DataHub v0.14.1 Release Notes

User Experience

• Enhanced Data Propagation UI: New features allow viewing propagated column documentation, source information, and asset-level propagation details. This improves visibility into data lineage and enables better understanding of data flow across the organization. (#11047)

• Improved Search Result Tracking: Added page number to search result click events, enabling better measurement of search ranking performance. This helps users understand and optimize their search experience. (#11151)

• Fixed Display Issues: Resolved issues with displaying "0" values for last ingested data and improved handling of multilingual characters in descriptions. These fixes ensure more accurate and readable information presentation. (#10840, #10975)

Developer Experience

• Performance Improvements:

  • Implemented lazy dataLoaders for GraphQL queries, significantly reducing latency for local environments. (#11293)
  • Added option to log slow GraphQL queries, helping identify and address performance bottlenecks. (#11308)
  • Introduced session authorization caching for faster access checks. (#11327)

• Enhanced Search Capabilities:

  • Added support for custom highlighting fields in GraphQL queries, allowing faster and more customizable data retrieval. (#11339)
  • Implemented new search query functionality to filter by parents/children of Domains or Containers. (#11279)
  • Added support for multiple values in 'CONTAIN', 'START_WITH', and 'END_WITH' operators, enabling more flexible and precise searches. (#11068)

• API Improvements:

  • Extended throttling to API requests, supporting non-browser ingestion/write requests and manual throttling for better control over system load. (#11325)
  • Added support for 'START_WITH' and 'END_WITH' operators in GraphQL API, enhancing string query capabilities. (#11026)

• Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved issues with forward slash handling in search queries, empty key-value pairs in Elasticsearch mapping, and support for various data types in object fields. These fixes improve search accuracy and data representation. (#10932, #11004, #11066)
  • Addressed Postgres regression by upgrading the ebean library from version 12.x to 15.x, resolving a read lock NPE issue. (#11379)

Metadata Ingestion

• S3 Integration Enhancements:

  • Enhanced partition support for S3 dataset ingestion, improving metadata representation and enabling advanced partition detection. (#11083)
  • Enhanced S3 ingestion process to support reading specific file types, allowing more granular control over data ingestion. (#11177)

• BigQuery Improvements:

  • Implemented query log extractor for BigQuery, creating "Query" entities with usage statistics, lineage, and operation details. (#10994)
  • Added support for filtering GCP project ingestion based on project labels, enabling more targeted data collection. (#11169)
  • Implemented query job retries for transient errors, improving system robustness. (#11162)

• Snowflake Updates:

  • Added support for Iceberg tables in Snowflake access history, enhancing lineage capture capabilities. (#10961)
  • Introduced ability to define clustering key formulas for Snowflake datasets. (#11254)
  • Fixed tag exclusion issues in Snowflake ingestion process. (#11250)

• New and Updated Connectors:

  • Added ingestion source for SAP Analytics Cloud, expanding DataHub's integration capabilities. (#10958)
  • Enhanced Salesforce connector with customizable API version and improved error messages. (#11145, #11266)
  • Updated Tableau ingestion process with new parameters and improved field type parsing. (#11255, #11202)

• Other Ingestion Improvements:

  • Added support for MongoDB database ingestion as containers. (#11178)
  • Implemented automatic capturing of Snowflake assets with Pandas I/O Manager in Dagster module. (#11189)
  • Enhanced Fivetran ingestion with destination ID filtering capabilities. (#11277)
  • Added support for browse-only tables in Databricks ingestion. (#10766)

Other Improvements and Fixes

• Upgraded various dependencies including Kafka, Azure Identity, Acryl-SQLglot, and GraphQL/Spring versions.
• Improved error handling and logging across multiple components.
• Enhanced test coverage and reliability.
• Updated documentation for various features and processes.

Breaking Changes

Notable breaking changes include:

• Removal of lower method from get_db_name in SQLAlchemySource, affecting URNs of related entities.
• Changes to default sink mode and aspect handling that require server version 0.14.0+.

See the full details here.

