SnapLogic November 2018 (4.15) Release

[dmiller]

We are pleased to announce the November 2018 release (4.15) of the SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud. The first deployment to UAT will take place on October 19, 2018 at 11:00 AM PT / 6:00 PM GMT. 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.

Join our product team for a live webcast on October 25 at 9:00 AM PT / 4:00 PM GMT and walkthrough this release’s new features and enhancements. Please register here.

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

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
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 any of the webcasts scheduled on: October 25th and November 15th.

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

[dmiller]

In a change to the previously notified schedule, all Snaplexes not already updated to the new version (4.15) will now be automatically updated on Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 9:00 PM PT (Sunday, December 16th at 5:00 AM GMT). This update was previously scheduled to happen on Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 9:00 PM PT, so please be aware it’s now happening the following week as part of our new 5-week cycle. We encourage our customers to take the opportunity to test and migrate to the new version before this date. No action will be required by you if you have already applied the update to your Snaplexes. We will remind you again as the update gets closer.

Please contact us directly if you have any questions at support@snaplogic.com.

Thank you!

SnapLogic Product Team

[dmiller]

This is a reminder that all Snaplexes will be automatically updated to the latest version (4.15) on Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 9:00 PM PT (Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 5:00 AM GMT). No action is required if you have already updated your Snaplexes to the latest version.

Please contact us directly if you have any questions at support@snaplogic.com.

Thank you!

SnapLogic Product Team

[dmiller]

Stay up to date with 4.15 patches (dot releases) by reviewing the 4.15 Doc Releases section of the release notes.

[slaytanic70]

Diane,

With regards to OpenAPI, is migrating to 3.0 on the roadmap and if so, can you provide a date? We have already begun to use this feature.

Thank you!
FS

[dmiller]

I’ve forwarded your question to Product Management as they are the keepers of the roadmap.