Collibra Data Governance Center On-Premises

The content of this section is only available for Collibra Data Governance Center on-premises environments. For the release notes of Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud, see Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud .

Note Please note, some items included in this release may require an additional cost. Please contact your Collibra representative or Customer Success Manager with any questions.

Current release status

 

Current

Upcoming
Collibra Data Governance Center 5.7.11 is available on November 29 5.7.12 will be available on February 28
  • 5.7.11
  • 5.7.10
  • 5.7.9
  • 5.7.8
  • 5.7.7
  • Archive

5.7.11

Highlights

  • You can now import and export assessment templates via the Assessments user interface. This is particularly useful for exporting templates from a testing environment and importing them to a production environment.
  • The Apache HBase and Dynamics 365 Sales Catalog connectors are now certified.
  • The Settings page has been redesigned, including a new landing page.
  • The Global Permissions and the Resource Permissions pages now have a read-only mode and an edit mode.
  • You can now adjust the flow depth in a diagram.
  • You can now specify the maximum flow depth in a diagram view via the user interface. Previously, you could only specify the maximum flow depth for a diagram view via JSON text editor. You can still edit the system-wide maximum in Collibra Console.
  • Refreshed Navigation is now enabled by default in production environments.
  • You can now use a top and bottom banner to post announcements and security disclaimers to all users.

New features

Data Catalog

  • You can now configure a test connection timeout when configuring a Jobserver.
  • After registering a data source via Edge, you can now schedule it so that it's automatically triggered.

Data Governance

  • If you search for an asset in a dialog box, for example while adding a relation or creating a manual hyperlink, you now see a Recently Viewed section to easily find the relevant assets. (ticket #59318, 61276, 64700)
  • You can now use a top and bottom banner to post announcements and security disclaimers to all users.
  • The Global Permissions and the Resource Permissions pages now have a read-only mode and an edit mode.
  • The Settings page has been redesigned, including a new landing page.

Collibra for Desktop

  • You can now select asset content in Collibra for Desktop, for example the asset's description, and immediately paste it into the application you're working in, by using the key combination Alt+Enter (Windows) or Option+Enter (macOS).
  • On the Responsibilities tab of an asset, you can now see the list of users in a user group when that user group is assigned a resource role for the asset.

Collibra Console

  • Log files of the Data Governance Center service now have the prefix "dgc." instead of "dgc-", for example dgc.2021-10-01.0.log.
  • When configuring single sign-on for Collibra Console, you can now use your own certificate with an anchored trust model for SSO SAML AuthN Request signing.

Security

  • When configuring single sign-on for Collibra, you can now use your own certificate with an anchored trust model for SSO SAML AuthN Request signing.
  • Due to the end of life of the used version, we have upgraded Spring Boot to 2.5.6.

Enhancements

Data Catalog

  • The Apache Kafka Catalog connector now supports data profiling.

Assessments

  • There is a new Assessment tab on Assessment Review asset pages. This tab shows all of the responses that were provided in the assessment.
  • Business Process custom asset pages no longer show relations to deprecated LIA, PIA and DPIA assets. They now show relations to Assessment Review assets. For more information, see What happens when you save, complete or submit an assessment?.

Data Privacy

  • You can now delete any assessment, regardless of its status. If you delete a submitted assessment, the linked Assessment Review asset will not be deleted. You need to manually delete it in your Collibra environment.

Workflows

  • You can now see the exact date of a past comment or rating in a tooltip when you hover your pointer over the relative date.
  • You can now see an activity indicator after submitting a workflow user task that takes time to complete.

Collibra for Mobile

  • You now receive a push notification when a new task is assigned to you.

Miscellaneous

  • Page definitions are XML files that describe the contents of a page together with the rules that determine when this should be used. You can now use the OR operator in these rules. (ticket #63094)
  • The performance of the Collibra platform has improved thanks to a new way of checking the view permissions.
  • A query to filter by responsibilities no longer causes slow loading times of a global view. (ticket #69580, 70992)

Fixes

Data Catalog

  • The profiling results "Date", "Time" and "Date and Time" columns are now correctly formatted and classified. (ticket #69656)
  • If you use the IAM role to connect to an Amazon S3 file system, you no longer have to add the Access key ID and Secret access key to enable the 'Synchronize now' button. (ticket #73196,73420,73579,73581)
  • On the Physical Data Connector page of the Stewardship application, changing the number of rows, to show fewer rows per page than there are rows in total, no longer causes an error. (ticket #67745)
  • Tableau synchronization no longer removes workbooks and views from inconsistent data.
  • Fixed an issue with the reversed proxy server which caused problems with the communication between Jobserver and Collibra Data Catalog. (ticket #70243, 70631, 72071, 74902, 74986, 76014).
  • Fixed an issue with password encryption when using the reverse proxy server. (ticket #76158, 76170, 76249, 76262, 76277, 76369, 76683)

Data Governance

  • Deleting the content of an attribute now has the same effect on the articulation score as deleting the attribute itself. (ticket #68779)
  • When importing a CMA file using the Migration feature, the order of assignment lines is now always taken into consideration. (ticket #66806)
  • Fixed an issue where the Migration feature did not allow you to migrate the assignments of the Business Qualifier and BI Report Attribute asset types. (ticket #67378, 69737)
  • Direct links to asset pages no longer work if there are extra characters in front of the ID of the asset. (ticket #68337)
  • If you open an asset page from a relation table, the asset page now opens at the start of the page. (ticket #67587)
  • The See All links in the Responsibilities section of the preview pane of assets now point to the Responsibilities tab page of the relevant asset.
  • Collibra now works correctly if a custom context path is set. (ticket #68174, 70715, 70886, 71777)
  • Filtering asset views now takes your time zone into consideration. (ticket #64778)
  • Fixed an issue where column filters in table views were still applied after switching to another view. (ticket #57351)
  • Fixed an issue where not all users were added to the Everyone group. (ticket #66167, 67661)
  • If you change the number of rows in a table view after wrapping text, you no longer see an empty table.
  • Dashboard widgets no longer refresh when you are not on the dashboard page.
  • Dashboard widgets no longer prevent automatic signing out if you are inactive for the set amount of time and do not have the dashboard open.
  • Fixed an issue where changes to the dashboard sharing options were not saved correctly if refreshed navigation was enabled. (ticket #70511, 70601, 70774, 71791, 72068, 72170, 72700, 72712, 72752, 73126, 73219, 73262)
  • The See All links in the Responsibilities section of the preview pane of assets now point to the Responsibilities tab page of the relevant asset.
  • Custom and packaged workflows can be started again in any time. (ticket #67776)
  • Fixed an issue where changes to the dashboard sharing options were not saved correctly if refreshed navigation was enabled. (ticket #70511, 70601, 70774, 71791, 72068, 72170, 72700, 72712, 72752, 73126, 73219, 73262)
  • Fixed an issue where rebuilding automatic hyperlinks failed. (ticket #69583, 71881)
  • Fixed an issue where switching global views resulted in an error.
  • Fixed an issue where wrapping text in an asset table didn't work if you had first wrapped text and then collapsed the rows again.
  • The Migration feature no longer shows views that were saved on a hidden domain. (ticket #69327)
  • Exporting all views from the "Asset views - in Communities and Domains" category no longer exports views that were saved on a hidden domain. (ticket #69327)
  • Fixed an issue where you could not edit the description of a community after navigating to it from the root level via organization tree. (ticket #70512)
  • Fixed an issue where scrolling in the Edit mode of the Global Permissions and the Resource Permissions pages caused the checkboxes to display incorrectly. (ticket #74600)
  • The diagram views that are either public or shared with a role are once again visible and selectable in the Migration export UI.
  • Fixed an issue where the global Create button disappeared if you didn't have certain resource permissions. (ticket #69606, 73803, 74076, 74157)
  • Changing the license while Collibra is running no longer results in exceptions in the log.
  • Fixed an issue where the output module filter didn't correctly parse LONG and DOUBLE values set as a JSON number. (ticket #73835)
  • You can once again export asset views with a filter on roles. (ticket #73570, 74060, 74103, 74336, 74471, 74521, 74788, 74929, 75195)
  • Fixed an issue with exporting asset views which were sorted on an attribute column. (ticket #74929, 75195)

Assessments

  • You can now edit any of your custom templates. There was previously an issue with older templates that were created before Collibra started storing the "created on" metadata.
  • Improved error message if an error occurs while trying to publish a template or edit a template.

