Changelog

Python Analysis

Forecasts with confidence intervals, regressions, significance tests — the analysis SQL can't express — now run inside Cube. With Python Analysis, a Workbook tab can carry a Python script alongside its semantic query: the script reads the query results as data.csv, writes a chart to output.json, and runs against a sandbox with pandas, Prophet, and the rest of the scientific stack pre-installed. Because the input comes from your semantic model, a forecast uses the same governed metric definitions as every dashboard.

You don't have to write the code yourself — ask Analytics Chat to "forecast next quarter's revenue" and the agent writes and runs the analysis, reaching for Python only when SQL genuinely can't answer the question. The script and its results are saved as part of the workbook, so a Python-backed report can be published to a Dashboard, re-run on view, and filtered by dashboard filters like any other chart — including on embedded surfaces. Read more in the announcement.

Internationalization

Cube now speaks your team's language. The interface is fully translated into 12 locales — English, German, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), French, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Swedish, and Vietnamese — across Workbooks, Dashboards, Analytics Chat, the Data Model IDE, administration, sign-in, and transactional emails. Dates, numbers, and day names follow the same locale, so a report reads the way its audience expects.

Each person picks their own language from the Language picker in Preferences, and it follows them everywhere, including the emails Cube sends them. For embedded analytics, set an account-wide default under Embed → Settings, override it per embed with ?locale=, or switch it at runtime from the host page.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

• Freshness and refresh are now one control in Workbooks and Dashboards: hover to see when data was last refreshed and where it came from, and refresh a single chart or every chart on a board from its popover
• Added is empty and is not empty filter operators, distinct from the existing null checks
• You can now turn period-over-period comparison on for every measure at once from the time dimension column
• Nested view groups in the Explore sidebar can now be drilled into and back out of

Dashboards

• Charts on published Dashboards now offer Edit in Workbook to anyone with edit access to the backing workbook
• Restoring a published version now restores the full Dashboard state
• Duplicating a workbook now preserves its chat history, and the copy starts unshared
• Scheduled refreshes that fail to register are now surfaced instead of failing quietly

Visualization

• Added a circular ring style to the KPI Progress block
• KPI Progress bar and Sparkline blocks now accept a per-block value format
• Reworked the Table chart's Style tab with compact toolbars and icon toggles
• You can now hide a category from a chart by clicking its legend entry
• Fixed Table chart heat maps scaling from row totals and subtotals instead of real cells

Administration

• Groups can now be assigned roles directly from the console (in preview)
• You can now move or delete workspace items and activate, deactivate, or delete users in bulk, from the UI or the public API

AI

• Chat on a published Dashboard now offers the same editing actions as chat in a workbook
• Asking for several metrics at once now produces a separate KPI widget for each one
• Long-running MCP chat calls no longer time out while the agent is still working

Embed

Fixed the AI Summary widget failing to load or regenerate on embedded Dashboards.

Integrations

• Date columns with a time grain now keep their formatting in the Google Sheets and Excel add-ons
• Large reports are now written to the sheet in chunks, so big exports no longer fail
• Fixed a crash in the add-ons' Explore sidebar

Modeling

• Added ClickHouse support to dbt project sync
• Primary keys are now detected from dbt metadata instead of guessed from names
• Dimension types are now inferred from your dbt catalog
• More queries now match a pre-aggregation, including rollups that don't store calc-group dimensions
• Cancelling a query in Cube now cancels it in Snowflake instead of leaving it running
• Fixed a Jinja tag swallowing the rest of a YAML model file in the editor
• Fixed rolling-window measures failing to plan when queried with a time grain, and wrong column types coming back from aggregating indexes
• Fixed SQL parameter escaping in the Athena, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Dremio, ksqlDB, Databricks, Hive, and JDBC drivers
• Fixed large SQL results failing with a stack overflow in Explore and the Excel add-in at around 130k rows

API

• Added public endpoints to create or update a workbook by slug and a report by its public id, so a workbook can be kept in sync from your own tooling
• Added public endpoints for managing embed user-group membership and for enabling signed embedding on a Dashboard

Cube CLI

Everything you can do in Cube is now one command away. The Cube CLI is a single native binary that puts Cube's full public API in your terminal: creating and monitoring deployments, editing data model files, working with branches and commits, linking GitHub repositories and triggering builds, managing workbooks, explorations, and notifications, and administering users, groups, policies, SSO, and agents.

