Release Notes
July 15th, 2021
Features
​Smart Linking generators added - train neural networks to mimic the implicit relationships across columns.
Webhooks now support sending JSON object literals.
MongoDB expanded generators on allowed data types and consistency for multiple types of paths.
Clarified error messages in the UI.
Constant generator will now show a true/false drop down when added to a boolean field.
Bug Fixes
Improved performance of schema change detection on large workspaces.
Handle long generator names in the UI.
Allow notifications container to start up without TONIC_URL env variable.
Updated TLS cipher negotiation between Tonic and AWS Aurora Mysql.
Full name will now be consistent with first and last name.
Null values in Sql Server xml fields are now handled properly.
Optimized memory usage on very large Sql Server rows.
Reduced the number of times statistics have to be calculated for Json Mask Generator, Xml Mask Generator, and Regex Mask Generator.
Fixed issue where S3 + Spark jobs would not start.
June 21st, 2021
Features
Preserve N bytes for MAC address generation
Modeling panel in table view can now be resized
Repartition and coalescing added for Databricks
Subset preview on small screen improved
Speed up PII Scan for MySQL
Updated subsetting logs
Increment default fingerprint schema version
Bug Fixes
Disable Generate Data during page load
Fix constant generator timestamp issue
Handle case when Spark not installed on EMR cluster
Increase Big Query limit of 10GB
Memory optimized tables fixed when tearing down SQL Server
Shift + Select in Bulk in MySQL fixed
June 11th, 2021
Features
Webhooks can now be created to alert external systems when a job has finished.
Magnifying glass now appears in Collection View in Mongo to show additional values for a given path.
Post Job Scripts can now be put in a specific order by user.
MongoDB expanded to support comments, notifications, current date generator, collection search.
Generators can be found by metadata now as well as name.
Copy workspace action limited to owner only.
Remove tutorial video.
Show UI warnings for Oracle when rows are rejected by sqlldr.
Bug Fixes
Data in identity columns is now properly inserted into Redshift databases.
User defined types are now dropped in the correct order when tearing down a SQL Server database.
Job status API no longer returns information about other jobs.
Make the polling for jobs resilient to failed checks.
Even better upstream null handling.
May 27th, 2021
Features
Added support for Db2 iSeries
Added support for Delta Table on Databricks
Added support for reading IAM roles off Databricks machines instead of providing IAM credentials
Added a UI notification when your Tonic version is 10+ versions behind
Added support for MongoDB 2.4 and 3.4
Added the ability to automatically skip tables that match a regular expression via an environment variable
Added the ability to obfuscate values inside an array in Mongo
Added the ability for the JSON Mask Generator to parse json objects containing escaped characters and surrounded by quotes
Added the ability to automatically cast for mismatched types during downstream subsetting
Added a Regex Generator
Added a Generative Adversarial Network Generator
Bug Fixes
Refreshes subset preview when table mode is changed
Improved handling of IAM credentials on Databricks when an IAM instance profile is present
Hide "Other" in generator dropdown when there are no additional generators
April 29th, 2021
Features
Added support for MongoDB
Added support for Amazon Redshift
Delta Table support on Databricks
Upgrades the subset preview with UI improvements
Bug Fixes
Better handling of adding foreign keys pointing to non-primary keys
Checks for Postgres version mismatch
Remove generator button now works in synthesis mode and on key columns
Added support to break subsetting cycle when both Foreign Key and Primary Key are nullable
April 20th, 2021
Features
Subset Preview
Support for Google SSO, including ability to read group membership
Java UDFs on Spark for Character Scramble and Mac Address generators
Added custom value processor extension framework
Bug Fixes
Auto-increment on MySql bug fix
No longer remote auto-increment on primary keys or on preserved tables
Fixes composite foreign key issue with one nullable column in key
Incremental mode now works when a rowversion or timestamp column is on the table
Fixed collation issue for MySQL 8
April 8th, 2021
Features
Add environment variable for altering MySql batch size during CopyRows
Ability to search label on Foreign Key viewer
CSV Generator support for tab/multi delimiters
Better performance tracking in the UI for upstream and downstream tables
Sunset Classic Subsetting in favor of the now default Full algorithm
Bug Fixes
Fix auto_increment issue on bigint columns
Don't fail if foreign key column has been removed
Fix Auto Increment on MySql when dropping indexes
Better support for JSON during MySql generation
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March 31st, 2021
Features
Support added for non-primary key auto-incrementing columns
MySQL no longer requires locks on the source DB during generations
Generators are now easier to remove in the UI
Reference tables can now be defined in subsetting configurations
Enhancements to the Foreign Key UI
Added a clickable link to the Job Start notification
New Character Separated Value generator added
