Release Note - July 30, 2026
about 2 hours ago by Rucha Kulkarni
General
This release delivers improved session management for Data Studio, ensuring that interactive user activity (typing, running cells, UI interactions, mouse movement) is correctly recognized as active platform use. This prevents unintended logouts during active work while maintaining full FedRAMP compliance for truly inactive sessions. Together with redesigned session notifications and long-running session support, these changes provide a predictable, uninterrupted analysis experience.
New Features
- Interactive Data Studio activity- including typing, running cells, executing commands, UI clicks, navigation, and mouse movement - now counts as active platform use and resets the inactivity timer, preventing unintended session timeouts while users are actively working.
- A new "Session Expiring Warning" pop-up now appears before logout (at 10 minutes of inactivity on academic platforms; at 55 minutes on commercial platforms), giving users a 5-minute countdown warning with an "OK" button to dismiss and remain on the same page.
- A new "Session Expired" pop-up now appears at logout (at 15 minutes on academic; 60 minutes on commercial) with a "Log In Again" button that redirects to the login page.
- A new informational banner - "You are no longer inactive – your session is extended by [15/60] minutes" - now appears when a user returns during the session-expiring warning window. The banner fades after 10 seconds.
Improvements
- Session notification experience has been consolidated into a single pop-up system, replacing the previous banner + pop-up combination for a cleaner, less disruptive experience during active use.
- The countdown timer in the session-expiring warning pop-up now dynamically decrements to zero before transitioning to the session-expired pop-up.
- Long-running sessions now ensure that background work (computations, file writes, running jobs) continues independently even after the user is logged out due to inactivity. Background activity keeps the Data Studio instance alive but does not keep the user logged in - login sessions are governed exclusively by user-presence activity.
- Session management behavior is now consistent across all supported platforms.
Resources
If you have questions or experience issues with Data Studio session management, please contact your Velsera Seven Bridges representative or email [email protected].
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