To take advantage of reduced pricing for Cloud Run jobs, you can delay job execution to defer non-urgent...
To take advantage of reduced pricing for Cloud Run jobs, you can delay job execution to defer non-urgent tasks for up to 12 hours ( Preview ).
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Add and drop hybrid table constraints online (General availability)
With this release, you can add and drop UNIQUE and FOREIGN KEY constraints on an existing hybrid table by using alter table . Previously, you had to define these constraints when you created the table, so adding a foreign key to a table that was already serving a workload meant recreating and reloading the table.
Shadow traffic for gateways (Preview)
With this preview release, you can use a shadow traffic gateway to send all production requests to a primary service endpoint while mirroring a percentage of those requests to one or more shadow endpoints. Responses from shadow endpoints aren't returned to clients.
The partner-powered AI features setting will be removed
On November 1, 2026, Databricks will remove the account- and workspace-level toggle for partner-powered AI features. Each workspace will keep its current setting value: if the setting is enabled, it stays enabled, and if it's disabled, it stays disabled. Removing the toggle doesn't change any setting values.
Incremental ingestion for Salesforce formula fields in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available
Incremental ingestion for Salesforce formula fields in Lakeflow Connect will soon be generally available. Today, Lakeflow Connect ingests formula fields by taking a full snapshot on each pipeline run by default. When incremental formula field ingestion is generally available, full snapshots will no longer be the default.
ABAC DENY policies are in Beta
ABAC DENY policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog. DENY policies can be used to explicitly deny the MANAGE ACCESS CONTROL privilege to prevent specified principals, including object owners, from performing access-management operations. They always take precedence over any grant. For details, see ABAC DENY policies (Beta) .
See which chunks support each ai_search answer (Beta)
You can now turn on the generate_citations option in the ai_search function to see which retrieved chunks the model used to support each answer it generates. ai_search function
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Configure Agent Platform features on your Cloud Run services and jobs to securely authenticate AI agents and...
Configure Agent Platform features on your Cloud Run services and jobs to securely authenticate AI agents and MCP servers using system-managed Agent Identities. This support also includes automatic registration in the Agent Registry ( Preview ).
Cloud Run instances are available in Preview
Cloud Run instances are available in Preview . Instances are specifically designed for running long-lived and individually addressable workloads. To learn more, see the product overview , resource comparison , and instance lifecycle pages.
Create custom URLs , like example.cloud.run , that are easy to remember and globally available for your Cloud...
Create custom URLs , like example.cloud.run , that are easy to remember and globally available for your Cloud Run services. No DNS configuration, load balancers, or extra costs required ( Preview ).
Starting from Go runtime version 1.26 and later, the lifecycle support dates align more closely with the Go...
Starting from Go runtime version 1.26 and later, the lifecycle support dates align more closely with the Go community release cycle . For more information, see Runtime support schedule .