Alteryx 8.6 Release Notes

This document references important items to take note of in the latest release of Alteryx Strategic Analytics. For more detailed information with respect to program enhancements to the Designer Desktop, please consult the “What’s New” document accessed from the desktop Help.

Version: 8.6

Release Date: October 16, 2013

The latest version of Alteryx is 8.6.2.42672

Designer Desktop

Project Edition: Users of Project Edition will no longer be prompted to choose between Preview and Run. A run will be counted only if there is an Output tool configured to write a file. If there are no output tools in the module, the module will run in Preview mode.
Sample folder structure: The samples were reorganized to be easier to navigate. If any modules were pointing to Macros in the 'Macro Samples' directory, they will need to be re-pointed to '08 Macro_Modules.'

Predictive Analytics and R

Alteryx version 8.6 has an integrated R install that includes: R version 3.0.1, Alteryx Macros, Alteryx sample modules, and the R Packages listed here.

For more information on R, please visit the R project website: http://www.r-project.org/

Windows Firewall message: In some of our testing, a Windows Firewall message has appeared when running the Boosted Model tool. This message is not a security threat. Clicking 'allow' will close the message and it will no longer appear.

Windows XP Support

As of the Alteryx 8.0 release, Alteryx no longer supports the Windows XP operating system. Microsoft ended the mainstream support of XP as of April 14, 2009. If you are running Windows XP and run into problems, we will not be able to assist you with issues that we cannot replicate in our supported environments. Therefore, we strongly recommend you update your operating system.

Please ensure your system is running Alteryx in an environment we support - 32 and 64 bit operating systems of Vista SP1, Server 2008, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows 8 Server.