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5.41

30/08/2024

New Features

New Lineage experience: Updated lineage provides significantly more control including swimlanes, filtering, search and default full screen mode.

Integrations

Snowflake DMFData Metrics Functions: Use Snowflake Data Metrics functions to test Data Quality. Using this new integration you can sync results, track and monitor DQ, and manage DQ issues in K

Fixes & Improvements

Search filters for numbers & dates
Column level lineage uplift to address gaps
Modification date added to search
DBT core manifest file processing issue caused by changes in file format
Updated list of DQ assets to be sorted by DQ score

5.40

26/07/2024

New Features

Embedded Governance - Integrate K into your Dashboards and reports with an embedding that can be generated with a single click.
New critical collection - Category -
- A new first class collection to label assets by categories such as Bronze, Silver & Gold. Category is displayed in Embeddings
Enhanced Usage Insights Dashboard - Identify and address unused tables, views and storage to reduce cost & accelerate data migrations

Integrations

MYSQL Direct connect metadata only option added

Fixes & Improvements

Bulk update extended to DQ Tests
Dataset Field to Column manual lineage fixes
Map column bug where matched columns did not appear
Performance improvements for index/daily/weekly job performance
AWS RDS Postgres Collector update to address missing roles

5.39

10/06/2024

New Features

Alerts - Schedule filter results and Ask K reports directly to your inbox
New Ask K reports
- User - Role - Asset mapping - useful for auditing access to assets via the roles within the tool or DB. Applicable where AD or DB roles are used to manage access to a tool or DB.
Domain map
Collection map

Fixes & Improvements

Performance improvements to Dependency and impact assessments resulting in significant reduction in run times
Performance improvements to Lineage map rendering
DBT column descriptions mapped to associated column description
Table usage calculation incorporates View usage
Tableau Cloud connection timeout issue for large log extraction fixed
Fixed bug where user accessing link to K was redirected to home page if they have never logged in before.

5.38

13/05/2024

New Features

Collection bulk update: Bulk upload a collection (e.g. Glossary) or bulk edit via an Excel file
User management screen: K admins can now update reference user details including their usage type (User or System).

Integrations

Column level lineage for Snowflake using native Snowflake object dependencies. Enable it with the new feature for Snowflake Enterprise Accounts
KADA GE plugin available on pypi

Fixes & Improvements

Tableau Server: Hidden sheet causing lineage breaks now included in Lineage maps
Fixed issue with IA timing out due to over limit impact assessment result set
Performance improvement for batch processes
Map UI improvements for lower resolution screens

5.37

05/04/2024

New Features

DQ time series metrics for all dimensions

Fixes & Improvements

Search includes new options for exact match and restricting to name only
Performance improvement.
- Usage details load significant faster.
Performance improvement for Impact and dependency assessment.
Business name to Bulk edit template
UX Improvements to Bulk update process
Sidebar drop downs options (e.g. Domains, Use cases) display hierarchy
Views now include the code used to generate the view

5.36

22/02/2024

New Features

Workspaces as a first class asset. Workspaces is now visible in search and have their own profile page. Currently limited to Power BI.
Multi Impact Assessment / Dependency assessment. Run IA across multiple objects at the same time to determine common impacted assets and users

Integrations

Cognos updates (ODBC connectivity)
Tableau updates (Include hidden objects affecting lineage)
Power BI updates (DAX improvement to address missing lineage)

Fixes & Improvements

K.ai expanded personas and additional guard rails
K.ai quality improvement - K.ai leverages additional metadata to improve quality of responses.
K.ai added to Table and Dataset Table.
UX improvements for editing and bulk updating descriptions
DQ Time Series improvement - DQ trend does not change if no DQ score is provided the following run.
Search improvements - general improvements to improve quality of search results
Performance fixes for bulk update and bulk edit - multiple bulk update/edits at the same time no longer performance issue to interactive use.
Impact assessment defects - addressed IA missing assets due to skipped shortcuts - affecting some sources e.g. Teradata
My Tasks page - provide single page for all batch operations run by the user

5.35

20/12/2023

New Features

Dependency Assessment
Code Search
Updated onboarding process for K.ai - Setting up K.ai
DQ Dashboards
- View DQ by Source, Domain, Collections and Tool

