KX Dashboards Release Notes¶

This page details the latest updates to KX Dashboards releases, providing brief, high-level descriptions of fixes, improvements and any new features added.

V 2.26¶

Release date: 2^nd November 2026

Features¶

1. Chat Agent: Access from Preview and QuickView¶

The Chat Agent is now available to all users, both dashboard authors and end users, through Preview and QuickView. Anyone viewing a dashboard can open it without entering the editor.

Key capabilities:

Open the Chat Agent from the Preview and QuickView menus.
Use the Edit and Info options to change a dashboard or ask questions about it.
Apply your edits to your own copy of the dashboard, so the shared version stays unchanged.

User benefits:

Make changes in natural language without learning the editor.
Get answers and adjustments in context while you view a dashboard.
Spend less time on small change requests from colleagues, if you author dashboards.

2. Chat Agent: Undo the last AI change¶

A new Undo button in the Dashboard Builder dialog reverses the most recent change the Chat Agent applied to a dashboard.

Key capabilities:

Undo the last AI edit in one click.
Get a warning before an undo overwrites changes you made after the AI edit.

User benefits:

Try AI changes with confidence, because you can reverse them straight away.

3. Chat Agent: New skill files for Vega Chart, Compare chart and Card Template¶

The Chat Agent has new skill files for the Vega Chart component, the Compare chart and the new Card Template.

Key capabilities:

Describe each component's capabilities to the Chat Agent through a structured skill definition.

User benefits:

Build and change these components in natural language, with more accurate results.

4. Testing Page: Query performance insights¶

The Testing Page now shows an overview of your dashboard's query performance and each query's share of the total render time.

Key capabilities:

See an overview of the total number of queries, total render time, average query time, slowest query and queries with errors.
Switch between a heatmap and pie charts of each query's share of the total render time.
See the totals for all queries in a footer on the query results grid.

User benefits:

Find the queries that slow a dashboard down.
See where optimization has the most impact.
Diagnose and tune dashboard performance faster, for more responsive dashboards for end users.

5. Data Grid: Paging¶

The Data Grid now supports paging in Dashboards Direct.

Key capabilities:

Split large result sets into pages and move through the data one page at a time.

User benefits:

Navigate large result sets without endless scrolling.
Keep rendering responsive, because only one page of data is displayed at a time.
Load dashboards faster and use less browser memory with large tables.

6. Data Grid and ChartGL: Highlight rule JSON and Show Highlighted Only¶

You can now define highlight rules as JSON in the Data Grid and ChartGL, and display only the data that matches those rules.

Key capabilities:

Define highlight rules as a JSON array in the Highlight Rules (JSON) property.
Select Show Highlighted Only to display only the data that matches the JSON rules.
Bind both properties to view states to control highlighting from the dashboard.

User benefits:

Copy, reuse and share highlight rules across components and dashboards without rebuilding them by hand.
Set up complex or repeated rules more quickly, and keep them under version control with your other dashboard settings.
Focus on outliers, thresholds and alerts without the surrounding data.
Get the same highlighting behavior in the Data Grid and ChartGL.

7. Data Grid: Improved style options¶

The Data Grid has an expanded set of style options.

Key capabilities:

Use more style options to build modern grid designs.

User benefits:

Match grids to your dashboard design more closely, with built-in options instead of custom workarounds.
Make data easier to scan with cleaner, more readable grids.

8. Text: Predefined template and layout dropdowns¶

The Text component has new dropdowns for predefined templates and layouts.

Key capabilities:

Choose a predefined template.
Choose a predefined layout.

User benefits:

Create polished, structured text content quickly, without writing markup from scratch.

9. Tab Control: Icons, vertical orientation and tab styles¶

The Tab Control now supports icons, vertical layout and a choice of tab styles.

Key capabilities:

Show an icon on a tab.
Lay the tabs out vertically.
Choose a tab style.

User benefits:

Build clearer, more space-efficient navigation that fits a wider range of dashboard layouts.

10. Redesigned demo landing page¶

The Dashboards demo landing page has a modern look and links to resources such as the dev center, docs and videos.

Key capabilities:

Find the dev center, documentation and videos from the landing page.

User benefits:

Find learning materials faster and get a better first impression of the product.

Fixes¶

Data sources and view states¶

Auto-execute and polling data sources mapped to a consumed view state appeared as unused in the Clean Up dialog.
Empty long view states caused NullPointerException errors.

Map¶

BigInt values caused errors in Mapbox maps.

Component display and interaction¶

Action Tracker: The right-hand column disappeared after you changed case.
Text: HTML content could not be scrolled.

Security¶

Upgraded ws from 8.20.0 to 8.21.0 to resolve CVE-2026-45736 and CVE-2026-48779.