Diagrams

  • Fixed an issue where diagrams didn't load with a filter containing a relation. (ticket #68266, 70078, 70884)
  • Clicking the name of a diagram picture of a Tableau Data Source asset, again opens the picture, instead of showing the asset details. (ticket #67517)

Data Privacy

  • User interface fonts now load correctly when running multiple Collibra environments on the same domain. (tickets #70715, 73871)

Workflows

  • You can no longer clear a "datetime" user task form that has the "Writeable" property set to "false". (ticket #70863)
  • You can again select "Asset" to indicate all asset types when adding a workflow assignment rule. (ticket #63705)
  • You can no longer remove the default value of a workflow start form that has the "Readable" property set to "false" in the XML editor.
  • The workflow dialog box whitespace and width of from fields are now correctly sized. (ticket #69492, 69495)
  • The workflow task sidebar now adapts to resizing browser windows. (ticket #66589)
  • Fixed an issue where dialog boxes of workflows become unresponsive if one of its fields has invalid content. (ticket #74583, 74686, 74869, 74871, 74936)
  • The workflow engine resolves the utility bean as intended for time-based workflows, in accordance with the specified namespace. (ticket #74718)

Search

  • Search indexes no longer become out-of-sync due to a version conflict when calling an indexed document in ElasticSearch. (ticket #71522)
  • Tags that are created by the REST Import API are now indexed in the search database and can be found via the search. (ticket #64161)

Collibra for Desktop

  • Search filter suggestions no longer hide the content of a workflow form.
  • Searching for "report" no longer suggests a Tableau Dashboard search.

Collibra for Mobile

  • You now receive a push notification when a new task is assigned to you.

Collibra Console

  • Log retention configurations are again supported through the 'collibra_data/dgc/config/logging.properties' file. (ticket #70788)
  • Adding more than one group to the Collibra Console SSO configuration no longer breaks the permissions. (ticket #69642)

API

  • Using the REST API, you can no longer edit the head and tail asset types of relation types with the system flag.
  • You can now create relation types with an empty description via the API. (ticket #69327)
  • Using the REST API, you can no longer edit the head and tail asset types of relation types with the system flag. (ticket #66618)
  • Assets that were no longer present in an external system and had their status changed instead of being deleted as a result of a synchronization regain the asset type default status when they reappear in the external system on subsequent synchronizations.

Miscellaneous

  • If LDAP is enabled and the same user occurs on multiple LDAP servers, the user information is taken from the same server when LDAP is synchronized as when the user is authenticated. (ticket #69201)
  • If the header parameter "x-collibra-api-username" or "x-collibra-api-key" is missing or wrong, you now see the correct HTTP 401 error code instead of HTTP 500.

Patches

Patch 1

  • Java JRE is now upgraded from version 8.0.292 to latest patch version 8.0.312 to improve security. (ticket #75764)
  • Elasticsearch is upgraded to version 7.16.1, with mitigations for the following log4j vulnerabilities: For technical information regarding the Elasticsearch 7.16.1 release, please consult the Elasticsearch release notes.

Patch 2

  • Elasticsearch is upgraded to version 7.16.2. This includes an upgrade of log4j to version 2.17.0, which mitigates the following log4j vulnerability:For more information regarding the Elasticsearch 7.16.2 release, please consult the Elasticsearch release notes.

Patch 3

  • Signing in via LDAP is now faster. (ticket #79896, 83727)

5.7.10

Highlights

  • The Apache Kafka Catalog connector now supports profiling.
  • The following Collibra Data Privacy workflows are deprecated. They are no longer included in the Collibra Data Privacy CMA installation files:
    • CCPA - PIA Threshold Workflow
    • Compliance Self Assessment Start
    • Compliance Self Assessment Wizard
    • DPIA Start
    • DPIA wizard
    • GDPR - DPIA Threshold Workflow
    • Legitimate Interest Assessment Start
    • Legitimate Interest Assessment Wizard
    • PIA Start
    • PIA wizard

    All instances of these workflows in your environment will continue to work. They will not be deleted when you install a new CMA file, but they are no longer updated and no longer supported.

  • New component versions:
    • Apache Tomcat: 8.5.69
    • Java Azul Zulu: 8.0.292
    • PostgreSQL: 10.17

New features

Data Catalog

  • The Apache Kafka Data Catalog connector now supports data profiling

Data Governance

  • You can now wrap all text in the cells of a table view, and, optionally, save the view so the text is wrapped when the view opens.

Data Privacy

Collibra for Desktop

  • You can now follow hyperlinks within Collibra for Desktop if you enable auto hyperlinking in the Everywhere Desktop configuration section in Collibra Console. By default the feature is disabled. You also must have enabled hyperlinking in the Hyperlinking configuration section.
  • The navigation bar now has a Discover section, which includes a list of assets that may be of interest to you and a list of the most viewed assets in your environment.
  • You now have a specific Windows installer which allows you to install the application even if you don't have administrator rights, for example, due to limitations of the corporate IT policy. You can also still leverage the automatic updates.
  • You can now expand and collapse the task sidebar.
  • You can now reassign a task to another user, role or user group.
  • You can now cancel a task.
  • Recommendations in the Discover tab now load much faster.
  • On the Most Visited Assets page, you now see the number of page visits for each shown asset.
  • The Discover tab in the navigation bar is only shown if there are most visited assets.

Enhancements

Data Catalog

  • On the Data Classification Dashboard, you can now click on a row to view detailed information about each data class.
  • Data profiling of Microsoft SQL Server data sources using push down sampling is now faster.
  • The queued jobs are evaluated for execution separately from their submission to avoid thread contention and dead locks, hence enhancing the stability of an import or of any other job. (ticket #64285)
  • Import jobs are now making sure that their related files are not deleted by the cleanup mechanism if the job is queued for a long time. This will ensure resiliency of long running jobs and of jobs queued for a long time.
  • The default maximum number of jobs that can run in parallel in the core DIC process has increased from 5 to 15 and you can change it in the configuration. Please notice this limit only relates to the total number of running jobs. Additional limits may exist per job type. This allows you to run more jobs in parallel.
  • When an import job is queued for a long time, the related files remain available until the job is completed.

Collibra Data Governance

  • When exporting views using the Migration feature, you can now use filters and sorting to help you find relevant views.
  • You can now add trusted web domains to a whitelist to ignore the HTTP response headers configuration for calls from those web domains.
  • Hierarchies in asset tables now load faster.
  • The configuration of hierarchies is removed from Collibra Console.

Data Privacy

  • Collibra Assessments is now available via the classic navigation of the Collibra user interface.
  • The Assessments workflow has been renamed the Assessments Approval workflow. To enable the workflow for non-privacy contexts, you no longer have to work with the Privacy Steward resource role, which was previously hard-coded. Business Steward is now the default resource role, but as with all other workflows, you can now configure this workflow for any resource role that has the required resource permissions. You can now also configure a start event to trigger the workflow.
  • When working with templates in Collibra Assessments, you can now disable the automatic numbering of questions.

Search

  • The Search service now uses Elasticsearch version 7.12.1, which enables the latest functionality and security features, including TLS1.3 cyphers.

Collibra for Desktop

  • On the Most Visited Assets page, you now see the number of page visits for each shown asset.
  • The Discover tab in the navigation bar is only shown if there are most visited assets.

Collibra for Mobile

  • You can now look up and consult communities and domains in Collibra for Mobile.

Security

  • jQuery is updated to version 3.6. (ticket #58052, 64717, 65320, 66237)

API

  • You can now use external entity mappings in the REST Import API as an identifier for complex relations in addition to their UUID and their relation types.
  • You can now use the GET method of the REST Core API /jobs endpoint to search for all the jobs managed by the Job service.
  • Legacy Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) terminology used in the Output Module API is now deprecated. All deprecated terms have alternatives that you should switch to. This is part of the REST Core API. Read more
    DeprecatedCurrent
    TermAsset
    ConceptTypeAssetType
    ConceptTypeSpecializedConceptsChildAssetTypes
    VocabularyDomain
    VocabularyTypeDomainType
    VocabularyTypeSpecializedConceptsChildDomainTypes
    Source SourceAsset
    TargetTargetAsset
    BinaryFactTypeRelationType
    HeadTermSourceAssetType
    TailTermTargetAssetType
    MemberResponsibility

    Learn more about the Output Module terminology in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Output Module.

  • You can now configure the REST Import API synchronization process to change the status of resources that have been removed from the external source instead of deleting them.

Fixes

  • Tableau synchronization no longer removes workbooks and views from inconsistent data.
  • In the Physical Data Connector, you can now use the pagination arrows to navigate to the last page of the page set.
  • In the Data Classification Dashboard, children of the Data Attribute asset type, no longer disappear when saving changes in the Data Attributes drop-down menu.
  • You can now export the views of specific domains and communities. (ticket #65690)
  • Newline characters in the full name of a Database asset are now replaced by a space character. (ticket #64626)
  • You can now show the data class of an asset on the search page again.
  • When you delete a data class via the Data Classification Dashboard, the Data Classification Platform rejects the data class.

