Private Preview Features

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Onboarding Wizard

The Onboarding Wizard is back—and better aligned with your needs. This step-by-step setup guides you through authentication and storage configuration so you can spend less time on setup and more time building pipelines.

Your Feedback in Action

• Storage & Mapping Optional on Duplication: When you duplicate a Workspace, you can now skip Storage Location configuration and Storage Mapping entirely—no need to fill them in unless you want to change them.

• Existing Commits: If you’re branching off an existing Workspace with mappings already in your repo, the Onboarding Wizard will automatically pull in those Storage Locations and Storage Mappings for you.

• Auto-Populate Existing Settings: If your original Workspace already had Storage Locations or Storage Mappings, we’ll carry those over automatically so you don’t have to reconfigure.

Why You’ll Love It

These tweaks remove unnecessary clicks when duplicating a Workspace and ensure your existing settings stick—giving you a seamless transition every time.

Deploy Wizard Improvements

We’ve refined the Deploy Wizard to give you clearer visibility into errors and warnings during the Review Plan step. Now, issues are organized into separate Errors and Warnings tabs—so you can quickly zero in on what needs fixing before you deploy.

Updates

• We've improved the display of Projects and Environments with long names on the Deploy Page to make it easier to filter:

  • Selected environments in the filter now show their full names instead of project-name combinations.

  • Hover tooltips now appear in both the dropdown list and selection textbox to show full names when they're cut off.

  • The “×” remove button is now consistently visible on all selected filter tags, even when their labels are truncated. This ensures users can always remove applied filters without needing to hover or expand the text.

• Syntax highlighting was added to the Parameter pages, making it easier to spot errors and understand the code structure at a glance.

• A next parameter has been added to the List Runs endpoint response, making it easier to track your position while paginating through results.

• Improved support for systemColumns in Node endpoints:

  • The Get Workspace Node endpoint now includes all systemColumns attributes in its response.

  • The Set Workspace Node endpoint has been updated to preserve existing systemColumns attributes when updating a Node.

  • System columns were added to the metadata.column .

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect error message when making change tracking configuration required in UDNs. The message now correctly states "Please select a change tracking column."

• Previously, users were incorrectly prompted to upgrade already-upgraded repositories. Coalesce now properly verifies Git commits and provides clear error messages when Git account testing is needed.

• Environments no longer get stuck in a "Refreshing" state when no jobs are actively running.

• Long Azure DevOps PR descriptions now properly truncate before being included in commit messages, preventing SQL compilation errors during deployment.

Breaking Change in List Run Endpoint – Version 7.19

Effective in version 7.19,  there is a breaking change to the listRun endpoint:

• The orderBy parameter is now mandatory whenever the startingFrom parameter is included in a request. This change ensures consistent and predictable pagination behavior when using the startingFrom cursor.

What you need to do:

• If your integration uses startingFrom, make sure to include a valid orderBy value in the same request. Requests missing the required orderBy parameter will now return an error.

We are notifying all Coalesce customers using the command-line tools that an immediate upgrade to the Coalesce CLI version 7.17.1 or higher is required. Snowflake’s recent 2025_02 release includes changes that may cause service interruptions for users running older versions of the Coalesce CLI.

To prevent any disruption, please check your CLI version by running:

coa --version

If your version is lower than 7.17.1, upgrade your CLI by running:

npm upgrade -g @coalescesoftware/coa

For more information on the Snowflake bundle changes, please visit the Snowflake Release Notes.

Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter.

New

Create Node Endpoint

You can now create Nodes using the Create Workspace Node endpoint. Create Workspace Nodes supports creating all Node types. Combined with the Set Node endpoint, create and update Nodes programmatically.

Updates

• We’ve made multiple API updates including:

• Added pagination to List Environments. In addition to existing fields, we have added:

  • total - Number of results

  • startingFrom - The id the request starts from.

  • limit - The request page size. 100 is the default.

  • next - The value where the next page of results starts after.

• Added type to List Run Results. Type indicates if it is a sql or sqlTest run.

• When using ref functions, an error message will return if there is a cyclical dependency.

• We’ve made some user interface improvements including:

• Added tooltips for all statuses in the Activity Feed.

