The following are release notes for Visual Pipeline Builder versions 1.x. The Visual Pipeline Builder helps customers create automated data flows with drag-and-drop simplicity. It can help users quickly connect lab systems, add data transformations, and route results where they need them—all through a visual interface that requires no programming knowledge.

v1.0.0

Release date: 19 September 2025

What's New

TetraScience has released its first general availability (GA) version of the Visual Pipeline Builder App, version 1.0.0. The app provides no-code and low-code tools to help customers quickly build Tetra Data Pipelines that run automated data operations and transformations, and then enrich and push that data to downstream systems.

To activate the Visual Pipeline Builder in your Tetra Data Platform (TDP) environment, contact your customer account leader.

Here are the details for what's new in Visual Pipeline Builder v1.0.0

Prerequisites

Visual Pipeline Builder v1.0.0 requires the following:

• TDP v4.2.0 or higher (v4.3.1 or higher is recommended)
• Amazon Bedrock Access: Contact your customer account leader to obtain access. For more information about Amazon Bedrock, see the Amazon Bedrock User Guide.
• Customers must contact their customer account leader to activate the app in the TDP user interface
• App users must have the following TDP functionality permissions:
  • Pipelines: Full Access
  • Artifacts: Full Access

For Customer-Hosted TDP Environments Only

• The TDP's Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate must validate the following endpoint: *.data-apps.tdp-hostname.com
• The Domain Name Server (DNS) zone for tdp-hostname.com must have a CNAME record routing *.data-apps.tdp-hostname.com to tdp-hostname.com

New Functionality

New functionality includes features not previously available in the Visual Pipeline Builder App beta release version.

• A new health indicator for the AI Chat Assistant is now displayed on the Settings page.

Enhancements

Enhancements are modifications to existing functionality that improve performance or usability, but don't alter the function or intended use of the system.

• There are no enhancements in this release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a bug in the python-exec configuration to use input-file as the input name rather than input-file-pointer

Limitations

The following are known limitations of Visual Pipeline Builder v1.0.0:

• The app uses task script README files to determine input configurations. This parsing might be inconsistent, because README file formats vary greatly between task scripts.
• The AI Chat Assistant cannot be guaranteed to provide accurate information. The AI Chat Assistant may hallucinate or give incorrect information.
• The AI Chat Assistant is limited to publicly available TetraScience components and can't incorporate organization-specific components in the private namespace.
• The AI Chat Assistant currently supports English language inputs only.
• AI-generated pipelines with complex logic may require manual implementation and refinement.
• AI Chat Assistant response times can take up to 60 seconds for complex queries.
• No validation is provided for step dependencies or connections.
• There are no keyboard shortcuts for common operations.
• No copy/paste functionality is available for nodes.

Known and Possible Issues

The following are known issues in Visual Pipeline Builder v1.0.0:

• Customers can't load existing TDP pipelines into Visual Pipeline Builder.
• Some pipeline configuration options are not directly editable. These must be edited after deployment on the TDP Pipeline Edit page. These configurations include the following:
  • Pipeline triggers
  • Configuration secret and shared settings
• Templates are user-specific and can't be shared. Once pipelines are deployed, however, users can share them in the TDP.
• Templates must be deleted individually and can't be deleted in bulk.
• Loading steps from older versions of protocols isn't supported.
• Clearing settings in the Settings Page won't clear the Advanced > AWS Bedrock Credentials settings.
• The AI Chat Assistant will not work in environments that require IAM proxy configuration.
• Pipeline Edit links to the TDP do not work in certain TDP environments.
• Default values for protocol configurations aren't loaded.
• Internet loss results in silent failures within the application
• Templates are marked as modified on browser refresh
• Some protocol features are either not supported or only partially supported. For more information, see Unsupported Protocol YAML Properties.

Unsupported Protocol YAML Properties

The Visual Pipeline Builder supports a subset of protocol.yml features for importing and editing existing protocols. For a complete list of protocol.yml file properties, see Protocol YAML Files.

When using Visual Pipeline Builder, customers may have issues loading or deploying pipelines and protocols that use the following unsupported and partially supported properties:

• config.<config_id>.default
• steps[*].if
• steps[*].options
• steps[*].options.memoryInMB
• steps[*].options.timeoutInSec
• protocol.* (Context that includes optional, top-level metadata (Manifest Fields))
• function:
• constants

Partially Supported Properties

The following protocol.yml file properties are only partially supported:

• steps[*].input: supports script/text values only. Users may have issues loading existing protocols with default values specified.

Upgrade Considerations

Users upgrading from Visual Pipeline Builder v0.5 to v1.0 will lose their configured pipeline templates. However, pipeline and protocol artifacts already deployed to the TDP from Visual Pipeline Builder will still remain on the TDP.

To activate the Visual Pipeline Builder, please contact your customer account leader. For more information on how to access and use the Visual Pipeline Builder after it's activated, see the Visual Pipeline Builder documentation.

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IMPORTANT

Updating the application currently will delete all user templates. Contact your customer account leader if you need to save your templates before upgrading app versions.

Other Release Notes

To view other release notes for Tetra Data Apps, see Tetra Data Apps Release Notes.