Feature Updates (2025)
This topic provides updates on Dataphin shared mode (fully managed edition) releases in 2025.
December 2025
Product version: V5.3.4
Beijing and Chengdu: December 2, 2025.
Shenzhen and Hangzhou: December 4, 2025.
Shanghai: December 7, 2025.
Feature name | Description | Related documentation |
Data source management | OpenSearch data sources are now supported. | |
Data Service Studio | Asynchronous calls to MaxCompute direct connection data source APIs now return full data. | Create APIs using direct connection data sources (query type) |
November 2025
Product version: V5.3
Beijing and Chengdu: November 4, 2025.
Shenzhen and Hangzhou: November 6, 2025.
Shanghai: November 9, 2025.
Feature name | Description | Related documentation |
Approval templates | Approval templates now support asset listing and delisting scenarios. | |
Data source management |
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Permission management | The system alerts you if your account lacks row-level permissions for any objects when you run or submit integration or computing tasks. Contact your security administrator to obtain authorization. | |
Projects | Code review is now supported for Basic and Dev-Prod projects. After enabling code review, offline computing tasks in the project require code review before submission. | |
Attribute management | Tables, business metrics, technical metrics, APIs, and dashboards now support two custom attribute entry methods: dropdown multi-select and hyperlinks. When using dropdown single-select or multi-select, enumeration values can reference system attributes. | Create and manage attributes for assets, APIs, and dashboards |
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Data Quality | TDSQL for MySQL data sources are now supported for quality monitoring. | |
Metadata Center | DolphinDB, openGauss, and TDSQL for MySQL are now supported as metadata acquisition sources. | |
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September 2025
Product version: V5.2
Beijing and Chengdu: September 18, 2025.
Shanghai: September 21, 2025.
Shenzhen and Hangzhou: September 23, 2025.
Feature name | Description | Related documentation |
Super X | Super X intelligent applications launch with core features: X-Data Engineering, X-O&M Assistant, X-Coding Assistant, and X-Analytics. These provide end-to-end intelligent solutions for data development, governance, and operations. They reduce manual effort, improve business responsiveness, and increase data processing accuracy. | |
Basic settings | In Management Hub > System Settings, basic settings are added. Configure tenant-level scheduling time zones. Tasks then schedule according to this time zone. | |
Data source management |
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Permission management | Offline computing function permissions can now be controlled at the project level. After enabling, cross-project references to custom functions require explicit permission requests. | |
Offline development |
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Offline integration |
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Metadata Center | SelectDB, Doris, and DM (Dameng) are now supported as metadata acquisition sources. | |
Asset catalog / Catalog management | Business metrics now support generating layered, drill-down metric relationship diagrams using logical operation expressions based on related business metrics. | |
Data Service Studio |
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June 2025
Product version: V5.1
Hangzhou: Released on June 24, 2025.
Shenzhen: Released on June 26, 2025.
Beijing: Released on June 29, 2025.
Shanghai: Released on July 1, 2025.
Feature name | Description | Related documentation |
Member management | A new permission point, Enable cross-tenant publishing mode, is added. Users with this permission can enable cross-tenant publishing in O&M mode. | |
Permission management | You can now combine multiple fields in the same table for granular control of sensitive data security. | |
Data sources |
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Cross-tenant publishing | When publishing data sources across tenants, you can now set JDBC URL replacement rules in batches. | |
Project management | When configuring release approvals for Dev-Prod projects, you can reference custom approval templates to flexibly define approval nodes. | |
Compute Source | Ververica Flink compute sources support manually entering region IDs. This standardizes region entry across different Dataphin deployment modes. | |
Offline integration |
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Offline development |
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Real-time development | When selecting Hudi as the data source for metadata tables, primary keys and partition fields are auto-detected. You no longer need to specify them manually in Flink SQL. | |
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Asset inventory | After enabling data source table exploration in Administration > Metadata > Explore and analyze, start exploration and view reports from the asset inventory details page. | |
Data standards | The Import from table method is added for creating lookup tables. Reference compute sources or collected data source tables with SELECT permissions to quickly create lookup tables. Edit retrieved codes manually or refresh all codes using the referenced configuration. | |
Data Quality |
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Metadata acquisition | Data source table exploration configuration is added. Configure exploration by data source granularity, including concurrency throttling, exploration enablement, and timeout. Set SQL statements to tune exploration tasks. | |
Asset catalog |
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Catalog management |
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Data Service Studio |
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April 2025
Product version: V5.0
Beijing: Released on April 15, 2025.
