Releasesby GlyphProcess-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...
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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.
Unity Gateway is now generally available
Unity Gateway is now generally available. Unity Gateway is the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers. Govern MCP servers to control access and costs. Monitor usage, cost, access, and lineage from one place.
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available. See Delta Lake feature support matrix .
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available. See Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share .
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CodeMender CLI: Sandbox enabled by default
This release updates the CodeMender CLI default behavior: Sandbox enabled by default : The CLI now runs commands inside the process-level sandbox by default to protect your workstation. You can disable the sandbox in your config.yaml , by passing --sandbox=false to CLI commands, or bypass it using the --unrestricted flag.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is generally available
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now generally available (GA) and available for production use. For more information on 3.7 Flash, see the model page .
Agent Runtime: ADK telemetry metrics
Agents deployed to Agent Runtime with Agent Development Kit (ADK) 2.6.0 or later can emit gen_ai application metrics that follow OpenTelemetry's generative AI semantic conventions. Set the GOOGLE_CLOUD_AGENT_ENGINE_ENABLE_TELEMETRY environment variable to export these metrics to Cloud Monitoring as user-defined metrics, alongside agent traces and logs.
Monitor semantic governance policies with built-in metrics (Preview)
Built-in Cloud Monitoring metrics for the semantic governance policy engine are available in Preview. You can now observe request throughput, evaluation counts, latencies, verdict distribution ( ALLOW versus DENY ), and LLM token consumption for the policy engine directly in Metrics Explorer , query them through the Cloud Monitoring v3 API and PromQL, and...
AlphaFold 3 is generally available
AlphaFold 3 is now generally available (GA) and available for approved users for commercial research use. AlphaFold 3 Google DeepMind's and Isomorphic Labs' deep learning model to predict the 3D structures and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands, and ions. For more information, see AlphaFold 3 .
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is available in Model Garden.
CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support
This release introduces updates to CodeMender: Gemini 3 Flash removal : Gemini 3 Flash ( gemini-3-flash-preview ) is no longer supported as a model backend for CodeMender. CodeMender supports Gemini 3.5 Flash (default) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. For more information, see Specifying the model .
Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite are generally available (GA)
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now generally available (GA) and available for production use. These models are designed to improve upon their predecessors' capabilities, including improved token usage and improved document understanding. See the linked model information pages for more information.