Releasesby GlyphOrg-wide view-only Flight visibility for Admins
Users with the Admin role have view-only access to every Flight in their organization. Running, editing, and deleting a Flight remain restricted to its creator.
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Openflow Connector for SQL Server (CDC) (General availability)
The Openflow Connector for SQL Server (CDC) is now generally available. The connector captures every row-level change from Microsoft SQL Server using Change Data Capture (CDC) and replicates selected tables into Snowflake in near real-time or on a schedule. It supports initial snapshot load, incremental sync, and schema evolution.
REPLACE USING flows for pipelines (Beta)
REPLACE USING flows are now available in Lakeflow pipelines in Beta . Use a REPLACE USING flow when your source is a series of partial snapshots keyed by column. On each update, the flow replaces all rows that match the specified key columns and leaves all other rows unchanged.
The Table Visualization Improvements feature is now generally available
The Table Visualization Improvements feature is now generally available. You can now use the following features for table visualizations : Pagination Show/Hide Table Headers Table Borders Cell Highlighting Conditional formatting for string fields
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DuckDB 1.5.5 support
MotherDuck supports DuckDB 1.5.5.
Flights available in AWS Sydney and Tokyo regions
Flights are now available in AWS Sydney ap-southeast-2 and Tokyo ap-northeast-1 regions.
CREATE SHARE defaults to UPDATE AUTOMATIC on DuckDB 1.5.5+
On DuckDB 1.5.5 and later, CREATE SHARE without an explicit update mode now defaults to UPDATE AUTOMATIC. Clients on 1.5.4 and earlier are unchanged.
Guides for AI agent context in preview
Guides are markdown documents in MotherDuck holding metric definitions, join rules, and conventions that AI agents read automatically through the MCP server. Guides can be shared org-wide or kept private.
MotherDuck CLI in preview
The motherduck CLI lets users authenticate, run SQL queries, and build Dives and Flights from the terminal, with table, JSON, or CSV output for scripting and automation.
Windows install script for the MotherDuck-supported DuckDB CLI
Windows users can install a MotherDuck-supported DuckDB CLI version with a single PowerShell command. The script installs the motherduck extension and can save the MotherDuck token.
CREATE DATABASE FROM a remote DuckDB file in cloud storage
CREATE DATABASE ... FROM now accepts a remote DuckDB database file in cloud storage, for example an s3:// path.
Favorites in the Object Explorer sidebar
Users can star Dives, Notebooks, Flights, Guides, databases, and shares to keep them at the top of the Object Explorer sidebar, organize them into folders, and reorder them.