Release versions

22/11/2024

New Features

• Embedded profile warning notices

• Cascade update for schemas and tables

• Ecosystem map customisation

• Bulk action

  • Incorporates bulk update

  • Removes bulk update limits

  • Can be used from Search, Filters, Impact & Dependency Assessments & Lineage maps

• Bulk lineage mapper

• Data job type for users

• Complexity insights

• Using K.AI to generate descriptions expanded to Code and DQ Tests

• DQ delta score for alerts

Integrations

• Greenplum direct connect

Fixes & Improvements

• Lineage improvements

  • New Lineage experience defaulted for all users

  • Bulk actions from lineage map

  • Keyboard map controls

• Embedding profile expanded to include additional information such as open issues, linked terms & channels.

• Boundary labels: Easily identify assets where their upstream or downstream lineage crosses to another sources.

• PII scanner configuration extract filters views

• Multiple owners can be assigned to an asset

• Pagination fix for Term list (where many terms linked to a single asset)

Yes

5.42

30/09/2024

New Features

• New usage metrics for Content

• Manual data source management

Integrations

• Clickhouse (Collector / Direct Connect)

• Bytehouse (Collector / Direct Connect)

• Snowflake

  • Direct connect using key pair authentication supported

• Power BI

  • Data flows included

  • Downloads included in new metrics monitored

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

• 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

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.

Sunset

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

No

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

• 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

No

5.35

20/12/2023

New Features

• https://kadaai.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KSL/pages/2091843585

• https://kadaai.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KSL/pages/2091876353

• Updated onboarding process for K.ai - https://kadaai.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KSL/pages/2095972353

• 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

No

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

No

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

No

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.

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

• 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

No

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

No

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

No

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

No

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

No

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

• Hightouch extractor

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