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# 2023 Release Notes
> Xano release notes and changelog for 2023
Looking for other years? See [2026 (latest)](/updates), [2025](/updates/2025), [2024](/updates/2024), [2022](/updates/2022), or [2021](/updates/2021).
Holiday Release
* **Expression Data Type:** New expression data type.
* **Xano Transform Engine:** New Xano Transform Engine.
* **New Spreadsheet Engine:** With infinite scroll support and sharable views.
* **App Level CORS Management.**
* **Self Serve Agency Partner Profiles.**
* **Custom View Alias Support:** Can be referenced via the database connector.
* **Improvement:** Easy copy/paste support for arrays.
* **Improvement:** Improved support for import JSON — raw mode or the traditional Xano method with inline filters.
* **Improvement:** New save guard on all panels that prompts if you forget to save and try to leave the panel with active edits.
* **Improvement:** Improved renaming detection with database schema (with auto data migration), inputs, environment variables, and function stack variables.
* **Improvement:** Inline filters for even faster transformation within a single statement.
* **Improvement:** New mega menu for adding to your function stack with easy favorites for your most used statements.
* **Improvement:** Added FastXMLParser and AWS4 Signature to lambda libraries.
* **Improvement:** Autocomplete within code editor for inputs, variables, and environment variables.
* **API/Function Input Remapping Tool:** Auto-updated referenced inputs.
* **Private File Storage:** With time-sensitive signed URLs.
* **Enterprise Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Login.**
* **Improvement:** External API request now supports custom SSL certificates.
* **Improvement:** Usability updates to our billing upgrade page.
* **Bug fix:** Grouping nested conditionals was sometimes giving unexpected results.
* **ncScale Integration:** Now available through the connect center.
* **Amazon S3 Cloud Storage Support:** Through the function stack.
* **Improvement:** Table row locks are now supported inside a database transaction for get record and query all records.
* **Bug fix:** Style fixes for the new function stack.
* **New Function Stack UI Treatment:** To maximize screen real-estate without information overload.
* **Improvement:** Background tasks now have visibility into what they are processing from the admin panel.
* **Improvement:** Resource graph now includes CPU usage across API, Database, Redis, Lambda, and Tasks.
* **Improvement:** console.log statements inside a Lambda now show up as a debug log entry.
* **Tag Manager:** Now supported for additional organization across database tables, api groups, api queries, functions, addons, and tasks.
* **Xano Image WebP Support:** Now includes the popular webp format.
* **New "Random Bytes" Statement:** Generate cryptographically secure random bytes.
* **Improvement:** robots.txt added to xano instance domains to prevent web crawlers.
* **Improvement:** Updated luxon library to 3.4.2 in Lambda.
* **Try/Catch Support:** Along with support to throw errors.
* **Database Connector:** The ability to self provision a static IP address to your database, leverage full and read-only credentials, and control access to IP addresses.
* **Debug Logging:** The ability to choose what to log throughout your function stack and have those logs easily accessible in the debugger.
* **CSV Stream:** Efficiently iterate through CSV files regardless of file size without requiring large amounts of memory.
* **Static IP Address:** For outgoing API requests is now available as an addon. Commonly required by 3rd party API providers requiring an IP whitelist.
* **Improvement:** New support within the Security Policy addon for allowlist/denylist for IP addresses to control access to your API endpoints.
* **Improvement:** All plans now have support to upgrade their background tasks to unlimited rather than one by one.
* **Improvement:** Easily find functions when adding them to your stack using the new and improved search support.
* **Improvement:** Metadata improvements — data-sources are now manageable via the API. A new header is optional via the Swagger documentation for all content API requests to easily leverage different data-sources.
* **Improvement:** All of our plans got supercharged with CPU upgrades resulting in a 40% performance boost.
* **Partial Function Refactoring:** Convert a subset of function stack items into their own function.
* **Database Collaboration:** Work in real-time in the spreadsheet editor and see where your teammates are working in real-time.
* **Google Cloud Storage:** Function stack support — interact with your own public and private storage buckets.
* **Color-Coded Branches and Data Sources:** Choose your own color scheme to easily separate production from test environments.
* **Improvement:** Post-process response variables — post-processing now has the ability to conditionally react to the success of your API request.
* **RBAC and Xano Link:** Now available to all premium plans through premium add-ons.
* **Improvement:** Better search support to locate parameter names on inputs, variables, and table columns.
* **Redirect Back to Last Used Instance:** Upon login is now configurable on the account page.
* **Improvement:** Run & Debug now supports custom extras in the auth token.
* **Bug fix:** Scale plans were not properly getting their file upload limit increased.
* **Improvement:** Support for re-ordering, disabling, and cloning filters.
* **Improvement:** Endpoint URLs now support an alternative separator character as the Xano base API url. You can use a "-" character instead of ":" character.
