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v1.7.02026-08-04Release Notes, View on GitHub
v1.6.02026-05-21Release Notes, View on GitHub
v1.5.0.72026-05-19Release Notes, View on GitHub
v1.5.0.62026-05-11View on GitHub
v1.5.0.52026-05-07View on GitHub
v1.5.0.42026-05-06View on GitHub
v1.5.0.32026-04-25View on GitHub
v1.5.0.22026-04-13View on GitHub
v1.5.0.12026-03-25View on GitHub
v1.5.02026-03-24View on GitHub

v1.7.0​

Released on 2026-08-04 by @david-leifker.

DataHub v1.7.0​

Requirements

  • CLI / Python SDK: 1.7.0
  • Helm Chart: 1.1.0

Full upgrade guidance, including every breaking change and migration step: Updating DataHub — v1.7.0.

Upgrade path / ZDU: You must upgrade to v1.6.0 before upgrading to v1.7.0 — do not skip 1.6.0. Deploy v1.6.0 with Helm chart 1.0.3, let system-update complete, then upgrade to v1.7.0 with Helm chart 1.1.0. Enable Elasticsearch/OpenSearch ZDU (global.datahub.systemUpdate.zdu) with the 1.1.0 chart on a subsequent OpenSearch/Elasticsearch version bump — not during the v1.6.0 install.

Feature highlights​

UI and experience​
  • Metrics and Semantic Models — first-class metric and semanticModel entities with dedicated pages, a metrics home/sidebar experience, autocomplete, modular summary tabs, and lineage wiring (#18134, #18350–#18407, #18442–#18459, #18462, #18482, #18701, and related).
  • Logical Models UI — create, link, edit, and delete logical models from the UI, in addition to API/SDK paths (#18498).
  • Data Product lineage — data products participate directly in the lineage graph (#18463).
  • Multi-language (i18n) default on — I18N_ENABLED defaults to on in OSS; UI follows the browser locale. New Beta locales include French, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Hungarian, and Finnish (#18285, #18282, #18221, #18222, #18263, #18265, #18339, #18520).
  • Lineage graph — always the latest lineage experience; LINEAGE_GRAPH_V2 / LINEAGE_GRAPH_V3 flags removed.
Ingestion — new sources​
  • Cube — semantic-layer connector (#17964)
  • AWS Kinesis — Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Data Firehose (#17592)
  • MicroStrategy — BI connector (#18158)
  • Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) — contracts from S3, GCS, HTTP, and Git (#17331, #18474, #18477)
  • ThoughtSpot (#17400)
  • SAP Datasphere (#17802)
  • DocumentDB platform — opt-in platform: documentdb on the MongoDB source for AWS DocumentDB (#17443)
Ingestion — major connector improvements​
  • Hex — major in-place upgrade: table- and column-level lineage from Hex APIs, Project → Component links, run history, optional AI context documents; Components ingested as Chart entities (see breaking changes) (#17376).
  • Snowflake — Semantic Views can emit first-class semanticModel / metric / logical-dataset entities (semantic_views.emit_semantic_model_entities; OSS default off / auto-resolve) (#18395, #18509).
  • Databricks Unity Catalog — Lakehouse Federation (foreign catalogs); usage/ops/queries from system.query.history via the shared SQL parsing aggregator; ML model ingestion controls fixed (#18213, #17971, #18220, and related).
  • Matillion — foldered container hierarchy, environment-scoped lineage, run history at pipeline and component levels, corrected console links (#17927).
  • Glue — Lake Formation resource-link schema resolution (default on), column-level LF tags, cross-account platform instances (#17963, #17812).
  • Redshift — multi-line SQL no longer dropped from lineage/usage; per-query popularity stats; table_pattern applied to SQL-parsing path (#18542, #18001, #18065).
  • BigQuery — table stats from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS (see breaking changes); usage window fields consolidated to top-level (#18367, #18133).
  • Power BI / Mode — column-level lineage preserves original upstream column casing (#18181).
  • Spark — Apache Spark 4.x support (Scala 2.13 agent); OpenLineage 1.50 with full shading for EMR/DataZone coexistence (#14911).
  • S3 / ABS — profile data-lake files without PySpark; optional emit_folders_only for object-store folder cataloging (#18347, #18599, #18437).
  • Airbyte — Public API stream namespace recovery (#18727).
  • Kafka — profiling support (#14367).
  • Great Expectations — GX Core 1.x action path (#18706).
Search, auth, and metadata​
  • View authorization overhaul — entity types restricted by default when VBAC is on; VIEW_UNRESTRICTED_* overlays; documents view-restricted by default; schemaField can inherit VIEW from parent dataset (#18612, #18664, and related).
  • Structured properties — ES field-name collision rejection; keyword max-length validation; type-mismatch reindex detection.
  • Configurable search entity-type defaults — SEARCH_*_ENTITY_TYPES env overlays for GraphQL search/autocomplete/browse defaults.
  • File upload / object storage — config path moved to datahub.objectStorage (see breaking changes); documentation file attach/download guide.
Operations and platform​
  • Secrets caller guard — SECRET_SERVICE_CALLER_GUARD_MODE defaults to ENFORCE; human PATs can no longer decrypt UI secrets via GraphQL.
  • Primary storage read pool — optional Ebean/Cassandra read pool for entity-aspect reads (EBEAN_READ_POOL_* / CASSANDRA_READ_POOL_*).
  • Ebean transaction conflicts — stable retryable 503 / DATABASE_TRANSACTION_CONFLICT instead of opaque 500s on deadlock exhaustion.
  • Docker tags — floating :head removed; coordinated :quickstart and immutable :sha-* tags.
  • Optional Loki log shipping — LOG_AGGREGATOR_ENDPOINT for core services and the frontend.
  • jose4j shipped for Kafka SASL/OAUTHBEARER JWT validation.
  • Airflow plugin — Airflow 2.x dropped; Airflow 3.0+ required. Prefect plugin requires Prefect 3.x.
  • Orchestration plugins — Airflow / Dagster / Prefect / GX default emit mode is ASYNC.
  • Built-in column classifier removed — DataHubClassifier / acryl-datahub-classify no longer shipped.

