Tonic Structural release information

Learn about what’s in the latest Tonic.ai product releases.
v165
February 3, 2021

Features

Protection Audit Trail now logs enable/disable of Differential Privacy toggle

Support for Memory Optimized tables in SQL Server

Ability to add new relationships in the Foreign Keys section

NULL generator can now be used on columns with uniqueness constraints

New subsetting option: Full Algorithm (default is still Classic Algorithm)

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with retrieving column names when adding FK in Foreign Keys section

resolved conflict when setting generator to consistent on a column with a Constant generator

Switching between email generator and unique email generator now clears state as expected

MySQL point columns no longer halt generation

v159
January 22, 2021

Features

New UUID Key generator

Support for PostgreSQL Client keys

Options to preserve OUIs and Uniqueness in MAC address generator

New HIPAA Address generator

Email generator can be used on synthesized tables

Custom Categorical generators can now be linked

Workspace ID copy button added

Column output data can now be made consistent on other column's data

Spark filtering of tables in Databricks

Improved logging

Bug Fixes

Better handling of times without timezone values in PostgreSQL

UI fixes

Subscriptions and Publications no longer copied in PostgreSQL

v154
December 23, 2020

Features

Improved performance of synthesized tables

Added new Foreign Key Viewer + Remover

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with display of password reset errors

Fixed rendering issue with boundary of some popovers

v152
December 11, 2020

Features

API endpoint test_destination_db_connection added

User can now filter tables by schema in the Database View

Support for Hive + Spark datasource added

Support for synthesis on datetime primary keys

Improvements/Bug Fixes

Improved error messages displayed in the UI

Logging improvements

Synthesis mode improvements

Fixed UI issue with First connection wizard

v145
November 25, 2020

Better logging during job execution

Support for Spark + AVRO files

Various Spark improvements

v142
November 11, 2020

Features

Undo/Redo capabilities for workspace changes

More information in Job Details

New Strict Mode available when generating data via the API

Now supports for AVRO files

Now supports EMR Steps API

Bug Fixes

Error logging enhancements for Spark

Various UI improvements

v132
October 28, 2020

Features

Added support for Spark/Amazon S3 as a data source and destination

Improved Company Name generator

Added support for text and ntext types in SQL Server

Added support for Google Big Query as a data source and destination

Workspace ownership can now be transferred from user to user

Bug Fixes

AWS Commons extension no longer breaks data generations

JSON and XML Mask generator configuration fixes

Minor display fixes

v129
October 14, 2020

Features

Find and Replace generator introduced

Tonic saves a copy of the workspace configuration to job history every time a generation is started

You can now share workspaces with your SSO defined groups

Bug Fixes

Corrected rending issue for column sort option in Database View.

v123
September 29, 2020

Features

Support for PingID SSO

Option to download foreign key file

Social Insurance generator added

Bug Fixes

Test Connection errors now show why the connection failed

V119
September 17, 2020

Features

Added the ability to create post job scripts that will be executed against the destination server at the end of the generation

Added Cross Table Sum generator. Allows summing of rows from another table by partition

Added single sign-on support

Added Enterprise license key support

Added a check to validate the foreign key file before a generation executes

Allow maximum for Integer Key generator

Removed dependency on RabbitMQ

Added ability to have SQL Server and PostgreSQL trust server certificates in workspace editor

Additional logging was added around relationship integrity during subsetting

Added adjustable batch sizes for Oracle

Bug Fixes

Fixed several rendering issues in the table view

Tries multiple connection methods for Oracle

Supports Extended VarChar2s for Oracle

No longer hides foreign key column headings for synthesize mode

Job descriptions for jobs cancelled before they started running are more accurate

Testing the source database connection now works for viewers and auditors

Workspaces are now sorted alphabetically in the workspace drop down

Changing a linked generator now properly breaks the link

Foreign key columns now show up properly without needing a refresh after setting the primary key table to synthesized mode

Expand long column names on hover in the Privacy Hubs audit trail

Workspaces with broken connections to their database can once again be edited

Views no longer show in the list of tables for Oracle databases.

v107
August 20, 2020

Features

Workspace sharing - Allows sharing workspaces between multiple users with different access controls (This is an Enterprise Plan feature)

Added 'In' operator to the Conditional Generator.

Added environment variable to bypass certificate validation when connecting to databases with self-signed certificates.

Schema change detection will now flag columns with null generators that have been made not-null.

Performance

Significantly improved the speed that information is gathered about the source database affecting overall UI performance and schema change detection.

Added additional diagnostic information around query execution times to the logs.

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue where switching table mode to synthesized mode in Database View would not work.

Increase accuracy of error messages on SQL Server when tables fail to get created.

