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Support Alerts - Aug 11, 2020

Tableau Product Notice

On August 1st, the Tableau development team updated the certificates for our Windows based product installers. This change may cause issues with installing specific versions of Tableau Products. To resolve, please install the latest maintenance version of the product you’re using here. For more details, please see this Knowledge Base article.

Product Release and Download

Tableau Desktop 2018.2.2

We recommend using the newest maintenance release of this version, 2018.2.24, which contains additional fixes.

Download Tableau Desktop 2018.2.24

Build number

20182.18.0925.2120

Download Tableau Desktop 2018.2.2

Release date

Thursday, September 27, 2018

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Resolved Issues

Issue ID	Description
796585	In some cases, decimal data would not be properly aggregated and result in unexpected or missing marks.
795366	When connected to OData, the values for fields with the same name were not differentiated.
767195, 796405	Malformed SQL queries and resulting errors could sometimes occur when using a date parameter to modify a view.
782424	In some environments, the Edit Axis dialog would appear blank or as a black box.
806081	Calculated fields would appear to be invalid when you edited an OData data source.
808513	In workbooks connected to a Sharepoint List, calculated fields would be removed from the data source after you edited the data source and had to re-authenticate the data connection.
775400	When appending data to a .hyper extract that uses a SAS data source, the errors "Cannot find file, Replace with another?" and "Unable to append" occurred.
774269	Sometimes, nested level of detail calculations in a workbook produced an "Error occurred communicating with the data source. No such column [Calculation_]." error message.
815955	You could not group fields by data source table in the data pane when connected to a published data source containing an extract and a data source filter.
816539	In some cases, it was not possible to clear the text from a string parameter.
809581	When you set a fiscal year start for a date field used in blending, an "Invalid datetime value" error occurred.
774517, 796750	Using Tableau Desktop 2018.1 or 2018.2, a debug.log file appeared when you installed or double clicked a workbook.
751916	In some cases, when connecting to Tableau Server via mutual SSL, Tableau Desktop displayed an "error 6 SSL handshake failed" error message.

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