v3.20.0 - Preparations for Avo 4 are underway

Hey friends 👋

Avo 3.20 comes with a few enhancements and plenty of bugfixes.

Big changes:

• enhanced file field preview
• pretty_generated on the code field
• fetch_values_from for the tags dynamic filter
• fixed some styles, scopes, and buttons

Avo 4 work is underway

We started to work on Avo 4 with the new theming feature + the Tailwind v4 update. I don't have anything to show you at the moment, but I can tell you of our progress so far.

• Nested records - Initial iteration done
• HTTP Resource - Initial iteration done
• Reactive fields - Initial iteration done
• REST API - In progress
• New look & Theming - In progress
• AI dev-tooling - In research
• AI queries - In research
• AI Interface building - In progress
• Collaboration - Beta
• Kanban and Calendar views - In progress
• Improved search - In progress

You can keep up to dat with our progress on the Roadmap.
https://github.com/orgs/avo-hq/projects/14/views/7

We juggle quite a few things to make the next generation of Avo the best toolkit for you to build internal tools with Ruby on Rails.

Just a quick update for today 🙌

Thanks for being awesome!
Adrian and Paul ✌️

Release notes: https://avohq.io/releases/3.20
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Release notes

More information and release video here

✨ Enhancements

• add jsonb to fields mapping @manuelmeurer (#3824)
• enhancement: preview file attachment without download @Nevelito (#3681)
• Add pretty_generated option for code fields @zhephyn (#3782)
• enhancement: access record on array block @Paul-Bob (#3787)
• enhancement: trigger request on tags filter focus when using fetch_values_from @Paul-Bob (avo-dynamic_filters #90)
• Add support for decoration in base field handling @enderahmetyurt (#3765)
• enhancement: dynamic filters empty conditions @Paul-Bob (avo-dynamic_filters #87)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: copyable date style @Paul-Bob (#3831)
• fix: allow textarea index field @Paul-Bob (#3830)
• fix: array resource actions query @Paul-Bob (#3829)
• fix: apply scope on has_many fields while searching on the association table @piyush828-design (#3804)
• fix: missing icon button on actions_list style: :icon @icaroryan (#3801)
• fix: access record inside field on update requests @Paul-Bob (#3808)
• fix: belongsto field should use association primarykey @Nevelito (#3665)
• fix: belongs_to resource generator @Paul-Bob (#3789)
• fix: authorization log @Paul-Bob (avo-pro #106)
• fix: empty value on condition select @Paul-Bob (avo-dynamic_filters #89)
• fix: avoid engine options mutation on mount @Paul-Bob (#3783)
• fix: nested model @Paul-Bob (avo-advnaced #60)
• fix: allow nested: false @Paul-Bob (#3763)
• fix: nested add button @Paul-Bob (avo-advnaced #56)

🤖 Maintenance

• [ruby] Update all Bundler dependencies (2025-05-01) @depfu (#3823)
• [js] Update all Yarn dependencies (2025-05-01) @depfu (#3822)
• [ruby] Update all Bundler dependencies (2025-04-24) @depfu (#3810)
• 🚨 [security] [ruby] Update nokogiri 1.18.7 → 1.18.8 (patch) @depfu (#3805)
• [ruby] Update all Bundler dependencies (2025-04-17) @depfu (#3800)
• [js] Update all Yarn dependencies (2025-04-17) @depfu (#3799)
• [ruby] Update all Bundler dependencies (2025-04-10) @depfu (#3785)
• [js] Update all Yarn dependencies (2025-04-10) @depfu (#3784)
• [ruby] Update all Bundler dependencies (2025-04-03) @depfu (#3771)
• [js] Update all Yarn dependencies (2025-04-03) @depfu (#3770)

💡 Refactor

• refactor: access view_type from resource @Paul-Bob (#3814)
• refactor: migrate logo.clearbit to logo.dev @Paul-Bob (#3796)
• refactor: default alert component background class @Paul-Bob (#3794)
• refactor: http generator @Paul-Bob (#3779)
• refactor: abstract resources @Paul-Bob (#3777)
• refactor: change nested add button from outline to primary @Paul-Bob (avo-advanced #59)

For more information, check out Avo's release notes page