diff --git a/feathr-impl/src/main/scala/com/linkedin/feathr/offline/transformation/FDSConversionUtils.scala b/feathr-impl/src/main/scala/com/linkedin/feathr/offline/transformation/FDSConversionUtils.scala
index 4d66c6aa2..5e6f3652c 100644
--- a/feathr-impl/src/main/scala/com/linkedin/feathr/offline/transformation/FDSConversionUtils.scala
+++ b/feathr-impl/src/main/scala/com/linkedin/feathr/offline/transformation/FDSConversionUtils.scala
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ private[offline] object FDSConversionUtils {
           // 1D sparse tensor
           case targetType: StructType if targetType.fields.size == 2 =>
             convertRawValueTo1DFDSSparseTensorRow(rawFeatureValue, targetType)
-          // 1D dense tensor
-          case targetType: ArrayType if !targetType.elementType.isInstanceOf[ArrayType] =>
+            // dense tensor
+          case targetType: ArrayType =>
             convertRawValueTo1DFDSDenseTensorRow(rawFeatureValue, targetType)
           case otherType =>
             throw new FeathrException(ErrorLabel.FEATHR_ERROR, s"Converting ${rawFeatureValue} to FDS Tensor type " +
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ private[offline] object FDSConversionUtils {
       case _: FloatType =>
         // If it's FloatType, then we know it's autoTz rules.
         convertRawValueTo1DFDSDenseTensorRowAutoTz(rawFeatureValue)
+      case _: ArrayType =>
+        rawFeatureValue.asInstanceOf[Array[_]]
       case _ =>
         convertRawValueTo1DFDSDenseTensorRowTz(rawFeatureValue)
     }
diff --git a/feathr-impl/src/test/scala/com/linkedin/feathr/offline/AnchoredFeaturesIntegTest.scala b/feathr-impl/src/test/scala/com/linkedin/feathr/offline/AnchoredFeaturesIntegTest.scala
index 3d35101a1..43a3ffc41 100644
--- a/feathr-impl/src/test/scala/com/linkedin/feathr/offline/AnchoredFeaturesIntegTest.scala
+++ b/feathr-impl/src/test/scala/com/linkedin/feathr/offline/AnchoredFeaturesIntegTest.scala
@@ -566,6 +566,94 @@ class AnchoredFeaturesIntegTest extends FeathrIntegTest {
     setFeathrJobParam(ADD_DEFAULT_COL_FOR_MISSING_DATA, "false")
   }
 
+  /*
+   * Test features with fdsExtract.
+   */
+  @Test
+  def testFeaturesWithFdsExtract: Unit = {
+    val df = runLocalFeatureJoinForTest(
+      joinConfigAsString =
+        """
+          | features: {
+          |   key: a_id
+          |   featureList: ["featureWithNullDerived"]
+          | }
+      """.stripMargin,
+      featureDefAsString =
+        """
+          | anchors: {
+          |  anchor1: {
+          |    source: "anchorAndDerivations/nullValueSource.avro.json"
+          |    key.sqlExpr: mId
+          |    features: {
+          |      featureWithNull {
+          |      def.sqlExpr: "FDSExtract(denseValue)"
+          |      type:{
+          |          type: TENSOR
+          |           tensorCategory: DENSE
+          |           shape: [2,5]
+          |           dimensionType: [INT, INT]
+          |           valType: STRING
+          |          }
+          |         }
+          |       }
+          |  }
+          |}
+          |derivations: {
+          |featureWithNullDerived:{
+          |        key: ["id"]
+          |        inputs:
+          |        {
+          |            fv: {key: ["id"], feature: featureWithNull}
+          |        }
+          |        definition.sqlExpr: "coalesce(fv,  ARRAY(ARRAY(\"aa\", \"bb\", \"cc\", \"dd\", \"ee\"), ARRAY(\"UNK\", \"UNK\", \"UNK\", \"UNK\", \"UNK\")))"
+          |        type:
+          |        {
+          |            type: TENSOR
+          |            tensorCategory: DENSE
+          |            shape: [2,5]
+          |            dimensionType: [INT, INT]
+          |            valType: STRING
+          |        }
+          |}
+          |}
+        """.stripMargin,
+      observationDataPath = "anchorAndDerivations/testMVELLoopExpFeature-observations.csv")
+
+    val selectedColumns = Seq("a_id", "featureWithNullDerived")
+    val filteredDf = df.data.select(selectedColumns.head, selectedColumns.tail: _*)
+
+    val expectedDf = ss.createDataFrame(
+      ss.sparkContext.parallelize(
+        Seq(
+          Row(
+            // a_id
+            "1",
+            // featureWithNull
+            mutable.WrappedArray.make(Array(Array("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd", "ee"), Array("a", "a", "a", "a", "a"))),
+          ),
+          Row(
+            // a_id
+            "2",
+            // f3eatureWithNull
+            mutable.WrappedArray.make(Array(Array("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd", "ee"), Array("UNK", "UNK", "UNK", "UNK", "UNK")))
+          ),
+          Row(
+            // a_id
+            "3",
+            // featureWithNull
+            mutable.WrappedArray.make(Array(Array("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd", "ee"), Array("a", "a", "a", "a", "a")),
+            )))),
+      StructType(
+        List(
+          StructField("a_id", StringType, true),
+          StructField("featureWithNull", ArrayType(ArrayType(StringType, true), true), true)
+        )))
+
+    def cmpFunc(row: Row): String = row.get(0).toString
+
+    FeathrTestUtils.assertDataFrameApproximatelyEquals(filteredDf, expectedDf, cmpFunc)
+  }
 
   /*
    * Test features with null values.
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 570596788..8c0b90e81 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-version=1.0.4-rc5
+version=1.0.4-rc6
 SONATYPE_AUTOMATIC_RELEASE=true
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=feathr_2.12