May 14, 2024: What’s New in Qlik Cloud?

Links to sheets in Catalog

You can now create a link to a specific sheet as an asset in the Catalog. This allows you to promote specific sheets from apps to public collections and further on a custom home page, helping your analytic consumer to find relevant content faster.

Sharing links to sheets

Removal notice of event from audit service in Qlik Cloud

Qlik is removing the `com.qlik.user-identity.impersonation` from the audits service in Qlik Cloud. Events of this type will no longer appear in the Events panel in your tenant’s management console and responses from the audits API will no longer include this event.

This change is a result of analysis to improve the performance of the audits service. Analysis showed this event is not widely consumed by customers, therefore, the decision has been taken to remove it. In addition, this change will make it possible to surface more usage events to customers through this service.

This change will take effect on July 13, 2024, sixty days from May 14, 2024.

New Direct Access gateway version

Direct Access gateway 1.6.6 introduces new functionality as well as enhancements to existing functionality.

New features and enhancements

Direct Access gateway 1.6.6 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• Support for accessing ServiceNow via Direct Access gateway

  This version introduces support for the ServiceNow (via Direct Access gateway) connector, allowing customers to securely access firewalled ServiceNow data sources over a strictly outbound, encrypted, and mutually authenticated connection.

• Support for new authentication methods when using the following Direct Access gateway connectors:

  • Azure Synapse Analytics: Azure OAuth and Azure Active Directory
  • Azure SQL Database: Azure OAuth and Azure Active Directory
  • Snowflake: OAuth
  • Databricks: Azure OAuth
  • MongoDB: SCRAM-SHA-256 and LDAP

• Enhanced metadata paging when working with ODBC connectors

  With this enhancement, when 10,000 tables or more are retrieved, the tables will be retrieved in batches of 10,000 to prevent timeouts.

• .NET 8.x requirement

  From this version, customers will be required to install both .NET 6 and .NET 8.x in order to work with Direct Access gateway. During installation or upgrade, setup will install them automatically if they are not already installed.

• Improved supportability

  To aid troubleshooting, additional logging has been added that measures the duration of Direct Access gateway requests.

To benefit from the enhancements and resolved issues, customers are encouraged to upgrade at the earliest opportunity. For upgrade instructions and a list of resolved issues, see Upgrading the Direct Access gateway installation