Data Governance

  • If you are given a view permission for an asset via a workflow, you no longer have to sign out and in again to be able to see the relevant asset. (ticket #52143)
  • Error messages about a missing global permission now explicitly mention the name of the global permission. (ticket #61327)
  • If you disable LDAP users in Collibra, they can now no longer sign in.
  • You can no longer edit user fields such as Phone in Collibra if they are synchronized via SSO or LDAP.
  • On the Data Quality tab page of an asset page, the aggregated values are correct again. (ticket #58719)
  • Fixed an issue where, in certain cases, table views with hierarchy enabled were overusing resources, causing Collibra to become unresponsive. (ticket #65158, 65172, 65269)
  • If Hierarchy is enabled in an asset table, the table no longer shows the wrong assets as the root node. (ticket #55008, 61857)
  • The Share button in Dashboards is now disabled if you do not have the required permission.
  • Editing a cell in an asset table and applying the change to other rows is now faster. (ticket #64738)
  • In asset tables, if you remove an attribute and apply it to all visible rows, the Last modified date of those assets is now updated correctly. (ticket #58240, 58243)
  • The Preview pane in asset views and diagrams shows the name of related assets again, instead of their full names. (ticket #62095)
  • When moving assets to another domain, the available domains now appear faster in the dialog box. (ticket #58412)
  • You no longer get an error message if you create a responsibility in a community right after deleting a domain from that community.
  • You no longer get an error message when editing the interface text in the Settings of Collibra. (ticket #60763, 61369, 62251, 62521, 64141)
  • The preview panel again shows responsibilities for communities, domains and assets. (ticket #64815)
  • Deleting groups with many responsibilities is now faster. (ticket #64738)
  • LDAP synchronization no longer fails when there are over 30 000 users. (ticket #65094)
  • The dgc log now mentions an HTTP 401 Unauthorized error if authentication failed. (ticket #58278)
  • Resource permissions related to attachments now only require a consumer license. (ticket #32453, 36007)
  • Collibra now validates the X.509 certificates found in SAML signatures, using the certificates found in SAML Identity Provider metadata as trust anchors. (ticket #64163)
  • Collibra now verifies that the X.509 certificates found both in SAML Identity Provider metadata and in SAML signatures have a validity period that covers the time at which authentications are processed. (ticket #64163)
  • You can again sign into Collibra via SSO when a CSRF token is enabled in Collibra Console. (ticket #65588, 65776, 66379, 66381, 66497, 66517, 66660)
  • If LDAP is enabled and the same user occurs on multiple LDAP servers, the user information is taken from the same server when LDAP is synchronized as when the user is authenticated. (ticket #69201)
  • The Validate button is now always available in asset views on application pages and the global view.
  • When using the Migration feature to export views of domains and communities, you can now increase the height of rows containing long names.
  • If you start a Migration export right after canceling an export, the canceled export is no longer resumed.
  • You customize the logo in the Help menu again. (ticket #63700)
  • You can download exported files again using Internet Explorer 11. (ticket #66671)
  • When Collibra starts exporting assets or complex relations to XLS(X) or CSV, the activities icon in the top menu now spins again. (ticket #65516)
  • If you have a global role with the Manage your own Views, Dashboards, Search filters global permission, you can no longer access other users' private dashboards via their URL. (ticket #59603)
  • If refreshed navigation is enabled and you click one of the buttons in the top navigation bar, the button image no longer turns gray.
  • Fixed an issue with the filters in the user table. (ticket #65564, 66394, 66579, 67025, 67127, 67295, 67942)
  • Expanding table row no longer leads to too much white space.
  • Dashboards no longer load twice. (ticket #61739)
  • Dashboard names now handle special characters, such as ampersands (&), better. (ticket #66347)
  • If you export the user table as a CSV file, the last login date is now formatted correctly. (ticket #60714)
  • The preview panel again shows responsibilities for communities, domains and assets. (ticket #64815)
  • If you change the UI language on your profile page, the UI of Collibra now immediately switches to the selected language.
  • The avatar of the Everyone group now appears correctly when you add it to a global role.
  • If you create an asset, you can now choose from all relevant domains.
  • The History tables of communities and domains now correctly show the old and the new values. (ticket #66021)
  • In the quickfilter of global create dialog box, you can filter again on the letters O-B-J-E-C and T. (ticket #65807, 67564)
  • You no longer see the Edit icon for complex relations on an asset page if you don't have the required resource permissions.
  • Fixed an issue with the quickfilter in the Field dialog box. (ticket #67201)
  • If the responsibilities of an asset don't fit in a table cell of an asset view, it is now indicated by means of an ellipsis sign (...). (ticket# 63887, 64253, 65398, 65817, 66893)
  • Sorting an asset table on the Owner column now works correctly.
  • When you export large amounts of assets or complex relations to an Excel file, the file is now downloaded automatically.
  • You can now copy-paste more content into a text widget of a dashboard. (ticket #62826, 66964)
  • You can now edit all attributes and relations of a complex relation if you have a resource role that has the Update attribute resource permission.
  • Product permissions are no longer validated for Collibra system users. This validation caused the Asset Grid authentication to fail.
  • Collibra no longer stops processing workflow action emails due to session timeouts. (ticket #66784)
  • When access to Collibra is denied by the SSO you are now redirected to the Sign in page with the message that SSO authentication failed.
  • Methods related to licenseType are no longer marked as deprecated in APIv2. (ticket #67290)
  • Collibra now validates the X.509 certificates found in SAML signatures, using the certificates found in SAML Identity Provider metadata as trust anchors. (ticket #64163)
  • Collibra now verifies that the X.509 certificates found in SAML Identity Provider metadata have a validity period that covers the time at which authentications are processed. (ticket #64163)
  • If you have a global role with the User Administration or System Administration global permission, you can now always edit the username of a user, even if the user is disabled.

Diagrams

  • When you apply to a diagram a filter that is configured with multiple selected attributes, filtering again works as intended. Specifically, if a view is configured to filter for values (A, B), then assets with values (B, C) pass the filter.
  • In diagrams, the Overview and the Legend are again shown, when enabled.
  • Data quality scores are again visible as overlays on diagrams. (ticket #64894)
  • In the diagram view editor, nodes for complex relation types have rounded corners again.
  • In the diagram view editor, when Business Qualifier filtering is enabled, you can add filters on a node again.
  • In a diagram, the preview panel is again shown when enabled and no longer disappears if you right-click on the node. (ticket #63717)
  • In the diagram view text (JSON) editor, you can remove a name/value pair again.
  • You can again open diagram pictures that were taken in Collibra 5.7.6 and older. (ticket #66504)
  • Fixed an issue where diagrams didn't load with a filter containing a relation. (ticket #70078, 70884)

Data Privacy

  • In Collibra Assessments, URLs to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud now refer to localhost:port, instead of the public hostname. This means that whitelisted access to Collibra no longer results in errors when using Collibra Assessments.
  • In Collibra Assessments, drop-down lists of assets of a single type now work correctly when there are thousands of assets of that type in your Collibra environment.
  • Starting an assessment no longer results in an error.
  • On the asset page of a Business Process asset that is governed by both CCPA and GDPR, the CCPA and GDPR tabs no longer disappear when navigating between the two tabs.
  • In Collibra Assessments, an error message is again shown if you try to submit or save a draft of a template that doesn’t have a title.
  • The Review Request Handler workflow now correctly accommodates user groups, when they are assigned the Business Steward resource role.
  • The Invite to Business Process Register workflow now correctly accommodates user groups, when they are assigned the Business User resource role.
  • If you submit an assessment, but no Business Steward is assigned to the domain you specified, the submission fails and the “Submitted on” timestamp and value are no longer shown on the assessment’s details page.
  • Assessments is now accessible if the base URL of your Collibraenvironment changes.

Workflows

  • You can again search by resource and sort by date in the workflow instances table in the Settings section.(ticket #59066, #60204, #62077)
  • Passing an invalid variable type from a parent workflow to a sub-process no longer causes the Tasks page or task bar to crash.(ticket #61158)
  • You can now see the dialog box for the next available user task assigned to you after the start form of a global workflow when the task sidebar option is disabled.(ticket #61607, #64074, #64178)
  • The user task rich text editor field now correctly uses word wrapping.(ticket #55273, #63885)
  • Using the tab key to switch between workflow dialog box elements now correctly selects the input area of the rich text editor field.(ticket #55273, #63885)
  • You can now clear the selected value of a single value drop-down form in a workflow dialog box.(ticket #58629, #64100, #64481)
  • Custom workflow buttons now reset their value after a failed validation.(ticket #30347, #64558)
  • You can now use the drag-and-drop feature of the user task file upload field in Internet Explorer 11.(ticket #58957)
  • Clicking the label of a check box in a workflow dialog box, using Internet Explorer 11 no longer causes the dialog box to become unusable.(ticket #61639)
  • The Asset Removed start event now works as expected. (ticket #13236, #16264, #26834, #27898, #45463, #54682, #58708)
  • The title of a workflow error message that occurs after a sub-process finishes now displays correctly. (ticket #65112)
  • The task sidebar now always displays a scrollbar for overflowing content. (ticket #63285, #63545)
  • Having a scope other than Global for a workflow that returns a link to a newly created resource in a confirmation message no longer causes different final confirmation messages. (ticket #60042, #63444)
  • Starting the packaged Issue Creation workflow no longer displays two confirmation messages. (ticket #60042)
  • You can now click outside a workflow dialog box date picker to close it.
  • Starting a workflow for more than one resource no longer causes the start form dialog box to remain open after you submit it. (ticket #59337, #66752)
  • The HTML tags in the descriptions of some tasks are again rendered as expected. (ticket #69088, #69396, #69548, #69929)
  • In workflow forms, text editors again appear correctly. (tickets #67736, 67769, 68273, 68362, 68443, 68491, 68556, 68560, 69065, 69168, 69306, 69486, 69795, 70945)
  • When advancing through a workflow task, a "Task complete" notification is no longer shown after each form. (tickets #69757, 69167, 69493)

Search

  • An invalid warning is no longer shown if you're searching in Collibra with a filter applied and there are no search results. (ticket #64104)
  • The number of search results, as shown in the UI or returned via API, is again the same. (ticket #67403)
  • Improved handling of quotation marks (") when included as text in the search field.

