Acquia CDP

2023 Release notes - Customer Data Platform

This webpage describes the updates Acquia made to CDP in 2023. For the latest updates, see Release notes.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - November 15, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Users

Feature

CDP provides the User Admin permission. With this permission, you can:

  • Add new users

  • Edit user profiles

  • Assign permissions to users

  • Deactivate users

  • Activate users that are deactivated

  • Delete users

This feature is available for users with a single tenant.

CDP Studio

Change

The navigation to CDP Studio is enhanced so that you can access the self-service features.

Campaigns

Change

The Enter multiple values dialog box in Campaigns+ > Audience is updated to have improved label and help text.

Campaigns

Change

The Copy campaign dialog box in Campaigns+ is updated to have improved help text.

Campaigns

Fix

CDP displayed incorrect segmentation count for waterfall campaigns.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - October 20, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Platformation

Change

CDP provides SSO SAML assertion comparison to accommodate whitespace variations in configuration and response strings.

Interactive Queries

Change

Trigger to Snowflake DW erasure workflow in IQ is disabled when no pending data erasure requests exist.

User interface

Change

Instana integration tracking is not supported.

Pipelines

Change

To prevent failure of DW push to Snowflake, SourceCustomerNumber is mandatory for events without cookies.

Pipelines

Fix

CDP failed to populate IP addresses in the DW Tracker API because of incorrect casing.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - October 06, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Campaigns+

Change

CDP provides enhanced page titles for Campaigns+ for better navigation and usability. The enhanced page titles reflect the topic and purpose of each page.

Platformation

Change

CDP provides a menu to the tab or focus order. This menu improves accessibility by letting you to open and tab through the options within it.

Integrations

Change

On the Input Connectors page, CDP provides the following sort order for ingestion statuses: (1) Failed (2) In Progress (3) Completed (4) Ready (5) Unpublished

For better organization, CDP also provides a secondary sort order to the Last Completed column.

Integrations

Change

On the Connector Details page, CDP populates the run type and final data timestamp.

Integrations

Fix

In Input Connectors, the Source Files tab on the Ingestion Details page did not display the files as expected.

Integrations

Fix

The Input Connectors status page does not retain the Last Visited tab.

Metrics

Fix

Looker provisioning failed due to upstream push of data.

Pipelines

Fix

ElasticSearch dependencies from Kafka-RT code caused Kafka-RT flow failures.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - September 13, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Metrics

Feature

CDP provides the Copy Dashboard feature to allow users to copy a dashboard from the source folder to another folder.

Integrations

Feature

CDP displays scheduled input connectors on the Batch tab and real-time input connectors on the Real-time tab.

Integrations

Feature

CDP provides the Batch Counter modal to help users to view detailed information of scheduled input connectors.

Pipelines

Feature

CDP pushes client custom attributes in 360 profiles without requiring complex setups.

Data Warehouse

Change

Snowflake Driver is updated to 3.14.0 across various repositories.

Metrics

Fix

Transaction counts sent to CDP using the metrics view were incorrect.

Campaigns

Fix

The Workflow Stuck alert had an issue.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - August 23, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Pipelines

Feature

CDP provides support for dynamic values in the Echo content model to enhance campaign automation, improve efficiency, and increase revenue.

Pipelines

Feature

CDP provides bad data handling for the A360 realtime process.

Data Erasure

Change

Data erasure requests older than 6 months are moved from database to file storage.

Pipelines

Fix

CDP included the inactive 360 rules in the A360 realtime process.

Campaigns

Fix

An error occurred while executing a coupon distribution campaign.

Data Erasure

Fix

The calendar on the Data Erasure page overlapped with the table columns.

Metrics

Fix

CDP displayed an inappropriate error message when Looks with the same names were created.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - July 26, 2023

Area

Type

Description

ML Studio

Change

CDP provides an API integration in the DXP-Web for ML Studio notebook instance status.

ML Studio

Change

CDP provides an updated ML Studio link in the CDP application for easier access.

ML Studio

Change

CDP provides ML Studio navigation in the DXP-Web.

Connector

Change

CDP provides the BM ID of the associated offline event set in the Facebook offline connector. The BM ID helps to get comprehensive data insights.

