These release notes describe new features, improvements, and corrected issues in each Tamr Core release.

See our Security page for the latest security updates and resources.

Tamr Core Releases

Important Information for All Releases

Upgrading Tamr Core to a New Release

Follow the upgrade instructions in the Tamr Core documentation for the version to which you are upgrading. If the version to which you are upgrading has patch releases, Tamr strongly recommends installing the latest patch to ensure you have the latest fixes and security enhancements.

Depending on the version from which you are upgrading, you may need to install required checkpoint releases as part of your upgrade path.

Required Checkpoint Releases

When you upgrade Tamr Core, you must upgrade to each of the intervening checkpoint versions before upgrading to a later version.

The following Tamr Core releases are checkpoint releases:

v2022.002
v2022.001
v2021.002
v2020.016
v2020.004

The upgrade utility prevents you from upgrading past a checkpoint version. For example, the following upgrade paths are allowed: v2020.017 -> v2021.002, v2021.001 -> v2021.002. These upgrade paths are prevented: v2020.016 -> v2021.003, v2019.019 -> v2021.002.

Installing Patch Releases

For every software release version that has a patch, Tamr strongly recommends that you upgrade to the most recent patch. To install the most recent patch, follow the upgrade instructions and supply the version number of the patch as the version for your upgrade.

If you want to upgrade directly to a patched version, specify the --skipCheckpointReleaseValidation flag when installing Tamr Core. For information, see Upgrading.

Obtaining Release Binary Files

Contact Tamr Support for release binary files for installation and upgrade. Checksums are available for binary validation.

Additional Resources

The Help Center is a self-guided knowledge base with troubleshooting tips and procedures.

Tamr Core 2023 Releases

v2023.003.1 patch
v2023.003.0
v2023.002.1 patch
v2023.002.0
v2023.001.0

v2023.003.1 Patch Release Notes

This patch release corrects the following issues:

When working with categorization projects, the UI became unstable when attempting to load large amounts of data.
The status for Core Connect export jobs in the UI was still listed as RUNNING when the jobs were 100% complete.
Core Connect now supports Snowflake JCBC driver version 3.13.29.
Security improvements.

v2023.003.0 Release Notes

New Features and Improvements

This release includes the following new features.

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9

Tamr Core now can be deployed on the RHEL 9 operating system. See Requirements for Installing Tamr Core for all supported operating systems.

Two dot_product transformation functions

math.dot_product: Computes the dot product of the input arrays.
math.normalized_dot_product: Computes the normalized dot product between two vectors of numbers using the Model Assurance Criterion.

See Functions for more details.

API operations for canceling incomplete and pending activities
In the instance resource, invoking the :cancel operation attempts to cancel all incomplete (including pending) activities for the instance, including :

Incomplete backups.
Incomplete project imports.
Incomplete project exports.
Incomplete dataset create operations, and roll-back any changes.
Incomplete dataset delete operations, and roll-back any changes.
Any other incomplete operations, and roll-back any changes.
Incomplete dataset transactions that are not associated with an operation, and roll-back any changes.
If there is no error canceling any activity, the operation returns success; otherwise it returns the first error encountered. Examine the server logs to identify any canceled activities.

See the API Reference for more information.

Functionality to poll disk utilization and stop jobs before disk is exhausted
To prevent disk utilization approaching 100%, the Tamr system now monitors free space in storage locations to which Tamr Core and its supporting services are configured to write. If any of these storage locations drops below 20% free space, the health check reports the system status as unhealthy and an alert displays in the user interface. The health check message and the Tamr logs describe which storage system or systems have less than 20% free space, and which configured directories are associated with them.

If the free space drops below 10%, Tamr cancels any running jobs, including backups, project imports, and so on. This behavior is also triggered if any storage system drops below 10GB free.

Free space must be brought back above 10% for the system to resume running jobs, and above 20% for it to return to healthy.

Several new configuration variables are available to configure this behavior:

TAMR_STORAGE_LEVEL_WARN: Fraction of free space below which the system will become unhealthy. Default 0.2 (20%).
TAMR_STORAGE_LEVEL_STOP: Fraction of free space below which the system automatically cancels jobs. Default 0.1 (10%).
TAMR_STORAGE_LEVEL_POLL_INTERVAL: The interval at which Tamr Core checks the storage level of configured storage locations. Default: 1m (1 minute).

See System Health Status for more information.

