SnapLogic August 2019 (4.18) Release

[dmiller]

The SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform August (4.18) release to UAT is now planned for Friday, July 26, 2019 at 11:00 AM PT.

The release is currently scheduled for deployment to production on Saturday, August 10th, 2019 at 9:00 PM PT (Sunday, August 11th, 2019 at 4:00 AM UTC).

Join our product team for a live UAT webinar on Tuesday, July 30th at 9:00 AM PT/4:00 PM UTC as we walk through new features and enhancements. Please register here.

August 2019 (4.18) Release Details:

SnapLogic API Management

• API Developer Portal to discover and consume APIs
• API Administration Portal which includes:
  • Advanced ACL based authorization flows to control API access
  • User Management
  • OAuth App Management

SnapLogic Data Lineage

• Provides a graphical representation of sources configured in SnapLogic and pipelines that interact with those sources

Platform Enhancements

• Single Log-out
• Disk Alerts
• Metadata Snap support for Snaplex Asset

Snap Enhancements

• Enhanced Snaps
  • Snowflake Snap Pack
    • Added support for parallelism option to optimize performance
    • Added support for server-side KMS encryption
  • Confluent Kafka Snap Pack
    • Added performance enhancements to improve message consumption and acknowledgement
  • JDBC Snap Pack
    • Added Microsoft AD authentication support for SQL Server
  • SQL Server Snap Pack
    • Added Microsoft AD authentication support
  • Script Snap Pack
    • Added support for Kerberos authentication in the PySpark Script Snap
  • Adobe Cloud Platform Snap Pack
    • Added support for map data type available in the newer version of the API

SnapLogic Iris AI Enhancements

• Enhanced Snap and Pipeline search capability
  • Snap Search: When you search for a keyword that does not match any Snap or Snap Pack name, Iris provides suggestions based on the content on the SnapLogic documentation site.
  • Pipeline Search: When you search for a Pipeline, Iris highlights the project spaces and projects with potential results.
• New Pipeline Recommendations
  • Enhanced suggestion capabilities to include Pipeline recommendations based on:
    • existing pipelines in the same org
    • pipeline patterns from the SnapLogic Cloud Pattern Catalog
    • Pipeline Synthesis: Based on the existing Snaps on the canvas, Iris solves the Pipeline by filling in the gap with relevant Snaps and synthesizes a pipeline dynamically

SnapLogic eXtreme

• Azure Databricks Support
  • Ability to configure an eXtremeplex on Azure Databricks
  • Can now run your Spark jobs in eXtreme on Azure Databricks clusters in addition to AWS EMR clusters
• AWS eXtreme: NEW Redshift Snaps
  • Redshift Select: Extract data from your Redshift Databases
  • Redshift Insert: Insert data into your Redshift Databases
• Parquet Formatter Snap
  • Added partition support

More information can be found in the release notes when the initial release to UAT is complete.

The release schedule is planned as follows:

Friday, July 26, 11:00 AM PT	Release to UAT
Tuesday, July 30, 9:00 AM PT	UAT Webinar
Friday, August 2, 11:00 AM PT	UAT Update
Saturday, August 10, 9:00 PM PT	4.18 release to production (Up to 2-hour planned downtime)
Wednesday, August 14, 5:00 PM PT	Customer Webinar - I
Thursday, August 15, 9:00 AM PT	Customer Webinar - II
Saturday, Sept 10, 9:00 PM PT	Update of remaining Snaplexes to 4.18

How do I learn more?

Register for any of the webcasts scheduled on: July 30th and August 14th / August 15th.

Be sure to join 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

[dbapat]

The SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform - August (4.18) release is now is production. If you want to learn more, please check out the blog post.
Here are a few demo videos for you to get up to speed quickly with the new features.

• Iris AI Updates
• SnapLogic eXtreme Updates
• SnapLogic API Management Updates
• Platform Updates

If you have any questions or concerns about the new release or any of the features, please contact us at support@snaplogic.com.

[skodali]

Hello @dmiller,

After this update, we are unable to see the data preview until the complete pipeline gets validated. Are there any settings to be changed to see the preview when the pipeline is still validating?

Thank you,
Sasank

[dmiller]

A defect has been filed for this issue.

[jaybodra]

hi @dmiller,

after the update pipeline are staying in Prepared or Queued state and not getting executed. Reverted back to 4.17 patch 4 and works fine.