Release 2022.01

• Release information
• Highlights
• New features
• Enhancements
• Fixes
• Hotfixes

Release information

• Release date of 2022.01.0: January 9, 2022
  • Upgrade non-production environments: January 9, 2022
  • Upgrade production environments: January 30, 2022
• Release date of 2022.01.1: January 16, 2022
• Release date of 2022.01.2: February 3, 2022
• Relevant Jobserver version: 2021.11.3-77

Highlights

• The Edge management API is now available to authenticated users via https://<your_collibra_url>/edge/docs/rest-api/index.html.

New features

Data Catalog

• Collibra now supports partial scan for Google BigQuery via Edge.
• Collibra now supports partial scan for Apache Hive and Cloudera Hive via Edge.

Reports and Insights

Note Insights is a cloud-only feature.

• The Reporting Data Layer and Dashboard Reports Configuration Guide v1.5 is now available. It includes guidance on how to configure the Reporting Data Layer on Google Cloud Platform.

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• In Collibra Console, you can now configure to automatically open (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Desktop) when you start up your computer.

Collibra Console

• You can now configure HTTP response headers for Collibra Console.

API

• Authenticated users can now use the Edge management API via https://<your_collibra_url>/edge/docs/rest-api/index.html.

Enhancements

Data Catalog

• The import functionality now groups commands in batches internally so that commands that have dependencies are executed after their dependencies. For example, domains are always created before assets and assets are always created before their relations.
• Partial scan of Microsoft SQL Server data sources via Edge is now faster.
• The Profiling and Classification tab on a Database asset's Configuration tab is now hidden when you don't have the required permissions to profile and classify or when there is no capability with the JDBC Profiling capability template for the connection.
• The Profile Database job is now called "Database Profiling of <database name>".

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

• The lineage harvester can now harvest parameter files in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) data sources.
• A new lineage harvester error message MSG-LIN-4000 now helps to identify when a Collibra Data Lineage server can’t connect to Data Catalog.
• The following new Collibra Data Lineage server is now available: 34.152.20.240 (techlin-gcp-ca).

Diagrams

• You can now configure business qualifier filtering for complex relations.

API

• The OutputVisitor component is now decoupled from the dgc-model package to improve performance. However, custom multi-node queries in the GraphQuery Engine no longer work.

Miscellaneous

• You can now only use refreshed navigation, classic navigation is no longer available.
• The time to load the Quality tab on asset pages is significantly reduced.(ticket #67755, 74771)
• When adding responsibilities or view permissions to an asset, the time to load the users or groups in the dropdown is significantly reduced.
• 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 7.16.2, which includes an upgrade of log4j to version 2.17.0 and mitigations for the following log4j vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2021-44228 (December 10, 2021)
  • CVE-2021-45046 (December 14, 2021)
  • CVE-2021-45105 (December 18, 2021)
  For technical information regarding the Elasticsearch 7.16.2 release, please consult the Elasticsearch release notes.

Fixes

Data Catalog

• Fixed an issue where Collibra didn't delete your previously saved sample data after refreshing with 'Store Sample Data' disabled. (ticket #71425, 74017)
• Attributes containing plain text with special characters (<>) now expand correctly in tables. (ticket #72613)
• Attributes that are numbers no longer cause the import dialog box to get stuck loading. (ticket #72920)
• If the synchronization via Jobserver of an S3 file system fails and leads to partial results, Collibra no longer deletes affected assets but gives them the 'Missing from source' status. During the next successful synchronization, the assets are deleted or the their status is restored. (ticket #69705, 71673, 76936)

Data Lineage and BI integrations

Note Data Lineage is a cloud-only feature.

• The lineage harvester now correctly handles the * EXCEPT syntax for SQL scripts in BigQuery. (ticket #71656)
• When harvesting SAP HANA metadata, the lineage harvester now correctly identifies entity dataflows independently of column dataflows. (ticket #76533)
• On the Sources tab page, the column widths again adjust correctly to fit the content. (ticket #77045)
• The technical lineage viewer now includes tab pagination when there are more than six lineage view tabs. (tickets #70370, 76091)
• The technical lineage transformation logic CSV export file now:
  • Uses a comma as the delimiter, instead of a semicolon.
  • Shows values in double quotations.
  • Uses a double quotation as an escape character.
    (tickets #75374, 76351)
• The Collibra Data Lineage servers now benefit from the following parsing enhancements when integrating IBM DB2 data sources:
  • Support for the STRIP function.
  • Support for ¬=, ¬>, ¬<, !> and !< operators.
  • Support for special registers, for example CURRENT SQLID and CURRENT SERVER.
  • Support for CCSID clauses in CREATE TABLE statements.
  • Support for APPEND clauses in CREATE TABLE statements.
  • Support for VOLATILE clauses in CREATE TABLE statements.
  • Support for DATA CAPTURE clauses in CREATE TABLE statements.
  • Support for AUDIT clauses in CREATE TABLE statements.
  • Fixed CASE expression.
  • Some keywords allowed as column names and column aliases.
• The Collibra Data Lineage servers now benefit from the following parsing enhancements when integrating HiveQL data sources:
  • Support for table references starting with numerical digits.
  • Support for "pivot" as a table alias.
    (ticket #75359)
• Fixed a communication issue between Catalog and lineage servers. (ticket #74601)

