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Choose a preset, custom duration or Never when creating a key, and keys with a lifetime of at least 7 days trigger an email before expiry. The Admin API reports expiration in expires_at; existing keys are unaffected.
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Object metadata column is now in Public Preview
The _object_metadata column is now in Public Preview. The _object_metadata column is a hidden metadata column that exposes object-level properties for objects in cloud storage, including MIME type, ETag, user-defined key-value metadata, system-defined metadata, and object tags. It is available starting from Databricks Runtime 18.1.
Genie products now use pay-as-you-go pricing
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie products, including Genie Agents , Genie Code , and Genie One , are billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 Databricks units (DBUs) of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region.
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are scheduled for retirement
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro will be retired on October 2, 2026. The recommended replacement models are Gemini 3.1 Pro or Gemini 3.5 Flash. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is scheduled for retirement
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 will be retired on October 9, 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Restrict access to AI Functions with Unity Catalog permissions (Public Preview)
You can now use Unity Catalog permissions to restrict which task-specific AI Functions your organization can access, independent of foundation model access. Contact your account team to enable this feature. See AI Functions Unity Catalog permissions .
Genie Agents now uses pay-as-you-go pricing
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie Agents is billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 DBUs of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region. Usage beyond the free amount is billed in DBUs, reflecting the underlying LLM models and agents that power each Genie Agents session.
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Dreams research preview adds Claude Fable 5 and Claude Sonnet 5
Dreams, in research preview, now supports Claude Fable 5 and Claude Sonnet 5.
Claude Access Transparency docs expand coverage of cmek_preserve events
Documentation for cmek_preserve events now includes a filter example, an example payload and two preservation reason codes, and clarifies that events are written whether a human reviewer or an automated safety pipeline initiated preservation.
Admin API adds Claude Enterprise user management in beta
Claude Enterprise organizations can list and look up members, change roles, remove members, manage invites and groups, and read custom roles through the Admin API. Group and custom-role requests need the ce-user-management-2026-07-13 beta header.
Self-serve HIPAA configuration for Claude Enterprise and the Claude API
Eligible admins can now review the BAA, download the implementation guide, and enable the HIPAA configuration in a single flow, for both Claude Enterprise and the Claude Platform (API).
agent-memory-2026-07-22 beta header changes memory store listing behavior
With the new header, listing memories returns a stable server-defined order, depth accepts only 0 or 1, and path_prefix must end with / and match whole segments. Page cursors issued without the header are not valid with it.
Claude SDKs switch memory store calls to the agent-memory-2026-07-22 header
Python 0.116.0, TypeScript 0.110.0, Go 1.56.0, Java 2.48.0, Ruby 1.55.0, PHP 0.36.0, C# 12.35.0 and CLI 1.16.0 send agent-memory-2026-07-22 on memory store calls. Code passing betas explicitly should replace managed-agents-2026-04-01.
Mid-conversation system messages available on Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 and Opus 4.8
Mid-conversation system messages work on Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 and Opus 4.8 on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud with no beta header required, correcting earlier availability notes.
Access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 is restored
Anthropic has restored access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 and published a statement with more information.