Releasesby GlyphMetadata 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 .
Also shipped Sep 14, 2026Google Cloud in September 2026 →
Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI_SUMMARIZE is now available in public preview, enabling customers to summarize text and multimodal content, including images and documents, directly in Snowflake.
Zero-copy support for all table formats in interactive warehouses (General availability)
Support for all table formats in interactive warehouses is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Genie visualizations in Slack replies (Public Preview)
When a Genie response includes a chart, the visualization now appears as an image in the Slack reply. If you installed the Databricks Genie app for Slack previously, reinstall it to enable this. See Visualizations .
Diagnose Fabric Data Warehouse workloads with the SQL DW operations skill (Generally Available)
When a warehouse slows down, the investigation usually starts with more questions than answers. Was there a capacity spike? Did a specific query suddenly become expensive? Are requests failing, being canceled, or simply taking longer than usual?
Messages API adds on-demand conversation compaction in beta
With the compact-2026-09-04 beta header, the top-level compaction parameter returns a signed compaction block summarizing prior messages, which you send in their place on later requests. You choose when to compact, it can run in the background, and recent turns can be kept verbatim.
Claude API input_transformations adds thinking_mismatch_allowed entries in beta
Under the thinking-binding-controls-2026-08-01 beta header, input_transformations can report thinking_mismatch_allowed for thinking blocks that failed an unenforced prefix check. Logging these entries helps find conversation history edits in production traffic.
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Knowledge Catalog data domains enter preview
Data domains logically organize resources across an enterprise so teams can discover and curate data at scale.
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.
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.
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 .
Dataplex Universal Catalog adds support for Looker data lineage
Data lineage support for Looker (Google Cloud core) is now generally available. This includes visualization of data flows from BigQuery through the Looker semantic layer to downstream assets.
Knowledge Studio in Knowledge Catalog is available in Preview
Knowledge Studio in Knowledge Catalog is available in Preview . Knowledge Studio lets you explore data assets and semantic relationships using natural language and an interactive context graph, run automated enrichment tasks to generate and curate metadata from schemas, query logs, and enterprise knowledge signals, and package curated domain knowledge into...
Governance workflows in Knowledge Catalog support batch metadata change requests
Governance workflows in Knowledge Catalog support batch metadata change requests. You can group up to 250 create, update, and delete operations for entries and entry links into a single change request and curate batch proposals generated by the enrichment agent before approval. This feature is available in preview .