Breaking changes​

Review the full Breaking Changes section in Updating DataHub before upgrading. Summary of items that may require action:

AreaWhat changedWho is affected
Must install v1.6.0 firstDo not skip 1.6.0; ZDU enablement uses Helm 1.1.0 after 1.6.0 + system-updateAll upgraders from pre-1.6.0
Secrets ENFORCEHuman PATs/browser can no longer decrypt UI secrets; use datahub-actions / system client or AUDIT temporarilyAnyone using user PATs for getSecretValues
Airflow 2 droppedPlugin requires Airflow 3.0+Airflow 2.x deployments — pin plugin <= 1.6.0 or upgrade Airflow
Prefect 3 requireddatahub-prefect requires Prefect 3.xPrefect 2.x users
Classifier removedBuilt-in DataHubClassifier gone; recipes with classification.enabled: true fail fastClassification-enabled recipes
Plugin emit ASYNCAirflow/Dagster/Prefect/GX default emit is asyncOperators needing sync/raise-on-reject — set SYNC_PRIMARY
Hex Components → ChartComponent entity type/URNs change; tags/policies may need reapplyHex workspaces with Components
Spark OL 1.50 trimmersPartition dirs stripped from FS/object-store dataset names by defaultSpark lineage without path_spec_list / file_partition_regexp
Power BI / Mode CLL casingUpstream column paths keep source casingRe-ingest; remove lowercase workarounds on SQL sources
BigQuery table statsStats from PARTITIONS; empty/external/views/snapshots lose some timestampsSet use_legacy_table_stats: true to restore
Object storage YAMLdatahub.s3 → datahub.objectStorageCustom YAML overrides (env vars largely unchanged)
View authorizationRestricted-by-default + VIEW_UNRESTRICTED_*; documents restrictedDeployments with VIEW_AUTHORIZATION_ENABLED=true
Lineage graph flagsLINEAGE_GRAPH_V2 / V3 removedAnyone still setting those env vars
Docker :headUse quickstart / immutable sha-* / release tagsCompose and production pin practices
Workunit processorsHelper functions → processor classes; several renamesCustom ingestion code calling old helpers
Relationship edge uniquenessOne aspect per (source, dest, relationship) signature (#18845)Custom / plugin entity registries
Logical parent authEdit Entity required on child and parent when linkingLogical-model operators

Potential downtime: Structured-property Elasticsearch type-mismatch reindex when both system-update flags are on — see Updating DataHub — v1.7.0.