Collibra for Desktop

  • The details of an asset without relations are now correctly shown.
  • You can now open links that are added to attributes on domain and community pages. (ticket #64557)
  • Collibra for Desktop now correctly opens hyperlinks that contain query strings.
  • In a workflow task, any default values in rich text fields are correctly shown and sent to Collibra.
  • Asset pages now show the correct asset types for relation names.
  • When autostart is enabled, the keyboard shortcut is now functioning correctly after signing in. (ticket #68851)
  • Complex relations are now only shown if they belong to the assignment.
  • When completing a user task, typing in the Data Steward field to look up a user, no longer makes Collibra for Desktop crash. (ticket #68773)

Collibra for Mobile

  • Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud 2021.05.2 no longer hides the Actions section in the navigation bar. (ticket #66953)
  • The environment URL set via a mobile device management system is now correctly shown in Collibra for Mobile. (ticket #68641)
  • The environment URL is now deleted from your iOS device if you remove Collibra for Mobile or if you clear the local storage of Collibra for Mobile.
  • Asset names in camel case are now also in camel case in Collibra for Mobile.

API

  • The readability of list boxes in the REST API documentation is now improved, (ticket #58923)
  • The REST Core API documentation for the workflowTasks endpoint now correctly mentions the returned information.

Miscellaneous

  • Links to Collibra resources that are part of a comment now work as expected in comment notification emails.(ticket #56227)
  • A browsing session issue no longer prevents users from accessing an asset page following a search result or workflow link. (ticket #58909, #65768, #65858)
  • The authentication cookie ConsoleSessionID now includes the Secure cookie attribute, to prevent it being sent by a browser over an unencrypted HTTP connection.

Patches

Patch 1

  • If you use the IAM role to synchronize Amazon S3, the Synchronize now button is now available without entering an Access key ID and Secret access key. (ticket #73196, 73420, 73579, 73581)

Patch 2

  • Java JRE is now upgraded from version 8.0.292 to latest patch version 8.0.312 to improve security. (ticket #75764)
  • Elasticsearch is upgraded to version 7.16.1, with mitigations for the following log4j vulnerabilities: For technical information regarding the Elasticsearch 7.16.1 release, please consult the Elasticsearch release notes.

Patch 3

  • Elasticsearch is upgraded to version 7.16.2. This includes an upgrade of log4j to version 2.17.0, which mitigates the following log4j vulnerability:For more information regarding the Elasticsearch 7.16.2 release, please consult the Elasticsearch release notes.

5.7.9

Highlights

This scheduled maintenance includes fixes and minor improvements, as well as the below capabilities:

  • Impala is now available on Marketplace as a certified Catalog connector.
  • The Classification Dashboard introduces a new interface through which users can evaluate and understand their current classification infrastructure. The Classification Dashboard lists all available data classes, shows the performance metrics of used data classes and enables you to add, delete or merge data classes.
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New features

Data Catalog

  • You can now use public APIs to classify Schema, Database and Table assets and assign them to specific columns. This allows you to more easily integrate Automatic Data Classification with external data classification sources.
  • You can now use the Classification Dashboard to view performance metrics and add data classes.
  • Impala is now available on Marketplace as a certified Catalog connector.

Data Governance

  • You can now configure security headers for your Collibra Data Governance Center.
  • You can now use the Migration feature to migrate workflows that include Flowable forms.
  • You can now choose more precisely which asset views, diagram views, dashboards and search filters you want to migrate.

Data Privacy

  • Collibra Assessments, a browser-based feature that integrates with your Collibra Data Governance Center environment. Here are a few highlights:
    • Packaged templates, including those for DPIA and PIA, that you can use “as is” or customize to accommodate both your privacy-related needs and those beyond the scope of data privacy.
    • Fully configurable question types, properties and logic, to build dynamic assessments that evolve based on user responses.
    • A single view on all conducted assessments, where you can edit, review and approve or reject assessments.
    • The Assessments workflow, a new packaged workflow.
  • When working with an assessment template, a Governance option now allows you to specify whether or not an assessment conducted from the template will result in the creation of an Assessment Review asset and trigger the Assessments workflow.

Collibra for Desktop

  • If the name of a diagram picture is too long to show in the Diagrams table, you can now hover over the name to see the full name.
  • The Collibra environment you are connected to is now shown in the user menu, as well as in the About section.
  • You can now configure notification message that is shown before you sign in to the app, for example to notify the user that they are using governmental property.
  • You can now follow hyperlinks within Collibra for Desktop if you enable auto hyperlinking in the "Everywhere Desktop configuration" section in Collibra Console.

Collibra for Mobile

  • You can now configure a session timeout for Collibra for Mobile, which will automatically sign out users from the app after a certain period of inactivity.
  • You can now complete workflow tasks such as reviewing an asset or voting for an asset.
  • You can start workflows such as proposing a new business term or asking a question to an expert. It is possible that complex workflows, for example a workflow with multiple step forms, won't work.
  • You can now set up workflows in Collibra for Mobile via Collibra Console.

Enhancements

Data Catalog

  • In the Physical Data Connector, schemas, tables, and columns are now sorted alphabetically.
  • You can now trigger classifications at the higher schema and database level to more easily integrate Collibra Automatic Data Classification with external data classification sources.
  • Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud now supports Tableau version 2021.01.
  • Data profiling of MSSQL data sources using push down sampling is now faster.

Collibra Data Governance

  • Resizing a column of a table no longer reloads the page.
  • View tables are now paginated with 50 rows per page and you can use a quickfilter on the Name column.
  • The output module now supports YAML format.
  • The metamodel of Power BI has been improved.
  • The metamodel of Power BI Reporting Service has been added.
  • The metamodel of SQL Server Reporting Services has been added.

Diagrams

  • Dynamic filtering by Business Qualifier is now promoted from beta feature to general availability.

Collibra Data Privacy and Workflows

  • When submitting an assessment, when you select a domain for the creation of the new Assessment Review asset, more helpful messaging is now shown if you either don’t have the necessary permissions to create the asset, the target domain does not have the necessary responsibilities, or both.
  • Assessments audit-trail information now includes the user ID, username and avatar of all users who create, update and submit assessments. A “Last updated by” column, which shows the username and avatar, has also been added to the table of assessments on the landing page.
  • You can now download a PDF of any assessment, regardless of its status. The PDF captures all of the information shown on the assessment details page.
  • You can now copy an assessment. This creates a new assessment with the Draft status and new audit trail information. An assessment cannot be copied if the template used has been deleted.
  • You can now delete an assessment. If the assessment has a related asset in your Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud environment, the assessment is not deleted, rather the status becomes Obsolete.
  • You can now delete any of your customized templates. Any assessments in draft that were started using a deleted template will not be affected; you can complete the assessment and submit it when you're ready. You cannot, however, copy an assessment that used a deleted template.
  • The questions in the DPIA and PIA threshold assessment templates have been edited and regrouped, for clarity.

Shop4Data

  • If a search filter was configured with a field that is no longer available, the invalid field is now highlighted, so that you can easily identify it and delete it from the search filter. Invalid fields are now ignored during search queries. (ticket #49346)

Collibra for Mobile

  • You can now tap an image to expand or collapse an image.
  • Relations on an asset page are now paginated.

Collibra Console

  • The "Consumer service URL" option in the DGC service configuration is now renamed to "Service Provider Entity ID" to avoid confusion with the "Entity ID" option and to better indicate that its value is used as Entity ID in the SAML metadata returned by Collibra.
  • The "Audience" in the SAML Response is now correctly validated against the Service Provider Entity ID. The configured value of the Service Provider Entity ID must be exactly the same in Collibra Console and in your IDP.
    Warning 
    The value of the audience restriction in the SAML response has to be exactly the same as the value of the Service Provider Entity ID field in Collibra Console.

    SSO does not work if the Service Provider Entity ID field contains the base URL with trailing forward slash (for example www.collibra.com/), and the audience of your IDP contains the base URL without a trailing forward slash (for example www.collibra.com).
    Both values need to be exactly the same. In this case, you can resolve the issue by changing the value in the configuration of your IDP, or the value of this field. It does not matter whether both have a trailing forward slash or not, as long as they contain the same value.

API

  • When you export a Multiple Selection Attribute type to JSON using the output module, the value now follows the industry-standard rules for quotes and escape characters:
    • The value is only contained in quotes if there is a quote or separator character in the value.
    • Any quote inside the value is escaped by a quote.

