Workspace sharing in Declarative Native Apps (Public Preview)
Workspace sharing is now available in public preview for Declarative Native Apps. Providers can share a whole directory of files and folders by declaring a workspace in the application package manifest. Consumers get a read-only workspace when they install the app, and can browse the folder structure and open the files.
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Unity Gateway is now generally available
Unity Gateway is now generally available. Unity Gateway is the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers. Govern MCP servers to control access and costs. Monitor usage, cost, access, and lineage from one place.
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available. See Delta Lake feature support matrix .
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available. See Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share .
SharePoint connector (GA)
Both SharePoint connectors in Lakeflow Connect are now generally available: the managed connector for fully managed ingestion pipelines, and the standard connector for custom pipelines built with Spark and SQL APIs.
Schema-level HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available
HTTP connections in Unity Catalog are now generally available at the schema level. You can create an HTTP connection inside a schema instead of only at the metastore level.
PagerDuty connector (Beta)
The managed PagerDuty connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. The connector ingests incident, on-call, service, and audit data from PagerDuty into Databricks. See PagerDuty connector .
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Snowflake Native Apps support for Virtual Private Snowflake on AWS for apps with containers (General availability)
Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services now support Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) on Amazon Web Services. Apps with containers can be distributed to Snowflake customers in VPS deployments. Apps running in VPS can use the functionality of Snowpark Container Services, including compute pools, services, jobs, and external access integrations.
Integrated SaaS listings on Snowflake Marketplace (General availability)
Select Integrated SaaS listings now let you start a free trial of a provider’s application directly from a Marketplace listing. This experience replaces the trials previously offered through Snowflake Partner Connect and brings these trials into the Marketplace, where discovery, trial, and purchase all happen in one place.
Remote app operations for Snowflake Native Apps (Preview)
Remote app operations are now available in public preview for Snowflake Native Apps. Providers can perform on-demand operations on consumer apps, including running SQL statements ( run_sql ), retrying a failed upgrade ( retry_upgrade ), and disabling/enabling the app ( disable / enable ), all through a new system function SYSTEM$REMOTE_APP_OPERATION .
Snowpark Container Services backup instance types (Public preview)
Cloud capacity isn’t always guaranteed. When a compute pool’s instance type is unavailable, provisioning fails with an insufficient capacity error (ICE), leaving the pool unable to scale. Previously, resolving an ICE required manually switching the pool to a different instance type.
app.yml for Snowflake App Runtime (Preview)
Snowflake App Runtime projects use a single app.yml file to describe both deployment and the remote build. Include version: 2 at the top of the file. snow app setup writes this file for new projects.
Snowpark Container Services backup instance types (General availability)
Backup instance types for Snowpark Container Services compute pools are now generally available and are no longer in Preview .
Container runtime for Streamlit apps in Snowflake Native Apps (Preview)
Providers can now run a Streamlit app inside a Snowflake Native App on a container runtime, in preview. The Streamlit app runs as a Snowpark Container Services service on a compute pool that the app creates and owns in the consumer account rather than on a virtual warehouse.
Remote app operations for Snowflake Native Apps (General availability)
Remote app operations for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available.