ERwin conversion is now available on demand in early beta. Column selection gets a huge improvement with select all (Ctrl+A) and select range (Shift+Click) shortcuts!

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Support on-demand ERwin conversion (contact us)
• Case standards delimiters options enhancement
• Add FILE data type to Snowflake
• Add Column Below Existing Column
• Shift + click to select column range in tables
• Allow Ctrl+A shortcut to select all columns in a table
• Snowflake Key pair auth, make passphrase optional for non-encrypted keys
• Properties panel same for logical view mode as physical to avoid confusion
• Change text on Unlock tooltip

Support

• Tool. Fixed Object Height warning is displayed on the diagram when the option isn’t selected
• Tool. Column column name is reset if the user moves the column position while editing the name inside the diagram 
• Logical Project. Error message is prompted when user saves an entity if name contains asterisks
• Snowflake. Wrong datatype is not correctly spotted for the user
• OpenAPI
• Tool. Database Documentation. CMD+S shortcut is not correctly implemented in this page
• Tool. Comment cannot be copied the first time
• Global standards. Object reference not set to an instance of an object
• Postgres. Wrong alter script generated for unique index
• Issue with Recursive Relationship Behavior in Recent Update
• Email Notifications. Updates made to Global Objects email contain this hardcoded date Dec 12, 2022 12
• Global Object notification and email issues
• iFrame. Diagrams do not remember “Hide schema” settings
• View logic changes unexpectedly after running “Analyze all views”
• Forward Engineering. Escaped double quotes in DDL comment field don’t reflect the correct syntax

The exclude from standards flag now lets users exempt (legacy) objects from project standards like case, naming, and glossary translations. New dashboard notifications will let us inform users of product enhancements when they log in to the tool.

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Flag to exclude objects from standards (naming, case, glossary)
• Snowflake. Dynamic, Hybrid and Iceberg tables added to DB Documentation
• Snowflake. Dynamic, Hybrid and Iceberg tables - Menu distribution in Compare and merge screens
• Snowflake. Dynamic, Hybrid and Iceberg tables - Menu distribution in Forward Engineering
• Notification System for product updates
• Logic Script - general warning for Views, Materialized views and Dynamic tables
• Add tooltip text to Snowflake Additional properties panel
• Snowflake. Reverse Engineer. Support “CREATE OR ALTER” as a Regular Create Statement

Support:

• User Export. Last Login is empty if it’s older than 1 year
• Admin Console: Cannot revoke user who owns projects or branches - TransferAllProjects fails
• Project ownership not reassigned to Account Admin when owner is revoked, leaving project without an owner
• Can’t revoke modeler license for user who owns projects
• Accept generic struct definitions on Databricks RE
• File Explorer does not open when uploading DDL script
• Global standards. Description from Column template not transferred to project
• Issue with Recursive Relationship Not Updating PK Type Change
• Databricks Identity not being applied correctly
• Upload from excel returns 504
• View Lineage. Failed to execute ‘atob’ on ‘Window’: The string to be decoded is not correctly encoded
• Google BigQuery array string default value is not parsed
• The user is prompted with an error message but no detailed information to take actions

Standalone feature release that moves Model Governance Fields and Pages to Concurrent Working branches. Going forward, Model Governance fields will no longer be editable in the main branch and will undergo the merge process like all other changes. Fields and Pages will no longer save asynchronously; instead, they will use the "Save" button, like all other project changes.

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Concurrent Working. Include Governance Fields and Pages in branches

This release introduces Snowflake Iceberg and Hybrid tables and key pair authentication for the Snowflake DB Schema Monitoring service.

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Snowflake. Iceberg tables
• Snowflake. Hybrid tables
• AI Model Copilot
• Key pair authentication for DB Schema Monitoring
• Drag unselected objects to the diagram
• Update shortcuts screen

Fixes and user issues

• Admin console. Main admin can’t enable the governance role
• CW. Cannot merge to main - Runtime Error
• iFrame. User cannot see the full name of the revision
• Tool. Tour modals are off-screen

📣This release contains minor changes to the ordering of views generated through Forward Engineering in Snowflake projects

Impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Snowflake. Forward Engineering. New Converter and faster DDL generation
  • Behavior change: views are now generated in alphabetical and dependency order in DDL and ALTER scripts
    • As is: views are generated in a complex (but deterministic) order
    • To be: views to be generated in alphabetical order, except where dependencies exist
  • Areas affected:
    • Forward engineering: Generate DDL
    • Forward engineering: Alter Script
    • API: all endpoints that use GET DDL or GET Alterscript
      

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Snowflake. Support policy assignments on objects and columns
• Snowflake. Dynamic tables
• Global reference. Selective sharing

Fixes and Updates

• Add schema for no schema objects in DB Documentation
• Admin Console. Attempt to Revoke user is failing
• Subscription Invite. Unable to add a user
• Admin Console. Admins cannot resend invite emails
• User Groups. Admin cannot add user to the group
• Decreased openAPI performance
• Admin console. Can’t re-invite user