    (#ticket 64024)

Fixes

Data Catalog

  • The Summary tab page now shows the breadcrumbs of assets ingested via a CSV file correctly when you zoom in.
  • You can now successfully delete a Data Set asset when Catalog Experience is enabled. (ticket #59810)
  • Tableau 2021.02 or newer synchronization now fails when the Metadata API Store in Tableau is rebuilding. This prevents data loss in Data Catalog.
  • Spark DataFrame now closes the CSV files after profiling a table via Jobserver. (ticket #58544, 56203, 52388)
  • The description of a Tableau Report Attribute asset is no longer deleted after synchronizing a Tableau Server.
  • Data Catalog no longer downloads the JDBC driver every time you ingest or refresh a data source. When you install a Jobserver for the first time, Jobserver now downloads all drivers. After that, Jobserver only downloads a driver when you change the driver configuration. (ticket #59712)
  • You can now define Advanced Data Type patterns with up to 2000 characters. (ticket #61968)
  • When you synchronize Tableau, the relation type "Report Attribute is source for / is target of Report Attribute" between Tableau Report Attributes is now created correctly. (Ticket #62424)
  • The synchronization of Tableau Server version 2021.02 or newer no longer fails when you create relations of the type "Data Set contains / is part of Data Element" between one Tableau Data Model and many Tableau Data Entity assets.

Data Governance

  • You now see the correct information in the "Last Modified By" column of the Stewardship application Tags page. (ticket #57396)
  • When using SAML_ATTRIBUTES SSO mode, the Address, Phone number and IM account fields now only update if they are mapped in the SAML configuration. (ticket #55245,57944)
  • When generating a SAML authentication request, Collibra now correctly uses the value of the Service Provider Entity ID field in the SPNameQualifier of the NameIDPolicy section of the request. (ticket #63993, 64040, 64046, 64098)
  • The Migration feature now takes the order of articulation rules into account when importing a CMA file.
  • Upgrading a pre-5.7 on-premise environment no longer fails if PostgreSQL was installed on a Windows server. (ticket #58145, 58482)
  • In an asset view, clicking a link to an attachment in an attribute now works correctly. (ticket #57816)
  • In dashboards, the "Add Dashboard" and "Save as" buttons are now disabled if you don't have the "Manage your own Views, Dashboards, Search filters" global permission. (ticket #61058)
  • Months in calendar selectors are now translated correctly. (ticket #57502, 63850)
  • The History tab page of assets now handles special characters correctly. (ticket #58759)
  • Expanding a row of a table now takes into account the content of all cells in the row. (ticket #60475)
  • You can no longer move a System asset type to another parent asset type. (ticket #55889)
  • REST v1 endpoints now also use security headers.
  • You can use the 'Users' group again to create responsibilities or view permissions. (ticket #59875, 60699)
  • Asset views with hierarchy enabled now load correctly. (ticket #61396)
  • Commas in values of Selection and Multiple Selection attribute types are now handled correctly. (ticket #29922,43552,53183)
  • Dashboard with complex configuration are now displayed correctly. (ticket #53365, 58080, 59458, 60063)
  • You no longer get an error if you edit a field in an asset view more than once. (ticket #57642)
  • You no longer get an error in asset views when changing the sorting. (ticket #54258)
  • Asset pages now load faster if they contain relation tables with assets that have view permissions that apply to you. (ticket #52035, 56623, 58280, 58551, 59019, 61396)
  • Views with hierarchy enabled now load faster. (ticket #57848, 58013, 58602)
  • On a resource page, the Skip to content button moves the focus to the title bar instead of the tab pane.

Diagrams

  • In diagram views, the boxing node options are again shown when they apply to the selected node.
  • When adding a Community overlay on a node, it is again shown on the result diagram.
  • The view editor again shows the correct list of characteristics for display name, overlays and filters, for a complex relation type.

Workflows

  • You no longer see a workflow task in both a dialog box and the sidebar in some cases when the task sidebar option is enabled. (ticket #58649)
  • Exception handling for user tasks in workflows has improved. If an exception occurs, you now see an error message. (ticket #59437,54264,56476,56397,56459,58698)
  • Workflow dialog boxes now display the task buttons in the order specified in the BPMN form properties. (ticket #58513)
  • A refresh issue no longer causes the workflows instances page to display recently deleted workflow instances in some cases.(ticket #60317, #61865)

Shop4Data

  • The References tab of an asset page is now empty if hyperlinks are disabled for your Collibra environment.

Collibra for Desktop

  • You can again export asset pages to PDF.
  • Collibra for Desktop now correctly starts after a fresh installation.
  • Clicking a tag on an asset page now correctly starts a search for all assets with that tag.
  • Workflow tasks that are not linked to assets no longer causes an error when opening the task list.
  • External hyperlinks in text attributes now work correctly. (ticket #60921)
  • The Actions button is no longer shown in the navigation bar if workflows are disabled for Collibra for Desktop in Collibra Console.
  • Large images in comments are now shown without altering the layout of the app.
  • Clicking Search in the navigation bar now always focuses automatically on the search field, which allows you to immediately enter a new search query.

Collibra for Mobile

  • When you add or delete a comment, you now remain on the Comments tab instead of returning to the Overview tab of an asset page.
  • Report images are again shown on an asset page.
  • You can again switch environments when single sign-on is enabled.

Collibra Console

  • As Collibra Console user, you can again successfully reset your password when CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) is enabled. (ticket #57933, 57934, 57725)
  • When you reset your password in Collibra Console, you no longer see the misleading error message "Sorry, something went wrong. Try to refresh the page.". (ticket #53964, 54482, 55971, 57933, 57934, 59275)

API

  • If you use the output module to export an attribute to a JSON file, and the attribute's type allows multi-selection, the values now follow the industry-standard rules for quotes and escape characters:
    • The value is only contained in quotes if there are quotes or separators in the value.
    • Quotes inside the value are escaped by a quote.
    (ticket #64024)

Patches

Patch 1

  • You can now export the views of specific domains and communities. (ticket #65690)

Patch 2

  • LDAP synchronization no longer fails when there are over 30,000 users. (ticket #65094)
  • You can again sign into Collibra via SSO when a CSRF token is enabled via Collibra Console.

Patch 3

  • You can download exported files again using Internet Explorer 11. (ticket #66671)

Patch 4

  • If LDAP is enabled and the same user occurs on multiple LDAP servers, the user information is taken from the same server when LDAP is synchronized as when the user is authenticated. (ticket #69201)

Patch 5

  • Apache Tomcat was upgraded to version 8.5.65 for security enhancements.

5.7.8

New features

Collibra Console

  • Collibra DGC now supports encrypted SAML responses. Collibra DGC provides the encryption certificate to be used by your Identity Provider.

Collibra Data Catalog

  • Looker Look asset pages now has a technical lineage tab page.
  • Greenplum is now available on Marketplace as a certified Catalog connector.
  • Apache Kafka is now available on Marketplace as a certified Catalog connector. The Apache Kafka connector only supports metadata ingestion without profiling and classification.
  • You can now use a public API to register a data source or refresh a schema.
  • You can now use guided stewardship. Guided Stewardship is a set of features designed to help Data Stewards in client organizations establish reliable and fully-connected data structures within their Collibra DGC environment. It does so by simplifying the process of creating connections between physical data assets and their associated logical and conceptual (business) assets within Collibra DGC. With this first release of Guided Stewardship, users can now use the Physical Data Connector to manually add data classes to Column assets and connect the physical data layer to the logical data layer. For more information, see its demo.
  • Presto is now available on Marketplace as a certified Data Catalog connector.
  • MariaDB is now available on Marketplace as a certified Data Catalog connector.

Collibra Data Governance

  • You can now print an asset page to a PDF file.
  • You can now use the new asset type "Business Qualifier" to represent the different business qualifiers that apply to a set of assets.
  • You no longer see the global create button if you don't have the resource permissions to create assets or start a global workflow.
  • You can now obtain the Comments hierarchy via the output module.
  • You can now export a CSV file containing the user table, including the last login time from the Users page in the DGC Settings.

Diagrams

  • In the JSON text editor for diagram views, you can now specify the maximum flow depth, meaning the flow relation path length from the start flow node to any other flow node. This reduces diagram size and improves readability and performance. You can specify a system-wide default maximum flow depth in Collibra Console.

Search

  • Improved ordering of search results, as the search engine now takes into account partial exact matching of the search text in the Name field.

Collibra Data Privacy and Workflows

  • Collibra Assessments, a browser-based feature that integrates with your Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud environment. Here are a few highlights:
    • Packaged templates, including those for DPIA and PIA, that you can use “as is” or customize to accommodate both your privacy-related needs and those beyond the scope of data privacy.
    • Fully configurable question types, properties and logic, to build dynamic assessments that evolve based on user responses.
    • A single view on all conducted assessments, where you can edit, review and approve or reject assessments.
    • The Assessments workflow, a new packaged workflow.
    Note We are aware of some compatibility issues with Microsoft Internet Explorer and we are working to resolve them.
  • A Business Process Management workflow is now available with improved user experience for onboarding Business Process assets.

