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Release 2022.02

Release information

  • Release date of 2022.02.0: February 6, 2022
    • Upgrade non-production environments: February 6, 2022
    • Upgrade production environments: February 27, 2022
  • Release date of 2022.02.1: February 27, 2022
  • Release date of 2022.02.2: March 17, 2022
  • Release date of 2022.02.3: March 25, 2022
  • Relevant Jobserver version: 2022.2.3-58

Highlights

  • You can now ingest Tableau metadata via the lineage harvester. This allows you to ingest embedded data sources and allows for custom SQL parsing, automatic stitching and much more.
  • When profiling on Edge, you can now choose which synchronized schemas are to be profiled. See Configure the profiling and classification options via Edge.
  • You can now use a browser extension to easily access Tableau or PowerBI Dashboard metadata.
  • iOS 11 is no longer supported for Collibra for Mobile 1.5.2 and newer.
  • The following Catalog connectors are now certified for Edge:
    • Azure Synapse
    • Cloudant
    • Couchbase
    • SQL Server
    • Sybase

New features

Data Catalog

  • When profiling on Edge, you can now choose which synchronized schemas are to be profiled. See Configure the profiling and classification options via Edge.
  • You can now use partial scan to profile Google BigQuery data sources via Jobserver.
  • You can now use partial scan to profile most columns of Impala data sources via Jobserver, except for those in views, Kudu tables, and HBase tables.
  • The following Catalog connectors are now certified for Edge:
    • Azure Synapse
    • Cloudant
    • Couchbase
    • SQL Server
    • Sybase

Data Governance

  • The Scope page is now redesigned to make it more user friendly. For example, you can now easily see which domains and communities belong to which scope, and you also see a warning if a community or domain is in multiple scopes.
  • You can now use views on the Organization page of the Stewardship application.

Collibra for Desktop

  • The following settings can now only be defined in Collibra Console and no longer in the Collibra for Desktop settings:
    • Default filter
    • Reporting
  • When the user settings are disabled, the keyboard shortcut is no longer visible in the user settings.
  • Via the unattended installation, you can now only configure the environment URL, session timeout and initial message. All other options can only be configured via Collibra Console.
  • You can now change the colors and logo of Collibra for Desktop to be more in line with your company's brand.

Collibra for Mobile

  • iOS 11 is no longer supported for Collibra for Mobile 1.5.2 and newer.

Enhancements

Data Catalog

Data Lineage and BI integrations

  • The new Tableau integration via lineage harvester supports the Tableau Explorer (can publish) role.
  • Upgraded JDBC drivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Teradata, Snowflake, HiveQL, Spark SQL and Microsoft SQL Server data sources. Discontinued support for Active directory authentication for Azure data sources. (Ticket #73867)
  • Netty libraries are upgraded to version 4.1.72. (ticket #79732)
  • Hive JDBC driver is upgraded to AmazonHiveJDBC42-2.6.17.1020.
  • When ingesting metadata from Tableau Server 2021.3 or newer, Tableau workbooks in Personal Space are not ingested. For complete information on Personal Space in Tableau, see the Tableau documentation. (tickets #77501, 80903)
  • The lineage harvester includes mitigations for the following log4j vulnerabilities:

Data Governance

  • If moving a domain or community causes a conflict of scopes, the moved domain and community is now removed from its original scope.

Assessments

  • URLs for conducting assessments are simplified, to facilitate the integration of assessments in dashboards and workflows.
    Note When implementing this change, we also adjusted the terminology used in the URL to reflect terminology used in the Assessments app. This could result in broken links if you use the URLs outside of the Assessments app. We encourage you to verify such links if you use them, for example, in dashboards or workflows.

Collibra for Mobile

  • The Expo SDK is upgraded to version 43 to fully support iOS 15.
  • General performance and stability improvements.

Fixes

Data Catalog

  • If you have the Technical Lineage global permission, you can now see the Technical Lineage tab on the Database View asset page. (ticket #70049)
  • When profiling on Edge, Collibra now takes a configurable maximum number of characters into account per cell. The default maximum is 1,000. This allows to profile cells containing long values, for example cells of the Long data type in Oracle. (ticket #73469)

