All notable changes to minilake are recorded here.
The format follows Keep a Changelog, and the project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
Per-feature design rationale and known limitations live in FEATURES.md; this file records what changed between releases.
1.7.2 — 2026-08-21
Dependency fix. No behaviour changes.
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pytzis now a declared runtime dependency. minilake's own modules use the standard library (datetime.timezoneintls.py,services/files.py,services/saved_queries.py), but code running against an install — notebooks and scripts handling timezone-aware data — reaches forpytz, which nothing in the dependency tree pulled in, so it simply was not there.pip install minilakenow brings it.Note this covers the Python environment minilake itself is installed into. Job and notebook containers run from their own images (
MINILAKE_SPARK_IMAGEandDockerfile.notebook) and do not install the wheel, so they are unaffected.
1.7.1 — 2026-08-18
Packaging fix. No runtime changes: the 1.7.0 wheel on PyPI is complete and correct, but its sdist was rejected and never published, so 1.7.0 has no source distribution.
- The sdist carried
ui/node_modules. hatchling honours only the root.gitignore, so everythingui/.gitignorecovers is invisible to it — and the release workflow runspnpm installbeforeuv build. The sdist came to 350 MB against PyPI's 100 MB per-file limit, and was rejected after the wheel had already been uploaded. Now 7.0 MB. - The sdist dropped the web UI, and with it the wheel.
uv buildbuilds the sdist first and then builds the wheel from that sdist, but theartifactsoverride rescuing the gitignoredui_staticexport was declared only on the wheel target. Nothing failed when this happened — the wheel simply installed with no/ui.uv build --wheelhid it by building straight from the source tree.
- Two release-workflow guards, both running before anything is uploaded: one fails the publish if the wheel arrives without the web UI, the other if the sdist exceeds PyPI's size limit. A PyPI upload cannot be replaced, so these have to catch it first.
1.7.0 — 2026-08-18
The release that gives minilake a face: an embedded web workspace, and a real JupyterLab inside the image.
Web UI — an Athena-style SQL workspace at /ui, served by minilake itself as a
Next.js static export. Same origin as the API, no second process, no extra port.
- Query editor with multiple tabs, a Monaco editor whose SQL completion is fed by live
Unity Catalog metadata, run/cancel/format/
EXPLAIN, and an auto-limit that wraps a bareSELECTwhile leaving explicitLIMITs and DDL alone. - Virtualized result grid with column types, sorting, filtering, CSV/JSON download, a chart tab and query statistics.
- Data catalog tree down to columns, with table details, Preview table and Generate table DDL — plus create and drop for catalogs, schemas, MANAGED tables and volumes. Drops cascade on the server, and the confirmation says so.
- Jobs: list and run, and now create, edit and delete, with a per-task run detail view
alongside the run logs. The editor offers only the task types minilake actually
executes (
notebook_task,spark_python_task,sql_task.file), since the others are reportedSKIPPEDrather than faked. - Workspace browser over
/Workspace— the treedatabricks bundle deployand the Jobs API write into, with a read-only content viewer. - Clusters driving the real state machine, and secret scopes and keys. Secret values are never displayed: the API has no read path for them, by design.
- Warehouses, files, saved queries, recent queries, and a settings page with server health, the signed-in identity and state reset.
- Light, dark and system themes. Monaco is bundled rather than fetched from a CDN, so the image stays offline-capable.
Embedded JupyterLab — a real notebook server running inside minilake, reverse-proxied
at /jupyter and framed by the UI at /ui/notebooks. On by default
(MINILAKE_NOTEBOOK=0 disables it).
- Serving it same-origin is what makes the embedded page possible at all: jupyter-server
sends
Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self', so a notebook server on its own port cannot be framed by the UI. Proxying it satisfies'self'without weakening the policy. - The proxy relays WebSockets, so kernels connect, execute and stream output normally; HTTP responses stream rather than buffer, for JupyterLab's multi-megabyte bundles.
- The Jupyter process binds
127.0.0.1and is reachable only through minilake, so it is exposed exactly as far as minilake is and no further. - No second Spark in the image. Notebooks reach real Spark through the Jobs API, in the same sibling containers a job uses. The bundled quickstart carries the helper that stages a script, runs it and returns its output.
- A quickstart notebook is seeded into the notebook directory on first start and never overwritten afterwards, so edits survive an upgrade.
- New optional extra
minilake[notebook], bundled in the Docker image. - New settings:
MINILAKE_NOTEBOOK,MINILAKE_NOTEBOOK_PATH,MINILAKE_NOTEBOOK_PORT,MINILAKE_NOTEBOOK_DIR.
Query History API — GET /api/2.0/sql/history/queries, backed by the statement cache
rather than a second store, so the two cannot drift. Records failed statements, which
is usually why the panel gets opened. Supports filter_by.statuses /
.warehouse_ids / .statement_ids, max_results with an offset page_token, and
include_metrics for the metrics minilake can actually measure.
Saved Queries API — full CRUD at /api/2.0/sql/queries, honouring update_mask and
auto_resolve_display_name, and persisted with MINILAKE_PERSIST=1.
POST /_minilake/reset?full=truenow honoursfull. It previously accepted the parameter and ignored it, so the UI's "Full reset" and "Reset state" buttons did the same thing. A full reset deletes the on-disk data directories — the per-catalog DuckDB databases, volume directories and warehouse files that no servicereset()touches — while a plain reset still only clears the in-memory registries.- Deleting a SQL warehouse from the UI now asks for confirmation, matching every other destructive action.
- Font MIME types and CSS variable loading for the embedded UI: on a bare
python:slimimage there is no/etc/mime.types, so Python guessedapplication/octet-streamfor hashed.woff2assets and the browser refused to apply the font. - React hydration error #418, and an invalid CSS import.
ConfigItemandConfigUpdateRequestfromadmin.py. They modelled a/_minilake/configendpoint that does not exist.
- New docs/ui.md covering the web UI, how it is built and how it is served.
FEATURES.mdno longer listsquery_historyandqueriesamong the unimplemented 501 modules — both are implemented and in use by the UI.permissionsanddbfsare now recorded as deliberate UI omissions: permissions are stored but never enforced, and DBFS shares its on-disk root with the Files API, which the Files page already browses.
1.6.0 — 2026-08-08
Baseline for this changelog. Core SQL and Unity Catalog with per-catalog isolation, Jobs
with real DAG scheduling and Spark execution in sibling containers, Workspace, DBFS,
Files, Secrets, Clusters, Permissions, real Spark/Delta round-trips, and the optional MCP
server — all working and tested, with MINILAKE_PERSIST wired in.
See FEATURES.md for the full per-feature status of this release.