2026 Alation Frontend Releases

Alation Frontend Release January 19, 2026

Frontend Version: 1.2

Build: 10.832.1-patch.1-33988

Previous Version: 10.788.2

New Features

  • AL-215443: Marketplace management now includes a new UI-driven management experience for badges, standards, and appearance. This change removes the need to edit these properties directly in the YAML specification. Marketplace Admins now have a dedicated management home tab with an at-a-glance overview of Marketplace health, including data product counts, ownership visibility, and the number of configured badges and standards.

    • Admins can create and manage badges to automatically recognize high-quality data products. Badge configuration supports names, descriptions, applicable sections, and conditions written in natural language, which are interpreted by AI. Badges can use icons from a curated library. The updates are reflected across the Marketplace.

    • Admins can now define and enforce Marketplace standards directly in the UI with clear, guided controls. The UI provides suggested defaults, such as requiring descriptions, owners, or at least one table. Admins can also create custom standards to match specific governance policies. They control how failures are handled, choosing between warnings or suspension with notification. A centralized list view helps them manage and monitor multiple standards in one place.

    • Admins can also customize marketplace appearance, including uploading and managing hero images for branding, with preview and replacement support. All changes integrate seamlessly with existing marketplace configuration and update in real time.

  • AL-212776: Data Products now support adding metrics, enabling Data Product Admins to define and expose key business measures that bridge high-level business concepts with underlying data. Metrics can range from simple aggregations to more complex calculations. Users can add metrics to data products by writing custom SQL queries or reusing sample queries already captured in the Alation catalog.

  • AL-213774: The Data Product Marketplace now includes filter pills that visually represent applied filters. Users can remove individual filters or clear all filters at once and search within filter drop-downs to quickly locate badges or criteria, improving discoverability.

  • AL-217159: Data Product Chat now supports downloading table data as CSV files. Users can export query results directly from the chat interface using a new download button, making it easier to perform offline analysis.

  • AL-217533: Agent Studio now surfaces a clear quota enforcement message when a streaming connection fails due to exhausted usage limits. This helps users quickly understand why a request failed and avoid silent failures or generic errors.

  • AL-215764: The Chat UI now supports rendering visual charts returned by the Charting Agent tool. When the agent returns structured chart output, the UI correctly recognizes and displays the chart.

  • AL-215268: The Lineage tab for Fivetran ETL source now includes Alamigo troubleshooting support. When supported Fivetran jobs fail during metadata extraction, Alamigo can automatically trigger or be manually invoked to help analyze the issue and suggest next steps.

  • AL-214439: Released the Alation Data Quality SDK, providing a production-ready Python SDK for executing Alation Data Quality checks outside of the Alation UI. Teams can define, manage, and schedule monitors in Alation while running them directly within data pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, GitHub Actions, or custom Python jobs. This enables governed data quality at scale while integrating seamlessly with modern data engineering workflows.

  • AL-215804: The Data Quality App now distinguishes SDK-based monitors by introducing separate creation and details flows. When creating an SDK monitor, the setup experience skips anomaly detection and hides anomaly-related configuration and UI elements, reflecting that execution and anomaly handling are managed externally through the SDK.

  • AL-213474: The Data Quality check editor now allows users to switch between UI mode and YAML mode when creating or editing checks. Both modes remain fully synchronized, so changes made in one view are immediately reflected in the other without losing configuration. This flexibility supports both business users who prefer guided UI workflows and engineers who want direct control through YAML.

  • AL-214676: A new Apply Standards dialog was introduced for Data Quality workflows. This dialog provides a guided experience for applying standards, reducing reliance on manual configuration and improving consistency across data quality implementations.

  • AL-213425: This release includes a set of fixes for Critical Data Elements (CDE) Manager, addressing stability, usability, and edge cases in CDE workflows to improve overall reliability.

  • AL-209486: Users with Viewer or Explorer roles can now access CDE Manager and Policy pages in read-only mode. This allows visibility into critical data definitions without permitting edits.

  • AL-213939: Server and Catalog Admins can now set a default homepage in the New User Experience. The selected homepage is marked as default, updates propagate to users and groups, and the system prevents reverting to the Alation default homepage when a custom default is set.

  • AL-213015: The folder deletion feature in Document Hubs was updated so the Delete button is shown only to Server Admins and Catalog Admins. This aligns deletion permissions with creation permissions and prevents accidental removal by users with more limited roles.

  • AL-212534: When moving folders or documents within or across Document Hubs, users now see a clear warning explaining permission inheritance and domain association changes.

  • AL-211998: A new OAuth Client Applications page in Admin Settings enables creation of user-initiated OAuth configurations to allow Alation to integrate with third-party tools and external platform integrations without manual backend setup.

  • AL-206901: A user impersonation banner is now displayed when a session is running in customer impersonation mode. This helps prevent accidental changes by clearly signaling that actions are being performed on behalf of another user.

  • AL-122353: Catalog source comments can now be rendered as HTML when enabled via the alation.feature_flags.enable_html_source_comments feature flag.

Bug Fixes

  • AL-216942: Fixed an issue where the unsaved changes pop-over could trigger an infinite loop after saving. Navigation logic was removed from the save handler to prevent repeated state changes.

  • AL-216681: Removed an obsolete feature flag from the Admin UI, ensuring data product count limits are displayed consistently when applicable.

  • AL-216562: Unified user-facing messaging for preflight checks and test connection flows under the term Run Check, providing consistent language while preserving backward compatibility.

  • AL-216308: Fixed an issue in the Data Product Builder where empty or deleted YAML content could still be saved. Save actions and metric operations are now correctly disabled when content is missing.

  • AL-216147: Added checks to prevent UI rendering errors when license entitlement data is null or undefined.

  • AL-215830: Added a missing English translation for the Candidate status in the CDE versions picker, ensuring consistent localization.

  • AL-215811: Resolved an issue where OAuth endpoint settings were not preserved when switching tabs. Settings now remain visible without requiring a page refresh.

  • AL-215620: Restored proper feature flag enforcement for CDE Manager navigation, preventing unauthorized users from accessing CDE pages and avoiding 403 errors.

  • AL-215405: Fixed an issue where Snowflake schema names were truncated in the object set picker, ensuring full database and schema context is visible during selection.

  • AL-215017: Bulk Actions in search results are now restricted to environments where both the Governance App and Stewardship Workbench are enabled, and only for users with appropriate permissions.

  • AL-213713: Fixed a Document Hub navigation issue so the left-hand pane retains its scroll position when selecting objects, instead of resetting to the top.

  • AL-213420: Resolved an issue where the Glossaries list page did not filter correctly when federated catalog was enabled and domain filters were applied.

  • AL-213221: Fixed search behavior when filtering by both file system and RDBMS sources, ensuring filter results appear correctly when mixed source types are selected.

  • AL-212515: The Data Quality monitor summary view was reverted to its previous design after feedback indicated that the newer layout did not meet usability and visual expectations. This change restores the familiar summary experience, improving consistency while longer-term design improvements are evaluated.

  • AL-210722: Resolved an issue where the Lineage chart loaded an incorrect default layout (Incremental) due to unresolved user preferences.

  • AL-209454: Fixed an issue where after the Alation upgrade, the domain filters were removed when Saved search links were opened from the homepage.

  • AL-208946: Enabled the Data Health tab for BI reports in the New User Experience, bringing feature parity with the Classic Experience.

  • AL-205931: The Search box for Object Sets now supports pagination via a “Load more” option. Previously, search such pop-ups were limited to displaying only the first 25 results, with no way to access additional matches. Users can now load more results directly from the search interface, making it easier to find the correct objects.