Deprecations: Hex lineage time/page-size recipe fields; BigQuery usage.* window / formatting fields migrated to top-level — see the v1.7.0 Deprecations section in Updating DataHub.

Contributors​

Thank you to everyone who contributed to v1.7.0. For the complete changelog, compare v1.6.0...v1.7.0.

v1.6.0​

Released on 2026-05-21 by @david-leifker.

DataHub v1.6.0​

Full upgrade guidance, including every breaking change and migration step: Updating DataHub — v1.6.0.

Feature highlights​

UI and experience​
  • V2 UI only — Legacy V1 UI code is removed; V2 is the sole interface with an updated collapsible navigation and home hero toggler (#17468).
  • Play 3 frontend — datahub-frontend runs on Play 3 and Apache Pekko for improved security and maintainability (#17214).
  • Theming — Broader migration to semantic color tokens across entity, lineage, home, and settings surfaces.
  • Security hardening — Content-Security-Policy on the frontend (#17277), sanitized API error responses (#17452), URL validation before rendering links (#17489), and home page template/module scope checks (#17487).
Ingestion — new sources​
Ingestion — major connector improvements​
  • Sigma — Data Models on by default, formula-resolved chart lineage, customSQL warehouse lineage, cross-DM fine-grained lineage, per-connection connection_to_platform_map, and workbook element-to-element edges (#17276, #17196, #17296, #17347, #17369, #17370, #17086, and related).
  • Databricks Unity Catalog — Opt-in Metric Views (include_metric_views), UPSERT ownership/properties by default (#17380, #16873).
  • BigQuery — Faster policy-tag extraction via INFORMATION_SCHEMA; richer external table metadata (#17407, #16348).
  • Glue — JDBC upstream lineage, Iceberg lineage, job subtype, structured properties on schema fields (#16505, #16562, #16636, #17325).
  • Kafka Connect — Column-level lineage for sink connectors (#16515).
  • Power BI — browsePathsV2 hierarchy, Sql.Databases M-Query support, workspace external URLs (#16621, #16616, #16934).
  • Fivetran — Per-destination platform discovery in hybrid API + log mode (#17217).
  • Athena — Correct upstream URNs for Glue- and Iceberg-backed tables (#16842).
  • Fabric OneLake — View ingestion with column-level lineage; query usage from queryinsights (#17215, #17284).
  • dbt — Configurable URN lowercasing, stats from catalog.json, assertion severity and improved ERROR vs FAILURE mapping (#16358, #16044, assertion PRs).
  • SQL profiling — SQLAlchemy profiler is the default for SQL connectors (faster, no Great Expectations dependency by default) (#17465).
  • Postgres — Stored-procedure SQL bodies and lineage improvements (#16871).
  • Confluence — Page HTML converted to Markdown (#17475).
Search, assertions, and metadata​
  • Semantic search — Elasticsearch 8.18+ semantic search; Vertex AI and local Ollama embedding providers (#17230, #17255, #17201).
  • Assertions — Failure severity in APIs and UI; failure configuration SDK (#17335, #17355, #17457).
  • Structured properties — Stricter GMS validation; CSV enricher support (#16779).
  • Search filters — Criterion / FacetFilterInput use values arrays only (see breaking changes).
  • GraphQL — Request bodies minified on the wire (#17392).
Operations and platform​
  • Java 25 LTS in official Docker images; Java 21 build toolchain (#17340, #16912).
  • Spring Boot 4 on GMS and Java services (#16816, #17351) — see breaking changes if you ship custom extensions.
  • Micrometer / Prometheus — Actuator on port 4319 by default; JMX agent 1.0.1 with /metrics scrape path (see breaking changes).
  • Elasticsearch ZDU — Optional zero-downtime side upgrade path via Helm (#16887).
  • Helm — Cluster-wide metricsMode, Cleanup pre-delete hook, consolidated system-update path (deprecations in upgrade doc).
  • REST emitter — Configurable connection pool (#16486).
  • Multi-entity domain and ownership transformers (#16798).

