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 ## Superset 1.0

 Apache Superset 1.0 is a major milestone that the community has been working towards since the
 very first commit at a hackathon at Airbnb back in 2015. Superset 1.0 packs a lot of new features,
 uplevels usability, holds a higher quality standard, and raises the bar for releases to come.

 This page chronicles the key advancements that our community has been building up towards this release.

 While growing fast over the past four years, Superset had accumulated a certain amount of technical debt,
 design debt, bugs, and idiosyncrasies. For this release, we wanted to pay the bulk of that debt off,
 streamlining the core user flows, refreshing the overall look and feel, taking off some of the
 scaffolding that was left standing around, and more generally, leveling up the user experience.

 ## User Experience

 Visually, Superset 1.0 is stunning, introducing card layouts with thumbnails throughout the application,
 streamlining navigation and content discovery with a new home page, redesigned menus,
 and generally enriching existing pages.

 <img src="/images/dashboard_card_view.jpg" />

 Behind the scenes, we moved away from Bootstrap 2x in favor of building a
 proper design system on top of Ant Design.
 We also redesigned all of our CRUD (Create Read Update Delete), moving away
 from the rigid scaffolding “auto-magic” provided by FAB (Flask App Builder),
 to our own React-based solution that enables us to build richer experiences.

 <img src="/images/explore_ui.jpg" />

 More generally,
 many rough edges got buffed, the whole product got polished,
 and we managed to get our core user flows to, well, flow nicely.

 ## API

 For engineers and hackers, we’ve made Superset much more modular,
  extensible and integratable. We’re now exposing the building blocks of Superset
  for engineers to extend or use in other projects. It’s now easier than ever to
  create new visualization plugins for Superset and to share those plugins back with the community.

  We’re excited by the possibilities that this opens and excited to observe a growing ecosystem of
  plugins take life. We’ve also formalized a [public REST API](/docs/rest-api) that enables engineers to essentially
  do everything that users can do in Superset, programmatically.


 ## Honorable Mentions

 With 1680 PRs merged and 25+ SIPs (Superset Improvement Proposals) over 2020, it’s hard
 to summarize what went into this release. Improvements happened in all aspects
 of the project, from infrastructure to design, through backend and frontend, to community and
 governance. Here are some honorable mentions that we haven’t been covered above,
 but deserve a mention in this post:

 - Asynchronous backend improvements
 - Metadata and data pane in explorer view
 - Toolbars redesign (SQL Lab, dashboard, explore)
 - Date range picker redesign
 - Various Docker / Helm improvements
 - Migration of key visualization to plugins using Echarts
 - Time series forecasting leveraging the Prophet library
 - Improvements to and extensive use of our feature flag framework
 - Improved analytics logging, capturing more events more consistently
 - Exploration control panels improvements
 - Improved SQL-to-explore flows

 **Release Notes**

 To digest the full set of changes in 1.0, we recommend reading the
 [full Release Notes](https://github.com/apache/superset/tree/master/RELEASING/release-notes-1-0)
 on Github.

 ## Start Using Superset 1.0

 **Source Code**

 You can download Superset 1.0 from any of the following places:

 - Official Apache Software Foundation source [release](https://downloads.apache.org/superset/1.0.0/)
 - Python package from [PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/apache-superset/1.0.0/)
 - this commit tag from [Github](https://github.com/apache/superset/releases/tag/1.0.0)

 **Feature Flags & Dependency Configuration**

 Some of the features in Superset 1.0 require:

 - enabling of specific feature flags (read more about [configuring these](/docs/installation/configuring-superset))
 - custom configuration of additional services (e.g. celery, SMTP server, etc)

 In this section, the community takes the first steps to document the
 feature flags and configuration instructions needed.

 | Feature | Feature Flag | Dependencies | Documentation
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | Global Async Queries | `GLOBAL_ASYNC_QUERIES: True` | Redis 5.0+, celery workers configured and running | [Extra documentation](https://github.com/apache/superset/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#async-chart-queries )
 | Dashboard Native Filters | `DASHBOARD_NATIVE_FILTERS: True` | |
 | Alerts & Reporting | `ALERTS_REPORTS: True` | [Celery workers configured & celery beat process](/docs/installation/async-queries-celery) |
 | Homescreen Thumbnails | `THUMBNAILS: TRUE, THUMBNAIL_CACHE_CONFIG: CacheConfig = { "CACHE_TYPE": "null", "CACHE_NO_NULL_WARNING": True}`| selenium, pillow 7, celery |
 | Dynamic Viz Plugin Import | `DYNAMIC_PLUGINS: True` | |
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	name: "Superset One"
	title: "Superset One"
	route: /docs/version-one
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	## Superset 1.0

	Apache Superset 1.0 is a major milestone that the community has been working towards since the
	very first commit at a hackathon at Airbnb back in 2015. Superset 1.0 packs a lot of new features,
	uplevels usability, holds a higher quality standard, and raises the bar for releases to come.

