Changelog

Ellie 9.2

New features:

• Archive status

  • New status “Archived”

  • Filters on folder page

  • Filters on single entity view: relationships tabs, models tabs

• List view in folders page

• Go to glossary with separate icon button

• Provide endpoint that server swagger.json

• Filter by “is null” in advanced search

Ellie 9.1

New features:

• Better attribute-attribute connection

  • Can be used on any level (enabled via metadata settings)

  • Direct attribute-to-attribute connections on the canvas with drag-and-connect

  • Attribute suggestions for new relationships based on exact name matches

  • Real FK is visible in attributes

• New SSO method: PingID

Ellie 9.0

Summary: Version 9.0 introduces full CRUD support for the Ellie API and the new Ellie Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for external tool integrations.

New Features

• Full CRUD Support in Ellie API

  • Ellie now supports full Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations entities, attributes, and relationships in models.

  • New PATCH and PUT Model endpoints allow for precise updates to existing assets or complete replacements.

  • Attribute Management: Added support for adding, removing, and reordering attributes, including their metadata, via API.

• Advanced Visual & Layout Control

  • Autodraw Support: New autodraw flag allows users to choose between Ellie’s automatic layout engine or custom-defined coordinates.

  • Presentation Data: API now supports reading and writing visual properties such as entity positions (x, y), dimensions (width, height), colors, and groupings.

• Ellie Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

  • The new MCP Server provides a standardized interface for external applications and AI agents to interact directly with Ellie.

Enables seamless integration with modern development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Desktop), allowing external tools to browse, create, and update models while respecting Ellie’s governance rules.

• Expanded Metadata & Governance

  • Metadata API: Full support for reading and writing key-value metadata fields (e.g., for managing lifecycle states like "Work in Progress" vs. "Approved").

Improvements & Changes

• API Refactoring:

  • Relationship description field has been renamed to labels to accommodate a dedicated metadata-based description field.

  • All entity responses now include an explicit level (conceptual, logical, physical).

• Performance: Optimized architecture for handling large, complex models and high-frequency API updates.

• Developer Experience: Enhanced error messaging and stricter REST compliance for more reliable automation.

Ellie 8.14

New features:

• Email notifications
  You can now receive email notifications for comment threads, so you don’t miss discussions when you’re not actively in the tool.

Ellie 8.13

New features:

• Folder Editors API
  You can now edit the folder editors through the API.

• Folder API
  You can access all the reusable components in the folder, such as entities and relationships of all levels.

• Glossary API shows all levels and metadata
  We now show all the level and metadata information on the Glossary API on different elements. You can find it now for the entities and relationships, and for folders.

• Models and snapshots API
  You can fetch the current state of the Model as it is now. Using Snapshots API you can fetch any previous state of the model.

Ellie 8.12

New features:

• Advanced & Quick Search for Relationships
  Relationships are now fully searchable via Advanced Search and Quick Search, with dedicated results, filtering by level, glossary usage, creator, and description.

• Richer Relationship Metadata
  Relationships now include Creator, Status, Glossary, and Model usage details, all visible on a dedicated single relationship page with automatic status saving.

• Improved Entity & Relationship Views
  Entity pages now have a dedicated Models tab, while relationship model listings were moved to relationship-specific views for better clarity and consistency.

• Suggestion Mode Enabled by Default
  Suggested relationships are shown automatically when entering models for the first time, with persistent, browser-based settings and a helpful first-time notification.

• Smarter Glossary & Relationship Handling
  Adding relationships to a glossary now preselects the current model’s folder when valid, and users are warned when creating duplicate relationship names between the same entities.

• Enhanced CSV Export for Relationships
  Relationship exports now include IDs, names, and descriptions (with groundwork laid for labels), making CSV data more complete and usable downstream.

Ellie 8.11

New features:

• Configure custom datatypes for conceptual, logical and physical level attributes

• Excel import & export supports logical and physical entities

Ellie 8.10

New features:

• Relationships in glossary views

• Single relationship page for editing relationship in glossary level

Ellie 8.9

New features:

• API for source navigatorEllie.ai API Specification

Ellie 8.8.1

Improvements:

• Added some extra mapping for Databricks types when import physical model via Cdata

Ellie 8.8

New Features:

• Reusable relationships:

  • Relationships can be promoted to glossary and reused in other models

  • Local and Glossary relationships

• AI Source Navigator:

  • Loading large amounts of assets first into source navigator

  • Chatbot for navigating various source tables and columns

Ellie 8.7.1

Improvements:

• GET model as dbt Yaml format by adding &format=dbt into query params

Ellie 8.7

New Features:

• Naming Conventions:

  • Admins can define simple naming rules (prefix, suffix, text case).

  • Users see light warnings when naming models, entities, or attributes—guiding consistency without blocking work.