Contributors

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors for their valuable work on this release:

First-Time Contributors

@AaronYang0628, @alexandrebunn, @alisa-aylward-toast, @arpanchakra29, @esselius, @eunseokyang, @ignitz, @milindgupta, @milindgupta9, @Nbagga14, @rohansun, @sakethvarma397, @vignesh-hbk

Repeat Contributors

@deepgarg-visa, @dushayntAW, @feldjay, @filipe-caetano-ovo, @ksrinath, @Masterchen09, @matthew-coudert-cko, @mayurinehate, @nmbryant, @pinakipb2, @prashanthic23, @sagar-salvi-apptware, @siladitya2, @sleeperdeep

DataHub Maintainers

@anshbansal, @asikowitz, @chriscollins3456, @darnaut, @david-leifker, @eboneil, @hsheth2, @jjoyce0510, @maggiehays, @pedro93, @RyanHolstien, @shirshanka, @sid-acryl, @skrydal, @treff7es, @yoonhyejin

Your contributions are invaluable in making DataHub better for everyone. Thank you!

What's Changed

• test(smoke-test): updates to smoke-tests by @david-leifker in #11152
• feat(dbt): support prefer_sql_parser_lineage with sources enabled by @hsheth2 in #11168
• feat(actions): updates to gha workflows by @david-leifker in #11150
• build: fix docker warnings by @anshbansal in #11163
• feat(hooks): Make hook enable flag non-default by @pedro93 in #11159
• fix(ci): smoke-test changes do not need to build images by @david-leifker in #11174
• fix(ci): fix single tag comma split by @david-leifker in #11179
• lint(restore-indices): clean-up restore indices class by @david-leifker in #11176
• fix(ci): typo by @david-leifker in #11180
• fix(ci): additional ci and smoke-test updates by @david-leifker in #11183
• test(smoke-test): minor update to openapi test by @david-leifker in #11184
• feat(ingest): use pre-built dockerize binary by @hsheth2 in #11181
• doc: mark deprecated feature by @anshbansal in #11175
• fix(delete) Fix removing completed/verified forms references by @chriscollins3456 in #11172
• feat(docs): update docs for new release by @RyanHolstien in #11164
• fix(ingest): invalid urn should not fail full batch of changes by @RyanHolstien in #11187
• fix(kafka-setup): add missing script to image by @david-leifker in #11190
• fix(config): fix hash algo config by @david-leifker in #11191
• feat(ingest): allow custom SF API version by @skrydal in #11145
• fix(ingestion/transformer): extend dataset_to_data_product_urns_pattern to support containers by @sagar-salvi-apptware in #11124
• fix(ui) Fix bug with editing entity names by @chriscollins3456 in #11186
• ci(smoke-test): allow smoke-test only PRs by @david-leifker in #11194
• feat(ingestion/lookml): support looker -- if comments by @sid-acryl in #11113
• fix(elasticsearch): refactor idHashAlgo setting by @david-leifker in #11193
• fix(ingestion/airflow-plugin): fixed missing inlet/outlets by @dushayntAW in #11101
• docs(readme): add security notes by @david-leifker in #11196
• docs: Update README.md by @prashanthic23 in #11144
• feat(ingest/dbt): skip CLL on sources with skip_sources_in_lineage by @hsheth2 in #11195
• fix(graphql): Correct ownership check when removing owners by @pedro93 in #11154
• feat(propagation): UI for rendering propagated column documentation by @jjoyce0510 in #11047
• fix(ui): checks truthy value for last ingested by @pinakipb2 in #10840
• docs(scim): document okta integration with datahub for scim provisioning by @ksrinath in #11120
• fix(ingestion/tableau): Tableau field type parsing by @skrydal in #11202
• feat(analytics): Add page number to SearchResultClickEvent analytics event by @filipe-caetano-ovo in #11151
• fix(graphql) Fix NPE on form actor assignemnt by @chriscollins3456 in #11203
• fix(tests): Bump databricks-sdk dependency to >=0.30.0 by @skrydal in #11209
• chore(vulnerability): Log Injection (High) by @pinakipb2 in #11131
• feat(ingestion/bigquery): Add ability to filter GCP project ingestion based on project labels by @sid-acryl in #11169
• chore(kafka): kafka version bump by @david-leifker in #11211
• fix(forms) Fix small bug in createForm graphql endpoint by @chriscollins3456 in #11216
