Releasesby GlyphVersion targeting for Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations (General availability)
Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations now let you control the versioned configuration used for scoring: Version targeting pins the configuration under evaluation, not the agent behavior that gets evaluated: each run invokes the agent again and scores a newly generated trace.
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Upcoming end of life for the Supervisor API
The Supervisor API (Beta) reaches end of life on September 30, 2026. After that date, the API is no longer available. Databricks recommends migrating to custom agents on Databricks Apps . See Supervisor API (Beta) (deprecated) .
Consumer access to query Unity Gateway services will become generally available
Querying Unity Gateway model services and model provider services with Consumer access is currently opt-in through the Consumer access to Unity Gateway Public Preview . When this capability becomes generally available, consumer access users will be able to query these services without the preview enabled.
Monitor all AI activity with the unified trace table (Beta)
The unified trace table is in Beta . It captures every request and response across your Unity Gateway services into one Unity Catalog table in OpenTelemetry format, giving you a single place to monitor, debug, secure, and audit all AI activity. See Monitor all AI activity using the unified trace table .
Default Python package repositories are GA for Lakeflow pipelines and classic compute
Configuring default Python package repositories is now generally available for Lakeflow pipelines and for classic compute created via the UI and API. Workspace admins can set private or authenticated registries as the workspace default for these workloads. See Configure default package repositories .
Context attributes in ABAC column mask and row filter policies (Beta)
Context attributes for attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies are in Beta. You can now write Unity Catalog ABAC policy conditions that target the context of a request, such as which OAuth application is calling ( request.client_id ) and whether the request runs on behalf of a user ( request.is_on_behalf_of ).
xAI's Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 is available in Preview in Model Garden.
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AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (General availability)
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now support documents stored on stages that use client-side or server-side encryption, including in accounts that use PrivateLink or other network policies that restrict public network access to stages. For more information, see the following topics:
Cortex Agent code execution tool (Preview)
The Cortex Agent code execution tool is now in public preview. When you enable the tool on an agent, the agent can generate and run Python in a secure, isolated sandbox to process data, perform calculations, and produce visualizations.
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you’ve already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex...
Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability)
Referencing a Cortex Extension from an agent skill is now generally available. Set the skill source type to CORTEX_EXTENSION and path to the extension's fully qualified name, and Snowflake expands the reference into the extension's member skills at request time, so you don't list each skill individually.
Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability)
The Cortex Agents Coding Agent is now generally available. Add the code_toolset_all tool type to a Cortex Agent, and Snowflake provisions and manages a sandbox backed by the same runtime that powers Snowflake CoCo: bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, web search, SQL execution, and skills.
Snowflake recommends transitioning from Cortex Analyst to Cortex Agents
Snowflake recommends transitioning to Cortex Agents , which supports every Cortex Analyst capability with higher answer quality. Snowflake adds new natural language analytics capabilities to Cortex Agents.
Cortex Agents asynchronous API (General availability)
The Cortex Agents asynchronous API is now generally available on AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Snowflake Native Apps: Code execution tools for Cortex Agents
Providers can now add the code_execution and code_toolset_all sandbox tools to Cortex Agents created by a Snowflake Native App.