Release Notes 25.1

1. RELEASE INFO

2. CONTENT OF THE RELEASE

2.1 New features

Advanced SQL Templating

• New user interface for Config Load Templates package

• Load SQL templating with Apache FreeMarker Template Language (FTL)

• Enables granular, reusable and shareable macro templates

• See documentation for a reference

Metadata Interface Additions

• Big number of additions to the Metadata Interface endpoint of External API

• See Using Metadata Interface | Metadata-Interface-Data-Model

Database Features

• Snowflake key pair authentication supported in Private Preview (full availability by end of June 2025)

• Support of referencing database names in grantee configuration to achieve e.g. in Snowflake: GRANT SELECT on <otherdb>.schema.table TO ROLE <otherdb>.SELECT_ROLE, which enables also the use of Snowflake DATABASE ROLEs

Workflow Orchestration

• New time zone setting for Load Schedules / Workflows / DAGs based on Airflow feature of time zone aware DAGs

• New priority weight setting for Load Schedules / Workflows DAGs based on Airflow feature of setting priority weights

• New variable entity_lock_timeout_in_secs to support setting entity lock timeout time together with new load option OPT_LOCK_TIMEOUT_IN_SECS on environment, workflow & load levels

2.2 Improvements

• Update of Apache Airflow version

• Add database connection / transaction / query IDs to be shown in Deployments UIs and in Workflow orchestration logs

2.3 Fixes

• Designer’s entity import from a source file hangs when analyzing file and reanalyzing then gz file without closing analyzer in-between

• Current view entities are not updated when technical attribute type is changed in the underlying entity

• Satellites' reference keys are named differently than current satellites' reference keys

• Fixed attribute default value handling in Config Entity Defaults

• Config Datatypes user interface requires uniqueness over physical data type + dbms product

• Fixed internal datatype comparison during deployment when attribute data type length setting was left empty

• Views created in Google BigQuery do not add column comments properly

• NOT NULL column addition fails to an existing Google BigQuery table

• When using variable reference of <target_entity_attribute_list_with_transform> in S_MA (multi-active satellite) it is not resolved