• fix(ingestion/lookml): drop hive. from CLL by @sid-acryl in #11210
• feat: separate great-expectations action package by @mayurinehate in #11096
• fix(ingest/lookml): support view inheritance for fields by @sid-acryl in #11148
• feat(ingest/mongodb): Ingest databases as containers by @asikowitz in #11178
• fix(ingest/redshift): avoid asserts in redshift schemas by @hsheth2 in #11219
• feat(ingest/snowflake): allow iceberg tables in lineage and access metadata by @alisa-aylward-toast in #10961
• feat(ingestion/looker): filter Looker dashboards by folder by @sid-acryl in #11205
• fix(ingest/sagemaker): ensure consistent STS token usage with refresh mechanism by @sagar-salvi-apptware in #11170
• feat(ingest/s3): Partition support by @treff7es in #11083
• fix: modify the archived version & update code to download only the a… by @yoonhyejin in #11228
• chore(bump): bump hadoop and dnsjava versions by @david-leifker in #11227
• chore(bump): update graphql & spring version by @david-leifker in #11226
• docs(ingest): update config docs on platform instances by @hsheth2 in #11206
• feat(ingest/dbt): add support for urns in add_owner directive by @hsheth2 in #11221
• fix(ingest/snowflake): propagate table list from main to query extractor by @hsheth2 in #11222
• chore(bump): bump kafka base image by @david-leifker in #11236
• fix(datahub-frontend): remove old test creds by @david-leifker in #11237
• docs: Update confluent-cloud.md by @alexandrebunn in #11212
• docs(update): Security stance docs.md by @david-leifker in #11241
• feat(ingest): add bigquery-queries source by @mayurinehate in #10994
• fix(spark-lineage): enable user with editor role to ingest dataProces… by @deepgarg-visa in #11130
• fix(analytics): index description so analytics are correct by @anshbansal in #11224
• chore(bump): bump azure-identity by @david-leifker in #11235
• feat(docs): Update docs on managing user subscriptions by @pedro93 in #11243
• fix(cli/delete): change filter to include env by @anshbansal in #11246
• Rephrase scope of automated scanning by @darnaut in #11248
• docs(urn): Update urn docs with restrictions by @eboneil in #11213
• feat(ingest): add ingestion source for SAP Analytics Cloud by @Masterchen09 in #10958
• feat(ingest/superset): clickhousedb -> clickhouse mapping in superset ingestion by @esselius in #11201
• feat(ingest/bigquery): Add query job retries for transient errors by @feldjay in #11162
• Replacing ant dropdown 'overlay' with 'menu' by @sakethvarma397 in #11229
• fix(spark-lineage): exclude log4j.xml and log4j2.xml from openlineage… by @deepgarg-visa in #11239
• fix(ingest/snowflake): exclude snowflake excluded tags by @alisa-aylward-toast in #11250
• fix(ingest/kafka): update warning reporting for kafka by @hsheth2 in #11171
• chore(vulnerability): Incomplete string escaping or encoding by @pinakipb2 in #11060
• docs: fix great-expectations doc module_name by @mayurinehate in #11253
• feat(ingest/dagster): Add automatic snowflake_pandas_io_manager asset capture by @treff7es in #11189
• chore: update contributor list by @sakethvarma397 in #11257
• fix: Refactoring the antd Modal visible property to open by @sakethvarma397 in #11232
• ci(build): update outdated action & pin deepdiff lib by @anshbansal in #11260
• feat(ingestion-base): convert to ubuntu image by @david-leifker in #11263
• ci: update outdated actions for java and python setup by @anshbansal in #11261
• chore(platform): Adding Dagster and Prefect platforms by @treff7es in #11264
• fix(ingestion/prefect-plugin): fixed the unit tests by @dushayntAW in #10643
• fix(build/spark): Add explicit dependency to openlineage-converter by @treff7es in #11268
• ci(flavor): reintroduce flavor suffix by @david-leifker in #11265
• feat(ingest/snowflake): Add cluster formula to dataset properties by @alisa-aylward-toast in #11254
• fix(ingestion-base): add missing util by @david-leifker in #11269
• feat(build): remove base-requirements.txt by @hsheth2 in #11238
