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Visualization widget titles and descriptions support rich text formatting. Click a widget's title or description to open a formatting toolbar, where you can apply text styling, links, and tables, or type markdown directly. See Format widget titles and descriptions .
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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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Full page Genie Code is now generally available
Full page Genie Code is now generally available. Full page Genie Code is a command center experience where the active chat is shown prominently, notebooks and files open as tabs alongside it, and you can run multiple chats in parallel. Start work directly from Genie Code, and personalize how it works with skills, instructions, and MCP servers.
Genie One is now available in Google Sheets
You can now use Genie One directly in the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets . Query your governed Databricks data in natural language and import the results into Google Sheets as native rows and columns. See Use Genie One in Google Sheets .
Genie One is now available in Microsoft Excel
You can now use Genie One directly in the Databricks Excel Add-in. Query your governed Databricks data in natural language and import the results into Microsoft Excel as native rows and columns. See Use Genie One in Microsoft Excel .
Genie One and Genie Agents free usage extended through January 31, 2027
Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents is extended through January 31, 2027. This promotion was previously set to end on July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply to these products during the promotional period. The promotion covers usage by users only. Service principals are excluded, and their Genie One and Genie Agents usage continues to be billed.
Databricks-managed MCP connectors are now integrated with Unity Gateway (Beta)
All Databricks-managed MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code have migrated to the Unity Gateway . This brings Databricks-managed connectors under Unity Gateway, enabling centralized governance, access controls, and visibility alongside your other MCP servers and tools.
Genie Code web search is in Beta
Genie Code can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information. Web search is disabled by default during the beta for eligible workspaces and must be turned on from the Previews page. See Search the web .
Dashboard enhancements and bug fixes
- Rich text in widget titles and descriptions : Visualization widget titles and descriptions now support rich text formatting. Click a widget's title or description to open a formatting toolbar, where you can apply text styling, links, and tables, or enter Markdown text directly. See Format widget titles and descriptions .
Genie Agents enhancements and bug fixes
- Markdown tables in Agent mode APIs (Beta) : In the Agent mode APIs, table visualizations now return as markdown instead of table visualization attachments, which improves readability. See the Agent mode API reference .