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Version 2.8.0+

These are the release notes for the v2.8.0 release of Witboost.

Please refer to the official documentation for a more in-depth overview of the released features.

Features​

Policy flags aggregation across the marketplace​

Across the marketplace, policy evaluation flags associated with a Product or Consumable will now include evaluations belonging not only to itself, but also to its descendants in the Consumable hierarchy. For example, a Product associated with a policy validation error, parent of a Consumable associated with an other policy validation error, will show a total of 2 validation errors in its flag indicator.

Discard Deployed Components​

A new action DISCARD has been introduced to transition a component to the NOT DEPLOYED target status. Witboost will mark the component as undeployed without contacting the Tech Adapter. No actual action will be performed on the target technology.

Check the documentation for additional information.

Business Driven Discovery​

This release introduces two major features to enhance business-driven data discovery in Witboost:

  1. Business Concept Map - An interactive visualization in the Marketplace that allows users to explore organizational business terminology and discover data products through business concepts
  2. Knowledge Graph Manager (KGM) - A service that unifies business knowledge from multiple systems into a single, queryable knowledge graph

Business Concept Map​

The Business Concept Map provides an intuitive, visual way to explore your organization's business language and discover data products through business terminology rather than technical names.

Key Features​
Visual Concept Exploration​
  • Interactive graph visualization displaying business concepts as nodes with relationships
  • Concept Schemes representing collections of related business concepts (e.g., HR Vocabulary, Banking Vocabulary)
  • Business Concepts representing specific business terms (e.g., Performance Management, Recruitment, Liquidity)
  • Visual relationships showing hierarchical (broader/narrower) and associative connections between concepts
Business-Driven Discovery​
  • Find products through business meaning - Discover data products by exploring business concepts rather than searching by technical names
  • View related products - See all products associated with any selected concept
  • Navigate related topics - Explore interconnected business areas and discover related concepts
Search & Navigation​
  • Full-text search across concept labels, synonyms, and definitions
  • Expand/collapse views to navigate between high-level categories and detailed concepts

Knowledge Graph Manager (KGM)​

The Knowledge Graph Manager (KGM) is a new Witboost service that acts as an integration and access layer for business knowledge, collecting concepts from multiple sources and exposing them through a unified semantic interface.

  • Multi-source integration - Collects business knowledge from glossaries, catalogs, spreadsheets, databases, and other systems
  • Source adapters - Extensible adapter architecture for connecting any knowledge source
  • RDF/JSON-LD support - Standards-based knowledge representation using RDF and JSON-LD formats
Integration with Business Concept Map​

The Business Concept Map queries KGM to:

  • Retrieve SKOS concept schemes and concepts
  • Execute SPARQL queries for graph traversal
  • Perform full-text searches across concept metadata
  • Link products to business concepts through exact label matching

References​

Documentation on Marketplace​

It is now possible to define and publish a Business-oriented documentation displayed in the Marketplace, aimed at end users and business stakeholders. This documentation is only available for products and consumables (e.g., Output Ports) that are visible in the Marketplace.

Check the documentation for additional information and examples.

New Marketplace Agent in Witty​

The new Marketplace Agent can help the user searching for products on Witboost Marketplace based on a intent, retrieving consumables of product and generating queries.

Check the documentation for additional information and examples.

New documentation structure​

The documentation is now organized by audience (Data Teams and Platform Team), allowing readers to more easily find content matching their level of experience and interests

Issues fixed and minor improvements​

v2.8.0​

  • Lineage Page performance improvements
  • Accessibility improvements
  • LDAP user session improvements
  • Helm chart updates and improvements
  • Sign-out button is now more prominent in the UI
  • Fixed an issue on RBAC scopes drawer that was preventing a scope to be enabled after being disabled
  • Start up actions improved
  • System icons in Builder fixed
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing the environment selector on Edit & Test page to be shown in some cases
  • Fixed an issue on policy panel that was causing it to not highlight the code of an error info
  • Fixed an issue on WCG async validation
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing from deploying a system if its component didn't have the dependsOn field defined
  • Fixed an issue in RBAC that was causing a UI break if one or more entries had a null value