---
title: "April 2025"
slug: "latest-updates-april-2025"
description: "See what’s new in April 2025: monitoring improvements, data model tools, expanded API endpoints and minor fixes across the Board platform."
tags: ["Economic Indicators", "Forecasting", "Foresight"]
updated: 2026-01-29T10:03:05Z
published: 2026-03-31T09:00:24Z
canonical: "help.board.com/latest-updates-april-2025"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.board.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# April 2025

This article highlights the development work released to production throughout April 2025, including new features and enhancements, and bug fixes, made available to all users.

## No Manual Upgrades Required

All updates to the Board Foresight application are version-controlled and automatically deployed, so customers always have access to the latest version without needing to manually upgrade.

## Feature Releases and Enhancements

### Transformations

- Users can now apply transformations directly from the Indicator page, enabling faster data preparation without navigating to a separate workflow.
- Transformations are now accessible within the Model Edit screen, allowing users to modify indicators and apply data adjustments during model refinement.

### Data and Discover Improvements

- **Data Expansions:**
  - **Google Trends, Tariff-Related Series Added:** New tariff-related data series have been added from the existing Google Trends source, providing insights into search interest on trade and tariff topics.
  - **Fable and Facteus, Inc.:** Expanded datasets from Fable and Facteus, Inc. are now available, enhancing coverage of consumer behavior and financial activity.
  - **FocusEconomics:** Expanded datasets from FocusEconomics now include both monthly and quarterly series, increasing the granularity and depth of economic forecasts.
- **Geography Filter in Discover Auto Workbench:** When using Discover with both a selected Geography and Automatic Workbench, the Geography now functions as a true filter, ensuring the indicators returned are relevant to the specified region.

## Bug Fixes

This update includes bug fixes related to:

- **Charting and Display**
  - A maximum character limit has been implemented for the header and footer sections in Reports to prevent layout issues and ensure clean formatting.
  - A scroll bar has been added to the Control Chart to prevent data from being clipped when the chart exceeds the available view.
  - Visualizations have been updated to better accommodate indicators with large numerical scales, ensuring proper rendering and readability.
  - When editing the date picker, the widget will now automatically close after a selection is made, improving usability.
- **Data Handling and Aggregation**
  - Component Contribution Reports now dynamically reflect the aggregation method used for the Primary Indicator, ensuring consistent interpretation across outputs.
  - The data pipeline for FRED-sourced indicators has been corrected to ensure timely and accurate updates.
  - The data pipeline for World Bank Commodity indicators has been corrected to ensure timely and accurate updates.
  - The version history for indicators now accurately reflects version numbers based on the Modified Datetime field.
  - When an indicator’s Base Calculation is modified, the associated chart on the Indicator Page now updates accordingly to reflect the change.
  - OECD-sourced indicators from the STLABOUR dataset now include additional activity-level details for improved analysis.
- **Search and Discover**
  - Search functionality has been improved to support advanced filtering. Use `+#tag` to require a tag, `-#tag` to exclude a tag, `+term` to require a term, and `-term` to exclude a term—enabling more precise and customizable search results.
- **Workbench and Model Experience**
  - Sorting by R² now functions correctly across Discover, Workbench, and Predict, ensuring consistent indicator ranking by explanatory power.
  - Model counts now display correctly when using filters in the Bulk Model Edit screen.
  - Predict now includes a validation warning if a user attempts to run a weekly period-over-period model, which is not currently supported.
  - The seasonality test badge now appears as expected on the Model Edit page when in condensed view.
  - After edits are made in the Model Edit screen, the correct "Unsaved Changes" warning now appears when switching to the Results tab for Weighted Univariate (WUR) models.
  - Resolved a regression where the “Delete Model and “Delete Scenario” button was incorrectly greyed out. This functionality has now been restored.