Releasesby GlyphUnity Gateway is now generally available
Unity Gateway is now generally available. Unity Gateway is the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers. Govern MCP servers to control access and costs. Monitor usage, cost, access, and lineage from one place.
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Workspace sharing in Declarative Native Apps (Public Preview)
Workspace sharing is now available in public preview for Declarative Native Apps. Providers can share a whole directory of files and folders by declaring a workspace in the application package manifest. Consumers get a read-only workspace when they install the app, and can browse the folder structure and open the files.
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing (General availability)
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing is now generally available. Use gateway model monitors to track drift and performance for inference services behind a Snowflake Gateway, compare baseline and challenger services during live traffic splits, and evaluate results in Snowsight or with SQL. For more information, see Gateway monitoring & A/B testing .
Multi-party Approval (General availability)
Multi-party Approval (MPA) is now generally available. When a Multi-party Approval policy is attached to your account, MPA enforces a mandatory second-person (“four-eyes”) verification step for critical account operations. A Multi-party Approval policy defines which operations require approval and who can approve them.
AlloyDB now supports Best Matching 25 (BM25) indexes for full-text search in Preview
AlloyDB now supports Best Matching 25 (BM25) indexes for full-text search in Preview . You can use the pg_textsearch extension to create BM25 indexes and optimize probabilistic ranking of full-text search. This feature is supported on AlloyDB instances running PostgreSQL 17 or 18. For more information, see Create and manage a BM25 index .
Process-level sandboxing and auto-updates (Preview)
This release introduces process-level sandboxing, automatic update checks, and other improvements to the CodeMender CLI (Preview): Process-level sandboxing : To safeguard your workstation against unintended file modifications or unexpected tool side effects, you can now execute all agent-proposed tools (such as compiling code, running tests, or executing...
Looker Conversational Analytics engagement and token metrics in preview
Enhanced observability for Conversational Analytics, including engagement and estimated token usage, appears on the System Activity dashboard after an admin turns on the Agent Token usage preview setting.
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Moonshot AI Kimi K3 is now available on Unity Gateway
Moonshot AI Kimi K3 is now available on Unity Gateway for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native vision. Access it through the same governed API as other models, with centralized permissions, guardrails, spend controls, and observability, and switch models without changing application code.
Unity Gateway API: Manage resources with SDKs, the CLI, and Terraform
You can manage Unity Gateway resources programmatically instead of clicking through the UI, with full create, read, update, list, and delete support for endpoints, model providers, and MCP servers.
Use Unity Gateway with your own Claude enterprise subscription
Route Claude Code through Unity Gateway using an existing Claude Pro, Max, Enterprise, or Team subscription, at no additional model cost, while your organization keeps centralized governance, usage tracking, and access control.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) is now available on Unity Gateway
DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) is now available on Unity Gateway for fast, cost-efficient reasoning, coding, and agentic tool use. Access it through the same governed API as other models, with centralized permissions, guardrails, spend controls, and observability, and switch models without changing application code.
Upcoming general availability of Unity Gateway
Unity Gateway, the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, is scheduled for general availability soon. Built on Unity Catalog, Unity Gateway extends governance to the runtime interactions between models, agents, MCP servers, and tools.
ABAC GRANT policies now cover Unity Gateway resource types (Beta)
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) GRANT policies dynamically grant Unity Catalog privileges to securables whose governed tags match a condition. They now support model services, model provider services, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and agent services, which are the resource types Unity Gateway governs.
Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta
You can now build custom trace views in the Databricks MLflow trace explorer. Describe the layout you want in plain language, and Genie generates a reusable view that surfaces the trace fields, metrics, and feedback controls most relevant to your review workflow. See Build a custom trace view .
Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway
Google Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available on Unity Gateway for fast, cost-efficient everyday tasks. Access it through the same governed API as other models, with centralized permissions, guardrails, spend controls, and observability, and switch models without changing application code.