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    • starburst galaxy > Starburst Galaxy release notes

    Starburst Galaxy release notes #

    Starburst Galaxy is updated regularly. The following release notes provide highlights of user-facing changes available with specific new deployments.

    22 Sep 2022 #

    • Add support for read-only Snowflake catalogs on Google Cloud.

    20 Sep 2022 #

    • Add new location privilege. If you receive an error when attempting to CREATE or ALTER a schema or table in object storage, set this privilege on your roles.

    26 Aug 2022 #

    • New catalog: public preview, read-only support for Google BigQuery warehouses.
    • New catalog: public preview, read-only support for MongoDB or MongoDB Atlas BigQuery data platforms.
    • A previous query editor update allows running more than one selected query at the same time. Today’s release adds a Run all (limit 1000) option to the Run button, so that selecting the queries to run is no longer required.

    18 Aug 2022 #

    • New onboarding workflow when signing up for a new Galaxy account. Gathers information on Galaxy use cases and preferred data sources.
    • Update the UI to manage roles and privileges to clarify the process.

    11 Aug 2022 #

    • Add cluster autoscaling feature from navigation menu Admin > Cluster configuration. Set custom minimum and maximum number or worker nodes to trigger automatic scaling up to handle large, complex queries.

    4 Aug 2022 #

    2 Aug 2022 #

    • Add support for connecting a Snowflake database as a data source. Supported as a public preview on AWS and Azure clouds.

    30 July 2022 #

    • Improve user interface to change your current Starburst Galaxy role.

    28 July 2022 #

    • Add option to never suspend a cluster.

    26 July 2022 #

    28 June 2022 #

    • Add support for connecting to Azure Synapse.
    • Persist catalog and schema selection in the query editor across sessions.

    16 June 2022 #

    14 June 2022 #

    17 May 2022 #

    4 May 2022 #

    29 Apr 2022 #

    • Autocomplete for SQL functions and inline documentation in query editor.
    • Dedicated cloud settings section for AWS to manage IAM roles.

    15 Apr 2022 #

    • Download query result set directly from the query editor. Allows result sets with more than 1000 rows.

    22 Mar 2022 #

    • Add support for connecting to SQL Server data sources.

    8 Mar 2022 #

    • Add support for personal query history. See your role’s query history if you do not have permissions to view all queries.
    • Autocomplete SQL grammar in the query editor. Valid keyword such as SELECT, FROM, WHERE, LIKE, and others are suggested when appropriate to speed up your query writing.

    3 Mar 2022 #

    18 Feb 2022 #

    Jan 2022 #

    • Authentication with a cross account IAM role in S3 catalogs.

    2021 #

    Initial deployments to first public launch with cluster management, a set of supported catalogs, query editor,authentication and access control, and more.