Install it in a single line on macOS, Linux, or Windows and sign in with the OAuth device flow — no passwords typed into a prompt. Every command supports JSON output, deterministic exit codes, and thorough --help, and deploys hash your files so only what changed is uploaded. That also makes the CLI the most reliable way to hand Cube to an AI agent: it's all text in, text out, so an agent can chain a whole workflow without a human in the loop. The CLI is in preview — read the full story in Power of CLI.

Period-over-Period Comparison

You can now compare any measure against a prior period directly in Workbooks and Dashboards. Pick a comparison window and charts, totals, and the results grid all render the current and prior values side by side, with the companion SQL available whenever you want to check the math.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

• Cube descriptions are now shown in Explore
• Nested folders inside views are now preserved in Explore and the Playground
• Added an Auto Run setting to deployment Model Configuration to control whether Explore and Workbooks run queries automatically

Dashboards

• Scheduled Dashboard emails now include a one-click unsubscribe link
• Fixed the Dashboard Refresh button not rebuilding stale pre-aggregations before reloading

Visualization

• Truncated Table chart cells now show their full value on hover
• Measures and dimensions now render with their semantic icon and color in chart settings

Administration

Azure is now available on self-serve plans, alongside AWS and GCP.

AI

• Admins can now filter Chat History by where the conversation came from
• The model agent now writes drill-down members when it generates cubes, so drilling works on generated models

Embed

• Added a setting to hide the AI chat panel on embedded Dashboards, account-wide or per session
• Embedded Analytics Chat users can now reopen their past conversations from a Chat History menu

Integrations

• Added a workspace quick-find to the Google Sheets and Excel add-ons for jumping straight to a report
• Exported reports now list the filters that were applied to them

Modeling

• Added Databricks and Athena support to dbt project sync
• You can now link straight to a specific branch in the Data Model IDE, with a copy-link button to share it

API

Added public REST endpoints for the GitHub integration, so you can link a repository and create a deployment from it end to end without opening the UI.

Workspace

• Workspace search is now a dropdown that groups folders, workbooks, and explorations and shows where each result lives
• Transactional emails are now sent in the language set on your profile

dbt Integration

Connect your dbt project once and every model becomes a governed cube. The dbt integration converts dbt models into cubes — dimensions, measures, column descriptions, primary keys, and joins inferred from dbt relationship tests and foreign-key constraints — so you never redefine your transformations by hand, and dbt stays the single source of truth.

Sync however fits your workflow: pull manually from the IDE, call the REST endpoint from CI right after dbt run, or trigger on every push with a webhook. Every automated sync lands on a review branch that a human approves before it reaches production. Cube connects to your repository over HTTPS or SSH deploy keys and only ever parses your project — it never touches your data warehouse. Read more in the announcement.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

• You can now drill down on a time dimension in Workbook Table charts and the results grid
• Introduced a new-tab experience that lets you quickly start an exploration from a single launchpad: browse or search your semantic model and source tables, or duplicate any existing workbook tab

Dashboards

• Read-only viewers of a published Dashboard can now subscribe to and unsubscribe from its scheduled refresh notifications
• Scheduled refresh email notifications can now be sent to user groups

Visualization

• Added a unified, context-aware color selector shared across chart series, maps, and conditional formatting
• Fixed chart dates not matching the results table by anchoring chart time values to UTC

Administration

• Added a tenant-wide setting to restrict CSV downloads, plus a deployment-scoped Download Data permission for custom roles
• Added a deployment-scoped Manage secrets permission to grant access to one deployment's configuration and credentials without exposing others
• You can now select historical Cube versions in any release channel

AI

The Cube MCP server can now edit the semantic data model, not just read it — external agents can open a dev branch, write model files, and commit changes for review.

Embed

Creator Mode embeds can now hide the Semantic SQL and Generated SQL views, so embedded end users can't see your data source's table and schema names.

Integrations

• You can now search reports and folders by name in the Google Sheets add-on
• Users with access to a shared report can now refresh and place it in the Google Sheets and Excel add-ons, even if they didn't create it

Scheduled Tasks

Answering the same question every Monday morning shouldn't depend on someone remembering to ask it. With Scheduled Tasks, you save an agent prompt once, pick a cadence — hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or a custom cron expression — and Cube runs it on schedule: querying your semantic layer, creating and updating reports and dashboards, and emailing results to workspace members.

Every run produces its own thread in Analytics Chat, so you can open any past run and ask follow-up questions in context, and each task's detail page shows its run history at a glance. Tasks run under the security context of the person who created them, so results respect row-level security and access policies. Create one from the new Scheduled section in the sidebar — or simply ask the agent in Analytics Chat to set it up for you.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

• Added subtotals to pivoted tables: turn on Subtotals in the totals menu and every pivot group gets its own "Total for" column, computed by the database so non-additive measures stay correct
• Fixed the fill in missing rows option resetting the query's sort order

Dashboards

Creators can now edit a published dashboard directly from its chat — ask the agent to add a chart, change filters, or adjust the layout, and it updates the draft; an Open in builder button then carries the conversation into the builder so you can review and publish.

Visualization

• You can now display a numeric column as a sparkline in Table charts, rendering the measure as a mini line, area, or bar chart over time
• Added a freshness indicator to charts in Workbooks and Dashboards: a leaf icon that shows how long ago the served data was refreshed
• Fixed Table charts ignoring date formats set in the Results tab
• Fixed a brief no-data flash while a Table chart loads

Administration

Chat History in the admin console now labels where each conversation originated: Web, Slack, MCP, API, or a scheduled task.

AI

• Added Claude Sonnet 5 support, both as a predefined model and for BYOM
• The Auto agent now uses Claude Opus 4.8 for data modeling
• The Cube MCP server now includes read-only searchDataModel and runQuery tools, so external agents can explore the data model and run governed queries directly
• Analytics Chat can now build map charts
• Custom MCP connectors now support API key, Basic Auth, and custom header authentication

Embed

Deployments can now authenticate Chat and embedding API requests with their own Cube authentication (JWT/JWKS) instead of a separate embed token, via a new deployment setting.

Modeling

• dbt pull can now generate joins between cubes, inferred from dbt relationships tests and foreign-key constraints
• You can now select which branch of your dbt repo to sync, and dbt connection settings moved from environment variables into deployment settings
• View-level default_ui_filters now accept relative date ranges (like "5 weeks ago" to "today") and use the same operator vocabulary as the workbook filter bar

Workspace

You can now rename a workbook from its context menu in the Workspace.

Content Validator

Renaming or deleting a field in the data model can silently break saved reports and dashboards that reference it — and you usually find out from the people whose charts stopped working. Content Validator, a new tab in Data Model IDE, scans your saved content and flags every report that references a measure, dimension, or view that no longer exists.

Validation is branch-aware: run it in dev mode or on a shared branch to see exactly which reports a model change would break before it merges. For each broken draft report you can jump straight to it, replace the missing member with a valid one, or delete the report; published dashboards link back to their drafts so you can fix and republish.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

Added a fill in missing rows option so time-series charts render every date in a range, even ones with no data.

Dashboards

• Report widgets in the dashboard builder now keep their title and settings menu in every state, so you can fix or replace a broken or slow-loading widget without deleting it
• Time-granularity controls now automatically apply to every chart from the same view, matching how dashboard filters work
• The filter sidebar now organizes views into view groups, matching the Data Pane
• Fixed a layout flicker when a dashboard first renders

Visualization

• Added border controls to the Table chart: horizontal, vertical, header, totals, and outer borders, each with its own color and width, plus one-click presets
• You can now set per-column widths on the Table chart, with fixed and flexible modes and fit-to-content

Administration

• You can now scope an API key to specific public API endpoints
• You can now change your password from the Preferences page

AI

• Expanded the Cube MCP server beyond the chat tool: external agents can now create, update, and publish dashboards
• Added Slack to the MCP connectors available to the Cube agent
• The Cube MCP server now supports allowlisting custom OAuth redirect URIs, so hosted AI tools like Portkey and n8n can connect

Embed

• Your app can now listen to typed iframe events from embedded surfaces (ready, view, download, drilldown, AI query) and drive them with actions like setting the color scheme or a filter
• Creator Mode embed users can now share workbooks, folders, reports, and dashboards with embed user groups
• Embedded surfaces can now be localized into 12 languages, and Creator Mode workspace titles can be set per language

Integrations

• A report can now be placed in multiple spreadsheets at once in the Google Sheets and Excel add-ons, refreshing independently in each
• Fixed report editor issues in the Google Sheets and Excel add-ons, including pivot zones overflowing when a query has many fields

Modeling

Fixed unresolved validation errors when pushing a data model to Snowflake semantic views.

Workspace

• Cube now shows a notification when a new version of the app is available
• Fixed newly saved explorations not appearing in the Workspace until a page refresh

Cube Evals

Cube Evals brings deterministic accuracy checks to your Cube agent. Pair natural-language questions with known-correct answers, run the agent against that suite, and get an objective accuracy score plus a per-case breakdown of what failed. Grading compares result sets directly — it tolerates numeric variance and ignores column aliases — so there's no LLM judge, and every failure shows the agent's SQL next to the ground-truth SQL.

Eval cases live as YAML in your data model repo, so you can run them on a branch in front of a code review, inside AI Studio. Read the full story in Introducing Cube Evals.

Dimension links

A number on its own is a dead end. Add links to a dimension in your data model and they appear as actions in the menu that opens when you left-click any results-table cell — so a reader can jump straight from that number to the context behind it. There are two kinds:

• Dashboard drill-ins navigate in-app to another dashboard, auto-filtered by the clicked row — for example, "View Customer" opens that customer's profile dashboard.
• External links open a per-row URL in a new tab, so you can deep-link into a CRM, docs, or a search.

Other improvements and fixes:

Administration

• Added a Boolean user attribute type — a True / False / Unset toggle — across user attributes, per-user values, and the security-context override editor

AI

• The agent now warns when a query's results are truncated to 100 rows
• Fixed the agent occasionally saving a dashboard report with no chart

Embed

• Added an Embed preview playground for admins to test chat, dashboard, and Creator Mode embeds
• Create embed tenants directly from the admin Embed section
• Embedded surfaces, including Creator Mode, can now be localized to Spanish
• Fixed a crash in embedded dashboard agent chat when the agent returned SQL
• Export embedded dashboard widgets as CSV

Modeling

• Review a dev branch's unsaved and uncommitted changes from anywhere in dev mode, and revert individual files
• Organize views into nested view groups

Workspace

• Share a folder directly from its header

MCP Connectors

A number tells you something moved; the reason usually lives in a ticket, a doc, or an error tracker. With MCP Connectors, the Cube agent can now reach the external tools your team already uses — and pull that surrounding context into the same conversation, while every answer stays grounded in your semantic layer. We're launching with Notion, Linear, Sentry, and Attio, with many more connectors on the way — and you can already point to any remote MCP endpoint with a custom connector today.

