Release Notes
September 2024
We have added a new configuration option, Primary Key used for file process and load, in the connector setup form to support syncing files with custom primary keys. You can now select the custom primary keys during the connector configuration and use them to update or insert new rows in your destination. We process the most recently modified files to your destination. For more information, see our setup instructions.
April 2024
We now support syncing PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encrypted files. We have added a new advanced configuration, PGP Encryption Options, to the connector setup form. For more information, see our setup instructions.
July 2023
We have changed the default value of the JSON Delivery Mode feature to Packed in the connector setup form. Previously, we used Unpacked as the default value for this feature.
We now support syncing XML files to your destination. We have added a new option, xml, to the File Type drop-down menu of the connector setup form. We load your XML data into the _data column without flattening it. For more information, see our setup instructions.
We now support custom line separators for CSV files. You can specify a custom line separator in the Line Separator field of the connector setup form. For more information, see our setup instructions.
June 2023
We now support multi-character delimiters for CSV files. You can specify a multi-character delimiter in the Delimiter field of the connector setup form. For more information, see our setup instructions.
May 2023
Our FTP connector can now sync packed JSON files from FTP and FTPS servers. We have added a new drop-down menu, JSON Delivery Mode, to the connector setup form. The drop-down menu provides you the option to choose how Fivetran should handle your JSON data. For more information, see our setup instructions.
June 2022
We have redesigned the Skip Header Lines and Skip Footer Lines setup form fields for our Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Dropbox, FTP, Google Cloud Storage, and SFTP file connectors. To set these advanced options, enable them using the toggles and specify the number of skipped lines in the input fields.
Compare how the setup form looked before the change:
and how it looks now:
August 2020
We now support syncing headerless delimited format files (CSV, TSV, log) for FTP connectors. We will create generic column names for CSV files without a header line. This feature is in beta and available to all connectors. See the configuration options in our files documentation for details.
July 2020
We have improved the way we track which files we have already synced to make sure we only pull new or changed data from the source containers. Previously, we re-synced files that were created at the same time as the last observed cursor position. That ensured that we never missed any files that were created while we were syncing your data. That also meant that we sometimes synced the same files twice. Now, in addition to tracking the timestamp, we also track the names of the files we have already synced. We store up to 1,000 file names. We sync files created at the time of the last observed cursor position only if we don’t have the file in our list of synced files for that timestamp.
March 2020
Our FTP connector can now sync Parquet files. We support Parquet format 2.4.0. This feature is in Beta.