Ellie 8.6

New Features:

• Re-usable physical entities

• Draft FK:s in physical models

Improvements:

• New DDL export right side panel

Ellie 8.5

New Features:

• Logical model and Logical entity support for Collibra integration

Ellie 8.4

Improvements:

• New relationship editor with better and easier visualizations

• Relationship labels can be positioned anywhere among the relationship line

• Relationship name & description

Ellie 8.3

New Features:

• Attribute Synchronization Support in Collibra: You can now sync conceptual entity attributes between Ellie and Collibra (optional connector setting).

Ellie 8.2

New Features:

• Entity Types in Logical & Physical Models: Define and manage distinct entity types across levels (e.g., hubs, links, satellites).

• Custom Glossary Entity Settings for Logical Models: Add custom metadata and attributes, supporting seamless conversions from conceptual to logical models.

Improvements:

• Unified Entity Functionality: Entity type and metadata settings now persist across level conversions.

Ellie 8.1

UI Improvements

• New canvas layout – More space for modeling, less distraction. Stay focused and work comfortably. Please see our user guide for more detailed information: https://ellie.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ELLIE/pages/3375116/Ellie+User+Guide+-+the+basics#Canvas-layout-and-toolbar

• New table component for editing attributes
  The canvas now uses a redesigned table for editing attributes in Logical (LM) and Physical (PM) models:

  • Inline editing

  • Resizable name column

  • Multiselect and row reordering

  • In-cell validation

  • Updated design for a smoother experience

New features

• Multiline descriptions
  You can now use line breaks in relationship descriptions to improve readability.

• Relationship direction data in API
  Added support for relationship direction in the API to enable better structure and integration.

• Read-only API Token
  Added support for read-only API tokens, allowing only GET requests on the open API.

Ellie 8.0

• Reusable Logical Entities (Glossary Entities) are now avaialbe to our customers. Learn more here - blog post.

Ellie 7.11

• Added relationship highlight

• Added “Resolve thread” button for comment threads

Ellie 7.10.1

Bug fixes and quality of life improvements for the Collibra x Ellie connector.

Ellie 7.10

New features:

• Added metadata types for conceptual entities

• Added link support for conceptual entity metadata

Ellie 7.9

New features:

• New CData Connector to connect to 150 different source systems

Fixes:

• Faster Autodraw : Improved performance when visualizing large models.

• Smoother Rendering : Enhanced canvas responsiveness and speed.

• Faster processing: Improvements of big background processing tasks

Ellie 7.8.1

Fixes:

• Model Conversion bug fixes

• VARIANT in Snowflake SQL DDL Import is imported as VARIANT

Ellie 7.8

New features:

• Export any model in DBT Yaml format

• Added description to logical entities

• Added data type and description to logical attributes

• Data types & Description part of conceptual model to logical model conversion

Ellie 7.7

New features:

• Collibra Conceptual Models integration

Improvements:

• Speed & Performance improvements

Ellie 7.6

New features:

• Added color picker for entity types, define your own colors

• Added in-app notifications for comments in modeling canvases

Ellie 7.5

• Added versioning functionality to conceptual entities.

• Admin users can now setup Single Sign On settings directly - https://ellie.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ELLIE/pages/1309179907

• Admin users can now customize conceptual entity metadata and attribute fields.

Ellie 7.4

• Ellie x Collibra Integration supporting glossary synchronization

• Added Entity Groups functionality to Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Canvases

• Folder API improvements exposing the folder workflow, read more at https://ellie.ellie.ai/api/docs/#/Folder

Ellie 7.3

• Introduced Entity Groups feature for better organization and management of entities

• Added PK/FK Helper to quickly create foreign keys from primary keys

Ellie 7.2

• Folder API. Read more at https://ellie.ellie.ai/api/docs/#/Folder

Ellie 7.1

• Azure DevOps (ADO) repository integration

• Purview Integration

• Data Type Domains

• Copy paste of attributes

Ellie 7.0.1

• Added ability to move folders

• Fixes for AI text-to-model (beta feature)

• Minor bug fixes and improvements

Ellie 7.0

• Folders and Subglossaries release

  • Collections are now Folders

  • Folders can have their own glossaries

  • Ability to use Foreign models

  • Updates to Personal Folder workflow

Information on these changes can be found in this guide - https://ellie.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ELLIE/pages/852230147.

Note: as part of the release some features have been deprecated. Learn more here - https://ellie.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ELLIE/pages/1217527825.

Ellie 6.13

• Direct fabric data warehouse & lakehouse export to Physical model

Ellie 6.12

• Direct snowflake export to Physical model

• Comments on modeling canvases

Ellie 6.11

• Autodraw model button

• Automated snapshots every 15 minutes

• Restore from snapshot

• Autosaving snapshots when:

  • Autodraw button is pressed

  • Copying a model

  • Publishing / overwriting a model.