Integrations

Informatica IICS updates

Fixes & Improvements

Improvements to K.ai
Dataset DAX now visible on Dataset Profile pages
Following tab on Homepage
Knowledge view on Lineage and Knowledge available as a tab in the Lineage sidebar
Impact assessment expanded to Columns

5.34

11/07/2023

New Features

Integrations

Teradata collector updates
Great Expectations updates

Fixes & Improvements

Raise Issue from DQ tab
DQ business name displays in Lists
Bulk edit expanded to include schemas, datasets, content apps.
Load from file sources displaying not scheduled despite being scheduled

5.33

20/10/2023

New Features

Column level lineage (Beta)
Expandable menu
Dashboard chart drill through modal experience

Integration

Postgres

Fixes & Improvements

Data quality focus on Lineage maps
Data quality Business names displayed in lists
Tableau cloud sheet usage propagated to reports
Search filters can be set to include or exclude
Hevo integration fixes
Source extract, source load, and daily batch performance improvements

5.32

18/9/2023

New Features

Data Quality metrics! A significant uplift in our Data Quality tracking capabilities including tracking DQ scores over time from tools such as Great Expectations
Updates to Governance & Issues dashboards to provide recommendations
Updates to Owner & Steward Dashboards to include Domain metrics
Lineage Filter: New approach to filtering lineage maps to support different use cases.

Integration

AWS Glue

Fixes & Improvements

Collection maps updated to display linked objects by type
Glossary Term suggested links expanded to all object types.

5.31

31/7/2023

New features

New helpful recommendations on the Dashboard and Insights pages. For example cost savings recommendations appear on the usage dashboard.
New assets
- Snowflake Streams & External Tables
Alternate descriptions for data assets
- Snowflake table & column comments
Masking labels for data assets
- Snowflake masking policies

Integrations

Azure SQL

Fixes & Improvements

Update to User Administration flows
Update to Joins tab sidebar
Child objects on lineage map moved to sidebar
Update to monitoring page
Performance updates to source loads
More scheduling options (including custom CRON) for source loads
Code objects split in UI. Separate tabs for Procedures & Macros

5.30

6/7/2023

New features

Integrations

Alteryx collector

Fixes & Improvements

New description actions - select text to create a Term
New source scheduler options (weekly, monthly and custom)
Reference objects filter in Impact Assessment
Power BI lineage where report profiling is not available (due to MS API limitations)
Lineage layout fixes to address issues when showing/hiding references
Fixed download collector bug

5.29

1/6/2023

New features

Data cart for bulk actions (bulk editing via Excel is coming!)
Sensitive data scanner improvements (including custom scanner for Person)

Integrations

Thoughtspot extractor (direct connect)

Fixes & Improvements

New lineage sidebar layouts including editing on lineage maps.
Reactive width for smaller/wider screens
Tableau Server sheet usage
Lineage experience improvements including show references not causing a map refresh.
Updated lineage calculation – self-reference links no longer counts as downstream lineage
Automated linkages between Alteryx datasets and Tableau datasets

5.28

4/5/2023

New features

Metadata and Linkage change detection for all objects
- Metadata changes include changes to descriptions
- Linkage changes include adding/removing tags etc
Ability to Self Service and download collector packages via Platform Settings → Sources page
Delegate Owner/Steward Dashboard access for Data Governance users

Integrations

Thoughtspot collector

Fixes & Improvements

Updated profile sidebar layout
Sensitive data scanner improvements including new detectors for Person
Missing Lineage flows for Datasets & Data Pipelines
Stale lineage still visible in lineage maps
Improvements to how reference objects appear in lineage maps
Hightouch lineage fixes
dbt Cloud integration fix for accounts with unconfigured projects

5.27

31/3/2023

New features

Change detection for Reporting tools including Power BI and Tableau
Access request flows for any source
Governance reporting for Collections (e.g. Domains)
Inline editing on profile pages and sidebar

Integrations

Tableau Cloud extractor
DB2 collector
DBT Cloud - Tests

Fixes & Improvements

Lineage fixes for reference objects, macros, procs
Classifications for Domains
Macros & Procs in Lineage
Reference objects in Lineage
Impact assessment UI & Email
Improved API validation

Versions Compared

Old Version 104

New Version 105

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