Designer 2026.3 Release Notes
Release Note Product Versions | |||
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Version | Release Date | Release | End of Support |
2026.3.1.56 | October 14, 2026 | Major | October 14, 2028 |
New Features: Designer
Designer Modern View
Note
Modern View is currently in preview. Preview provides early access to what’s coming next in Alteryx. Features may change as they continue to evolve.
Designer Modern View provides a streamlined experience for building, configuring, and running workflows in Designer desktop, with updated Tool Palette, Results, configuration, and canvas experiences.
Product App Bar and Workflow Actions
Modern View includes a hamburger menu where you can create, open, and save workflows as well as manage Data Connection Manager (DCM) connections. You can open and save workflows locally, in Alteryx One, or on Alteryx Server.
Workflow Status Indicators
The Product App Bar displays running, saving, unsaved, and view-only workflow states. These indicators provide visibility into the current state of your workflow.
Classic Tool Configuration Support
You can open and edit tools that use Classic configuration interfaces directly in Modern View, including installed connectors and SDK tools. This support helps you continue working with existing workflows without switching to Classic View.
Extended Data Types
Modern View supports extended Desktop data types, including Blob, SpatialObj, Time, Fixed Decimal, and additional string and numeric types. Supported tools preserve these types during field selection, filtering, formula creation, joins, and other type-aware operations.
Suggestions aren’t available in Modern View.
In-DB Anchors and Connections
In-DB tools, anchors, and connections render on the Modern View canvas. Blue In-DB anchors connect only to compatible blue anchors, while the gray Write Data In-DB output anchor can connect to blue anchors. Connections between In-DB tools continue to use double lines.
Tidy Workflow Layout
Tidy automatically arranges an entire workflow or selected tools into a cleaner, layered layout. It aligns and spaces tools and reduces connection crossings without changing workflow logic, and you can reverse the entire operation with the undo option.
Multiple Workflow Tabs
Modern View supports opening and working with multiple workflows in tabs. Tabs display running and unsaved states, and closing an unsaved workflow prompts you to save your changes. When many workflows are open, you can navigate to tabs that extend beyond the visible tab bar.
Tool and Control Containers
Tool Containers and Control Containers render in Modern View with nested, disabled, collapsed, and expanded states. You can move or delete multiple containers and preserve their positions and key visual settings when switching between Modern and Classic View.
You can add Control Containers from the canvas context menu, but they aren’t yet available in the tool palette.
Use Alteryx One Macros in Designer Workflows
You can now insert Designer macros saved in your Alteryx One library into your Designer workflows. You can choose a specific macro version for your workflow or choose to always use the latest version.
When you save the workflow to Alteryx One as YXZP, the package references the macro in Alteryx One by default. You can include the macro as copy via Dependencies if needed. For details, go to Use Alteryx One Macros in Designer Workflows.
Note that the standard local macro functionality remains the same.
Workspace Execution
To run a Designer Workflow Package (YXZP) that references a macro saved in your Alteryx One Library, your Workspace Execution engine version must be 2026.3 or newer.
Decoupled Predictive Tools and Alteryx Intelligence Suite Installers
We’ve updated the Predictive Tools and Alteryx Intelligence Suite install experience. When you upgrade Designer, Predictive Tools and Alteryx Intelligence Suite are uninstalled only if the supported version differs from the version in the new Designer install. A reinstall, using the standalone installer, is only required when the installer detects an incompatible version.
If you attempt to install a version of Predictive Tools or Intelligence Suite that is incompatible with your Designer version, a warning message alerts you to the compatibility issue, and you won't be able to proceed.
Streamlined Designer Launch Experience
Designer users no longer need to complete a separate activation after signing in to the Alteryx One app. When you launch Designer from an active Alteryx One app session, you can start using Designer without signing in or activating again.
AMP Performance Improvements
We’ve made several performance improvements in the AMP engine:
Join by Specific Fields when processing large datasets.
Union, Append Fields, Find Replace, Spatial Match, and Control Container tools that process ordered inputs.
When working with large datasets, AMP now prioritizes upstream branches according to input consumption order, reducing record buffering (spill-to-disk activity).
Parallel Execution of Batch Macro on AMP
Batch Macros now support a new option to enable parallel execution. In workflows where system resources are underutilized, running macro iterations in parallel can improve resource utilization and reduce overall workflow execution time.
Modernized Legacy XLS Support
Starting with Designer 26.3, all 32-bit components have been removed from the product. As a result, reading legacy XLS files now requires the 64-bit Microsoft Access Database Engine (ACE) driver to be installed.
We recommend migrating existing XLS files to the XLSX format. Legacy XLS support remains available via the 64-bit ACE driver during this migration period; however, deprecation warnings will continue to appear, as support for the XLS format is planned for removal in a future release.