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Snowflake. Remove copy options from objects (no longer supported)
• Model Governance. Fields editable for column templates
• Drag&Drop object to diagram
• On data type input, ‘tab’ autocompletes like ‘enter’
• Global Standards. Improve labels and small UX/UI improvements

Fixes

• Performance: Documentation page. Reduce the amount of data shown (filter by schema)
• Performance: Cancel revision compare (interrupt by selecting different revisions)
• Performance: Documentation. Improve input blur speed
• Performance: Documentation. Improve non-Model Governance field input change speed
• Performance: Documentation. Improve XLSX import speed
• Performance: Improve speed of table updates on UI
• Performance: Reverse Engineering. Improve checkbox selection speed
• Performance: Save revision freezes before showing preloader
• Performance: Tool. Performance and Lag when clicking and working with objects

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Global Modeling. Global Standards beta release
• Model Governance. Manage fields from diagram
• Model Governance. New field URLs in DG
• Logical project. Show properties compare format enhancements
• Global Modeling. Physical relationships between global objects visible in local projects
• Postgres. Show properties compare format and performance improvement
• Performance: improve merge performance using GZIP compression
• Context menu grouping "create new" objects

Fixes

• Settings and conventions. Add full names at ‘Validate on project save’ dialog window
• Global Objects Sort by Name in explorers
• Reverse engineering. create-revision-from-xlsx returns 504
• Email. Email body is not correctly encoding ' or ´ characters
• User Groups. The user cannot delete a group that contains a branch added to it’s project list
• Tool. Naming convention rule is not applied to Virtual References
• Tool. Performance and Lag when clicking and working with objects
• Sort objects in explorers by schema.object
• Big Query. Upload xlsx with view is not working
• Tool. Revisions replacing the most recent updates
• Confluence. Iframe is not loading Logical projects
• Compare Revision - Schema changes are not displayed

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Fixes

• Snowflake. Views in db documentation Excel
• Forward engineering performance improvements
• Confluence Data Center. Can’t navigate with multiple diagrams
• PostgreSQL. Timeout in user project
• Digital signature doesn’t match file’s content error
• Project load. Optimize Model Governance fields loading
• Model Governance. Batch Model Governance fields updates
• Model Governance. Improve Model Governance fields errors
• Model Governance. Refactoring to enhance performance on fields
• Documentation. Import XLSX. Delete bindings with default value

This release brings physical relationship support for global references. We are also adding Snowflake views and materialized views to database documentation for enhanced governance and metadata management all in one place—Excel import is similarly supported. Also, we are adding new rules for glossary term translation so users can apply them selectively to logical, physical, both, or not used (for documenting legacy conventions and disabling existing rules).

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• Global references support for physical relationships
• Snowflake: compare revisions and merge using properties format instead of scripts
• Case standards: separate settings for physical and logical names
• Glossary terms new rules: apply to Logical, Physical, Both, Unused
• Snowflake: views and mat. views on database documentation
• Snowflake: views and mat. views in excel import
• Bulk select for explorers (add multiple objects to diagram)
• Change default file name for pushing YAML files to git
• Export to git DDL, add multi-file option
• Detailed error messages for git integration and repository responses
• Fix. Snowflake. Procedure skipped because of Syntax error
• Fix. Unicode Character <0x2002> fails during RE
• Fix. Direct Connect. List Objects in Snowflake uses inconsistent column ordering

Logical Modeling

• Logical projects naming conventions and case standards
• Logical projects improved import rules for subtypes and supertypes
• Logical project. Change terminology to Entities and Attributes in Governance Fields

Highlights for this release include iFrame embedding and a revamped and smoother FK linking experience between tables, which addresses the shortcomings present in the tool. Snowflake Views have also been enhanced to offer the same column editing features as tables (e.g., drag-and-drop, assign Tags, rename).

We are sunsetting the "Convert project to" feature in favor of the more inclusive and versatile Logical conversion method. Please read more about converting between project and database types using the Logical conversion methodhere ).

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

Relational Modeling

• iFrame: embedding projects in third-party systems through iFrame

• FK assignment experience and UI enhancement

• Snowflake: views on the diagram with editable columns and parameters

• Excel export users from the admin console

• Tool. Update Icons. Settings and Conventions

• Main Menu. Disable Convert in favor of the Logical conversion method

• Main Menu. Update

• Settings and conventions menu and save behavior improvements

• Add "last login" column to Admin Console excel export

• Do not generate FE comment in column templates

• Web. Update logo for Report page

• Logical project. Change terminology to Entities and Attributes in DG Fields

• Change wording on Audit Logs

• Change label on diagram kebab menu item “Add existing object”

• Remove User connections from Logical Projects

• Enhanced version compare by property for improved accuracy and performance

• Fix: Comment input field is not cleared after sending comments by typing CTRL+Enter

• Fix: The naming convention rule is not applied to Virtual References

• Fix: Database documentation. Very low performance at database documentation tab