Quickbase September 2025 Release Notes

Release notes are moving

Check out the new Quickbase release notes app for a better way to stay informed. Starting October 2025, all release notes will only be available in the app.

Release date

September 14, 2025

New

Release notes app

Release notes are moving to our new Quickbase release notes app—a better way to stay informed about Quickbase updates that are important to you.

Starting in October, all new release notes will only be available in the app, while the help center will still host past release notes for reference.

Our new release notes app allows you to:

• Search, sort, and filter updates that matter to you  

• Subscribe to receive monthly or weekly email release summaries  

• Gain more visibility into the status of and plans associated with each release item  

Here are some tips for using the app:

•     Use the tabs to view release reports by scope or type.  

•     Select the eye icon to view more details about each item—including any screenshots and links.  

•     Use the filters at the top of reports for a quick view of releases you care about.  

Check out the Quickbase release notes app now, and help us improve by giving us feedback in the Subscriptions & feedback tab.

New Quickbase help center platform

Enjoy a faster, easier, and more intuitive way to find the information you need, along with:

• Improved search

• Clearer organization

• A fresh design

This change takes place by the end of September. Your current help article bookmarks will continue to work. Don’t worry, all the articles are still available.

Quickbase Excel Add-in

A Quickbase Excel Add-in will be available by September 30 (previously expected by September 5) in the official Microsoft Office Add-ins Store.

With the Quickbase Excel Add-in you can:

•     Populate your existing Excel templates with Quickbase data—no reformatting or rebuilding required.  

•     Keep backups at your fingertips by exporting Quickbase data into spreadsheets.  

•     Analyze data instantly by loading Quickbase data into Excel pivot tables.  

To ensure maximum flexibility, it works on both Excel desktop and web platforms. Learn more about using the Quickbase Excel Add-in.

Support portal—AI product help

You can now directly access Quickbase AI product help within the technical support portal. This helps you resolve issues more quickly by suggesting relevant articles, troubleshooting steps, and providing answers in a single seamless experience.

This is an additional resource to our support team—who is always here to help when you open a support case.

To access the support portal, use the help button in the global bar and select Manage support cases. There, Quickbase AI is available to help with your questions.  

Learn more about Quickbase technical support.

Pipelines Malware Scanner channel—now generally available

The Malware Scanner channel in Pipelines is now generally available. It enables automated file scanning via pipelines using Amazon GuardDuty, helping you detect and respond to threats in attachments.

This feature supports up to 100 scans per hour with detailed threat status outputs.

Learn more about the Malware Scanner channel.

REST API to find records modified since a certain time

Users often need to integrate Quickbase with other systems, tracking synced data based on when it was last updated. You may also want to track changes based on related data, however. For example, you may want to find all the Project records updated today, but factor in if any child Tasks have changed.

Previously, builders could add summary and/or lookup fields to perform this logic. Now, we're releasing a single API to simplify this. The new Get records modified since API accepts a date/time input and can return the Record ID# of any record changed since the input time—including deleted records (when the option is activated in advanced table settings).

Additionally, you can provide a list of derived fields. With this list, Quickbase follows the field all the way to where it terminates at the furthest level data-entry record.

Enhancements

New chart types

  We've added 15 new chart types to give you more effective ways to visualize and share your data:

• Spline and area spline—smooth, curved lines for trend analysis  

• Donut chart—a circular variant of the pie chart with a modern aesthetic  

• Streamgraph—good for showing changes over time across categories  

• Radial bar—circular bar charts for compact visualizations  

• Bullet chart—good for comparing performance against benchmarks  

• Variwide chart—variable-width columns showing impact alongside quantity  

• Heatmap—good for visualizing density or intensity, like resource allocation or performance across time and categories  

• 3D Visualizations:    

  • 3D bar, stacked bar, pie, donut

  • 3D area, scatter, funnel

Mobile forms—barcode and QR code scanning

We're adding support for barcode and QR code scanning in the new forms experience on Quickbase mobile. This will be available in version 1.74 of the Quickbase mobile app.

Builders can enable a Show barcode scanner option for supported fields (Text, Multi-line Text, Numeric, URL, Email, and Reference) in the Form Builder on desktop.

When enabled, end users will see a scanner icon in the field while adding or editing records—making it easy to scan and capture data directly with their device’s camera.

Rich text field toggle for opening URLs in a new tab

A new toggle has been added to rich text fields—allowing you to choose whether URLs inside these fields open in a new tab or in the same tab.

Once you enter a link in the rich text field, you can see the new toggle in the link settings pop-up and enable it so those links will open in a new tab from that point on.  

Image resizing improvements for emails

In certain email clients, resized images did not retain their resized value. This was because of inconsistencies in how email clients handle percent-based resizing with block-styling. To resolve this, we’ve made a few changes across fields in new forms, document creation, and custom emails:

• Added a toolbar item to toggle between block and inline

• Removed percent-based resizing controls and switched to pixels  

  For the greatest reliability across email clients, we recommend pixels and inline styling for images.

List-User fields—improved display

To enhance performance and provide a more consistent experience, we’re updating how List-User fields display users.

Previously, List-User fields used the following color codes:

• Blue—the user was either invalid or valid but in the app. For example, a user in the app but removed from the field choices still appeared in blue.  

• White—the user was not in the app, regardless of validity.  

