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Updating DataHub

This file documents any backwards-incompatible changes in DataHub and assists people when migrating to a new version.

Next​

  • #12191 - Configs include_view_lineage and include_view_column_lineage are removed from snowflake ingestion source. View and External Table DDL lineage will always be ingested when definitions are available.

  • #11560 - The PowerBI ingestion source configuration option include_workspace_name_in_dataset_urn determines whether the workspace name is included in the PowerBI dataset's URN.
    PowerBI allows to have identical name of semantic model and their tables across the workspace, It will overwrite the semantic model in-case of multi-workspace ingestion.
    Entity urn with include_workspace_name_in_dataset_urn: false

     urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:powerbi,[<PlatformInstance>.]<SemanticModelName>.<TableName>,<ENV>)

    Entity urn with include_workspace_name_in_dataset_urn: true

     urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:powerbi,[<PlatformInstance>.].<WorkspaceName>.<SemanticModelName>.<TableName>,<ENV>)

    The config include_workspace_name_in_dataset_urn is default to false for backward compatibility, However, we recommend enabling this flag after performing the necessary cleanup. If stateful ingestion is enabled, running ingestion with the latest CLI version will handle the cleanup automatically. Otherwise, we recommend soft deleting all powerbi data via the DataHub CLI: datahub delete --platform powerbi --soft and then re-ingest with the latest CLI version, ensuring the include_workspace_name_in_dataset_urn configuration is set to true.

  • #11701: The Fivetran sources_to_database field is deprecated in favor of setting directly within sources_to_platform_instance.<key>.database.

  • #11742: For PowerBi ingestion, use_powerbi_email is now enabled by default when extracting ownership information.

  • #12056: The DataHub Airflow plugin no longer supports Airflow 2.1 and Airflow 2.2.

  • #12056: The DataHub Airflow plugin now defaults to the v2 plugin implementation.

  • #12077: Kafka source no longer ingests schemas from schema registry as separate entities by default, set ingest_schemas_as_entities to true to ingest them

  • OpenAPI Update: PIT Keep Alive parameter added to scroll. NOTE: This parameter requires the pointInTimeCreationEnabled feature flag to be enabled and the elasticSearch.implementation configuration to be elasticsearch. This feature is not supported for OpenSearch at this time and the parameter will not be respected without both of these set.

  • OpenAPI Update 2: Previously there was an incorrectly marked parameter named sort on the generic list entities endpoint for v3. This parameter is deprecated and only supports a single string value while the documentation indicates it supports a list of strings. This documentation error has been fixed and the correct field, sortCriteria, is now documented which supports a list of strings.

Breaking Changes​

  • #11486 - Criterion's value parameter has been previously deprecated. Use of value instead of values is no longer supported and will be completely removed on the next major version.
  • #11484 - Metadata service authentication enabled by default
  • #11484 - Rest API authorization enabled by default
  • #10472 - SANDBOX added as a FabricType. No rollbacks allowed once metadata with this fabric type is added without manual cleanups in databases.
  • #11619 - schema field/column paths can no longer be empty strings
  • #11619 - schema field/column paths can no longer be duplicated within the schema
  • #11570 - The DatahubClientConfig's server field no longer defaults to http://localhost:8080. Be sure to explicitly set this.
  • #11570 - If a datahub_api is explicitly passed to a stateful ingestion config provider, it will be used. We previously ignored it if the pipeline context also had a graph object.
  • #11518 - DataHub Garbage Collection: Various entities that are soft-deleted (after 10d) or are timeseries entities (dataprocess, execution requests) will be removed automatically using logic in the datahub-gc ingestion source.
  • #12020 - Removed sql_parser configuration from the Redash source, as Redash now exclusively uses the sqlglot-based parser for lineage extraction.
  • #12020 - Removed datahub.utilities.sql_parser, datahub.utilities.sql_parser_base and datahub.utilities.sql_lineage_parser_impl module along with SqlLineageSQLParser and DefaultSQLParser. Use create_lineage_sql_parsed_result from datahub.sql_parsing.sqlglot_lineage module instead.
  • #11518 - DataHub Garbage Collection: Various entities that are soft-deleted (after 10d) or are timeseries entities (dataprocess, execution requests) will be removed automatically using logic in the datahub-gc ingestion source.
  • #12067 - Default behavior of DataJobPatchBuilder in Python sdk has been changed to NOT fill out created and lastModified auditstamps by default for input and output dataset edges. This should not have any user-observable impact (time-based lineage viz will still continue working based on observed time), but could break assumptions previously being made by clients.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other Notable Changes​

  • #11549 - Manage Operations Privilege is extended from throttle control to all system management and operations APIs.

