Releasesby GlyphZerobus Ingest into streaming tables is now generally available
Ingesting into streaming tables with Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. Writing to a streaming table works the same way as writing to a managed Delta table, with the same limits and quotas. See Create or identify the target table .
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You can now view real-time logs for your Python UDFs in Cloud Logging
You can now view real-time logs for your Python UDFs in Cloud Logging. This feature is generally available .
Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability)
Referencing a Cortex Extension from an agent skill is now generally available. Set the skill source type to CORTEX_EXTENSION and path to the extension's fully qualified name, and Snowflake expands the reference into the extension's member skills at request time, so you don't list each skill individually.
Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability)
The Cortex Agents Coding Agent is now generally available. Add the code_toolset_all tool type to a Cortex Agent, and Snowflake provisions and manages a sandbox backed by the same runtime that powers Snowflake CoCo: bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, web search, SQL execution, and skills.
Organization user types (General availability)
With this release, you can specify whether an organization user represents a person or a service. Set the TYPE property to SERVICE for a service or application that interacts with Snowflake without human interaction. If you don't specify a type, the organization user is a PERSON user, which matches the previous behavior.
Semantic Studio (Preview)
Semantic Studio is now available in public preview for all accounts. Semantic Studio is the authoring environment for semantic views in Workspaces, combining conversational authoring with CoCo, direct YAML editing, and deployment to the live Snowflake object in a single surface.
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview . You can use the gcloud alpha dataplex dbt metadata-jobs command to extract and import technical, semantic (MetricFlow), operational, data quality, and lineage metadata from dbt Core artifacts into Knowledge Catalog.
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Lakeflow Designer August Release
The Lakeflow Designer August release adds the Unique operator, expands the Aggregate, Select, and Python operators, and improves the canvas, preview, and version-history experience.
Atlassian Audit Logs connector (Beta)
The Atlassian Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests organization audit log events, such as user, security, and configuration changes, from Atlassian into Databricks. Authentication uses an Atlassian organization API key.
Anysphere Audit Logs connector (Beta)
The Anysphere Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the Anysphere (Cursor) Admin API to incrementally ingest team audit-log events into Databricks. Authentication uses a Cursor Admin API key. See Anysphere Audit Logs connector .
Verkada connector (Beta)
The Verkada connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests organization audit logs and access users from your Verkada organization into Databricks. Authentication uses a Verkada organization API key. See Verkada connector .
Pipeline events system table is in Beta
The pipeline_events system table is in Beta . This table records Lakeflow pipelines event log entries for pipelines in your account, capturing lifecycle transitions, flow progress, data quality metrics, errors, and other operational data across all pipelines and workspaces in a region.
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 .
Apache Arrow support for Zerobus Ingest is now generally available
Apache Arrow support for Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. See Use Arrow Flight with Zerobus Ingest .
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.