Release versions

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 user account details including their usage type (User or System).

Integrations

• Column level lineage for Snowflake using native Snowflake object dependencies.

• KADA GE plugin available on pypi

Fixes & Improvements

• Tableau: 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

22/02/2023

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

• Generative descriptions (Private preview)

• Filters (Save your searches)

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

• Bulk edit via Excel

• Updated Lineage UI + drill through experience

• New Ecosystem page

• Update Dashboard experience

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

Archive

5.26

22/2/22

Data Model

• New ML objects added

Scanner

• New sensitive data scanner available as a collector

New Integrations

• Tableau Cloud collector

• Hightouch collector

• /wiki/spaces/DAT/pages/1974665217extractor

Fixes/Changes

• Deleted objects no longer appear in map/lists

• Reference object filter in Lineage to prevent large fan outs of temp tables

• Improvement to Joins map

5.25

12/12/22

Lineage

• Detailed Power BI lineage

• Detailed Tableau lineage

Impact assessment

• Updates to include collections and new Power BI / Tableau objects

Inventory

• Update to Inventory experience

Integrations

• Updates to dbt Cloud integration - filter by environment ID. Inclusion of jobs

5.24

3/11/22

Lineage

• Improvements to Lineage map including zoom, minimap and more

Hierarchy

• Construct hierarchies in glossaries and collections

Performance improvement

• Reduction in load time

5.23

20/9/22

Integrations

• Azure Data Factory

• Power BI Apps

Search

• Improve knowledge search experience

• Collection instance alias

Lineage

• Collection instance maps

5.22

21/8/22

Integrations

• Jira webhook

Search

• Update to Search experience

• Improvement to search results

• Matching on Terms

Glossary

• Inline terms/collections in descriptions.

• Soft linking terms / suggestions

5.21

21/7/22

Data Quality

Integrations

• Hevo extractor

• Great expectations

• DBT Tests

Lineage

• Replace by relationships included in lineage

• Layout improvements

5.202

13/6/202

Integrations

• Fivetran collector & extractor

• Hevo collector

User tutorial

Inventory improvements

Search home page improvements

Lineage

• Full screen explorer

• View columns

Power BI

• Fixes for specific DAX queries failing parsing

5.19.0

20/5/20

Power BI uplift

• Lineage for SQL Server

• Additional properties including Dataset refresh schedule

• Permissions

Profile page improvements

• Edit UI uplift

• Not verified for use case

• UI improvement for Glossary & Terms

Integrations

• SSIS

• SSRS

Discover page for new and trending collections, content and data

5.18.0

29/4/20

Platform customisation page

Collection management improvements

UI improvement to Collection pages

Lineage improvements

• Filter for low trust items

5.17.0

15/4/20

Major uplift to collectors. Python packages now available for customers to deploy into their own pipeline tools.

Improvement to Source onboarding UX

5.16.0

1/4/2022

Merging (Users)

Rich Text Editor

UX improvement to Dashboards

UX uplift to Joins tab

UX improvements to Collections & Glossaries

Lineage updates

Embedded Support Widget

Improvements to Users / Account management.

• UX improvement to show differences between Users vs. Accounts

• Only Users can be linked to data roles

Snowflake additional properties integration

5.15.0

12/3/2022

Feedback in Profile pages

Maps

Domains

Athena integration

Lists

5.14.0

18/2/2022

New lineage experience

Business/Alias names for Objects

5.13.0

14/1/2022

Extended properties loader

Platform dashboard

Collector improvements

5.12.0

1/12/2021

Redshift integration

DBT loader improvements

Join keys

UX improvements

5.11.0

5/11/2021

Performance improvement

5.10.0

4/10/2021

Roles & Channels.

DBT connector

5.9.0

3/9/2021

Improvements to lineage parser and impact assessment

Dark mode fixes

New search

5.8.0

11/8/2021

New search beta

Dark mode beta

Governance insights

5.7.0

28/07/2021

Uplift to insights page

5.6.0

10/7/2021

Automated joins analysis.

5.5.0

23/6/2021

Lineage visualisation improvements

Knowledge centre improvements

5.4.0

9/6/2021

New version of Ecosystem insights

Bulk editing

5.3.0

12/5/2021

New version of inventory/catalog

Additional news feed items (change, issues)

5.2.0

29/4/2021

Impact assessment emails