More accurate Walmart e-commerce pricing
Parsed output from Walmart e-commerce sources now returns pricing data more reliably and consistently. If you're tracking competitor prices or monitoring product catalogs, you'll get cleaner numbers automatically with new requests using "parse": true.
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Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams is now in Public Preview
The Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams is now in Public Preview . The app brings Genie into Microsoft Teams so users can ask data questions and get answers without leaving Microsoft Teams. See Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams .
Anthropic managed ingestion connector (Beta)
The Anthropic connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector allows you to ingest Compliance API data , audit activity, organizations, users, roles, groups, settings, and Claude chats and messages , from Anthropic into Databricks. See Anthropic connector .
Data lineage ingestion control is GA for BigQuery, Spark and Airflow
Data lineage can now be controlled at the organization, folder or project level for BigQuery, Managed Service for Apache Spark and Managed Service for Apache Airflow.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview and 3 Pro Image Preview are retired
The Nano Banana preview models gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview and gemini-3-pro-image-preview have been retired and are no longer accessible. Update your code to use either gemini-3.1-flash-image or gemini-3-flash-image instead.
[Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Defender security assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are now generally available. You can use assessments to continuously evaluate the security posture of your Azure PostgreSQL flexible
Legacy Claude Console Workbench sunsets on August 17, 2026
Access to the legacy Workbench ends August 17, 2026, and saved prompts, variables and evals are not supported in the updated Workbench. Export any data you want to keep from the banner or Organizational Settings.
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Improved fingerprint validation and device-memory alignment
Headless Browser now offers more realistic browser fingerprints and continues to align device-memory values with the rest of the emulated fingerprint to lower detection risk for all users. This change applies automatically to all Headless Browser sessions.
Oxylabs Agent Skills
Oxylabs now offers official Agent Skills – structured skill files that teach AI agents and coding assistants work with Oxylabs products with significantly more accurate code and fewer hallucinations.
Improved success rates on hard-to-reach targets
We have rolled out improvements to how requests are handled on sites using CAPTCHA. Success rates on these targets should improve, particularly for jobs that previously saw elevated failure or retry rates. Learn more in our documentation.
Citation retries for ChatGPT web search
ChatGPT source requests with search set to true now retry citation extraction automatically, roughly doubling citation coverage in the parsed citations field. The overall request success rate is unchanged, and no payload changes are needed for requests already using search: true.
Batch requests for LLM targets
LLM sources now support up to 5,000 prompts within a single batch request for chatgpt, gemini, and perplexity sources. Every prompt runs as its own job, so you get one job ID back per prompt. Learn more about batch requests here.
Structured Google Scholar results
Google Scholar is now a dedicated parsed source in Web Scraper API. Set source to google_scholar and parse to true to receive parsed JSON directly.
Custom parser for Home Depot data
A dedicated parser for Home Depot product pages is now available through the universal scraping source. Enable parsing on your request to receive structured product data (such as title, price, availability, and specifications) instead of raw HTML.
Custom browser instructions for LLM sources
LLM sources now support custom browser instructions, allowing you to define actions (e.g., clicks, scrolls, waits) to control page behavior before content is extracted.