Soda Core - Release notes

Review release notes for Soda Core, an open-source tool for testing and monitoring data quality.

v4 initial release

^{01 September, 2025}

• Introduced support for parsing, publishing and (both locally and remotely) verifying data contracts.

• Introduced "Missing", "Invalid", "Duplicate", "Aggregate", "Failed Rows", "Metric" checks.

• Introduced data contracts support for multiple data sources:

  • Postgres, Snowflake, Bigquery, Databricks, Redshift, SQL Server, Fabric, Synapse, Athena, DuckDB (in memory).

• Introduced metrics monitoring support for multiple data sources:

  • Postgres, Snowflake, Bigquery, Databricks, SQL Server, Fabric, Synapse, Athena.

• Introduced new CLI with a noun-verb structure and better integration with the Soda Cloud APIs (e.g. contract fetching based on a dataset identifier)

• Introduced support for variables in contracts, allowing you to parameterize contracts.

• Introduced support for extending functionality using plugins.

• Introduced extensible check types.

• Introduced hooks for contract generation, a first plugin.

• Introduced concept and hooks for contract verification result handlers, allowing post processing of the contract verification results.

Extensions

• Implemented the contract generation plugin.

• Implemented the diagnostics warehouse plugin.

• Implemented reconciliation checks.

• Implemented group-by checks.

• Implemented support for Oracle as a data source.

• Implemented support for contract requests.