MINEO 2024.12 Enhanced Performance, Responsiveness, and Usability

Welcome to MINEO 2024.12! This release brings significant backend optimizations, new features for responsive Data Apps, advanced Python editor functionalities, and improved PDF export capabilities.

Let’s explore the highlights:

🚀 Backend Optimizations

We’ve implemented extensive optimizations to the backend infrastructure, focusing on handling frequent and resource-intensive requests.

Key improvements:

• Database optimization: Refined queries for better performance
• Reduced overhead: Minimized processing overhead
• Resource allocation: Improved system resource management
• Lower latency: Significantly reduced response times
• Better throughput: Enhanced overall system performance

Performance gains:

• 40% faster: Average query times reduced by 40%
• 30x improvement: Operations like folder deletion are up to 30x faster

📱 Responsive Mode for Data Apps

Blocks can now be centered dynamically with a new responsive mode, improving visualization and adaptability across different mobile devices.

Benefits:

• Dynamic centering: Automatic block positioning for optimal viewing
• Cross-device compatibility: Better visualization on mobile devices
• Cleaner layouts: Improved user experience on smaller screens
• Easy activation: Access via Notebook Properties → Grid Options

Coming soon: This mode will become the default setting for all new notebooks in the next release.

🐍 Enhanced Python Editor

Quick Assistant and integrated code formatting are now supported in the file editor, making coding smoother and more efficient.

New capabilities:

• Quick Assistant: Access relevant suggestions instantly
• Code formatting: Automated code structure improvements
• Reduced manual work: Less time spent on manual adjustments
• Clean code: Ensure well-structured code seamlessly

Note: This feature expands the possibilities opened by autoreload support for .py files introduced in the previous release.

🖨️ Improved PDF Export

PDF printing now respects browser configurations, giving users greater control over document formatting.

Customization options:

• Page size: Customize page dimensions
• Margin control: Adjust margins as needed
• Background colors: Include or exclude background colors
• Browser integration: Leverage browser’s native print settings

This enhancement ensures professional and polished exports with complete formatting control.

📒 Notebook Improvements

Autoreload & Execution

• Snippet Autoreload: Introduced shortcut to add autoreload to existing notebooks
• Enhanced Notifications: Block execution notifications now display block titles and include interaction indicators

MINEO Assistant

• Improved scrolling: Better response navigation and viewing
• Execution control: Option to halt execution mid-response for greater user control

📊 Widget Enhancements

Image & Form Widgets

• Image Widget: Added ability to open image previews in new window
• Form Widget: Sliders now support dictionary-based configurations for advanced customizations

Chart Widget

• New chart type: Multi-bullet charts with customizable target bars and thickness
• Dual-axis improvements: Independent axis configuration settings
• Format fixes: Resolved suffix formatting issues in stacked bar charts
• Enhanced markers: Better marker handling with column-based sorting (ascending/descending)
• Variable linking: Enabled for numeric charts

DataSource Widget

• Column configuration: Separate settings for display and filter columns
• Style options: New button styles and layout customization
• Reliability: Fixed occasional query issues

Table Widget

• Text handling: Improved word wrapping for headers and cells

🗂️ Explorer Improvements

File Management

• Multi-file upload: Drag and drop multiple files simultaneously for streamlined workflows
• Viewer mode: Improved options for visible blocks to enhance viewer user experience
• Context menu: Right-click options to copy file paths or open directories directly

🌟 General Updates

Permissions & Documentation

• Viewer licenses: View-only users with proper permissions can now upload files
• Pipeline API: Expanded documentation for better integration and ease of use

🐛 Bug Fixes

Widget & Explorer Fixes

• DataSource Widget: Resolved occasional query errors
• File Explorer: Fixed folder refresh issues for improved stability
• Upload Widget: Full paths now correctly returned via fullpath variable

MINEO 2024.12 delivers a refined and responsive platform, empowering users with better tools and performance enhancements. Try out these updates and let us know your thoughts!

Happy coding!