Releasesby GlyphOpenflow gen 1 deployment creation retired
You can no longer create new first generation (gen 1) Openflow deployments (BYOC or Snowflake). All new deployments are second generation (gen 2), created with CREATE OPENFLOW DEPLOYMENT or the Openflow UI. Existing gen 1 deployments continue to work unchanged, and you can still create new gen 1 runtimes on an existing gen 1 deployment.
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Configurable retention for system tables is in Beta
Account admins can now set an account-wide retention period from 30 to 3,650 days for supported system tables. See Configure system table data retention .
External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta)
External secrets connect a Unity Catalog schema to AWS Secrets Manager. The secrets appear in Unity Catalog as read-only securable objects that you govern with Unity Catalog privileges. Databricks reads their values from AWS Secrets Manager on demand. See External secrets in Unity Catalog .
Celigo connector (Beta)
The Celigo connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit log events, such as create, update, and delete operations on resources, from Celigo (integrator.io) into Databricks. Authentication uses a Celigo integrator.io API token.
Anysphere Organization connector (Beta)
The Anysphere Organization 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 Anysphere (Cursor) Organization Admin API to ingest organization members, groups, and group members into Databricks as daily snapshots.
Anaplan connector (Beta)
The Anaplan connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit trail events and user account records from your Anaplan tenant into Databricks. Authentication uses an Anaplan CA certificate and its paired private key. See Anaplan connector .
The deprecation of the Looker Mobile (Legacy) application has been postponed to January 31, 2027
The deprecation of the Looker Mobile (Legacy) application has been postponed to January 31, 2027. Starting on January 31, 2027, support for the Looker Mobile (Legacy) app will be discontinued and the app will be unavailable for download from the App Store or Play Store.
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Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes (General availability)
Second generation (gen 2) Openflow deployment and runtime SQL objects are now generally available on AWS and Azure. Create, modify, and remove gen 2 deployments and runtimes with CREATE , ALTER , DROP , SHOW , and DESCRIBE commands, or through the Openflow UI, with standard Snowflake RBAC on schema-scoped objects.
Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes now available on GCP
Second generation (gen 2) Openflow deployment and runtime SQL objects are now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), in addition to AWS and Azure. Previously, gen 2 deployment and runtime SQL objects were generally available only on AWS and Azure.
Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)
The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Core) flow is now generally available. The flow ingests Jira Cloud issues, projects, users, and related data into dedicated Snowflake tables with explicit schemas. It supports optional deletion tracking and parallel ingestion across projects. The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Agile) flow remains in Public Preview .
Second generation Openflow (Preview)
Second generation (gen 2) Openflow is now in public preview. Gen 2 makes Openflow deployments, runtimes, and connectors first-class Snowflake SQL objects with standard RBAC, SQL lifecycle management, and versioned connector configuration. Supported connectors at public preview: PostgreSQL CDC, MySQL/MariaDB CDC. Gen 2 Openflow is available on AWS and Azure.
Migration of gen 1 Openflow deployments and runtimes to gen 2 (General availability)
Migration of gen 1 Openflow deployments and runtimes to gen 2 is now generally available. From the Openflow UI, you can convert an existing gen 1 deployment ( OPENFLOW DATA PLANE INTEGRATION ) and all of its runtimes ( OPENFLOW RUNTIME INTEGRATION ) into gen 2 OPENFLOW DEPLOYMENT and OPENFLOW RUNTIME objects, with standard Snowflake RBAC on the resulting...
Openflow Connector for SQL Server (CDC) (General availability)
The Openflow Connector for SQL Server (CDC) is now generally available. The connector captures every row-level change from Microsoft SQL Server using Change Data Capture (CDC) and replicates selected tables into Snowflake in near real-time or on a schedule. It supports initial snapshot load, incremental sync, and schema evolution.
Openflow Endpoints (General availability)
With this release, Openflow endpoints are now generally available for Snowflake deployments and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments. You can create stable HTTPS URLs that route external HTTP requests to Listen processors in your Openflow runtimes.