Release Notes

July 8th, 2025 (v1.11.1)

Module lds

New

• Add a debug parameter to all the procedures in order to improve debugging capabilities.

May 14th, 2025 (v1.11.0)

Module lds

New

• Added CREATE_ROUTING_MATRIX which computes route data between a set of origin and destination points and generates a table adding the distance and time of each pair of values.

May 6th, 2025 (v1.10.0)

Module lds

Fix

• Added a fix to have better handling of null values in all procedures

Module clustering

Fix

• Added a fix to prevent the ST_CLUSTERKMEANS procedure from throwing an error when encountering null values in Geography columns

December 19th, 2024 (v1.9.0)

Module lds

Improvement

• Added a verification of AT Gateway parameters during the SETUP process to ensure availability of resources.

November 27th, 2024 (v1.8.1)

Module lds

Fix

• Fixed an issue that produced redundant calls in CREATE_ROUTES procedure.

September 24th, 2024 (v1.8.0)

Module tiler

New

• Add tile_resolution to all tileset creation options. This new setting allows controlling the size of the tiles when rendered in a map. Higher values produce larger tiles.

Module lds

Fix

• Improved handling of FQNs in CREATE_ISOLINES and CREATE_ROUTES procedures..

July 2nd, 2024 (v1.7.1)

Module import

Fix

• Import functions in AT Gateway now raise an exception when there is an error. This replaces the previous status message.

May 22nd, 2024 (v1.7.0)

Module http_request

New

• We have a new module named “http_request”. It allows making requests to external endpoints through the function HTTP_REQUEST.

Module import

New

• We have a new module named “import”. It allows importing tables for a given URL containing a file in any of the formats supported by the CARTO Import API. The procedure in charge of this import is IMPORT_URL.

April 18th, 2024 (v1.6.1)

Module clustering

Fix

• Update ST_CLUSTERKMEANS in order to avoid generating less clusters than requested. The maximum number of clusters now will be equal to the number of different points passed.

Module lds

Fix

• GEOCODE_TABLE not working properly for “geom_column” parameters value different from “geom”.

March 21st, 2024 (v1.6.0)

Module lds

New

• All external functions (including those used by the procedures in the lds module) now use a single, unified endpoint. This also simplifies the manual installation of the Analytics Toolbox.

• GEOCODE_TABLE now uses async batch geocoding with TomTom, boosting the geocoding speed considerably. Also matching by rows is applied ensuring that the address that reaches the TomTom endpoints is as similar as possible as the table value.

February 16th, 2024 (v1.5.1)

Module lds

Fix

• CREATE_ISOLINES fixed a problem with using input credentials for all requests.

• Fixed support for waypoints in CREATE_ROUTES.

January 18th, 2024 (v1.5.0)

Module quadbin

New

• New QUADBIN_DISTANCE function that returns the distance (number of cells) between two quadbin cells.

Fix

• Improved precision when calculating cell indexes from latitudes close to the poles (±90º).

Module constructors

Fix

• Fixed a problem with the output of ST_BEZIERSPLINE and ST_MAKEELLIPSE functions, they now return a GEOMETRY type column instead of a VARCHAR.

• Fixed a problem with the output of ST_MAKEENVELOPE function, it now returns a GEOMETRY with SRID 4326.

Module transformations

Fix

• Fixed a problem with the output of ST_CENTERMEAN, ST_CENTERMEDIAN, ST_CENTROID, ST_DESTINATION and ST_GREATCIRCLE functions, they now return a GEOMETRY with SRID 4326.

Module tiler

Fix

• Fixed a problem with CREATE_SIMPLE_TILESET procedure, that was crashing when the value for the “max_tile_size_strategy” property was "drop_fraction_as_needed" in points tables.

• Improved tile precision when creating tilesets from geometries containing points with latitudes close to the poles (±90º) using CREATE_SIMPLE_TILESET or CREATE_POINT_AGGREGATION_TILESET.

• Improved bounds calculation to get an approximate value when using h3 cells in the CREATE_SPATIAL_INDEX_TILESET procedure.

Module data

Fix

• Fixed an issue when using AVG aggregation, that was not correctly computed when “data_query” contained NULL values.

Module lds

Fix

• GEOCODE_TABLE malfunctioning for multi-line addresses with multiple rows with scape line and indentations.