Data Lineage and BI integrations

  • When using a parameter file during the ingestion of metadata from Informatica PowerCenter data sources, parameter names are now correctly replaced by the values in the source table name override. (tickets #75833, 78084)
  • When ingesting metadata from Microsoft SQL Server data sources, the dash character "-" in database names no longer causes ingestion to fail. (ticket #75860)
  • The lineage harvester now renews the Looker API token if harvesting takes longer than one hour, to avoid an HTTP 401 Unauthorized error.
  • When processing a report file, the SSRS scanner now creates an SSRS Data Model asset in Collibra Platform for each dataset of the report. SSRS Columns related to those SSRS Data Model assets are now also created in Collibra. (ticket #78930)
  • When viewing transformations in a technical lineage, you can again right-click on nodes that have duplicate names, to open the context menu. (ticket #77458)
  • When metadata from Snowflake data sources are analyzed, schema names are no longer wrapped in double-quotes. (ticket #77213)
  • Fixed the computational inefficiency in the SQL scanner in the case of multiple nested subSELECTs with wildcards. (ticket #76637)
  • Support added for ALTER TABLE RENAME TO statement in Postgres. (ticket #75894)
  • Support for Oracle package specifications split into multiple source files (e.g. package definition in one source file and package body in another source file). (ticket #74529)
  • The Collibra Data Lineage servers now benefit from the following parsing enhancements for data sources of the following types:
    • Microsoft SQL Server: all variants of hexadecimal literals. (ticket #78078)
    • BigQuery: PARTITION BY clause in CREATE TABLE statements. (ticket #77044)
    • Oracle:
      • ENCRYPT algorithm in CREATE TABLE column definition.
      • ON OVERFLOW clause of LISTAGG function. (ticket #73709)
    • Redshift:
      • Optional enclosing brackets [] for table references. (ticket #77184)
      • DELETE queries that have WITH statements. (ticket #74380)
    • SQL Server Integration Services: components of type "Microsoft.ScriptComponentHost", which is a subtype of the "Microsoft.ManagedComponentHost". (ticket #76036)
  • The lineage harvester now correctly shows the help overview when you run the --help command.
  • Fixed a NullPointerException when no column data type is harvested.
  • If you change the domain reference ID in the lineage harvester configuration file, Tableau assets are now successfully deleted from the previous domain and recreated in the new domain.

Data Governance

  • Fixed an issue that occurred when editing cells in the Group column of the users table. (ticket #74109)
  • Fixed an issue where the Automatic Hyperlinking feature sometimes created hyperlinks to assets whose type was excluded in the configuration.
  • Fixed an issue where the Task Duration widget in a dashboard kept spinning indefinitely. (ticket #71492)
  • The popup that appears if you point to a hyperlink in an attribute now shows long breadcrumbs correctly. (ticket #76626)
  • The References tab page of asset pages now show references to assets with parentheses in their names. (ticket #67907)
  • You can now create a filter based on asset types of all subcommunities in the filter pane of a root community page. (ticket #71357, 76104)
  • If you open an asset page from a relation table, the asset page now opens at the start of the page. (ticket #67587)
  • Fixed an issue in the error message that appears if you import complex relations with too many legs. (ticket #73694)
  • Log messages about signing in and out no longer include implementation details and, whenever possible, now contain the user ID instead of the username.
  • 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)
  • Fixed an issue in the Complex Relation Type field when importing complex relations. (ticket #75736)

Assessments

  • Assessment templates with very long names no longer cause the UI to malfunction.

Workflows

  • Completing a workflow task in the task bar no longer causes a task bar refresh error in some cases.

Collibra for Desktop

  • Collibra for Desktop now correctly shows diagram pictures that are public or shared with the Everyone group. (ticket #73212, 74810)
  • Date and time is now correctly shown in Collibra for Desktop. (ticket #76283)

API

  • The typeId parameter of the GET/Assets is now deprecated in favor of typeIds. (ticket #75809)
  • Fixed an error in the response schema for the POST /assetTypes/bulk and POST /attributeTypes/bulk methods of the REST Core API v2. (ticket #74894)
  • The REST Import API documentation now mentions that the finalization method requires at least one of the optional parameters to be specified.
  • JSON requests with malformed JSON, such as syntax errors and missing JSON fields, now result in standard API error responses.

Hotfixes

Collibra 2022.02.1

  • You can once again open communities in a new tab page from a link. (ticket #80081, 81342)
  • Log4j is upgraded to version 2.17.1. For technical information regarding the Log4j 2.17.1 release, please consult the Log4j release notes.
  • Search fields in dialog boxes of workflows now correctly filter on asset types and show all relevant assets. (ticket #76946, 80426)

Collibra 2022.02.2

  • Jobserver has been upgraded to a higher version (2022.02.2-47) to improve security. We recommend you to install this new Jobserver version without delay to remediate the vulnerabilities.

Collibra 2022.02.3

  • The Browse pane no longer contains domains and communities for which you don't have view permissions. (ticket #82447, 82986, 83313, 83393, 83470)
  • You can again use the 'BETWEEN 'filter in the Output Module. (ticket #83068, 83202)
  • Azul Zulu JRE (Java Runtime Environment) is updated to version 8.0.322. Jobserver has also been upgraded to version 2022.2.3-58 to support this JRE version. (ticket #83442)
  • The PostgreSQL drivers used by Collibra Console are upgraded to org.postgresql 42.3.3.

Lineage harvester hotfix 1

  • The lineage harvester now correctly shows the help overview when you run the --help command.
  • Fixed a NullPointerException when no column data type is harvested.
  • When you change the domain reference ID in the lineage harvester configuration file, Tableau assets are now successfully deleted from the previous domain and recreated in the new domain.

Lineage harvester hotfix 2

  • Fixed an issue that was causing incomplete technical lineage and stitching issues when using custom SQL in Tableau.
  • Fixed an issue that resulted in a TableauHarvesterError when ingesting Tableau metadata via the linage harvester. (ticket #82097)

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 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.