Collibra for Desktop

  • Asset diagram pictures are now available in Collibra for Desktop. These pictures allow a better understanding of the asset's context. You will also have a direct link to open the corresponding diagram in Collibra DGC.
  • You can now complete workflow tasks such as reviewing an asset or voting for an asset.
  • You can also start workflows such as proposing a new business term or asking a question to an expert. It is possible that complex workflows, for example a workflow with multiple step forms, won't work.
  • You can now configure a session timeout for Collibra for Desktop, which will automatically sign out users from the app after a certain period of inactivity.
  • If your organization has more than one Collibra environment, you can now easily switch between them.

Collibra for Mobile

  • When you sign in with a username and password, you can now use Touch ID and Face ID to sign in to Collibra for Mobile.
  • You can now configure a default browser via your mobile device management software. The default browser is used to sign in to the app. If the browser that is specified as the default is not installed on your device, an error message is shown and you are unable to sign in to the app. (ticket #57109)
  • You can now configure notification message that is shown before you sign in to the app, for example to notify the user that they are using governmental property.

Enhancements

Collibra Console

  • You can now provide your own encryption key to encrypt the communication between a Jobserver and your Collibra DGC environment. This requires an upgrade of both your Collibra DGC environment and your on-premises Jobserver.
  • You can now configure the SAML Entity ID separately in Collibra Console.

Collibra Data Catalog

  • You can now use push down sampling for Exasol.
  • If you upgraded to Tableau 2020.02 or newer, you can now synchronize your Tableau Server without losing manually added characteristics, tags, comments and stitching results.
  • The logs of the Jobserver are now improved.
  • Collibra Data Intelligence cloud now uses native sampling if you enable push down sampling for Databricks.
  • The Physical Data Connector now supports pagination of displayed physical data on all levels of the physical data hierarchy. This update allows for the analysis of extremely large data sets in a more scalable way.

Collibra Data Governance

  • If you import an attribute type with allowed values via the Solution install mode of the Migration feature, allowed values from the CMA file are now added to the list of allowed values in the target environment.
  • All logged user actions now mention the session ID.
  • The loading time of the Migration export page has been improved.
  • When you now print an asset page, the responsibilities are also included.
  • When using Open API with basic authentication, only one session is created for the user, which improves performance and logging.
  • The assignment rules of the Tableau Workbook asset type have been improved. (ticket #53643)
  • The URL attribute type is now added to the global assignment of the Looker Query asset type.

Collibra Data Privacy and Workflows

  • Redesigned interaction with workflows. Workflow forms are now displayed in a sidebar instead of a dialog box.
  • You can now copy and paste the task URL in a new browser tab or window.
  • When you click a task in the task table, the target asset is now shown in the sidebar.

API

  • The API v1 deprecation statements no longer refer to a "next major release". Deprecation statements now refer to an API v2 alternative when available or are removed until such alternative is available. The deprecated calls are in a "deprecated and supported" status until a future deprecation and removal strategy is communicated.
  • Certain API endpoints are no longer deprecated.

Collibra for Desktop

  • You can now click the breadcrumbs for easier navigation in the app.:

Collibra for Mobile

  • Search queries are now only added to the list of recent searches if you open an asset from the results or you expand one of the search results.
  • In your search query, you can now enter an asset type to filter by that asset type.
  • Enter "Define <search term>" to search for the definition of the search term.

Fixes

Collibra Data Catalog

  • If you ingested Tableau version 2020.2 and renamed a Tableau Report asset, synchronizing Tableau no longer deletes and recreates the asset.
  • Tableau synchronization no longer fails when you open or reload the Configuration tab page on a Tableau Server asset page during the synchronization process. (ticket #56005)
  • The counter of the Data Basket now works properly when refreshed navigation is enabled.
  • You no longer see an error message if you select a community for which you do not have view permissions while registering a Tableau Server or Amazon S3.
  • The search button on the Data Catalog homepage is shown correctly again.
  • You now see the correct number of profiled tables after registering or synchronizing a data source.
  • The Connection details section on the Configuration tab pages of Tableau Server and S3 File System assets is shown correctly again.
  • The Advanced Data Type dialog box shows the Cancel and Save buttons correctly again.
  • You no longer see an error message if you add a Collibrain instance for Automatic Data Classification.
  • You no longer see an error message about the asset recommender after signing in. (ticket #55667)
  • The log of an ingestion job now shows the duration per table instead of the total duration of a schema.
  • You no longer see a Glue permissions error related to regions when you register or synchronize Amazon S3 with the right user permissions. (ticket #56168, 56046, 55824)
  • The API endpoint /rest/catalog/1.0/schemas/marketplace/accounting now works correctly.
  • You no longer see an error message about the asset recommender after signing in. (ticket #55667)
  • The Profiling information attribute that is shown on a Table asset page after profiling failed is now no longer shown after you refresh a schema and the data source is profiled successfully. (ticket #53186)
  • If you enabled push down sampling for a data source and the push down sampling process failed for a table or a view, Catalog now skips the table or view and continues with the next. (ticket #56341, 56404, 56605)
  • If you enabled push down sampling for a data source for which push down sampling is not supported, Catalog no longer reverts to the regular profiling process, but doesn't profile your data source at all.
  • The Google BigQuery Catalog connector can now ingest nested columns, columns of the type RECORD containing JSON, and represent them as unnested columns. (ticket #55160)
  • The REMARKS property of tables and columns is no longer stored in the Description attribute, but in a new attribute of the type Description from source system. As a result, changes made to the description in the data source will be reflected in Catalog after every refresh rather than never being updated after the initial ingestion. (ticket #57284, 54734, 55772, 57661)
  • The connection string and connection properties of a JDBC driver can now consist of more than 255 characters. (ticket #56609, 56558, 56586)
  • The Responsibilities tab page is available again on Looker Look asset pages. (ticket #57609)

Collibra Console

  • The Asset Grid Permission setting in the DGC service configuration is now marked with "Requires restart".
  • If an existing user has an invalid email address in LDAP, synchronizing now disables the user and user data is not updated.
  • Upgrading your environment no longer resets your custom Search JVM configuration. (ticket #52244)
  • The version of the Collibra Console is correctly displayed after an upgrade

Collibra Data Governance

  • When you export a large file, the progress bar now shows the current status. (ticket #54715, 54816, 54943, 54953, 55111, 55145, 55155, 55383, 55408, 55459, 55556)
  • Changing a user's license type from Author to Consumer no longer results in an error. (ticket #55372, 55659, 55737, 55739, 55822)
  • If you navigate to a domain via the breadcrumbs on an asset page, the domain page now loads correctly.
  • The users' avatars are now displayed correctly on the Responsibility tab page of an asset. (ticket #55626)
  • The Responsibility tab page of profile pages no longer shows an error if the user has responsibilities on resources for which they do not have view permissions. Such resources do not appear on the page.
  • If you started a workflow from an asset page and the banner with a workflow task appears, and then you edit an attribute on the asset page, the asset page now refreshes correctly. (ticket #51989)
  • If you delete an asset, you no longer get an error when you are redirected to the parent domain.
  • Fixed a cross-site scripting issue on the History tab pages to improve security.
  • You no longer see unsaved views on the Asset views tab page of the navigation browser.
  • If you edit a cell in a table view and scroll down before confirming your changes, you no longer loose your changes. (ticket #49253)
  • By default, asset tables with hierarchies now use the MEMORY_FRIENDLY calculation strategy for child queries, which improves the loading time.
  • A user that does not have the Catalog global permission but has the Data Dictionary global permission now sees the Data Dictonary in the application selector if refreshed navigation is enabled. (ticket #55661)
  • 400 HTTP errors no longer include a verbose error message and traceback to increase security. (ticket #54876)
  • If you change the language of a user, the language of the UI now switches immediately. The user no longer has to sign out and sign in again.
  • The responsibilities of communities once again display correctly. (ticket 56563, 56765, 56801, 57716)
  • You can now only upload BPMN, ZIP, BAR and BPMN20.XML files on the Workflow Definition page.
  • SSO users can no longer edit their user profile, including their email address.
  • SSO users can no longer edit their password in Collibra. (ticket #53256, 55438)
  • Line breaks in edited UI strings are now handled correctly.
  • After signing in via SSO, Collibra now redirects using HTTPS instead of HTTP. (ticket #56438, 57954)
  • You can no longer start to revalidate an asset while it is being validated.
  • Updating the legs of a complex relation type via the REST API no longer fails. (ticket #54922)
  • The "last modified date" and "last modified by" fields of assets now update correctly again when you edit an attribute of the asset. (ticket #56386, 58243)
  • Your Collibra license now expires at the end of the expiry date instead of at the start.
  • The visibility of the filter rule of advanced asset filters is improved. (ticket #57911)
  • The main menu no longer crashes if you perform actions in the Browse pane (ticket #58650, 58761, 58511)
  • You no longer get an "unknown field error" in table views, for example when sorting. (ticket #54258)
  • If you are on a Domain or Community page, and you have the Asset > Add resource permission, but not the Domain > Add and Community > Add, the Global Create button is available again. (ticket #57730, 57855, 57965, 58107, 58154, 58155, 58356, 58486, 58674)
  • In asset tables and sets of tiles, attributes that contain a numerical value with decimals now always show two decimal places. (ticket #54908)
  • Custom favicons are now displayed correctly. (ticket #55616, 56003, 56104, 57879, 58163, 58469)
  • When you create a new dashboard, Collibra no longer adds several copies of the new dashboard. (ticket #59040)

Collibra Data Privacy

  • After an upgrade to Collibra Data Privacy 2020.12, all attributes that are specific to the asset type Party are now correctly shown on Party asset pages.
  • After installing Collibra Data Privacy, newly created assets now have the correct status. (ticket #46958)

Diagrams

  • You can again start a workflow from an asset in a diagram without being prompted to sign in to Collibra.

