2025.8

October, 2025

The Dawiso 2025.8 release is here! 🚀

This update expands Dawiso’s automation capabilities, deepens AI integration, and introduces new standard applications to make data governance even more intuitive and connected.

Highlights include enhanced automations with new triggers, actions, and dynamic template expressions, AI-generated descriptions during metadata ingestion, and new standard applications like Azure Data Factory, Logical Model, and Report Catalog, along with a range of UX and UI improvements.

Read on for the full breakdown of what’s new in Dawiso 2025.8!

Automations

This release brings several new additions and enhancements to automations, making the feature more robust and flexible to cover a wider range of use cases helping you automate more tasks and save time.

New triggers:

Cloning objects
Publishing concepts

New actions:

Synchronization across spaces and applications

Some other updates include:

Extended template engine capabilities
Overall trigger performance has also been optimized for faster and more reliable execution.

Templates Engine

You can now use additional templates and expressions within your sendNotification and setAttribute actions.

Date expressions now support time functions, allowing you to dynamically configure attribute values and notifications:
- ```
  {currentUtcDateTime}.addSeconds(11)
  {currentUtcDate}.addDays(20)
```

New functions enable you to list children or related objects and their attributes:

  {{currentObject}.children('dataset_table').forEach(x => appendLine('{0} - {1}', x.name(), x.attribute('core_description')))}
  {{currentObject}.relations('core_related', 'core_isMentioning').forEach(x => appendLine('{0} - {1}', x.name(), x.attribute('core_description')))}

For more information, see Dynamic Expressions.

Ingestion: AI-Generated Descriptions

AI-generated descriptions can now be created automatically during metadata ingestion. Prompts are defined in packages and can draw additional context from the object using the template engine. Each attribute type can have its own configurable prompt, allowing for tailored results.

AI-generated descriptions are clearly marked with a banner, which remains visible until the text is manually reviewed and saved.

When AI generation is enabled, this feature will be available across all standard scanners for database, schema, view, and table levels.

MCP: First Endpoints Now Available

You can now connect Dawiso to MCP-compatible AI tools to retrieve information and execute governed actions directly from your AI workflows.

Use MCP to:

Retrieve context for answers: Supply AI tools with Dawiso-grounded metadata to generate accurate, source-of-truth responses.
Carry out commands: From AI, trigger mass status changes, create or update assets, or push workflow transitions.

For more information, see the Dawiso Model Context Protocol (MCP) documentation for setup details, scopes, and examples.

New Standard Applications

We are happy to introduce multiple new standard applications to further facilitate your data governance journey:

Azure Data Factory

The Azure Data Factory metadata scanner allows you to ingest metadata from your pipelines, datasets, and linked services to automatically create documentation and enrich your business glossary with relevant technical and business context.

Logical Model

A new Logical Model application has been introduced, enabling users to visualize business knowledge through conceptual diagrams.

Supports creating and editing relationships between entities.
Entities added to the diagram are automatically created in Dawiso, allowing you to define their metadata.
Objects can be added from different spaces and applications.

Diagram behavior and appearance may vary slightly across applications. For more details, see Modeling diagrams.

Report Catalog

The Report Catalog offers a centralized overview of all reports across your Dawiso environment. It enables users to easily find, access, and work with reports without relying on departmental silos or personal storage. By consolidating reports into a single searchable catalog, it ensures that approved and reliable reports remain consistently accessible to everyone.

UX/UI Enhancements

Conceptual Modeling

Folders in Modeling diagrams have been enhanced:

When a folder is resized or moved to fully cover another element, a parent-child relation is created between them.
You can move an element from one folder to another in the diagram to change its parent.

Edit Attachment Names

It is now possible to rename attachments directly in their details view. Previously, only the description could be edited. A 200-character limit is now enforced for attachment names.

Text editor

The text editor has been enhanced with new capabilities:

Images can now be opened in full view directly within the platform.
Any diagram object, including conceptual diagrams, can now be embedded directly into text content.

Tours

To enhance the onboarding experience, platform tours can now be configured to start automatically for new users.

Search Index

When installing packages that include new search indexes, the system will now automatically trigger an index refresh to ensure all changes are immediately reflected in search results.

Packages

Hide Empty Sections in Export

When configuring a Word export template, you can now attach conditions to individual components. This allows you to automatically hide entire sections when there is no data available. For example, you can use the components field to define a condition that hides a section if its data source is empty.

Example:

  <<{"type":"text","Text":"Paragraph 1","style":"block","conditions":[{"type":"attribute","value":"packageKey_attributeTypeKey","operator":"not null"}]}>>

Multiple Global Fonts

You can now define multiple global fonts by separating them with a semicolon (;). The first font in the list is used as the default, while the remaining fonts become available for selection in text editors. These fonts are also preserved when using the copy_paste_as_plaintext_like option.