Release 18.4.0

Features

• Support for LDAP for authentication and authorization - also enables using any
  directory service that exposes an LDAP interface, like Active Directory.
• Support for Drill data sources making it possible to query MapR-DB, HBase, and Hive,
  as well as log, JSON and parquet files stored directly on disk, HDFS, or AWS S3.

Bugfixes

• Correctly typecheck parameters given to IN-style WHERE-clauses.

Enhancements

• Support for transferring binary data when using the RODBC version of data source drivers.
• Performance improvements in the failed queries view for systems with high numbers of queries.
• Improved support for external dashboards and tools.
• All Aircloak SQL functions are properly highlighted in the Insights Air SQL-editor.

Changes

• Noise parameters changed. Query results will differ from what they were in the past.
• The Aircloak native RODBC connector is now used by default over the previous ODBC driver.
• The depth of partial column censoring is now limited to 3 by default. This parameter can be changed in the config.

Service release – 18.3.1

Bugfix

• Fix for queries being improperly rejected when a condition included two isolating columns

Release 18.3.0

18.3.0

Breaking change

• ODBC drivers for SAP HANA must be provided by the client and mounted. See the Installation guide for more info.

Features

• Added support for userless tables and non-anonymizing queries.
• Users passwords can now be reset using a link provided by the system. administrator or via the commandline interface.
• Support for the SAP IQ data store.

Bugfixes

• Fix for queries being rejected when one side of a range is negative.
• Fix redundant scanning of projected tables during cloak initialization.
• HTTP REST API for query results returned JSON with some duplicate keys.
• Fix execution of ORDER BY-clause in combination with a GROUP BY-clause in queries on MongoDB.

Enhancements

• Improve identification of which conditions need emulation.
• Support for date and time typed literals.
• SAMPLE_USERS no longer causes SAP Hana queries to get emulated.
• The cloak classifies columns by whether they isolate users or not, further improving the anonymization as a result.
• Improve load performance on the activity monitor page for installations with high numbers of queries.

Changes

• Improve the consistency between the different ways of computing noisy users counts; some results may change.

v18.2.3

Bugfixes

• Propagates sample_rate config value when loading the database tables needed for virtual tables.
• Fix crash when a postgres connection times out after retrieving all needed data

v18.2.1

18.2.1 - GDPR compliance

Features

• Support for specifying a privacy policy
• An analyst can download all the information kept about them
• Support for fully deleting all data recorded about an analyst’s usage of the system

v17.3.4

Bugfixes

• Fixed selection of columns bug from emulated joined queries.

v17.3.3

Bugfixes

• Fixed parsing of queries containing Unicode whitespace.
• Fixed crash when using non-emulated (I)LIKE over a MongoDB data source.
• Fixed incorrect emulation of joins when identically-named columns were selected.
• Fix crash in negative condition on COUNT(*).

Enhancements

• Unused selected columns are now automatically removed from inner queries.