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.
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Define business concepts with Pages (Beta)
You can now use Pages to give business terms, acronyms, and KPIs a single governed definition. Part of Unity Catalog semantics , Pages form the human-modeled layer of the Genie Ontology that Genie One draws on to ground its answers. See Pages .
Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta
You can now build custom trace views in the Databricks MLflow trace explorer. Describe the layout you want in plain language, and Genie generates a reusable view that surfaces the trace fields, metrics, and feedback controls most relevant to your review workflow. See Build a custom trace view .
Google Search Console connector is available in Beta
The managed Google Search Console connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use it to ingest search performance data, site metadata, and sitemap information from Google Search Console into Databricks.
Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta)
You can now ingest data from Glean into Databricks using the managed Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect. The connector ingests company-wide usage insights for search, Assistant, and agents, along with the shortcuts (go links) defined in your Glean deployment, using a Glean Client API token. This feature is in Beta . See Glean connector .
Amplitude connector (Beta)
The Amplitude connector in Lakeflow Connect is now in Beta. Ingest product analytics event data along with event, cohort, and annotation metadata from Amplitude. See Amplitude connector .
Retirement: Containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications
On September 14, 2026 we will retire the containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications. After this date the agent will be permanently disabled and will stop sending SAP logs to Microsoft Sentinel.The SAP agent
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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 .
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 .
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...
xAI's Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 is available in Preview in Model Garden.
GLM 5.2 is available in Public Preview
GLM 5.2 from Z.ai is available as a fully managed model (MaaS) in Model Garden. The model targets long-horizon agentic and coding tasks and supports a 1M-token context window. For more information, see GLM 5.2 .