Release Notes - Data & AI

📄️ Syntasa 9.1.0

Syntasa 9.1 delivers major enhancements across collaboration, security, cloud infrastructure, notebook experiences, AI-powered assistance, governance, analytics, and developer productivity. This release focuses on improving enterprise-grade security, streamlining workflows, enabling flexible cloud deployments, and enhancing collaboration across teams.

📄️ Syntasa 9.0.1

This update introduces necessary bug fixes and enhancements to Spark-on-Kubernetes (K8s) workloads, particularly around dependency management, initialization scripts, and runtime efficiency for both batch jobs and interactive notebooks.

📄️ Syntasa 9.0.0

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📄️ Syntasa 8.3.2

This release delivers major improvements to Superset integration, enhanced Kubernetes networking and automation, and multi-cloud consistency fixes. It also includes optimizations for DonorAI and general system cleanup to improve performance and maintainability. The update is part of our ongoing effort to simplify operations, unify analytics, and deliver a smoother, more responsive platform experience.

📄️ Syntasa 8.3.1

This release delivers key enhancements that improve scalability, security, and usability across the platform, including private network support in GKE, more flexible Google Sign-In, updated Superset role management, and automated installer configuration. It also addresses critical bugs affecting notebooks in GCP, predictive analytics in Superset, on-prem job deployments, and Kubernetes runtime monitoring, resulting in a more stable and reliable experience for all users.

📄️ Syntasa 8.3

In this version, improvements have been made to notebooks, Git, and Superset, which is the platform for visualization enhancements. The update also includes a new feature to establish a primary Git repository within the Syntasa environment. Additionally, support has been added for implementing CORE KubIC into AWS with a specific deployment and CI/CD structure. Numerous bugs were also addressed.

📄️ Syntasa 8.2.1

This version minor point release mainly focusing on upgrading services and fixing bugs.

📄️ Syntasa 8.2

Syntasa version 8.2 was focused on improving the stability and usability of the user interface along with a few other updates and changes to help make a better user experience.

📄️ Syntasa 8.1

In this version, several improvements to notebooks, EMR, Spark and Conda have been included. We’ve also added a few new features to the Audience module, the ability to use Cytoscape in notebooks, and taken care of numerous bugs.

📄️ Syntasa 7.3.1

Available in August 2024, Syntasa version 7.3.1 is a compact release that focuses on fixing bugs within OnPrem and Azure installations.

📄️ Syntasa 7.3

Available in June 2024, Syntasa version 7.3.0 adds new functionality and improved stability to the notebook features, introduces a new visualization tool, and many improvements to ease the administration and management of your Syntasa environment.

📄️ Syntasa 7.2.1

Available in March 2024, Syntasa version 7.2.1 is a smaller version that adds Apache Spark Web UI to the Syntasa notebook and JupyterLab notebook features. This enables users to monitor and manage jobs and resources used by the notebook.

📄️ Syntasa 7.2

Available in October 2023, Syntasa version 7.2.0 introduces an expansion to notebooks with JupyterLab integration, an upgrade to the embedded visualization tool, several new database connection integrations, and user experience improvements.

📄️ Syntasa 7.1.2

Available in July 2023, Syntasa version 7.1.2 provides several quality-of-life improvements.

📄️ Syntasa 7.1.1

Available in May 2023, Syntasa version 7.1.1 provides a smaller scope than other releases but introduces a significant feature with MLflow integration and updates to the main menu.

📄️ Syntasa 7.1

Available in January 2023, the latest version of the Syntasa platform provides further improvements to the integrated Jupyter notebooks, notably notebook collaboration; new features including RStudio integration and app import/export that can be used to bring sample apps into your environment; and additional security and user experience improvements.

📄️ Syntasa 7.0

Available in October 2022, the latest version of the Syntasa platform provides a major under-the-hood update with the upgrade to Spark 3, notable improvements for notebooks, additional options and updates to runtimes, and bells and whistles improving the user experience.

📄️ Syntasa 6.4

Available in September 2022, the latest version of the Syntasa platform provides improvements to the Audience module, adds configuration options to the platform and recently added features, and fixes bugs recently identified.

📄️ Syntasa 6.3

Available in July 2022, the latest version of the Syntasa platform provides new features improving user experience and addressing several system administrators' needs for security and IT regulations. Also, the included improvements add bells and whistles to recent new features like integrated notebooks.

📄️ Syntasa 6.2

Available in May 2022, the latest version of the Syntasa platform brings two highly-requested features, integrated notebooks and native real-time streaming jobs, to the product. We've also further improved the product assistant and added several new database and file types that can be used as inputs.

📄️ Syntasa 6.1

Available in November 2021, the latest version of the Syntasa platform introduces Airflow as a new job execution manager that brings new capabilities in job creation and management. There are also many updates to security and connection options as well as numerous user experience improvements.