• build(deps): bump webpack from 5.91.0 to 5.94.0 in /docs-website by @dependabot in #11258
• build(deps): bump micromatch from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8 in /docs-website by @dependabot in #11242
• feat(ingest/s3): Support reading S3 file type by @asikowitz in #11177
• fix(openlineage): fix jar conflict by @david-leifker in #11278
• fix(ingest): limit number of upstreams generated by sql parsing aggre… by @mayurinehate in #11267
• feat(ingest/fivetran): support filtering on destination ids by @matthew-coudert-cko in #11277
• feat(ingest/bq): integrate bigquery-queries into main source by @mayurinehate in #11247
• doc(acryl cloud): release notes for 0.3.5.x by @anshbansal in #11259
• feat(ingest/databricks): include metadata for browse only tables by @mayurinehate in #10766
• fix(docs): fix logout url by @david-leifker in #11294
• feat(ingest): add python deps for apk by @hsheth2 in #11188
• fix(ingest/mssql): remove lower() method from sql_common get_db_name by @sleeperdeep in #10773
• feat(graphql): Lazy dataLoaders by @david-leifker in #11293
• fix(bigquery): followups on bigquery queries v2 integration by @mayurinehate in #11291
• fix(ingest): add custom StrEnum type by @hsheth2 in #11270
• feat(schemaField): populate schemaFields with side effects by @david-leifker in #10928
• fix(ingest/prefect): Temporary pinning Prefect 2.x until we can upgrade to 3.x by @treff7es in #11302
• feat(ingest/athena): Add option to disable partition extraction by @treff7es in #11286
• docs(adoption): Add Inter&Co by @ignitz in #11299
• fix(api/timeline): fix corner cases missed, add tests by @anshbansal in #11288
• config(kafka): clean-up kafka serializer config by @david-leifker in #11303
• fix(ingest/protobuf): Improve String Handling for Multilingual Support in Descriptions by @eunseokyang in #10975
• feat(ingest): Support protobuf description for enum field by @eunseokyang in #11027
• fix(search): Search not returning result if query text contains forward slash by @siladitya2 in #10932
• feat(ingest/salesforce): helpful error messages on failure by @mayurinehate in #11266
• fix(search): fix regression from #10932 by @david-leifker in #11309
• chore(vulnerability): Insecure randomness by @pinakipb2 in #11058
• feat(ingest/sql): add default dialect support to SqlQueriesSource by @rohansun in #11285
• fix : added support for multiple values for CONTAIN, START_WITH and END_WITH operators by @Nbagga14 in #11068
• feat(ingest): enable query usage stats by default by @hsheth2 in #11281
• build(deps): bump micromatch from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8 in /datahub-web-react by @dependabot in #11296
• fix(docs): Add correct link for automations by @jjoyce0510 in #11323
• feat(cli): reject missing urns in datahub get by @hsheth2 in #11313
• fix(smoke): fix timeseries delete test's usage of datahub get by @hsheth2 in #11330
• feat(ingest): make rest emitter version error messages more clear by @hsheth2 in #11295
• docs(ingest/dbt): clarify dbt ingestion docs by @hsheth2 in #11312
• fix(py): fix issues with AvroException by @hsheth2 in #11311
• fix(ingestion/tableau): restructure the tableau graphql datasource query by @sid-acryl in #11230
• fix(ingest): disable reporting for dry-run pipelines by @hsheth2 in #11306
• feat(ingest): support full urns without owner_type in meta mapping by @hsheth2 in #11298
• feat(ingest/sql): auto extract and use mode query user metadata by @mayurinehate in #11307
• fix(version): forUpdate needed for versioning by @david-leifker in #11328
• fix(ingest): avoid sqlite "too many SQL variables" error by @hsheth2 in #11332
• chore(ingest): bump acryl-sqlglot by @hsheth2 in #11331
• docs(oidc): document azure logout uri by @david-leifker in #11344
• feat(logging): add option to log slow GraphQL queries by @nmbryant in #11308
• docs(ingest/dbt): add docs on hiding sources by @hsheth2 in #11334