Bug Fixes
Performance optimizations for the Address generator
Improved UI experience for workspaces with thousands of tables
Optimized memory usage for large workspaces during data generation jobs
March 12th, 2021
Features
Subsetting upstream has better handling for table relations with multiple constraint groups where one of the constraint groups is often null
Differential Privacy is now available for Continuous generator
Added new Tonic logos
Generators are not allowed on foreign key columns that are also primary keys
Subsetting is now functional when Primary Key Generators are applied to primary keys
Bug Fixes
Resolved data upload for MySQL
Oracle 19 helper improvements
HIPAA address generator fix for zip codes
Refresh data table after Foreign Keys update
March 3rd, 2021
Features
Password reset functionality added
Search and Sort columns when adding Foreign keys in Tonic
Nullable Foreign keys are now an option when adding them in Tonic
New Date Shift generator added
Foreign Keys are now sorted alphabetically by default
Ability to set a starting point in the sequential integer generator
Bug Fixes
Fix in how we handle multi-column primary keys in subsetting
@ mentioning style improvements for Commenting
UI fixes for Foreign Keys section
Enhancements to statistics generation with conditional + categorical generators
Copying Databricks workspace works as expected
February 17th, 2021
Features
Support for Db2 LUW added
New option to set strictness for schema changes
Added support for pg_repack extension
Added support for more Key generators in Spark
Added support for tinyint and smallint data types in subsetting
Bug Fixes
Better cache handling for subsetting
Improvements for NULL checking in Consistency On
Fixed issues in Subsetting Preview
Reduced collisions in Unique Email generator
Workers no longer crash when unable to obtain a queued job
Empty Post Job Scripts now throw a warning rather than failing the job
Better log messages with primary key generators fail
Fixed arithmetic overflow error when calculating SQL Server database size
Fixed upstream exhaustion in subsetting
February 3rd, 2021
Features
Protection Audit trail now logs enable/disable of Differential Privacy toggle
Support for Memory Optimized tables in SQL Server
Ability to add new relationships in the Foreign Keys section
NULL generator can now be used on columns with uniqueness constraints
New Subsetting option: Full Algorithm (default is still Classic Algorithm)
Fixed issue with retrieving column names when adding FK in Foreign Keys section
resolved conflict when setting generator to consistent on a column with a constant generator
Switching between email generator and unique email generator now clears state as expected
MySQL point columns no longer halt generation
January 22nd, 2021
Features
New UUID Key generator
Support for PostgreSQL Client keys
Options to preserve OUIs and Uniqueness in MAC address generator
New HIPAA Address generator
Email generator can be used on synthesized tables
Custom Categorical generators can now be linked
Workspace ID copy button added
Column output data can now be made consistent on other column's data
Spark filtering of tables in Databricks
Improved logging
Bug Fixes
Better handling of times without timezone values in Postgres
UI fixes
Subscriptions and Publications no longer copied in Postgres
December 23rd, 2020
Features
Improved performance of synthesized tables
Added new Foreign Key Viewer + Remover
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue with display of password reset errors
Fixed rendering issue with boundary of some popovers
December 11th, 2020
Features
API endpoint test_destination_db_connection added
User can now filter tables by schema in the Database View
Support for Hive + Spark datasource added
Support for synthesis on datetime primary keys
Improvements/Bug Fixes
Improved error messages displayed in the UI
Logging improvements
Synthesis mode improvements
Fixed UI issue with First connection wizard
November 25th, 2020
Features
Better logging during job execution
Support for Spark + AVRO files
Various Spark improvements
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November 11th, 2020
Features
Undo/Redo capabilities for workspace changes
More information in Job Details
New Strict Mode available when generating data via the API
Now supports for AVRO files
Now supports EMR Steps API
Bug Fixes
Error logging enhancements for Spark
Various UI improvements
October 28th, 2020
Features
Added support for Spark/S3 as a data source and destination
Improved Company Name generator
Added support for text and ntext types in SQL Server
Added support for Google Big Query as a data source and destination
Workspace ownership can now be transferred from user to user
Bug Fixes
AWS Commons extension no longer breaks data generations
JSON and XML mask generator configuration fixes
Minor display fixes
October 14th, 2020
Features
Find and Replace Generator introduced
Tonic saves a copy of the workspace configuration to job history every time a generation is started
You can now share workspaces with your SSO defined groups
Bug Fixes
Corrected rending issue for column sort option in the Database View
September 29th, 2020
Features
Support for PingID SSO
Option to download foreign key file
Social Insurance Generator added
Bug Fixes
Test Connection errors now show why the connection failed
