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.
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Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)
The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Core) flow is now generally available. The flow ingests Jira Cloud issues, projects, users, and related data into dedicated Snowflake tables with explicit schemas. It supports optional deletion tracking and parallel ingestion across projects. The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Agile) flow remains in Public Preview .
Git Folder Serverless is in Beta
You can now use Git Folder Serverless to share serverless compute and a pyproject.toml -managed environment across notebooks and files in a Git folder. See Git Folder Serverless .
AlloyDB real-time BigQuery access adds limit pushdown and runtime projects
The preview feature pushes some LIMIT and OFFSET clauses down to BigQuery to cut network transfer, and optional runtime projects let queries run and bill compute separately from the owning project.
OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027
OpenJDK 11 will no longer be supported as of January 14, 2027 . Customer-hosted instances must upgrade to OpenJDK 21 .
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.8 Flash available in Global, US, and EU regions
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available (GA) in the global , us , and eu regions. For more information, see: Manage features on the web app Data residency for Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus Editions and Gemini Notebook Enterprise
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available
Gemini 3.8 Flash is now generally available (GA) and available for production use. For more information on 3.8 Flash, see the model page .
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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.
Start 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.
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.
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.