Baserow 1.0: Cloudron app, sidebar redesign, and stability improvements

Working towards the 1.0 release of Baserow mainly involved making small changes and fixing bugs to create a stable new version. By giving us your feature requests, we were able to create a roadmap for 2021 based on what was most popular. Thank you for completing the survey.

Improved self-hosting

To make self hosting easier, we have created a Baserow Cloudron app. If you’re not familiar with Cloudron, we recommend checking out their great tool. The Baserow app is not yet available in the Cloudron app store, but you can follow these instructions to try it out on Cloudron.

After last month’s real-time collaboration release, the infrastructure dependencies won’t change much compared to previous releases. This means we can now focus on improving the self hosting experience. We want to support more platforms like Cloudron, Digital Ocean marketplace, Heroku one-click deploy, YunoHost, and other platforms that make self hosting easy.

Redesigned left sidebar

In some cases, the original sidebar wasn’t very useful. Switching between workspaces and the big blue sidebar weren’t ideal. So we’ve designed and implemented a cleaner and calmer sidebar that allows for additional menu items and improved switching between workspaces.

https://baserow-media.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/pagedown-uploads/blog\_february\_2021\_sidebar.png

New roadmap for 2021

Many people filled out the survey for new features, and we really appreciate it! Based on the data provided, we have created a new roadmap that can be viewed on the homepage. We were surprised to learn that searching in a table was the most requested feature by far. It’s relatively easy to implement, but we didn’t realize how popular it would be. Below is a small table with the survey results. The percentages don’t add up to 100% because everyone could choose three features.

Score Name Expected release
43.2.8% Searching in table March
39.8% Exporting to CSV, Excel, XML and JSON May
31.8% Importing Excel, XML and JSON May
29.5% Undo and redo August
20.5% Public view sharing November
17% Kanban view September
13.6% Admin dashboard to manage all users and workspaces April
9.1% Templates March
8.0% Trash June
6.8% Snapshots Unknown
6.8% Zapier integration October
5.7% Gallery view September
5.7% Row comments July
3.4% Survey view Unknown

All changes

All the changes of version 1.0 listed.

  • Redesigned the left sidebar.
  • Fixed error when uploading a file with a very long name.
  • Added validation for single select fields.
  • Fixed bug that prevented staying logged in when visiting Baserow via a link.
  • Created a Baserow Cloudron app.
  • Fixed bug that prevented converting a single select field without options to another field.
  • Fixed bug where the date picker used the wrong timezone.
  • Made it possible to configure SMTP settings via environment variables.
  • Added field names to the REST API docs.
  • Added an option for the admin to disable new signups.
  • Respected the date format when converting to a date field.
  • Added a filter for filenames containing specific text.