September 17th, 2020
Features
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Added the ability to create post job scripts that will be executed against the destination server at the end of the generation
Added Cross Table Sum generator. Allows summing of rows from another table by partition
Added single sign on support
Added Enterprise license key support
Added a check to validate the foreign key file before a generation executes
Allow maximum for Integer Key generator
Removed dependency on RabbitMQ
Added ability to have SQL Server and Postgres trust server certificates in workspace editor
Additional logging was added around relationship integrity during subsetting
Added adjustable batch sizes for Oracle
Bug Fixes
Fixed several rendering issues in the table view
Tries multiple connection methods for Oracle
Supports Extended VarChar2s for Oracle
No longer hides foreign key column headings for synthesize mode
Job descriptions for jobs cancelled before they started running are more accurate
Testing the source database connection now works for viewers and auditors
Workspaces are now sorted alphabetically in the workspace drop down
Changing a linked generator now properly breaks the link
Foreign key columns now show up properly without needing a refresh after setting the primary key table to synthesized mode
Expand long column names on hover in the Privacy Hubs's audit trail
Workspaces with broken connections to their database can once again be edited
Views no longer show in the list of tables for Oracle databases.
August 20th, 2020
Features
​Workspace Sharing - allows sharing workspaces between multiple users with different access controls (This is an Enterprise Plan feature)
Added 'In' operator to the Conditional Generator.
Added environment variable to bypass certificate validation when connecting to databases with self signed certificates.
Schema change detection will now flag columns with null generators that have been made not-null.
Performance
Significantly improved the speed that information is gathered about the source database affecting overall UI performance and schema change detection.
Added additional diagnostic information around query execution times to the logs.
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue where switching table mode to synthesized mode in Database view would not work.
Increase accuracy of error messages on Sql Server when tables fail to get created.
Integer Key Generator in Oracle for Number columns now base off of the precision, stopping overflow
Resolved name collision when subsetting with a table that has more than one foreign key to the same primary key.
Fixed preview on tables that use the sequential integer generator.
Changing synthesized row counts from database view now saves properly.
Popover of column name on table view no longer flashes.
Large constant values no longer cause display issues in Database view.
Fixed issue with connection test sometimes failing when using MySql.
Character Scramble now preserves null values when operation on JSON.
Fixed OID collision issue on Oracle.
Preview no longer fails when using complicated partitioning strategies.
Constant Generator no longer loses preview when you click away.
July 31st, 2020
Features
ASCII Character Primary Key Generator which supports a wider range of characters in the column.
New API Endpoint for getting information on a single data generation job
Key Generators now work on Unique Columns
Improvements to PII Detection:
Added detection for columns containing passwords, postal codes, and VINs.
Reduced false positives for SWIFT codes, ICD9, ICD10, US Cities
Switched to a new MySQL driver
Make XML generator more human readable
Allow synthesize mode on Conditional Generator and Unique Email Generator
Add event generator in Oracle
Performance Improvements
UI performance for resolving schema difference
Bug Fixes
Better checking of uniqueness requirements for columns
Fixed constraints on large tables timing out in SqlServer
Fixed conversion issue with XML columns outside of subsets during subsetting
Block subsetting with synthesized tables
Do not allow source and destination to be the same in MySQL
Make preview stay up to date when generator is removed from different view
Fixed vulnerability with lodash
July 15th, 2020
Features
Tables on Sql Server can now be updated in an incremental fashion where only the changes since the last generation are processed. More details here.
Added support for customer categorical generator in synthesize mode.
Date truncation generator has been added so you can truncate dates to a specified date part.
Added support for timestamp ranges in Postgres.
Phone number generator now supports multinational phone numbers. The output phone number will match the country/region of the input phone number.
Integer key generator can now operate on an Int64/Long column.
Bugs
Fixed issue where a specifically sized payload could cause the API request to fail.
Geo generator properly passes through null values.
Added back remove table API.
Tables containing unicode characters now work in preserve destination mode on Sql Server.
Improved handling of transaction scopes for Sql Server.
Fixed issue where generators applied through the conditional generator sometimes used their default options during generation.
Generators added through autodetect are now able to be marked consistent/deferentially private.
