SnapLogic August 2018, UAT Notification

[Karen]

We are pleased to announce the August 2018 release (4.14) of the SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud. The first deployment to UAT will take place on July 20, 2018 at 11:00 AM PT / 6:00 PM GMT. The release is currently scheduled for deployment to production on August 11, 2018 at 9:00 PM PT / August 12 at 4:00 AM GMT.

Join our live webinar on July 26 at 9:00 AM PT / 4:00 PM GMT where the product team will walk through this release’s new features and enhancements. 

New! SnapLogic eXtreme

SnapLogic eXtreme takes on big data integrations, letting enterprise business and IT professionals easily process large amounts of data and perform complex transformations –without requiring the specialized skills typically necessary for data integration and management. You can now reduce the time and effort it takes to support business goals and use data as a strategic asset.

Iris enhancements

New! The Integration Assistant now supports previous Snap recommendations and bi-directional Snap recommendations. SnapLogic users can build a pipeline starting with the last Snap and can select recommended Snaps once the first and the last Snaps of a pipeline have been placed on the canvas.

Platform enhancements

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

• New! GitHub Cloud Integration

• New! Support for Groundplex nodes deployed in Mesosphere environments

• Enhanced the Activity API to support pagination

• Enhanced SnapLogic Dashboard search to support pipeline parameters

Snap enhancements

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

New Snaps

• Reltio Execute Snap

• Hadoop Directory Browser Snap

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Snap Pack (not included in UAT 1)

Enhanced Snaps

• ORC Reader and Writer Snaps now support files hosted in Amazon S3

• Hive Snap now supports definition of an explicit JDBC Url string

• Binary Snap Pack now supports expression enabled fields for username and password in the Basic Auth account

• Binary Snap Pack now supports an expression enabled field for secret key in the Symmetric crypto account

• Parquet Reader and Writer Snaps now support nested parquet schemas

New! Pipeline Pattern Catalog

Users get access to pipeline patterns through the SnapLogic Community. Dozens of widely used patterns are made available for users to complete their integration projects without having to build new integration workflows. Users can also submit and contribute to pipeline patterns to share within the Community. 

The August 2018 (4.14) release schedule is planned as follows:

Friday, July 20 11 AM PT - Release to UAT

Thursday, July 26 9 AM PT - Register for 4.14 Webinar on UAT 

Friday, July 27 11 AM PT - UAT Update #1

Thursday, August 2 10 AM PT - Register for eXtreme Webinar

Friday, August 3 11 AM PT - UAT Update #2

Saturday, August 11 9 PM PT- 4.14 Release to Production (2-hr Planned Downtime)

Wednesday, August 15 5 PM PT - Register for 4.14 Release Webinar 

Thursday, August 16 9 AM PT - Register for 4.14 Release Webinar 

Saturday, September 8, 2018 - Update of remaining Snaplexes to 4.14

How do I learn more?

• Register to learn more from our webinars scheduled on July 26th, August 15th or August 16th.
• Documentation will be available with the release to UAT.
• 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.

[dmiller]

Just a reminder, all Snaplexes in your org must be updated to the latest version in order to see the new Snaps.

[dmiller]

The first update of the 4.14 Release to UAT was pushed.

See the Release Notes for the UAT delta information.

[dmiller]

Just a reminder, when a Quarterly release goes out, each SnapLogic customer can decide to keep their existing version of Snaplex (Cloudplex or Groundplex) and Snap Packs for up to 28 days before upgrading. This gives you the opportunity to make sure the new Snaplex and Snap Packs are stable and working as expected before rolling them out to your entire corporation. Until you upgrade your Snaplexes, you will see a message in Dashboard like “The current Snaplex version (master-3239) is deprecated” and you will not see all new Snaps.

See https://docs-snaplogic.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SD/pages/336626088/SnapLogic+Release+Process for more information.