Search

  • The search service can now find assets with names that contain java expressions.

API

  • The log no longer contains a complete stracktrace when Collibra cannot find a resource.

Collibra for Desktop

  • On macOS, the unattended configuration of the app now saves the configuration file in the correct location.

Collibra for Mobile

  • You no longer have to tap the Next button twice to go to the next step in the sign-in procedure.
  • The Ratings section is no longer available on asset pages if ratings are not enabled.
  • The Edit and Delete buttons on the Ratings page of an asset are no longer partly covered by reviews.
  • From the sign-in page, you can again switch to another Collibra DGC environment.
  • When you configure the app settings in Collibra Console of your Collibra environment, the settings are now correctly applied in the app. You need Collibra 2021.01 or newer.

Security

  • Fixed a potential XSS security issue when rendering pages.

5.7.7

New features

Collibra Console

  • The Migration feature is no longer supported for backups of versions 5.1.x and older.
  • You can now access Collibra Console via single sign-on. The SSO protocol is limited to SAML 2.0.
  • The logging API endpoints for Collibra Console are now public.
  • A new option is added to Collibra Console to increase the security of import and export. When you export data to Excel or CSV, the new option adds an escape character to fields that start with "=", "+", "-" or "@". This avoids formulas to be executed when you open the export file in Excel. Also, when you import a file with such escape characters in Collibra Data Governance Center, the escape character is automatically removed.

CollibraData Catalog

  • Catalog can now ingest Tableau 2020.2 and newer if you enable the Tableau metadata API in Collibra Console.
  • Sensitive data is now obfuscated after profiling if you enable the Anonymize data option in Collibra Console
  • The Collibra Data Classification model is expanding to automatically classify a number of new types of information out of the box. This release has a specific focus on privacy, offering classification of the following default classes:
    • US Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number (ATIN)
    • American Banking Association (ABA) Routing Number
    • US Drivers License Number
    • US Employer ID Number (EIN)
    • US Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)
    • Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
    • US License Plate Number
    • UK Drivers License Number
    • UK National Health Service (NHS) Number
    • Business vs. Personal Email Addresses
  • Data Catalog Search now contains the new Looker asset types by default.
  • The Looker metamodel is now available out-of-the-box. However, you cannot yet register a Looker data source.
  • Looker assets are now available in the "Recently viewed" and the "Reports" sections on Data Catalog Home.
  • The status of the applicable validation rules is now shown on the resource toolbar if Catalog Experience is enabled.
  • The articulation score is now shown on the resource toolbar if Catalog Experience is enabled.

Collibra Data Governance

  • You can now enable refreshed navigation in Collibra Console, with following improvements:
    • You now see a Home button in the upper left corner.
    • You now see an expandable browser pane with the Organization Browser and Asset Views.
    • Dashboards are now presented as tabs.
    • You now see an expandable product menu to switch between products.
    • Quick search is now contextual for communities and domains, but you can no longer select a search filter or category.

    Collibra will monitor the user adoption of the refreshed navigation and aims to sunset the classic navigation in 6 months.

  • When refreshed navigation is enabled, your UI customizations are no longer available.
  • The color scheme of Collibra Data Governance Center is updated.
  • You can now check whether a migration fails before running the actual migration.
  • The usability and accessibility of the Responsibilities tab pages are now improved.

Collibra Integrations

  • Collibra Data Governance Center now supports JSON Web Token (JWT)-based authentication for applications using the REST API.
  • To avoid any confusion about versions, the APIs have a now a new field "displayVersion", next to the existing "fullVersion". The displayVersion is the version that will be shown in all user interfaces. Also, the versions of Collibra Data Governance Center and Collibra Console will now be identical.
  • Collibra ERP/CRM Integrator is a next-generation integration for ERP and CRM solutions like SAP, JD Edwards, and MS Dynamics, which supports greater control and fidelity in what metadata to catalog in Collibra as it is discovered. ERP/CRM Integrator is a special connector and is not included in any bundles.

API

  • You can now enable and disable users using the Java and REST API v2.
  • You can now get the current user's global permissions using the REST API.

Enhancements

Collibra Data Catalog

  • Catalog experience is now enabled on asset pages of BI assets.
  • You can now use push down sampling for a range of SQL-based data sources.
  • Power BI Data Set assets now have a relation of the type "BI Folder contains BI Data Set" to a Power BI Workspace asset. They are no longer related to Power BI Tenant assets via this relation type.
  • The More menu in asset pages is now called 'Actions' when Catalog Experience is enabled.
  • Catalog Experience is no longer a beta feature.
  • The Cron expression tooltip in Catalog is now improved.

Collibra Console

  • The purge option "CLEANUP_ACTIVITIES" is obsolete and has been removed from Collibra Console.
  • The purge option "UPDATE_DISCOVERY_HASH" is obsolete and has been removed from Collibra Console.

Collibra Data Governance

  • If opening a diagram takes too long or causes Collibra Data Governance Center to read too much data, the diagram does not open but an error message appears. You can configure the limits in Collibra Console.
  • The buttons in the diagram editor and the filter pane have been updated to improve accessibility.
  • Newly created and copied views are now private by default.
  • If you have the "Manage shared Views, Dashboard and Search Filter" permission, you can now save a relation table view on an asset page and apply it for all users.
  • When using SAML IdP as authentication provider, you no longer have to provide a first name and last name in the token. Fields with an empty value are set to blank in Collibra.
  • When exporting scoped assignment of one or more asset types, you now also automatically export their global assignment, even when it is not selected. This avoids conflicts when the target environment does not have a global assignment for the asset types.
  • All logged user actions now mention the session ID.
  • The authentication logs now contain the full user agent information.
  • Session IDs are now hashed in the logs to increase security.
  • The logs now contain more information about authentication events.
  • The UserAuthenticationListener logs now shows the final result of a user login attempt.
  • When using Open API with basic authentication, only one session is created for the user, which improves performance and logging.
  • We have fixed some security issues by removing a flash plugin in the text editor.
  • The "Upgrade history" button now upgrades the activity history after you have upgraded to 2020.11|5.7.7, instead of migrating "activity stream" entries from Collibra DGC 4.x to Collibra DGC 5.x "history" entries.
  • You can now migrate model objects between all versions newer than 5.7.
  • We have fixed some security vulnerabilities by upgrading to the latest version of Apache Shiro (1.6.0).
  • The performance to show large hierarchies is improved due to an updated hierarchy calculation strategy. (ticket #53015, 51820, 51613)
  • The amount of available views that you can see in the view table is increased from 300 to 1,000. (ticket #51694)
  • When you import assets, the DGC service log now contains new INFO log entries about the start date, end date and the duration of the import.
  • When you open a diagram, the DGC service log now contains new INFO log entries about the back-end response time and the number of retrieved nodes and edges.
  • Improved search performance due to fewer postgreSQL calls when showing search results.
  • You can again add a "mailto" link in the Help menu of Collibra Data Governance Center. (ticket #52169)
  • When you hover over an asset type symbol in search results, a tooltip shows the name of the asset type.
  • You can now correctly filter the table content in the Data Profiling section when Catalog Experience is disabled. (ticket #46244)
  • On asset pages, you can no longer see the Edit or Delete buttons for characteristics if you don't have the required global permissions. (ticket #44887)

Collibra Data Privacy

  • In accordance with GDPR Article 30 requirements, we've added new business-critical attribute types to the global assignments of asset types Party and Business Process assets. This enhancement is also reflected in:
    • The Third Party Privacy Profile Import template that you can use to import and map your third-party information for GDPR and CCPA.
    • The Process Register Tableau report and the Process Register Athena view associated with Collibra Insights.

API

  • The JavaDoc of fields of class PagedResponse is now updated to include information about replacements for deprecated fields.

Performance

  • The Repository database size has reduced by approximately 30% due to several database changes.
  • The data to store hyperlinks now consumes up to 70 times less storage.
  • The performance to bulk remove data is now up to five times faster.
  • Database schema optimizations has improved the performance of export jobs by 20% to 50%.

