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Security is always top of mind for IT depts around the globe, and this release of Qlik™ Replicate November 2023 sees some serious enhancements across endpoints.

Security enhancements

• Snowflake targets (Google, AWS, and Azure) support for OAuth2 authentication – OAuth offers a more secured method of authentication compared with using native accounts and is becoming the preferred option for many organizations.
  This builds a solid foundation to support OAuth in many more endpoints.

• Kafka target support for certificate + username and password authentication
  
  • A new Certificate + Username and password authentication option has been added to the configuration options securing publishing data schemas to Confluent Schema Registry.
• Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift Targets support for IAM Roles Anywhere
  
  • IAM Roles Anywhere can now be selected as the Access type for Amazon S3 Staging and Amazon S3 Storage within the configuration options for these endpoints
• MySQL-based targets support SSL – It is now possible to connect via SSL for all MySQL based target endpoints.

New Endpoints and enhancements

• Nou – Endpoint-ul țintă Microsoft Data Fabric
  
  • Qlik™ announces the ability to support replication from any supported source to Microsoft Fabric Synapse Data Warehouse.
    Note: Microsoft Fabric is currently in Public Preview and further updates may be required when it reaches GA

• New – Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server source endpoint
  • This version introduces support for replicating data from Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server to any supported target.
• New – Confluent Cloud target endpoint
  
  • This version introduces support for replicating data from any supported source to Confluent Cloud.
• Enhanced – Google BigQuery target endpoint
  
  • Removed the dependency of having Google Cloud SDK installed.