Resolved multithreading issue using the key generators on tables with linked foreign keys.
Sql server date columns no longer show time in the table view.
July 1st, 2020
Features
Added ability for full name generators to be consistent with partial name generators.
Generator popovers now scroll after reaching a certain height.
Add Random Double generator.
Add ability to delete Tonic account.
Improved job progress tracking for Oracle.
Allow workspaces to be imported and exported.
Added support for conditional generator on Sql Server image columns.
Negative numbers can now be used in the constant generator with numeric columns.
Added support for timezone arrays in Postgres.
Performance Improvements
Significant performance increase when using the continuous generator.
Bug Fixes
No longer displaying out of date conditional generator configuration in the collapsed view.
Fixed issue with not being able to backspace the constant value on a constant generator applied to a numeric column.
User's can no longer duplicate subset targets on the subset configuration page.
Removed conditional generator as a sub-generator choice when using the xml or json mask generators.
Fixed issue where consistency could not be applied to a generator inside the conditional generator.
Loading indicators on the table view are now more consistent.
Continuous generator now works with smaller partitions when generating statistics.
Job details page now scrolls when number of steps is too large for the screen area.
Fixed issue where adding a custom categorical generator inside the JSON mask generator could cause an error.
Removing a table from the Schema Changes page now properly removes it from the subsetting configuration.
Disabled including tables out of subset was enabled when subsetting was not.
Fixed broken link for API documents on Job Details page.
Fixed issue where sequential integer generator didn't reset itself between generations.
Forced browser to get new version of assets after each release.
Add sql injection safety to generators that partition.
Fixed issue with switching between workspaces on the jobs view.
Moved popovers in database view to not be blocking other columns.
Fix issue with attribute info generator failing on empty attributes.
Stopped job progress from updating after job is complete.
Fixed issue with canceled jobs still running if they were cancelled before they could run.
June 17th, 2020
Features
Added the ability to specify a domain and enable consistency on the unique email generator
Conditional generator can now be used with the unique email generator
Added confirmation step for canceling a generation.
Added support for JSON and JSONB arrays in Postgres.
Performance Improvements
Updates to your workspace are now done through Json Patch.
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue where a table was unable to be switched to synthesized mode.
Fixed issue where min and max on the random integer generator were not editable.
Fixed issue where multiple changes might not be saved properly if executed within a few milliseconds of each other.
Fixed issue where constraints failed to apply to a large Sql server database.
Fixed display issue where the password input appeared to be filled in on the destination database connection screen.
Swagger docs no longer report enum fields as integers.
Fixed issue where edit, copy, and delete workspace buttons where still clickable even when disabled.
Decreased clickable area on consistency and differential privacy switches.
Fixed issue with NaN values in Postgres double fields.
May 29th, 2020
Features
A new subsetting option allows you to process tables that are not included in your subset.
Several Conditional Generator improvements:
Conditional Generator can now filter rows by a regular expression.
Conditional Generator now supports the following additional generators: Categorical, Custom Categorical, Alphanumeric Key, Numeric String Key, Integer Key.
'Is null' and 'is not null' operators added to conditional generator
Custom Categorical Generator now supports numeric types.
Random timestamp generator can now be added to text columns.
Password managers are now prevented from interfering with the database connection form.
Improved logging for constraint application on Sql server.
Renamed 'private' to 'sensitive' when referring to a column with data that needs to be protected.
Column headers are now red when a column is sensitive but not protected.
Performance Improvements
Workspace updates no longer happen on keystroke and will now wait until you exit the field or popup.
Changed the way the application loads workspaces to increase performance for large workspaces.
Bug Fixes
Fix display issue with Custom Categorical Generator when there were no categories.
Fixed error message when applying random timestamp generator.
Fixed issue with column editor size changing when marking a column as sensitive.
Fixed an issue with xml columns on Sql server
May 12th, 2020
Features
Tables can now be filtered by their current mode in the database view.
Added support for the 'contains' operator on the conditional generator.
Company name generator now supports consistency.
Added version check when editing a workspace to better support multitab/multibrowser use. Multiple users can now edit the same workspace without worrying about race conditions. Note: this is a first step, more multiuser features are in development.
Performance Improvements
Improved speed of tables in mask mode by fixing issue introduced in v76.
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue with applying a large number of constraints with Sql Server.
Random boolean, IP address, and random integer generators now work correctly with the conditional generator
Tasks that complete immediately now display correctly in the job details page.
Fixed display issue with data preview button on privacy hub.
