1.79 release notes

Short-term support (STS)

These are the release notes for Matillion ETL version 1.79. This version is a short-term support (STS) release. Read more about Matillion ETL supported releases.

1.79.0

October 27th, 2025

SBOM

Click the link to download a zipped .json file containing the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for this version: 1.79.0-SBOM.json.

You may wish to download the SBOM for purposes such as security auditing, license tracking, compliance, and so on.

Known issues

There are no known issues at this time.

Breaking changes

From November 2025, Snowflake will remove the option for legacy systems to make use of usernames/passwords to connect to the Snowflake account. If you currently use username/password authentication for Snowflake connections, this will impact connector components that load data from Snowflake and cause jobs with those components to fail.

Matillion ETL supports the use of private keys to authenticate to Snowflake, and we recommend that you switch to using private keys as soon as possible if you are currently using username/password authentication. For more details of this authentication option, read Using Snowflake key-pair authentication.

Deprecations

Due to the known security vulnerabilities in Python 2, Matillion will no longer offer support for this version of Python, and it will be deprecated in a future release of Matillion ETL. We recommend that you update any Python 2 scripts to Python 3 as soon as possible, or upgrade from Matillion ETL to the Data Productivity Cloud. The upgrade to the Data Productivity Cloud will automatically convert your Python 2 scripts to Python 3.

Improvements and bug fixes

All platforms

Upgraded the Tomcat version to 10.1.48.
openSUSE is now the default operating system for this release and all future versions of Matillion ETL. You can still install Matillion ETL on CentOS via the Universal Installer if you wish. Read this tech note for more information.
When using the SQS Message component, outgoing SQS messages that exceed the 256 KB message size limit will be trimmed so that they fit within the queue size constraints and provide job completion information.
Added the ability to upgrade Tomcat as part of an in-place upgrade of Matillion ETL.
Added new parameters to the Get Task History REST API endpoint to allow more control over returned results.
Fixed an issue that was causing errors in Git operations such as cloning the repository, commit, push, and pull, when using SSH keys of type ed25519.
Added the option to select from existing passwords when creating new projects for Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, and Azure Synapse.
Added the ability to compare the current version of a job on the canvas with a previously committed version in Git, so you can audit changes made to the job before committing the new version. Read Track job changes for details.
Added private key support to the Snowflake database type in the Database Query component.
Added private key support to the Snowflake database type the JDBC Table Metadata to Grid component.

Azure

If you have multiple subscriptions under a single Azure tenant, you can now choose which subscription to use by setting an environment variable. Read Multiple Azure subscriptions for details.

Driver updates

There are no driver updates in this release.