Lakebase now supports PCI-DSS and HITRUST in all AWS regions
Lakebase is now PCI-DSS and HITRUST compliant in all AWS regions where it is available, for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. Previously, this support was limited to the us-east-1 region on AWS. See Data protection .
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Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the AI.PREDICT function
Conversational analytics now supports predictive modeling questions using the AI.PREDICT function . This feature is in Preview .
Add and drop hybrid table constraints online (General availability)
With this release, you can add and drop UNIQUE and FOREIGN KEY constraints on an existing hybrid table by using alter table . Previously, you had to define these constraints when you created the table, so adding a foreign key to a table that was already serving a workload meant recreating and reloading the table.
Shadow traffic for gateways (Preview)
With this preview release, you can use a shadow traffic gateway to send all production requests to a primary service endpoint while mirroring a percentage of those requests to one or more shadow endpoints. Responses from shadow endpoints aren't returned to clients.
Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes (General availability)
Second generation (gen 2) Openflow deployment and runtime SQL objects are now generally available on AWS and Azure. Create, modify, and remove gen 2 deployments and runtimes with CREATE , ALTER , DROP , SHOW , and DESCRIBE commands, or through the Openflow UI, with standard Snowflake RBAC on schema-scoped objects.
Gemini Enterprise: Semantic search support in Google Cloud Marketplace (Preview)
The agent search in Google Cloud Marketplace now supports semantic search, allowing you to find agents by describing their functionality (for example, "generate reports" or "translate text") without needing exact keyword matches. For more information, see Add and manage A2A agents from Google Cloud Marketplace .
OpenAI Prompt Cache Diagnostics is generally available in the Responses API
For GPT-5.6 and later, developers can compare cache reuse against a previous response, see reasons for cache misses and follow guidance to improve cache hit rates.
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Lakebase snapshots API (Beta)
You can now manage Lakebase snapshots programmatically. The snapshots API lets you create, get, list, and delete point-in-time snapshots of a project branch, and restore a snapshot by creating a new branch from it. This API is in Beta. See Create a snapshot .
Lakebase Search is generally available
Lakebase Search is now generally available. It brings scalable vector and keyword search to Lakebase projects through two Postgres extensions, so you can run semantic and exact-term search in a single database without a separate search stack: lakebase_vector adds the lakebase_ann index type for approximate nearest-neighbor vector search.
Lakebase backup schedule API (Beta)
You can now manage Lakebase backup schedules programmatically. The snapshot schedule API lets you read and set a root branch's automated snapshot cadences (daily, weekly, or monthly) and how long each cadence's snapshots are retained. This API is in Beta and available to all Lakebase workspaces. See Create a backup schedule .
LTAP Direct Writes accelerates synced table loads (Beta)
LTAP Direct Writes speeds up how synced tables load into Lakebase. When you create a synced table, Lakebase loads a full copy of your Unity Catalog data into your Postgres branch.
Lakebase observability telemetry in system tables (Beta)
Lakebase captures its Postgres observability telemetry into the system.lakebase system tables, with no configuration to create and no destination to choose. Query plans, session history, wait events, schema-change history, database and compute health, and Postgres logs land there, and records are retained for 7 days.
Postgres minor version updates
Lakebase updated its supported Postgres versions to 16.15, 17.11, and 18.6. These minor releases bring you the latest upstream Postgres fixes and security patches. When a new minor version is available, Lakebase applies it the next time your compute restarts. See Manage updates .
Genie Code is now available in the Lakebase project UI
A new Genie entry in the Lakebase project sidebar opens Genie Code, the agentic Databricks assistant, scoped to your Lakebase project. Ask it in natural language to run multi-step data and AI tasks: explore your databases and tables, investigate and debug issues, and create and populate tables.
ai_search can search Lakebase synced tables (Beta)
The ai_search function can now retrieve from Lakebase synced tables with Lakebase Search enabled, in addition to AI Search indexes. Add a lakebase_search knowledge source to search a Lakebase synced table, or combine it with vector_search sources in the same call. This feature is in Beta . See ai_search function .