May 8th, 2020
Features
Added a generator for shipping container codes.
Custom Categorical Generator now works on json fields.
Destination database names can now differ from the source for Sql Server.
Job completion time has been added to the Job Details page.
Additional diagnostic tools added to docker containers.
Performance
Column search performance in bulk editor significantly improved.
Removed Intercom
Bug Fixes
Preserving a partitioned table on Sql Server no longer causes an error.
Fixed issue with the Categorical Generator when the table is empty.
Fixed issue with the last line break sometimes being removed from the category list on the Custom Category Generator.
Fix preserve tables for non-Oracle databases.
Styling fixes for Conditional Generator when used in Firefox.
Fixed issue where insert into an XML column can fail on Sql Server when the payload has a large attribute, too many nodes, or too much nesting.
Apr 28, 2020
Features
You can now apply generators conditionally based on the values within the column.
Added support for array types in Postgres
Added a custom categorical generator, which allows you to specify a list of categories for a given column
Starting a data generation via the API will now return the ID of the job
Primary key generators can now be applied in the bulk edit view.
Added additional information on the job details page and in the logging, especially around subsetting.
Return existing refresh tokens if they exist to better enable multiple open sessions for the same account.
Performance
Improved the speed of the integer primary key generator
Improved subsetting performance when subset targets are referenced by large tables
Bug Fixes
Tonic will now ignore tables created by unsupported database add-ons that previously would require the user to truncate.
You may see these tables show up as a schema change alert. Most common ones are spatial_ref_sys and sysdiagrams.
Skip some the relationship checks needed for synthesis when table mode is not set to synthesize.
Fixed display issue where primary key would show as needing a generator for synthesis mode.
Fixed issue where the table drop down on the subset configuration view sometimes rendered in the wrong location.
Json path generators will no longer overwrite objects or arrays.
Fixed issue where identity sequence was not being set correctly on the destination table.
Fix issue when empty strings are present in a column with the numeric string or alphanumeric string primary key generators attached
Apr 14, 2020
Features
Ability to add generators to primary keys​
Support hex strings for inserting into binary columns in Sql Server
Bug Fixes
Replaced browser alert with proper Toast notification when a job fails to be scheduled
Oracle now returns columns in the order of their ordinal position
Adjusted sizing on subset dropdown
Fixed issue where the progress tracker could fail to write events near the end of a generation.
Apr 6, 2020
Features
Full Oracle support is out of beta
Completion times now show on job details.
Subset configuration area now scrollable.
Added a check to ensure destination version is not older than source version for MS Sql Server.
Security
Upgraded Java version on docker images to resolve security issues.
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue where consistency did not work across multiple workers.
Ensure that subset configuration is validated when the subset configuration page has not been loaded yet.
Fixed issue where Privacy Hub could continue to refresh even after a scan was complete.
Incorrect generators are no longer showing in the MS Sql Server image data type.
Fixed magnifying glass placement on Privacy Hub on field hover.
Fixed various issues with toast notifications. Reset scrollbar position on table selection change in bulk editor.
Mar 25, 2020
Features
Improved logging when testing a connection
Added MySql 8 compatibility for our collated queries.
Complete overhaul of progress tracking and the job details page. Jobs Details now has progress bars, spinners, and various icons to present the current status of a job.
Performance
Index restoration parallelized on MySql.
Foreign keys added to a MySql table are now added with 'foreign_key_checks=0'.
Tables marked as 'Preserve Destination' now complete significantly faster on SQL Server.
Security
Added TLS support allowing you to use a custom certificate on the Tonic web server.
Encrypted all traffic between containers.
Update third party packages to fix various security vulnerabilities.
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue in MySql Restore Foreign Key query
Fixed issue when user changes a JsonMask or XmlMask generator to other generator types
Tiny Int not treated as Boolean in MySQL
Fixed MySql issue with preserved tables having the same name in different schemas
PII Scanner now picks up on zip code data by column name.
PII detection using lookup tables now removes leading and trailing whitespaces and converts all values to lowercase. This fixes our PII detection for cities and states.
Test Connection button no longer holds on to table locks on MySql databases.
Workspace Name field now receives focus when workspace editor is opened.
Enter key can now be used to save Workspace Editor.
Allow UUID primary keys as downstream type in subsetting mode.
Fix issue with GUID primary keys when subsetting is enabled.
Long columns names now render properly on Privacy Hub.
Fixed issue with bulk adding consistent generators.
Account creation no longer hangs when server has no internet connection.
