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Change log

New updates and product improvements

Q3 2026
Import
Transfers

Record acknowledgements, delivery idempotency keys, and delivery failure reasons are now available.

Export
Connection Modalities

BigQuery destinations can now authenticate with OAuth credentials from your own identity provider through Workload Identity Federation, with no long-lived GCP keys.

Import
Observability

Record-level dataflow debugging, additional audit log events, and coded errors are now available for Import.

Export
Product

Google Cloud partner attribution is now available for BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Sheets, joining Snowflake, Databricks, and ClickHouse.

Export
Performance

Delta Lake and Iceberg transfers now run faster, with overhead performance improvements on every transfer.

Export
Error Codes

Over 50 new coded errors were added across BigQuery, Databricks, ClickHouse, Redshift, Postgres, Delta Lake, Athena, and object storage destinations.

Export
Destinations

Delete permissions are no longer required for object storage destinations (S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage, SFTP) to comply with a broader set of security postures.

Import
Developer Experience

New, AI-native documentation options are now available, including agent skills for getting started with both Prequel Export and Import, an MCP server for Prequel documentation, and Postman collections.

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Notifications

transfer.error webhooks are now sent for transfers that expire in the queue to improve observability.

Export
Transfers

Source queries now support a Split function, which enables multi-value, array-like transfer tags.

Q2 2026
Import
Product

Prequel Import is now available! Reliably sync your customers' data from their preferred data platform into your application as an embedded feature, securely across data platforms and arbitrary data models, at extremely high volumes.

Import
Sources

Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Redshift Serverless, Postgres, Amazon S3, S3-compatible, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and SFTP sources are now available.

Export
Destinations

Iceberg destinations now support Google Lakehouse Catalog.

Import
Sources

Datasets now support custom SQL queries and file glob patterns in addition to table imports to improve configurability.

Export
Connection Modalities

ClickHouse sources and destinations can now authenticate to S3 staging buckets with an IAM role instead of access keys.

Import
Import API

The Import API now supports testing source connections, previewing source data, re-syncing specific records, and cancelling in-progress runs.

Export
Performance

Performance improvements to model validation on large sources, with new optional validation window parameters.

Export
Notifications

Slack notifications now include additional metadata to improve Slack-based monitoring.

Q1 2026
Export
Destinations

You can now export data as Iceberg tables with AWS Glue, AWS S3, and Iceberg REST catalog support.

Export
Product

A new Activity page is available in the Prequel Admin UI to improve visibility of transfers and destination health directly within the application.

Export
Product

Resource search and filtering is now available throughout the Prequel Admin UI.

Export
Transfers

SFTP destinations now support PGP encryption via customer-provided keys.

Export
Transfers

Transfers now run even faster in append-only mode to Databricks and BigQuery destinations.

Q4 2025
Export
Connection Modalities

You can now authenticate to Databricks with OAuth.

Export
Product

In-flight transfers now publish model completion status during each transfer to both the Transfer endpoint and transfer details page in the Admin UI.

Export
Product

The following enhancements have been made in the Admin UI:

  • The recipients page now features a destinations tab to easily identify and navigate between recipients and destinations.
  • You can now retry a transfer directly from the transfer details page.
  • The static egress IP for each deployment is now displayed on the add destination and create magic link pages.
  • Source queries are now displayed on each Model page, when one exists.
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Performance

Resiliency of clean up for temporary artifacts created in sources and destinations during transfers has been improved.

Q3 2025
Export
Destinations

You can now write Delta Tables to any major object storage destination.

Export
Connection Modalities

You can now easily rotate keys on Snowflake and other key-pair enabled connections.

Export
Performance

Advanced users on Enterprise plans can now tune specific worker sizes to enable higher performance on extra large workloads.

Export
Performance

Transfer artifact cleanup performance in destinations has been improved.

Export
Transfers

Support for Automatic Liquid Clustering on Databricks destinations has been added as the default clustering strategy when enabled on a customer’s workspace.

Q2 2025
Export
Performance

You can now specify models as append-only where applicable for improved transfer efficiency. This enables more performant destination loading by reducing data scanned on merges across every destination type.

Export
Performance

You can now configure partitions on specific model types. This enables more efficient queries on both writing jobs and downstream workloads where query patterns are predictable.

Export
Transfers

You can now attach arbitrary tags in the form of key-value pairs to transfers. For more information, see the API reference.

Export
Notifications

You can now configure native Datadog webhooks for Prequel events from the Admin UI.

Export
Transfers

Enterprise customers now have the option to disable the Prequel scheduler for custom transfer orchestration workflows.

Q1 2025
Export
Destinations

You can now send data to MotherDuck data lakes.

Export
Destinations

You can now send data to MongoDB databases.

Export
Error Codes

Prequel now redacts sensitive traces from driver outputs, rendering clean error messages and a blame attribute to guide resolution. For more information, see Error Codes.

Export
Product

You can now programmatically generate SSH keys scoped to a given recipient.

Export
Transfers

You can now trigger transfers in debug mode for more detailed logging for a single transfer when debugging an error.

Q4 2024
Export
Product

You can now validate data integrity between your source and destination. This feature will probabilistically verify the integrity of the data by comparing source and destination rows.

Export
Transfers

You can now utilize windowed transfers to "checkpoint" through larger transfers. This feature is particularly useful for high volume destinations where working through the transfer in "chunks" can unlock value earlier for the data recipient, or offer a indication of progress at transfer time.

Export
Notifications

Webhook events are now available for successful and cancelled transfers.

Export
Product

You can now receive exports of Prequel usage data directly to any database or warehouse supported by Prequel.

Q3 2024
Export
Destinations

You can now export data to Azure Blob Storage.

Export
Notifications

You can now add and manage webhooks directly in the Prequel Admin UI.

Q1 2024
Export
React SDK

We have made a number of updates to the React SDK including:

  • Third-party identification is now standardized using recipient_id.
  • useDestinationForm now accepts an options parameter that allows you to set any number of the optional parameters without worrying about parameter order.
  • useDestinationVendors now returns a list of all available destination vendors for the deployment, complete with display names and logos.
  • useGetTransfers now returns a list of Transfer objects rather than the full API response object.
  • useModelConfigs has been deprecated in favor of useModels, with updated return types.
  • FetchAuthTokenWithDestination has been renamed to FetchAuthTokenWithPreparedDestination
  • FormField type has been expanded to include div form elements and number input types.
  • useDestination hook now supports Partial inputs so you don't need to wrap setDestination in setDestinationField as suggested in the React Example app.
Export
Destinations

You can now send data to SFTP.

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