Integer Key generator in Oracle for Number columns now base off of the precision, stopping overflow

Resolved name collision when subsetting with a table that has more than one foreign key to the same primary key.

Fixed preview on tables that use the sequential integer generator.

Changing synthesized row counts from database view now saves properly.

Popover of column name on table view no longer flashes.

Large constant values no longer cause display issues in Database View.

Fixed issue with connection test sometimes failing when using MySQL.

Character Scramble now preserves null values when operation on JSON.

Fixed OID collision issue on Oracle.

Preview no longer fails when using complicated partitioning strategies.

Constant generator no longer loses preview when you click away.

v101
July 31, 2020

Features

ASCII Character Primary Key generator that supports a wider range of characters in the column.

New API Endpoint for getting information on a single data generation job

Key generators now work on unique columns

Improvements to PII Detection:

  • Added detection for columns containing passwords, postal codes, and VINs.
  • Reduced false positives for SWIFT codes, ICD9, ICD10, US Cities

Switched to a new MySQL driver

Make XML Mask generator more human readable

Allow synthesize mode on Conditional generator and Unique Email generator

Add event generator in Oracle

Performance Improvements

UI performance for resolving schema difference

Bug Fixes

Better checking of uniqueness requirements for columns

Fixed constraints on large tables timing out in SQL Server

Fixed conversion issue with XML columns outside of subsets during subsetting

Block subsetting with synthesized tables

Do not allow source and destination to be the same in MySQL

Make preview stay up to date when generator is removed from different view

Fixed vulnerability with lodash

v97
July 15, 2020

Features

Tables on SQL Server can now be updated in an incremental fashion where only the changes since the last generation are processed. More details here.

Added support for customer categorical generator in synthesize mode.

Date truncation generator has been added so you can truncate dates to a specified date part.

Added support for timestamp ranges in PostgreSQL.

Phone number generator now supports multinational phone numbers. The output phone number will match the country/region of the input phone number.

Integer key generator can now operate on an Int64/Long column.

Bugs

Fixed issue where a specifically sized payload could cause the API request to fail.

Geo generator properly passes through null values.

Added back remove table API.

Tables containing unicode characters now work in preserve destination mode on Sql Server.

Improved handling of transaction scopes for SQL Server.

Fixed issue where generators applied through the conditional generator sometimes used their default options during generation.

Generators added through autodetect are now able to be marked consistent/deferentially private.

Resolved multithreading issue using the key generators on tables with linked foreign keys.

SQL Server date columns no longer show time in the table view.

v93
July 1, 2020

Features

Added ability for full name generators to be consistent with partial name generators.

Generator popovers now scroll after reaching a certain height.

Add Random Double generator.

Add ability to delete Tonic account.

Improved job progress tracking for Oracle.

Allow workspaces to be imported and exported.

Added support for conditional generator on SQL Server image columns.

Negative numbers can now be used in the constant generator with numeric columns.

Added support for timezone arrays in PostgreSQL.

Performance Improvements

Significant performance increase when using the continuous generator.

Bug Fixes

No longer displaying out of date conditional generator configuration in the collapsed view.

Fixed issue with not being able to backspace the constant value on a constant generator applied to a numeric column.

Users can no longer duplicate subset targets on the subset configuration page.

Removed conditional generator as a sub-generator choice when using the XML or JSON Mask generators.

Fixed issue where consistency could not be applied to a generator inside the conditional generator.

Loading indicators on the table view are now more consistent.

Continuous generator now works with smaller partitions when generating statistics.

Job details page now scrolls when number of steps is too large for the screen area.

Fixed issue where adding a custom categorical generator inside the JSON Mask generator could cause an error.

Removing a table from the Schema Changes page now properly removes it from the subsetting configuration.

Disabled including tables out of subset was enabled when subsetting was not.

Fixed broken link for API documents on the Job Details page.

Fixed issue where sequential integer generator didn't reset itself between generations.

Forced browser to get new version of assets after each release.

Add SQL injection safety to generators that partition.

Fixed issue with switching between workspaces on the jobs view.

Moved popovers in database view to not be blocking other columns.

Fix issue with attribute info generator failing on empty attributes.

Stopped job progress from updating after job is complete.

Fixed issue with canceled jobs still running if they were cancelled before they could run.

v90
June 17, 2020

Features

Added the ability to specify a domain and enable consistency on the unique email generator

Conditional generator can now be used with the Unique Email generator

Added confirmation step for canceling a generation.

Added support for JSON and JSONB arrays in Postgres.

Performance Improvements

Updates to your workspace are now done through JSON Patch.

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue where a table was unable to be switched to synthesized mode.

Fixed issue where min and max on the random integer generator were not editable.

Fixed issue where multiple changes might not be saved properly if executed within a few milliseconds of each other.