Fixed spacing issue with JSON Mask Generator interface.
Mar 10, 2020
Features
Bulk operations on multiple columns in the Database View:
Add and remove generators
Change privacy status
UI now distinguishes between primary (gold) and foreign keyed (black) columns
Advanced search for columns in the Database view.
Generator select popover on database view is now at feature parity with same popover in Table View.
Ability to manually mark columns as private
Columns with private data that are not protected are flagged as red (Database View only) and have a warning in the generator selector
tonic_worker now has a /health endpoint
Phone Number Generator supports integer columns
Differential Privacy warnings now show for Categorical Generator when being used on JSON and XML columns
Ability for user to provide their own secret to be used for encrypting both JWTs and database connection info
Ability to change password (under User Settings in the hamburger menu located on the right of the menu bar)
Performance
Preserved tables in MySQL are no longer copied into the preserve schema via SELECT INTO. Instead they are RENAME'd
No longer drop and restore primary keys and indexes in MySQL
Bug Fixes
Better support for 3 byte unicode characters when writing data to masked tables in Postgres
Fixed rare concurrency exception being thrown in progress tracker when jobs are running
Fixed malformed query in Sql Server which is used when subsetting
MySQL handling of character
Additional logging of MySQL index handling
Feb 19, 2020
Features
Bulk operations on multiple tables in the Database View
Where clause in subset - in addition to a target %, you can now specify a custom where clause as the target for subsetting
URL Generator is more private
PII type is shown in Privacy Hub
Bugs
Styling issues for Chrome and Firefox
Event Ordering defaults corrected
Columns with nothing put nulls gave bad data previews
Feb 11, 2020
Features
Health Endpoints /health added for web server and PII detection server
Non-null values are no longer shown during data preview
Sort by column name in privacy hub
Ability to delete a workspace
Columns part of truncated tables are now labelled as such in the Database view
PII Detection now uses the Character Scramble on suspected phone numbers
Support for Noda time in PostgresSQL and throughout the product
Other columns no longer shows in the database view
Email Generator now has an excluded domain filter
Subset with Foreign Key Upload File
Performance
Database View UI rendering improvements
UI improvements for MySQL databases with 1000s of tables
Ability to process tables in parallel across all databases. This setting is controlled by the TONIC_TABLE_PARALLELISM environmental variable
Faster reads from source database. This affects SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres and should see improvements for reads from the source database across the board
Optimization for SQL Server to improve writes
Better distribution of load to workers
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug in XML generation for Postgres
Reduce rate of false positive when detecting zip codes
Subsetting now properly supports self-referential foreign keys
SQL Server uniqueidentifier columns now properly work with the UUID generator
Privacy hub has better styling for long column names
Fixed issues related to change of focus on Target % input on subset configuration page
Jan 2, 2020
Features
Support consistency for the email generator on a unique column
Rename and consolidation of docker images. Please contact [email protected] before upgrading for a new docker-compose file
Massive refactor of subsetting, mostly behind the scenes. User facing improvements:
Support for all databases (not just Postgres and MySQL)
Heroku no longer requires a temporary database
Performance boost
Categorical generator now supports differential privacy (https://www.tonic.ai/post/differential-privacy-comes-to-tonic/)
Bug Fixes
Fix for certain unicode characters in table/schema names
Fix for character scramble on numerical columns
Several fixes for air gapped deployments
Significant performance improvements for the privacy scan
Dec 27, 2019
Features
Privacy Hub more details here: https://tonic.ai/post/introducing-privacy-hub/​
Support for SQL Server partition functions and partition schemes
Data Preview in Database View
Suggested Generators now show privacy scan suggested generator when applicable
Bug Fixes
Better support for SSH Tunneling over private IPs
Nov 15, 2019
Features
Generator improvements:
Email Generator can be used on columns with a unique constraint
Character scramble now supports consistency
Filename and Email generators make use of character scramble as opposed to character substitution (more secure). They both also now support consistency.
More improvements to PII Detection, specifically speed, resilience, and better name detection
Ability to duplicate workspaces (see screenshot below)
Show generators applied on column in bulk view when table is truncated
Support for SSH Bastion when connecting to source and output database
Added new ENV variable for controlling parallelism for MySQL generation
Bug Fixes
Fixed bad description on FK Relationships upload help text
Fixed layout issue in Replacement Panel
Fixed issue with ICD10 PII detection
Fixed routing issues on Heroku
Oct 29, 2019
Features
Support for JSON datatype in MySQL
More easily remove a generator from a column in the bulk view
Improved PII detection
Ability to change table modifiers on Database View
Subsetting preview of included and excluded tables
Performance
Increase speed of restoring indexes for MySQL
Bug Fixes
Fixed bad timestamp for jobs when still in queued state
Fixed bug found when using some versions of MySQL where dropping an index on a FK column results in an error
Fixed description for algebraic generator
Resolves an issue that was causing the job details page to fail to load.
