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2024.1 API Release Notes

New

• With the Public Preview of the new Document Hubs feature, we've added a new Documents API for creating, updating, retrieving, and deleting documents. Document Hubs are the new documentation feature for Alation. Document Hubs are the equivalent of article groups and glossaries, while documents are the equivalent of articles and terms.

Fixed

• The Data Dictionary API can now be used by Stewards, Composers, Source Admins, Catalog Admins, and Server Admins, bringing the API up to date with the UI. Setting the parameter alation.feature_flags.disable_perm_check_on_upload_dd to true in alation_conf disables permission checks during the upload process, which may improve performance, and also makes it so only Catalog Admins and Server Admins can use this endpoint.

Known Issues

• There is a known issue with the Get schemas endpoint where using a name value with capital letters will return no content despite giving a 200 response code. Using a name value with all lowercase will return schemas even when the schema name included capital letters. This has been fixed in 2024.3.1. (AL-156656)