Releasesby GlyphNew Deployment analytics experience
Astro now offers a new version of the Deployment analytics experience with expanded Airflow visibility, including API server and webserver metrics, Dag processor coverage, Kubernetes executor and KubernetesPodOperator coverage, parse time, and richer per-status and per-component breakdowns.
Also shipped Jul 2, 2026Astronomer in July 2026 →
VARIANT data type on Delta Direct tables (General availability)
With this release, Snowflake supports the VARIANT data type on Iceberg tables created from Delta table files in object storage (Delta Direct). When your Delta tables include variant columns, Snowflake maps them to the Snowflake VARIANT data type. You can query semi-structured data using VARIANT functions and dot or bracket notation.
Metadata-based sensitive data classification recommendations (Public Preview)
Snowflake is rolling out metadata-based sensitive data classification recommendations in Snowsight to help you identify databases that are likely to contain sensitive data and enable classification with one click.
Lakeflow Connect row filtering is now generally available
Row filtering in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. Row filtering allows you to ingest only the rows you need by applying conditions similar to a SQL WHERE clause, improving performance and minimizing data duplication.
Genie One enhancements and bug fixes
- Ontology snippets (Public Preview) : Genie One now supports ontology snippets. This feature is in Public Preview. Contact your Databricks account team to sign up. See Genie Ontology . Document edit timestamps : Documents now show the date and time they were last edited. See Documents in Genie One . Links in documents : Documents now support links.
Genie Agent (formerly Genie Space) enhancements
- Agent mode is generally available : Agent mode in Genie Agents (formerly Genie Spaces) is now generally available. Agent mode uses multi-step reasoning to answer complex, exploratory questions with a report that includes citations, visualizations, and supporting tables. See Genie Agents concepts .
[Launched] Generally available: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 on Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving. Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model to date, delivering near-Opus-level intelligence with Sonnet's cost efficiency and speed. Designed
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Additional improvements
- Updated Astro infrastructure to improve reliability and performance.
Test against an existing Deployment in the Astro IDE
You can now test code in the Astro IDE against an existing Astro Deployment in your Workspace, instead of only an ephemeral test Deployment. Testing against an existing Deployment reuses its configuration, connections, and resources, and skips provisioning a new environment.
Enable Sub-Second Pipelines
You can now enable Sub-Second Pipelines on Airflow 3.2+ Deployments that use the Astro executor . Sub-Second Pipelines pair the Astro executor with a dedicated event-driven Event Scheduler that picks up and dispatches API-triggered Dag runs in under a second and sustains approximately 1,000 Dag runs per minute, where the Celery executor queues and falls...
Review code with Otto
You can now use Otto to review your Airflow code automatically when you open a pull request or merge request. The Otto review action posts a sticky summary comment, adds inline comments where it finds issues, and offers commit suggestions where a concrete fix is available.
Try the new Astro experience
Astro's navigation now gives you a single view across your entire Organization instead of a single Workspace. Deployments, Dags, and Astro IDE projects all appear across Workspaces in one view, with Workspace context on every row. Filter to a specific Workspace when you need to, or work from the full picture across your Organization.
Additional improvements
- When you add the first IP address range to your organization's IP access list, the Astro API now rejects the request with a 400 Bad Request error if your current IP address falls outside the submitted ranges, which prevents you from accidentally locking yourself out.
Investigate Dag failures with Otto
You can now use Otto to investigate Dag failures on Astro from the Astro UI, Astro alerts, or the Astro API. Each investigation produces a structured diagnosis with a root cause type, severity, suggested fix, and a checklist of Dag- and task-level checks, drawing on Airflow, Astro, and Astro Observe context.
Dag-level access control is generally available
Dag-level access control is now generally available. You can assign roles scoped to individual Dags within a Deployment to enforce least-privilege security and enable multiple teams to collaborate in a single Deployment without exposing Dags across team boundaries.