TL;DR: Bold BI® v16.1.70 introduces a modernized dashboard design experience with next-generation widgets, dashboard-level expressions, and expanded data connectivity, along with enhanced AI customization, stronger security controls, and platform-wide modernization with .NET 10.
Introduction
We're excited to announce the release of Bold BI v16.1.70, a major update focused on helping teams build modern analytics experiences faster while improving scalability, performance, governance, and AI-driven insights.
This release introduces a completely refreshed dashboard design experience with modern widgets and expanded data connectivity, enhances AI-powered analytics with customizable prompts and AI credit management, and strengthens enterprise readiness through platform modernization and security improvements.
Whether you're building self-service analytics for internal users or embedding analytics into customer-facing applications, Bold BI v16.1.70 improves the analytics experience for your users.
Let's explore what's new in Bold BI v16.1.70.
AI enhancements
We've expanded AI capabilities to provide greater control, personalization, and accessibility for users across different regions and use cases.
Customize AI dashboard summaries for your business
Every organization has its own terminology, KPIs, and reporting style. With custom dashboard summarization prompts, administrators can now tailor how AI generates dashboard insights.
By defining custom prompts, teams can ensure that summaries align with business context, highlight the most relevant metrics, and deliver insights that are more meaningful to end users. This helps create a consistent analytics experience while improving the quality and relevance of AI-generated recommendations.
Scale AI adoption with AI credit management
As AI usage grows across teams and departments, enterprises need better visibility and control over consumption. Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces AI credit management that allows teams to purchase, monitor, and manage AI credits directly within the platform.
This enhancement provides greater governance over AI-powered features, helps teams track usage more effectively, and enables enterprises to scale AI initiatives confidently while maintaining operational control.
Improve natural language understanding with centralized synonym management
Business users often refer to the same metric or process using different terms. For example, one team may use "Revenue" while another refers to it as "Sales" or "Income."
With centralized synonym management, administrators can define and manage alternate business terms in a single location. This helps the AI Assistant better understand user intent, improves natural language query accuracy, and ensures users receive more relevant and consistent responses regardless of the terminology they use.
Make complex data retrieval accessible through conversation
Accessing data from stored procedures traditionally requires technical knowledge and database expertise. Bold BI v16.1.70 simplifies this process by enabling conversational access to stored procedures.
Users can now interact with stored procedures using natural language, making advanced data retrieval more accessible to business users. This reduces dependency on technical teams and accelerates access to information.
Right-to-left language support
Bold BI AI experiences now include right-to-left rendering support for layout direction, text rendering, and component alignment. This improves accessibility and delivers a more natural AI experience for users working with RTL languages.
Data Sources and Data Hub highlights
We've expanded connectivity and data preparation capabilities to support modern analytics workloads.
Reuse business logic with dashboard-level expressions
Organizations often use the same calculations for multiple visualizations, making dashboard maintenance time-consuming and prone to inconsistencies. With dashboard-level expressions, users can now create reusable calculations once and leverage them in multiple widgets within a dashboard. This approach helps ensure consistent business metrics, reduces repetitive configuration work, and makes dashboard updates easier to manage as reporting requirements evolve.
Improve large-scale data extraction with enhanced Presto support
Bold BI v16.1.70 enhances the Presto data source with advanced extract mode capabilities, additional configuration parameters, and support for multi-value dashboard parameters within stored procedures.
These improvements provide greater control over data retrieval processes and make it easier to support complex reporting scenarios and enterprise-scale analytics workloads.
Accelerate dashboard development with advanced data sampling
Building dashboards against large datasets can slow down the design process. To address this challenge, Bold BI now supports advanced data sampling in design mode.
By working with representative sample data during dashboard creation, teams can model, validate, and refine visualizations more efficiently while minimizing the overhead associated with processing large volumes of data during development.
Optimize query performance with smart guardrails
Poorly optimized queries can significantly impact dashboard performance and database resources. Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces smart query guardrails that proactively identify potentially expensive queries involving large numbers of rows, multiple joins, and missing filter conditions.