	This page chronicles the key advancements that our community has been building up towards this release.

	While growing fast over the past four years, Superset had accumulated a certain amount of technical debt,
	design debt, bugs, and idiosyncrasies. For this release, we wanted to pay the bulk of that debt off,
	streamlining the core user flows, refreshing the overall look and feel, taking off some of the
	scaffolding that was left standing around, and more generally, leveling up the user experience.

	## User Experience

	Visually, Superset 1.0 is stunning, introducing card layouts with thumbnails throughout the application,
	streamlining navigation and content discovery with a new home page, redesigned menus,
	and generally enriching existing pages.

	<img src="/images/dashboard_card_view.jpg" />

	Behind the scenes, we moved away from Bootstrap 2x in favor of building a
	proper design system on top of Ant Design.
	We also redesigned all of our CRUD (Create Read Update Delete), moving away
	from the rigid scaffolding “auto-magic” provided by FAB (Flask App Builder),
	to our own React-based solution that enables us to build richer experiences.

	<img src="/images/explore_ui.jpg" />

	More generally,
	many rough edges got buffed, the whole product got polished,
	and we managed to get our core user flows to, well, flow nicely.

	## API

	For engineers and hackers, we’ve made Superset much more modular,
	extensible and integratable. We’re now exposing the building blocks of Superset
	for engineers to extend or use in other projects. It’s now easier than ever to
	create new visualization plugins for Superset and to share those plugins back with the community.

	We’re excited by the possibilities that this opens and excited to observe a growing ecosystem of
	plugins take life. We’ve also formalized a [public REST API](/docs/rest-api) that enables engineers to essentially
	do everything that users can do in Superset, programmatically.


	## Honorable Mentions

	With 1680 PRs merged and 25+ SIPs (Superset Improvement Proposals) over 2020, it’s hard
	to summarize what went into this release. Improvements happened in all aspects
	of the project, from infrastructure to design, through backend and frontend, to community and
	governance. Here are some honorable mentions that we haven’t been covered above,
	but deserve a mention in this post:

	- Asynchronous backend improvements
	- Metadata and data pane in explorer view
	- Toolbars redesign (SQL Lab, dashboard, explore)
	- Date range picker redesign
	- Various Docker / Helm improvements
	- Migration of key visualization to plugins using Echarts
	- Time series forecasting leveraging the Prophet library
	- Improvements to and extensive use of our feature flag framework
	- Improved analytics logging, capturing more events more consistently
	- Exploration control panels improvements
	- Improved SQL-to-explore flows

	Release Notes

	To digest the full set of changes in 1.0, we recommend reading the
	[full Release Notes](https://github.com/apache/superset/tree/master/RELEASING/release-notes-1-0)
	on Github.

	## Start Using Superset 1.0

	Source Code

	You can download Superset 1.0 from any of the following places:

	- Official Apache Software Foundation source [release](https://downloads.apache.org/superset/1.0.0/)
	- Python package from [PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/apache-superset/1.0.0/)
	- this commit tag from [Github](https://github.com/apache/superset/releases/tag/1.0.0)

	Feature Flags & Dependency Configuration

	Some of the features in Superset 1.0 require:

	- enabling of specific feature flags (read more about [configuring these](/docs/installation/configuring-superset))
	- custom configuration of additional services (e.g. celery, SMTP server, etc)

	In this section, the community takes the first steps to document the
	feature flags and configuration instructions needed.

	\| Feature \| Feature Flag \| Dependencies \| Documentation
	\| --- \| --- \| --- \| --- \|
	\| Global Async Queries \| `GLOBAL_ASYNC_QUERIES: True` \| Redis 5.0+, celery workers configured and running \| [Extra documentation](https://github.com/apache/superset/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#async-chart-queries )
	\| Dashboard Native Filters \| `DASHBOARD_NATIVE_FILTERS: True` \| \|
	\| Alerts & Reporting \| `ALERTS_REPORTS: True` \| [Celery workers configured & celery beat process](/docs/installation/async-queries-celery) \|
	\| Homescreen Thumbnails \| `THUMBNAILS: TRUE, THUMBNAIL_CACHE_CONFIG: CacheConfig = { "CACHE_TYPE": "null", "CACHE_NO_NULL_WARNING": True}`\| selenium, pillow 7, celery \|
	\| Dynamic Viz Plugin Import \| `DYNAMIC_PLUGINS: True` \| \|