0.14.1​

Breaking Changes​

  • #9857 (#10773) lower method was removed from get_db_name of SQLAlchemySource class. This change will affect the urns of all related to SQLAlchemySource entities.

    Old urn, where data_base_name is Some_Database:

    - urn:li:dataJob:(urn:li:dataFlow:(mssql,demodata.Foo.stored_procedures,PROD),Proc.With.SpecialChar)

    New urn, where data_base_name is Some_Database:

    - urn:li:dataJob:(urn:li:dataFlow:(mssql,DemoData.Foo.stored_procedures,PROD),Proc.With.SpecialChar)

    Re-running with stateful ingestion should automatically clear up the entities with old URNS and add entities with new URNs, therefore not duplicating the containers or jobs.

  • #11313 - datahub get will no longer return a key aspect for entities that don't exist.

  • #11369 - The default datahub-rest sink mode has been changed to ASYNC_BATCH. This requires a server with version 0.14.0+.

  • #11214 Container properties aspect will produce an additional field that will require a corresponding upgrade of server. Otherwise server can reject the aspects.

  • #10190 - extractor_config.set_system_metadata of datahub source has been moved to be a top level config in the recipe under flags.set_system_metadata

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other Notable Changes​

  • Downgrade to previous version is not automatically supported.
  • Data Product Properties Unset side effect introduced
    • Previously, Data Products could be set as linked to multiple Datasets if modified directly via the REST API rather than linked through the UI or GraphQL. This side effect aligns the REST API behavior with the GraphQL behavior by introducting a side effect that enforces the 1-to-1 constraint between Data Products and Datasets
    • NOTE: There is a pathological pattern of writes for Data Products that can introduce issues with write processing that can occur with this side effect. If you are constantly changing all of the Datasets associated with a Data Product back and forth between multiple Data Products it will result in a high volume of writes due to the need to unset previous associations.

0.14.0.2​

Breaking Changes​

  • Protobuf CLI will no longer create binary encoded protoc custom properties. Flag added -protocProp in case this behavior is required.
  • #10814 Data flow info and data job info aspect will produce an additional field that will require a corresponding upgrade of server. Otherwise server can reject the aspects.
  • #10868 - OpenAPI V3 - Creation of aspects will need to be wrapped within a value key and the API is now symmetric with respect to input and outputs.

Example Global Tags Aspect:

Previous:

{
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "string",
      "context": "string"
    }
  ]
}

New (optional fields systemMetadata and headers):

{
  "value": {
    "tags": [
      {
        "tag": "string",
        "context": "string"
      }
    ]
  },
  "systemMetadata": {},
  "headers": {}
}

  • #10858 Profiling configuration for Glue source has been updated.

    Previously, the configuration was:

    profiling: {}

    Now, it needs to be:

    profiling:
      enabled: true

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • OpenAPI v1: OpenAPI v1 is collectively defined as all endpoints which are not prefixed with /v2 or /v3. The v1 endpoints will be deprecated in no less than 6 months. Endpoints will be replaced with equivalents in the /v2 or /v3 APIs. No loss of functionality expected unless explicitly mentioned in Breaking Changes.

Other Notable Changes​

  • #10498 - Tableau ingestion can now be configured to ingest multiple sites at once and add the sites as containers. The feature is currently only available for Tableau Server.
  • #10466 - Extends configuration in ~/.datahubenv to match DatahubClientConfig object definition. See full configuration in https://datahubproject.io/docs/python-sdk/clients/. The CLI should now respect the updated configurations specified in ~/.datahubenv across its functions and utilities. This means that for systems where ssl certification is disabled, setting disable_ssl_verification: true in ~./datahubenv will apply to all CLI calls.
  • #11002 - We will not auto-generate a ~/.datahubenv file. You must either run datahub init to create that file, or set environment variables so that the config is loaded.
  • #11023 - Added a new parameter to datahub's put cli command: --run-id. This parameter is useful to associate a given write to an ingestion process. A use-case can be mimick transformers when a transformer for aspect being written does not exist.
  • #11051 - Ingestion reports will now trim the summary text to a maximum of 800k characters to avoid generating dataHubExecutionRequestResult that are too large for GMS to handle.