Breaking changes​

Review the Breaking Changes section in Updating DataHub before upgrading. Summary of items that may require action:

AreaWhat changedWho is affected
Spring Boot 4GMS and Java services move to Spring Boot 4.0.5/4.0.6 (Spring Framework 7, Spring Kafka 4).Custom GMS plugins or Spring extensions — recompile and retest. Standard Docker/Helm installs: no change if you do not extend the server classpath.
V1 UI removedV1 UI code deleted; V2 required (THEME_V2_* / Helm theme_v2).Anyone still on V1 env flags.
Play 3 + DATAHUB_SECRETFrontend on Play 3; secret must be ≥32 bytes or startup fails.Compose / hand-crafted short secrets (Helm usually OK).
SQL profiling defaultDefault profiler is sqlalchemy, not Great Expectations.Recipes with method: ge need acryl-datahub[profiling-ge].
Search value → valuesSingular value on filters removed; use values array only.Custom REST/GraphQL/SDK clients.
SigmaData models on by default; lineage URN/field behavior changes; connection_to_platform_map for Redshift.Sigma ingestion operators.
Structured propertiesOrphan assignments dropped by default (configurable).Ingestion pipelines with stale property URNs.
Athena / Fivetran / two-tier SQLUpstream URN changes (Athena, Fivetran hybrid multi-destination); stored-procedure URN shape (MySQL, MariaDB, Hive, ClickHouse, Teradata).Lineage keyed on old URNs.
Unity CatalogOwnership/properties UPSERT by default.Manual owners merged via PATCH.
BigQuery policy tagsNew extraction path only; old path removed.extract_policy_tags_from_catalog: true.
Micrometer / JMXActuator on 4319; JMX scrape at /metrics.Prometheus/Grafana scrape configs.
Actions / KafkaDefault async offset commits (higher throughput; possible redelivery).Custom actions needing sync commits.
AuthcorpUserInfo.active ignored for sessions.Login gating on deprecated active.
Vertex AIModel version set URNs scoped per project.Orphaned version sets after upgrade.
dbt assertionsInfrastructure failures → ERROR not FAILURE; new severity.Dashboards filtering FAILURE only.
DataplexRenamed filter config fields.Recipes using old keys.
Docker buildBASE_IMAGE, apkRepositoryUrl build args.Custom image builds.

Potential downtime: Reindexing, optional Elasticsearch ZDU, first system-update after bootstrap moves, and aspect schema version sweep on large catalogs — documented under v1.6.0 in Updating DataHub.

Deprecations: Helm per-workload monitoring → global.datahub.monitoring, consolidated system-update, Great Expectations profiler legacy, Glossary Term AI automation — see the v1.6.0 Deprecations section in Updating DataHub.

Contributors​

Thank you to everyone who contributed to v1.6.0. For the complete changelog, compare v1.5.0.7...v1.6.0.

v1.5.0.7​

Released on 2026-05-19 by @david-leifker.

Security Update

Full Changelog: https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/compare/v1.5.0.6...v1.5.0.7

v1.5.0.6​

Released on 2026-05-11 by @david-leifker.

View the release notes for v1.5.0.6 on GitHub.

v1.5.0.5​

Released on 2026-05-07 by @david-leifker.

View the release notes for v1.5.0.5 on GitHub.

v1.5.0.4​

Released on 2026-05-06 by @david-leifker.

View the release notes for v1.5.0.4 on GitHub.

v1.5.0.3​

Released on 2026-04-25 by @david-leifker.

View the release notes for v1.5.0.3 on GitHub.

v1.5.0.2​

Released on 2026-04-13 by @david-leifker.

View the release notes for v1.5.0.2 on GitHub.

v1.5.0.1​

Released on 2026-03-25 by @david-leifker.

View the release notes for v1.5.0.1 on GitHub.

v1.5.0​

Released on 2026-03-24 by @david-leifker.

View the release notes for v1.5.0 on GitHub.