• Export as PNG
  
  

Ellie 6.10

• For selected customers:

  • Generalization relationship

  • Directional relationship

Ellie 6.9

• New Search Capabilities:

  • More intuitive and rich quick search

  • Advanced search page which supports searching by metadata

Ellie 6.8

• Model versioning:

  • Create snapshots manually

  • View snapshots

Ellie 6.7

• Single Entity Page user interface redesign and technological improvements

Ellie 6.6

• Import SQL to Physical models

• Feedback button

Ellie 6.5

• Whiteboard

• Personal collection workflow

• POST & GET API for physical model

Ellie 6.4

• New Dashboard

• Collections view

• Updated Modeling list and Glossary

Ellie 6.3

• Physical modeling canvas

• Convert Conceptual model to Physical model

• Convert Logical model to Physical model

• SQL Generator with Snowflake support

Ellie 6.2

• Logical Model (LM) Interface Enhancements:

  • Edit Model Info dialog updated with resizable Description Textfield.

  • Improved naming validation in Entity Edit Renaming.

• Entity Management Improvements:

  • Fixed minor UI issues and updated Entity Logical tab to show "no Attributes" when empty.

  • Single Entity Page enhanced with resizable cells and updated font.

• Performance & Usability:

  • Optimized entity creation speed. Added quick access to recent models on the left-side menu.

• UI Updates:

  • Single Entity Page now keeps columns visible on top during scrolling. User Settings interface refreshed. Edit Profile dialog now clearly indicates selected colour.

• Corrections & Functional Improvements:

  • Resolved CM canvas super-sub relationship issue and fixed Mac CTRL+mouse button functionality. Error messages standardized for capitalization consistency.

• Navigation & Accessibility:

  • Action icon buttons now have titles for easier navigation.

• Validation & Error Handling:

  • LM canvas and Edit Entity dialog issues fixed to ensure proper form functionality and attribute addition.

• General UI Adjustments:

  • Addressed various UI discrepancies for a smoother user experience.

Ellie 6.1

New feature

• “Copy as” feature in Personal Collection

Ellie 6.0

New features

• New brand!

• Left sidebar

• Minimap on the canvas

Improvements

• Performance improvements on changing the pages

Ellie 5.2.1

Improvements

• Performance improvements for the Glossary list and other areas.

Ellie 5.2

New features

• Personal Collection, see https://ellie.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ELLIE/pages/852230147/Working+with+folders+and+glossaries#Personal-Collection

Ellie 5.1

New features

• Conceptual model import, see https://ellie.ellie.ai/api/docs/

Improvements

• New autodraw algorithm

• CSV files have the timestamp and also use the local timestamp

Ellie 5.0.3

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where updating the single entity view did not override canvas entities.

• Resolved a problem with PUT/entities not being able to update with an entity ID.

• Addressed an issue where scrolling on the dashboard affected the top navigation bar in various browsers including Safari and Chrome on Mac, as well as Firefox and Edge on Windows.

• Corrected a bug where the context menu could not display long text.

• Fixed a problem on Mac Safari where exporting a model to PDF saved the PDF picture with incomplete information.

• Resolved an issue where updating Entities via the glossary API by providing both ID and the Name was giving a wrong error message.

Ellie 5.0.2

Bugfixes

• Fixed the bug where entity selection was never cleared.

• Addressed the issue of snapped entities moving together unexpectedly.

• Corrected the resizing functionality of old LM entities.

• Improved CM canvas Quick Edit to check for duplicate names.

• Fixed a tiny element in the Entity border that previously prevented the creation of a relationship

• from a specific position.

• Resolved an issue preventing the creation of a relationship from an entity due to padding

• problems.

• Addressed the blank page issue encountered when opening some models through the search bar and models list.

• Fixed the bug where users were unable to copy some models due to a "name already exists" error.

• Solved the blank page issue occurring when the 'Parent node entity is not found'.

Improvements

• Improved the relationship end placement behavior in models.

Ellie 5.0.1

Bugfixes

• Subtype-entities in a conceptual model now snap properly to other objects

• Fixed undo/redo of elbows in a relationship

• Elbows now behave more consistently when they’re in relationships connected to subtype entities

• Excel import of Glossary items: leading and trailing spaces are now properly handled (you should not be able to add leading/trailing spaces in entity or attribute names via Excel import)

• Fixed conceptual entity type updating via API call in PUT /entities endpoint

• Top navigation bar no longer moves around when scrolling the page

• Fixed issues with entity names displaying on conceptual modeling canvas (longer names, umlauts on letters, text padding etc.

• Entity minimum height on conceptual modeling canvas returned back to what it was before 5.0

• Fixed issues with login fields (username & password) on Safari + Mac

• …plus a bunch of smaller, visual fixes

Improvements

• Improved the speed of entities appearing on the conceptual model canvas when selected from the sidebar search (more improvements coming later)