Fixed issue where constraints failed to apply to a large Sql server database.

Fixed display issue where the password input appeared to be filled in on the destination database connection screen.

Swagger docs no longer report enum fields as integers.

Fixed issue where edit, copy, and delete workspace buttons where still clickable even when disabled.

Decreased clickable area on consistency and differential privacy switches.

Fixed issue with NaN values in PostgreSQL double fields.

v87
May 29, 2020

Features

A new subsetting option allows you to process tables that are not included in your subset.

Several Conditional Generator improvements:

  • Conditional Generator can now filter rows by a regular expression.
  • Conditional Generator now supports the following additional generators: Categorical, Custom Categorical, Alphanumeric Key, Numeric String Key, Integer Key.
  • 'Is null' and 'is not null' operators added to conditional generator

Custom Categorical Generator now supports numeric types.

Random timestamp generator can now be added to text columns.

Password managers are now prevented from interfering with the database connection form.

Improved logging for constraint application on SQL server.

Renamed 'private' to 'sensitive' when referring to a column with data that needs to be protected.

Column headers are now red when a column is sensitive but not protected.

Performance Improvements

Workspace updates no longer happen on keystroke and will now wait until you exit the field or popup.

Changed the way the application loads workspaces to increase performance for large workspaces.

Bug Fixes

Fix display issue with Custom Categorical Generator when there were no categories.

Fixed error message when applying random timestamp generator.

Fixed issue with column editor size changing when marking a column as sensitive.

Fixed an issue with xml columns on SQL server

v84
May 12, 2020

Features

Tables can now be filtered by their current mode in the database view.

Added support for the 'contains' operator on the conditional generator.

Company name generator now supports consistency.

Added version check when editing a workspace to better support multitab/multibrowser use.

Multiple users can now edit the same workspace without worrying about race conditions. Note: this is a first step, more multiuser features are in development.

Performance Improvements

Improved speed of tables in mask mode by fixing issue introduced in v76.

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with applying a large number of constraints with SQL Server.

Random boolean, IP address, and random integer generators now work correctly with the conditional generator

Tasks that complete immediately now display correctly in the job details page.

Fixed display issue with data preview button on Privacy Hub.

v83
May 8, 2020

Features

Added a generator for shipping container codes.

Custom Categorical Generator now works on json fields.

Destination database names can now differ from the source for SQL Server.

Job completion time has been added to the Job Details page.

Additional diagnostic tools added to docker containers.

Performance

Column search performance in bulk editor significantly improved.

Removed Intercom

Bug Fixes

Preserving a partitioned table on SQL Server no longer causes an error.

Fixed issue with the Categorical generator when the table is empty.

Fixed issue with the last line break sometimes being removed from the category list on the Custom Category generator.

Fix preserve tables for non-Oracle databases.

Styling fixes for Conditional generator when used in Firefox.

Fixed issue where insert into an XML column can fail on SQL Server when the payload has a large attribute, too many nodes, or too much nesting.

v80
April 28, 2020

Features

You can now apply generators conditionally based on the values within the column.

Added support for array types in PostgreSQL

Added a Custom Categorical generator, which allows you to specify a list of categories for a given column

Starting a data generation via the API will now return the ID of the job

Primary key generators can now be applied in the bulk edit view.

Added additional information on the job details page and in the logging, especially around subsetting.

Return existing refresh tokens if they exist to better enable multiple open sessions for the same account.

Performance

Improved the speed of the integer primary key generator

Improved subsetting performance when subset targets are referenced by large tables

Bug Fixes

Tonic will now ignore tables created by unsupported database add-ons that previously would require the user to truncate.

You may see these tables show up as a schema change alert. Most common ones are spatial_ref_sys and sysdiagrams.

Skip some the relationship checks needed for synthesis when table mode is not set to synthesize.

Fixed display issue where primary key would show as needing a generator for synthesis mode.

Fixed issue where the table drop down on the subset configuration view sometimes rendered in the wrong location.

Json path generators will no longer overwrite objects or arrays.

Fixed issue where identity sequence was not being set correctly on the destination table.

Fix issue when empty strings are present in a column with the numeric string or alphanumeric string primary key generators attached

v74
April 14, 2020

Features

Ability to add generators to primary keys

Support hex strings for inserting into binary columns in SQL Server

Bug Fixes

Replaced browser alert with a toast notification when a job fails to be scheduled

Oracle now returns columns in the order of their ordinal position

Adjusted sizing on subset dropdown

Fixed issue where the progress tracker could fail to write events near the end of a generation.

v73
April 6, 2020

Features

Full Oracle support is out of beta

Users can now generate API tokens to more easily authenticate with Tonic's APIs.

Completion times now show on job details.

Subset configuration area now scrollable.

