Release 2021.09

Release information

  • Release date of 2021.09.0: September 5, 2021
    • Upgrade non-production environments: September 5, 2021
    • Upgrade production environments: September 26, 2021
  • Release date of 2021.09.1: September 19, 2021
  • Release date of 2021.09.2: October 8, 2021
  • Release date of 2021.09.3: January 9, 2022
  • Release date of 2021.09.4: January 16, 2022
  • Relevant Jobserver version: 2021.09.0-51

Highlights

  • Since the 2020.11 release, we introduced displayVersion next to fullVersion in the API call rest/2.0/application/info. The fullVersion was hard-coded since that version.
    As of this version, fullVersion has the format YYYY.MM.PATCH-buildnumber, displayVersion has the format YYYY.MM.PATCH (cloud version) or MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-buildnumber (on-premises version).
  • Edge is now readily available in all Collibra cloud environments. The following capability templates are now available out of the box:
    • Catalog JDBC ingestion
    • JDBC Profiling
    • DQ Connector

    Note Collibra Data Quality & Observability is still in preview mode. To get access to this feature, you have to create a support ticket.

  • You can now enable database registration and profiling and classification via Edge via Collibra Console to register a data source, profile and classify via Edge instead of Jobserver.
  • New component versions:
    • Apache Tomcat: 8.5.69
    • Java Azul Zulu: 8.0.292
    • PostgreSQL: 10.17

New features

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.

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  • 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.

Asset Grid

  • Filters that are applied on a grid, are captured in the grid's URL. This means that you can bookmark a grid including its filters.

Enhancements

Data Catalog

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

  • You can now use the customConnectionProperties field for SAP HANA, DB2, Netezza and Sybase sources.

Data Governance

  • Hierarchies in asset tables now load faster.
  • The configuration of hierarchies is removed from Collibra Console.

Edge

  • You now see a warning when there is not enough disk space for the installation of an Edge site. You need at least 50 GB.
  • You can now use a custom certificate authority in your proxy configuration.

Reports and Insights

  • Insights processing times are changed, to mitigate processing capacity limitations. Please check the processing timetable and adjust the timing of your downstream pipelines, as necessary. (ticket #69977)

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  • 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.

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  • You can now look up and consult communities and domains in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Mobile).

API

  • 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

Data Catalog

  • When adding a Schema asset to a data set, the loading time of the Add to data set window is reduced significantly.
  • You can now successfully set the context path of Collibra Console. (ticket #68174)
  • You can now profile columns of the type “Date” and “Time” that have the same “Maximum value” and “Minimum Value". (ticket #66368, 69906, 71963)
  • When you register Snowflake in Data Catalog, schemas and tables with an underscore in their name are now synchronized faster and do no longer trigger a full database scan. (ticket #66129)
  • The Summary tab page of a Table asset that has a large number of columns now loads faster. (ticket #70291)

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

  • The Sources tab page now shows the source ID of all sources in the configuration file. (ticket #70376)
  • The lineage harvester for Google BigQuery can now process STRUCT types with sub-select and UNNEST correctly. (ticket #65685)
  • The Collibra Data Lineage server now supports double quotes for delimited identifiers. (ticket #68865)
  • You no longer get an error about columns with dummy names.
  • The lineage harvester for Informatica PowerCenter now skips invalid XML files.
  • Collibra Data Lineage has now improved parsing Teradata metadata. (ticket #67453)
  • Collibra Data Lineage now supports ALL keywords in UPDATE statements and BEGIN/END QUERY LOGGING statements. (ticket #67450)
  • Collibra Data Lineage has now improved the Looker integration in Collibra Platform:
    • Tiles in Looker that have a relation to a non-existing Looker dashboard are now skipped. (ticket #69675)
    • Invalid queries are now skipped. (ticket #68622)
    • When you ingest a Looker tile that has a relation to a previously deleted Looker look, Collibra Data Lineage no longer creates a relation between the Looker Look asset and a Looker Dashboard asset in Data Catalog. (ticket #68374)

Data Governance

  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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.

Diagrams

  • Fixed an issue where diagrams didn't load with a filter containing a relation. (ticket #70078, 70884)

Data Privacy

  • Assessments is now accessible if the base URL of your Collibra environment changes.

Workflows

  • 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)
  • Collibra no longer stops processing workflow action emails due to session timeouts. (ticket #66784)

Search

  • 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.

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  • 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 (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Desktop) crash. (ticket #68773)

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  • Collibra Platform 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 (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Mobile). (ticket #68641)
  • The environment URL is now deleted from your iOS device if you remove (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Mobile) or if you clear the local storage of (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Mobile).
  • Asset names in camel case are now also in camel case in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Mobile).

Hotfixes

Collibra 1

  • A query to filter by responsibilities no longer causes slow loading times of a global view. (ticket #69580)
  • The performance of the Collibra platform has improved thanks to a new way of checking the view permissions.
  • 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 workflow analysis feature, which is still under development, has been moved to feature flag. Contact Collibra Support for more information. (ticket #69594, 71143)

Collibra 2

  • 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)

Collibra 3

  • 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.

Collibra 4

  • 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.