New Features

• You can describe your Orchestrations now. This can be useful when you collaborate with your colleagues or want to quickly find what you need among dozens of Orchestrations.

• Also, Orchestrations just got their internal versioning system (joining Extractors, Writers and Applications). At this stage, the versioning is read-only, so you can compare two versions. Rollbacks and revision copies will be added soon.

Minor Improvements

• Improved performance of incremental load. Also, the writer now checks if the primary keys in its configuration match with those in the target database table.
  

Fixes

• Google Calendar Extractor is now available also in the EU region.

• Gmail Extractor is now renamed to Gmail Messages.

Today between 2:30 and 7:00 CEST we experienced issues with GoodData Writer. Ironically, it failed to connect to a third-party service for utilization monitoring. The problem was fixed so there should be no other job failure. We are going to inspect the extent of the damage.

Core

• Removed 1000 slices limit for load into storage
• All components now support configuration parameters encryption by default
• Deprecated MySQL transformations can no longer be edited
• Configuration version is displayed on job detail if available

Components

• New Magento 2 Extractor  developed by Leo Chan
• AWS S3 extractor default limit for 1000 files in one run was removed
• Tree Depth Application supports incomplete trees (items with non-existing root).

Bugfixes

• Component configuration state is not updated in case of attached processor failure. e.g in case of AWS S3 extractor and New Files Only option in leaves files as unprocessed in case of processor failure so the files can be processed again until the whole pipeline of processors is executed successfully.
• MSSQL Writer - fixed support of unicode characters
• Google Sheets Writer - fixed writing of large tables without performance issues
• When specifying transformation output mapping, the bucket name is automatically webalized as being typed

Developers

We are happy to introduce the first version of Keboola Storage API Javascript client.

Between 17:00 May 15, 2018 and 8:00 on May 16, 2018 CET we experienced issues with the SQL Server database extractor. We recommend to review your orchestrations and take appropriate actions if needed.

If you were affected by this, please accept our sincere apologies.

Between 9 May 2018, 10:53 CEST and 11 May 2018, 09:30 CEST there were job failures for SQL Server Writer configurations that had nullable data types. The issue was created by a new version of the writer so we have rolled it back to the  previous version while we investigate the root cause.

We're sorry for any inconvenience. 

Core

• Improved generated configuration changes descriptions
• Added configuration version to jobs results of Docker-based components (it is not yet available for legacy components like transformation and gooddata-writer)
• Refreshed Manage API docs with working examples
• Fixed loading of large tables for R-studio and Jupyter sandboxes
• Fixed random CSV Import upload errors in EU region

Components

• Improved "show details" experience for input and output mappings
• Added visibility of columns non-existing in Storage to writers
• Increased query timeout for all Keboola Provisioned Snowflake writers from 15 seconds to 15 minutes
  
• Added support of unconventional column names to MySQL extractor
• Removed static state from MongoDB extractor

Processors

• Added support of snappy format to processor-decompress
• Added processor filter-files
• Added support for sanitization of invalid utf-8 in processor-iconv

Developers

New Debug API call is available (replaces very rarely used sandbox, dry-run and input-data calls). It creates a snapshot of the data directory used for running the component and stores it in your KBC project. To learn more, feel free to go through the API Docs or through the tutorial. In short the API call:

• uses the same calling convention as the Run API,
• filters encrypted values from the data directory,
• works with all components (previously only those without encryption were supported),
• works with Processors,
• works with Configuration Rows,
• works also with broken components and configurations (even if the run fails, you'll still get a snapshot of the data directory).

Python transformations

Pip version 10 was released recently which removes the pip.main method (more reading). The recommended way to install packages from within python is:

import subprocess
import sys
subprocess.call([sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'PACKAGE_NAME'])

Currently there are 70 transformations using the removed pip methods. If your projects are using them we'll be contacting you with a list of affected transformations. This breaking change introduced in pip is currently blocking us from upgrading python to 3.6.5 where pip 10 is used by default.

There was an update to the orchestrator this week that had an unfortunate side-effect.  If you updated your orchestrations' notifications it would delete the orchestration's tasks.

Thankfully, the orchestrations are versioned, so if this happened to you, we will restore the tasks from the last version.
If you have any concerns about this please contact us at support@keboola.com.  

For what it's worth, updating notifications will no longer delete orchestration tasks, please accept our humble apologies if you were affected.

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Guide Mode. In Guide mode, the Keboola Connection user interface will switch to an interactive tutorial which will guide you through the basics of using Keboola Connection. 

Guide mode is designed for new users and works best on empty projects. Therefore, when you invite a new person to Keboola Connection, they will receive a special link in their invitation email:

The link leads to the try.keboola.com page. By following the link, they will receive a 15day demo project with the Guide mode activated. 

The Guide Mode is the very first step in creating a replacement the old Academy. We are gradually going to fill it with more advanced content, but in the mean time try it out and let us know what you think.

We have just released a new version of AdWords Extractor. It works with AdWords API v201802 (see the Release notes).

The previous version of the extractor is deprecated and you can use our migration tool which will migrate your AWQL queries. However, you have to reauthorize the extractor and give it access to your AdWords data again. The previous version uses AdWords API v201710 which will be switched off on 11 July 2018.

New Components

Asana Extractor

We’re happy to welcome the Asana Extractor to our family. It can extract your projects and tasks from the Asana application which is designed to help teams track their work. This component was developed by Leo Chan.

Thoughtspot Writer

We're likewise delighted to announce a new writer to Thoughtspot that is now available for public use. 
Thoughtspot is a "search and AI-driven analytics platform".

DynamoDB Extractor

Marketing Miner Extractor

New Features

• The project API Tokens section now shows when a token was refreshed: 

  

Minor Improvements

• We've modified the storage job polling to reduce component job run times.  The greatest speedups will be observable in small to medium sized data loads.  

• Artificial limits were removed from CSV file import. Previously the upload had to go through in 10 minutes. Now it's left to the decission of your web browser. Please note that it still holds that large files should be uploaded through the API.

• Further improvements to Output mapping. The destination bucket is now prefilled from the transformation name.

Fixes

• The MSSQL extractor was updated to correctly handle databases with case-sensitive collations.
  

• The Email Attachments extractor now supports incremental and addresses in angle brackets, ex: `Joe <email@example.com>`
  

• Developer portal vendors can now approve requests to join via the request email.