Release Notes

December 2024

We have improved the setup experience for Google Cloud Storage connectors. New connectors created on or after December 20, 2024, will have the following changes in the connector setup form:

• Added a new configuration option, Run connection test to perform an intermediate test during configuration
• Added a new configuration option, Preview Files to perform an intermediate test during configuration
• Added support for displaying fields based on the file type
• Added a new field, Quote character, to use an enclosing character
• Reorganised fields to make the setup form more intuitive
• Removed Infer as an option from the File Type field
• Removed the Enable Advanced Options toggle
• Changed the Null Sequence field to a toggle
• For the Delimiter character(s) field, we now use , as the default value
• For the Line Separator field, we now use \n as the default value

For more information, see our setup instructions and REST API configuration.

We are gradually rolling out these changes to all existing connectors.

September 2024

We now restrict API users from triggering File connectors to sync if:

• the append_file_option field has its value set to upsert_file_with_primary_keys
• and the primary keys are not defined in the schema configuration

We also restrict the following actions for such connectors:

• Creating a new connector in an un-paused state via API;
• Updating the connector's paused field to false via API request;
• Forcing the connector sync or re-sync via API request.

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 and the REST API config.

March 2024

We have added a new configuration option, Primary Key used for file process and load, to 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.

We have added a new toggle, Non-standard character escaping, to the connector setup form to support the non-standard ways of escaping characters. If your CSV generator uses non-standard ways of escaping character, set the toggle to ON and in the Character Escaping options drop-down menu, select one of the following options:

• Custom Escape Character: To process CSV files that use custom escape character to escape quotation marks.
• Delimited Only: To process CSV files that don't use escape character to escape quotation marks and process with delimiter only.

For more information, see our setup instructions and REST API config. We are gradually rolling out this change to all existing connectors.

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

We can now sync packed JSON files from Google Cloud Storage. 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.

January 2023

We no longer support using a custom service account to authenticate your Google Cloud Storage bucket. 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:

January 2022

You can now opt to use a custom service account to authenticate your Google Cloud Storage bucket. For more information, see our setup instructions. We are gradually rolling out this improvement to all existing connectors.

August 2020

We now support syncing headerless delimited format files (CSV, TSV, log) for Google Cloud Storage 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 Google Cloud Storage connector can now sync Parquet files. We support Parquet format 2.4.0. This feature is in Beta.