Added a check to ensure destination version is not older than source version for MS SQL Server.

Security

Upgraded Java version on docker images to resolve security issues.

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue where consistency did not work across multiple workers.

Ensure that subset configuration is validated when the subset configuration page has not been loaded yet.

Fixed issue where Privacy Hub could continue to refresh even after a scan was complete.

Incorrect generators are no longer showing in the MS SQL Server image data type.

Fixed magnifying glass placement on Privacy Hub on field hover.

Fixed various issues with toast notifications. Reset scrollbar position on table selection change in bulk editor.

v72
March 25, 2020

Features

Improved logging when testing a connection

Added MySql 8 compatibility for our collated queries.

Complete overhaul of progress tracking and the job details page. Job Details now has progress bars, spinners, and various icons to present the current status of a job.

Performance

Index restoration parallelized on MySQL.

Foreign keys added to a MySQL table are now added with 'foreign_key_checks=0'.

Tables marked as Preserve Destination now complete significantly faster on SQL Server.

Security

Added TLS support allowing you to use a custom certificate on the Tonic web server.

Encrypted all traffic between containers.

Update third party packages to fix various security vulnerabilities.

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue in MySQL Restore Foreign Key query

Fixed issue when user changes a JSON Mask or XML Mask generator to other generator types

Tiny Int not treated as Boolean in MySQL

Fixed MySql issue with preserved tables having the same name in different schemas

PII Scanner now picks up on zip code data by column name.

PII detection using lookup tables now removes leading and trailing whitespaces and converts all values to lowercase. This fixes our PII detection for cities and states.

Test Connection button no longer holds on to table locks on MySQL databases.

Workspace Name field now receives focus when workspace editor is opened.

Enter key can now be used to save workspace editor.

Allow UUID primary keys as downstream type in subsetting mode.

Fix issue with GUID primary keys when subsetting is enabled.

Long columns names now render properly on Privacy Hub.

Fixed issue with bulk adding consistent generators.

Account creation no longer hangs when server has no internet connection.

Fixed spacing issue with JSON Mask generator interface.

v66
March 10, 2020

Features

Bulk operations on multiple columns in the Database View:

  • Add and remove generators
  • Change privacy status

UI now distinguishes between primary (gold) and foreign keyed (black) columns

Advanced search for columns in the Database View.

Generator select popover on database view is now at feature parity with same popover in Table View.

Ability to manually mark columns as private

Columns with private data that are not protected are flagged as red (Database View only) and have a warning in the generator selector

tonic_worker now has a /health endpoint

Phone Number generator supports integer columns

Differential Privacy warnings now show for Categorical generator when being used on JSON and XML columns

Ability for user to provide their own secret to be used for encrypting both JWTs and database connection info

Ability to change password (under User Settings in the hamburger menu located on the right of the menu bar)

Performance

Preserved tables in MySQL are no longer copied into the preserve schema via SELECT INTO. Instead they are RENAMEd

No longer drop and restore primary keys and indexes in MySQL

Bug Fixes

Better support for 3 byte unicode characters when writing data to masked tables in PostgreSQL

Fixed rare concurrency exception being thrown in progress tracker when jobs are running

Fixed malformed query in SQL Server which is used when subsetting

MySQL handling of character

Additional logging of MySQL index handling

v62
February 19, 2020

Features

Bulk operations on multiple tables in the Database View

Where clause in subset - in addition to a target %, you can now specify a custom where clause as the target for subsetting

URL Generator is more private

PII type is shown in Privacy Hub

Bugs

Styling issues for Chrome and Firefox

Event Ordering defaults corrected br>
Columns with nothing put nulls gave bad data previews

v61
February 11, 2020

Features

Health Endpoints /health added for web server and PII detection server

Non-null values are no longer shown during data preview

Sort by column name in Privacy Hub

Ability to delete a workspace

Columns part of truncated tables are now labelled as such in the Database View

PII Detection now uses the Character Scramble on suspected phone numbers

Support for Noda time in PostgresSQL and throughout the product

Other columns no longer shows in the database view

Email generator now has an excluded domain filter

Subset with Foreign Key Upload File

Performance

Database View UI rendering improvements

UI improvements for MySQL databases with 1000s of tables

Ability to process tables in parallel across all databases. This setting is controlled by the TONIC_TABLE_PARALLELISM environment variable

Faster reads from source database. This affects SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL and should see improvements for reads from the source database across the board

Optimization for SQL Server to improve writes

Better distribution of load to workers

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug in XML generation for Postgres

Reduce rate of false positive when detecting zip codes

Subsetting now properly supports self-referential foreign keys

SQL Server unique identifier columns now properly work with the UUID generator

Privacy hub has better styling for long column names

Fixed issues related to change of focus on Target % input on subset configuration page