Release 2022.03

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

Release information

• Release date of 2022.03.0: March 6, 2022
  • Upgrade non-production environments: March 6, 2022
  • Upgrade production environments: March 27, 2022
• Release date of 2022.03.1: March 25, 2022
• Relevant Jobserver version: 2022.2.3-58

Highlights

• The default installation of Edge installs a Kubernetes cluster with Edge deployed on a Linux box that is fully managed by the customer. It is now possible to install Edge on an Edge-dedicated Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) cluster that is fully managed by the customer.
• A new Edge site on K3S can no longer be installed on RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.x and CentOS 7.x. Upgrade your operating system for existing Edge sites before 2022.06.
  
• S3 integration on Edge is now generally available.
• You can now show a disclaimer upon successful login. When enabled, you must accept the disclaimer after signing in, or else you are signed out.
  

New features

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• The Discover section in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Desktop) now shows a list of the last updated assets of your Collibra environment.
• The Discover section in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Desktop) can now suggest asset recommendations based on your browsing history in the app.
• You can now filter the content on the Recommendations tab. The available filters are based on your browsing history in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Desktop).

Collibra Console

• You can now show a disclaimer upon successful login. When enabled, you must accept the disclaimer after signing in, or else you are signed out.

Enhancements

Data Catalog

• The Technical Lineage tab is now available in the asset pages of asset types that support Technical Lineage, even if Catalog experience is disabled.
• You now see a relevant message when running an S3 synchronization and the Jobserver is offline. (ticket #61856)
• You cannot run an S3 ingestion if you have not defined any crawlers.

Data Lineage and BI integrations

• You can now ingest Tableau metadata from Tableau version 2021.4.
• When ingesting Tableau metadata, you can now leave empty the collibraSystemName property in your configuration file, even if the useCollibraSystemName property is set to true.
• By default, the lineage harvester no longer harvests images. If you want to include images, include the optional excludeImages property in your configuration file and set the value to false.
• When ingesting Power BI metadata, you can now include wildcards in the Power BI <source ID> configuration file.
• Hive source now skips harvesting DDL of exclusively locked tables.
• The Collibra Data Lineage servers now benefit from the following parsing enhancements when integrating Informatica PowerCenter data sources:
  • Source tables and columns for LOOKUP transformations.
  • SQL overrides.
• The PostgreSQL JDBC driver is upgraded to version 42.3.2.

Data Governance

• The Browse pane now only shows the views for which you have view permissions and the relevant global permissions.
• The Organization page of the Stewardship application can now include inherited responsibilities.
• You can now add the "Last modified by" field in a view and use it in the filter pane of asset views.

API

• JSON requests with malformed JSON, such as syntax errors and missing JSON fields, now result in standard API error responses.
• You can now use different labels to define multiple columns in the table output query that contain the same data referenced by the "fieldName".
• The console API has a new endpoint to upload backups and process the uploaded file asynchronously. (ticket #76760).

Miscellaneous

• Log messages about signing in and out no longer include implementation details and, whenever possible, now contain the user ID instead of the username.

Fixes

Data Catalog

• You can now revalidate assets from the Actions menu in Catalog asset pages, if Catalog experience is enabled. (ticket #77368)
• You can now cancel jobs running via Jobserver without restarting the DGC service. (ticket #77611, 78564, 81416, 82221)
  
• The Add to Data Set button is now again visible in the Physical Data Dictionary domain pages. (ticket #72814, 79646)
• Fixed an issue where schema assets were wrongfully marked as "Missing from source" when synchronizing a single schema via Edge.

