Happy holidays from PostHog! PostHog 1.31.0 is our last release of the year, introducing Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes. Please note that Postgres-based installations are no longer supported for PostHog 1.31.0.
IMPORTANT! Do not upgrade to this version if you have deployed PostHog using Postgres. PostHog no longer supports Postgres as of v1.30.0 and you must upgrade to ClickHouse first.
Don't see the new features on your self-hosted deployment? Remember to update your PostHog instance.
Release highlights:
Introducing Group Analytics! Group Analytics enable you to analyze groups, which aggregate events within PostHog. You can have multiple groups and they can even change dynamically.
Group Analytics is especially useful if you have a B2B product, as you will now be able to create a Company group type which tracks all unique users within a company, then create insights such as retention by company and events performed by unique companies.
Visit our Group Analytics documentation to find out what else is possible with Group Analytics.
🎁 Group Analytics is a premium feature and requires a PostHog Scale or Enterprise license. Learn more.
Correlation Analysis just got better! In addition to significantly improving the UI & UX, we've also introduced a details option for advanced users looking for deeper understanding of how events and properties contribute to conversion or drop-offs. This new detail view shows a complete confusion matrix which shows true positives, true negatives, false negatives and false positives. We've also added a correlation score from -1.0 to 1.0 to signal how strongly an event or property correlates with conversion or drop-off.
Insights and dashboards are the core of PostHog's analytics capabilities, which is why we're putting extra focus on making using them spark joy. This release brings various improvements to the experience:
- You can now easily link to saved insights like so: https://app.posthog.com/insights/vMA1IlmP. While unwieldy query parameters were previously required, now all PostHog wants for Christmas is the ID of the insight. Merry sharing!
- Visualization of funnels has been reworked for improved readability of results, particularly when using breakdown. This makes comparing conversion based on properties easier than ever.
- Searching events & properties is now significantly faster. We've changed the way these properties are shown and now list them by popularity within the project. Create those insights faster!
- The funnel query builder has been streamlined – essential settings are better exposed, while advanced options can be expanded when you need them.
- The dashboard grid has been simplified to avoid annoying situations where your carefully crafted layout becomes misaligned on a different screen resolutions. Instead of four complicated layouts, there are now two: single-column for mobile devices, and multi-column for larger screens.
Expect further major improvements to this area in 1.32.
Following up on the overhaul of navigation in 1.30, we've made major UI improvements to the app's most used pages. These top-level views have been overhauled for uniformity, clarity, and snappiness.
Breadcrumbs are now fully dynamic and adjust to the current page in all situations.
The sidebar has been made more graceful: it adjusts to the screen size in a smarter way, and will remember your preferences in the browser.
- Recordings now load up to a few times faster.
- Fixed bug in feature flags when in certain cases a 0% release was considered as a 100% release.
- Fixed bug where private project names were shown to members who shouldn't have access.
- Plus 350+ improvements & fixes.
- This version (1.31.0) no longer supports a Postgres-only deployment of PostHog. Read our migration guide for instructions on moving over to a ClickHouse version. ClickHouse provides faster queries and is optimized for very large volumes of data, and you will also get a new lot of features.
- We're deprecating the Sessions insight (distribution of session length). Please reach out if you have any feedback on this.
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