Fixed Issues

This release corrects the following errors.

Removed the DAG viewer from the job details dialog in order to resolve an issue introduced by a related dependency. Found in: v2023.002.0. Fix versions: v2023.003.0.
Upgrade fails due to insufficient root disk space. Found in: v2022.002.1. Fix versions: v2023.003.0, v2023.002.1. The --skipEnvironmentValidation upgrade flag now excludes all validators.
Note: Use this flag with caution. It allows the upgrade process to proceed even with an invalid system configuration, which will cause the process to fail.
While renaming field names in S3 json export (s3 json), an error occurred when a mergedArrayValuesDelimiter value was not provided. Found in: v2023.002.0. Fix versions: v2023.003.0. Now, a default value of || is used when none is provided by the user.
Re-promotion of golden record project missing rule update for certain attributes. Found in: v2022.012.1. Fix versions: v2023.003.0. This issue has been fixed.

Known Issues

The Group Records page can return a blank page. Workaround: Complete schema mapping and update the unified dataset.

v2023.02.1 Patch Release Notes

This patch extends the --skipEnvironmentValidation upgrade flag to exclude all validators.
Note: Use this flag with caution. It allows the upgrade process to proceed even with an invalid system configuration, which will cause the process to fail.

v2023.002.0 Release Notes

New Features and Improvements

This release includes the following new features.

Add ability to disable live preview on Group Records page
You can now control whether the live preview of the results of record grouping appears: an Enable Preview toggle is now included on the Group Records page. Turning preview off can speed up editing of the record grouping definitions when many edits need to be made at once. It is recommended, but not required, that you re-enable preview before saving and running record grouping to allow you to review your changes before committing them.
New Core Connect API parameter to keep data types
This release adds an option, simplifiedDataTypesEnable, for Core Connect JSON exports to S3 and serverfs. When you set simplifiedDataTypesEnable to false, data is exported using the data types registering for the dataset you are exporting within Tamr Core. By default, simplifiedDataTypesEnable is true, which maintains the previous behavior of JSON exports: data types are simplified and all columns are exported as arrays of strings, unless flattenEnable is also true, in which case all columns are exported as strings.
- When simplifiedDataTypesEnable=true && flattenEnable=false, all data is exported as array of string type.
- When simplifiedDataTypesEnable=true && flattenEnable=true, all data is exported as string type.
- When simplifiedDataTypesEnable=false, data is exported matching the type for its column as defined in the dataset service (regardless of the setting of flattenEnable).

Fixed Issues

This release corrects the following errors.

Non-functional Max Learned Pair UI checkbox. Found in: v2022.011.0, v2022.012.0. Fix versions: v2023.002.0. This release addresses two issues with the Max Learned Pair setting in the Edit Project dialog. Previously, the value for this setting was reset to 0 if the browser was refreshed. In addition, editing the value in one project updated the value within the UI for all projects. Both errors have been fixed.
NullPointerException on EmrFileSystem.exists. Found in: v2023.001.0. Fix versions: v2023.002.0. This release fixes an issue on AWS scale-out deployments. Spark jobs no longer fail when a file doesn't exist on S3.
New keys for ingest endpoints are also included for export endpoints. Found in: . Fix versions: v2023.002.0. Previously, Core Connect import-related JSON keys (policyIds, primaryKey, profile, recipeId, truncateTamrDataset) were also being shown in the Swagger examples for export endpoints. These superfluous keys have been removed from the export Swagger examples.
S3 client can't upload large files (+5GB). Found in: v2022.009.0. Fix versions: v2023.002.0. This release corrects an error that prevented the Tamr Core S3 client from uploading files larger than 5GB to S3.

v2023.001.0 Release Notes

New Features and Improvements

This release includes the following new feature:

Upgrade the Hadoop/Spark libraries for single-node deployments
Upgraded the version of Spark used by Tamr Core to Spark 3.1 3. Starting with this release, Tamr Core uses Spark 3.1.3 instead of Spark 2.4.5, which it used in previous releases. The upgrade to Spark 3.1.3 takes place automatically as you upgrade to this release.

For more information, see Upgrading Tamr Core.

Fixed Issues

This release corrects the following error:

Pair not appearing after Non-ES Backup Restoration in project with record grouping. Found in: v2022.006.0, v2022.011.0. Fix versions: v2023.001.0. The Reindex API now reindexes record groups when Record Grouping is enabled.