0.13.3​

Breaking Changes​

  • #10419 - aws_region is now a required configuration in the DynamoDB connector. The connector will no longer loop through all AWS regions; instead, it will only use the region passed into the recipe configuration.
  • #10389 - Custom validators, mutators, side-effects dropped a previously required constructor
  • #10472 - RVW added as a FabricType. No rollbacks allowed once metadata with this fabric type is added without manual cleanups in databases.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other Notable Change​

0.13.1​

Breaking Changes​

  • #9934 and #10075 - Stateful ingestion is now enabled by default if a pipeline_name is set and either a datahub-rest sink or datahub_api is specified. It will still be disabled by default when any other sink type is used or if there is no pipeline name set.
  • #10002 - The DataHubGraph client no longer makes a request to the backend during initialization. If you want to preserve the old behavior, call graph.test_connection() after constructing the client.
  • #10026 - The dbt use_compiled_code option has been removed, because we now support capturing both source and compiled dbt SQL. This can be configured using include_compiled_code, which will be default enabled in 0.13.1.
  • #10055 - Assertion entities generated by dbt are now associated with the dbt dataset entity, and not the entity in the data warehouse.
  • #10090 - For Redshift ingestion, use_lineage_v2 is now enabled by default.
  • #10147 - For looker ingestion, the browse paths for looker Dashboard, Chart, View, Explore have been updated to align with Looker UI. This does not affect URNs or lineage but primarily affects (improves) browsing experience.
  • #10164 - For dbt ingestion, entities_enabled.model_performance and include_compiled_code are now both enabled by default. Upgrading dbt ingestion will also require upgrading the backend to 0.13.1.
  • #10066 - For view access controls, SEARCH_AUTHORIZATION_ENABLED replaced by VIEW_AUTHORIZATION_ENABLED to more accurately represent the feature.
  • #8231 - Google Analytics 3 has been fully sunsetted by Google as of July 2023, so we now support GA4 thanks to this PR and no longer support GA3 (which would have been broken since last year anyways).
  • #10278 - Renaming Presto-On-Hive Source to Hive Metastore source to reflect better its purpose

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other Notable Changes​

0.13.0​

Breaking Changes​

  • Updating MySQL version for quickstarts to 8.2, may cause quickstart issues for existing instances.

  • Neo4j 5.x, may require migration from 4.x

  • Build requires JDK17 (Runtime Java 11)

  • Build requires Docker Compose > 2.20

  • #9731 - The acryl-datahub CLI now requires Python 3.8+

  • #9601 - The Unity Catalog(UC) ingestion source config include_metastore is now disabled by default. This change will affect the urns of all entities in the workspace.
    Entity Hierarchy with include_metastore: true (Old)

    - UC Metastore
      - Catalog
        - Schema
          - Table

    Entity Hierarchy with include_metastore: false (New)

    - Catalog
      - Schema
        - Table

    We recommend using platform_instance for differentiating across metastores.

    If stateful ingestion is enabled, running ingestion with latest cli version will perform all required cleanup. Otherwise, we recommend soft deleting all databricks data via the DataHub CLI: datahub delete --platform databricks --soft and then reingesting with latest cli version.

  • #9601 - The Unity Catalog(UC) ingestion source config include_hive_metastore is now enabled by default. This requires config warehouse_id to be set. You can disable include_hive_metastore by setting it to False to avoid ingesting legacy hive metastore catalog in Databricks.

  • #9904 - The default Redshift table_lineage_mode is now MIXED, instead of STL_SCAN_BASED. Improved lineage generation is also available by enabling use_lineaege_v2. This v2 implementation will become the default in a future release.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • Spark 2.x (including previous JDK8 build requirements)

Other Notable Changes​

0.12.1​

Breaking Changes​

  • #9244: The redshift-legacy and redshift-legacy-usage sources, which have been deprecated for >6 months, have been removed. The new redshift source is a superset of the functionality provided by those legacy sources.
  • database_alias config is no longer supported in SQL sources namely - Redshift, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Trino, Presto-on-hive. The config will automatically be ignored if it's present in your recipe. It has been deprecated since v0.9.6.
  • #9257: The Python SDK urn types are now autogenerated. The new classes are largely backwards compatible with the previous, manually written classes, but many older methods are now deprecated in favor of a more uniform interface. The only breaking change is that the signature for the director constructor e.g. TagUrn("tag", ["tag_name"]) is no longer supported, and the simpler TagUrn("tag_name") should be used instead. The canonical place to import the urn classes from is datahub.metadata.urns.*. Other import paths, like datahub.utilities.urns.corpuser_urn.CorpuserUrn are retained for backwards compatibility, but are considered deprecated.
  • #9286: The DataHubRestEmitter.emit method no longer returns anything. It previously returned a tuple of timestamps.
  • #8951: A great expectations based profiler has been added for the Unity Catalog source. To use the old profiler, set method: analyze under the profiling section in your recipe. To use the new profiler, set method: ge. Profiling is disabled by default, so to enable it, one of these methods must be specified.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other Notable Changes​

