We’re welcoming 2025 with a few big changes that make building private apps even more seamless, and editing, filter, and display improvements for a more delightful experience managing your software catalog.
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Spotlights
New Self-Service Playground & IDE IntelliSense
We’ve made building private apps smoother and more predictable by publishing a Tempest-specific JSON Schema dialect. VS Code (any many other IDEs) will now be able to automatically validate private app resource definitions and provide code completion as you type.
Start using it in your Private Apps today by adding this line to your resource schemas:
Additionally, the App Playground has some new functionality:
Quickly add common types of fields to your schema. It currently supports text, number, checkbox, and dropdown fields—with more coming soon!
…and once you’re done editing, use the new controls to format and download it to your computer.
Table and Bulk Edit Improvements
We’ve made major changes to our bulk editing, filter, and display experiences in Tempest to make gleaning information and managing your software catalog easier than ever.
Project, Recipe, and Resource tables have been updated to show metadata like Teams, Labels, and Last Sync Date in structured columns. This makes scanning rows easier, plus sorting most information has been reduced by a click.
Additionally, we’ve revamped filters and display options to take up less UI space—until you need them. Filters can now be found under the “Filters” button at the top of the page and supports everything available previously, including search, teams, and classifications. Active filters still show up above the table, making it easier to quickly see what is and isn’t being filtered.
Finally, bulk editing has been improved to include labels and classifications, along with updates to our toast messages to better understand how many items were updated.
Improvements & Bug Fixes
Security
Fixed the “Login with Magic Link” experience to be more stable. In rare cases, links were not working.
Developer Experience
The Tempest CLI client can now be installed using Homebrew.
Resources
Resources can now be be archived and deleted from Tempest both individually and in bulk. Archived resources created by Tempest will no longer sync automatically, but can still be viewed from the new “Archived” tab on the Resources list. Resources covered by “Import & Sync” policy will continue to sync changes despite the archived status.
Recipes, Projects, Deployments
Improved the time to fetch Imported Resources, making it faster and easier to organize your software in Tempest.
Updated links to show the native browser menu contextual menu when right clicking.
Fixed GitHub Profile images when displayed in the “Last Commit” Project details.
Removed the display of draft update values from Published Recipes in the list table.
Fixed Storage Buckets’ link to the Google Cloud dashboard.
User Management
Fixed the display of Organization logos in the sidebar so they always show in a square aspect ratio.
Updated Organization Settings so the Org name can now be changed after creation without affecting the slug so that any name to be used. Slugs must still be unique.
App Playground
Removed a visual bug where the dark mode border was visible in light mode.
User Navigation
Updated the Tempest app sidebar navigation to be organized around three categories: Software Catalog, Platform, and Workspace.