**Weekly 3**: https://youtu.be/w-K8mzUfpIs (HD still processing) - EU cluster - Kafka - Extending cr
Weekly 3: https://youtu.be/w-K8mzUfpIs (HD still processing)
- EU cluster
- Kafka
- Extending cron support
- Workspace specific critical alerts
- FileUpload support for our AI generated hub scripts
- new pricing page presentation
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Windmill Weekly 3
EU cluster
Kafka
Extending cron support
Workspace specific critical alerts
FileUpload support for our AI generated hub scripts
new pricing page presentation
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The iteration picker for flows was not super practical for flows that were still running. Now it both locks the iteration picked and will loads all the substeps at any depth correctly, and running steps won't interfere with it.
We have introduced a new pricing https://www.windmill.dev/pricing
Instead of vCPUs, we are now basing pricing on compute units (a 2GB worker used for a full month). Workers have a size (small, standard, large) based on their memory limit (<=1, (1-2], >2) and each worker size gets a compute unit (0.5, 1, 2)
With this new approach, you can now get rid of setting vCPU limits which is an anti-pattern in favor of only setting them as requests not to limit unnecessarily the compute power of your workers
Apart from that, seats and discounts for non-profits and SMBs still exist

refreshable components are now cancellable directly on the app
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Multiselects can now take labeled values in apps:

you can now enforce dark/light mode on apps (also help with quickly checking rendering on both themes)
small changelog for aggrid fanatics, you can make your app using aggrid behave a lot better by setting the newly exposed rowIdCol to an id that is stable in your rows:. It allows AgGrid to compute the best re-display of the table on changes. If you don't it will use our auto-generated ids like before but there are cases where it's less optimal

App custom URL
Cloud and enterprise users can now set a custom public URL for their app!
https://www.windmill.dev/changelog/app-custom-url
https://www.windmill.dev/docs/apps/public_apps#custom-url

more native docker jobs support
With the new
# docker
annotation, windmill will manage the container started from your bash job for you, including piping the logs, monitoring memory and super importantly stopping container on job cancel or worker kill for you. That's one step closer to have windmill support managing external jobs on k8s/ecs/nomad/swarm directly.
Issues with apps released between Windmill 1.436.0 (5 days old) -> 1.437.0: Update to >= 1.437.1
Newly deployed apps with Windmill on those versions will see their frontend scripts not running. The mistake is related to a performance improvement we did.
You just have to update to Windmill version >= 1.437.1 or latest helm chart. It doesn't impact apps that were deployed prior to those versions and it only impact frontend scripts.
Big apologies 🙇♂️
C# on Windmill!
Starting on v1.438.0 you can write and run C# on Windmill. For package management, just specify dependencies at the top of the file and they will be automatically handled by NuGet. Go try it out!
Changelog: https://www.windmill.dev/changelog/csharp
Docs: https://www.windmill.dev/docs/getting_started/scripts_quickstart/csharp

Interactive Slack Approval Steps
Effortlessly approve or reject flow steps directly within Slack! This feature includes support for form inputs, dynamic enums, default arguments and includes a Python and Typescript helper function.
Approvers can now complete the process without leaving Slack, eliminating the need to switch to a browser.
Changelog: https://www.windmill.dev/changelog/slack-approval-steps
Docs: https://www.windmill.dev/docs/flows/flow_approval#slack-approval-step
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1260616311994712074/1327279249605918730/slack_approval_short.mp4?ex=67827ca0&is=67812b20&hm=6e1090f03f2bade4933996932c8610710eb03f905388f1aa3dd23f9d3c08ad27&
Interactive Slack Approval Steps
Approve or reject flow steps directly from Slack with support for form inputs
Suspend & Approval / Prompts | Windmill
Flows can be suspended until resumed or canceled event(s) are received. This
Workspace Colors
You can now color-code your workspaces to visually distinguish between different workspaces, especially when the side-bar is collapsed. This can be particularly useful to differentiate between prod/test workspaces.
Changelog: https://www.windmill.dev/changelog/workspace-color
Docs: https://www.windmill.dev/docs/core_concepts/workspace_settings#workspace-color

You can watch our weekly lives on our Youtube channel
Today's keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tOpodhrg68
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Windmill Weekly #7
00:00 Waiting
03:26 Alex: Ongoing work on Microsoft Teams integration
06:09 Alex: Signing commits with GPG when using git-sync
08:15 Hugo: on_behalf_of for scripts and flows
11:05 Etienne: Integration with Svix for simple webhook creation and management
11:45 Q&A
Support for multiple python runtime versions 🐍
Starting from Windmill 1.449.0 you can select python version you would like to use in your scripts.
It is done by putting annotation to the python script. Just add this line on top of your file:
#py312
You can also set INSTANCE_PYTHON_VERSION
to use specific version globally.
Already deployed scripts will always run 3.11 unless redeployed ☝️
Supported versions are: 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13Changelog: https://www.windmill.dev/changelog/select-python-version Docs: https://www.windmill.dev/docs/getting_started/scripts_quickstart/python#select-python-version
Release 1.458.0 and current latest
TL;DR: Jobs V2 format and migration may take more time than usual if high number of jobs > 1M
In release 1.458.0 (not released yet, will be by EOD) we are migrating the format of our jobs in the database (format was 1.5yo) in a non-breaking, back-compatible, no downtime needed way. This format will allow us to improve performance as well as unblock us on some long-awaited features.
You can upgrade as usual, but if you have more than 1M jobs, the migration may take around 25mins/Million of jobs. It will not block the cluster and existing workers and jobs will continue to work as usual but new workers and apps will wait for the automatic migration to be fully complete before being able to fully start.
We have many changelog to catch-up, starting with a small one.
Mocked API file
One of our focus this quarter and the next is local development, as part of that, we had the frequent request to be able to have a different behavior when running locally than when deployed. Typically that's done with an env file but that doesn't work in Windmill because you use the api to get variable and resources. Introduced Mocked API for local development:
https://www.windmill.dev/changelog/mocked-api-files https://www.windmill.dev/docs/advanced/local_development#mocked-api-files
If WM_MOCKED_API_FILE is present, getVariable / getResource will look up first in that object if the value exists. setVariable / setResource will set it there. If the environment variable is set but no file exists, it is set to an empty mocked API.
Mocked API files
Windmill now supports simulating API interactions locally with a mocked API file.
Local development | Windmill
Windmill has its own integrated development environment, but you can also develop and run scripts locally, both with self-hosted and cloud instances.
Microsoft Teams - Workspace Scripts and Handlers (EE)
Following the integration of Microsoft Teams for critical alerts, Windmill now supports triggering scripts directly from Microsoft Teams using workspace scripts as well as error, success, and recovery handlers for both workspaces and schedules
https://www.windmill.dev/videos/teams_handler.mp4
Microsoft Teams integration | Windmill
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that integrates with Office 365.
Oracle Database support
In addition to the other supported databases and sql languages, you can now add and interact with Oracle Database instances from Windmill !
See the docs: https://www.windmill.dev/docs/getting_started/scripts_quickstart/sql#oracle
Oracle support
Windmill now supports Oracle scripts.
Quickstart PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, BigQuery, Snowflake | Windmill
In this quick start guide, we will write our first script in SQL. We will see how to connect a Windmill instance to an external SQL service and then send queries to the database using Windmill Scripts.