0.12.0​

Breaking Changes​

  • #8687 (datahub-helm #365 #353) - If Helm is used for installation and Neo4j is enabled, update the prerequisites Helm chart to version >=0.1.2 and adjust your value overrides in the neo4j: section according to the new structure.
  • #9044 - GraphQL APIs for adding ownership now expect either an ownershipTypeUrn referencing a customer ownership type or a (deprecated) type. Where before adding an ownership without a concrete type was allowed, this is no longer the case. For simplicity you can use the type parameter which will get translated to a custom ownership type internally if one exists for the type being added.
  • #9010 - In Redshift source's config incremental_lineage is set default to off.
  • #8810 - Removed support for SQLAlchemy 1.3.x. Only SQLAlchemy 1.4.x is supported now.
  • #8942 - Removed urn:li:corpuser:datahub owner for the Measure, Dimension and Temporal tags emitted by Looker and LookML source connectors.
  • #8853 - The Airflow plugin no longer supports Airflow 2.0.x or Python 3.7. See the docs for more details.
  • #8853 - Introduced the Airflow plugin v2. If you're using Airflow 2.3+, the v2 plugin will be enabled by default, and so you'll need to switch your requirements to include pip install 'acryl-datahub-airflow-plugin[plugin-v2]'. To continue using the v1 plugin, set the DATAHUB_AIRFLOW_PLUGIN_USE_V1_PLUGIN environment variable to true.
  • #8943 - The Unity Catalog ingestion source has a new option include_metastore, which will cause all urns to be changed when disabled. This is currently enabled by default to preserve compatibility, but will be disabled by default and then removed in the future. If stateful ingestion is enabled, simply setting include_metastore: false will perform all required cleanup. Otherwise, we recommend soft deleting all databricks data via the DataHub CLI: datahub delete --platform databricks --soft and then reingesting with include_metastore: false.
  • #8846 - Changed enum values in resource filters used by policies. RESOURCE_TYPE became TYPE and RESOURCE_URN became URN. Any existing policies using these filters (i.e. defined for particular urns or types such as dataset) need to be upgraded manually, for example by retrieving their respective dataHubPolicyInfo aspect and changing part using filter i.e.
   "resources": {
     "filter": {
       "criteria": [
         {
           "field": "RESOURCE_TYPE",
           "condition": "EQUALS",
           "values": [
             "dataset"
           ]
         }
       ]
     }

into

   "resources": {
     "filter": {
       "criteria": [
         {
           "field": "TYPE",
           "condition": "EQUALS",
           "values": [
             "dataset"
           ]
         }
       ]
     }

for example, using datahub put command. Policies can be also removed and re-created via UI.

  • #9077 - The BigQuery ingestion source by default sets match_fully_qualified_names: true. This means that any dataset_pattern or schema_pattern specified will be matched on the fully qualified dataset name, i.e. <project_name>.<dataset_name>. We attempt to support the old pattern format by prepending .*\\. to dataset patterns lacking a period, so in most cases this should not cause any issues. However, if you have a complex dataset pattern, we recommend you manually convert it to the fully qualified format to avoid any potential issues.
  • #9110 - The Unity Catalog source will now generate urns based on env properly. If you have been setting env in your recipe to something besides PROD, we will now generate urns with that new env variable, invalidating your existing urns.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other Notable Changes​

  • Session token configuration has changed, all previously created session tokens will be invalid and users will be prompted to log in. Expiration time has also been shortened which may result in more login prompts with the default settings. There should be no other interruption due to this change.

0.11.0​

Breaking Changes​

Potential Downtime​

  • #8611 Search improvements requires reindexing indices. A system-update job will run which will set indices to read-only and create a backup/clone of each index. During the reindexing new components will be prevented from start-up until the reindex completes. The logs of this job will indicate a % complete per index. Depending on index sizes and infrastructure this process can take 5 minutes to hours however as a rough estimate 1 hour for every 2.3 million entities.

Deprecations​

  • #8525: In LDAP ingestor, the manager_pagination_enabled changed to general pagination_enabled
  • MAE Events are no longer produced. MAE events have been deprecated for over a year.

