REST API changes

• Decoupled REST API from JDBC stack

• Implemented a new mechanism for  pagination so that REST API clients will benefit from an improved results fetching way 

• Authenticate any API request only with Bearer token

• Access token for internal user account with 90 days validity

Replaced Spark parser with JSqlParser 

Introducing query auditing  

Created Swagger documentation for Data Catalog API

Reworked Conduit migration when upgrading to newer versions

Conduit storage layer upgraded from Elasticsearch 5 to Elasticsearch 7 

Data catalog changes and improvements

• Renamed sorting criteria for a smoother user experience

• Implemented a priority logic in the way search results are returned inside the Data Catalog based on matching tags, description and asset name. Also the order of returned results considers a “Relevance“ criterion

• Enabled search to work for both original & friendly name of assets 

• The header of the ‘’Browse” panel stays fixed to allow easy access to the available actions 

Changes and improvements regarding connectors

• AWS S3 connector: security fix on encrypting the the access key and secret key

• AWS S3 connector: fixed unsupported characters in secret key

• Dynamics365 connector: Authentication will only support Active Directory Pass Through mode, requiring an OAuth access token from a subscription that also allows access to the Dynamics365 resource URL as provided in the Active Directory Subscriptions menu.

Fixed a problem with Conduit freezing on high load