December 23, 2023 (v1.4.1)

Module lds

Fix

• Accept one or more AWS roles for the SETUP function

Module tiler

Fix

• Tiler support for non-integer numeric properties. We have corrected a problem that was causing problems when using numeric properties with decimal values.

November 13, 2023 (v1.4.0)

Module lds

New

• Add SETUP procedure. This procedure allows configuring credentials and endpoints of an Analytics Toolbox installation. Find more information about this topic in this documentation.

• Replace LDS_QUOTA_INFO by GET_LDS_QUOTA_INFO function. This new function allows checking your currently consumed quota with a single query, without the need to store the result as a table.

October 13, 2023 (v1.3.1)

Module tiler

Improvement

• Performance optimizations for the produres that generate tilesets:

  • CREATE_POINT_AGGREGATION_TILESET

  • CREATE_SIMPLE_TILESET

Module lds

Improvement

• New batch service for CREATE_ISOLINES. Used automatically by the procedure. No changes required.

September 8, 2023 (v1.3.0)

Module lds

New

• Add optional parameters: api_base_url, lds_token to every function/procedure.

August 7, 2023 (v1.2.1)

Module lds

Fix

• We have made the GEOCODE_TABLE procedure more robust for special characters contained in the address data.

July 14, 2023 (v1.2.0)

Module lds

New

• We are now allowing users to send any of the parameter options supported by the isolines service provider in CREATE_ISOLINES.

• We have improved our logging of results in GEOCODE_TABLE so more information about processed and geocoded rows is provided to the user. Also the new option “carto_force_geocode” allows the re-geocoding of already geocoded rows.

Fix

• We have applied some fixes to the CREATE_ROUTES function so the metadata column can be successfully created and informed.

Module quadbin

Change

• We have updated the formula used in QUADBIN_FROMLONGLAT so it gets standardized. In addition a new implementation of QUADBIN_TOCHILDREN has been added in order to increase performance.

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June 6, 2023 (v1.1.0)

Module lds

New

• We have created a new procedure named CREATE_ROUTES, which calculates the routes (returned as linestrings) between a set of given origins and destinations (points) in a query. It supports different transport modes and advanced options as the other functions of the lds module.

April 4, 2023 (v1.0.2)

Module lds

Change

• We have updated the LDS module to be aligned with the new usage quota model, working as an annual budget and combining consumption across all supported LDS services.

March 7, 2023 (v1.0.1)

Module lds

Fix

• Returning geometries with proper srid (4326) in GEOCODE_TABLE, CREATE_ISOLINES, GEOCODE and ISOLINE.

January 31, 2023 (v1.0.0)

Module tiler

Improvements

• Update default zoom values: geo, quadbin, h3 (12, 12, 6)

• Fix spatial index tiler with empty properties

December 22, 2022

Module lds

Improvement

• We have added the possibility to configure more options as parameters when executing the functions to CREATE_ISOLINES. These new options, which depend on the LDS service provider, allow the user to configure more transportation modes such as truck or bike, the possibility of specifying departure or arrival times allowing the creation of reverse isolines, and other options like different routing modes.

• Added new confidence/relevance metadata to the results of the geocoding function GEOCODE_TABLE.

Module quadbin

New

• Quadbin/quadkey conversion functions have been added to ease the conversion from quadbin to quadkey and from quadkey to quadbin indexes.

November 1, 2022

All modules

Feature

• Create release workflows

Improvement

• Adapt to Semver

October 25, 2022

Module data

Fix

• Fix enrichment procedures not working with VARCHAR variables for aggregation types MIN, MAX and COUNT.

October 18, 2022

Module data

Fix

• Fix enrichment procedures returning inconsistent results for input queries containing LIMIT.

• Fix ST_AREA returning NULL by using ST_SIMPLIFY.

• Fix inconsistent values resturned because of ST_ENVELOPE.

October 10, 2022

Module data

Feature

• Add DATAOBS_ENRICH_POINTS procedure.

• Add DATAOBS_ENRICH_POLYGONS procedure.

• Add DATAOBS_ENRICH_GRID procedure.

• Add ENRICH_GRID procedure.

October 7, 2022

Module clustering

Feature

• Move ST_CLUSTERKMEANS function to core.

• Move CREATE_CLUSTERKMEANS procedure to core.

Module random

Feature

• Move ST_GENERATEPOINTS function to core.

October 1, 2022

Module lds

Improvement

Module lds

Improvement

• Rename LDS_API_URL to API_BASE_URL.

