Releasesby GlyphGoogle Drive connector (GA)
Both Google Drive connectors in Lakeflow Connect are now generally available: the managed connector for fully managed ingestion pipelines, and the standard connector for custom pipelines built with Spark and SQL APIs.
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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.
AlloyDB now supports Best Matching 25 (BM25) indexes for full-text search in Preview
AlloyDB now supports Best Matching 25 (BM25) indexes for full-text search in Preview . You can use the pg_textsearch extension to create BM25 indexes and optimize probabilistic ranking of full-text search. This feature is supported on AlloyDB instances running PostgreSQL 17 or 18. For more information, see Create and manage a BM25 index .
Process-level sandboxing and auto-updates (Preview)
This release introduces process-level sandboxing, automatic update checks, and other improvements to the CodeMender CLI (Preview): Process-level sandboxing : To safeguard your workstation against unintended file modifications or unexpected tool side effects, you can now execute all agent-proposed tools (such as compiling code, running tests, or executing...
Looker Conversational Analytics engagement and token metrics in preview
Enhanced observability for Conversational Analytics, including engagement and estimated token usage, appears on the System Activity dashboard after an admin turns on the Agent Token usage preview setting.
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SharePoint connector (GA)
Both SharePoint connectors in Lakeflow Connect are now generally available: the managed connector for fully managed ingestion pipelines, and the standard connector for custom pipelines built with Spark and SQL APIs.
PagerDuty connector (Beta)
The managed PagerDuty connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests incident, on-call, service, and audit data from PagerDuty into Databricks. See PagerDuty connector .
NetSuite connector (GA)
The managed NetSuite connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. The connector allows you to ingest ERP and financial data from Oracle NetSuite into Databricks. See NetSuite connector .
REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta)
REPLACE USING flows are now available in Lakeflow pipelines in Beta . Use a REPLACE USING flow when your source is a series of partial snapshots keyed by column. On each update, the flow replaces all rows that match the specified key columns and leaves all other rows unchanged.
Environment variables for serverless jobs are in Beta
Environment variables for serverless Lakeflow Jobs tasks are in Beta . You can define named environment variable entries at the job level and select one for each task to pass deployment-specific configuration to your application code. A workspace admin must enable the preview from the workspace Previews page.
Automatic cost attribution for materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
Materialized view and streaming table refreshes in Databricks SQL now inherit custom tags from the enclosing SQL warehouse environment. These tags propagate to billing surfaces like system.billing.usage , enabling proper cost attribution of materialized view and streaming table updates back to the source SQL warehouse.
Refresh materialized views and streaming tables without exempting the pipeline owner from ABAC policies
You can now refresh a pipeline-managed materialized view or streaming table even when the pipeline owner or run-as identity is subject to an attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy.
Zerobus Ingest is now enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile
The Zerobus Ingest connector in Lakeflow Connect is now enabled by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. See Zerobus Ingest overview .