Ask "activation dropped last week — what changed?" and the agent can combine the metric with the features that shipped and the errors that spiked. It works both directions: results can be written back as a Notion page, filed as a Linear ticket, or posted wherever your team works. Set up connectors from the connector directory; administrators choose exactly which tools the agent can use — nothing is enabled by default — and every connection respects your existing access controls.

Each user connects their own accounts: connectors that need a personal login are authorized per user and can be reviewed or revoked from Connected accounts in your preferences. Read the full story in Introducing MCP Connectors.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

• The SQL Runner is now available in Explore, not only in Workbooks
• Semantic view hierarchies now render in Explore
• You can now delete a workbook directly from the workbook page
• Workbook widgets now show structured, readable query error messages

Dashboards

• Added a Duplicate action to the dashboard and workbook builder menus
• Dashboard builder filter and time-granularity pickers now show dimension type icons

Visualization

• Added color scale (heat mapping) for the Table chart, so cell backgrounds shade by value
• The Table chart can now render values as in-cell data bars with a Display as control

Administration

• Added a SQL Runner permission to the custom role builder so you can control who can run raw SQL

AI

• The Cube agent can now search the web and read linked pages, bringing current, real-time information into the conversation alongside your data
• The Cube agent can now email members of your workspace, for example to send analysis results or a summary

Embed

• You can now share a Creator Mode dashboard with a specific embed tenant, not only with all embed users

Integrations

• Semantic view hierarchies now render in the Google Sheets and Excel add-ons
• The Google Sheets and Excel add-ons now follow your light and dark theme

Modeling

• The Security Context tester now has an Advanced mode for overriding Cube Cloud groups and user attributes, so you can preview exactly what any user or group sees across Explore, Workbooks, Dashboards, and Chat
• Added BigQuery support for dbt pull

Usage Analytics

The new Usage Analytics page gives account administrators a set of pre-built dashboards that show how your deployments are used: query volume and latency, cache efficiency, user adoption, and AI activity with token consumption. Each dashboard answers a different question about your account — Overview, Query Activity & Performance, Users & Adoption, and AI & Token Tracking.

Usage Analytics is itself a Cube application: your account's usage telemetry is modeled as a curated set of views — API Requests, AI Usage, and Users & Adoption — and the pre-built dashboards are regular Cube dashboards on top of them. It runs the full Cube experience in Creator Mode, so you can explore the usage data, create workbooks, and assemble your own dashboards — anything you build stays private unless you share it. Available on Premium and above plans.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

• Column and row totals enabled on the Results tab now carry over when you switch to the Table chart
• Fixed the run options menu being disabled on new empty queries, which made the Auto-run toggle unreachable

Dashboards

• Scheduled dashboard emails are now rendered per recipient: each recipient gets the dashboard refreshed and captured under their own security context

Administration

• Build only selected partitions from the pre-aggregation partition list
• The Custom Roles page now remembers your sorting
• Fixed time range filter drag and navigation bugs on the monitoring pages

AI

• Added Claude Fable 5 support for the agent LLM selector and BYOM
• Fixed agent-built line charts sometimes rendering as an empty "Configure your chart" state
• New conversations now appear in the Chat History dropdown immediately
• Stopping a chat response now settles the UI right away, and follow-up messages send normally
• Fixed the MCP Server endpoint URL for deployments in dedicated and BYOC regions

Embed

• Creator Mode users can now duplicate dashboards shared with all embed users and build on top of them
• Rename or hide the embedded workspace title from the App Theme page

Integrations

• Added least-privilege mode to Semantic Layer Sync for Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud

Modeling

• Views can now declare default workbook filters via meta.default_ui_filters — selecting the view in a new workbook pre-populates them as editable, removable filters

Workspace

• Raise a collaborator's inherited access on a subfolder directly in the share dialog

Agent Skills

Agent Skills let teams capture repetitive analytical workflows as reusable, named procedures that the agent runs consistently every time — across Analytics Chat, Workbooks, and Dashboards. Instead of re-explaining the same multi-step analysis each time, you define it once and the whole team runs it the same way.

