# How to find *ALL* new features or changes in any release of Tableau

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2021-03-29
- **Format:** Video · 8 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-find-all-new-features-or-changes-in-any-release-of-tableau
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VVeCXKxh38

I show you how to find absolutely everything that's new or changed in any release of Tableau, not just the headline features on the marketing page. The trick is to dig into the documentation's 'What's New' pages, which are a bit of an Easter egg hunt to reach but reveal both new features and quietly changed behaviour.

## Key takeaways

- The Tableau marketing release page only lists headline features, not the full set of new and changed items in a version
- Each Tableau documentation set has a 'What's New' page right at the top of its breadcrumb hierarchy, with separate pages for Desktop/Prep/Online/Server and on-premise Tableau Server
- Navigate Tableau.com via Support, then your product, then 'see all' manuals and guides, and select the correct version on the left to browse older releases right back to version 10.4
- The bottom of each What's New page hides a 'Changed in' section listing depreciations and altered behaviour, useful for diagnosing business-critical issues like changes to backups
- Some features ship quietly to customers for testing and aren't documented until they're formally publicised in a subsequent release

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why the marketing page isn't enough
- 1:06 The hidden What's New documentation pages
- 1:35 Navigating Tableau.com to the manuals
- 3:26 Reading the full What's New list
- 4:47 The 'Changed in' section and undocumented features

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-find-all-new-features-or-changes-in-any-release-of-tableau

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