07.19.2023 Release Notes

These are the release notes for July 19, 2023.

🚀 FEATURES 🚀

• All environments (Gen1/Gen2)
  • SSH Gateway Management in the Admin User Interface (for Customer Hosted environments)
    • Site Admins can now create and manage SSH Gateways via the Admin UI:
      • Customers previously would need to contact Ascend Support to have SSH Gateways configured. That is no longer required - self-service for the win! 😃
      • Existing SSH gateways that were previously configured by Ascend Support are still enabled, but are not displayed in the UI.
      • Customers are encouraged to migrate to the UI-based functionality when possible.
  • Support for the Change Tracking replication strategy for Microsoft SQL Server Read Connector.

✨ ENHANCEMENTS ✨

• All environments (Gen1/Gen2)
  • Add keyboard/mouse support for the Control key + left-mouse-button click combination on the Dataflow component graph.
    • This is for users who have disabled right mouse button clicking (common on MacOS).
  • Write Connector schema customization for BigQuery
    • This allows you to customize and override the column data types that Ascend uses for the destination table, using BigQuery's native data types.

🔧 BUGFIXES 🔧

• All environments (Gen1/Gen2)
  • Resolve an issue preventing the running of Ascend Clusters configured with only 1 vCPU.
  • Add missing Python dependencies for the Python SKLearn library: joblib and threadpoolctl.
• Gen2 environments
  • BigQuery Data Plane
    • Fix a schema comparison issue with nested datatypes that was causing components to loop continuously through parsing/sweeping states.
  • Spark with Iceberg Data Plane
    • Resolve the error of missing metadata file thrown during concurrent partition write.
    • Handle an error that occurred when a table already existed during a concurrent partition write.