Data Governance

• 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, 76850)
• Fixed an issue in the tables of the Migration export feature that have a Modified by column containing a user that was deleted. (ticket #74188)
• Fixed an issue where your browser's Back button didn't behave correctly. (ticket #73869, 75054, 75110, 75277, 75323, 76084, 76157, 76220, 76392, 76559, 76699, 77075, 77223)
• You can now use the Recently Viewed section to easily find the relevant assets in fields of the Diagrams and the Collibra Privacy & Risk features.
• Dashboard widgets now show Tableau reports correctly. (ticket #70820, 72848, 74431, 80669)
• Long names of domains and communities are now correctly shown in dropdown fields. (ticket #72524, 76725)
• Fixed an issue where the global Create button disappeared if you didn't have certain resource permissions. (ticket #69606, 73803, 74076, 74157)
• You can now wrap text in asset tables of Catalog application pages.
• If an asset appears many times in an hierarchical asset view and you select one of those instances, all asset instances are now selected. (ticket #70573)
• Fixed an issue which caused some dashboards to load twice. (ticket #69451)
• You can again sort asset views and diagram views on the Sharing column. (ticket #67365)
• The height of the Browse pane now matches the full height of the page.

Diagrams

• You can again sort asset views and diagram views on the Sharing column. (ticket #67365)

Data Privacy

• When completing an assessment, answers that are provided for questions of the type Multiline Input are again correctly formatted.
• You can again start your Collibra environment, even if you don’t have an active Internet connection.
• If, on multiple attempts, you try to submit an assessment but don’t have the necessary permissions for the specified domain or domains, only a single instance of the draft is now saved.
• Error logs for time-based workflows now show the correct messaging.

Workflows

• You can again use the "T" designator when defining user task duration variables. (ticket #74215, 72645)
• Completing a workflow on a dashboard page no longer hides the page's scrollbar.
• The runAsUser logic from one workflow no longer influences other workflow instances. (ticket #71828)
• Using check boxes or radio fields without any options no longer distort the dialog box layout. (ticket #70865, 69495)
• The out-of-the-box Assessments Approval workflow is no longer enabled during an upgrade or restart if it was previously disabled. (ticket #75138, 70476)
• Using double quotes in some dialog box forms no longer causes a display issue. (ticket #69491)

Search

• Fixed the Search REST API example in the API documentation. (ticket #73115)
• When you edit a tag, the new name is now indexed in the search database and assets can be found by the new tag name.
• If you have specified fields in which a search should be performed and the search yields no results, you can again change the fields on the search page, to expand the scope of your search.
• Improved performance of the “Show more” and “Show less” buttons associated with the Organization facet.
• In the Organization facet, the links to expand the organizational hierarchy again work correctly.

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• If the user configuration is disabled in Collibra Console, you can no longer edit the keyboard shortcut. (ticket 76829)
• Long names of related assets are now properly wrapped.

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• Replying to a comment a second time, no longer results in an exception error.
• The option to secure the user credentials is now correctly saved, even after signing out.
• If you search for a value in a drop-down list in a workflow step and remove your search query, the drop-down list is again reset.
• Opening a shared link in a mobile browser, now correctly shows "Open in mobile" instead of "Open in desktop".
• When you click a shared link in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Mobile), the correct asset is now shown.
• Reopening a shared link in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Mobile)no longer makes the app crash.

Security

• Users no longer encounter sign in issues during an active LDAP synchronization. (ticket #72891, 75184)

API

• The REST Core API now correctly supports the "Responsibility" field. (ticket #73379)
• The data classification DELETE rest api (/dataClassification/classifications/{classificationId}) now returns the 404 response code instead of 500 if no classification with given classificationId exists in the system.

Hotfixes

Collibra 2022.01.1

• Fixed an issue that caused the import feature to fail if you imported assets with relations. (ticket #79963, 79989, 79995, 80010, 80011, 80046, 80077, 80088, 80110, 80145, 80148, 80151, 80153, 80171, 80182, 80193, 80196, 80204, 80214, 80229, 80238, 80288, 80300, 80307, 80318, 80321, 80341, 80360)

Collibra 2022.01.2

• Fixed an issue in the Complex Relation Type field when importing complex relations. (ticket #75736)

Edge capability hotfix 1

• jdbc profiling capability: The profiling job now waits 20 minutes for a response when submitting profiling results to Catalog, instead of waiting indefinitely. After 20 minutes, the profiling job starts to process the next table.
• Catalog jdbc ingestion capability: If you receive an out of memory (OOM) error when you synchronize or profile a data source via Edge, you can now retrieve a diagnostics log file to investigate the issue in detail.