Releasesby GlyphJune 22–28, 2026
- Added: Nebius Tunnels is now available in preview. You can expose local HTTP and TCP services to the internet through an outbound agent connection, without opening inbound firewall ports.
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Dynamic Iceberg table replication (General availability)
Snowflake now supports replication of dynamic Iceberg tables as part of replication and failover groups. Previously, dynamic Iceberg tables were skipped during replication refresh operations. For more information, see Configure replication for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables .
Databricks SQL version 2026.20 is now available in Preview
Databricks SQL version 2026.20 is now available in the Preview channel. Review the following section to learn about new features, behavioral changes, and bug fixes.
SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available
The SQL alert task in Lakeflow Jobs is now generally available. Use the task to evaluate a Databricks SQL alert as part of a Lakeflow Job. The task returns its evaluation state as a task output value, so downstream tasks can branch on the result. See SQL alert task for jobs .
Govern LLMs in Unity Catalog with model services (Beta)
You can now govern Databricks-hosted LLMs in Unity Catalog using model services , currently in Beta. A model service is a Unity Catalog securable that represents a governed LLM endpoint, so you can define an endpoint once and share it across workspaces using Unity Catalog privileges, instead of duplicating endpoints per workspace.
Custom Docker images for AI Runtime CLI workloads (Beta)
You can now bring your own Docker container image to AI Runtime CLI ( air ) workloads. This feature is in Beta . Use a custom image when you need specific system library versions, complex dependencies, or a reproducible environment. See Use custom Docker images .
Parquet v2 for Delta Lake tables is generally available
Parquet v2 is now generally available for Delta Lake tables in Databricks Runtime 18.1 and above. Parquet v2 uses advanced encodings, v2 data page headers, and INT64 timestamps to improve query performance and reduce table sizes. To use, set the delta.parquet.format.version table property to 2.12.0 or enable automatic upgrades.
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- Added: Managed Service for Soperator now supports ephemeral nodes
- Added: Managed Service for Soperator now supports ephemeral nodes . You can release specific worker nodes from a Soperator cluster and reuse the same capacity block group for inference workloads in a separate Managed Service for Kubernetes® cluster, without taking down the entire Soperator cluster.
June 15–21, 2026
- Added: The Key Management Service is now available to Nebius AI Cloud users. It enables you to issue and store cryptographic keys, so you can protect and secure your applications. Added: Clusters and node groups in Managed Service for Kubernetes® now support Kubernetes 1.34 . It is now the default and recommended Kubernetes version in Nebius AI Cloud .
July 6–12, 2026
- Added: You can now create disk snapshots in Compute to capture a point-in-time copy of a disk. Use snapshots to back up disks before risky operations, clone disk state or restore data from a snapshot. Added: Managed Service for Kubernetes® node groups now integrate with Virtual Networks security groups .
June 8–14, 2026
- Added: A free trial is now available for individual users in the eu-north1 region. The trial includes 30 days of access and $5 in credit to explore the platform. Added: You can now use the Nebius AI Cloud SDK for Go to interact with Nebius AI Cloud services from Go applications.
July 13–19, 2026
- Added: The new eu-west2 (Paris, France) private region is now available. It supports Compute with the NVIDIA® B300 NVLink and Non-GPU AMD EPYC Genoa platforms , Object Storage , Managed Service for Kubernetes® , Managed Service for Soperator , Container Registry and other Nebius AI Cloud services. Added: The serial console is now available in preview.
July 20–26, 2026
- Added: You can now set project limits (capacity allowance) on a capacity block group to cap how many GPUs each project in your tenant can consume. See Managing project limits for how to view, set, remove and disable limits from the web console or CLI.
- Added: You can now run Serverless Containers jobs and endpoints on preemptible VMs
- Added: You can now run Serverless Containers jobs and endpoints on preemptible VMs . Pass --preemptible when you create a job or endpoint to use a cheaper GPU VM that Compute can stop at any time. Added: Object Storage bucket policy rules now support the ? placeholder in paths . Each ?
August 3–9, 2026
- Added: The Nebius AI Cloud REST API is now available. It exposes the same resources and operations as the gRPC API over HTTP/1.1 with JSON. See the quickstart , authentication and API reference for details.