# Soda Core - Release notes

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## `soda-core 4.7.0`

<sup>17 April 2026</sup>

Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.7.0>

Changes

* Feat: Support data type parameters in schema check
* Fix: Cast boolean threshold values to int before sending to Soda Cloud
* Chore: Normalize pyodbc.Row objects so downstream consumers see plain tuples

## `soda-core 4.6.0`

<sup>09 April 2026</sup>

Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.6.0>

**Overall**

* Fix: Execute user-defined queries as standalone, if they cannot be embedded as CTEs
* Fix: Snowflake handling of `\` during inserts

**Extensions**

* Feat: Failed rows sample file upload functionality
* Fix: Autopilot add database-dependent quoting time column comparisons
* Bump adbc-driver-flightsql to >=1.11.0

## `soda-core 4.5.0`

<sup>04 April 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.5.0>

* Feat: Support list-valued attributes in check filters
* Fix: Handle missing data source gracefully when publishing to Cloud

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**Extensions**

* Feat: [Add multi-source reconciliation support](https://docs.soda.io/reference/contract-language-reference/reconciliation-checks#source-configuration)
* Fix: Correctly handle utf8 characters for Dremio
* Fix: Add qualifiers for all checks generated by autopilot
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## `soda-core 4.4.2`

<sup>31 March 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.4.2>

Release notes:

* Fix: Upgrade requests to resolve insecure temp file vulnerability

## `soda-core 4.4.1`

<sup>31 March 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.4.1>

Release notes:

* Fix: Upgrade snowflake-connector-python, pyopenssl, pyjwt, and cryptography for security fixes

## `soda-core 4.4.0`

<sup>30 March 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.4.0>

Release notes:

* Feat: Add rows\_tested\_query to failed\_rows checks
* Feat: Add check filtering
* Fix: Expected iterator rowcount across data sources
* Fix: Query result iterator for all data sources

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**Extensions**

* Fix: Skip columns with unusual data types from profiling and check assignment
* Fix: Fallback for migration column extraction
* Fix: Clean up autopilot sampler
* Fix: Update test connection query for Oracle
* Fix: UnboundLocalError on missing\_count during partial verification
* Fix: Update logs for pre-existing tables to debug level
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## `soda-core 4.2.0`

<sup>17 March 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.2.0>

Release notes:

* Feat: Query all columns within a specific schema
* Fix: Properly quote Athena identifiers
* Fix: Speed-up Databricks v4 discovery with information\_schema query
* Fix: Do not discover `__soda_temp` tables

## `soda-core 4.1.1`

<sup>5 March 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.1.1>

Release notes:

* Fix: dry-run crash for invalid reference check in soda contract test
* Fiix: stop fetching datasource config from Cloud in local verification flow
* Fix: handle metric query returning zero rows gracefully
* Fix: Update cleanup script

## `soda-core 4.1.0`

<sup>28 February 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.1.0>

Release notes:

* Feat: Add full support for Trino data source
* Feat: Add percentage-based sampling for Postgres, Databricks, and Snowflake
* Feat: Expand structured data types and type casting to reference check
* Feat: Separate SQL dialect from data source
* Feat: Report missing count on duplicate and validity checks
* Fix: Potential issue with types not being converted to str in QueryResult
* Fix: Snowflake connector for private key connections
* Fix: Map COMPLETED\_WITH\_WARNINGS to WARNED in agent verification path
* Fix: Apply column expression on freshness check correctly
* Fix: Improved support for Fabric data source
* Fix: Small fixes for Synapse data source

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**Extensions**

* Feat: Fabric, Synapse, Trino, and Oracle support for Diagnostics Warehouse
* Feat: Add missing\_row\_count to Diagnostic Warehouse. Fix diagnostics for FRQ
* Feat: Use percentage sampler for autopilot
* Fix: Fix Diagnostics Warehouse prefixes when `None` is being sent by Soda Cloud
* Fix: Autopilot handling of small & empty datasets
* Fix: Remove incorrect Dremio batch size overrides
* Fix: Fix autopilot scan times logging
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## `soda-core 4.0.9`

<sup>19 February 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.0.9>

Please note: `4.0.8` failed during release pipeline and is not published in pypi.

Release notes:

* Feat: Update Redshift to use `psycopg3`
* Feat: Support structured data types and type casting
* Feat: Migrate to `uv`
* Fix: Report correct `datasetRowsTested` for failed rows query check
* Fix: Setup column expression correctly for aggregate metrics
* Fix: Update failed rows check diagnostics payload

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**Extensions**

* Feat: Add Redshift compatibility to Diagnostics Warehouse
* Feat: Migrate to `uv`
* Fix: Issue with group by checks in cross-source configurations
* Fix: Compare columns case-insensitive for ensuring the correct columns for Soda-defined tables in Diagnostics Warehouse
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## `soda-core 4.0.7`

<sup>11 February 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.0.7>

Release notes:

* fix: Databricks - quote dataset in metadata query by [@m1n0](https://github.com/m1n0) in [#2578](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2578)
* Chore: Use `tbump` to generate github release by [@mivds](https://github.com/mivds) in [#2575](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2575)

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**Extensions**

* Diagnostic Warehouse use row hashing for between source movements
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## `soda-core 4.0.6`

<sup>9 February 2026</sup>\
Github release - <https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/releases/tag/v4.0.6>

Release notes:

* Feat: Add `uv` support to soda core by [@AidaPaul](https://github.com/AidaPaul) in [#2561](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2561)
* Feat: Update to `psycopg3` by [@Niels-b](https://github.com/Niels-b) in [#2558](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2558)
* Feat: add iterator support for query results by [@mivds](https://github.com/mivds) in [#2562](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2562)
* Fix: enhance CI workflow with staggered uploads to PyPI to reduce 503 errors by [@nik843](https://github.com/nik843) in [#2556](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2556)
* Fix: Require `pydantic>=2.11` by [@paulteehan](https://github.com/paulteehan) in [#2559](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2559)
* Fix: Improved Databricks data type mapping by [@Niels-b](https://github.com/Niels-b) in [#2558](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2558)
* Chore: Replace strings with `SamplerType` enum by [@mivds](https://github.com/mivds) in [#2565](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2565)
* Chore: better yaml parsing for Soda Cloud client, support migration e… by [@m1n0](https://github.com/m1n0) in [#2566](https://github.com/sodadata/soda-core/pull/2566)

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**Extensions**

* Diagnostic Warehouse bugfixes
* Diagnostic Warehouse cross-datasource support
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## `soda-core 4.0.5` - first public release of version 4

<sup>28 January 2026</sup>\
This is the first public release of Soda Core version 4. This release introduces **Data Contracts as the default way to define data quality rules for tables**. The new approach offers a cleaner, more structured, and more maintainable way to define and manage data quality rules, based on community feedback and real-world usage.

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Highlights of this release:

* Introduced support for **parsing**, **publishing** and (both locally and remotely) **verifying** data contracts.
* Introduced extended check diagnostics providing deeper visibility into the count and percentage of tested, passing, and failing rows.
* Introduced seamless flexibility to run Contracts via Core or the Soda Agent, with definitions stored either as external files or in Soda Cloud.
* Introduced "Missing", "Invalid", "Duplicate", "Aggregate", "Failed Rows", "Metric" checks in data contract.
* Introduced data contracts support for **multiple data sources**: Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, SQL Server, Fabric, Synapse, Athena, DuckDB (in memory).
* 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 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 Dremio as a data source.
* Implemented support for contract requests.


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