Pyramid 2025.02 Released

Itamar_Birenzweig
updated 14 hrs ago

Pyramid 2025.02, a feature pack for Pyramid 2025 Newton, has been released. It includes numerous fixes for issues, security updates, as well as a few new features and upgraded capabilities for Pyramid 2025.

Software

The main installer files and client SDKs can be downloaded from the Customer Portal.
Docker containers have been upgraded for Kubernetes deployments.
Upgraded Embed API libraries can be downloaded from NPM.

Installation & Upgrade Guidance

Main Installation guidance can be found here.
Help for upgrades can be found here.
Help on how to test an upgrade before deployment can be found here.
Help for Kubernetes deployments can be found here.

Cautions

Pyramid 2025.02 includes a number of changes to existing capabilities. As such, Pyramid recommends that the new release be tested on a duplicate version of an existing content database repository before any production upgrades are applied.

Further, a database repository backup should be made before upgrading any production systems and repositories.

Upgrading from Pyramid 2018 or 2020

There are changes to the upgrade process when upgrading to 2025.02 from older instances of Pyramid (versions 2018 and 2020) due to the hardening of security technologies in the application.

The first impact will be during the installation process - where a special one-time upgrade engine will auto-upgrade old content in the repository. This process will run automatically in the background and will only affect content that has not been upgraded from 2018 or 2020. The instance will be fully functional and accessible during the upgrade process - however, old content will be inaccessible until the process is complete. This exercise does not affect content from Pyramid 2023 onwards.
The second impact is that offline PIE content files and offline PAT theme files from old versions (2018 or 2020) can no longer be imported directly into a 2025.02 instance. Instead, these files must be "converted" first using a new online utility found here. (Note that PIE and PAT files contain no data.)

New Features

Feature Name	Description	Benefit	Community
Support for Multi-select slicers in Publications Help	Multi-select slicers are now supported for Publications, allowing combined slicer values to slice analytic objects such as grids and charts in the Publication	Multi-Select slicing in Publications provides greater flexibility when presenting analytic content.	Community
New Subscription options Help	Subscriptions can now be configured as Normal, Personal and Strict. This allows specifically the ability to subscribe content on behalf of other users whilst preserving data security.	Additional subscription capability allows more flexibility when creating and handling subscribed content	Non Forum Customer Request
New Custom Visual API interaction methods Help	New methods allow more precise control of selection and deselection of interaction members from a custom visual.	Easier handling and management of member value interactions for specific custom visual use cases.	Non Forum Customer Request
Upgraded Lasso capabilities for grid visuals Help	Lasso options for grids displayed on a Present slide have been upgraded to match other visuals where relevant. Freeform selection is now supported as well as Focus and /interact combinations	Matching the UI options provides greater consistency across visual types with added functionality for more flexible operations
New Publication options from Present Help	Support has been added to output CSV, JSON, and XML formats when triggering a Publication from an Action in Present.	Facilitates, especially when combined with the optional removal of value filters, the preview then export of large data sets.	Community
Upgraded Sharing options Help	Improvements to the Share Manager, including the ability to log items that have been shared by recipient, sender, item, folder etc.	Additional share managing options, allows greater control and audit of the sharing process and content allowing more rigorous management of content sharing.	Non Forum Customer Request
Upgraded Shared static options Help	New options of Normal, Off and Strict control what can be sent to whom. Normal, any valid email; Off, only links to the content can be sent, not the content itself,; Strict, only to existing users in the same Tenant.	Finer granularity of control allows more precise definition of who can share content with whom and how. This results in better management of sharing by users.	Non Forum Customer Request
Upgraded Printing and Data processing engines for Kubernetes Help	Improvements in efficiency and scaling have been added to Kubernetes deployments to better handle large and/or frequent print jobs.	More consistent performance and additional scalability provide better support for large print jobs and data export, leading to smoother user experience.
Upgraded Excel exporting Help	Multiple additional enhancements and options for detailing the context of data (sorts, filters etc.) and data formatting when exporting to Excel.	Better insight into how the data was derived and less reformatting of data (color, font etc.) leads to faster and more accurate interpretation of exported data.	Community request listing
Upgraded undo/redo in embedding	Support added for redo and undo in embedded Present dashboards.	Gives more control to the dashboard for users of embedded dashboards.	Community
Pin-able UI in the interaction manager Help	The details pane when clicking on an intersection in the Interaction Manager can now be pinned in place.	A pinnable interaction details pane provides a simpler and easier to use experience when inspecting or editing interaction properties.	Community