2025 Alation Frontend Releases

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Note

These release notes cover updates to the Frontend service in the New User Experience, available on Alation Cloud Service only. Frontend updates are released every two weeks, with additional patch releases as needed.

Alation Frontend Release August 28, 2025

Frontend Version: 1.2

Build: 10.456.0-25537

Previous Version: 10.441.0

New Features

  • AL-200626: Added an option to select columns for selected tables in previous step.

  • AL-199520: Streamlined tooltip interaction.

  • AL-197644: Data product descriptions can now be updated with the WYSIWYG markdown editor.

  • AL-194807: In Alation’s Compose Query Forms, the multi-select picker is now limited to displaying a maximum of 1,000 values by default. This change improves UI performance and responsiveness, especially when handling large datasets. If the total number of selectable values exceeds 1,000, only the first 1,000 entries, sorted and filtered server-side, will be shown to users. This limit is configurable via the alation.compose.results.row_fetch_limit parameter. By default, it is set to 1,000 but can be increased up to a maximum of 10,000.

Bug Fixes

  • AL-200951: Fixed propagation mode gets disabled when we navigate to the conversations tab.

  • AL-199647: Enhanced error message display for the vault configuration API in settings pages.

  • AL-199081: Fixed empty column values for conversations in table view.

  • AL-198310: User impersonation UI improvements.

  • AL-196319: Fixed missing description field under Sync Children for tables in the new UI for schema-level manual catalog sets.

  • AL-194802: Released Chrome Extension with fix for loading images with full URLs.

  • AL-192941: Hiding deleted objects in tagged objects list.

  • AL-202133: Fixes a regression in the rich text editor, which caused many of the toolbar icons to not be visible. This fix should restore the set of toolbar icons to what it was previously. (In build 10.456.1-patch.0-26027)

  • AL-202276: Re-use request_id for subsequent requests for expand button in Exploratory lineage view. (In build 10.456.1-patch.1-26096)

Alation Frontend Release August 12, 2025

Frontend Version: 1.2

Build: 10.441.0-24974

Previous Version: 10.430.0

New Features

  • AL-199914: Improved the Builder Copilot loading experience to make it more intuitive and user-friendly. Previously, the progress bar could give the impression that responses were taking longer than they actually were. Now, the Copilot provides clear status messages such as Analyzing your request, Thinking, and Gathering information, helping users better understand what’s happening while they wait.

  • AL-188956: Updated the Table view of Search results to respect the alation.feature_flags.DEV_enable_prepare_search_description feature flag. Previously, the Description column appeared as an option even when the flag was disabled. With this fix, the Description column will only be shown when the feature flag is enabled.

  • AL-178974: Added a warning message to clarify the impact of rejecting a review request in a workflow. Users are now informed that rejecting may result in a 403 error page, as their access may be removed after a rejection, but their review response will still be submitted successfully.

Bug Fixes

  • AL-197535: Improved how fields are displayed for recordSets to make the UI more reliable. Fields will now be shown in the following order: displayName (if available), otherwise name, and if that’s missing, key. Missing values will no longer cause errors: using name as an index in SchemaTable has been replaced with a universal index, and schema is now treated as optional instead of required.

  • AL-199637: Fixed an issue where notification emails were not being sent after granting permissions to queries. With this update, users and groups will now correctly receive email notifications about the queries they have been granted access to.

  • AL-199672: Improved the Tasks table in My Inbox by adding a loading indicator during internal API calls. Previously, slow responses or page changes through pagination could make the interface seem unresponsive, leaving users uncertain whether their request was processing. Now, a visible loading indicator clearly shows that the system is working, reducing confusion during longer load times.

  • AL-198274: Corrected an issue where the Under Review suggestions count was inflated by including other users’ drafts. We’ve now removed the imprecise count from the Under Review tab and updated pagination to display <page item count> of many, making it clear that the number shown reflects the items on the current page without implying an exact overall total.

