {
                  "age": 25,
                  "name": "Alice",
                  "id": "some-id"
                }
              },
              "action": {
                "name": "mirror"
              }
            },
            "url": "http://127.0.0.1:5593/mirror-action",
            "headers": []
          }
        },
        "path": "$",
        "code": "unexpected"
      },
      "message": "unexpected fields in webhook response: age"
    }
  ]
}

cli: add support for .env file

ENV vars can now be read from .env file present at the project root directory. A global flag, --envfile, is added so you can explicitly provide the .env filename, which defaults to .env filename if no flag is provided.

Example:

hasura console --envfile production.env

The above command will read ENV vars from production.env file present at the project root directory.

(close #4129) (#4454)

console: allow setting post-update check in update permissions

Along with the check for filtering rows that can be updated, you can now set a post-update permission check that needs to be satisfied by the updated rows after the update is made.

(close #4142) (#4313)

console: support for Postgres materialized views

Postgres materialized views are views that are persisted in a table-like form. They are now supported in the Hasura Console, in the same way as views. They will appear on the 'Schema' page, under the 'Data' tab, in the 'Untracked tables or views' section.

(close #91) (#4270)

docs: map Postgres operators to corresponding Hasura operators

Map Postgres operators to corresponding Hasura operators at various places in docs and link to PG documentation for reference. For example, see here.

(#4502) (close #4056)

Bug fixes and improvements

server: add support for _inc on real, double, numeric and money (fix #3573)
server: support special characters in JSON path query argument with bracket [] notation, e.g obj['Hello World!'] (#3890) (#4482)
server: add graphql-engine support for timestamps without timezones (fix #1217)
server: support inserting unquoted bigint, and throw an error if value overflows the bounds of the integer type (fix #576) (fix #4368)
console: change react ace editor theme to eclipse (close #4437)
console: fix columns reordering for relationship tables in data browser (#4483)
console: format row count in data browser for readablity (#4433)
console: move pre-release notification tooltip msg to top (#4433)
console: remove extra localPresets key present in migration files on permissions change (close #3976) (#4433)
console: make nullable and unique labels for columns clickable in insert and modify (#4433)
console: fix row delete for relationships in data browser (#4433)
console: prevent trailing spaces while creating new role (close #3871) (#4497)
docs: add API docs for using environment variables as webhook urls in event triggers
server: fix recreating action's permissions (close #4377)
server: make the graceful shutdown logic customizable (graceful shutdown on the SIGTERM signal continues to be the default)
docs: add reference docs for CLI (clsoe #4327) (#4408)

`v1.2.0-beta.4`

add query support in actions

(close #4032) (#4309)

console: persist page state in data browser across navigation

The order, collapsed state of columns and rows limit is now persisted across page navigation

(close #3390) (#3753)

Bug fixes and improvements

cli: query support for actions (#4318)
cli: add retry_conf in event trigger for squashing migrations (close #4296) (#4324)
cli: allow customization of server api paths (close #4016)
cli: clean up migration files created during a failed migrate api (close #4312) (#4319)
cli: add support for multiple versions of plugin (close #4105)
cli: template assets path in console HTML for unversioned builds
cli: set_table_is_enum metadata type for squashing migrations (close #4394) (#4395)
console: query support for actions (#4318)
console: recover from SDL parse in actions type definition editor (fix #4385) (#4389)
console: allow customising graphql field names for columns of views (close #3689) (#4255)
console: fix clone permission migrations (close #3985) (#4277)
console: decouple data rows and count fetch in data browser to account for really large tables (close #3793) (#4269)
console: update cookie policy for API calls to "same-origin"
console: redirect to /:table/browse from /:table (close #4330) (#4374)
console: surround string type column default value with quotes (close #4371) (#4423)
console: add undefined check to fix error (close #4444) (#4445)
docs: add One-Click Render deployment guide (close #3683) (#4209)
server: reserved keywords in column references break parser (fix #3597) #3927
server: fix postgres specific error message that exposed database type on invalid query parameters (#4294)
server: manage inflight events when HGE instance is gracefully shutdown (close #3548)
server: fix an edge case where some events wouldn't be processed because of internal erorrs (#4213)
server: fix downgrade not working to version v1.1.1 (#4354)
server: type field is not required if jwk_url is provided in JWT config
server: add a new field claims_namespace_path which accepts a JSON Path for looking up hasura claim in the JWT token (#4349)
server: support reusing Postgres scalars in custom types (close #4125)

`v1.2.0-beta.3`

console: manage Postgres check constraints

Postgres Check constraints allows you to specify that the value in a certain column must satisfy a Boolean (truth-value) expression. They can be used to put in simple input validations for mutations and with this release, these constraints can now be added while creating a table or later from Modify tab on the console.

