1.9.4 Release 🎉

You can find the GitHub release here.

Enhancements & Features

• Ingestion Pipeline Enhancement: Added deploy pipeline method to ingestion pipeline repository for streamlined deployment workflows
• Entity Name Transformation: Refactored and enhanced entity name transformation logic for improved metadata processing and consistency
• MCP Integration: Upgraded Model Context Protocol (MCP) to version 0.11.2 for enhanced performance and stability (#23049)
• Databricks Connector: Improved Databricks Profiler reliability and Test Connection functionality for better data source validation
• Query Analytics: Added queryUsage metrics and additional fields for bulk query fetching to enhance usage analytics capabilities
• Airflow Lineage: Exposed retry_codes parameter in Airflow lineage configuration for better error handling and retry logic

Bug Fixes

• UI Stability: Fixed critical UI crash when clicking contract status button, ensuring smooth user interaction
• Table Version Display: Resolved table version page breaking issue when displaying tables with large column lists
• Snowflake Connector: Fixed Snowflake tags ingestion to properly capture and display tag metadata
• Iceberg Tables: Resolved ingestion failures for Iceberg tables with nested partition structures
• Persona Management: Fixed system default persona preferences validation to properly allow landing page configuration
• Test Case Validation: Added EntityLink column existence validation during test case creation to prevent invalid test configurations
• Test Case UI: Improved test case form loading performance and structure in Test Case form for better user experience
• Navigation: Fixed redirect notification links in Knowledge, Glossary, and Term pages for proper navigation flow
• Airflow Ingestion: Added order_by parameter to get_pipelines_list for consistent pipeline ordering
• Unity Catalog: Enhanced exception handling in Unity Catalog lineage processing for improved reliability
• SAP HANA Connector: Added support for parsing calculated view column formulas in SAP HANA connector
• Oracle Connector: Fixed Oracle DataDiff functionality and migrated Oracle connection to base implementation for improved compatibility

Collate Release Updates

• Knowledge Center: Added support for mention redirects in Knowledge Center for improved navigation (#1982)
• Spark Engine: Implemented Spark Engine Lifecycle management for better resource optimization (#1974, #1966)

Full Changelog: link