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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Features
New UI and Schema View
Ability to generate in place (MySQL only)
Support consistency across databases and runs via the new TONIC_STATISTICS_SEED environment variable
Performance
Many MySQL performance improvements
Bug Fixes
Fixed potential deadlock issue in MySQL
No longer re-loads session when fetching a new refresh token
Better handling of comments inside JSON blobs that are being masked
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
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
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
Features
Support consistency for the email generator on a unique column
Rename and consolidation of docker images. Please contact support@tonic.ai before upgrading for a new docker-compose file
Massive refactor of subsetting, mostly behind the scenes. User facing improvements:
- Support for all databases (not just Postgres and MySQL)
- Heroku no longer requires a temporary database
- Performance boost
Categorical generator now supports differential privacy (https://www.tonic.ai/post/differential-privacy-comes-to-tonic/)
Bug Fixes
Fix for certain unicode characters in table/schema names
Fix for character scramble on numerical columns
Several fixes for air gapped deployments
Significant performance improvements for the privacy scan
Features
Generator improvements:
- Email Generator can be used on columns with a unique constraint
- Character scramble now supports consistency
- Filename and Email generators make use of character scramble as opposed to character substitution (more secure). They both also now support consistency.
More improvements to PII Detection, specifically speed, resilience, and better name detection
Ability to duplicate workspaces
Show generators applied on column in bulk view when table is truncated
Support for SSH Bastion when connecting to source and output database
Added new environment variable for controlling parallelism for MySQL generation
Bug Fixes
Fixed bad description on FK Relationships upload help text
Fixed layout issue in Replacement Panel
Fixed issue with ICD10 PII detection
Fixed routing issues on Heroku
Features
Support for JSON datatype in MySQL
More easily remove a generator from a column in the bulk view
Improved PII detection
Ability to change table modifiers on Database View
Subsetting preview of included and excluded tables
Performance
Increase speed of restoring indexes for MySQL
Bug Fixes
Fixed bad timestamp for jobs when still in queued state
Fixed bug found when using some versions of MySQL where dropping an index on a FK column results in an error
Fixed description for algebraic generator
Resolves an issue that was causing the job details page to fail to load.
Fixed MySql failing to create foreign keys because the database/schema wasn't specified in all cases
More logging
Features
XML generator - use XPath to target one or more values for a generator. This implementation is very similar to the current JSON generator
Partitioning is out of beta. The Continuous and Event generators can be partitioned by either a Categorical or Passthrough generator
Support for computed columns in SQL Server
Re-sizing of autodetect and bulk view table trees, for long table names
Schema change notifications now use small icons
Active page is highlighted on sidebar and remember sidebar state
Check for correct user permissions on source database for SQL Server when first connecting (MySQL and PostgreSQL already have this)
Gzip or br compress API responses
Performance
Faster schema generation for SQL Server
Only SELECT required columns when gathering rows for data generation
Improved UI performance for SQL Server databases with a large number of objects
Bug Fixes
Properly send ALL logs to the log viewer in the jobs UI
Continue when (most) errors occur while running pre-data script on SQL Server
Fixed issue blocking successful CSV data generation
No longer incorrectly filter out tables in the DBO schema in SQL server
Improved logging around some SMO tasks for SQL Server
Features
Auto-detect now supports booleans
Users can now click on data cells to see large text strings
PII reports
Performance
Additional multi-threading added in various places for data generation
Process generated tables before passthrough to encourage fast failure
New environment variables so users can change the connection timeout, and min and max pool size
Bug Fixes
Support for Constant Generator on MySQL Blob columns
Support MySQL set datatype
Improved logging for PII detection
Multiple fixes involving switching between synthesize, excluded, and masked
Progress tracking added to BigQuery
POST to /api/autodetect/config will generate a default config first if one does not exist.
Multiple other small fixes
Features
PII Detection is now available locally
Column widths on the table are now saved between sessions
Truncating tables is now prevented when it will lead to FK violations when generating data
Ability to more quickly add JSONPaths
Schema Diff now auto-fixes issues with model due to schema changes
Performance improvements to data generation, and JSON Generator in particular, which is now multi-threaded
Bug Fixes
Ability to handle NULL database values in the JSON Mask Generator
JSON Paths that start with the same prefix. For example, $.value and $.value1 no longer cause an error
No longer cutting off list of tables in Auto Detect dialog
Better cleanup of excluded_tables and scaled_tables in Fingerprint when tables are dropped from DB
Fixed issue preventing data generation on PostgreSQL Standby databases (in other words, Read replicas in RDS nomenclature)
Features
JSON generator now supports consistency
Better JSON Mask UI
Name generator now has consistency option
Can run auto detect without sending logs
API documentation
Better tracking of Allos Console logs
Better progress tracking
Bug Fixes
Intermittent failures of data table are fixedGetAllTablesAndColumns no longer fails when table has columns with multiple constraints on them
No longer front end crash when subset target table no longer exists
Use Custom Data button location has been fixed
Performance improvements
Fixed a myriad of issues in the First Connection Experience when using a custom data source
Additional fixes for the JSON Mask Generator
Fixed issue created in v16 where changing a table's mode to 'TRUNCATE' wasn't being saved properly
Features
Can now press Enter on any input in the Database connection form and it will submit the form
Bug Fixes
Better layout for JSON Paths with long names
Fixed a 'missing key' prop issue in front end
Adding too many escapes to MySQL data when writing to CSV (prior to upload).
We now automatically truncate MySQL tables before data generation begins
