Version 8

8.0.0.1

(31.12.2024)

Initial GA Release of Version 8.

With this release, Version 7 will go into maintenance mode and will only receive bugfix and security updates. End of Support for Version 7: 31.12.2025.

Hints for the Installation:
  • Manual Update Scripts / Automatic Model Update:

    • MS SQL: Yes / No

    • Oracle: Yes / No

    • Postgres: Yes / No

    • Exasol: Yes / No

    • Snowflake: Yes / Yes

    • Synapse: Yes / No

    • BigQuery: No / No

  • Manual Update Actions:

    • BigQuery source: If currently in use, remove manual driver inclusion from configuration.

New Features:

  • Target Database: Introducing BigQuery as new target database.

  • Data Catalog: Introducing additional fields to capture metadata (Object Tags, Data Owner, Retention Period, etc.). [1]

  • Snowflake: Introducing option to materialize Business Ruleset using Dynamic Tables. [2]

Improvements:

  • Documentation: Redo of Documentation module. Now allows to browse without having to generate. Also, the Documentation can now be exported over API.

  • Exasol: Improved parsing for table / view code containing unix newlines.

  • Deployment: Export & deploy system colors.

Bugfix:

  • Snowflake: Fixed data preview for large numeric values.

  • Metadata Views: Fixed broken fields to extract system_id and functional_suffix_id in base views.

  • MS SQL: Fixed business rules materialization schema to not contain a space.

  • Snowflake / Exasol: Fixed renaming of materialized Business Rulesets.

Behavior Changes:

  • Snowflake: New default for jdbc connection to database (to be able to read large numeric values): JDBC_TREAT_DECIMAL_AS_INT=false.

  • Snowflake: Make staging and pit schema transient.

  • ID Validation: Enforce ID restrictions from UI also on API level.

  • Documentation: Switched to HTML Export instead of PDF (currently no graphics in the exported version).

  • Deployment: Removed deprecated legacy export format (1.0).

Other Changes:

  • Databricks: Updated driver to 2.6.40.

  • Exasol: Updated driver to 24.2.1.

  • BigQuery: Included driver 1.6.1.1002 in distribution.

  • CSV: Updated driver to 1.0.42.

8.0.0.0 Beta

(11.09.2024)