Now, this has been simplified:

• Blue—the user is valid and in the app.  

• White—the user is not valid or not in the app.  

  This change aligns List-User fields with Single-User fields, where italics indicate any reason a user is invalid or not in the app.

  We’ve also simplified the Formula – List-User field display. Now, a user only shows as invalid if they are denied access to the current app.  

REST API—provide up to 50,000 Record IDs in the /query endpoint

Previously, the runQuery API required a query constructed in a case where builders needed to retrieve specific records, limited to 100 filters. Now, an array of up to 50,000 Record IDs can be provided.

XML API—API_ProvisionUser

We've updated one of the endpoints in our XML API. API_ProvisionUser now supports a new request parameter for user name.

This enables specifying a user name at the time of user creation. It's useful   for custom SSO processes that rely on user names.

Learn more about API_ProvisionUser.

Improved performance—formula queries and app loading

We've improved the performance of formula queries—specifically in large applications where the query is often run many times.

We've also improved the time it takes for applications to be read into memory when waking up or being load-balanced. This helps your apps start faster and run more smoothly.

Connected tables—source switching across apps

You can now change both the connection and source table of a Quickbase connected table—even across apps.

Just ensure the new source table has matching field IDs for a successful refresh. History logs and error messages have been improved to help track changes and troubleshoot issues.

Pipelines enhancements

New metadata

View new metadata for your pipelines: Field ID and Field Type. These new details will be available for each trigger and query field output of a Quickbase table.

To reference metadata from a previous step in your pipeline, select it from the dropdown selector or quick reference widget, or use Jinja.

This new metadata will be available by the end of the month. Learn more about metadata in Pipelines.

Channel accounts improvements

The Channel Accounts page is where you can view and manage all external app accounts you're currently using for your pipeline integrations.

In anticipation of QBL support and being able to implement application lifecycle processes in Pipelines, we've improved the Pipelines channel accounts page by:

• Modernizing the design

• Adding the ability to connect a new account

• Showing pipelines used by an account

• Adding an account alias    

  • Mandatory and unique per channel

  • Used by QBL and Solution APIs

Pipelines designer—step actions are now visible in the step header

To increase the building speed of pipelines and the management of steps, we've exposed the step actions (delete, duplicate, refresh step schema, and step notes) in the step header.

HTTP channel—new authentication for FastField

There is a new authentication method for FastField in the Pipelines HTTP channel. This method allows you to use FastField API endpoints that don't have representing steps in the FastField channel.

This method will be available by the end of the month.

Beta opportunities

Here are some new features for you to try out while we're still developing them.

Grid reports

Designed to feel instantly familiar to spreadsheet users, grid reports make editing data faster and more intuitive. Users can update records directly in line using familiar actions like fill down, undo/redo, and column pinning—no need to open forms or switch views. This feature replaces legacy table reports and grid edit, combining them into a single, modern experience. Key benefits include:

• Editable embedded reports—Grid reports introduce editable embedded reports in new forms, unlocking a wide range of new use cases and making it easier to manage related data in context. Whether you're assigning tasks, updating statuses, or reviewing project details, everything can be done in one place.  

• More customization—Users now have more control over the appearance of their reports, with options to adjust row height, column width, and set whether grouped sections are collapsed or expanded by default—making it easier to tailor views to specific workflows.  

• Performance enhancements—This release includes significant performance enhancements, addressing long-standing pain points in the previous reporting experience. Reports now load faster and respond more smoothly, even with large datasets.  

  Grid reports will become available to all customers beginning October 7. At this time:

• New apps will default to using grid reports.

• Existing apps will continue using the current experience by default, but app administrators can enable grid reports on an app-by-app basis.  

  To enable grid reports in an existing app, open App Settings, navigate to App Properties, and scroll to Advanced Settings to find the new option.

QBL v0.12—pipelines and connected tables

  This new QBL version provides support for all previously supported schema, and   includes new support for:

• Pipelines channels:    

  • Quickbase, HTTP, FastField, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Sharepoint, Gmail, Google Drive, Dropbox, Slack, Callable Pipelines, Webhooks, Clock, JSON Handler, CSV Handler, Text, HTTP

  • Note: Solutions that contain pipelines with unsupported channels are not available for QBL export or import with the Solution APIs

• Connected tables connections:    

  • Quickbase to Quickbase

  • Admin console

  • Sample data

QBL v0.12 will be the default export version.

To participate, specify v0.12 as the QBL version when making requests with the Solution APIs.

What's fixed in Quickbase?

View all bug fixes in the Quickbase release notes app.  

For a list of recent fixes, use the New & upcoming tab in the app. For a list of all fixes, use the Fixes tab where you can:

• Search and filter for fixes important to you.

• Help us prioritize issues to be fixed by using the submit an issue priority request link.  

Feature retirements

End of support

Quickbase Actions

We're announcing the retirement of Quickbase Actions for September 30 (previously announced for August 30). This means you'll no longer be able to create new actions, but your existing actions will continue to run. You'll also be able to enable, disable, and edit those actions as needed.

We previously communicated a plan to disable the editing of automations and actions, and to begin the retirement of Application Webhooks. Based on your feedback, we are not planning to make those changes at this time.

We still strongly recommend that you migrate any remaining actions, webhooks, and automations you’re using to pipelines instead, which enable more powerful and flexible workflows.