Releasesby GlyphSession restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta
Restore the Python variables and Spark session from a serverless compute job run into a new interactive notebook, so you can debug a failure or explore results without rerunning the job. Databricks automatically captures a state snapshot when an eligible run fails, runs 30 minutes or longer, or is cancelled, and keeps it for 7 days after the run completes.
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AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview)
Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview. When you enable AI mode on a classification profile, Snowflake uses the OpenAI GPT-5 Mini model to identify additional semantic categories beyond those detected by standard classification, which can improve accuracy.
New SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view in Account Usage and Organization Usage (General availability)
The SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view is now generally available in the ACCOUNT_USAGE and ORGANIZATION_USAGE schemas. It provides a unified view of usage history for CoCo across the CLI, Desktop, and Snowsight interfaces. The information in the view includes the number of credits consumed each time a user interacts with CoCo.
Gemini Enterprise: General availability for registering A2UI and A2A agents with Gemini Enterprise, including A2UI version v0.9 support
Gemini Enterprise administrators can register and manage agents using Agent to UI (A2UI) to build custom interfaces and the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol for communication with Gemini Enterprise. With this release: The feature is generally available (GA) instead of Public Preview. Support is added for A2UI version v0.9, in addition to v0.8 protocols.
[In preview] Public Preview: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose
You can now benefit from enhanced resilience with the public preview of zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose. This update helps you improve business continuity by automatically distributing your compute and data across a
[Launched] Generally Available: Dragon Copilot Physician Apps and Agents on Microsoft Marketplace
This release adds Microsoft Marketplace as a new discovery and procurement channel for Dragon Copilot AI apps and agents. Dragon Copilot customers in the United States can now discover, evaluate and purchase Dragon Copilot Physician Apps and Agents throug
Origin Code Hosting
Cursor can now host your code. Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans. We're starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship soon. Origin Repos The new **Codebase** tab is home for Origin repos. Click **+New** to create a new repo and name it.
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Salesforce connector mTLS authentication is now generally available
Mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for the Salesforce connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. With mTLS, Databricks and Salesforce exchange and verify client certificates to establish two-way trust, combined with the OAuth client credentials flow. Choose it for API-only users or when your organization requires mTLS.
Performance mode now applies to materialized view and streaming table refreshes from dbt tasks
The job-level performance mode setting now propagates to materialized view and streaming table refreshes triggered by dbt tasks. You can set these jobs to Standard mode to optimize for cost, or keep the default Performance-optimized mode for faster startup. Previously, dbt tasks always ran refreshes in Performance-optimized mode.
Workiva connector (Beta)
The Workiva connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit activity, users, and roles from your Workiva organization into Databricks. Authentication uses Workiva OAuth2 client credentials. See Workiva connector .
Default Python package repositories are GA for Lakeflow pipelines and classic compute
Configuring default Python package repositories is now generally available for Lakeflow pipelines and for classic compute created via the UI and API. Workspace admins can set private or authenticated registries as the workspace default for these workloads. See Configure default package repositories .
SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
The SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs now supports all compliance security profile standards that Databricks supports and is available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled. Use the task to evaluate a Databricks SQL alert as part of a Lakeflow Job.
SendGrid connector (Beta)
The SendGrid connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests the SendGrid subuser directory and IP access-management activity for the parent account and each subuser into Databricks.
Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta)
You can now ingest data from a Gmail mailbox into Databricks using the managed Gmail connector in Lakeflow Connect. The connector ingests messages, labels, drafts, filters, and profile data using a Google service account, and syncs the messages and message_labels tables incrementally through the Gmail History API. This feature is in Beta .
Google Search Console connector is available in Beta
The managed Google Search Console connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use it to ingest search performance data, site metadata, and sitemap information from Google Search Console into Databricks.