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title: "March 2026 - Platform"
slug: "march-2026-platform"
updated: 2026-06-26T21:05:30Z
published: 2026-06-26T21:05:30Z
canonical: "kb.kentik.com/march-2026-platform"
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# March 2026 - Platform

The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Platform during March, 2026.

## Features
- **Configurable landing pages**: Administrators can set default landing pages (Observation Deck, Dashboard, Saved View, and more) per user and per role-set, with bulk assignment and filtering.
- **RBAC for Observation Decks**: New "Observation Deck Viewers" and "Observation Deck Administrators" custom roles enable granular access control for boards.
- **Permission-aware landing-page assignment**: Assigning boards/decks/dashboards/saved views now enforces RBAC and label access, preventing assignment to pages a user can't access.
- **Single panel to dashboard**: Convert a single-panel view into a full dashboard with a new "Add to Dashboard" action.
- **Board variables**: A new variables system enables flexible board-level filtering with guided and custom variable types and multi-value selection, with a guided mode for managing variables.
- **Add to Observation Deck dialog**: Choose which Observation Deck to add panels to from the Data Explorer, instead of always adding to the default deck.
- **Recently viewed Boards**: Recent views now include Boards alongside Dashboards and Saved Views, correctly deduplicated and ordered most-recent-first.
- **Query API alpha1**: Authenticated, rate-limited access to the Query API via the API gateway.

## Bug Fixes
- **Persistent device table columns**: Your custom column selections on the Devices page now persist across page loads.
- **Licenses page layout**: Fixes z-index layering so license add-on cards overlap as designed.
- **PeeringDB exchange interface removal**: Deselected interfaces are now properly removed on save, and a 500 error on Custom-Facilities entries is fixed.
- **PeeringDB dialog scrolling**: Fixes scrolling and alignment in the peering database dialog.
- **Custom dimension search**: Adds field-limit support to the custom dimensions populator API for better search performance.
- **Boards label-based access**: Fixes label-based RBAC permissions for Boards.
- **Agent connection stability**: Adds gRPC keepalive pings so idle agent connections aren't dropped by proxies.