• feat(mode/ingest): Add support for missing Mode datasets in lineage by @sagar-salvi-apptware in #11290
• feat(entity-service): fallback logic for aspect version by @david-leifker in #11304
• fix(ingest/bq): fix ordering of queries for use_queries_v2 by @mayurinehate in #11333
• docs(updating-datahub) Bump minor version on v0.14.0 notes by @maggiehays in #11255
• docs(data product): Update example and docs by @eboneil in #11032
• feat(ingest): maintain ordering in file-backed dict by @hsheth2 in #11346
• docs: add signup form in cloud by @yoonhyejin in #11129
• config(retention): update dataHubExecutionRequestResult by @david-leifker in #11348
• feat(grafana): Using v2 metrics update datahub dashboard by @AaronYang0628 in #11208
• chore(links): add attribution by @shirshanka in #11352
• fix(timeline api): adding modification category by @sakethvarma397 in #11345
• Feature/custom highlight on search by @arpanchakra29 in #11339
• fix(gms): filter out runs of a dataJob without any run-events by @ksrinath in #11223
• fix(ingest): followup on bigquery queries v2 ordering by @mayurinehate in #11353
• fix(ingest/databricks): use latest report message format for warning messages by @sid-acryl in #11319
• chore(ingest): improve code formatting by @hsheth2 in #11326
• chore(py): cleanup python CI by @hsheth2 in #11324
• feat(auth): implement session authorization cache by @david-leifker in #11327
• feat(search): search query rewriter by @david-leifker in #11279
• feat(openapi-v3): add additional delete options by @david-leifker in #11347
• perf(search): reduce highlight fragments by @david-leifker in #11349
• feat(throttle): extend throttling to API requests by @david-leifker in #11325
• fix(browse): adjust browse to use full text in line with search by @RyanHolstien in #11367
• Fix: bug fix for empty key values pair in elastic search mapping by @milindgupta9 in #11004
• feat(ingest): make default rest sink mode env-configurable by @hsheth2 in #11335
• feat: add acryl stories by @yoonhyejin in #11351
• fix: add cloud form & fix css by @yoonhyejin in #11362
• fix(NPE): fix NPE in EntityService by @david-leifker in #11373
• feat(ingest/dbt): add only_include_if_in_catalog flag for dbt core by @hsheth2 in #11314
• chore(actions): bump actions version in docker profiles by @david-leifker in #11377
• fix(ingest/nifi): add error handling for version by @anshbansal in #11385
• fix(XServiceProvider): fix ebean framework race condition by @david-leifker in #11378
• fix(docs): clarify clean-up of indices when restoring search and graph indices by @Masterchen09 in #11380
• feat(ingest): report ingest run for sample data by @hsheth2 in #11329
• fix(ebean): upgrade ebean library by @david-leifker in #11379
• fix(ingest/snowflake): Update snowflake_utils.py to account for iceberg tables by @alisa-aylward-toast in #11384
• feat(ingest): default to ASYNC_BATCH mode in datahub-rest sink by @hsheth2 in #11369
• feat(graphql): Support START_WITH and END_WITH operator in GraphQL API by @milindgupta in #11026
• fix: support for non-string types in object fields by @vignesh-hbk in #11066
• refactor(search): refactor field type detection by @david-leifker in #11395

New Contributors

• @prashanthic23 made their first contribution in #11144
• @alisa-aylward-toast made their first contribution in #10961
• @alexandrebunn made their first contribution in #11212
• @esselius made their first contribution in #11201
• @sakethvarma397 made their first contribution in #11229
• @ignitz made their first contribution in #11299
• @eunseokyang made their first contribution in #10975
• @rohansun made their first contribution in #11285
• @Nbagga14 made their first contribution in #11068
• @AaronYang0628 made their first contribution in #11208
• @arpanchakra29 made their first contribution in #11339
• @milindgupta9 made their first contribution in #11004
• @milindgupta made their first contribution in #11026
• @vignesh-hbk made their first contribution in #11066

Full Changelog: v0.14.0.2...v0.14.1