06.08.2023 Release Notes
over 1 year ago
These are the release notes for June 8, 2023
🎁 PREVIEWS 🎁
- Data Shares - still available in Private Preview (Gen2 environments only)
- Contact your Ascend representative to request early access!
🚀 FEATURES 🚀
- Write Connector schema customization
- You can now customize (and override) the column data types Ascend uses for the destination table managed by Ascend, using your destination platform's native data type definitions.
- This is currently supported for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake Write Connectors, with BigQuery coming soon!
- You can now customize (and override) the column data types Ascend uses for the destination table managed by Ascend, using your destination platform's native data type definitions.
- User-configurable SSH Gateways are now available in the Site Admin section on Ascend Cloud for Enterprise Tier customers.
- Customers on Ascend Cloud Team and Enterprise tiers now have access to our awesome billing usage observability features!
✨ ENHANCEMENTS ✨
- Docker container image caching for Ascend Clusters - internal platform optimization that reduces infrastructure costs for customer-hosted environments.
- Up to 50% reduction in ingress network traffic related to container image pulls.
- Cluster pods spin up faster when pulling container images from cache.
- Gen2 environments
- All Data Planes
- Enhance Ascend Cluster management by introducing usage-specific cluster pools for each Data Service, enabling separate clusters for Read Connector and/or Interactive workloads. This addresses a request from customers to be able to distribute work within a data service on different Ascend Clusters, particularly for performance sensitive cases.
- Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery Data Planes
- Improve the component card in the UI to differentiate between non-materialized Read Connectors (a.k.a. "My Tables") and materialized Read Connectors.
- You might notice this as "Source -> Dataplane" on Read Connectors, and it should help clarify the ingestion path!
- Improve the component card in the UI to differentiate between non-materialized Read Connectors (a.k.a. "My Tables") and materialized Read Connectors.
- All Data Planes
🔧 BUGFIXES 🔧
- Fix an issue where attempting to create a Data Feed Connector resulted in an "OOPS" error message: 'TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'data_service_type')'.
- Gen2 environments
- All Data Planes
- Fix a bug for another case identified where Ascend Clusters failed to start when a service account was missing.
- Fix a bug in Data Shares that may cause the wrong Data Plane icon to appear on the Connect to Data Share page if the Data service contains old Data Feeds.
- Change the behavior of the "find-as-you-type" feature in the main Ascend Dashboard (which appears when you click a bar in the graph), so that it also filters by Dataflow.
- Fix a problem where weekly refresh schedules on Read Connectors could not be configured when default values were used, which caused the pop-up error message "invalid google.protobuf.Duration value 'NaNs'".
- Increase GRPC keepalive timeout for internal platform GRPC connections that would fail occassionally resulting in the user seeing an InactiveRpcError with error details "keepalive watchdog timeout" in the UI.
- Snowflake Data Plane
- Fix bug where Snowflake roles were not being displayed properly in the onboarding setup wizard.
- BigQuery Data Plane
- Improve tracking of usage metrics that impacted Job Usage observability dashboards.
- All Data Planes