What's new - MindsDB August product updates

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August was such a hot🔥 month for community contributions!

Since we introduced modular handlers architecture our amazing💚 community contributed almost 30 new integrations💪, and coming!

See below a complete list of product updates in August and check community shoutouts to meet MindsDB contributors.

New features and improvements:

• Improved JsonAI templating for analysis blocks
• Refactored feature importance
• New feature for models versioning
• Improved LightGBM Array mixer for faster runtime
• New documentation for MongoDB API
• New Tableau documentation
• Improved MindsDB Docker image to simplify additional dependencies for some data sources
• New data sources:
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Microsoft Access
  • Vertica
  • Google Big Query
  • Apache Pinot
  • CrateDB
  • Datastax AstraDB
  • Amazon S3
  • IBM Informix
  • Airtable
  • MonetDB
  • ElasticSearch
  • Matrixone
  • Dolt
• Support for creating a time series model from VIEW

Bug fixes:

• Fixed SHAP analysis block issue
• Fixed issue with non-utf-8 encodings when uploading CSV files
• Fixed issue with loading secure bundle with ScyllaDB
• Fixed issue with Mongo compass 1.32.6 version
• Fixed issue with time series model in Mongo.

P.S. If you have any requests for new features, please feel free to reach out via our Slack community.