Maintenance Packs for Incorta 4.8

Incorta encourages customers to upgrade to the most recent release. Here are maintenance packs notes for this minor release.

IMPORTANT:

When upgrading, please review and follow the procedures outlined in the Upgrade to Incorta 4.8 documentation.

Maintenance Pack 4.8.5

What’s New?

  • Enhanced incremental loads to sync in-memory data to avoid reading the same data again

Issues fixed

Dashboard

  • Fixed an issue where table rows failed to render on scroll after upgrading to Chrome Version 88.0.4324.96
  • Evaluated session variables in filter pills on HTML reports sent to email
  • Fixed an issue with table settings that caused dropping the conditional formatting configuration

Schema

  • Fixed an issue where schema loads got stuck in some database connection exceptions
  • Relaxed formula validation to allow session-variable-presentation-variable workaround to work in nested formulas

Administration

  • Fixed a permission issue where users with Catalog Manager role could add content under the view-only folder

Maintenance Pack 4.8.4

Issues fixed

  • Resolved an issue with a physical schema table formula column that used the built-in lookup() function
  • Resolved an issue with on-heap memory consumption
  • Resolved an issue with the Analytics Service when loading the direct data map for joins
  • Fixed an issue with child folders that incorrectly appeared in the Content Manager

Maintenance Pack 4.8.3

What’s New?

  • There is an updated Master End User License Agreement (EULA) in the installer. Please read it.
  • Enhanced the performance of formula functions
  • Improved numerous error messages
  • Enhanced the Notebook startup performance
  • Updated the user license agreement in the installer
  • Enhanced performance of several DataLake connectors including HDFS, AWS S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Issues fixed

  • Resolved an issue with the built-in case function failing after 7 conditions
  • Resolved an issue with the Max and Min aggregations for null values
  • Fixed an issue with nested function in a built-in lookup function
  • Fixed an issue with the built-in abs function causing it to return integer instead of a double value
  • Resolved issues with nested business schema view formula columns
  • Resolve issues with a XSLX file download concerning multiple conditions
  • Fixed a case where some materialized SQL queries ending with a single quote would fail
  • Resolved an issue when the SQLi interface fails to initialize
  • Fixed an issue with the incremental load of materialized views created in the Notebook Editor
  • Resolved an issue with the Salesforce connector that caused it to fail intermittently
  • Fixed an issue that cause the Incorta metadata database not to update when there was very long error exception and message for a load job

Maintenance Pack 4.8.2

What’s New?

  • Introduction of the Formula Validation Tool as standalone JAR and packaged directory
  • Improved numerous validation and error messages for formulas using the Formula Builder
  • The Inspector Tool now validates various types of formulas
  • There is a newly available script that automatically synchronizes base and alias tables for a given tenant
  • Improved the performance of key index updates
  • The “the underlying data is being updated” error message now shows the schema name
  • Notebook enhancements for materialized views that enable a “Lazy Start” which improves the performance of Notebook exploration

Issues fixed

  • Resolved a critical issue that causes the Analytics Service to crash in some cases where filtering the number of rows exceeded the max integer
  • Reduced full Garbage Collection (GC) runs that might lead to a “NotResponding” status for Analytics and Loader Services
  • Fixed an issue that causes dashboard insights to fail on installations of Incorta running Windows Servers
  • Fixed an issue with Share not using the correct access link
  • Resolved an issue with the SQLi interface that impacted Power BI external integrations that caused column data from materialized views to appear corrupted
  • Resolved an issue with the SQLi interface that did not expose remote data lake tables (AWS S3, Azure, etc) to external integration tool such as Power BI
  • Fixed an issue that causes a runtime security filter to not evaluate correctly for column data with special characters
  • Fixed an issue that prevented a user from saving changes to a table with “Incremental” & “Disable full load” options enabled
  • Resolved an issue that caused loads to fail for an external data source using a Informix connector
  • Resolved a problem with the deletion of schema descriptions
  • Resolved an issue that prevented an Incorta Table from materializing
  • Resolved an issue with the “filename as a column” feature of multi-source tables
  • Fixed a case where skipping rows from a header in Google sheet returned the wrong columns
  • Fixed an issue with a Google Drive data source that prevented all rows from being loaded
  • Fixed an issue with the scheduled delivery of a dashboard in MS Excel format that corrupted the file itself
  • Fixed an issue causing cells to merge in a MS Excel dashboard export when there are multiple rows
  • Resolved an issue when a filter expression with a session variable reference did not evaluate correctly
  • Resolved sorting issues for formulas with Analytic built-in functions such as index(), rank(), and denseRank()

Maintenance Pack 4.8.1

What’s New?

  • Numerous enhancements that support Cloud implementations
  • The Analytics Service now evaluates session variables from the cache instead of force evaluating the values from each insight invocation

Issues fixed

  • Fixed a corner case which was causing a tenant import to fail
  • Fixed a schema locking issue that could happen under stress
  • Resolved an issue with Time Series Forecasting and the Incorta ML Library
  • Fixed a case where a date function does not filter in load filter
  • Resolved an issue with the Google sheets connector for Incorta cloud
  • Fixed a case where the wrong base table was set when explicitly using base table in the business view
  • Fixed a case where the base table was not set correctly when assigned to a business view schema with the formula such as sum() - sum()
  • As in release 4.7, implemented the returned DaysBetween behavior with Null values to be the same
  • As in release 4.7, formula columns with an aggregation will return 0 as null representation
  • Sum formula supports only overloaded signature for group by
  • Fixed an issue where a Business View formula column referenced other business view Formulas
  • Change the Substring function to accept result of subtraction for the numeric parameters
  • Resolved a regression in some formulas using parentheses and parameter data types validation
  • Fixed an issue that causes the generation a corrupt Excel file for Pivot Table insight with row totals
  • Fixed a case where downloading Insights that are on second or third row shows blank result
  • Added a configuration to bypass the XML attribute size limit and enhanced the error message
  • Changed tooltip on the line graph to show all measures in the same group
  • Fixed a case where filter values does not show up when using a security filter
  • Added a dashboard loading icon as it was missing in an embedded incorta application
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