5.34 Release Notes - AWS | Harbr Docs Portal v6

New Features

Snowflake shares

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You can now share products and assets over Snowflake, alongside Databricks shares, from the Data sharing page.

Shares use a new Snowflake connector option (called Snowflake Sharing), which you choose when you create a Snowflake connector. Your existing Snowflake connectors keep working exactly as they do today, with no share permissions needed.
The new connector option also supports Cortex Agents for AI Query, and assets created from it are at source.
Snowflake shares are supported in the Harbr MCP.
Connector set up follows the same journey as other newer connectors such as Databricks.

For user guidance, see Data Sharing, Snowflake Shares and Snowflake.

Before you create a Snowflake share, the Snowflake role used by your connector needs the CREATE SHARE privilege.

Please contact your Harbr Account Manager if you are interested in setting up this feature.

Users can now sign in with a one-time code sent to their email address, with no password to set or remember.

The sign-in screen asks only for an email address. The code expires after five minutes, and users can request a new one if it has expired or is invalid.
Users whose email domain uses SSO are still sent to their SSO provider.
Existing users keep their account, organisation and roles, with no need to reset a password or register again.
Invited users are told to sign in with their email address, and there is no step to set a password.
Changing a password from the user profile is no longer available.
Passwordless sign-in can be enabled on its own, or together with self-registration by email domain.

For user guidance, see Your Organization.

Harbr turns this on for your ecosystem. Please contact your Harbr Account Manager to have it set up.

Passwordless Sign-in is only available for platforms integrated with Auth0.

Enabling this setting instantly enforces passwordless sign-in for all users, disabling traditional password authentication.

Self-registration by email domain

People with an approved email domain can now join your platform on their own without waiting for an invitation.

Approved email domains are mapped to an organisation. The first time someone with a matching email address signs in, their account is created in that organisation.
A wildcard entry can send new users from any unlisted email domain to a chosen organisation. Anyone whose domain isn’t approved or covered by a wildcard can’t sign in, and no account is created.
New users get the default roles configured for self-registration, or the General role if none are set. No invitation email is sent, and they’re asked for their first and last name the first time they sign in.
Works with password sign-in and with passwordless sign-in. With passwordless sign-in, the account is only created once the user has entered the one-time code sent to their email address.
Self-registration is configured separately from approved invite domains, which still apply to invitations. Without self-registration, the platform stays invite-only.
Not available on platforms that use Microsoft Entra for sign-in.

For user guidance, see Your Organization.

For operator set-up, see Configuring Self-Registration by Email Domain.

Harbr turns this on for your ecosystem. Please contact your Harbr Account Manager to have it set up.

Self-registration by email domain is only available for platforms integrated with Auth0.

In-app notifications

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Harbr now tells you about activity that matters to you directly in the platform, through the notification bell in the navigation bar.

You are notified when, for example, someone you invited joins, a product you created or subscribe to has refreshed data, or a task you are involved in runs successfully or fails.
Choose which categories of notification you receive from your profile.

For user guidance, see Notifications and Explore Your Profile.

Please contact your Harbr Account Manager if you are interested in setting up this feature.

When In-app Notifications are turned on, as part of the 5.34 release all In-app notifications will be turned on by default. To turn each notification off see Notifications.

Improvements

Visitors to your Open Pages can now find products more easily.

Filter products by group, by publisher (shown with the publisher's logo), and by category and tag.
Products within a section can be sorted.

For user guidance, see Open Pages.

Open Pages - SEO

Product owners can now choose whether search engines list each open product, with a "List this product in search engines" setting on the product's visibility page. Products are listed unless the owner turns it off.

Open Pages also publish a sitemap, so search engines can find every open product.

Data sharing now has its own place in the navigation bar, so you can create and manage all your shares from one page.

For user guidance, see Navigation Bar and Data Sharing.

Faster Spaces start-up

Spaces now start up faster, so you can get to your tools sooner.

Custom EC2 images and start-up script extension

You can now configure the Data Services to build the Spaces ingress proxy instances using your own Amazon Machine Image (AMI) instead of the Harbr specified default. This allows the provision of these instances using an enterprise approved image, with any monitoring, logging or other tooling built in to your specifications. Additionally the Spaces ingress proxy Launch Templates have been extended with reference to an S3 path for custom start-up scripts that will be executed at the end of the Harbr provisioned start-up scripts. This allows for the execution of site specific logic as part of the instance provisioning, such as tooling activation within the AMI. In combination these capabilities allow the management of these long running EC2 instances in a manner that meets your security and cloud operation policies.

For guidance on creating custom extensions to the EC2 start-up scripts see Spaces Cluster UI Proxy: Custom Startup Scripts

If you wish to configure a custom AMI in your environment, please speak to your account manager who will organise a coordination session with Customer Solutions.

Fixes

Each product version now receives a single approval request, even when access is requested more than once.
Updates to folder-type assets from SFTP External connectors now run reliably.
Product release and edit updates are now sent for products whose assets carry custom metadata.
Multiline text fields now resize correctly when the page width changes.
Large at-source Databricks product exports now complete reliably.
Open Pages now list every asset in a product, including large products and products released before Open Pages were set up.
Security improvements across the platform.