Control Lakebase sink upserts with merge strategies
When you write to Lakebase from Structured Streaming, you can use merge strategies to control how upserts update individual columns. Keep the first or last value, ignore nulls, or select values by an ordering column. Merge strategies require Databricks Runtime 19 and above. See Merge strategies for upserts .
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Gemini Enterprise: Salesforce federated data store
Connecting a Salesforce data source with Gemini Enterprise using data federation is generally available (GA). You can use the Gemini Enterprise app assistant to search across your Salesforce accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, leads, and custom objects, get answers grounded in that content, and create, update, and delete records without needing to...
[In preview] Public Preview: Extend immutability for PITR backups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
With this enhancement, you have the ability to lock your retention to the configured PITR retention, beyond the default 7 days of immutable backups that are already available. This is especially useful for financial customers who typically have 35 days of
UI improvements now generally available for PD Reliability Platform customers
Customers on PD Reliability Platform now have an improved UI experience, including: Consolidated settings: Brings all your configuration and admin settings together in one place. New nav: Provides streamlined access to your most important capabilities. Your Subscription: Shows where the opportunities are to shift work off humans and onto AI and automation.
Claude auto-connect (beta) for PagerDuty MCP Server now in Early Access
With Claude auto-connect, members with a matching PagerDuty account are connected to PagerDuty in Claude automatically, with no sign-in screen and no identity provider (IdP) configuration. Members act as themselves in PagerDuty, with the permissions they already have there.
In BigQuery Studio , the left pane has been updated with new tab names
In BigQuery Studio , the left pane has been updated with new tab names. The Classic Explorer tab has been renamed to the Data tab, and the Repository tab has been renamed to the Source control tab. The Data tab now includes the Add data button and focuses on data hierarchies. These changes are generally available (GA).
Dependabot version updates support Agent Package Manager
You can now keep your AI agent skills, prompts, and instructions up to date with Dependabot version updates for Agent Package Manager (APM) . Dependabot opens pull requests to update supported git dependencies declared in apm.yml and regenerates apm.lock.yaml when it’s present. This support covers version updates, not security updates.
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Lakebase snapshots and backup schedule APIs are generally available
The Lakebase snapshots and backup schedule APIs are now generally available. These APIs allow users to manage point-in-time snapshots and configure automated backup cadences for root branches.
Lakebase Insights moves to per-project settings, with on-demand runs (Beta)
Lakebase Insights now diagnoses issues using telemetry from the system.lakebase system tables and recommends next steps. The Lakebase Insights workspace preview enables automatic telemetry capture. Users with CAN MANAGE can configure Insights directly in each project's Settings , without creating an observability configuration.
Lakebase Search supports Chinese, Japanese, and Korean full-text search
The lakebase_tokenizer extension now supports keyword search over Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) text. These languages don't separate words with spaces, so native PostgreSQL full-text search can't split them into useful search terms.
Replicate data in and out of Lakebase with Postgres logical replication
You can now use native Postgres logical replication to stream changes into and out of Lakebase. Migrate an existing Postgres database into Lakebase and keep it in sync until you cut over, or publish changes from Lakebase to external Postgres databases. See Logical replication .
LTAP Direct Writes is generally available
LTAP Direct Writes is now generally available. It speeds up how synced tables load into Lakebase by writing the initial load and full refreshes directly to the storage layer instead of through your compute endpoint, so large loads finish faster without competing with your queries.
Supported Postgres extensions updated to new versions
The following supported Postgres extensions are now available at newer versions. Existing installations keep their current version until you update them with ALTER EXTENSION .
Lakebase Search adds a configurable text tokenizer for keyword search
The new lakebase_tokenizer extension lets you control how Lakebase Search turns text into search terms, so keyword search matches the way your data and users actually read. Native PostgreSQL full-text search gives you little control over this step.
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 .