Fixed MySql failing to create foreign keys because the db/schema wasn't specified in all cases
More logging
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Oct 14, 2019
Features
XML generator - use XPath to target one or more values for a generator. This implementation is very similar to the current JSON generator
Partitioning is out of beta. The Continuous and Event generators can be partitioned by either a Categorical or Passthrough generator
Support for computed columns in SQL Server
Re-sizing of autodetect and bulk view table trees, for long table names
Schema change notifications now use small icons
Active page is highlighted on sidebar and remember sidebar state
Check for correct user permissions on source database for SQL Server when first connecting (MySQL and Postgres already have this)
Gzip or br compress api responses
Performance
Faster Schema generation for SQL Server
Only SELECT required columns when gathering rows for data generation
Improved UI perf for SQL Server databases with a large number of objects
Bug Fixes
Properly send ALL logs to the log viewer in the Jobs UI
Continue when (most) errors occur while running pre-data script on SQL Server
Fixed issue blocking successful CSV data generation
No longer incorrectly filter out tables in the DBO schema in sql server
Improved logging around some SMO tasks for Sql Server
Sep 20, 2019
Features
New UI and Schema View
Ability to generate in place (MySQL only)
Support consistency across databases and runs via the new TONIC_STATISTICS_SEED env variable
Performance
Many MySQL performance improvements
Bug Fixes
Fixed potential deadlock issue in MySQL
No longer re-loads session when fetching a new refresh token
Better handling of comments inside JSON blobs that are being masked
Sep 5, 2019
Features
Auto-detect now supports booleans
Users can now click on data cells to see large text strings
PII reports (see screenshot below)
Performance
Additional multi-threading added in various places for data generation
Process generated tables before passthrough to encourage fast failure
New environmental variables so users can change the connection timeout, and min and max pool size
Bug Fixes
Support for Constant Generator on MySQL Blob columns
Support MySQL
setdatatypeImproved logging for PII detection
Multiple fixes involving switching between synthesize, excluded, and masked
Progress tracking added to BigQuery
POST to /api/autodetect/config will generate a default config first if one does not exist.
Multiple other small fixes
Features
PII Detection is now available locally
Column widths on the table are now saved between sessions
Truncating tables is now prevented when it will lead to FK violations when generating data
Ability to more quickly add JSONPaths
Schema Diff now auto-fixes issues with model due to schema changes
Performance improvements to data generation, and JSON Generator in particular which is now multi-threaded
Bug Fixes
Ability to handle NULL database values in the JSON Mask Generator
JSON Paths that start with the same prefix, e.g. $.value and $.value1 no longer cause an error
No longer cutting off list of tables in Auto Detect dialog
Better clean up of excluded_tables and scaled_tables in Fingerprint when tables are dropped from DB
Fixed issue preventing data generation on Postgres Standby DBs (i.e. Read replicas in RDS nomenclature)
Features
Can now hit 'Enter' on any input in the Database connection form and it will submit the form
Bug Fixes
Better layout for JSON Paths with long names
Fixed a 'missing key' prop issue in front end
Adding too many escapes to MySQL data when writing to CSV (prior to upload).
We now automatically truncate mysql tables before data generation begins
Features
JSON generator now supports consistency
Better JSON Mask UI
Name Generator now has consistency option
Can run auto detect without sending logs
API Documentation
Better tracking of Allos Console logs
Better progress tracking
Bug Fixes
Intermittent failures of data table are fixed
GetAllTablesAndColumns no longer fails when table has columns with multiple constraints on them
No longer front end crash when subset target table no longer exists
Use Custom Data button location has been fixed
Performance improvements
Fixed a myriad of issues in the First Connection Experience when using a custom data source
Additional fixes for the JSON Mask Generator
Fixed issue created in v16 where changing a table's mode to 'TRUNCATE' wasn't being saved properly
Features
Insight into whether database generation job is running or queued (was not distinguished in prior versions)
Ability to cancel a currently running database generation job
Ability to assign generators by jsonpath for the JSON Mask Generator
Tonic now prevents users from entering identical source and destination database information
When connecting to a database Tonic now defaults the Port to the standard port for the database selected.