* **New Pattern Filter:** For regex validation on database fields and inputs.
* **Improvement:** Easier to use branch support in Metadata API. Reference branches by labels instead of their ids.
* **Improvement:** Ongoing improvements to undo/redo in the spreadsheet editor including faster support for bulk cut/copy/paste and redo.
* **Bug fix:** Request history entries now show post processing details.
* **Post Processing Support:** Via function stack after your API is complete.
* **Direct Query Support:** For Scale plans and above with new query wizard.
* **Undo/Redo Support:** Within spreadsheet editor.
* **Security:** Login activity is now available on all accounts on the account profile page.
* **Security:** Instance activity — connecting to instance, updating permissions, managing team members, etc. are now available through the compliance center addon.
* **Improvement:** Copy as curl support from Run & Debug and request history.
* **Improvement:** New timestamp filters to make time math easier — to\_days, to\_hours, to\_minutes, to\_seconds, to\_ms.
* **Improvement:** New lambda libraries: crypto-js, jose, and uuid.
* **Improvement:** Upgraded frontend to Angular 16.
* **Improvement:** Tab to complete — more friendly interactive dot-notation when selecting variables.
* **Bug fix:** Fixed the infamous auto-selecting text type bug when wanting to reference a variable instead.
* **Improvement:** Inactivity timeout improvements — choose different timeout options or even disable this completely as an individual. Enterprise instances can enforce this setting as a policy for all users.
* **Bug fix:** A regression was introduced when dealing with bookmarks/multiple tabs — this is now fixed.
* **Bug fix:** CSV files that were imported with a backslash escape character were not properly being parsed by the backend even though the frontend showed the previous properly.
* **Bug fix:** Misc fixes for multi-select + copy/paste edge cases.
* **Multi-Cell Copy/Paste/Delete Support:** Within spreadsheet editor — along with aggregate sum, count, average, min, max.
* **Direct Database Query Support:** Within function stack.
* **New Access Options for Snippets:** Including the ability to offer one time use tokens through the Metadata API.
* **New Security Policy Panel:** To enforce authentication requirements on instance access.
* **New Maintenance Panel** for instances.
* **Improvement:** RBAC improvements for bulk assignment.
* **Security Inactivity Timeout:** Within Xano admin panel.
* **Improvement:** Better support for 3DS payments for recurring transactions.
* **Improvement:** Metadata API access now shows within request history.
* **Improvement:** Dashboard request history now shows requests across all branches with the ability to filter by current branch within the details panel.
* **Bug fix:** Better error messages on branch merging when dependencies are missing.
* **Improvement:** Request history can now be exported to CSV or retrieved through the Metadata API.
* **Improvement:** Updates to the Metadata API — new support for listing your Xano instances, request history, file upload.
* **Improvement:** Improved support for granular permissions (create, read, update, delete) within the Permissions Center (RBAC).
* **Improvement:** Workspace stats on the workspace list page now only show live branch instead of all branches.
* **Read-Only and Suspended Roles:** Now available for all team members across the entire Xano Instance. Granular controls per workspace are possible through RBAC.
* **New Filters:** detect\_encoding, convert\_encoding, list\_encodings for character encoding transformations.
* **The Metadata API** is currently in beta and is the next evolution of the Developer API. It provides support to programmatically manage your Xano schema and content and uses Access Tokens to control access.
* **Full Content Export:** Via background processing with email notification including downloadable CSV link. This export supports the active filters, sorts, and column order/visibility.
* **Improvement:** Better drag & drop file upload support within spreadsheet editor.
* **Improvement:** File uploads within spreadsheet cells now show a mini progress bar.
* **Improvement:** Better paste support for cells within the spreadsheet editor.
* **Improvement:** Better re-ordering experience within arrays of records in the spreadsheet view.
* **Improvement:** Timeout support for Lambda's to prevent infinite loops. Default value is 10 seconds, but it can be adjusted.
* **Improvement:** Premium option to add more than 2 data sources through the billing portal for Scale+ plans.
* **Improvement:** New instance panel to provide more space to deal with various instance related actions.
* **Improvement:** Updated min/max filters to support both arrays and numbers.
* **Improvement:** Faster socket events around CRUD operations.
* **Bug fix:** Swagger documentation was not always properly identifying required fields.
* **Bug fix:** Certain public keys were not working properly when decoding a JWS token using the RS256 algorithm.
* **Improvement:** Xano Link now supports transmitting data across workspaces, along with several usability improvements.
* **Improvement:** Re-styled database list page that is more space friendly to large monitors.
* **Improvement:** More streamlined run\&debug experience that lets you re-edit the inputs without changing tabs.
* **Improvement:** Creating a workspace now lets you move forward quickly with a name and 2 clicks.
* **Improvement:** Database spreadsheet view has some usability improvements with using copy/paste or control/command keys.
