26.11.0.cl Release Notes

You can now open Spotter from a Liveboard, and Spotter is now grounded in the context of that Liveboard — its tabs, visualizations, and the effective filters and time ranges applied to each chart. You can ask questions like "why did revenue drop in Q3?" or "summarize what you see on this Liveboard" and Spotter reads the actual live data behind each visualization to answer, without you having to re-specify your filters or date range. Multi-step tasks — such as building a forecast, running a why analysis, and charting the result — now stay in a single conversation context across Spotter and Liveboard, with each step tracked so long tasks remain on course. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

You can now search for Spotter chats within the Spotter sidebar, and in the search bar in the top navigation. This makes it easier to find specific chats, and resume a conversation where you left off. To enable these features, contact your administrator.

You can now upload a Tableau workbook (.twb, .twbx), or supported file type (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .webp, or .pdf) to SpotterViz, and instruct the agent to create a Liveboard based on the file. You can request styling, visualization order, and filters within the SpotterViz interface. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see SpotterViz.

You can now request Spotter to send you scheduled updates on particular answers, without leaving your chat. Simply write, "Send me updates on this answer every Monday," and Spotter will email you updates as requested. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

ThoughtSpot Spreadsheet view now supports writeback, allowing analysts to enter and publish data directly to the cloud data warehouse without leaving ThoughtSpot. In Spreadsheet view, you can create input tables alongside your Answer, define key columns to set the grain, and add editable or formula-based columns. Edits are held in session state until you click Publish to Warehouse, ensuring that no unintended writes occur. Published data is immediately available for Search, Liveboards, and Spotter queries. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

ThoughtSpot now automatically sends a failure notification email to the Liveboard schedule author whenever a scheduled job fails, eliminating the need for the author to check the run history manually.

ThoughtSpot introduces Spotter on Liveboards — a redesigned Spotter that is available across Liveboards, the Homepage, embedded ThoughtSpot, REST API, MCP, Slack, and Teams from a single toggle. Administrators can choose the experience under Admin > ThoughtSpot AI > Choose Spotter 3 Liveboard Experience. New clusters default to the New experience with Spotter 3 enabled; existing Spotter 3 clusters remain on the Classic experience after upgrading to 26.11 and can switch to New at any time. The Spotter 3 capabilities section now shows only the settings relevant to the active experience, and every setting defaults to enabled on new clusters.

You can now migrate personalized Liveboard views between environments, such as from development to production, without losing them. This release introduces:

Administrators can now monitor Spotter usage and review conversations from the Spotter settings menu. Two options are available:

Users with admin or Can manage Spotter privileges can now access a platform to evaluate Spotter’s answers to specific queries for latency and accuracy, from within Spotter. The Benchmark tab allows you to see an overview of past query runs, create your own sample query and specify the correct answer in text or SQL, run those specific queries, and compare the results of selected query runs.

Models now generate AI Context automatically once saved. This includes Models created manually, and those created in SpotterModel. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

You can now access memory generation for Liveboards from the Spotter optimization tab on a Model. Click View added Liveboards to see all Liveboards with current memory on the Memory sources tab.

ThoughtSpot writeback tables are now generally available (GA). For more information, see Writeback.

You can now publish, unpublish, and manage publishing for tables and views directly from ThoughtSpot, using the same workflow previously available for Models.

ThoughtSpot introduces support for Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift as underlying cloud data warehouses (CDWs) in dbt MetricFlow. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see Integrate with dbt MetricFlow.

ThoughtSpot now preserves your custom model configuration when you re-sync a Snowflake Semantic View integration, so your column descriptions, formatting, custom calendars, geo configuration, and Spotter optimization settings are no longer overwritten on each sync. ThoughtSpot expands Semantic View coverage to include measures with dimension filters, hierarchies, and parameterized queries, so more of your Snowflake Semantic View definitions map directly into ThoughtSpot Models without manual adjustment. Formula and parameter associations are re-applied automatically after a sync, reducing manual reconciliation after each Snowflake Semantic View update. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

ThoughtSpot now supports custom, human-readable Object IDs (object_id) directly in Web URLs. Instead of relying solely on system-generated GUIDs, you can use stable, readable identifiers to navigate, share, and embed ThoughtSpot assets across environments. Existing GUID-based URLs continue to work unchanged.

Starting with ThoughtSpot Cloud 26.11.0.cl, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is enabled by default on all new ThoughtSpot Cloud clusters. Existing clusters are not affected. For more information about RBAC, see Role-based access control.

Previously, deleting an Org in ThoughtSpot stopped user-initiated queries immediately, but background processes — including scheduled Liveboard reports, alerts, and search indexing — continued to run warehouse queries against the deleted Org’s connections for up to 7 days during the deletion grace period, resulting in unexpected warehouse spend. ThoughtSpot now stops all warehouse query execution for deleted Orgs immediately at deletion time. Deleted Orgs remain restorable during the grace period; the query block is automatically lifted if an Org is restored.

Line charts in the new charts library now visually distinguish future dates from historical data. When a chart’s time axis includes dates in the future, ThoughtSpot renders the future segment with a dashed or dotted-line style so you can quickly identify projected or forecasted data at a glance. You can control it in the Column tab of the chart.

For embedded deployments, CSS rule overrides defined using the rules_UNSTABLE property of the customCSS object in the Visual Embed SDK are now supported for charts in the new charts library. For more information, see Customize style elements using Rules in the ThoughtSpot Developers documentation.

We have upgraded the MySQL driver to version 8.4.0. For more information, see Cloud data warehouse driver details for connections.

We have upgraded the Snowflake driver to version 4.3.2. For more information, see Cloud data warehouse driver details for connections.

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