Releasesby GlyphManage organization SSO from the CLI
Organization administrators can now enable and manage SSO from the CLI with pscale org sso . Read more
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Monitor and cap external provider costs
Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Databricks-provided models. If your organization already has capacity commitments directly with a provider, Unity Gateway becomes the single point to track that usage and enforce spend limits across teams and use cases.
Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill ) that follows the SKILL.md specification , so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.
Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview
A drag-and-drop canvas builds and edits LookML models on BigQuery sources: join tables, define dimensions and measures, preview results and publish Explores without writing LookML.
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available. You can also now define verified queries in Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects. By default, Looker uses the locale definitions from the importing project only, if the importing project has locale definitions.
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Postgres metrics page redesign
Postgres instance, storage, and PgBouncer graphs now live on their own tabs with shareable URLs. Expand all graphs to view your infrastructure at a glance. Selecting a replica or PgBouncer in the topology diagram jumps to the matching tab and highlights that node in all graphs. Read more
Webhook events for backup success and failure
We've added backup.succeeded and backup.failed webhook events. You'll get notified when a backup finishes, whether it worked or not. These work for both Vitess and Postgres databases. View all webhook events
Create a Postgres branch from a restore point
You can now create a PostgreSQL branch restored to a point-in-time timestamp with --restore-point . Pass --restore for a specific backup, or --from so the CLI can look up a backup that covers that time. pscale branch create --from --restore-point 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z --restore-point is PostgreSQL only and cannot be combined with --seed-data .
List and show Postgres switchovers from the CLI
After starting a switchover , you can now list switchovers for a branch and show one by ID. pscale branch switchover list pscale branch switchover show Read the CLI branch docs
Show a service token from the CLI
You can now show a single service token by ID. pscale service-token show Read the CLI service-token docs
List database regions from the CLI
You can now list the regions available to a database, and list configured Vitess read-only regions for the database's default branch. pscale database regions list pscale database read-only-regions list database read-only-regions list is Vitess only. Read the CLI database docs
Protect backups from deletion in the CLI
You can now update a backup's protected status from the CLI. Protected backups cannot be deleted until protection is turned off. pscale backup update --protected pscale backup update --protected=false Read the CLI backup docs
Query, tablet, and tag metrics from the CLI
pscale metrics now has dedicated commands for query-pattern series, table storage, tablet series, and tag sets. On Postgres and Vitess: pscale metrics queries --metric latency_p99 --fingerprint --keyspace --period 1h pscale metrics tables pscale metrics tags --metric queries --tag-set Busername=alice --period 1h On Vitess, for per-tablet series and table...