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R24 Release Notes

Mage Data R24.0.2 delivers important enhancements, support for Dynamic Data Masking on the new R24 platform and other usability improvements from the previous version. This document outlines the new features and enhancements delivered in version R24.0.2 of the Mage Data solution.

Mage Data’s R24 platform aims to empower organizations to effortlessly achieve proactive compliance, unparalleled efficiency and scalability across the enterprise data ecosystem. This release streamlines data discovery, masking, and governance for complete data protection. Our vision is to revolutionize how organizations manage, protect, and leverage their data allowing them to reduce compliance costs, automate risk mitigation and achieve accelerated innovation through secure data sharing.

Since our inception in 2004, Mage Data has always provided innovation and leadership in sensitive data discovery, static data masking, dynamic data masking, monitoring, and sensitive data for enterprise databases and applications.

At Mage Data we have always attached the utmost importance to customer feedback this has helped us to develop new features and improvements to enhance our solution based on real customer challenges, use cases, requirements, and market demand. Therefore, challenges encountered by our customers are usually resolved by periodically upgrading existing Mage Data installation to the latest version available.

Thank you for being a Mage Data customer or partner and providing your valuable feedback.

Mage Data R24.0.2 Support Matrix

Supported Databases

Supported Extract-Mask-Load Combinations

Mage Data’s EML module enables users to extract data from a source, anonymize it, and subsequently load it into a designated destination. This approach guarantees that the original data remains unchanged while providing a secure version suitable for non-production environments. Additionally, the EML module facilitates seamless integration with various data sources and destinations, catering to a wide range of organizational requirements.

Supported SaaS and ERP Applications

Native connectors for Dynamics 365, ServiceNow is on the roadmap. In the meanwhile, to discover and mask data in these applications, extract the data into a supported file format or use the Mage APIs to plug into your ETL processes.

Supported File Stores

Supported File Types

Framework

Security Updates

Updated libraries and security fixes

All libraries have been updated to the latest versions, ensuring vulnerabilities are addressed and overall security is enhanced.

New Feature

Helpful Hints

Introduced dynamic helpful hints explaining important terms used in live section of the conversational Test Data Author screens

Enhancement

General bug fixes

General usability improvements and bug fixes have been implemented to enhance the overall user experience.

Improved stability

Stability improvements have been made to ensure a more reliable and consistent user experience.

Macros for converting Templates from older versions to R24.0.2

Excel macros are now available that can convert a Template exported from older versions and make it compatible with R24.0.2

Policy Author

  • Users can now adjust the configuration of the anonymization method assigned to a data classification with fewer clicks
  • Current method and new method are now clearly labeled in the comparison tables

Bug Fixes

Policy Author

  • Fixed an issue where some of anonymization method properties were not displayed correctly in the comparison table shown in Policy Author screens
  • Fixed an issue where users were unable to edit the configuration of some anonymization methods using the Policy Author screen

Improved stability

Stability improvements have been made to ensure a more reliable and consistent user experience.

Sensitive Data Discovery

Enhancement

Improved configuration for excluded fields

Improved configuration screens to exclude specific fields or fields matching or partially matching certain keywords from the discovery process

All supported datastores

Sort order and length of columns

The sort order and length of database columns are now being captured

All supported datastores

Static Data Masking

New Feature

Extract Mask Load (EML) from Any to Any database

Ability to Extract entire data or a subset of data from any supported database, mask and load to any other supported database

All supported databases

AI-based masking for description fields in structured fields

Support for an AI-based masking method, which can identify and mask sensitive fields in free-text, comment or description fields in structured datasources like databases, structured files (e.g. csv, parquet, avro) and semi-structured files (e.g. JSON, xml etc.)

All supported databases and file types

Enhancement

Performance Enhancements

Improved performance of static data masking by parallel processing validations performed on tables before the masking process.

All supported datastores

Improved Logging

  • The final log message displayed in the conversational Test Data Author screen and the logs section of the Job screen will now display additional information regarding the overall status of a completed job allowing users to know whether the job has completed successfully, completed with warnings or ended with errors.
  • Users can also now see the total number of tables/files that have been masked successfully, are still being processed or have errored out in the same widget.

All supported datastores

Enhanced user privilege checks

The privilege checks of database users has been enhanced to cover more scenarios in the Test Data Author screen

All supported datastores

Dynamic Data Masking

New Feature

Support for Dynamic Data Masking on the new platform

Ported over support for Dynamic Data Masking on to the new Mage Data R24.x platform

Oracle, SQL Server