September 21, 2022

Module tiler

Fix

• Fix CREATE_SPATIAL_INDEX_TILESET returning nested UDFs error when detecting the index type.

September 19, 2022

Module statistics

Improvement

• Add p-values in the output of GETIS_ORD_QUADBIN function.

Module tiler

Improvement

• Set version field in tilers metadata compliant with AT version.

September 7, 2022

Module data

Feature

• Add ENRICH_POLYGONS procedure.

September 2, 2022

Module data

Feature

• Add ENRICH_POINTS procedure.

August 26, 2022

Module statistics

Feature

• Add GETIS_ORD_QUADBIN function.

August 19, 2022

Module s2

Fix

• Fix S2_BOUNDARY inverted coordinates.

August 11, 2022

Module tiler

Improvement

• Unify extra_metadata into metadata in tiler metadata.

August 9, 2022

Module statistics

Feature

• Add P_VALUE function.

July 22, 2022

Module lds

Feature

• Add GEOCODE_REVERSE_TABLE procedure.

Module statistics

Feature

• Create statistics module.

• Add MORANS_I_QUADBIN function.

July 20, 2022

Module clustering

Feature

• Add CREATE_CLUSTERKMEANS procedure.

July 14, 2022

Module quadbin

Improvement

• Update functions volatility.

• QUADBIN_FROMZXY accepting BIGINTs as params instead of INTs.

July 12, 2022

Module tiler

Improvement

• Improve speed of CREATE_SPATIAL_INDEX_TILESET.

July 8, 2022

Module quadbin

Improvement

• Release SQL version of QUADBIN_TOZXY.

July 1, 2022

Module tiler

Improvement

• Support h3int from CREATE_SPATIAL_INDEX_TILESET.

June 27, 2022

Module tiler

Improvement

• Support quadbin from CREATE_SPATIAL_INDEX_TILESET instead of quadint.

June 24, 2022

Module quadbin

Feature

• Add QUADBIN_BBOX function.

• Add QUADBIN_BOUNDARY function.

• Add QUADBIN_CENTER function.

• Add QUADBIN_FROMGEOGPOINT function.

• Add QUADBIN_FROMLONGLAT function.

• Add QUADBIN_FROMZXY function.

• Add QUADBIN_ISVALID function.

• Add QUADBIN_KRING function.

• Add QUADBIN_KRING_DISTANCES function.

• Add QUADBIN_POLYFILL function.

• Add QUADBIN_RESOLUTION function.

• Add QUADBIN_SIBLING function.

• Add QUADBIN_TOCHILDREN function.

• Add QUADBIN_TOPARENT function.

• Add QUADBIN_TOZXY function.

June 20, 2022

Module tiler

Feature

• Add CREATE_SPATIAL_INDEX_TILESET procedure.

June 7, 2022

Module lds

Fix

• Fix chunks in CREATE_ISOLINES.

June 6, 2022

Module lds

Improvement

• Check if the user has enough credits to execute CREATE_ISOLINES.

June 2, 2022

Module lds

Feature

• Add CREATE_ISOLINES procedure.

May 19, 2022

Module lds

Improvement

• Add optional language parameter to GEOCODE_REVERSE function.

May 13, 2022

Module tiler

Feature

• Add max_simplification_zoom and coordinates_precision parameters.

April 21, 2022

Module tiler

Feature

• Add max_tile_size_strategy support for CREATE_SIMPLE_TILESET.

Fix

• Fix tile_feature_order not being taken into account for CREATE_POINT_AGGREGATION_TILESET and CREATE_POINT_AGGREGATION_TILESET.

March 30, 2022

Module tiler

Fix

• Escape special characters in generated properties.

March 25, 2022

Module tiler

Improvement

• Raise improper qualified tables errors.

• Limit GeoJSON precision to 6 to comply Redshift VARCHAR size limitations.

• Add ST_Simplify to the tiler.

March 10, 2022

Module tiler

Feature

• Add CREATE_SIMPLE_TILESET procedure.

February 25, 2022

Module tiler

Feature

• Create tiler module.

• Add CREATE_POINT_AGGREGATION_TILESET procedure.

February 18, 2022

Module lds

Feature

• Add GEOCODE_TABLE procedure.

• Add GEOCODE function.

• Add GEOCODE_REVERSE function.

• Add ISOLINE function.

• Add LDS_QUOTA_INFO function.

