Releasesby GlyphMonitor data freshness in Lakeflow Connect database connector pipelines (Public Preview)
You can now see how current each destination table is in Lakeflow Connect database connector pipelines, in Public Preview . The new Data freshness column in the pipeline's tables list shows the time since the latest source commit that the pipeline ingested for each change data capture (CDC) table.
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Hybrid table support for Google Cloud (Preview)
Snowflake hybrid tables are now supported in all Google Cloud commercial regions in preview.
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available, allowing authentication via external identity providers.
Spanner supports equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values
Spanner now allows equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values directly in GROUP_BY and ORDER BY clauses. It also supports implicit type coercion and search indexes for JSON equality operations.
[In preview] Public Preview: Support database-level managed identity (including FIC) in Create Database Scoped Credential T-SQL
Users can now assign a user-assigned managed identity to individual databases in Azure SQL Database. This enables secure access to files in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage Gen2 via external tables and OPENROWSET.
Inference request metadata logging (GA)
Inference request metadata logging is now generally available for Gemini and Claude models. It records model usage, latency, and error codes without capturing prompt or response content.
Computer use tool is available in General Availability
The Computer use tool is now generally available with new safety governance features. Administrators can configure organization-wide guardrails for sensitive actions like financial transactions or data modification.
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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.
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.
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 .
Zerobus Ingest into default storage is now generally available
Ingesting into tables backed by default storage with Zerobus Ingest in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. See Create or identify the target table .
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.
Okta connector is available in Beta
The managed Okta connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Workspace admins can enable Lakeflow Connect for Okta on the Previews page . Use the connector to ingest identity and access data from Okta into Databricks, including users, groups, group memberships, app integrations, devices, policies, and administrator roles.