Other Notable Changes​

  • In this release we now enable you to create and delete pinned announcements on your DataHub homepage! If you have the “Manage Home Page Posts” platform privilege you’ll see a new section in settings called “Home Page Posts” where you can create and delete text posts and link posts that your users see on the home page.
  • The new search and browse experience, which was first made available in the previous release behind a feature flag, is now on by default. Check out our release notes for v0.10.5 to get more information and documentation on this new Browse experience.
  • In addition to the ranking changes mentioned above, this release includes changes to the highlighting of search entities to understand why they match your query. You can also sort your results alphabetically or by last updated times, in addition to relevance. In this release, we suggest a correction if your query has a typo in it.
  • #8300: Clickhouse source now inherited from TwoTierSQLAlchemy. In old way we have platform_instance -> container -> co container db (None) -> container schema and now we have platform_instance -> container database.
  • #8300: Added uri_opts argument; now we can add any options for clickhouse client.
  • #8659: BigQuery ingestion no longer creates DataPlatformInstance aspects by default. This will only affect users that were depending on this aspect for custom functionality, and can be enabled via the include_data_platform_instance config option.
  • OpenAPI entity and aspect endpoints expanded to improve developer experience when using this API with additional aspects to be added in the near future.
  • The CLI now supports recursive deletes.
  • Batching of default aspects on initial ingestion (SQL)
  • Improvements to multi-threading. Ingestion recipes, if previously reduced to 1 thread, can be restored to the 15 thread default.
  • Gradle 7 upgrade moderately improves build speed
  • DataHub Ingestion slim images reduced in size by 2GB+
  • Glue Schema Registry fixed

0.10.5​

Breaking Changes​

  • #8201: Python SDK: In the DataFlow class, the cluster argument is deprecated in favor of env.
  • #8263: Okta source config option okta_profile_to_username_attr default changed from login to email. This determines which Okta profile attribute is used for the corresponding DataHub user and thus may change what DataHub users are generated by the Okta source. And in a follow up okta_profile_to_username_regex has been set to .* which taken together with previous change brings the defaults in line with OIDC.
  • #8331: For all sql-based sources that support profiling, you can no longer specify profile_table_level_only together with include_field_xyz config options to ingest certain column-level metrics. Instead, set profile_table_level_only to false and individually enable / disable desired field metrics.
  • #8451: The bigquery-beta and snowflake-beta source aliases have been dropped. Use bigquery and snowflake as the source type instead.
  • #8472: Ingestion runs created with Pipeline.create will show up in the DataHub ingestion tab as CLI-based runs. To revert to the previous behavior of not showing these runs in DataHub, pass no_default_report=True.
  • #8513: snowflake connector will use user's email attribute as is in urn. To revert to previous behavior disable email_as_user_identifier in recipe.

Potential Downtime​

  • BrowsePathsV2 upgrade will now be handled by the system-update job in non-blocking mode. This process generates data needed for the new search and browse feature. This process must complete before enabling the new search and browse UI and while upgrading entities will be missing from the UI. If not using the new search and browse UI, there will be no impact and the update will complete in the background.

Deprecations​

  • #8198: In the Python SDK, the PlatformKey class has been renamed to ContainerKey.

Other Notable Changes​

0.10.5 introduces the new Unified Search & Browse experience and is disabled by default. You can control whether or not you want to see just the new search filtering experience, the new search and browse experience together, or keep the existing search and browse experiences by toggling the two environment variable feature flags SHOW_SEARCH_FILTERS_V2 and SHOW_BROWSE_V2 in your GMS container.

Upgrade Considerations:

  • With the release of Browse V2, we have created a job to run in GMS that will backfill your existing data with new browsePathsV2 aspects. This job loops over entity types that need a browsePathsV2 aspect (Dataset, Dashboard, Chart, DataJob, DataFlow, MLModel, MLModelGroup, MLFeatureTable, and MLFeature) and generates one for them. For entities that may have Container parents (Datasets and Dashboards) we will try to fetch their parent containers in order to generate this new aspect. For those deployments with large amounts of data, consider whether running this upgrade job makes sense as it may be a heavy operation and take some time to complete. If you wish to skip this job, simply set the BACKFILL_BROWSE_PATHS_V2 environment variable flag to false in your GMS container. Without this backfill job, though, you will need to rely on the newest CLI of ingestion to create these browsePathsV2 aspects when running ingestion otherwise your browse sidebar will be out-of-sync.
  • Since the new browse experience replaces the old, consider whether having the SHOW_BROWSE_V2 environment variable feature flag on is the right decision for your organization. If you’re creating custom browse paths with the browsePaths aspect, you can continue to do the same with the new experience, however you will have to generate browsePathsV2 aspects instead which are documented here.

0.10.4​

Breaking Changes​

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • #8045: With the introduction of custom ownership types, the Owner aspect has been updated where the type field is deprecated in favor of a new field typeUrn. This latter field is an urn reference to the new OwnershipType entity. GraphQL endpoints have been updated to use the new field. For pre-existing ownership aspect records, DataHub now has logic to map the old field to the new field.

Other notable Changes​

  • #8191: Updates GMS's health check endpoint to account for its dependency on external components. Notably, at this time, elasticsearch. This means that DataHub operators can now use GMS health status more reliably.

