July 2026
responseMentionRate is the mention metric to use. It is the percentage (0-100) of AI responses that mention your brand, and it means the same thing on every endpoint , added to both GET /visibility ( summary.responseMentionRate ) and GET /visibility/history (per data point).
Also shipped Jul 31, 2026Searchable in July 2026 →
Web terminal on serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is in Public Preview
The web terminal in notebooks connected to serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is now in Public Preview . Use it to run shell commands, monitor GPU usage with nvidia-smi , install libraries, and manage files directly on the compute. This requires serverless GPU environment version 5 or above. See Run shell commands in Databricks web terminal .
Packaged clean rooms are now generally available
Packaged clean rooms are now generally available. In a packaged clean room, a provider supplies notebooks, JARs, and data that a consumer runs against their own data without seeing the provider's code or data assets. See Packaged clean rooms .
OpenAI connector (Beta)
The OpenAI connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the OpenAI Organization Admin API to ingest organization administration data, such as users, projects, API keys, usage, costs, and audit logs, from OpenAI into Databricks.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-July
In late-July 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Regex-based dynamic data masking (DDM) extends the built-in DDM feature with pattern‑based masking to hide sensitive data like emails, phone numbers, and identifiers, centrally
Upcoming August 2026 model deprecations in GitHub Copilot
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), on September 1st, 2026: Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative Gemini 3.1 Pro 9-1-2026 Gemini 3.6 Flash Claude Opus 4.5 9-1-2026 Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.8, or Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus...
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash deprecated
As of today, July 31, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions).
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August 2026
Follow each page from training crawl to assistant fetch The existing AI Traffic reports now expose the bot identity Searchable already resolves internally. Pass groupBy=botCategory or groupBy=botName on REST /traffic/overview , /traffic/bots , or /traffic/correlation , or use the same groupBy argument on the consolidated get_ai_traffic MCP tool.
September 2026
Read whole AI answers, not the first 2,000 characters GET /projects/{projectId}/prompts/{promptId}/responses and the get_prompt_answers MCP tool used to cut every answer's text at 2,000 characters, which clipped about half of all ChatGPT answers and nearly every Copilot answer. text now carries the full answer.
October 2026
Mention counts that follow your window and filters GET /projects/{projectId}/competitors now returns mentionsInWindow beside mentions on every competitor row and on the brand block.
October 2026
See how AI answers describe your brand for one prompt GET /projects/{projectId}/visibility/prompts now returns sentimentScore in each prompt's metrics : how that prompt's answers describe your brand, from 0 to 100 (positive counts 100, neutral 50, negative 0).
October 2026
Ask Searchable from Slack and Microsoft Teams Searchable's MCP server now accepts sign-ins from Slackbot and Microsoft Copilot Studio, and lets Microsoft 365 Copilot load its interactive cards. The new Slack and Teams guide covers Claude Tag, Slackbot, Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
October 2026
New API keys and MCP access tokens can now be created with optional write access. This allows keys to perform actions like updating prompts or brand profiles, while maintaining read-only defaults for security.
October 2026
MCP tool calls are now limited to 600 per minute per API key or OAuth connection. Requests exceeding this limit will return a rate_limited response with retry instructions.
October 2026
Users can now filter competitor data by type, distinguishing between direct competitors and those identified via AI answers. This filter is available across multiple API endpoints for share of voice and sentiment analysis.