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Release 2021.11

Release information

  • Release date of 2021.11.0: November 7, 2021
    • Upgrade non-production environments: November 7, 2021
    • Upgrade production environments: November 21, 2021
  • Release date of 2021.11.1: November 21, 2021
  • Release date of 2021.11.2: December 19, 2021
  • Release date of 2021.11.3: January 9, 2022
  • Relevant Jobserver version: 2021.11.3-77

Highlights

  • Collibra Data Lineage now supports technical lineage for Matillion. Redshift and Snowflake projects in Matillion are supported.
  • You can now use the S3 integration on Edge.

    Note S3 on Edge is available as a limited preview only. You can request to be evaluated for access by creating a support ticket.

  • 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

  • After registering a data source via Edge, you can now schedule synchronization and profiling jobs.
  • You can now select the domain in which you want to synchronize a schema.

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

  • You can now configure the lineage harvester as a capability on Edge, for JDBC data sources. Benefits include:
    • Seamless integration with Data Catalog.
    • User Interface (UI), instead of Command Line Interface (CLI).
    • JDBC connections from Edge are used instead of lineage harvester drivers.
    • Job scheduling via Data Catalog.

    Lineage harvester on Edge is available in beta only. You can request access by creating a support ticket. Collibra Product Management will determine if the customer should be included in beta testing.

    You can still use the lineage harvester as a standalone app.

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.

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  • You can now select asset content in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Desktop), 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.

Asset Grid

Note Asset Grid is a cloud-only feature.

  • In a grid, you can hide rows that have an undefined value as header. This can happen if a cell is aggregated to a non-existing category.
  • You can edit the legend colors and choose the alignment of the row headers.
  • You can group grids if, for example, they logically belong together, and switch quickly between grids in this group.
  • You can select communities and domains as row headers in the grid builder.

Collibra Console

  • 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

  • Collibra now uses native sampling if you enable push down sampling for Databricks and you profile via Edge.
  • You can now profile a Google BigQuery data source via Edge if partial scan is enabled.
  • The Apache Kafka Catalog connector now supports data profiling.

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

  • The lineage harvester log output now includes Collibra Data Lineage server processing information.
  • The lineage harvester now supports Snowflake syntax for the CONNECT BY clause. (ticket #69770)
  • When preparing the lineage harvester configuration file for SQL sources, if the useCollibraSystemName property is:
    • false (default), system or server names in table references in analyzed SQL code are now ignored. This means that a table that exists in two different systems or servers is identified (either correctly or incorrectly) as a single data object, with a single asset full name.
    • true, system or server names in table references are considered to be represented by different System assets in Data Catalog. The value of the collibraSystemName property is used as the default system or server name.
  • There are now two CSV options for exporting a technical lineage graph. The new Full CSV option allows you to export the full technical lineage graph. The CSV option now includes only the technical lineage graph of the selected column or table, which takes less time to generate.
  • The technical lineage Sources tab page now includes a “Last sync time” column.

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.

Asset Grid

Note Asset Grid is a cloud-only feature.

  • When you search for items in a grid, all matching items are now shown.
  • You can now better filter the data in grids to more easily meet the 8,000 asset limit per grid.
  • You can add communities and domains as aggregators.
  • When creating a grid, you can refine the Asset Grid data set (Query Builder) :
    • based on asset status.
    • for assets that have a specific relation or not.

Miscellaneous

  • 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

  • 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).

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

  • When harvesting metadata from Snowflake data sources, the lineage harvester now preserves case-sensitive identifiers. (ticket #69769)
  • Fixed a monitoring issue that was causing a timeout error when running the lineage harvester. (ticket #74158)

Data Governance

  • Custom and out-of-the-box 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.

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 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 form fields are now correctly sized. (ticket #69492, 69495)
  • The workflow task sidebar now adapts to resizing browser windows. (ticket #66589)

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)

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

Collibra Console

  • Adding more than one group to the Collibra Console SSO configuration no longer breaks the permissions. (ticket #69642)

API

  • You can now retrieve all comments using a CSV endpoint with a TableViewConfig in the REST Core API Output Module resource. (ticket #89625)

Hotfixes

Collibra 2021.11.1

  • 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)
  • The workflow engine resolves the utility bean as intended for time-based workflows, in accordance with the specified namespace. (ticket #74718)
  • Fixed an issue with password encryption when using the reverse proxy server. (ticket #76158, 76170, 76249, 76262, 76277, 76369, 76683)

Collibra 2021.11.2

  • 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 2021.11.3

  • 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.