Real time API check

Change

CDP provides a real time API check for new RT records in Snowflake to ensure timely updates and efficient data processing.

DW Tracker

Change

DW Tracker returns a 403 response code for authorization errors to improve security and access control.

Data Erasure

Change

Data Erasure uses TTL and backup features to ensure data protection and compliance.

Connector

Fix

The SFTP Output Connector could not transfer data reliably.

Campaigns

Fix

The Campaign exclusion filter did not remove the audience.

Data Warehouse

Fix

The DW push to Snowflake task failed due to unpublished entities.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - July 12, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Data Erasure

Fix

Data Erasure anonymized incorrect transaction records with a corrupt RowModified column.

Data Warehouse

Fix

Data from tables with common prefixes such as transaction and transactionitem was incorrectly consolidated into the transaction table in the public schema.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - June 28, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Connector

Fix

Incorrect session fields were populated with the default mapping of Google Analytics 4.

Campaigns

Fix

An error ocurred while executing a coupon distribution campaign.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - June 22, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Connector

Change

CDP provides an input connector to pull data from Google Analytics 4.

Pipelines

Change

Users can perform summary transformations on public schema tables to reduce costs incurred in pushing data from staging to public schema.

GDPR

Change

CDP displays the latest status of a step in the Bulk Data Erasure Status list.

Connector

Change

The meta HBase table for the UDM plus schema is updated to ensure data population when pushing data through API.

Campaigns

Fix

Campaigns failed when new columns were added to tables with Campaign Optimizer view.

Connector

Fix

The Batch Counters tab displayed incorrect count for valid processes.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - June 02, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Metrics

Change

The Looker API is updated to v4.0 .

Metrics

Fix

In Metrics, users could not copy Looks using the Copy command.

Campaigns

Fix

The campaigns failed on Snowflake in shadow mode.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - May 24, 2023

Area

Type

Description

GDPR

Feature

CDP provides the bulk data erasure process for tenants who use the Snowflake database.

Integrations

Change

CDP provides a tooltip for Batch Identifier in Execution History for input connectors.

Integrations

Change

CDP displays the connector details page on clicking the Connector link for input connectors.

Integrations

Change

The CDP user interface is updated to display the Interactive Queries menu item appropriately.

Integrations

Change

In Integrations, the Sources submenu is renamed to Input Connector and the Destinations submenu is renamed to Output Connector.

Pipelines

Change

The CDP database is updated to prevent pushing empty incremental tables to Snowflake.

Pipelines

Change

CDP supports multi-destination for campaigns and reports.

Machine Learning

Change

CDP clears the obsolete ML fields on snowflake customer summary BI main script.

Platformation

Fix

The Smart Compaction workflow resurfaced deleted records in the transaction item table.

Integrations

Fix

In Add Integrations, the Date and Time Format field accepted invalid values.

Pipelines

Fix

The merge query failed due to duplicate records of IDs in DW tables.

Pipelines

Fix

During daylight saving, the Epoch milliseconds for the campaign date filter started from 01:00:00 AM.

Pipelines

Fix

The output connector was unable to convert the negative Epoch time data to human readable timestamps.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - April 12, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Integrations

Feature

CDP provides the data source, status, last successful execution, and execution history details for input connectors.

Connectors

Change

Facebook Marketing API is updated to v16 .

Campaigns+

Fix

CDP failed to load the Audience tab in Campaign+.

Campaigns+

Fix

The Exclude customers who filter was automatically added while creating a new campaign. In certain instances, users could not remove this filter

Campaigns+

Fix

Users could not select content for the exclude filter when the OR operator was selected in the include filter.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - March 15, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Google Ads API

Change

Google Ads API for Google customer match and Google offline conversions is updated to v13.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - February 01, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Interactive Query

Change

For the BI workflow, which is upgraded to Snowflake architecture, CDP updates the values for the Category, Source, and Type fields in the A1Status table. This information is used to determine the data processing and refresh status in CDP.

Customer Data Platform Release Notes - January 06, 2023

Area

Type

Description

Data erasure

Feature

CDP provides Exact Match Only filter on the New Delete Request page in Data Erasure.


The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and is not warranted to be error-free. If you encounter any errors, contact Acquia Support.