0.10.3​

Breaking Changes​

  • #7900: The catalog_pattern and schema_pattern options of the Unity Catalog source now match against the fully qualified name of the catalog/schema instead of just the name. Unless you're using regex ^ in your patterns, this should not affect you.
  • #7942: Renaming the containerPath aspect to browsePathsV2. This means any data with the aspect name containerPath will be invalid. We had not exposed this in the UI or used it anywhere, but it was a model we recently merged to open up other work. This should not affect many people if anyone at all unless you were manually creating containerPath data through ingestion on your instance.
  • #8068: In the datahub delete CLI, if an --entity-type filter is not specified, we automatically delete across all entity types. The previous behavior was to use a default entity type of dataset.
  • #8068: In the datahub delete CLI, the --start-time and --end-time parameters are not required for timeseries aspect hard deletes. To recover the previous behavior of deleting all data, use --start-time min --end-time max.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • The signature of Source.get_workunits() is changed from Iterable[WorkUnit] to the more restrictive Iterable[MetadataWorkUnit].
  • Legacy usage creation via the UsageAggregation aspect, /usageStats?action=batchIngest GMS endpoint, and UsageStatsWorkUnit metadata-ingestion class are all deprecated.

Other notable Changes​

0.10.2​

Breaking Changes​

  • #7016 Add add_database_name_to_urn flag to Oracle source which ensure that Dataset urns have the DB name as a prefix to prevent collision (.e.g. {database}.{schema}.{table}). ONLY breaking if you set this flag to true, otherwise behavior remains the same.
  • The Airflow plugin no longer includes the DataHub Kafka emitter by default. Use pip install acryl-datahub-airflow-plugin[datahub-kafka] for Kafka support.
  • The Airflow lineage backend no longer includes the DataHub Kafka emitter by default. Use pip install acryl-datahub[airflow,datahub-kafka] for Kafka support.
  • Java SDK PatchBuilders have been modified in a backwards incompatible way to align more with the Python SDK and support more use cases. Any application utilizing the Java SDK for patch building may be affected on upgrading this dependency.

Deprecations​

  • The docker image and script for updating from Elasticsearch 6 to 7 is no longer being maintained and will be removed from the /contrib section of the repository. Please refer to older releases if needed.

0.10.0​

Breaking Changes​

  • #7103 This should only impact users who have configured explicit non-default names for DataHub's Kafka topics. The environment variables used to configure Kafka topics for DataHub used in the kafka-setup docker image have been updated to be in-line with other DataHub components, for more info see our docs on Configuring Kafka in DataHub . They have been suffixed with _TOPIC where as now the correct suffix is _TOPIC_NAME. This change should not affect any user who is using default Kafka names.
  • #6906 The Redshift source has been reworked and now also includes usage capabilities. The old Redshift source was renamed to redshift-legacy. The redshift-usage source has also been renamed to redshift-usage-legacy will be removed in the future.

Potential Downtime​

  • #6894 Search improvements requires reindexing indices. A system-update job will run which will set indices to read-only and create a backup/clone of each index. During the reindexing new components will be prevented from start-up until the reindex completes. The logs of this job will indicate a % complete per index. Depending on index sizes and infrastructure this process can take 5 minutes to hours however as a rough estimate 1 hour for every 2.3 million entities.

Helm Notes​

Helm without --atomic: The default timeout for an upgrade command is 5 minutes. If the reindex takes longer (depending on data size) it will continue to run in the background even though helm will report a failure. Allow this job to finish and then re-run the helm upgrade command.

Helm with --atomic: In general, it is recommended to not use the --atomic setting for this particular upgrade since the system update job will be terminated before completion. If --atomic is preferred, then increase the timeout using the --timeout flag to account for the reindexing time (see note above for estimating this value).

Deprecations​

0.9.6​

Breaking Changes​

  • #6742 The metadata file sink's output format no longer contains nested JSON strings for MCP aspects, but instead unpacks the stringified JSON into a real JSON object. The previous sink behavior can be recovered using the legacy_nested_json_string option. The file source is backwards compatible and supports both formats.
  • #6901 The env and database_alias fields have been marked deprecated across all sources. We recommend using platform_instance where possible instead.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • #6851 - Sources bigquery-legacy and bigquery-usage-legacy have been removed

Other notable Changes​

  • If anyone faces issues with login please clear your cookies. Some security updates are part of this release. That may cause login issues until cookies are cleared.

