# OpenMetadata

> OpenMetadata is a unified metadata platform for data discovery, data observability, and data governance powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth column level lineage, and seamless team colla

- **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/OpenMetadata
- **Author**: open-metadata
- **Category**: MCP Servers
- **Latest version**: `1.12.10-release` (2026-06-03)
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Source**: https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata
- **Homepage**: https://open-metadata.org
- **Language**: TypeScript
- **GitHub**: 11,718 stars, 1,964 forks
- **Registry**: github
- **Tags**: `data-catalog`, `data-collaboration`, `data-contracts`, `data-discovery`, `data-governance`, `data-lineage`, `data-observability`, `data-profiling`, `mcp-server`, `typescript`

## Description

OpenMetadata is a unified metadata platform for data discovery, data observability, and data governance powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth column level lineage, and seamless team collaboration.

## Recent releases

| Version | Date | Urgency | Changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `1.12.10-release` | 2026-06-03 | High | ## Changelog  OpenMetadata 1.12.10 is a maintenance release delivering critical security patches, MCP enhancements, and targeted bug fixes across migrations, search, UI, and ingestion runtime.  ### 🔒 Security  - **Snyk high/critical dependency patches in ingestion** [#28623](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/28623): High and critical Snyk findings patched across ingestion dependencies to address multiple CVEs. - **Jackson-core and CloudFront Snyk high patches** [#28614]( |
| `1.12.8-release` | 2026-05-13 | High | ## Changelog  OpenMetadata 1.12.8 is a maintenance release focused on hardening the platform against newly disclosed CVEs, eliminating long-standing database hotspots in the search and tag pipelines, and tightening connector behavior across Databricks, Unity Catalog, Athena, Datalake, and OpenLineage. The release also lands several quality-of-life UI fixes around governance approvals, advanced search, and custom properties.  ### ⚠️ Backward Incompatible / Notable Behavior Changes  - **Noti |
| `1.12.6-release` | 2026-04-22 | High | ### Improvements  - **Platform:** Enhanced search index performance and reduced memory footprint during reindex operations to minimize runtime impact #27153 - **Platform:** Improved reliability of bulk indexing with better handling of large payloads and batching #27127 - **Governance:** Refactored certification storage to improve consistency and auditability across entities #26448 - **Platform:** Added support for SAML metadata XML upload to simplify SSO configuration #26862 - **Ingestion: |
| `1.12.5-release` | 2026-04-10 | High | ### Improvements  - **Governance:** Refactor asset certification storage to tag_usage table for improved data integrity and reliability [#26448](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/26448) - **Platform:** Enhance Search Index performance and reliability [#26669](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/26669) - **Platform:** Add SAML metadata XML upload support [#26862](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/26862) - **AI:** Enforce payload size limits fo |
| `1.12.4-release` | 2026-03-30 | Medium | ## Improvements  - AI: Add OAuth support for MCP server with database-backed token persistence and automatic refresh [#25391](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/25391) - AI: Add MCP bot impersonation with audit logging and change event publishing [#26488](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/26488) - Governance: Implement self-approval prevention for workflow change requests [#26289](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/26289) - Governance: Add fi |
| `1.12.3-release` | 2026-03-19 | Low | ## Improvements - AI: Remove logging capability from MCP server [#26257](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/26257) - Discovery: Refactor search infrastructure to use canonical index aliases [#23742](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/23742) - Discovery: Add Metric entity type to Data Insights description coverage chart [#26260](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/pull/26260) - Discovery: Add displayName search support and improve wildcard matching [# |
| `1.11.14-release` | 2026-03-17 | Low | Release 1.11.14-release |
| `1.11.13-release` | 2026-03-06 | Low | Release 1.11.13-release |
| `1.11.12-release` | 2026-03-05 | Low | ### ⚠️ Breaking Changes  #### OpenLineage Kinesis Support  Refactored OpenLineage connection schema to support both Kafka and Kinesis brokers  **Migration Required:** The OpenLineage connection configuration structure has changed from flat Kafka-specific fields to a nested `brokerConfig` object. Existing configurations with fields like `brokersUrl`, `topicName`, `consumerGroupName`, `consumerOffsets`, `poolTimeout`, `sessionTimeout`, `securityProtocol`, `sslConfig`, and `saslConfig` at the |
| `1.11.11-release` | 2026-02-26 | Low | ## Changelog ## Breaking Changes - Extended the REST connector to support OpenAPI schemas from local files (JSON/YAML) in addition to HTTP URLs via the openAPISchemaConnection union type. - Updated the REST connector connection configuration to accept either connection type. Refer to this [YAML example](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/ingestion/src/metadata/examples/workflows/rest.yaml)  to review the updated connection structure.  ## Improvements - **Connectors:** |

## Dependency audit

- **Score**: 100/100
- **Total deps**: 1
- **Resolved**: 1
- **Unresolved**: 0
- **License conflicts**: 0
- **Warnings**: 0
- **Scanned**: 2026-05-04

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