Metric view listings are generally available in Databricks Marketplace
Databricks Marketplace now generally supports publishing governed metric views, allowing Databricks recipients to consume shared business metrics.
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now generally available, offering omni-modal processing for text, image, and video. New features include standalone video upscaling, extended generation durations, and reference-guided video editing.
Use GPT-6-Cyber to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in an authorized test environment, and verify
OpenAI has released GPT-6-Cyber, a model designed to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in authorized environments, and verify fixes.
Gemini Enterprise: Prepaid credits for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions and usage above quota
Prepaid credits are now generally available for self-serve Cloud Billing accounts, allowing users to pay for Gemini Enterprise usage without an invoiced billing account.
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been removed
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been deprecated. Users should now use Knowledge Catalog for data discovery, profiling, and governance tasks.
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) location
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now supported in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) region.
Announcing Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Web Answer is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It provides a managed tool that returns synthesized, cited answers grounded in web sources in a single call.
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Databricks SQL version 2026.44 is rolling out in Current
Databricks SQL version 2026.44 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.44 .
Relationships between metric views (Beta)
Unity Catalog now supports defining relationships between metric views using SQL constraints. This helps AI assistants and BI tools identify correct join paths.
Native XML file format support is now generally available
Native XML file format support is generally available in Databricks SQL, enabling XML parsing and querying across batch and streaming workloads.
Apply ABAC policies to shared views, materialized views, and streaming tables
You can now apply attribute-based access control (ABAC) row filters and column masks to views, materialized views, and streaming tables shared through OpenSharing. Shared views are in Beta and require the ABAC on views preview. See OpenSharing and ABAC .
Databricks SQL version 2026.44 is now available in Preview
Databricks SQL version 2026.44 is now available in the Preview channel. This version includes the following changes: Operating system security updates. Miscellaneous bug fixes. This version doesn't include new features or behavioral changes.
Databricks SQL version 2026.43 is rolling out in Current
Databricks launched Databricks SQL version 2026.43 on the Current release channel.
Databricks SQL version 2026.43 is now available in Preview
Databricks SQL version 2026.43 is now available in the Preview channel. This version includes the following changes: Operating system security updates. Miscellaneous bug fixes. This version doesn't include new features or behavioral changes.
Databricks SQL version 2026.42 is rolling out in Current
Databricks SQL version 2026.42 is rolling out to the Current channel. See features in 2026.42 .