PBRS Changelog

What's new in PBRS 4.5 Build 20240313

Mar 19, 2024
  • Enhancements:
  • General UI Improvements.
  • Issues Resolved:
  • Scheduling tasks at increments of 0.5 hours may cause the scheduler to become unresponsive.
  • Data-driven reports sent via email with an embedded report but no attachment were resulting in blank emails being sent out.
  • Data-driven packages were encountering issues when a report was empty, rather than executing the next report in line.
  • Duplicate bookmarks are not displaying in the bookmark dropdown for Power BI reports.

New in PBRS 4.5 Build 20240214 (Feb 15, 2024)

  • The following enhancements along with software fixes have been included.

New in PBRS 4.5 Build 20240110 (Jan 12, 2024)

  • Enhancements:
  • Users now have the option to update their passwords directly within the Web Application.
  • Added the ability for users to be able to delete Single & Package Schedules directly from the Web Application.
  • Issues Resolved:
  • General improvements.

New in PBRS 4.5 Build 20231129 (Nov 30, 2023)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added Azure Blob as a destination to the "Export Data to a Report" Custom Task.
  • The text output format of Power BI Paginated reports now allows for the removal of ending pipe delimiters (|) from all empty values, rather than just the final one.
  • Issues Resolved:
  • When using Office 365 or SMTP there have been instances when emails are being sent out even though the destination is unchecked.
  • SSRS reports exported to PDF format are experiencing issues with the order when using a Data-Driven Package Schedule with multithreading enabled at the package level.
  • Important:
  • Microsoft's support for Windows Server 2012 will end in October 2023. Beginning with PBRS Version 4.5 Build 20230412 PBRS is no longer supported on Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2. If you have PBRS currently installed on Windows Server 2012 contact us to help you move it to Windows Server 2016 or newer.

New in PBRS 4.5 Build 20231025 (Oct 26, 2023)

  • Enhancements:
  • Effortlessly export your Power BI paginated report to a CSV output while preserving all the necessary settings in the destination properties.
  • Added the option to run PBRS as a non-elevated process.
  • Issues Resolved:
  • When attempting to modify or add Filter Slicers to a schedule within an existing package, the names of the Filter Slicers do not appear.
  • The system fails to adhere to the scheduled retry times and intervals for Packages and Single Schedules when the retry interval is set to zero.
  • Occasionally, when exporting a paginated report to Text format, the separator may appear at the end of a row.

New in PBRS 4.5 Build 20230614 (Jul 17, 2023)

  • Enhancements:
  • Web Application: Introduced a new feature that allows users to create Single Report Schedules for Power BI reports.
  • Implemented support for Power BI Service Principal Account and Row Level Security (RLS).
  • Row Level Security Report Filters now provide the capability to utilize JSON definitions.
  • Issues Resolved:
  • Complex sql queries are not being parsed as expected, therefore invalidating the query or returning incorrect records.
  • Paginated Power BI reports with non-native Power BI rendering fails due to passing incorrect characters in the parameters.

New in PBRS 4.5 Build 20230614 (Jun 21, 2023)

  • Enhancements:
  • General UI Improvements.
  • Issues Resolved:
  • Unable to edit Data Items without error.
  • Using Method 1 and Method 2 for rendering produces blank PDF files.
  • Unable to set the Parameter value to Null when scheduling a Paginated Report.
  • Emails that are being sent out are not using the specified encoding type.
  • Unable to use special characters as Parameters in Power BI Paginated Reports.