We are happy to announce that Fabric 8.3.0 has just been released and it includes the following:

• Fabric's Discovery & Catalog solution has been enhanced with several powerful features, such as:
  • Ability to create a Catalog based on filesystem data source, for JSON, XML, CSV or Avro files.
  • Ability to create a bulk of Catalog’s nodes and edit all entities of this bulk. For example, adding a sequence property to all bulk entities at once.
  • Several new plugins have been introduced, such creation of logical relations between datasets, calculation of various statistical metrics and identification of distinct values in a field.
• Native Support for NoSQL Document Storage (such as MongoDB or CouchBase), including:
  • Discovery of MongoDB or CouchBase instance.
  • Presentation of the Document’s complex structures and arrays of primitives in Interface Explorer.
  • Creation of LU schema, including the nested hierarchy levels with a referential link to their respective parent level.

To get the full list of features and fixes, refer to the Release Notes and Upgrade Procedure to 8.3.

We have released K2cloud January 2025 on 2 February 2025 at 11:00 UTC. This release brings enhancements to improve management and connectivity.

• Cross-Tenant Management: Multi-tenant administration with the Cross-Tenant Admin feature.
• Simplified K2cloud Space URLs: Simplified TLS management and domain setup with the Path-Based Routing feature.
• Suppport for Fabric v8.2.0:
  • Azure Blob Storage authentication methods – Fabric now supports two additional authentication methods - Service Principal and Managed Identity.
  • Azure Postgres - Fabric now offers a managed PostgreSQL storage option on Microsoft Azure.
  • Support for Multiple Secret Manager Instances – Fabric now supports multiple instances of the same secret manager type.
  • Simplifying Interface Certificates settings – Fabric now offers a seamless way to set certificates for interfaces directly within the Interface Editor UI.

View the Release Notes.

We are happy to announce that Fabric 8.2.0 has just been released and it includes the following:

• Pre-integrated GenAI technology, leading to a wider range of product capabilities, such as:
  • LLM-based Catalog profiling as a way to identify classification of data using an LLM model.
  • AI Assistant for SQL statements – a built-in AI Assistant within the Query Builder editors, for an effortless creation of SQL statements by simply describing queries in natural language.
  • Broadway Co-pilot is an AI-based Broadway capability, which searches for required actors using natural language rather than standard key words.
• Fabric's Catalog have been upgraded to perform discovery based on user-defined rules. The new Discovery Pipeline screen facilitates the creation of rules that allow overriding the product baseline.
• Data Masking Consistency Using Seed, which ensures referential integrity without the need to save the mapping between the hashed original value and the masked value in the caching table.
• A centralized Catalog can now be used across multiple Fabric instances (clusters).

To get the full list of features and fixes, refer to the Release Notes and Upgrade Procedure to 8.2.