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

[dmiller]

@jaybodra, have you submitted a ticket with Support?

[jaybodra]

Yes I have. Not a good progress on it. So passed it to our TAM

[dmiller]

The SnapLogic August 2019 (4.18) release was deployed and has been GA on production since August 10th, 2019. We provide customers the flexibility to plan and update their Snaplex nodes in a 5 week window, accommodating their organization’s requirements the best. For the 4.18 release, customers have up until Saturday, September 14, 2019 (9:00 PM PT) to update their Snaplexes, after which SnapLogic will execute a forced update of all Snaplexes to the latest recommended version (currently master-5912 4.18 Patch 3).

The steps to apply this patch are available in our documentation:

1. As an Org admin, log in to the SnapLogic Manager.
2. Navigate to the Snaplex list in the Shared Project.
3. Select a Snaplex and open the Update panel.
4. In the Update panel, select the latest recommended patch from the Version drop-down, then click Update.
5. Repeat the above procedure for each Snaplex you want to update.

Please contact us directly if you have questions about this update at support@snaplogic.com.

Thank you!

SnapLogic Product Team

[Ksivagurunathan]

Looks like snaplogic released a patch 3 version a week before the deadline to upgrade the nodes. I would expect snaplogic to send a communication ahead of time(few days) like major release notification. Based on the email from Snaplogic patch3 version upgrade is recommended strongly by snaplogic but we don’t have enough time to check and make changes to regression test plan.

Another request is - UAT release package name is different than elastic.snaplogic.com release package name atleast for few days or a week . eg - snaplogic-sidekick-4.master-5771-x86_64.rpm

the UAT environment is package name is not updated the same day as elastic.snaplogic . as we deploy the packages in automated way, we had pass two different package name and later again update UAT package name in our automated deployment code process.