Hangzhou and Shenzhen: Released on April 17, 2025.
Shanghai: Released on April 20, 2025.
Feature name | Description | Related documentation |
Sales | RAM users with AliyunDataphinFullAccess and AliyunBSSOrderAccess permissions can activate, upgrade, and renew Dataphin instances. | |
AI assistant | An AI assistant help entry is added. Quickly launch the AI assistant. | |
Smart generation | Catalog management adds Smart Generation (public preview). Using Large Language Models, it intelligently generates descriptions, tags, and project assignments. It auto-detects custom metrics in tables and creates metric basics with one click. (Free during public preview. Billing starts after commercialization.) | |
Global role management | Built-in system roles (except super administrator) support editing permissions. | |
Resource settings | Set upper and lower limits for available resources in each scheduling resource group. Idle resources in a group can be borrowed by other groups when needed. | |
Data source management |
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Common business logic | Any date in the common calendar supports updating its date tag. | None |
Offline integration |
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Offline development |
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Basic O&M |
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Asset inventory | Data sources supporting metadata acquisition show field lineage generated by integration tasks. All data sources support table lineage. | |
Data standards |
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Data security |
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Metadata acquisition |
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Catalog management |
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Data Service Studio |
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Tag Factory |
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OpenAPI | Data Service Studio OpenAPI is now supported. |
March 2025
Product version: V4.5.3
Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai: Released on March 20, 2025.
Feature name | Description | Related documentation |
Management Console | Dataphin shared mode (fully managed edition) adds two RAM management permissions:
Note In addition to having one of these permissions, you need the corresponding API operation permissions to call Dataphin OpenAPIs. | |
Metadata Center | Metadata change version tracking is added. Save historical versions and version counts for compute source tables and data source tables to reduce storage costs. |
February 2025
Product version: V4.5
Beijing: Released on February 11, 2025.
Hangzhou and Shenzhen: Released on February 13, 2025.
Shanghai: Released on February 16, 2025.
Feature name | Description | Related documentation |
Management Console | Dataphin Management Console AccessKey and SecretKey configuration requires ListUsers and GetAccountAlias permissions. | |
Project role management | Custom project roles include Project Quality Management – Quality Rule Management permissions. System roles (except tag project roles) support editing, adding, and removing Project Quality Management – Quality Rule Management permissions. | |
Global role management | Custom global roles include Quality Rule – Manage, Rule Template – Manage, and Knowledge Base – Manage permissions. | |
Data sources | You can now test Greenplum and FTP data source connectivity with external scheduling clusters. | |
Approval templates | An approval template for owner-only key management is added for registered keys where only the owner can manage them. | |
Offline integration |
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Offline development |
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Asset inventory | The lineage diagram is upgraded. You can view lineage for objects with circular dependencies and quickly search nodes in expanded lineage diagrams. | |
Data security |
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Metadata Center |
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Asset catalog |
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Catalog planning | Batch import and export for asset topics is added. Use system templates. Fill in configurations to import offline content into Dataphin. Or download existing catalog configurations, edit them locally, then re-import. | |
Asset listing – manual listing | Batch import and export for table and metric assets is added. Download Excel templates for current configurations. Update them, then re-import into Dataphin. For failed imports, download error logs with one click from batch operation records. | |
Asset listing – automatic listing |
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Data Service Studio |
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Tag Factory |
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Cross-tenant publishing | When publishing Python-based tasks across tenants, use the same Python version and module name as the target tenant. Skip publishing Python packages across tenants. | None |