Amazon Athena OCF Connector Release Notes

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

September 18, 2024

Amazon Athena OCF Connector: Version 1.5.0

Enhancements

FIPS Compliance

The JDK is now upgraded to Temurin-11.0.24+8. This upgrade addresses the following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs): CVE-2024-45490, CVE-2024-45491, CVE-2024-45492, CVE-2024-6119 (AL-136325)

August 21, 2024

Amazon Athena OCF Connector: Version 1.4.1

Fixed Issues

Failure to Parse the Extracted Queries

The query parser does not parse the queries extracted by the connector.

This issue is resolved. (AL-167009)

August 14, 2024

Amazon Athena OCF Connector: Version 1.4.0

Enhancements

SDK Upgrade

The Amazon Athena OCF connector is now upgraded to the latest SDK version 4.8.16. (AL-167429)

This upgrade addresses the following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs):

CVE-2022-25647, CVE-2023-2976, CVE-2020-8908, CVE-2021-22569, CVE-2021-22570, CVE-2022-3509, CVE-2022-3510, CVE-2022-3171, CVE-2021-29425, CVE-2021-37136, CVE-2021-37137, CVE-2019-20444, CVE-2021-21290, CVE-2021-43797, CVE-2022-24823, CVE-2024-29025,` CVE-2021-21295`, CVE-2021-21409, CVE-2020-11612, CVE-2019-20445, CVE-2023-34462

OpenJDK Upgrade

The JDK is now upgraded to Temurin-11.0.23+9. This upgrade addresses the following CVEs: CVE-2024-20952 and CVE-2023-20918 (AL-166113)

Support for Authentication Based on AWS Secret Manager Credentials

When installed on an Alation Agent, the Amazon Athena OCF connector now supports authentication using credentials the Agent has fetched from AWS Secrets Manager. For more information, see Integration with AWS Secrets Manager for Data Source Authentication Using OCF Connector.

Note

This feature applies only to Alation Cloud Service on the cloud native architecture.