Example: When a product is created, ensure that the price is greater than zero. The SQL would look like this:

CREATE TABLE products (
    product_id UUID DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
    name TEXT,
    price NUMERIC CONSTRAINT positive_price CHECK (price > 0)
);

To create this table with Hasura Console, on the 'Add a new table' screen, after adding all the columns, scroll down to 'Check constraints' section and 'Add a new check constraint' with the following properties:

Constraint name: positive_price
Check expression: price > 0

Read more about check constraints on Postgres Docs.

(close #1700) (#3881)

CLI: V2 migrations architecture

A new CLI migrations image is introduced to account for the new migrations workflow. If you're have a project with version: 2 in config.yaml, you should use the new image: hasura/graphql-engine:v1.2.0-cli-migrations-v2. Mount the migrations at /hasura-migrations and metadata at /hasura-metadata.

See upgrade docs.

(close #3969) (#4145)

Bug fixes and improvements

server: improve performance of replace_metadata tracking many tables (fix #3802)
server: option to reload remote schemas in 'reload_metadata' API (fix #3792, #4117)
server: fix various space leaks to avoid excessive memory consumption
server: fix postgres query error when computed fields included in mutation response (fix #4035)
server: fix __typename not being included for custom object types (fix #4063)
server: preserve cookie headers from sync action webhook (close #4021)
server: validate action webhook response to conform to action output type (fix #3977)
server: add 'ID' to default scalars in custom types (fix #4061)
server: fix erroneous error log "Received STOP for an operation ..."
console: enum field values can be selected through a dropdown in insert/edit rows page (close #3748) (#3810)
console: exported metadata filenames are now unique(hasura_metadata_<timestamp>.json) (close #1772) (#4106)
console: allow bulk deleting rows in 'Browse Rows' section (close #1739) (#3735)
console: fix computed field permission selection (#4246)
console: allow customising root fields of single row mutations (close #4203) (#4254)
console: fix json string rendering in data browser (close #4201) (#4221)
console: handle long column names in event trigger update columns (close #4123) (#4210)
console: disable selecting roles without permissions for bulk actions (close #4178) (#4195)
console: fix passing default value to JsonInput (#4175)
console: fix parsing of wrapped types in SDL (close #4099) (#4167)
console: misc actions fixes (#4059)
console: action relationship page improvements (fix #4062, #4130) (#4133)
console: add code exporter to graphiql (close #4531) #4652
cli: fix init command to generate correct config (fix #4036) (#4038)
cli: fix parse error returned on console api (close #4126) (#4152)
cli: fix typo in cli example for squash (fix #4047) (#4049)
docs: add statement to grant hasura permissions for PG functions (#4238)
docs: add docs for redeliver_event api (fix #4176) (#4177)
docs: update permission.rst for check constraint api (#4124)
docs: add note on pg versions for actions (#4034)
docs: add latest prerelease build info (close #4041) (#4048)
docs: add AuthGuardian JWT guide (#3958)

`v1.2.0-beta.2`

server: Don't update catalog version if using --dryRun (#3970)
cli: add version flag in update-cli command (#3996)
cli(migrations-img): add env to skip update prompts (fix #3964) (#3968)
cli, server: use prerelease tag as channel for console assets cdn (#3975)
cli: fix flags in actions, migrate and metadata cmd (fix #3982) (#3991)
cli: preserve action definition in metadata apply (fix… (#3993)
cli: bug fixes related to actions (#3951)

`v1.2.0-beta.1`

Hasura Actions

Actions are a way to extend Hasura’s auto-generated mutations with entirely custom ones which can handle various use cases such as data validation, data enrichment from external sources and any other complex business logic.

A new mutation can be created either by defining its GraphQL SDL or by deriving it from an existing Hasura-generated mutation. The resolver is exposed to Hasura as a webhook which can be called synchronously or asynchronously. This release also includes an ever evolving codegen workflow to make managing the custom resolvers easier.

Downgrade command

A new command is added to the server executable for downgrading to earlier releases. Previously, if you ran a newer Hasura version and wanted to go back to an old version on the same database, you had to stop Hasura, run some SQL statements and start Hasura again. With the new downgrade command, these SQL statements can be run automatically.

Example: Downgrade from v1.2.0 to v1.0.0:

# stop hasura v1.2.0

# run the following command:
docker run hasura/graphql-engine:v1.2.0 graphql-engine --database-url <db-url> downgrade --to-v1.0.0

# start hasura v1.0.0

Read more about this command in the docs.

(close #1156) (#3760)

Expiration of connections authenticated by WebHooks

When using webhooks to authenticate incoming requests to the GraphQL engine server, it is now possible to specify an expiration time; the connection to the server will be automatically closed if it's still running when the expiration delay is expired.

Bug fixes and improvements

server: check expression in update permissions (close #384) (rfc #3750) (#3804)
console: show pre-release update notifications with opt out option (#3888)
console: handle invalid keys in permission builder (close #3848) (#3863)
docs: add page on data validation to docs (close #4085) (#4260)

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Support comparing columns across related tables in permission's boolean expressions

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Support geometry and geography spatial data comparison operators in MS SQL Server

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