1.12.11-release

OpenMetadata 1.12.11 is a maintenance release delivering security patches, MCP improvements, AI enhancements, search fixes, UI enhancements, ingestion stability improvements, and connector updates.

🔒 Security

• React-router-dom security upgrade #28677: Snyk security upgrade of react-router-dom from 6.30.3 to 6.30.4 to address reported vulnerabilities.
• Netty-bom bumped for CVE-2026-44249 #28880: Updated netty-bom to 4.1.135.Final to resolve CVE-2026-44249.

🔌 MCP (Model Context Protocol) Fixes

• Compact entity responses from create tools #28633: MCP create metric, test-case, and glossary tools now return a compact entity representation to reduce payload size.
• Compact entity response from create_article tool: The create_article MCP tool now returns a compact entity representation, consistent with other create tools.
• Slim root_cause_analysis payload #28632: Reduced root_cause_analysis tool payload size to fit within LLM context limits.
• Return similarity score in search_metadata tool #28512: The search_metadata MCP tool now returns _score as similarityScore in results.
• Fix entityType filtering in search_metadata tool #28698: Resolved incorrect entity type filtering behavior in the search_metadata MCP tool.
• Fix OAuth state double-encoding in redirect URI #28953: Corrected OAuth state encoding to prevent double-encoding in MCP redirect URIs.

🛠 API & Backend Fixes

• Fix duplicate query error in bulk APIs #25890: Resolved an error caused by duplicate queries being submitted through bulk API operations.
• Write server audit entries to audit.log #28782: Server audit events are now properly written to the audit.log file for observability and compliance.
• Fix SSE multi-line data field concatenation #28945: Multi-line SSE data fields are now correctly concatenated instead of being overwritten.
• Allow bare references to approved functions in SpEL conditions #28946: Policy engine now correctly evaluates bare function references in SpEL-based policy conditions.
• Drop unsupported om-event-layout from console appender: Removed the unsupported om-event-layout configuration from the console appender to prevent startup warnings and misconfigurations.

🔍 Search & Indexing Fixes

• Fix missing search aliases after reindex #28667: Resolved an issue where search aliases were missing after reindexing by atomically deleting the concrete index within the alias swap.
• Make users and admins searchable by email #28800: Users and admins can now be found via search using their email address.
• Re-derive tag fields on live tag-mutating updates #28900: Fixed an issue where glossaryTags, classificationTags, and tier were not re-derived correctly during live tag updates.
• Fix search preview inconsistent behavior #28589: Resolved inconsistent behavior in the entity search preview panel.

🎨 UI & UX Fixes

• Restore import/export buttons for conditional EditAll policies #27488: Users with Data Producer roles using conditional policies (isOwner(), hasDomain(), matchTeam()) can now correctly see Import/Export options in the Glossary manage menu.
• Fix bulk-ops column grid showing soft-deleted entities #28653: Soft-deleted entities are now excluded from the bulk operations column grid.
• Brand name environment variable support #28624: UI now uses a BRAND_NAME environment variable in place of hardcoded "OpenMetadata" references for easier white-labeling.
• Fix Global Domain Filter translation #25982: Corrected translation for the Global Domain Filter UI element.
• Fix mixed language display when browser language differs from user setting #25962: Resolved an issue where UI displayed mixed languages when the browser language differed from the user's selected language.
• Fix SSO documentation format: Corrected the format of SSO configuration documentation displayed in the UI.

✈️ Ingestion Fixes

• Fix DagContext autoregister race in Airflow build_dag #28744: Resolved a race condition caused by DagContext autoregistration during DAG construction in Airflow APIs.
• Comprehensive diagnostics for Airflow connection check #28516: Added detailed diagnostic output to the Airflow connection check to help debug connectivity issues.
• Fix Iceberg/Delta metadata.json ingestion #28845: Corrected ingestion of Iceberg and Delta table metadata.json files to properly include real table columns.

🔌 Connectors

• SSIS: optional databaseConnection for file-only mode #28708: The databaseConnection field is now optional in SSIS connector configuration, enabling file-only ingestion mode.
• Athena: catalogId support for S3 Tables and cross-account Glue catalogs #28956: Added catalogId support to Athena connection configuration for S3 Tables and cross-account Glue catalog access.
• SSIS: SQL Command, Execute SQL Task, Lookup task, and column-level lineage: Extended SSIS connector with support for SQL Command tasks, Execute SQL Task, Lookup transformations, and column-level lineage extraction.

🤖 AI Enhancements

• Documentation Agent sample data for descriptions: The Documentation Agent now uses sample data when generating descriptions, improving the quality and relevance of AI-generated entity documentation.

🐛 General Bug Fixes

• Fix tag FQN rewrite on entity rename #28725: Implemented boundary-aware idempotent tag FQN rewriting during entity rename operations to prevent incorrect partial matches.
• Preserve secret: prefix in Python SDK serialization #28625: Fixed Python SDK to preserve the secret: prefix during object serialization.
• Lineage: dedup queries and handle conflicts as warnings #28757: Lineage query deduplication is now applied, and already-present query conflicts are treated as warnings rather than errors.
• Fix data insights service filter on terms aggregation rebuild #28716: Data insights now correctly preserves the service filter when rebuilding terms aggregations.
• Fix alerts Entity FQN filter to match descendants #28833: Alert Entity FQN filters now correctly match against an entity and all of its descendants.
• Fix metadata-exporter credential decryption on re-dispatch: Resolved an issue where the metadata exporter failed to decrypt credentials when re-dispatching export jobs.
• Fix notification template <br> line break preservation: Corrected notification templates to properly preserve <br> line breaks instead of stripping them.