Release Notes October 2025
Orchestrators
The below Orchestrators release notes provide information about new features and updates in the pre-release version 5-latest.
These updates are set available as an opportunity to test and validate that things work as expected in your environment before we promote them to the official release 5-stable.
To test orchestrators with 5-latest, simply set DATAOPS_RUNNER_IMAGE_TAG to 5-latest in your project's variables.yml configuration file.
See Orchestrators Pre-Release Versions for more information.
Improvement dbt 1.10 compatibility in MATE
Added full support for dbt 1.10 in MATE, ensuring seamless integration with the latest dbt core version. This enhancement guarantees compatibility with new dbt functionalities and improved execution reliability across orchestration workflows.
Improvement Enhanced Secrets Manager Resilience
Improved AWS Secrets Manager handling by introducing better fallback behavior when the instance role is not available. The system now logs warnings instead of failures, enhancing reliability and reducing unnecessary pipeline interruptions.
Improvement Expanded Warehouse Size Support
Introduced support for SMALL and XSMALL Snowpark-optimized warehouse sizes, allowing more cost-effective and flexible resource configurations.
Improvement Expanded User Parameter Support in SOLE
Enhanced SOLE to add support for additional Snowflake user parameters that were previously unsupported. This improvement ensures full alignment within SOLE and prevents unintended background alterations.
Improvement Object Dependency Handling in SOLE
Added support for defining object dependencies within SOLE using the depends_on keyword. This enhancement ensures that dependent objects are automatically created in the correct order, prevents cyclic dependencies, and enforces valid object hierarchy rules for more reliable deployments.
Improvement Optional Schedule Adjustment for Fivetran Jobs
Updated the Fivetran integration to allow optional changes to the schedule_type, ensuring orchestrator actions continue even if certain API calls fail. This change improves reliability and stability while enabling customers to manually adjust job schedules if needed.
Improvement Configurable Failure Handling for Empty Paths in DataPrep
Enhanced the DataPrep Orchestrator to allow configurable handling of empty source paths or buckets. By default, empty paths now log a warning but complete successfully, while users can optionally configure the orchestrator to fail on empty paths using the DATAOPS_DATAPREP_FAIL_ON_EMPTY_PATH environment variable. This improvement provides greater flexibility and prevents unnecessary errors from impacting reporting workflows.
Bug Fix Enhanced Procedure Support in SOLE
Fixed an issue where procedures without statements were not supported in SOLE. This improvement ensures accurate detection and management of all procedure types during import and deployment.
Bug Fix SnowSQL Stability Improvements
Fixed an issue where SnowSQL processes could hang while executing large SQL files in HOL jobs. This enhancement ensures smoother, faster, and more reliable execution of heavy workloads.
Bug Fix User Alteration & Network Policy Fix
Resolved an issue affecting user alterations linked to network policies, ensuring smooth updates and consistent user-policy associations.
Bug Fix Enhanced User Type Change Handling
Improved handling of user type transitions between Service and Legacy Service users, ensuring seamless updates and consistent state management across environments.
Bug Fix Masking Policy Precision Fix
Fixed an issue where masking policies could lose precision or length information for data types such as NUMBER, DECIMAL, VARCHAR, CHAR, BINARY, and TIME. After this update, all specified precision and length parameters are correctly preserved during creation, reading, and state management of masking policies, eliminating unexpected configuration drift and ensuring consistent, accurate data protection.
Bug Fix dbt Test Report Compatibility
Fixed compatibility issues in the Generate dbt Test Report script for dbt 1.8 unit tests, ensuring correct test result aggregation across all supported dbt versions.
Bug Fix Share Restrictions Handling Improved
Fixed an issue causing inconsistencies when sharing from higher-tier accounts to lower-tier accounts. Shares now respect the SHARE_RESTRICTIONS parameter correctly.