**Breaking changes** (existing installations need to reinstall UCX and re-run assessment jobs)

 * Switched local group migration component to rename groups instead of creating backup groups ([#450](#450)).
 * Mitigate permissions loss in Table ACLs by folding grants belonging to the same principal, object id and object type together ([#512](#512)).

**New features**

 * Added support for the experimental Databricks CLI launcher ([#517](#517)).
 * Added support for external Hive Metastores including AWS Glue ([#400](#400)).
 * Added more views to assessment dashboard ([#474](#474)).
 * Added rate limit for creating backup group to increase stability ([#500](#500)).
 * Added deduplication for mount point list ([#569](#569)).
 * Added documentation to describe interaction with external Hive Metastores ([#473](#473)).
 * Added failure injection for job failure message propagation  ([#591](#591)).
 * Added uniqueness in the new warehouse name to avoid conflicts on installation ([#542](#542)).
 * Added a global init script to collect Hive Metastore lineage ([#513](#513)).
 * Added retry set/update permissions when possible and assess the changes in the workspace ([#519](#519)).
 * Use `~/.ucx/state.json` to store the state of both dashboards and jobs ([#561](#561)).

**Bug fixes**

 * Fixed handling for `OWN` table permissions ([#571](#571)).
 * Fixed handling of keys with and without values. ([#514](#514)).
 * Fixed integration test failures related to concurrent group delete ([#584](#584)).
 * Fixed issue with workspace listing process on None type `object_type` ([#481](#481)).
 * Fixed missing group entitlement migration bug ([#583](#583)).
 * Fixed entitlement application for account-level groups ([#529](#529)).
 * Fixed assessment throwing an error when the owner of an object is empty ([#485](#485)).
 * Fixed installer to migrate between different configuration file versions ([#596](#596)).
 * Fixed cluster policy crawler to be aware of deleted policies ([#486](#486)).
 * Improved error message for not null constraints violated ([#532](#532)).
 * Improved integration test resiliency ([#597](#597), [#594](#594), [#586](#586)).
 * Introduced Safer access to workspace objects' properties. ([#530](#530)).
 * Mitigated permissions loss in Table ACLs by running appliers with single thread ([#518](#518)).
 * Running apply permission task before assessment should display message ([#487](#487)).
 * Split integration tests from blocking the merge queue ([#496](#496)).
 * Support more than one dashboard per step ([#472](#472)).
 * Update databricks-sdk requirement from ~=0.11.0 to ~=0.12.0 ([#505](#505)).
 * Update databricks-sdk requirement from ~=0.12.0 to ~=0.13.0 ([#575](#575)).

**Breaking changes** (existing installations need to reinstall UCX and
re-run assessment jobs)

* Switched local group migration component to rename groups instead of
creating backup groups
([#450](#450)).
* Mitigate permissions loss in Table ACLs by folding grants belonging to
the same principal, object id and object type together
([#512](#512)).

**New features**

* Added support for the experimental Databricks CLI launcher
([#517](#517)).
* Added support for external Hive Metastores including AWS Glue
([#400](#400)).
* Added more views to assessment dashboard
([#474](#474)).
* Added rate limit for creating backup group to increase stability
([#500](#500)).
* Added deduplication for mount point list
([#569](#569)).
* Added documentation to describe interaction with external Hive
Metastores ([#473](#473)).
* Added failure injection for job failure message propagation
([#591](#591)).
* Added uniqueness in the new warehouse name to avoid conflicts on
installation ([#542](#542)).
* Added a global init script to collect Hive Metastore lineage
([#513](#513)).
* Added retry set/update permissions when possible and assess the
changes in the workspace
([#519](#519)).
* Use `~/.ucx/state.json` to store the state of both dashboards and jobs
([#561](#561)).

**Bug fixes**

* Fixed handling for `OWN` table permissions
([#571](#571)).
* Fixed handling of keys with and without values.
([#514](#514)).
* Fixed integration test failures related to concurrent group delete
([#584](#584)).
* Fixed issue with workspace listing process on None type `object_type`
([#481](#481)).
* Fixed missing group entitlement migration bug
([#583](#583)).
* Fixed entitlement application for account-level groups
([#529](#529)).
* Fixed assessment throwing an error when the owner of an object is
empty ([#485](#485)).
* Fixed installer to migrate between different configuration file
versions ([#596](#596)).
* Fixed cluster policy crawler to be aware of deleted policies
([#486](#486)).
* Improved error message for not null constraints violated
([#532](#532)).
* Improved integration test resiliency
([#597](#597),
[#594](#594),
[#586](#586)).
* Introduced Safer access to workspace objects' properties.
([#530](#530)).
* Mitigated permissions loss in Table ACLs by running appliers with
single thread ([#518](#518)).
* Running apply permission task before assessment should display message
([#487](#487)).
* Split integration tests from blocking the merge queue
([#496](#496)).
* Support more than one dashboard per step
([#472](#472)).
* Update databricks-sdk requirement from ~=0.11.0 to ~=0.12.0
([#505](#505)).
* Update databricks-sdk requirement from ~=0.12.0 to ~=0.13.0
([#575](#575)).

…ups (#450)

we can use patch to rename groups, so that we can simplify the local
group migration step.
<img width="646" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/databrickslabs/ucx/assets/259697/b0f54013-3366-4fd2-a1a4-236c7f033f6b">
<img width="325" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/databrickslabs/ucx/assets/259697/3b2ea9e1-5b4c-4b34-94b4-8e25267fd5ef">

Closes #218

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Co-authored-by: William Conti <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: william-conti <[email protected]>

**Breaking changes** (existing installations need to reinstall UCX and
re-run assessment jobs)

* Switched local group migration component to rename groups instead of
creating backup groups
([#450](#450)).
* Mitigate permissions loss in Table ACLs by folding grants belonging to
the same principal, object id and object type together
([#512](#512)).

**New features**

* Added support for the experimental Databricks CLI launcher
([#517](#517)).
* Added support for external Hive Metastores including AWS Glue
([#400](#400)).
* Added more views to assessment dashboard
([#474](#474)).
* Added rate limit for creating backup group to increase stability
([#500](#500)).
* Added deduplication for mount point list
([#569](#569)).
* Added documentation to describe interaction with external Hive
Metastores ([#473](#473)).
* Added failure injection for job failure message propagation
([#591](#591)).
* Added uniqueness in the new warehouse name to avoid conflicts on
installation ([#542](#542)).
* Added a global init script to collect Hive Metastore lineage
([#513](#513)).
* Added retry set/update permissions when possible and assess the
changes in the workspace
([#519](#519)).
* Use `~/.ucx/state.json` to store the state of both dashboards and jobs
([#561](#561)).

**Bug fixes**

* Fixed handling for `OWN` table permissions
([#571](#571)).
* Fixed handling of keys with and without values.
([#514](#514)).
* Fixed integration test failures related to concurrent group delete
([#584](#584)).
* Fixed issue with workspace listing process on None type `object_type`
([#481](#481)).
* Fixed missing group entitlement migration bug
([#583](#583)).
* Fixed entitlement application for account-level groups
([#529](#529)).
* Fixed assessment throwing an error when the owner of an object is
empty ([#485](#485)).
* Fixed installer to migrate between different configuration file
versions ([#596](#596)).
* Fixed cluster policy crawler to be aware of deleted policies
([#486](#486)).
* Improved error message for not null constraints violated
([#532](#532)).
* Improved integration test resiliency
([#597](#597),
[#594](#594),
[#586](#586)).
* Introduced Safer access to workspace objects' properties.
([#530](#530)).
* Mitigated permissions loss in Table ACLs by running appliers with
single thread ([#518](#518)).
* Running apply permission task before assessment should display message
([#487](#487)).
* Split integration tests from blocking the merge queue
([#496](#496)).
* Support more than one dashboard per step
([#472](#472)).
* Update databricks-sdk requirement from ~=0.11.0 to ~=0.12.0
([#505](#505)).
* Update databricks-sdk requirement from ~=0.12.0 to ~=0.13.0
([#575](#575)).