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⚖️ Publish and version eval suites Did last week’s guide change actually make the agent better? Now you can answer that question without rerunning every test by hand. Publish an eval suite from the CLI, schedule it to run automatically, and track its performance over time in Context Studio .
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Predict dynamic table refresh behavior with EXPLAIN CHANGES (General availability)
You can now use EXPLAIN CHANGES to predict a dynamic table's refresh behavior before it happens, either for a manual refresh or as part of a DDL change, without applying the change.
Horizon Catalog Explorer UI (Preview)
With this release, the Horizon Catalog Explorer is the default experience for browsing Snowflake objects in Snowsight, replacing Database Explorer. The Horizon Catalog Explorer provides consistent navigation and object detail pages while preserving the tabs and actions that you already use.
Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability)
Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages is now generally available. You can render a container-runtime app inside a page you host, such as a customer portal or an internal dashboard, using a single tag.
Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability)
Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming are now generally available. Elastic Channels provide one implicit, server-scaled ingestion path per pipe, so concurrent producers can stream directly to Snowflake tables and supported Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables without managing channel names, lifecycle, ordering, or offset tokens.
Webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will soon be generally available
Starting in October 2026, webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will be generally available. Automatically deploy your app when changes are pushed to a connected GitHub or Azure DevOps repository, so your deployed app stays in sync with your repository without manual redeployment. See Deploy a Databricks app .
Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
Sharing and reading foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available. Providers can share Delta-format tables federated from OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue, without copying data into Databricks. See Add foreign Delta tables to a share .
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More control over Generative app iteration
🎮 More control over Generative app iteration Directly edit text, create new chart properties, and queue up viz tweaks all in line. ✏️ Direct text editing You can also edit text directly in the app builder, just like you would in a doc.
Explore and share insights from Generative Apps
💬 Chat with Generative Apps Data apps are built to answer questions, but the best insights often lead to new ones. Explorers can now chat with published Generative Apps to ask follow-up questions, investigate metrics, and keep exploring in an agent Thread without leaving the app.
See how your team uses the agent
🗂️ Agent activity classifications Where someone opens the agent doesn’t tell you much about what they’re working on. People often explore data in a notebook, and a thread that starts as a quick question can end with a finished app. Context Studio now categorizes agent activity by what they’re for, not where they started.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pull agent usage data and import Ossie models
Hex now provides API endpoints for tracking agent usage and credit spend, and allows importing Apache Ossie models into Hex semantic-project YAML via the CLI.