December 16, 2021

Module transformations

Fix

• Refactor of internal __ST_GEOMFROMGEOJSON function to avoid UDFs nestig Redshift limitations

December 10, 2021

Module constructors

Improvement

• Deployment schema “carto” instead of “constructors”.

Removed

• Remove VERSION function.

Module placekey

Improvement

• Deployment schema “carto” instead of “placekey”.

• Rename H3_ASPLACEKEY function to PLACEKEY_FROMH3.

• Rename PLACEKEY_ASH3 function to PLACEKEY_TOH3.

• Rename ISVALID function to PLACEKEY_ISVALID.

Removed

• Remove VERSION function.

Module processing

Improvement

• Deployment schema “carto” instead of “processing”.

Removed

• Remove VERSION function.

Module s2

Improvement

• Deployment schema “carto” instead of “s2”.

• Rename HILBERTQUADKEY_FROMID function to S2_TOHILBERTQUADKEY.

• Rename ID_FROMHILBERTQUADKEY function to S2_FROMHILBERTQUADKEY.

• Rename ID_FROMTOKEN function to S2_FROMTOKEN.

• Rename ID_FROMUINT64REPR function to S2_FROMUINT64REPR.

• Rename LONGLAT_ASID function to S2_FROMLONGLAT.

• Rename RESOLUTION function to S2_RESOLUTION.

• Rename ST_ASID function to S2_FROMGEOGPOINT.

• Rename ST_ASID_POLYFILL_BBOX function to S2_POLYFILL_BBOX.

• Rename ST_BOUNDARY function to S2_BOUNDARY.

• Rename TOCHILDREN function to S2_TOCHILDREN.

• Rename TOKEN_FROMID function to S2_TOTOKEN.

• Rename TOPARENT function to S2_TOPARENT.

• Rename UINT64REPR_FROMID function to S2_TOUINT64REPR.

Removed

• Remove VERSION function.

Module transformations

Improvement

• Deployment schema “carto” instead of “transformations”.

Removed

• Remove VERSION function.

Module clustering

Improvement

• Deployment schema “carto” instead of “clustering”.

Removed

• Remove VERSION function.

Module random

Improvement

• Deployment schema “carto” instead of “random”.

• ST_GENERATEPOINTS now uses a spherically uniform distribution. Previously used to by uniform on projection.

Removed

• Remove VERSION function.

October 21, 2021

Module clustering

Improvement

• ST_CLUSTERKMEANS returning an Array.

October 6, 2021

Module processing

Feature

• Create processing module.

• Add VERSION function.

• Add ST_POLYGONIZE function.

• Add ST_DELAUNAYLINES function.

• Add ST_DELAUNAYPOLYGONS function.

• Add ST_VORONOILINES function.

• Add ST_VORONOIPOLYGONS function.

Module transformations

Feature

• Create transformations module.

• Add VERSION function.

• Add ST_CENTERMEAN function.

• Add ST_CENTROID function.

• Add ST_CENTEROFMASS function

• Add ST_CENTERMEDIAN function

• Add ST_GREATCIRCLE function

• Add ST_DESTINATION function

October 5, 2021

Module clustering

Feature

• Create clustering module.

• Add VERSION function.

• Add ST_CLUSTERKMEANS function.

Module random

Feature

• Create random module.

• Add ST_GENERATEPOINTS function.

• Add VERSION function.

September 23, 2021

Module s2

Feature

• Create s2 module.

• Add HILBERTQUADKEY_FROMID function.

• Add ID_FROMHILBERTQUADKEY function.

• Add ID_FROMTOKEN function.

• Add ID_FROMUINT64REPR function.

• Add LONGLAT_ASID function.

• Add RESOLUTION function.

• Add ST_ASID function.

• Add ST_ASID_POLYFILL_BBOX function.

• Add ST_BOUNDARY function.

• Add TOCHILDREN function.

• Add TOKEN_FROMID function.

• Add TOPARENT function.

• Add UINT64REPR_FROMID function.

• Add VERSION function.

September 17, 2021

Module constructors

Feature

• Create constructors module.

• Add ST_BEZIERSPLINE function.

• Add ST_MAKEELLIPSE function.

• Add ST_MAKEENVELOPE function.

• Add ST_TILEENVELOPE function.

• Add VERSION function.

September 7, 2021

Module placekey

Feature

• Create placekey module.

• Add H3_ASPLACEKEY function.

• Add PLACEKEY_ASH3 function.

• Add ISVALID function.

• Add VERSION function.