• The Fetch button in the Git Modal has moved to be in-line with commit and branches.

• Improved Column Lineage so it's easier to see the Node lineage.

Packages

New - View-Qualify Advanced Deploy Node

We’ve released a new package Node,  View-Qualify Advanced Deploy UDN. This is a versatile Node that allows you to create and deploy views in Snowflake using the QUALIFY filter. It gives you a streamlined way to filter records within a View using window functions such as, RANK or ROW_NUMBER. It supports common use cases like deduplicating data, selecting top and bottom records, and applying customer filters.

Bug Fixes

• Clicking on a Node in the Docs no longer results in an error screen.

7.17.1

We’ve introduced a new feature that lets you know when a Node or Column Test has failed during a refresh.

On the Deploy page, statuses are now color coded for easy review.

• Green - It was successful with no errors.

• Yellow - The Refresh was successful, but had Column or Node test failures.

• Red - The Deploy or Refresh failed.

Take a look at Troubleshooting Deploys and Refreshes.

Power Your Documentation With AI

We’re excited to launch our Intelligent Documentation Assistant –  a smarter, faster way to document your data workflows.

Maintaining clear and consistent documentation across pipelines is always a challenge. Coalesce makes it effortless by automatically generating natural language descriptions from your lineage and transformation metadata to create: 

Node & Column Descriptions: Auto-generated, easy-to-understand explanations of column transformations, logic, and business context — no more manual notes or guesswork.
AI-Generated Git Commit Messages: Helpful, context-aware commit messages to keep your Git history clean, descriptive, and useful.

Benefits

How It Helps:

• Reduce Documentation Overhead: Free up time for development while Coalesce handles the docs.

• Maintain Consistency: Ensure standardized documentation across all data projects, teams, and environments.

• Improve Stakeholder Clarity: Make it easier for business users and analysts to understand transformation logic.

• Accelerate Onboarding: Help new team members ramp up faster with auto-generated, clean documentation.

How to Opt-In

AI Features not enabled by default in Coalesce. Organization admins can opt-in to the AI Documentation Assistant by going to Org Settings > Preferences and toggling AI Features.

• Column Lineage now renders correctly.

• Fixed an issue where createdAt and updatedAt fields in and older version of packages caused deployment failures.

In our ongoing efforts to enhance performance and maintainability, we're removing some legacy metadata fields that are no longer needed.

This process is happening in two stages:

• Release 7.14 - Already completed ✅

• Release 7.15 - Coming soonCompleted on March 18, 2025 ✅.

What this means for you:

• No workflows will be disrupted.

• No data will be affected.

When doing a commit, you might see changes for Nodes that you haven’t modified. This is expected when deprecated metadata is removed. You will need to:

1. Making a commit with the changes.

2. Continue on with your workflow.

Example of a commit with metadata changes

Deprecated Properties Removed:

Deprecated fields in 7.15 will affect all Source Node Types regardless of age or activity status. These fields may still appear in our API, but are no longer used in the Node metadata.

• dataset

• table

• metadata.join

• metadata.sourceMapping - already absent from most sources

See our previous changelog post about the changes in 7.14.

AI-Generated Documentation: Automatic Descriptions for Nodes, Columns, and Git Commit Messages

These features are currently in Private Preview. Please reach out to your Coalesce account manager to sign up.

Coalesce is introducing AI-generated descriptions for Node, Columns, and Git Commit messages.

By analyzing your data pipelines lineage and transformation metadata, it creates natural language descriptions. AI-generated descriptions streamlines documentation by creating clear explanations of data transformations and Git commits. Now you can focus on development while making sure your data pipelines are well documented. 

Organization admins can opt-in by going to Organization Settings > Preferences and toggling AI Features.

Updates

• Run results, Column Headers now support numeric names, ensuring your data displays accurately.

• We've temporarily rolled back Workspace Onboarding based on valuable customer feedback. This change was made to ensure the best customer experience possible. We're working on improvements to deliver a refined version in the future. Sign up for our changelog email to keep to date.

Bug Fixes

• We fixed an issue where, when switching tabs in multi-source Nodes the incorrect join string was saved.

Version 7.14.3