Tonic now checks if the db account has necessary permissions and warns if it does not.
Subset button in header now reflects the state of your subset configuration
Google BigQuery now allows user to specify an input and output Dataset for generation.
Bug Fixes
Better escaping of schema and table names in mysql
Workspace edit dialog file upload inputs (Foreign Key upload and BigQuery Service Account upload) were out of sync
No longer show stale data in the table UI when switching between tables quickly
We were not properly handling queries to pg_catalog tables where columns had recently been dropped from tables
Fix to allow synthesizing on mysql tables that have weird characters in table name
Fix error message which occurs when user checks permissions on a Postgres database with 0 tables
Fix to properly keep in sync the source and destination database names in Sql Server
Constant no longer appears twice in the generator list for JSON columns in Postgres
Table search dropdown now clears search query once user hits 'enter' or closes dialog
CreatedDate in allos_db tables now has correct values by default
Ability to Filter data table based on SQL WHERE clauses
Support for Google Big Query
Continuous generator now supports nullable columns
Remember last visited Workspace and Table and navigate directly to them when reloading page
Added on-premises installation option of one Docker image
FK Columns are greyed out in UI
And several additional bug fixes
note: we've transitioned from major.minor.hotfix to simple integer based versioning
Features
Autodetect Generators (beta) - this feature that scans the source dataset and by analyzing both the structural properties (data types, column names, foreign key constraints) and the content of each data field it take a first pass at picking generators and linking generators.
Ability to define custom foreign key relationships, this addresses the issue where a database doesn't have any FK constraints or it's missing some
Algebraic Generator - when you link 3 or more columns (A, B, C, ...) with the algebraic generator applied it will search the space of functions (A + B = C, A / B = C, ... ) to find the function that best describes the algebraic relationship between the linked columns.
We now support ability to specify via an ENV variable which schemas to include
Email generator now supports a custom email domain
Renamed Gaussian generator to Continuous
Added TIN generator
First two digits are always 00
Guaranteed uniqueness. We use each of the 10M possibilities once and only once except when needing to be consistent (see above). This generator cannot be used in tables with more than 10M unique rows
Format preserving. If the cell value uses a hyphen we add a hyphen, otherwise we do not.
Upgraded pg_dump to v11
Features
A handful of generators now support a notion of consistency across the database. In short, when consistency is turned on for a specific generator, the same input column will map to the same output column across an entire database (where it's turned on). Consistency can also be used to preserve the carnality of the source dataset in the generated data.
We now use row count instead of scale factor for synthesizing data
Synthesize mode now supports starting with a table that's empty
Better handling of DateTimeOffset data type in Sql Server
Added hostname generator
Re-factored of how generators are executed during data generation
We now show a tutorial video the first time a user logs in
Renamed Table Mode 'Excluded' to 'Truncated'
Build scripts now build win10-x64 assets
Changed the (!) failure icon in the jobs dropdown to a button so it's more obvious
UI and server versions now show when you click on the Tonic logo
CSVs with headers now map to column names
Bug Fixes
No long require a file to exist for the google_application_credentials env variable
Couldn't generate data if we used the MAC address generator with colons
Support for MySQL datetimes with 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Improved onboarding experience for first time users
Dropped walkthrough tutorial from 2.3.0
Renamed platform from Allos to Tonic
Additional support for date fields
Added Random Timestamp generator
Added Event generator
Partitioning for select generators (behind a feature flag) - contact [email protected] if you want to try this feature
Added walkthrough tutorial and demo dataset for new users
IP Generator now uses 100% IPv4 by default
Fixed bad UX with Min/Max in Random Integer generator
Improved Gaussian Generator performance
Added user menu
The distribution of nulls in the source dataset is now persisted in transformed columns in the generated dataset
Added SSN Generator
Improved Address Generator (Zip-> City->State hierarchy preserved when columns using the address generator are linked)
Support for CSV files as a datasource
Support for arrays in Postgres
Improved PII detection
Support for Postgres databases that don’t have passwords
Renamed several generators
Categorical —> Shuffle
Random String —> Hash
String Mask —> Character Substitution
Text Mask —> Text Scramble
Added generator description callouts
Support for SQL Server as a datasource
JSON masking generator
Subsetting (Postgres only) - we integrated our open source subsetting tool​
Support for MySQL as a datasource
Synthesized Mode (beta) - in addition to masking, you can now synthesize any number of rows in a table while preserving foreign key relationships
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