1. Syntactic sugars
Composite key for :idents, :extra-conditions, :joins and :cardinality.
If two or more dispatch key share the same configuration, it's handy to have them in the same entry. For example:
instead of:
;; floor-plan
{:idents {:people/all "person"
          :my-friends "person"}}
this is shorter:
;; floor-plan
{:idents {[:people/all :my-friends]
          "person"}}
This also applies to keys under :extra-conditions, :joins and :cardinality.
2. Functions in :extra-conditions
Instead of specifying a fixed filters set for an ident or a join, you can use a function that returns such filters set. The function accepts env as its argument.
Please see dev.clj for examples.
3 :required-columns
You need to understand Pathom plugins to make use of this.
Automatically fetch some columns of the same level whenever a namespace keyword is asked for. This is useful when you want to derive a property from some SQL columns using Clojure code (to be specific, as Pathom plugins)
Please see example.clj for examples. Things to look at:
derive-attributeswhich calculates:pet/ageand:person/agefrom:pet/yoband:person/yobrespectively.- required inputs for 
:pet/ageand:person/agein:required-columns: 
;; floor-plan
{:required-columns {:pet/age    #{:pet/yob}
                    :person/age #{:person/yob}}}