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7.3.0 Yellowbrick Release Notes ​

Release Information
Cloud Platform7.3.0-74895.181ea900
Appliance Platform7.3.0-74895
Release Date7/25/2025, 5:20:34 PM

This release of Yellowbrick adds new features for observability, infrastructure management and developer capabilities.

New features ​

  • Telemetry and Monitoring:
    • Yellowbrick deployments on AWS, Azure, and GCP now include a new observability framework powered by Prometheus for improved monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting.
    • Standardized metrics and alert rules are exported from core components via Prometheus endpoints.
    • Metrics and alerts are grouped by source for easier dashboarding, alert routing, and triage.
  • Infrastructure and Platform Upgrades:
    • Yellowbrick Deployer support for fully managed EKS, AKS and GKE cluster upgrades to control plane version 1.31.
    • A new dry-run and upgrade plan capability allows users to preview the full scope of changes before initiating an upgrade. Upgrades may include:
      • Kubernetes control plane and node version updates.
      • IAM roles, policies, and permissions.
      • Components such as Yellowbrick Operator, Manager, and Monitoring.
      • Yellowbrick Data Warehouse software version.
  • Enhanced ybtools support
    • Support for Java 17 (in addition to Java 11), allowing compatibility with modern environments and updated security requirements.
  • Developer SQL capabilities:
    • SQL Unload: Support for unloading data directly to external object storage using the UNLOAD TABLE SQL command.
    • Sample SQL: Support for the TABLESAMPLE() query function to return randomized or deterministic, representative subsets of rows from a table with options for percentage or count-based sampling.
  • AWS Marketplace: Yellowbrick Enterprise Edition is now available on the AWS Marketplace, supporting fully integrated deployment and subscription management.

Upgrade Requirements ​

For appliance upgrades, contact Customer Support to review the process and schedule the upgrade.

Detailed changelog ​

See the detailed changelog for itemized lists of behavioral and compatibility changes, bug fixes, known issues and CVE remediations.