Releasesby GlyphShopify connector (Beta)
The Shopify connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests e-commerce data such as products, orders, customers, inventory, fulfillments, and discounts from Shopify into Databricks. Authentication uses the Shopify OAuth client credentials grant.
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OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development.
Claude Opus 5.5 launches with a 1M token context window and 128k output
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a default 1M token context, 128k max output and always-on adaptive thinking. It costs $4 / $20 per MTok, below Claude Opus 5, and is on the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.
Fast mode research preview available for Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API
Fast mode, in research preview, can now be used with Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API.
Claude API beta lets tools be defined inside mid-conversation system messages
With the inline-tools-2026-09-15 beta header, a tool_addition block can carry a full tool definition, so agents can add tools, change schemas or upgrade server tools mid-conversation without invalidating the prompt cache. The same header covers adding and removing tools by reference.
Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta
Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now available in public beta on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise. A Drive is persistent storage that you mount as a directory in a Vercel Sandbox. It isn’t tied to a single sandbox, so you can reuse the same Drive across runs and different sandbox instances.
Deprecation notice: All-platform CodeQL bundle
Starting with CodeQL CLI 2.27.0 , the all-platform CodeQL bundle (i.e., codeql-bundle.tar.gz and codeql-bundle.tar.zst ), which includes the binaries for all supported platforms up to this release, is marked as deprecated. In mid-March 2027, we will remove the all-platform CodeQL bundle.
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Variant shredding will soon be enabled by default on new Variant tables
Starting November 18, 2026, Databricks will automatically add the variantShredding table feature to new tables that contain a column of the VARIANT type when they are created on Databricks Runtime 17.3 or above. Variant shredding stores frequently accessed fields in a typed, columnar layout to improve query performance.
Deleting a Unity Catalog pipeline now retains tables by default
When you delete a Unity Catalog pipeline that uses the default publishing mode, the UI and the Pipelines DELETE API retain associated materialized views, streaming tables, and views by default. The retained tables can be queried but cannot be updated until moved into an active pipeline.
Workday Activity Logging connector (Beta)
The Workday Activity Logging connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector incrementally ingests Workday user activity log events into Databricks. Authentication uses an OAuth refresh token. See Workday Activity Logging connector .
Okta System Logs connector is available in Beta
The managed Okta System Logs connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use the connector to incrementally ingest audit and security events from the Okta System Log into Databricks. The connector uses SSWS API token authentication and supports Declarative Automation Bundles and API-based pipeline authoring.
Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Logs connector is available in Beta
The managed Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Logs connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use the connector to ingest unified audit events from Microsoft Entra ID, Exchange, SharePoint, and other Microsoft 365 workloads into Databricks. The connector uses OAuth machine-to-machine authentication and supports incremental ingestion.
CrowdStrike Falcon Event Stream connector (Beta)
The CrowdStrike Falcon Event Stream connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests Falcon Event Stream events from CrowdStrike Falcon into Databricks.
Akamai WAF connector (Beta)
The Akamai WAF connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests web application firewall (WAF) security events from Akamai into Databricks. Authentication uses Akamai EdgeGrid API client credentials. See Akamai WAF connector .
1Password Event Logs connector (Beta)
The 1Password Event 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 1Password Events API to ingest audit events, item usages, and sign-in attempts into Databricks. Authentication uses an Events Reporting bearer token.