0.9.4 / 0.9.5​

Breaking Changes​

  • #6243 apache-ranger authorizer is no longer the core part of DataHub GMS, and it is shifted as plugin. Please refer updated documentation Configuring Authorization with Apache Ranger for configuring apache-ranger-plugin in DataHub GMS.
  • #6243 apache-ranger authorizer as plugin is not supported in DataHub Kubernetes deployment.
  • #6243 Authentication and Authorization plugins configuration are removed from application.yaml. Refer documentation Migration Of Plugins From application.yaml for migrating any existing custom plugins.
  • datahub check graph-consistency command has been removed. It was a beta API that we had considered but decided there are better solutions for this. So removing this.
  • graphql_url option of powerbi-report-server source deprecated as the options is not used.
  • #6789 BigQuery ingestion: If enable_legacy_sharded_table_support is set to False, sharded table names will be suffixed with _yyyymmdd to make sure they don't clash with non-sharded tables. This means if stateful ingestion is enabled then old sharded tables will be recreated with a new id and attached tags/glossary terms/etc will need to be added again. This behavior is not enabled by default yet, but will be enabled by default in a future release.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other notable Changes​

  • #6611 - Snowflake schema_pattern now accepts pattern for fully qualified schema name in format <catalog_name>.<schema_name> by setting config match_fully_qualified_names : True. Current default match_fully_qualified_names: False is only to maintain backward compatibility. The config option match_fully_qualified_names will be deprecated in future and the default behavior will assume match_fully_qualified_names: True."
  • #6636 - Sources snowflake-legacy and snowflake-usage-legacy have been removed.

0.9.3​

Breaking Changes​

  • The beta datahub check graph-consistency command has been removed.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • PowerBI source: workspace_id_pattern is introduced in place of workspace_id. workspace_id is now deprecated and set for removal in a future version.

Other notable Changes​

0.9.2​

  • LookML source will only emit views that are reachable from explores while scanning your git repo. Previous behavior can be achieved by setting emit_reachable_views_only to False.
  • LookML source will always lowercase urns for lineage edges from views to upstream tables. There is no fallback provided to previous behavior because it was inconsistent in application of lower-casing earlier.
  • dbt config node_type_pattern which was previously deprecated has been removed. Use entities_enabled instead to control whether to emit metadata for sources, models, seeds, tests, etc.
  • The dbt source will always lowercase urns for lineage edges to the underlying data platform.
  • The DataHub Airflow lineage backend and plugin no longer support Airflow 1.x. You can still run DataHub ingestion in Airflow 1.x using the PythonVirtualenvOperator.

Breaking Changes​

  • #6570 snowflake connector now populates created and last modified timestamps for snowflake datasets and containers. This version of snowflake connector will not work with datahub-gms version older than v0.9.3

Potential Downtime​

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0.9.1​

Breaking Changes​

  • We have promoted bigquery-beta to bigquery. If you are using bigquery-beta then change your recipes to use the type bigquery.

Potential Downtime​

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0.9.0​

Breaking Changes​

  • Java version 11 or greater is required.
  • For any of the GraphQL search queries, the input no longer supports value but instead now accepts a list of values. These values represent an OR relationship where the field value must match any of the values.

Potential Downtime​

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v0.8.45​

Breaking Changes​

  • The getNativeUserInviteToken and createNativeUserInviteToken GraphQL endpoints have been renamed to getInviteToken and createInviteToken respectively. Additionally, both now accept an optional roleUrn parameter. Both endpoints also now require the MANAGE_POLICIES privilege to execute, rather than MANAGE_USER_CREDENTIALS privilege.
  • One of the default policies shipped with DataHub (urn:li:dataHubPolicy:7, or All Users - All Platform Privileges) has been edited to no longer include MANAGE_POLICIES. Its name has consequently been changed to All Users - All Platform Privileges (EXCEPT MANAGE POLICIES). This change was made to prevent all users from effectively acting as superusers by default.

Potential Downtime​

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Other notable Changes​

v0.8.44​

Breaking Changes​

  • Browse Paths have been upgraded to a new format to align more closely with the intention of the feature. Learn more about the changes, including steps on upgrading, here: https://datahubproject.io/docs/advanced/browse-paths-upgrade
  • The dbt ingestion source's disable_dbt_node_creation and load_schema options have been removed. They were no longer necessary due to the recently added sibling entities functionality.
  • The snowflake source now uses newer faster implementation (earlier snowflake-beta). Config properties provision_role and check_role_grants are not supported. Older snowflake and snowflake-usage are available as snowflake-legacy and snowflake-usage-legacy sources respectively.

Potential Downtime​

  • [Helm] If you're using Helm, please ensure that your version of the datahub-actions container is bumped to v0.0.7 or head. This version contains changes to support running ingestion in debug mode. Previous versions are not compatible with this release. Upgrading to helm chart version 0.2.103 will ensure that you have the compatible versions by default.

