Datacap Files

We are thrilled to announce the release of MetaForge 2026.0.0! This is a milestone release: a brand-new source management workbench, a visual screen studio, an IDE-style query console, a reworked sync engine and notification center, plus new data source drivers and GitHub / Google / OIDC sign-in support. This release ships more than 700 improvements.

📅 Release Information

• Version: 2026.0.0
• Release Date: November 9, 2026
• Project: https://github.com/devlive-community/metaforge
• Website: https://metaforge.devlive.org/

🎯 Highlights

🗄️ Source Management Workbench (fully rebuilt)

• New workbench: The source management experience is fully redesigned — table structure, data preview, DDL, indexes, foreign keys, triggers and table properties, all in one place
• Full metadata DDL: View / create / change / drop indexes, foreign keys and triggers; read and write table properties with a history of generated DDL
• ER diagrams: Whole-database and per-table ER diagrams with dependent-object listing
• Structure and data compare: Compare the structure and the data of two tables
• Column dependency detection: Objects depending on a column are listed before it is dropped
• Data editing: Typed form / JSON row editing, Shift-range row selection, sorting with up to five rules, drag-to-resize columns
• Capability awareness: The UI shows only the management operations each source plugin declares

🔍 Query Console (IDE-style rebuild)

• IDE-style three-pane layout: Resizable panes with a persisted layout
• Visualization upgrade: Result visualization moves to ECharts with new chart controls
• Query plans: Supported engines can execute and display the query execution plan
• Results to datasets: Create a dataset from query results with one click
• Row limit: Query page results are capped at a row limit to keep large results responsive
• Templates and shortcuts: The snippet library appears as a template tab, Cmd+Enter runs the query, and you can execute just the selected SQL

🖥️ Visual Screen Studio

• Complete visual studio: A full designer for boards and data screens
• Widget families: Dozens of new widget families — business analytics, operations and inspection, time series, spatial analysis, process tracking, interval analysis, data diagnostics, relationship analysis, planning and progress, comparative analysis — plus many new chart types (stacked, step, bubble and more)
• Effects and motion: Flow effects, geometric effects and widget motion presets, previewable on the canvas
• Sharing and public access: Data screens support public links and can be shared with users, roles or everyone
• Screen as home page: Any data screen can become the home page, with a toolbar-free full view
• Component gallery: A searchable gallery with static previews lets you browse while choosing

📊 Datasets and the Sync Engine

• Dataset console rework: A new ad-hoc query workspace with inline column type configuration
• Sync history: Live total / completed / progress counters, dataset statistics refreshed during the run, live and finished run logs, and manual sync stop
• Sync engine upgrade: Queued tasks with state and metrics, parallel read channels with a rate limit, write-failure tolerance with pause / resume / retry, whole-task timeouts, and unfinished syncs marked INTERRUPTED after a restart
• Streaming sync: The local executor streams large tables (fixing OOM / SQL injection / NULL handling) and writes standalone task logs

📥 Import and Export

• Export wizard: Data export is rebuilt as a five-step wizard; database exports run as background jobs
• File import: A new file import flow — analyse, preview and run the import into a database
• Table data export: Table rows export to files through the convert plugins

🔌 Drivers and Data Sources

• New drivers: Kafka, ZooKeeper, Aliyun OSS and HDFS JDBC drivers
• Redis driver rewritten: Redis is described as databases, keys and columns, with native keyspace browsing
• Non-SQL sources: A JDBC driver foundation for sources without SQL
• MongoDB / Neo4j: Native browsing of databases, collections / labels and field properties
• Table options: CREATE TABLE options are passed through to sources

🔔 Notification Center

• Notifications rebuilt: A bell-panel notification center organized around channels and scenes
• Per-user inbox: A per-user notification inbox API
• Scene notices: Sources, reports and accounts raise scene notices, and each user configures channel settings independently

📡 Report Sharing

• Public links: Reports are shared through public links and iframe embeds
• Sharing controls: Link expiry and a choice of what the public page shows
• Data download: The public page can offer its data and a CSV download

🔐 Authentication and Accounts

• Third-party sign-in: GitHub, Google and OpenID Connect (OIDC) sign-in
• Feature switches: Administrators control whether sign-in and sign-up are enabled
• Roles: Unified role management with validated custom codes that cannot be changed afterwards
• Sign-in log: The sign-in log shows the failure message

🧰 First-Boot Setup and System Configuration

• Setup wizard: The server boots without a database and finishes installation in the wizard
• More databases: The wizard installs into PostgreSQL, SQL Server and Oracle
• Common configuration: A datacap_configure table and an administrator configuration page
• File storage: File storage is configured in system settings and tested before saving

🎨 Interface and Experience

• Component library: The new metaforge-ui Tailwind component library with a design-token theme system and an ant-design-vue foundation
• Navigation rebuild: User and admin pages are separated; menus are managed from the menu table
• Home redesign: A new resource workspace with query activity charts and recent resources
• Branding: Global header search, branded assembly loading animation, wave background and logo empty states

🛍️ Plugin Store

• Store rebuilt: The plugin store gets a completely refreshed interface and fetches the catalogue through the server
• Safe management: Plugins are managed safely, verified downloads are counted and details are shown

🛠️ Important Fixes

• Sync engine: Fixed OOM, SQL injection and NULL handling in streaming sync
• Persistence: Fixed the Oracle / SQL Server matrix runs and the upgrade of databases that ran edited changesets
• Query tree: The query page tree lists only tables and views; ClickHouse lists user-defined functions only
• Source plugins: Fixed issues in YDB (scheme queries), TDengine, Solr, Presto, Pinot, IoTDB, InfluxDB, Doris and more
• Interface: Fixed about 50 UI issues (dropdowns, overlapping legends, calendar localization, chart clipping and more)

🔧 System Optimizations

• Refactoring: 100+ refactorings, including reusable screen components, a shared filter-table layout for paginated lists, and capability declarations in the plugin contract
• Release infrastructure: Maven Central publishing, Tencent COS CDN distribution and ForgeStats download statistics
• CI: Change-scoped jobs, memory and disk governance for the backend suite

🗑️ Removals

• Plugin cleanup: The ClickHouse HTTP and CrateDB HTTP plugins are removed (use the corresponding standard plugins)
• Query tree: The key-value mode of the query page tree is removed
• Legacy code: 17 unreachable web source files and the retired runtime settings menu entry are cleaned up

🚀 Upgrade Guide

1. Back up your data: Always back up your data and configuration before upgrading
2. Stop the service: Stop the running MetaForge service
3. Update: Download the latest 2026.0.0 distribution
4. Database upgrade: Versioned database migrations run automatically at startup (multi-database changelog built in)
5. First install: A fresh deployment boots without a database and finishes setup in the wizard
6. Restart: Start the new version and verify

📝 Notes

• The ClickHouse HTTP and CrateDB HTTP plugins are removed; migrate to the corresponding standard plugins
• Legacy Redis source types migrate automatically to the new driver configuration at startup
• The interface changed substantially; if you rely on custom board or report layouts, verify them in a staging environment first
• The new third-party sign-in (GitHub / Google / OIDC) must be enabled in system configuration with the corresponding credentials

🤝 Acknowledgements

Thanks to every developer and user who contributed code and feedback to this release, especially:

• qianmoQ - Lead development
• SimonFoobar648 - Community contribution