Release 9.0.38.1¶

Audit Server OOM Investigation Enhancements¶

To support better troubleshooting of out-of-memory (OOM) issues in the audit server, the following improvements have been made:

Logging Enhancements - Added access logs
- Enriched audit server logs with payload size and unmarshalled payload size

GC and Heap Dump Configuration - Introduced support for configuring the G1 Garbage Collector (G1GC)
- Enabled automatic heap dump generation on OOM

Exception Handling Improvements - Enhanced OOM exception handling to include packet size and additional diagnostic details for easier root cause analysis

Access Control for Metastore and Connection Resources in Unity Catalog¶

• Introduced access control for Metastore and Connection resources in Unity Catalog.
• You can now set and manage permissions for Metastore and Connection resources in Unity Catalog. This gives you more granular control over your data.

Dashboard Enhancements: JDBC Metrics¶

Added a new Connector JDBC Metrics Dashboard with metric panels and an alert to improve visibility into JDBC activity and error detection.

Improved Diagnostic Checks with OAuth for Databricks SQL Analytics and Databricks Unity Catalog Connectors¶

Resolved an issue where diagnostic checks did not work as expected when OAuth was enabled for Dataricks SQL and Dataricks Unity Catalog connectors. Diagnostic checks now function reliably with OAuth authentication enabled.

Enabled Common Diagnostic Checks for Lake Formation Connector¶

Added support for common diagnostic checks in the Lake Formation connector to improve monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.

Improved Retry Logic With Backoff in Lake Formation Connector¶

Updated the Lake Formation connector to retry only retryable errors using exponential backoff with jitter for enhanced stability and performance.

Resolved STS Token Refresh Issue in Lake Formation Connector¶

Fixed an issue that caused the Lake Formation connector to fail when refreshing STS tokens. Authentication now works reliably.

Fixed Issues with Foreign Catalogs in Unity Catalog Connector¶

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Databricks Unity Catalog connector from processing on-demand events for foreign catalogs.
• Fixed a NullPointerException that occurred during resource sync for foreign catalogs.