Releasesby Glyph🧪 Introducing Evals
🧪 Introducing Evals Measure Hex Agent performance and test context changes safely before they ship, all from the CLI. If you've added a guide or tweaked a semantic model, Evals helps you measure whether it actually helped , before you publish. To do that, define a suite of test questions with expected outcomes and run them against the Hex Agent.
Also shipped Aug 4, 2026Hex in August 2026 →
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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Command (line) and conquer
🤖 Hex Agent via CLI and API You can now have conversations with the Hex Agent via CLI and API, so you can set it to work from the tools and scripts you already use, not just the browser.
Tune how the agent runs
⚡ Fast mode Need an answer now ? Flip on fast mode in the model picker to push Opus models to 2.5x faster token output, at increased usage. The boost is most dramatic on long blocks of pure token output: big explanations, large blocks of code, or heavy reasoning.
Start building an app right from your conversation
🤖 Quickly toggle from chat to notebook Previously, you needed to wait a minute for Hex to convert your Thread to a notebook, now it happens automatically. After starting a conversation with the Hex Agent, you can easily switch views and build in the underlying notebook.
Semantic projects via CLI
⌨️ Semantic projects via CLI Pull your semantic spec out of Hex and into your repo, for local development and source control. This makes it easier to audit context or track what's changed.
Get hands-on with your generative apps
✏️ Edit generative app code in Hex Sometimes you don't need the agent, you just need to change one line. Previously, you had to prompt the agent every time you wanted to make a simple fix. Now, generative apps can open in a real code editor right inside Hex, so when you want to change a label, adjust some styling, or fix a bit of logic, you can just do it.
More control over credits, thread metadata, and role requests
⤴️ Spend limits for auto top-ups Forecasting credit usage is notoriously difficult, but staying in budget should be a breeze. Hex supports workspace credit pool auto top-ups with an optional monthly spend limit. This means you only pay for what you need, and you never go over budget.
Chart controls and easier collaboration
🎨 Generative chart controls Previously, even small edits to your charts in generative apps required new prompts to the agent. Now, you can build custom, code-generated apps with the Hex Agent, and then use the Style panel to make point-and-click chart polishes.
Two new models and more controls over generative apps
🧠 Kimi K2.7 and Fable 5 Two new models are now available from the model picker: Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic's most capable model to date) and Kimi K2.7 (an open-source model, best known for its lower token costs).