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This page provides high level details on the changes included in the recent releases

Historical releases may be periodically removed.

 

Version

Release date

Notes (Key Features)

Your cloud supported

Version

Release date

Notes (Key Features)

Your cloud supported

5.42

30/09/2024

New Features

Integrations

Fixes & Improvements

  • Content usage extract improvement to include roles

  • Single quotes toggle in Embedded profiles

  • Keycloak fix for embedded profiles expiry (impacts Your cloud deployment only)

  • Index performance improvement

  • Job now alerts users on completion

Yes

5.41

30/08/2024

New Features

  • New Lineage experience: Updated lineage provides more control including swim lanes, filtering, search, ability to download lineage map and default full screen mode. Turn it on in your profile settings and give it a try!

Integrations

  • Snowflake Data 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 dates

  • Column level lineage uplift to address gaps

  • Modification date (modification badge date) added to search

  • DBT core manifest file processing issue caused by changes in file format

  • DQ dashboard list of DQ assets sorted by DQ score

Yes

5.40

26/07/2024

New Features

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

Yes

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.

Yes

5.38

13/05/2024

New Features

Integrations

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

Sunset

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

No

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

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

No

5.35

20/12/2023

New Features

Integrations

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

No

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

No

5.33

20/10/2023

New Features

 

Integration

 

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

No

5.32

18/9/2023

New Features

 

Integration

 

Fixes & Improvements

  • Collection maps updated to display linked objects by type

  • Glossary Term suggested links expanded to all object types.

No

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

 

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

No

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

No

5.29

1/6/2023

New features

 

 Integrations

 

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

No

5.28

4/5/2023

New features

 

Integrations

 

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

No

5.27

31/3/2023

New features

 

Integrations

 

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

No

Archive

 

5.26

22/2/22

Data Model

  • New ML objects added

Scanner

New Integrations

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