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AVA 2.8.0

Release Date: October 10, 2025

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Overview

AVA 2.8.0 delivers enhanced integration capabilities, advanced data lineage visualization, and improved governance workflows. This release emphasizes enterprise connectivity and streamlined compliance operations.

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New Features

  • Column-level Lineage: Trace data transformations at the column level across entire data pipelines
  • Impact Analysis: Instantly visualize downstream impacts of schema or data changes
  • Interactive Lineage Graph: Zoom, filter, and explore complex data flows with improved UI
  • Lineage Export: Export lineage diagrams as SVG, PNG, or interactive HTML
  • Historical Lineage: Track how data flows have changed over time
  • SharePoint Connector: Scan and classify documents in SharePoint Online
  • Teams Integration: Governance notifications and approvals directly in Microsoft Teams
  • OneDrive Scanning: Automatic discovery of sensitive data in OneDrive for Business
  • Outlook Add-in: Data classification and DLP warnings in email composition
  • Power BI Integration: Governance metadata for Power BI datasets and reports
  • Visual Workflow Designer: Build complex governance workflows with drag-and-drop
  • Conditional Logic: Create sophisticated approval chains with branching logic
  • SLA Management: Define and track service level agreements for governance requests
  • Workflow Templates: Pre-built templates for common governance scenarios
  • Parallel Approvals: Support for concurrent approval paths
  • Automated Quality Checks: Schedule and run data quality validations
  • Quality Metrics Dashboard: Monitor completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness
  • Anomaly Detection: AI-driven detection of data quality issues
  • Quality Alerts: Configurable notifications for quality threshold violations
  • Remediation Tracking: Track data quality improvement initiatives

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Improvements

Policy Management

  • Policy versioning with rollback capabilities
  • Bulk policy application to multiple assets
  • Policy effectiveness analytics
  • Template library with 50+ pre-built policies

Reporting Engine

  • 30+ new compliance report templates
  • Custom report builder with drag-and-drop
  • Scheduled report distribution via email
  • Export to PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint formats

Integration Framework

  • REST API performance improvements (35% faster)
  • New connectors: Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB
  • Enhanced error handling with detailed diagnostics
  • Connector health monitoring dashboard

User Management

  • Role-based access control granularity improvements
  • User activity analytics and insights
  • Self-service user onboarding workflows
  • Enhanced group management with nested groups

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Bug Fixes

Fixed issue where large metadata imports would timeout
Resolved display issues in Safari for data catalog search
Corrected permission inheritance for nested organizational units
Fixed duplicate entries in data steward assignment lists
Addressed slow loading times for assets with extensive metadata
Resolved export failures for reports with more than 100,000 rows
Fixed incorrect date range calculations in compliance dashboards

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Security Updates

This release includes important security patches. Update recommended for all users.
  • Updated dependencies to address CVE-2024-XXXX
  • Enhanced input validation for API endpoints
  • Improved session management and token rotation
  • Additional logging for security-relevant events

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Deprecation Notice

The legacy metadata import API will be deprecated in AVA 3.0. Please migrate to the new bulk import API introduced in this version.

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Known Issues

  • Lineage visualization may be slow for graphs with more than 5,000 nodes (optimization planned for 2.9.0)
  • Teams integration requires admin consent for certain tenants
  • Power BI connector requires Power BI Pro or Premium licenses

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Upgrade Notes

Database migrations may take 15-30 minutes for large deployments. Schedule during maintenance windows.