These intelligent alerts help users detect performance risks early, encourage better query design practices, and support faster, more efficient analytics experiences.
Expand connectivity across modern architectures
As organizations adopt cloud, hybrid, and distributed data environments, connectivity flexibility becomes increasingly important. The Bold Data Hub has expanded its ecosystem support with connectivity for Presto and Trino.
These additions allow businesses to connect, manage, and process data more effectively across diverse infrastructure environments while supporting modern data engineering workflows.
Strengthen data reliability with enhanced destination support
Bold BI v16.1.70 also includes important improvements to Bold Data Hub destinations and synchronization workflows.
The Amazon Redshift destination now supports primary key configuration, helping organizations maintain better data consistency and more reliable synchronization processes.
The StarRocks destination has been updated to use the MySQL protocol, improving compatibility with existing systems, simplifying configuration, and providing a more seamless integration experience for teams using StarRocks within their analytics ecosystem.
Designer and Server enhancements
This release delivers significant improvements to both dashboard design and platform management. With a refreshed dashboard-authoring experience, enhanced usability features, and new server-side capabilities, organizations can create analytics faster while simplifying administration and operations.
A new modern panel for next-generation dashboard design
Bold BI now features a dedicated modern panel within the dashboard designer, providing a centralized space for next-generation widgets while preserving access to classic widgets.
This modernized approach makes it easier for users to discover new visualization capabilities, adopt modern dashboard components at their own pace, and transition smoothly without disrupting existing dashboards. By clearly separating classic and modern experiences, organizations can modernize their analytics environment while maintaining backward compatibility.
Better visibility into dashboard loading and rendering
With widget-rendering progress indicators, dashboard authors and viewers can now track widget loading statuses in real time. These visual indicators provide greater transparency into rendering progress, helping users identify loading stages and improving the overall dashboard experience.
Find dashboard settings instantly with property search
As dashboards become more sophisticated, locating specific configuration options can become time-consuming. To simplify dashboard customization, Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces property search within the dashboard designer.
Users can quickly search for dashboard and widget settings instead of manually navigating through multiple configuration panels. This enhancement reduces setup time, improves productivity, and makes the design experience more efficient for both new and experienced dashboard authors.
Build richer dashboards with next-generation widgets
The widget collection continues to expand with new next-generation widgets, including:
- Combo Chart
- Tree Map
- Proportional Chart
- Combo Box
These modern visualizations help organizations present data more effectively, support richer storytelling, and improve user interactions. Whether visualizing hierarchical data, comparing multiple metrics, or enhancing filtering experiences, these widgets provide greater flexibility for creating engaging dashboards.
Simplify large-scale data source management
Managing data refresh operations across numerous data sources can be challenging in enterprise analytics environments. To help administrators automate these processes more efficiently, Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces bulk data source refresh APIs.
Instead of refreshing data sources individually, organizations can now trigger refresh operations at scale through APIs. This reduces administrative effort, improves operational efficiency, and helps ensure analytics environments remain up-to-date with minimal manual intervention.
IDP highlights
Bold BI v16.1.70 includes several IDP enhancements that make authentication, configuration, and upgrades easier to manage across enterprise deployments.
Streamline authentication management with new APIs
Managing authentication settings across multiple environments can often involve manual configuration and maintenance. With new default authentication configuration APIs, administrators can now retrieve and update authentication settings programmatically.
This enhancement simplifies identity management, reduces administrative overhead, and helps organizations maintain consistent authentication policies across development, testing, and production environments.
Gain more flexibility with JWT embedding
Embedded analytics deployments often require different authentication approaches depending on application architecture and security requirements. Bold BI 16.1 enhances embedding flexibility by supporting both GET and POST JWT embedding requests through a unified implementation.
This gives developers greater control over how analytics are integrated into applications while ensuring a more consistent and secure authentication experience in embedded environments.
Simplify configuration management across environments
Managing configuration settings through files can become difficult as environments scale and deployment complexity increases. To address this challenge, Bold BI v16.1.70 provides the ability to manage configuration settings directly from the database.