There are three ways to invoke a skill: click its button in chat, type / for a slash menu filtered by title and description, or just ask in plain language and the agent matches your request to the right skill and runs it. Once you've picked one, you can refine it inline — "for EMEA, last 6 weeks" — and the agent adjusts the run accordingly.

Skills are authored as plain Markdown files in your project's agents/skills/ directory: frontmatter plus plain-language steps, no special syntax. Running a skill is available to Explorer and Viewer roles; authoring one requires data-model edit permissions. Read the full story in Introducing Cube Agent Skills.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

• Stop and cancel running queries from Explore and Workbooks
• Disable auto-run in Explore and Workbooks
• Reworked the Table chart's Fields tab — separate visibility and labeling controls, plus a 2×2 pivot grid (columns/rows/values)
• Rename a Workbook by double-clicking its title
• Fixed: the semantic view picker in Explore re-opening the previous view instead of the one just selected

Dashboards

• Filters fall back to an unfiltered query when a filter doesn't apply to a widget
• Dashboards now remember your layout compaction setting

Administration

• CSV export on the billing Statements tab
• Refreshed the deployment Resources logs view
• Per-deployment cloud storage now supports Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage over OIDC

AI

• The Dashboard Agent can now change filters and time granularity
• Attach a dashboard chart to the Dashboard Agent as follow-up context

Embed

• Fixed a 404 when opening an admin-published dashboard shared with all embed users in Creator Mode
• Item owners are now hidden in embed Creator Mode

Integrations

• The Google Sheets and Excel add-ons now match Explore formatting for column and row totals (bold totals values)
• Added a "Loading data…" marker in the sheet while a query runs

Modeling

• The Merge button appears immediately after you commit on a branch
• Developers can override the global security context when testing queries

API

• Public REST API for notifications
• Public API endpoints for managing folder contents

Workspace

• Newly created Workbooks now sort to the top of "Last Viewed"

Dashboard Agent

Published Dashboards can now include a built-in Dashboard Agent so viewers can ask questions about what they're looking at. A chat bubble appears in the bottom-right corner — click it to open a side panel and the dashboard reflows alongside it.

The agent is read-only and grounded in what the viewer sees: it knows the dashboard's widgets, the charts they render, and the viewer's active filters and time grains, so answers always reflect the current view. Ask it to summarize the dashboard, explain a trend, or compare widgets — much like Analytics Chat, but for consumers rather than editors. Conversations persist in the URL, so a refresh restores the thread right where it left off.

Region Maps

The Map chart now supports a Region mode that plots query results as a choropleth over polygon GeoJSON. Choose a built-in source — World Countries or US States — or point to any custom HTTPS GeoJSON URL, then join it to your data on a region property. Cube auto-detects the join fields and color-scales regions by your measure, with optional shading for unmatched regions.

Other improvements and fixes:

Workbooks

• Creating a Workbook no longer prompts for a name — it's auto-generated and you can rename it later
• Drill-downs now carry over filters from filtered measures
• Charts now show the pre-aggregation indicator only when results are actually served from a pre-aggregation
• Transient query timeouts no longer flash an error while a chart is still loading

Dashboards

• Improved the Time Grain widget edit sidebar

Administration

• You can now customize the app theme to match your brand
• Deploy with CLI mode now shows the connected Git remote

AI

• The MCP server now supports multiple agents
• Added a loadQueryResults MCP tool to paginate through large query results
• Agent configs now support llm: auto to automatically select a model
• AI-generated data models now default cubes to public: false

Embed

• App theme customization extends to embedded apps, so they can match your product's branding
• Creator Mode workspaces now come seeded with starter dashboards