  • AL-194511: Fixed an inconsistency in the scheduled query run history. Previously, users who were not the query owner could see scheduled queries running successfully from the Scheduled Query Dashboard, but the run history for the scheduled query didn’t appear on the catalog page of the corresponding query. With this fix, the correct run history is now visible to all authorized users, ensuring consistency between the dashboard and the query page.

  • AL-194016: Fixed an issue in user profiles where navigating through the Published Queries list caused the next page to load briefly before reverting to the previous page. With this fix, pagination now works consistently, allowing users to view queries beyond the first page without interruption.

  • AL-198829: Fixed a browser tab display issue where an extra &amp: string appeared in the title. Document titles are now properly unescaped, so values like the ampersand symbol (&) are correctly displayed as & in the browser’s title bar.

  • AL-196944: Trust flags in the New User Experience now display the last updated timestamp instead of the original creation date, ensuring users see the most recent activity on each flag.

Alation Frontend Release July 30, 2025

Frontend Version: 1.2

Build: 10.430.0-24601

Previous Version: 10.412.2

New Features

  • AL-194435: Query History is now available in the New User Experience without requiring a feature flag.

  • AL-165172: In the search results list view, when the DEV_enable_prepare_descriptions flag is enabled and the object has an available description, the description is now displayed directly within each search result entry.

  • AL-190765: Added support for a new feature flag alation.search.enable_db_breadcrumbs with a default value False. When enabled, breadcrumb trails that include names with colons will be displayed. To activate this feature, set the flag to True, clear the cache, and refresh the search page.

Bug Fixes

  • AL-198350: Fixed an issue where a custom template link appeared in the My Tasks section; it has now been removed.

  • AL-198011: Fixed an issue where BI Source Names were not properly encoded on the Connector page.

  • AL-195869: Fixed an issue where Policy Groups buttons in the Custom Links section on the homepage did not correctly link to their corresponding policy group resources.

  • AL-195805: Fixed an issue where users could select tables for profiling in the Per Object Parameters interface even if the schema was not enabled, resulting in no rows being profiled.

  • AL-194896: Fixed an issue where multi-query execution in Compose under the New User Experience did not display all queries and their corresponding results on the Query History page.

  • AL-194553: Fixed an issue where tag values were displayed with IDs (e.g., id + §¿ + value); they now display as clean values only.

Alation Frontend Release July 16, 2025

Frontend Version: 1.2

Build: 10.412.2-patch.1-24261

Previous Version: 10.383.2

New Features and Improvements

Data Products App

The Data Products App is now generally available: a powerful new capability that helps organizations build, manage, and scale trusted, reusable data products across the business. The app includes two core components: Data Products and the Marketplace.

  • Available to Alation Cloud Service customers

  • Disabled by default. To enable the feature on your instance, contact your Account Manager for the pricing options.

With the Data Products App, you can:

  • Set up a configurable Data Products Marketplace for your organization

  • Create and manage governed, purpose-built data products

  • Use AI-assisted tools (Data Product Builder Copilot (Beta)) to streamline data product creation in the Alation catalog

  • List data products in the configurable Marketplace

  • Control access with flexible, role-based permissions

  • Collect feedback from users to continuously improve product quality

Other Improvements

  • AL-197942: Prevented movement of orphaned documents across Document Hubs to maintain structural integrity.

  • AL-197807: Enhanced the user interface of the IP Whitelisting Dashboard for improved usability.

  • AL-197176: Standardized the color of check category names across the user interface to align with design guidelines.

  • AL-194970: Added support for sorting columns and server-side search in the IP Whitelisting Dashboard based on selected parameters.

Bug Fixes

  • AL-195203: Fixed an issue where the left-side filters were not updating when Clear All was clicked. The issue is now resolved.

  • AL-197598: For documents in the status Under Review via a template-based workflow, the associated Folder now appears correctly under the Under Review section instead of as part of navigation links.

  • AL-197232: Resolved SQL validation issues across all categories.

  • AL-196899: Updated the message displayed when no checks are present in BI reports.

  • AL-195811: Fixed the auto-correction behavior for misspelled search keywords.

  • AL-190582: Fixed the display of AM/PM values in the MDE cron schedule widget.

