Meltano

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New

- Add gunicorn support for Meltano UI as a WSGI application - [!377](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/merge_requests/377)
- Meltano will now generate the minimal joins when building SQL queries - [!382](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/merge_requests/382)

Changes

- Add analytics to authentication page
- Meltano will now use SQLite for the job log. See https://meltano.com/docs/architecture.html#job-logging for more details.
- Removed manual `source .env` step in favor of it running automatically

Fixes

- Meltano will correctly source the `.env`
- fixed charts to render as previously they were blank
- Fixed Analyze button groupd CSS to align as a single row

Breaks

- Meltano will now use SQLite for the job log. See https://meltano.com/docs/architecture.html#job-logging for more details.
- URL routing updates ('/model' to '/files', removed currently unused '/extract', '/load', '/transform' and '/project/new')

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New

- add ability to save reports
- add ability to update an active report during analysis
- add ability to load reports
- add dashboards page and related add/remove report functionality

Changes

- Generate default `Meltano UI` connection for the `meltano.db` SQLite DB when a new project is created with `meltano init`
- updated main navigation to Files, Analysis, and Dashboards
- Update the `meltano permissions grant` command to fetch the existing permissions from the Snowflake server and only return sql commands for permissions not already assigned
- Add `--diff` option to the `meltano permissions grant` command to get a full diff with the permissions already assigned and new ones that must be assigned

Fixes

- Entry model definition correctly defines `region_id`.
- Updated the Fundamentals documentation section regarding reports
- Fixed Files page for empty state of Dashboards and Reports
- Fixed Analyze page's left column to accurately preselect columns and aggregates after loading a report

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New

- Add tracking of anonymous `meltano cli` usage stats to Meltano's Google Analytics Account
- Add `project_config.yml` to all meltano projects to store concent for anonymous usage tracking and the project's UUID

Changes

- Add `--no_usage_stats` option to `meltano init <project_name>` to allow users to opt-out from anonymous usage stats tracking
- Bundled Meltano models are now SQLite compatible.

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New

- Added basic authentication support for meltano ui.
- Meltano will now automatically source the .env
- Updated docs with `.m5o` authoring requirements and examples
- add support for timeframes in tables
- add basic analytics to understand usage
- add disabled UI for the lack of timeframes support in sqlite
- update Results vs. SQL UI focus based on a results response or query update respectively

Changes

- Meltano will now discover components based on `https://meltano.com/discovery.yml`
- sample designs are now packaged with meltano

Fixes

- Updated mobile menu to work as expected
- Updated tutorial docs with improved CLI commands and fixed the host setting to `localhost`

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New

- add new command `meltano add transform [name_of_dbt_transformation]`
- add transforms to the available plugins

Changes

- Auto install missing plugins when `meltano elt` runs
- Terminology updates for simpler understanding

Fixes

- Edit links on the bottom of doc pages are working now

Breaks

- Updated docs tutorial bullet regarding inaccurate "Validate" button