Fixes

Collibra Data Catalog

  • Assets created by synchronizing Tableau, S3 and Data sources are now properly indexed and available in the search. (ticket #53581)
  • Jobserver ingestion and profiling logs now show information about the driver, database and schema selection.
  • Quantile calculation no longer fails for timestamp columns.
  • Jobserver no longer profiles a table if all columns have unsupported data types.
  • When an ingestion fails, the job no longer indicates that it took 50 years to complete. (ticket #48924)
  • When you stop an ingestion or profiling process in the Jobserver, the context processes are now terminated. (ticket #52388)
  • The default time pattern for profiling parameters in the Jobserver is now correctly handled.
  • The history page of an S3 File System asset type now correctly shows only activities related to the asset. (ticket #52193)
  • An ingestion job no longer fails when you register a data source with a large number of assets or foreign keys and you have defined a cron expression in the Register a data source dialog box. (ticket #48947)
  • When an ingestion job fails, the Data Profiling Results report now correctly shows the duration of the ingestion process. (ticket #48924)
  • You can now see icons of tags and comments in the titlebar of asset pages when Catalog Experience is enabled in dark theme.
  • Collibra Data Governance Center now correctly detects columns with data type Whole Number and shows the profiling and sample data on the Column's asset page.
  • On a Table asset page, sample data of a Column asset is shown as "sensitive", if you do not have the View Samples permission for the Column asset, but you do have it for at least one other Column asset from the same Table asset.
  • On a Data Set asset page, sample data of a Column asset is shown as "sensitive", if you do not have the View Samples permission for the Column asset, but you do have it for at least one other Column asset from the same Table asset that is also in the Data Set.
  • Sample data is now also shown even if there are empty columns. (ticket #50707)

Collibra Console

  • When creating a diagnostics file, the benchmark report is now correctly created. (ticket #53006)
  • The Collibra Console and Jobserver service logs are now correctly purged. (ticket #51542)
  • The SAML configuration option "14.5.1.k.Ignore endpoint scheme differences" in the DGC service configuration is no longer available.
  • Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud now uses secure default values in HTTP headers to mitigate popular attack vectors.
  • In the Data Governance Center Configuration section in Collibra Console, the Register data source, Data profiling and Beta features are now accessible for users with the ADMIN role.
  • Confidential information is no longer disclosed in a stacktrace.
  • The Group Base DN and Membership attributes are no longer mandatory to configure LDAP. (ticket #47737, 47207)
  • The version of the web server is no longer shown on error pages.
  • Upgrading an environment that has a repository cluster no longer fails. (ticket #51499)
  • When SAML_LDAP is used with SSO and the identifier is not the username, the login is now successful. (ticket #52203)
  • GraphQL schema introspection is now disabled by default. You can enable it in the DGC service configuration in Collibra Console.
  • If SAML is enabled and signing in fails, the error message now appears correctly on the sign-in page. (ticket #48715, 53020)
  • If a user account in Collibra has an invalid email address, LDAP synchronization no longer fails, but it ignores the user. (ticket #52455)

Collibra Data Governance

  • An error message is erroneously shown when you delete an asset.
  • Improved search results for resources that include an underscore (_) in their names.
  • If SAML is enabled and sign in fails because the Search service is down, a more helpful error message is now shown on the sign in page.
  • When a job is canceled, the job status is now immediately updated in the Activities table.
  • If you open a direct link to a resource for which you do not have view permission, you now see the message 403 Forbidden.
  • After logging in using a SAML IdP, you are now redirected to the original URL instead of your default dashboard.
  • You no longer see a blank page when SSO is enabled and guest access has been disabled.
  • The system asset types "String type" and "Script type" are no longer used in 5.7.7 or newer and can thus be deleted if you migrated them from a 4.x environment.
  • When you crop a diagram, you see again nothing but the selected content.
  • On a Catalog Schema asset page, the "Refresh" button is no longer shown if you don't have the necessary permissions. (ticket #49924)
  • The suggested asset types in the Global Create dialog box now take into account the current scope. (ticket #49272)
  • If you edit an attribute directly after starting a workflow, the asset page now refreshes correctly. (ticket #51989)
  • The Activities pop-up window now correctly refreshes when you cancel a job.
  • When using the relation API to add relations, duplicate relations will be ignored. (ticket #52765)
  • Migration will no longer treat the order of view assignment rules, view sharing rules or data quality metrics as a difference as it is non-deterministic. (ticket #49528)
  • In the Responsibilities page of a resource, you can now remove a responsibility when the pop-up window with user or group information is shown. (ticket #52046)
  • After you sign out, the password field in the Sign in dialog box is now empty. (ticket #52409)
  • Group entries in history now show all dates in local time. (ticket #52194)
  • When using the REST API, concurrent logins with basic authentication no longer cause an error. (ticket #52273)
  • Data Quality score is now always up to date. (ticket #49984, 51284)
  • The history no longer shows an entry when creating a relation that failed due to maximum cardinality. (ticket #36292)
  • You can no longer create user groups via the GraphQL API if you don't have the User Administration or System Administration permission.
  • Importing a too large set of objects now fails with a clear error message. (ticket #50748, 50488)
  • When an import job fails, the import report now only contains the first 200 errors. (ticket #49361, 50057)
  • When working with search results, the “Search in fields” dialog box no longer shows fields when invalid text is entered to refine the list of fields.
  • The workflow buttons appear again without delays. (ticket #50992)
  • If a workflow is started by a built-in system user, the "Created by" user is marked as "Workflow user" and no longer "Deleted user". (ticket #42966, 51416, 51012)
  • A failed workflow that was started from a domain page now shows a human readable error message in the UI. (ticket #45211)
  • Fixed an XSS vulnerability in the Ratings text editor.
  • In a workflow start form, drop-down fields based on a user group show the group members correctly again.
  • Resetting a password now works when CSRF token validation is enabled. (ticket #49729)
  • In complex relation types, an assignment line with a boolean attribute type has now a maximum cardinality of one.
  • You can now change the avatar of another user using API v2 if you have the "System Administration" or "User Administration" global permission.
  • An asset page is now refreshed when an attribute is changed through an action on the workflow taskbar.
  • You can now safely remove the relation type 'Business Asset represent/represented by Data Asset' from the assignment of the Table asset type and its children. (ticket #49780)
  • If you use SAML authentication and the Collibra Data Governance Center sign-in page is disabled, you are now redirected to your default dashboard if you navigate to the sign-in page manually.
  • Fixed an XSS vulnerability in the Dashboard's Tasks widget. (ticket #44063)
  • In diagrams, the submenu of a node's context menu is now always completely visible.
  • You now return to the dashboard if you click your browser's Back button after following a link to a community in a dashboard's widget. (ticket #49419)

Collibra Data Privacy

  • When approved, a Compliance Self Assessment asset that was created with two parties in scope, now has the correct status Approved, instead of Obsolete.
  • An Event-based Review Rule is now triggered when an edit is first made to the approved target Business Process asset. Previously, it was only triggered if a second edit was made to the target asset.
  • If you start a manual review request for an assessment asset and select the option “Involve me in the feedback”, you are now correctly assigned the Stakeholder responsibility for the newly created assessment asset.
  • When working from an approved Compliance Self Assessment asset, the Update Asset Directly workflow now works correctly when you choose the option “Copy data from a previous Compliance Self Assessment.
  • In the Manual Review Request workflow, the Update <asset type> button now works correctly for all asset types.
  • For new installations, the following updates are applied in the Privacy framework section of the Privacy dashboard:
    • The “standards” link now points to the search page, where all Standard assets are shown.
    • The “roles and responsibilities” link has been removed.
  • For new installations, the Identifier attribute (UUID c0e00000-0000-0000-0001-000500000043) is no longer included in the CMA installation files, as it is no longer part of the Data Privacy operating model.

API

  • The REST API call to fetch all workflow tasks of a user now retrieves the correct data. Also, the performance of this call is improved.
  • When using the API to validate a single asset, the validation job is now correctly started. (ticket #50417)
  • The API and Java documentation have been updated to indicate whether method properties are deprecated or required.

Patches

Patch 7

  • Synchronizing Tableau 2020.02 or newer no longer fails when there are inconsistencies between the Tableau Graphql Metadata API and the Tableau Rest APl on Tableau's data source level. (ticket #59163)

Patch 6

  • Synchronizing Tableau 2020.2 or newer no longer fails when there are views belonging to a workbook that was deleted on Tableau's side. The views are now skipped and logged. (ticket #59163)

Patch 5

  • Reindexing the search index no longer causes memory leaks.

Patch 4

  • When you export a large file, the progress bar now shows the current status. (ticket #58000)
  • The "last modified date" and "last modified by" fields once again update correctly. (ticket 56386)
  • You can now restore a backup of a cloud environment in an on-premises environment if the cloud environment version is older than the on-premises version. For example, the on-premises version 5.7.7 is released together with the cloud version 2020.11, so only backups from 2020.11 and older can be restored in a 5.7.7 environment. See also the cloud/on-premises compatibility list.

Patch 3

  • Tableau synchronization no longer fails if there is an inconsistency between the Tableau Metadata API and the Tableau Rest API. Any inconsistencies are now noted in the log files. (ticket #56778, 57330)

Patch 2

  • For S3 ingestions, we have updated the AWS SDK to include the Hong Kong region. (ticket #56208)

Patch 1

  • A full reindex no longer fails if the batch size is smaller than the number of domains or the number of communities. (ticket #55668, 55921)
  • Tableau synchronization no longer fails when you open or reload the Configuration tab page on a Tableau Server asset page during the synchronization process. (ticket #56005)
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