Alation Frontend Release July 01, 2025

Frontend Version: 1.2

Build: 10.383.2-patch.0-23760

Previous Version: 10.346.0

New Features

  • AL-196796 / AL-195677: Enhanced the stale table profile warning message to improve clarity. The new message now guides users to verify if sampling is turned on and if the Skip Views option is disabled before rerunning sampling. This helps avoid confusion when sampling does not update due to schema-level settings.

  • AL-196452: Added logic to filter out unsupported formats based on the data source type, ensuring users only interact with compatible formats.

  • AL-196451: Enhanced the metric selection functionality by allowing the same metric to be added multiple times.

  • AL-196181: Updated the Alation UI URL routing to direct API calls to the API layer, enabling seamless internal communication with the SDN-SVC.

  • AL-195238: Changed export triggering mechanism from GET to POST in the Table View, leveraging newer web server capabilities to improve reliability and consistency of export operations.

  • AL-194334: Introduced server-side pagination for the Under Review documents table to significantly improve performance when handling large collections (200+ suggestions). Also enhanced search functionality with server-side filtering to retain consistent cross-page search behavior.

  • AL-193145: Introduced server-side pagination to the IP Access Management Dashboard, improving performance and scalability.

  • AL-195235: Updated the export infrastructure to enhance the reliability and accuracy of Table View exports. These modifications address race conditions and reduce unnecessary requests, specifically resolving issues within the New User Experience. Exporting search results from the Table View is now more reliable and accurate.

  • AL-177936: A new Query History tab is now available under the Queries section on Schema, Table, and Column catalog pages. It displays detailed query execution history and allows exporting data as a CSV via email.

Bug Fixes

  • AL-197029: Fixed an issue where navigating between hubs retained the dirty state of column view changes from the previous page.

  • AL-195229: Fixed an issue where the inbox counter did not update correctly after assigning the current user to a conversation.

  • AL-195080: Fixed an issue preventing Viewer and Explorer roles from accessing the Auto Title button in the Columns table on the Table object page.

  • AL-194591: Fixed an issue where the BI field category did not display correct values and could not be sorted properly.

  • AL-194025: Fixed an issue where the UI would snooze when navigating from the Catalog page in the New User Experience to the Settings page in the Classic User Experience for a data source. The transition now behaves consistently when the redirect is enabled.

  • AL-192608: Fixed an issue in search results where selections were lost when navigating between paginated results. Users can now maintain selections across pages for bulk operations, with selections cleared only when applying new filters or search terms.

  • AL-191911: Fixed an issue in the Alation Chrome Extension to ensure Snowflake Dynamic Tables are now correctly detected and displayed from the catalog.

  • AL-189278: Fixed an issue where HTML entities like & were incorrectly rendered as raw text in the BI Source title filter. Integrated, sanitized unescaped content, and updated rendering logic to display the correct character &.

  • AL-182764: Fixed an issue in the Policy Center where user and admin view states for grids were not being persisted across sessions. These view states are now saved and restored correctly.

Alation Frontend Release June 18, 2025

Frontend Version: 1.2

Build: 10.346.0-patch.0-23443

Previous Version: 10.326.4

New Features

  • AL-194334: Resolved a workflows issue affecting the Under Review documents table where collections with large numbers of document suggestions (200+) experienced extremely slow load times. The fix implements server-side pagination, reducing load times and ensuring the interface remains responsive regardless of collection size. As part of the performance optimization, we’ve updated the search functionality to use server-side filtering to maintain the same cross-page search behavior users expect.

  • AL-193788: To prevent indefinite polling when fetching large lineage graphs, the lineage UI will make a maximum of 5 API calls or stop after 1 minute whichever occurs first. In most cases, this limit won’t be reached, as the API is expected to indicate that loading has stopped, triggering a switch to the exploratory view. This update ensures more robust handling of unusually large or unresponsive graph loads.

  • AL-191809: Before this update, while using the Run Query feature, users have to navigate to the Run History details page to see the corresponding SQL query. Now, we have added a SQL Statement tab alongside the Results tab. This shows the corresponding SQL statement for each run history entry.

