Releasesby GlyphKnowledge Catalog governance workflows for data product access in preview
Governance workflows add automated controls for data product access management through a request-review mechanism.
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Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo (Public Preview)
Skill and plugin sharing is now available in public preview. Share, discover, and govern CoCo skills and plugins across your Snowflake account. Publish them as Cortex Extension objects that teammates can find and install, with administrator certification, access control, and usage telemetry. For more information, see Share skills and plugins .
Governed tags system table is in Beta
The system.tags.governed_tags system table is in Beta . This table contains a record for each governed tag key in your account, including customer-created and system-generated tags. Use it to programmatically determine which tags in your account are governed. See Governed tags system table reference .
Git CLI commands in Git folders are now in Public Preview
Git CLI commands in Git folders are now in Public Preview . Git folders that you create from the UI automatically get Git CLI access when your workspace is eligible, so you can run standard Git commands such as git stash , interactive rebase, pre-commit hooks, Git submodules, and Large File Storage (LFS) directly from a Databricks terminal.
Diagnose and fix Lakebase issues with Genie, using telemetry in Unity Catalog (Beta)
Lakebase adds AI-assisted troubleshooting: database issues and early warnings are surfaced to you with Insights , and you can then investigate and fix them conversationally with Genie . Both draw on database telemetry captured to Unity Catalog. See Observability .
Claude Opus 5 launches with a 1M token context window at $5 / $25 per MTok
Claude Opus 5 improves on Opus 4.8 with a 1M token context window, 128k max output and thinking on by default, at the same $5 / $25 per MTok price. It is available on the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.
Mid-conversation tool changes enter beta on the Claude API
Add or remove tools between turns while preserving the prompt cache on Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5, Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, using the mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01 beta header.
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Data lineage ingestion control is GA for BigQuery, Spark and Airflow
Data lineage can now be controlled at the organization, folder or project level for BigQuery, Managed Service for Apache Spark and Managed Service for Apache Airflow.
Knowledge Catalog adds SQL Server and PostgreSQL connectors in preview
New connectors extract technical, operational and business metadata from SQL Server and PostgreSQL and import it into Knowledge Catalog entry groups on a schedule.
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview . You can use the gcloud alpha dataplex dbt metadata-jobs command to extract and import technical, semantic (MetricFlow), operational, data quality, and lineage metadata from dbt Core artifacts into Knowledge Catalog.
Knowledge Catalog data domains enter preview
Data domains logically organize resources across an enterprise so teams can discover and curate data at scale.
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog. This feature is available in preview . For more information, see Knowledge Catalog overview .
Knowledge Catalog support for importing dbt metadata is now generally available and includes the following...
Knowledge Catalog support for importing dbt metadata is now generally available and includes the following updates: You can import metadata from dbt Cloud job runs using the dbt Cloud interface, the dbt platform CLI, or the dbt Administrative API and webhooks.
Data products now support configuring a default IAM role in an access group
Data products now support configuring a default IAM role in an access group. The default role, once configured, is automatically granted on all packaged and supported assets in the data product. Data product owners can override the default role for individual assets.
Data products in Knowledge Catalog now support Looker (Google Cloud core) assets
Data products in Knowledge Catalog now support Looker (Google Cloud core) assets. You can package, govern, and share Looker (Google Cloud core) dashboards, dashboard elements, Looks, Explores, and LookML projects, models, and views in a data product using Google Group mirroring and IAM access controls. This feature is generally available .