Lakeflow Designer October release
The Lakeflow Designer October release adds new AI Function and Prepare capabilities, an HTML operator, shareable full-screen previews, and tools for organizing large flows.
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Released pg\_pinecone
The pg_pinecone extension is now available, enabling native vector search within PostgreSQL. It allows users to perform vector searches using the local engine or offload indexing to Pinecone for larger datasets.
[Launched] Generally Available: Cost management and tagging for Claude models in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry now provides integrated cost management and tagging for Claude models within Azure Cost Management. This update ensures Claude usage is tracked under the specific Foundry resource rather than as general SaaS spend.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 (Preview)
Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now available in preview. This vision-language model is designed for robotics applications, supporting spatial reasoning, agentic code execution, and task orchestration.
xAI's Grok 4.7 is generally available
xAI's Grok 4.7 model is now generally available for production use on global and US multi-region endpoints.
Gemini Enterprise: VPC connectivity and static IP egress for custom MCP servers
Gemini Enterprise now supports VPC connectivity for custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. This allows private MCP servers to be hosted within a VPC or routed through Cloud NAT with static IPs for secure, controlled access.
BigQuery Studio Git repository integration is generally available
BigQuery Studio now supports folder-based integration with remote Git repositories for version control of SQL scripts and notebooks.
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Multiple real-time flows per serverless pipeline and source stage adaptive repartitioning are in Beta
Databricks released Beta support for running multiple real-time flows per serverless pipeline and adaptive source repartitioning for Kafka and Kinesis in preview channel pipelines.
Serverless log delivery to Unity Catalog volumes (Beta)
Workspace admins can now deliver serverless job application logs to a Unity Catalog volume for retention and analysis. See Deliver serverless logs to Unity Catalog volumes .
Improved Lakeflow Performance Observability will soon be available by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile enabled
Databricks is enabling improved Lakeflow performance observability by default for workspaces with the compliance security profile.
QuickBooks connector is available in Beta
The managed QuickBooks connector is now available in beta, enabling incremental ingestion of accounting data into Databricks.
Improved Lakeflow Performance Observability is now generally available
Lakeflow Jobs now provide job-level query performance metrics, insights, and optimization suggestions via Genie Code.
Xero connector is available in Beta
The managed Xero connector is now available in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of accounting data.
Real-time mode in Lakeflow pipelines is now generally available
Real-time mode in Lakeflow pipelines is generally available on classic and serverless compute, providing operational streaming processing latencies as low as five milliseconds.
Microsoft Graph Logs connector is available in Beta
The Microsoft Graph Logs connector is now in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of security alerts from Microsoft security products.