Bug Fixes

  • AL-195034: When changing the column visibility settings in Document Hubs, the changes only apply to the current document hub. The Documents table has its settings per object page, and Folders tables have one setting per hub.

  • AL-194431: When the feature flag Document Hubs 5: Document Total Count is disabled, we are now correctly skipping counting of documents and have also fixed pagination on Documents tables.

  • AL-193713: We’ve fixed an issue where the Shared connections across tabs radio button in Compose settings would not become selected when clicking on it, even though a success message appeared.

  • AL-192608: Users can now maintain item selections when navigating between pages in search results, enabling efficient bulk operations across large datasets. Users can select individual items or entire pages, and the selections will persist as they browse through paginated results. Selections are cleared when applying new filters or changing search terms to ensure relevant results.

  • AL-189216: Changed how we display buttons inside Rich Text Field Editor. Instead of showing few buttons per category and allowing users to show more, we are displaying all of them by default, separated by vertical bar.

  • AL-188144: Disabled possibility of clicking on auto-title button next to RDBMS object titles for Viewer and Explorer roles.

  • AL-187870: The timestamp for trust flags (endorsements, important information, and deprecations) will now include the time in addition to the date. This matches the behavior in Classic.

  • AL-186746: User is now able to access Query Results from search with all data correctly loaded.

Alation Frontend Release June 04, 2025

Frontend Version: 1.2

Build: 10.326.4-22791

Previous Build: 10.311.1

Bug Fixes

  • AL-194244: Fixed a display issue where the columns might appear or disappear from the search results table. This was caused by the UI referencing incorrect data when determining which filters should be shown.

  • AL-193994: Previously, users couldn’t select 13px (Alation’s default font size) from the font size dropdown in the Rich Text editor. This update adds 13px as a selectable option, making it easier to return to the default size when adjusting text formatting.

  • AL-193870: Fixed the null pointer error when loading filtered search that manifested itself as the error Uncaught TypeError: Cannot use ‘in’ operator to search for ‘parent_group_id’ in undefined in the user interface. This occurred when one filter already returned no results and an additional filter was applied on top.

  • AL-193858: Technical fixes: use both content_long_html and content_html to copy and render SQL code in modal dialogs; allow persisting columns sizes; add support for last_executed_by as a string.

  • AL-193652: Clicking the logo in the top left corner now navigates to the user’s preferred homepage, rather than the default homepage.

  • AL-193293: Fixed an issue where documents added to a subfolder were not visible in the parent (top-level) folder. Now, when a user adds a document to a folder that is itself a subfolder, the document correctly appears in the parent folder’s view.

  • AL-192669: Users can now add tags to documents, folders, data policies, policies, policy groups, files, and file systems directly from the Add dialog in the Tag object table. This update brings functional parity across the Classic and New User Experiences, ensuring tags can be added to the same object types consistently.

  • AL-192608: When using the Stewardship Workbench, users can now maintain item selections when navigating between pages in search results, enabling efficient bulk operations across large datasets. Users can select individual items or entire pages, and the selections will persist as they browse through paginated results. Selections are cleared when applying new filters or changing search terms to ensure relevant results.

  • AL-192330: On folder detail pages, the subfolder table will only render when there are one or more subfolders present. This restores the original functionality, which had recently been changed to always show the table even when empty.

  • AL-191899: In the full search table view, users can now select the same columns in the New User Experience that were previously available in Classic, resolving an issue where most columns were not selectable.

  • AL-187934: Improved error handling to prevent unnecessary backend requests. We’ve implemented a fix to stop the UI from sending requests to the backend when specific errors occur (for example, 499, 500, 502, 504). This enhancement improves system stability and prevents unnecessary pod restarts.

  • AL-183900: Shared titles are now visible in the New User Experience when defined by a catalog set, addressing an issue where shared titles were previously missing. When multiple catalog sets define shared titles for the same object, users see a See all button. On hover, all shared titles are displayed along with their respective catalog set names, providing clarity without cluttering the user interface.

  • The release also includes internal updates aimed at maintaining the stability and quality of the application.