# The Tableau Release Navigator - Easily Compare Tableau Features and releases.

> 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:** 2022-06-29
- **Format:** Video · 9 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (desktop, prep, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/the-tableau-release-navigator-easily-compare-tableau-features-and-releases
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VIigx_Qli8

I walk through the Tableau Release Navigator, a tool that lets you compare features and updates across Tableau Prep, Desktop and Server in one place. I show how to filter by product and version, plan upgrades, toggle add-on features, and download the workbook and underlying data set for your own organisation.

## Key takeaways

- The Release Navigator consolidates every Tableau feature, release and update by product and version in a single browsable tool.
- The Upgrade view lets you pick a 'from' and 'to' version to see exactly which features you'll gain, with the option to filter out Data Management and Server Management add-on capabilities.
- Each feature includes a Learn More link to documentation, though those links always point to the most current version, which can be misleading for historic features.
- You can download the workbook to deploy in your own organisation, or export the data to CSV to tag features as enabled/disabled, feed an API, or update training materials.
- Tableau now documents 'changed in' items separately in the What's New pages, and these changes also surface in the Navigator's status column as a maintained change log.

## Chapters

- 0:00 What the Release Navigator does
- 0:49 Browsing by product and version
- 2:14 Using the Upgrade Desktop view
- 3:16 Feature details and documentation links
- 4:20 Downloading the workbook and data set
- 6:56 Tracking changes and the change log

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/the-tableau-release-navigator-easily-compare-tableau-features-and-releases

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