Release notes
This article documents the ongoing releases of Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) features and products.
April 2024
Cognite is moving to a quarterly release cadence. The next main release is scheduled for June 2024.
New and updated features
Cognite Data Fusion
In Charts:
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To assess monitoring jobs, use Alerts in selected time frame. This section displays the number of alerts that would have been triggered based on your settings. Use this info to determine appropriate alert threshold values. (Beta)
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For a detailed view of time series values at a specific moment, select Slider from the tools menu. Use this setting to compare different time points and observe trend changes.
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The maximum number of raw data points in a chart increases from 500 to 100,000.
On Canvas:
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We're introducing a new user experience for finding and adding data to a canvas. Select Add data, enter a query in the search field, then use the left sidebar to filter the search results by category and the Filters button to refine each category. This user experience aligns with how you find data in CDF.
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To collaborate with colleagues who haven't signed in to CDF, share your canvas by entering their email address under Share. They'll get an email invitation with a link to the canvas, and will need to authenticate to get access.
In Search:
The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.
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Sort names or counts in ascending or descending order () in the search results, in the list of categories, and on the data on the search details pages.
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The sidebar has two sections: a set of default categories that apply to all data models, and a list with other categories that adapt to each company's specific data model.
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If you search using Copilot, it identifies relevant categories and applies filters to the search results. You can modify the filters or select a different category to adjust the results.
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To visualize data on an X- and Y-axis, select the statistics icon on the Copilot results page. Note that this feature is only available for the categories listed under Other categories.
For setting up 3D content:
Set thresholds for your 3D environment to highlight important attributes or criteria and identify patterns and anomalies in your scenes. Visualize the thresholds in the 3D scene by applying a color overlay.
For access management:
We're introducing group membership within groups in Manage Access.
To give access, admins previously had to create groups in their IdP, add users to these groups, and then link the IdP groups to groups in CDF. Now, admins can directly add users to groups within CDF, streamlining the access management process. You can also use this feature when you create or edit a group.
When you've added the required capabilities to the group, select an option under members:
- Externally managed: Provide the group ID of a group with users in your IdP. This is the existing solution.
- List of users lets you add and remove users. The listed users will have access given by the capabilities in the group.
- All user accounts gives access to capabilities in the group for all user accounts in the organization. Use this option carefully, it may lead to unintended access granted to every user in the organization.
For data onboarding:
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Use the new Cognite Kafka extractor to extract data from Apache Kafka.(Beta)
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Use the Cognite File extractor to extract documents from OpenText Documentum and OpenText Documentum D2. You'll also find these improvements to the file extractor:
- In the configuration file:
- Use the new
filter
section for advanced filtering logic. - Use the new
delete-behavior
section to detect hard or soft-deleted files. - Use the new
metadata-to-raw
section to ingest file metadata to a table in CDF RAW.
- Use the new
- For connections to Sharepoint Online sites:
- Connect to multiple sites using the
paths
parameters. - Configure sites by pasting the URL directly into the configuration file.
- Dynamically discover sites by adding several sites to the
filter
section.
- Connect to multiple sites using the
- The file extractor now supports ingesting files larger than 5 GiB.
- In the configuration file: