Unity Catalog Release notes from Databricks

49 releases · 12 this month

49 releases

Date	Release	Type
Sep 23	Scala UDFs can access Unity Catalog secretsunverified Update	Update
Sep 23	Scalar and Batch Unity Catalog Python UDFs are now generally availableunverified GA	GA
Sep 22	Invite OpenSharing recipients by email (Beta)unverified Beta	Beta
Sep 17	Metastore-level ABAC policies are in Beta Beta	Beta
Sep 16	VARIANT cast extends to ARRAY and MAP columns in ABAC column masks Update	Update
Sep 15	Data Classification now scans Unity Catalog views (Beta) Beta	Beta
Sep 15	Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available GA	GA
Sep 15	The READ METADATA privilege will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled Update	Update
Sep 11	Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available GA	GA
Sep 11	Sharing foreign schemas and tables with OpenSharing is now generally available GA	GA
Sep 9	External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta) Beta	Beta
Sep 8	ABAC DENY policies are in Beta Beta	Beta
Aug 31	ABAC GRANT policies are generally available for models and services GA	GA
Aug 28	Unity Catalog Skills (Beta) Beta	Beta
Aug 27	Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview) Preview	Preview
Aug 24	The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges are in Beta Beta	Beta
Aug 24	Secrets in Unity Catalog will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled Update	Update
Aug 21	Context attributes in ABAC column mask and row filter policies (Beta) Beta	Beta
Aug 19	Role-based access control (RBAC) is generally available GA	GA
Aug 19	Role-based access control (RBAC) will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled Update	Update
Aug 17	Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta) Beta	Beta
Aug 17	Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column Deprecation	Deprecation
Aug 17	Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column Deprecation	Deprecation
Aug 14	Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available GA	GA
Aug 13	Sharing tables backed by default storage is now generally available GA	GA
Aug 13	Tags page in Governance Hub (Beta) Beta	Beta
Aug 13	Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts GA	GA
Aug 12	Define business concepts with Pages (Beta) Beta	Beta
Aug 11	Unity Catalog ABAC GRANT policies support more securable types in Beta Beta	Beta
Aug 10	READ METADATA privilege is GA GA	GA
Aug 7	Tag automations (Beta) Beta	Beta
Aug 4	Schema-level HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available GA	GA
Aug 4	Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available GA	GA
Aug 4	Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available GA	GA
Aug 3	MANAGE no longer requires USE CATALOG or USE SCHEMA on the same object Update	Update
Aug 3	Secrets in Unity Catalog is GA GA	GA
Jul 31	Packaged clean rooms are now generally available GA	GA
Jul 28	Python UDTFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available GA	GA
Jul 24	Governed tags system table is in Beta Beta	Beta
Jul 22	Automated setup for S3 external locations Update	Update
Jul 22	Governance Hub is in Beta Beta	Beta
Jul 22	Role-based access control (RBAC) is in Public Preview Preview	Preview
Jul 22	Databricks-hosted sample datasets available in the samples catalog Update	Update
Jul 16	Scala and Java UDFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available GA	GA
Jul 15	Data Classification is now available by default for additional compliance standards Update	Update
Jul 14	Request for Access will soon be enabled by default for all workspaces Update	Update
Jul 14	Trigger.AvailableNow support for OpenSharing streaming (GA) GA	GA
Jul 10	Secrets in Unity Catalog (Public Preview) Preview	Preview
Jun 29	Govern LLMs in Unity Catalog with model services (Beta) Beta	Beta

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Unity Catalog OSS releases github.com	github.com	RSS
AI/BI (dashboards, Genie) docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Databricks CLI releases github.com	github.com	RSS
Databricks Connect docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Databricks Runtime docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Declarative Automation Bundles docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Developer tools (CLI, SDK, Terraform) docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Feature Store docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Platform release notes (AWS) docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	RSS
Python SDK releases github.com	github.com	RSS
Serverless compute docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Serverless environment versions docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
Terraform provider releases github.com	github.com	RSS
Unity AI Gateway docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None
What's coming docs.databricks.com	docs.databricks.com	None