Deprecations​

Other notable Changes​

v0.8.42​

Breaking Changes​

  • Python 3.6 is no longer supported for metadata ingestion
  • #5451 GMS_HOST and GMS_PORT environment variables deprecated in v0.8.39 have been removed. Use DATAHUB_GMS_HOST and DATAHUB_GMS_PORT instead.
  • #5478 DataHub CLI delete command when used with --hard option will delete soft-deleted entities which match the other filters given.
  • #5471 Looker now populates userEmail in dashboard user usage stats. This version of looker connnector will not work with older version of datahub-gms if you have extract_usage_history looker config enabled.
  • #5529 - ANALYTICS_ENABLED environment variable in datahub-gms is now deprecated. Use DATAHUB_ANALYTICS_ENABLED instead.
  • #5485 --include-removed option was removed from delete CLI

Potential Downtime​

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Other notable Changes​

v0.8.41​

Breaking Changes​

  • The should_overwrite flag in csv-enricher has been replaced with write_semantics to match the format used for other sources. See the documentation for more details

  • Closing an authorization hole in creating tags adding a Platform Privilege called Create Tags for creating tags. This is assigned to datahub root user, along with default All Users policy. Notice: You may need to add this privilege (or Manage Tags) to existing users that need the ability to create tags on the platform.

  • #5329 Below profiling config parameters are now supported in BigQuery:

    • profiling.profile_if_updated_since_days (default=1)
    • profiling.profile_table_size_limit (default=1GB)
    • profiling.profile_table_row_limit (default=50000)

    Set above parameters to null if you want older behaviour.

Potential Downtime​

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Other notable Changes​

v0.8.40​

Breaking Changes​

  • #5240 lineage_client_project_id in bigquery source is removed. Use storage_project_id instead.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other notable Changes​

v0.8.39​

Breaking Changes​

  • Refactored the health field of the Dataset GraphQL Type to be of type list of HealthStatus (was type HealthStatus). See this PR for more details.

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • #4875 Lookml view file contents will no longer be populated in custom_properties, instead view definitions will be always available in the View Definitions tab.
  • #5208 GMS_HOST and GMS_PORT environment variables being set in various containers are deprecated in favour of DATAHUB_GMS_HOST and DATAHUB_GMS_PORT.
  • KAFKA_TOPIC_NAME environment variable in datahub-mae-consumer and datahub-gms is now deprecated. Use METADATA_AUDIT_EVENT_NAME instead.
  • KAFKA_MCE_TOPIC_NAME environment variable in datahub-mce-consumer and datahub-gms is now deprecated. Use METADATA_CHANGE_EVENT_NAME instead.
  • KAFKA_FMCE_TOPIC_NAME environment variable in datahub-mce-consumer and datahub-gms is now deprecated. Use FAILED_METADATA_CHANGE_EVENT_NAME instead.

Other notable Changes​

  • #5132 Profile tables in snowflake source only if they have been updated since configured (default: 1) number of day(s). Update the config profiling.profile_if_updated_since_days as per your profiling schedule or set it to None if you want older behaviour.

v0.8.38​

Breaking Changes​

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other notable Changes​

  • Create & Revoke Access Tokens via the UI
  • Create and Manage new users via the UI
  • Improvements to Business Glossary UI
  • FIX - Do not require reindexing to migrate to using the UI business glossary

v0.8.36​

Breaking Changes​

  • In this release we introduce a brand new Business Glossary experience. With this new experience comes some new ways of indexing data in order to make viewing and traversing the different levels of your Glossary possible. Therefore, you will have to restore your indices in order for the new Glossary experience to work for users that already have existing Glossaries. If this is your first time using DataHub Glossaries, you're all set!

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

Other notable Changes​

  • #4961 Dropped profiling is not reported by default as that caused a lot of spurious logging in some cases. Set profiling.report_dropped_profiles to True if you want older behaviour.

v0.8.35​

Breaking Changes​

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • #4875 Lookml view file contents will no longer be populated in custom_properties, instead view definitions will be always available in the View Definitions tab.

Other notable Changes​

v0.8.34​

Breaking Changes​

  • #4644 Remove database option from snowflake source which was deprecated since v0.8.5
  • #4595 Rename confusing config report_upstream_lineage to upstream_lineage_in_report in snowflake connector which was added in 0.8.32

Potential Downtime​

Deprecations​

  • #4644 host_port option of snowflake and snowflake-usage sources deprecated as the name was confusing. Use account_id option instead.

Other notable Changes​

  • #4760 check_role_grants option was added in snowflake to disable checking roles in snowflake as some people were reporting long run times when checking roles.