Final UAT Update

The final deployment to UAT is now complete. The release is currently scheduled for deployment to production on November 10, 2018 at 9:00 PM PT / November 11 at 5:00 AM GMT.

New! SnapLogic Data Science

• ML Data Preparation Snap Pack: Perform preparatory operations on datasets such as data type transformation, data cleanup, sampling, shuffling and scaling
• ML Core Snap Pack: Perform data modeling operations such as model training, cross-validation and model-based predictions
• ML Analytics Snap Pack: Perform analytics operations such as data profiling

SnapLogic eXtreme Enhancements

• Copy an eXtremeplex: Ability to reuse existing configuration while creating a new eXtremeplex
• Schema Source Options: Ability to ingest schema via an inferred schema, a Hive Metastore or a manual entry
• Spark SQL 2.x Snap Pack
  • Avro Formatter and Parser
  • JSON Formatter and Parser

Platform Enhancements

SnapLogic is introducing the following platform enhancements in the November 2018 release:

• New! Visibility into SnapLogic API usage
• New! High Availability option for Triggered Tasks
• New! Metadata Catalog: To interact with the SnapLogic Metadata Catalog
  • Catalog Insert/Writer Snap: To write metadata about data sources
  • Catalog Query/Reader Snap: To read metadata from the Catalog
• Enhancement! Open API generation in YAML or JSON formats

Snap Enhancements

Expand your cloud migration and cloud-first initiatives with these new and enhanced Snaps:

• New Snaps

  • EDI Snap Pack: Support for B2B (EDI based) integrations

    • Get EDI Transaction Snap
    • Create EDI Transaction Snap

  • Workday Prism Snap Pack: Ability to ingest data into Workday Prism Analytics and create analytical reports

    • Workday Prism Bulk Load Snap

  • Snowflake Snap Pack: Support for additional operations

    • Snowflake - Multi Execute Snap
    • Snowflake - SCD2 Snap

  • Hadoop Snap Pack: Support for the zip file format in Kerberos enabled Hadoop environments

    • HDFS ZipFile Reader Snap
    • HDFS ZipFile Writer Snap

• Enhanced Snaps

  • Anaplan Snap Pack: Upgraded to support Anaplan v2.0 APIs with Basic authentication and Certificate Authority (external certificate) authentication. Also, added a retry capability to handle connection timeouts
  • Snowflake Snap Pack: Enhanced to include performance optimizations to the Snowflake Bulk Upsert Snap
  • JMS Snap Pack: Certified and tested with HornetQ (JBoss version 6.4.19)
  • Hive Snap Pack: Certified and tested for Zookeeper support
  • REST Snap Pack: Enhanced to support multiple file uploads

Note:

The upgraded Anaplan Snap Pack will only support v2.0 APIs with basic and certificate authority (external certificate) authentication and will not support the Anaplan-generated certificate option as this is only supported in v1.3 API that expires soon. We are proactively reaching out to SnapLogic customers so you can plan ahead and either switch to basic authentication or have the external certificate ready to be used when we release the upgraded Anaplan Snap Pack as part of November 2018 (4.15) release.

Release schedule is planned as follows:

Friday, October 19, 11:00 AM PT Release to UAT

Thursday, October 25, 9:00 AM PT 4.15 Webinar on UAT - Recording
Friday, October 26, 11:00 AM PT UAT Update #1
Friday, November 2, 11:00 AM PT UAT Update #2
Saturday, November 10, 9:00 PM PT 4.15 Release to Production

(Up to 2-hr Planned Downtime)
Thursday, November 15, 9:00 AM PT 4.15 Release Webinar - Registration
Thursday, November 15, 5:00 PM PT 4.15 Release Webinar - Registration
Saturday, December 8, 2018 Update of remaining Snaplexes to 4.15

How do I learn more?

Register for the webinar scheduled on: November 15th. Documentation is now available.

Be sure to join in the conversation in the SnapLogic Community.

Lastly, contact us directly if you have questions about the release at support@snaplogic.com.

Thank you!

SnapLogic Product Team