By reducing reliance on configuration files, organizations can simplify maintenance, improve deployment consistency, and make environment management more reliable across enterprise implementations.
Modernized architecture with .NET 10 upgrade
The Bold BI application has been upgraded from .NET 8 to .NET 10, bringing improved performance and future-ready capabilities. Teams benefit from better performance, enhanced security, and long-term platform stability, ensuring a reliable reporting foundation.
Other bug fixes and minor improvements
Along with the major features and enhancements, Bold BI v16.1.70 includes numerous bug fixes, stability improvements, and performance optimizations across server, designer, data source, Bold Data Hub, AI, IDP, and embedding modules.
- Reliability: Improved platform stability through fixes related to authentication, data processing, dashboard rendering, filtering, exports, data extraction, and upgrade workflows.
- Performance: Enhanced dashboard loading, query execution, data retrieval, widget rendering, connection management, and pipeline processing to deliver a smoother analytics experience.
- Compatibility: Addressed issues with multiple databases, connectors, cloud environments, and embedded analytics scenarios to ensure more consistent behavior across deployments.
- Security: Strengthened application protection through fixes and hardening related to API rate limiting, CSRF protection, input sanitization, authorization token handling, dependency vulnerabilities, and security scan findings
Explore Bold BI v16.1.70 with advanced AI, faster performance, flexible embedding, and scalable workflows to power smarter analytics experiences.
Real-time use cases enabled by Bold BI v16.1
The Bold BI v16.1.70 release was designed to solve real analytics challenges across dashboard creation, AI adoption, data management, and embedded analytics. Here’s how the new features translate into practical business value.
Create modern, interactive dashboards faster
- Challenge: Dashboard authors need modern widgets and easier configuration options to build visually rich dashboards without spending too much time searching through settings.
- Bold BI solution: The new modern panel, modern widgets, widget rendering indicators, and property search improve the dashboard design workflow.
- Impact: Designers can build polished dashboards more quickly, improve productivity, and deliver a better viewing experience to business users.
Scale data operations across cloud and hybrid environments
- Challenge: Organizations need flexible storage and connectivity options to support growing data pipelines across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Bold BI solution: Bold BI v16.1.70 adds Presto, Trino for on-premises deployments, Redshift primary key support, and improved StarRocks compatibility.
- Impact: Data teams can connect, store, and process data more flexibly while improving reliability across analytics architectures.
Deliver more customized AI analytics
- Challenge: Generic AI responses may not always match an organization’s terminology, reporting style, or user expectations.
- Bold BI solution: Custom prompts, centralized synonym management, RTL support, AI credits, and conversational stored procedure access make AI experiences more flexible and business-aware.
- Impact: Users can get more relevant AI insights, improve adoption across global teams, and access advanced data through natural language.
Strengthen enterprise analytics deployments
- Challenge: Large-scale analytics environments require strong security, reliable monitoring, and simplified administration.
- Bold BI solution: v16.1.70 includes .NET 10 upgrade, authentication APIs, bulk data source refresh APIs, activity log maintenance, and security hardening.
- Impact: Organizations can manage deployments more efficiently, improve reliability, and strengthen security for enterprise analytics workloads.
Conclusion
Bold BI® v16.1.70 marks a step forward in delivering faster, smarter, and more scalable analytics experiences. This release introduces a modern dashboard design experience with next-generation widgets, reusable dashboard-level expressions, enhanced AI capabilities, and significant platform modernization powered by .NET 10.
From customizable, AI-powered insights and improved data management to stronger security controls and expanded embedding capabilities, v16.1.70 helps organizations build analytics solutions that are more intuitive, efficient, and enterprise-ready.
Ready to explore what's new? Download Bold BI v16.1.70 today or start a free trial to experience the latest enhancements in self-service and embedded analytics. For a complete list of features, improvements, and fixes included in this release, visit our release history page. If you have any questions or need help getting started, our support team is always here to help.
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