5.7.11

The content of this section is only applicable for on-premises Collibra Data Governance Center environments. For the release notes of Collibra Platform, see Collibra Platform.

Release information

  • Release date of 5.7.11: November 29, 2021
  • Release date of 5.7.11-1: December 18, 2021
  • Release date of 5.7.11-2: January 9, 2022
  • Release date of 5.7.11-3: March 24, 2022

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 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.
  • 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

  • You can now configure a test connection timeout when configuring a Jobserver.
  • After registering a data source via Edge, you can now schedule it so that it's automatically triggered.

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.
  • The Global Permissions and the Resource Permissions pages now have a read-only mode and an edit mode.
  • The Settings page has been redesigned, including a new landing page.

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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.

Collibra Console

  • Log files of the Collibra Platform service now have the prefix "dgc." instead of "dgc-", for example dgc.2021-10-01.0.log.
  • 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

  • The Apache Kafka Catalog connector now supports data profiling.

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?.

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.

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.

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  • 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.
  • A query to filter by responsibilities no longer causes slow loading times of a global view. (ticket #69580, 70992)

Fixes

Data Catalog

  • The profiling results "Date", "Time" and "Date and Time" columns are now correctly formatted and classified. (ticket #69656)
  • 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).
  • Fixed an issue with password encryption when using the reverse proxy server. (ticket #76158, 76170, 76249, 76262, 76277, 76369, 76683)

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, 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.
  • 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.
  • Fixed an issue where the output module filter didn't correctly parse LONG and DOUBLE values set as a JSON number. (ticket #73835)
  • 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)

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.

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 clear a "datetime" user task form that has the "Writeable" property set to "false". (ticket #70863)
  • You can again select "Asset" to indicate all asset types when adding a workflow assignment rule. (ticket #63705)
  • 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 from fields are now correctly sized. (ticket #69492, 69495)
  • The workflow task sidebar now adapts to resizing browser windows. (ticket #66589)
  • Fixed an issue where dialog boxes of workflows become unresponsive if one of its fields has invalid content. (ticket #74583, 74686, 74869, 74871, 74936)
  • The workflow engine resolves the utility bean as intended for time-based workflows, in accordance with the specified namespace. (ticket #74718)

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.

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  • You now receive a push notification when a new task is assigned to you.

Collibra Console

  • Log retention configurations are again supported through the 'collibra_data/dgc/config/logging.properties' file. (ticket #70788)
  • Adding more than one group to the Collibra Console SSO configuration no longer breaks the permissions. (ticket #69642)

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.

Patches

Patch 1

  • 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.

Patch 2

  • 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.

Patch 3

  • Signing in via LDAP is now faster. (ticket #79896, 83727)