* **Bug fix:** Merging functions with nested functions would sometimes lose their references.
* **Bug fix:** Default values were sometimes incorrect when adding custom roles using RBAC.
* **Bug fix:** Clicking on an instance with a billing issue when being the developer and not the instance owner, would result in an empty screen.
* **Bug fix:** Dependency lines would not be re-drawn correctly when scrolling on the table relationship mode.
* **Bug fix:** Run & debug was not treating null values correctly when having inputs that are file resources.
* **Delete File Support:** Now available via the function stack.
* **Improvement:** Expanded/compressed view icon for viewing functions, addons, and tasks on their list pages.
* **Improvement:** Branch merges now create an entry in each object's version history.
* **Improvement:** The compliance center for the enterprise offering now supports unlimited version history.
* **Improvement:** Merge support and Xano Link now prompt when there are missing dependencies.
* **Bug fix:** The image pipeline was not obeying exif rotation when requesting a different size.
* **Bug fix:** Selecting database table records within a snippet was causing an error.
* **Bug fix:** Exporting data from a table was causing an error.
* **Bug fix:** Creating an update on a snippet was causing an error.
* **Bug fix:** Function caching was not working properly when using functions with inputs.
* **Database Views.**
* **Improvement:** Functions, tasks, and addons have a new UI treatment to easily search and sort large lists of objects.
* **Improvement:** All pages now have SEO friendly titles to help users who use lots of tabs!
* **Improvement:** Customize output has a new UI treatment to easily select all/none on different levels of output.
* **Improvement:** New Lambda libraries — Azure Identity and Azure Service-Bus.
* **Improvement:** Create database table now has the ability to create a new API group for crud endpoints instead of only selecting existing ones.
* **Improvement:** Quick copy link next to each file on the Files page.
* **Bug fix:** API route issue where it was possible to have conflicting routes through draft publishing.
* **Bug fix:** Agency links to their clients were counting as an actual team seat instead of being ignored.
* **Bug fix:** Entries filter was not working properly on Get All Environment Variables statement.
* **Bug fix:** Can now select more than 50 database records to include in a snippet.
* **Easy Rollback Support:** When merging using branch backups.
* **New Alternative Authentication Header:** For scenarios when an API Gateway requires their own Authorization header.
* **Improvement:** Performance improvement for installing marketplace extensions on free instance.
* **Improvement:** Auto-sanitize filenames that have improper characters like newline characters.
* **Improvement:** Additional access settings for RBAC.
* **Improvement:** Clearer instructions and validation on properly formed CSV files.
* **Improvement:** Presence and chat are now supported across the entire workspace — not just the branch.
* **Improvement:** Branch ids are now preserved within the URL, which means copy/pasting urls go to the right components and branch.
* **Improvement:** to\_text, to\_int, and to\_decimal filters now work on arrays of scalar values.
* **Improvement:** Lambda's now have access to the special \$auth variable for the authenticated user.
* **Bug fix:** Database link was no longer dynamically updating when schema updates were made.
* **Bug fix:** The return statement would ignore the return if a null value was used.
* **Bug fix:** Create file resource was not using the supplied filename if the filedata was being retrieved from a URL.
* **Branch Merging Support.**
* **Xano Link:** Now available as an enterprise addon.
* **Dynamic Environment Variable References.**
* **Socks Library Support:** Within Lambda.
* **Improvement:** New simplified onboarding flow for login, signup, and jumpstart.
* **Improvement:** Ongoing performance fixes — switched major components over to Angular's OnPush ChangeDetectionStrategy.
* **Bug fix:** Agency signup workflow stopped working with free account upgrades.
* **Bug fix:** Changing workspaces within the workspace select widget was causing strange error messages.
* **Improvement:** Speed improvement opening panels when having a large workspace.
* **Improvement:** Drag & drop now supports auto-scrolling up and down the page.
* **Improvement:** Drag & drop has a more minimalistic UI when dragging.
* **Improvement:** Support for net and dns libraries within Lambdas.
* **Bug fix:** There was a validation discrepancy in the Clone Table workflow that was more strict than the Create Table workflow.
* **Bug fix:** Import curl was not working properly with the --form parameter.
* **Bug fix:** Custom headers were preventing CORS request on the API.
Major Release — Introducing the Function Stack V2
* **New Flexible Editing and Publishing Workflow.**
* **Real Time Collaboration:** Work with teammates on the same function stack.
* **Group Support** within the function stack.
* **Online Presence:** See where your teammates are and what they are doing.
* **Run & Debug:** Your draft edits before they are published.
* **Easy Rollback** of draft edits before publishing.
* **Sticky "Run & Debug"** with RE-RUN support for rapid debugging.
* **New Optional Commit Messages** to make sure published versions more meaningful.
* **Bug fix:** Support for uploading password protected PDFs.