Releasesby GlyphGoverned mode for the Hex Agent
Governed mode allows workspace admins to define specific rules for data source access by the Hex agent. Admins can restrict the agent to use only semantic models, specific projects, or curated warehouse tables instead of relying on the Endorsed classification.
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Microsoft Graph Logs connector is available in Beta
The Microsoft Graph Logs connector is now in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of security alerts from Microsoft security products.
Hybrid table support for Google Cloud (Preview)
Snowflake hybrid tables are now supported in all Google Cloud commercial regions in preview.
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available, allowing authentication via external identity providers.
Spanner supports equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values
Spanner now allows equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values directly in GROUP_BY and ORDER BY clauses. It also supports implicit type coercion and search indexes for JSON equality operations.
[In preview] Public Preview: Support database-level managed identity (including FIC) in Create Database Scoped Credential T-SQL
Users can now assign a user-assigned managed identity to individual databases in Azure SQL Database. This enables secure access to files in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage Gen2 via external tables and OPENROWSET.
Inference request metadata logging (GA)
Inference request metadata logging is now generally available for Gemini and Claude models. It records model usage, latency, and error codes without capturing prompt or response content.
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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.
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.
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.
Publish eval suites, skip approvals, and build Hex projects from your chat agent
⚖️ 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 .
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.
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.