Release Notes 4.2.0

Improvements

• A new oft-requested feature: you will now get email notifications for DBA-relevant events, e.g. if Metadata Extraction fails. Admins can disable this in their notification preferences.

• We’ve also improved our APIs by

  • fixing the bug where the Alation API token can only be retrieved when using built-in authentication (You can now fetch your API token from the “Misc” tab in the Admin Settings UI)

  • and adding the ability to

    • filter results by Picker, Date, or Text Custom Fields in the Metadata GET API

    • and disable propagation of titles/descriptions added via API to derived columns using a parameter.

• We now show the timezone in log timestamps

• We updated the Alation Repair action to fix permissions on PostgreSQL data directory

• and added readline library to chroot so we can use arrow keys in the Python shell.

Bug Fixes

• fixed the bug where Alation services are not automatically started after a reboot