Releasesby GlyphStart validating today: The ODBC to ADBC driver transition in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)
Power BI and Microsoft Fabric are transitioning supported data source connections from legacy embedded ODBC drivers to Apache Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) drivers.
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Fivetran connection cron scheduling enters beta
Connections can now use one or more cron expressions to control exactly when they sync, giving finer control than fixed sync frequencies.
Fivetran Connection Warnings REST API enters private preview
New endpoints retrieve active warnings for a connection, grouped by destination table with codes, messages and timestamps, and dismiss all instances of a warning type, enabling programmatic warning management.
Snowflake App Runtime (General availability)
Snowflake App Runtime is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
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 .
Genie One web search is in Beta
Genie One can now search the public web to answer questions that need current information, such as recent release notes, third-party documentation, or news. Genie One cites the external sources it uses as links in its response. See Search the web .
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Get tenant-wide visibility into workspace networking policies with the Admin API (Generally Available)
As organizations strengthen their security posture and adopt network security controls across their data platforms, visibility becomes just as important as enforcement.
Fabric Data Agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio (Generally Available)
Organizations can now bring governed business data from Microsoft Fabric into Copilot Studio agents, enabling agents to answer questions, generate insights, and support business processes using trusted enterprise data. Fabric data agents make it easier to ground experiences in the data your organization already relies on.
Workspace Outbound Access Protection (OAP) for Operations Agent and Fabric Maps (Preview)
Co-authors: Andre Terceros and Bodhisatva Gautam Workspace Outbound Access Protection (OAP) in Microsoft Fabric helps WS admins secure outbound connections from workspace items to external resources. Administrators can control outbound access by blocking unwanted connections by default and allowing only approved connections through configured rules.
Manage Fabric connections at scale with connection recency in Fabric REST APIs
Understand Connection Recency Connections are shared infrastructure in Microsoft Fabric. Pipelines, dataflows, semantic models, and other Fabric items use them to reach data sources without storing connection details and credentials in every item. Connection Recency adds the context administrators need to understand how each connection is being used.
Capacity Operation Events in Real-Time Hub (Preview)
Capacity Operation Events in Real-Time Hub is now available as a preview, giving Microsoft Fabric capacity administrators access to detailed, operation-level telemetry in near real time.
Advancing the Microsoft Fabric SQL Query Editor
The Microsoft Fabric SQL Query Editor is the home for web-based SQL development in Fabric. It gives developers a workspace to explore warehouse data, write and run SQL, among many more capabilities. That work rarely starts and ends with a single query.
Get ready for table discovery in OneLake Catalog search (Preview)
In late September, OneLake Catalog will begin surfacing tables as searchable objects in Microsoft Fabric. This change expands which table metadata users can discover based on their existing item permissions, so administrators may want to review the related tenant setting before rollout.
Lineage-aware AI with the Fabric item relations API (Preview)
With two new REST operations, you can retrieve the upstream and downstream relations of any Fabric item directly from your own code , the dependency graph behind the portal's lineage view, now available as a supported, programmable surface.