Data Lineage and BI integrations

• Fixed an issue that was causing the ingestion of Looker metadata to fail. (ticket #80154)
• Fixed an issue that was causing a JsonParseError when ingesting Tableau metadata.
• Fixed an issue when ingesting Tableau metadata via lineage harvester that resulted in an UnexpectedConnectionClosureException error.
• When there is no upstream database in Tableau custom SQL, we replace the empty string by "database".
• If the asset name is empty, we now use a default name.
• Relaxed the validation that was causing the ingestion of Looker metadata to fail. (ticket #80308)
• Protobuf is upgraded to version 3.19.3. (ticket #81820)
• Fixed an issue that resulted in a TableauHarvesterError when ingesting Tableau metadata via the linage harvester. (ticket #82097)
• Fixed a NullPointerException when no column data type is harvested.
• The lineage harvester now correctly shows the help overview when you run the --help command.
• 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.
• The Collibra Data Lineage servers now benefit from the following parsing enhancements when integrating Teradata data sources:
  • Numeric literals
  • INSERT INTO x <expressions> SELECT …

  (tickets #82563, 82636, 82637, 82638)

Data Governance

• Fixed an issue in the Complex Relation Type field when importing complex relations. (ticket #75736)
• Fixed an issue where you couldn't add relation type fields to a view if you used an advanced filter that contained an "OR" operator. (ticket #79342)
• You can once again resize columns on community pages. (ticket #78287)
• You can now wrap the text in cells on the Organization page of the Stewardship application.
• Fixed an issue where new roles didn't appear in the column picker of the Permission pages.
• You no longer see the edit icon in table cells on Overview tab pages of domain and community pages if you don't have the permissions to edit the cell content. (ticket #75328)
• Fixed an issue where empty relation tables wrongly appeared on asset pages. (ticket #74634)
• The names of domain types and asset types can no longer consist of only spaces.
• You can once again create assets in and move assets to domains whose name contains an underscore. (ticket #76564)
• The Browse pane no longer contains domains and communities for which you don't have view permissions. (ticket #82447, 82986, 83313, 83393, 83470)

Workflows

• Inserting an image into a workflow form no longer causes an error or prevents the image from being stored. You can paste images of up to 2 MB in PNG, JPG, JPEG, or GIF format. (ticket #59568, 75092)
• The purge job now correctly clears out the workflow history. (ticket #70514)

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• Looker dashboards are again properly shown in (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Desktop).

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• You can again sign in to (Undefined variable: CollibraProducts.Collibra4Mobile) via single sign-on.

Collibra Console

• Upgrading Collibra no longer resets the option to show the API documentation menu item to admins only. (ticket #74974)

Security

• The current session endpoint of the REST API v2 now includes the associated CSRF token when applicable, and, optionally, the user information for the session.

API

• You can now use the API to delete a domain if it has a view. (ticket #77202)
• The Java User API now returns the correct exception if a user is not found when searching on username.
• The REST Import API now interprets correctly column values in a CSV file where the multivalue quote is "|". (ticket #71853)
• Retrieving relations or complex relations in batches using the REST or Java APIs no longer creates overlapping content in the results. (ticket #80323)
• Fixed an issue that led to inconsistent results in the output module. (ticket #73570, 76795)

Miscellaneous

• If you have Collibra open in multiple tabs, your session now times out correctly. (ticket #65867)

Hotfixes

Collibra 2022.03.1

• Fixed an issue where a CSRF token was missing from the response when no cookies were set for the auth/session API. (ticket #83781, 83808, 83822, 83862, 83892, 83920, 84009, 84054, 84164, 84182, 84455, 84767)
• 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)
• You can again use the 'BETWEEN' filter in the Output Module. (ticket #83068, 83202)
• The Argo-cd redis for Edge is updated to remediate vulnerabilities. (ticket #83135)

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.

Edge capability hotfix 2

• If a Glue crawler fails during the S3 synchronization on Edge, the Support team can now retrieve log details to investigate the issue. (ticket #74144)

Lineage harvester hotfix 1

• Fixed an issue in the lineage harvester that was causing random occurrences of newline characters in ingested Teradata objects.
• The Teradata JDBC driver is now upgraded to version 17.10.00.27.
• The MySQL JDBC driver is now upgraded to version 8.0.28.
• Fixed an issue in the REST API pagination.