Release Notes 24.0.560

1. RELEASE INFO

2. CONTENT OF THE RELEASE

2.1 Highlights

• Updated variable support in custom load steps

  • source_entity_attribute_list

  • target_entity_attribute_list_with_transform

  • target_entity_attribute_list_with_transform_cast_and_names

  • target_entity_attribute_list_with_transform_cast_and_positions

  • source_system_name

  • target_entity_attribute_list_with_transform_cast_exttable

  • target_entity_attribute_list_with_transform_cast_parquet

  • target_entity_attribute_list_with_transform_cast_exttable_parquet

• Entity import support for DuckDB

• Google BigQuery to support data load with BQ API

• Materialized view support in Databricks SQL

• Notify API DB connection support in Grafana

• Outgoing load to show the target package name in Designer

• AKS version updated to 1.28 in Private Azure Edition

3. NOTIFICATIONS

3.1 Deprecated features in 24.0

3.1.1 Grafana alerts are deprecated

Grafana alerts will be inactivated from the customers not currently using them in SaaS edition as part of this release. For the current SaaS edition users of Grafana alerts there will be grace period until end of August 2024 for stopping of using them. Replacing feature is Notification Events.

For Private Edition customers willing to keep the Grafana Alerts enabled, use enableGrafanaAlerts feature flag:

company: thecompany
projectName: thedatahub
features:
  enableGrafanaAlerts: true

3.1.2 Git connectivity as part of commit process is deprecated

Replacing functionality is to use External API endpoints and custom git connectivity.

3.1.3 CUSTOM schedule is deprecated.

Replacing functionality is the Config Load Schedules package.

3.2 Other notable changes

• Default bastion host image of Centos Linux (end of life) is changed to AlmaLinux in Private Azure Edition.

• Workflow Orchestration (Apache Airflow) UI has changed a little bit in Grid/Graph views

  

• For triggering a Workflow and passing a parameter to run multiple of loads, the loads are to be listed to the LOADS - section of DAG conf Parameters one per single line.