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Excerpts from an online customer community Sprint 145 Notes apply to both SQL Server 2019 and 2016 versions unless specified otherwise. See the Compatibility matrix for versions of DataApp components.DataApp 20.3: Release notes and patches
17 May 2026
Services
Release note ID Patches to the Data Service fail with a 400 error, The Entity Id is not Universal, when interacting with bindings targeting universal entities 271688 Data-processing jobs fail when leveraging Data Service V2 on a PATCH with a 500 error and an error about a duplicate key violation 274537 Data Service V2 calls fail with the error Cannot have system field as primary key field for data entities during job executions 274804 Engine
Release note ID Error logging output is improved for jobs that fail when the string value exceeds the defined column length limit of an entity field 238828 Release note ID Installation no longer fails with an error that the folder's access control list is not in canonical form. 208931 Incremental loads no longer update timestamps with no decimal points of precision for milliseconds (e.g., 2026-08-17 16:56:24), which caused future loads to be less efficient 235121 Entity loads into SQL Data Warehouse no longer fail with the error The timeout period has expired 243709 The Engine no longer treats certain staging paths in ETLObjectAttributeBASE as relative to the Engine install location when only absolute paths should be allowed 243745 The EnableEngineToUseDataServiceV2 attribute is now set in the install config file 247843 Extract no longer fails when the multi-file output feature toggle is active but the binding results in zero rows 248099 If field mappings are removed from metadata for a flat-file load, the load now fails with an error message about the root cause of the failure 248218 In SQL Data Warehouse, a job now shows an error message if an incremental load is run without specifying the primary key 252489 When uploading a file to a blob fails, the associated job execution no longer fails and the job is cancelled 253120 Data Dictionary
Release note ID Source entity and source field are shown to the left of each corresponding entity field on the Entity Details page 241329 For entities shown in the Data Catalog, the source-entity name is added to Properties on the Entity page, and the source name is added to Properties on the Field page 269473 When a user enters the entity data object name as their search term, the destination object is returned 275782 Entity Designer
Release note ID Documentation about entity handlers added for the Data Service (see Add fields to an entity) 240602 The DataApp build version number is now shown in the About modal 238833 Editable Data Steward and Data Steward Email fields are restored 210594 Release note ID When importing or promoting a source entity, the Merge and save option no longer updates an entity's Last Modified date when structural changes are applied 250208