Fixed and Known Issues
Major Release
Version: 2026.3.1.56
Fixed
Fixed Major Release Version 2026.3.1.56 | |||
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ID | Description | Version | Issue Status |
GENG-5929 | The Render tool generates a corrupted XLSX file when it writes output to a sheet that does not exist. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-5943 | The Output Data tool returns a file access error when an AMP workflow writes to a network share from a batch macro. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-6022 | Designer can't parse CSV.GZ files. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-6025 | Column lineage returns an incorrect Formula tool ID for new fields. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-6041 | The Make Group tool can close Designer unexpectedly. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-6045 | A resource conflict can occur when the Python tool runs in a macro with AMP. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-6057 | AMP processes Parquet reads sequentially across multiple Input Data tools. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-6060 | Progress isn't displayed for batch macros. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-6064 | AMP workflows incorrectly report an invalid UTF-8 character record. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
GENG-6070 | Column lineage identifies an incorrect source. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11821 | New and untitled workflows use inconsistent names. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11846 | Designer doesn't close after you save a previously unsaved workflow locally while closing the application. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11868 | Double-clicking the global app header selects part of the workspace name. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TDES-16681 | The DateTime tool can't convert string data to the DateTime data type. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TDES-16792 | The Metadata tab does not display the data type for spatial data. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TDYN-1517 | The PostgreSQL Bulk Loader fails with an SNI connection error when used with a Databricks connection. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TDYN-1542 | An error occurs when you write data from an Amazon S3 bucket to a Redshift database field that uses the timestamp with time zone data type. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-388 | The IRG Messages panel doesn't display a vertical scrollbar when messages exceed the visible area. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-391 | Profile charts don't appear when you add a Browse tool after running a workflow. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
Modern View | |||
TBOX-11819 | The expression editor doesn't include File functions in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11822 | Browse result messages display the full temporary file path in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11823 | Results messages display the Input Data file path twice in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11824 | Ask Alteryx ignores the selected tool when it summarizes a selection in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11825 | Add New Server is unavailable in Open Workflow when no servers are linked in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11829 | The Ask Alteryx tooltip doesn't appear when you hover over the feature in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11831 | Switching between Modern View and Classic View doesn't correctly update the active tab. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11843 | Container sizes don't update when you switch from Modern View to Classic View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11844 | Delete Container Only doesn't preserve the deletion of a nonempty container in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11849 | Ctrl+S or Command+S doesn't work immediately after you switch from Classic to Modern View until the window receives focus. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11882 | Modern View cannot run more than one workflow at a time. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TBOX-11899 | In Modern View, Designer Desktop telemetry events report actionSource as browser. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TDES-16794 | Ask Alteryx becomes blank and unusable after you repeatedly resize its undocked window. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TDES-16803 | Data from the previous run might not appear in the IRG after you cancel a workflow run. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-378 | Designer can close while a workflow is still running in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-379 | Precision Match tools display a macro-not-found error in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-381 | The workflow state can become inconsistent after you switch between Classic and Modern View and reload Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-387 | The Text Input tool configuration panel displays an error if you block clipboard access during a paste action in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-393 | The Data Cleanse Pro tool displays data types in the filter that aren't present in the dataset. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-394 | An editable text box appears next to the workflow name but doesn't rename the workflow in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-396 | Tool configuration changes don't synchronize when you switch between Classic and Modern View before closing the configuration panel. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-397 | Classic View appears briefly before Modern View when you reopen Designer Desktop. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
TMOLN-398 | Tools positioned near the canvas edge in Modern View can become unreachable on the Classic View canvas. | 2026.3.1.56 | Fixed |
Known
Known Major Release Version 2026.3.1.56 | |||
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ID | Description | Version | Issue Status |
GDES-1083 | The Change Data Type option in the column three-dot menu displays Datetime instead of DateTime. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |
Modern View | |||
TBOX-11905 | Some tool configuration panels don't follow Windows contrast themes in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |
TBOX-11929 | The Render tool generates a corrupted XLSX file when it writes output to a sheet that does not exist. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |
TBOX-11932 | Modern View cannot run more than one workflow at a time. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |
TBOX-11936 | In Modern View, Designer Desktop telemetry events report actionSource as browser. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |
TBOX-11938 | The Metadata tab does not display the data type for spatial data in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |
TBOX-11951 | Header and tab controls become inaccessible when you reduce the Designer window to its minimum size in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |
TDES-16818 | The Data Stream Out tool's output anchor doesn't display data in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |
TDES-16819 | You can't enter a value in the Select tool's string Size field, which defaults to 2147483647 in Modern View. | 2026.3.1.56 | Known |