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Release 2021.10

Release information

  • Release date of 2021.10.0: October 10, 2021
    • Upgrade non-production environments: October 10, 2021
    • Upgrade production environments: October 31, 2021
  • Release date of 2021.10.1: October 31, 2021
  • Release date of 2021.10.2: January 9, 2022
  • Release date of 2021.10.3: January 16, 2022
  • Relevant Jobserver version: 2021.09.0-51

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 install an Edge site also on CentOS/RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 and CentOS 8.0.
  • 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.

New features

Data Catalog

  • You can now configure a test connection timeout when configuring a Jobserver.

Data Governance

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.

Enhancements

Data Catalog

  • When you register a data source via Edge, the Data Source Type attribute of the resulting Database asset now contains the name of the actual data source instead of "Collibra driver".

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

  • You can now create a technical lineage for ODBC data sources in Power BI. (ticket #72499)
  • The SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI Report Server operating models are now merged.
  • The relation type that is used for Power BI column and JDBC column stitching results has changed. It is now "Data Element targets / sources Data Element".

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?.

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.

Fixes

Data Catalog

  • The profiling results "Date", "Time" and "Date and Time" columns are now correctly formatted and classified. (ticket #69656)
  • Fixed an issue in Edge where the status of renamed tables and columns remained 'Missing from source', even after the name change was reverted.
  • When you synchronize a schema while it is already being synchronized, you again see the correct error message.

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

  • The useCollibraSystameName property now exists in the Power BI configuration file that is bundled in the installation ZIP file. By default, the property is set to False.
  • Variables names in BigQuery are now case-insensitive, in accordance with BigQuery documentation. (ticket# 72175)
  • Synchronization batch cycles are again successfully processed, allowing the lineage harvester to run. (ticket# 72103)
  • When running the Power BI harvester to upload Power BI metadata, the Collibra Data Lineage server now waits until the full batch is processed, before ending the harvesting process and posting the results of the scan.

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, 69327, 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.

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.

Workflows

  • You can no longer clear a "datetime" user task form that has the "Writeable" parameter set to "false". (ticket #70863)
  • You can again select "Asset" to indicate all asset types when adding a workflow assignment rule. (ticket #63705)

Edge

  • When Edge is not enabled, it is no longer added to the log files. (ticket #64176, 64322, 65040, 65276, 65707, 67463)

Collibra Console

  • Log retention configurations are again supported through the 'collibra_data/dgc/config/logging.properties' file. (ticket #70788)

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.

Hotfixes

Collibra 2021.10.1

  • Fixed an issue where dialog boxes of workflows become unresponsive if one of its fields has invalid content. (ticket #74583, 74686, 74869, 74871, 74936)
  • Fixed an issue where the output module filter didn't correctly parse LONG and DOUBLE values set as a JSON number. (ticket #73835)

Collibra 2021.10.2

  • 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.

Collibra 2021.10.3

  • 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.