Summary

With version 10.5, Tableau introduced a new data engine, Hyper, and included a long-awaited feature, the Viz in Tooltip. The 2018 releases have nothing to be ashamed of, in comparison! Every release brings a lot of new features and improvements.

In Tableau Desktop, with the multiple table schema and the spatial Join, you can create better Data Sources with improved performances. Visualizing the data has also improved considerably, with the new Density Marks type, step and jump lines, Worksheet transparency, and many more improvements for Dual Axis map, hierarchy filters, and nested sorts. 

The most notable new features concern Dashboards. The ability to download and add extensions developed by Tableau and their partners from the Extension Gallery provides tons of new uses for Tableau. A few of the Tableau user dreams have already come true, thanks to the extensions. Also, you can develop your extensions to create the interactions that meet your needs. That's just one new feature! The...